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He also hit a 3 and turned around and cursed off skerry in the first half🤣

Good- We won a close game that really could have went either way. Nice for them to finally close one out. -Brian played a great game -Sanders played a great game and showed intensity and passion (something lacking from Towson for a while) -Dottin played well and showed intensity- Thought he played some good defense -Switched defenses which atleast slowed them down a bit Bad- We needed all 40 minutes to put away a bad team at home, without two of their best players. -The bench. Need way more production from role players, especially at home -FT shooting, sans Fobbs -#2 sulking most of the game (I see the JG and ZM frustration brewing in him) Ugly- Our guys getting worked by the UMBC "bigs" YIKES -The late game fouls (Dennis is a 5th year senior and should know better!) and that turnover with 14 seconds left!

UNC also played at Wofford (a year after losing at home to them, and not just skipping the return game) and Davidson in recent years. Penn State played at Duquense. Understand that Maryland as they are a bubble NCAA team typically wouldnt want to play a road game.

That was weird. But do we break 40 tonight?! I sure hope so! They should have a promo, if we break 65 at home, instead of giving away wings, they should give away a free beer up top at the arena!

For the same reason state FBS schools should bring in state FCS schools for paydays before bringing in out of staters. All part of the same university system. How is that working for the two programs?

We were 5-59 combined prior to the 18-13 season before it opened. Getting anyone big would have been difficult, especially with the whiny turtles down in PG county. UNC helped Elon open their arena. UVA is helping JMU open theirs next season. South Carolina opened Charlestons new arena.

This.

We had ODU, Mason and Vermont. All solid MM programs but not a "Big Name." Wouldn't mind doing a 2 for 1 with VCU

I get what you are saying but it’s apples and oranges. 4 of those 5 teams have good histories. A loss by nova to penn isn’t as embarrassing as a loss to umbc or Coppin. The Philly 5 are all repeatable programs that play in good conferences not the meac and America east. Lsu went to Charleston. Michigan state went to ne. Nova played at Nassau coliseum vs Hofstra. Duke played Elon in Greensboro and split the gate. Uva goes to jmu next year. Notre Dame went to Delaware. Some are old coaches and colleagues but pats been everywhere before Towson. You’d think we could get someone to do a 2 game trip to either a philly team or a dc team with us. We won’t kill anyone’s rpi as we are an average team.

“Doesn’t matter. They did it once. This is Towson, not duke or unc or even Maryland. Just be happy we have a team. Who would you even hire if he got canned? It takes two teams to schedule. He’s one player away. Next year”

I agree. That was by far the best win. Across the country. Down double digits. Off to a bad start on the season. We were like 3-5 or something at that time and it catapulted to like a 15-5 finish

Games against Bryn Anthe and Goucher.

Oh man. 2024, so I guess it makes sense. A lot of us here have seen the same old story year and year out with hoops and football, and it seems like you have not. "8.5 point dawg" and got run out of the gym by 20, while not even breaking 40 points is embarrassing. The teams we have played this year (I don't count the major two teams as those are expected L's), have been; Bad, a Bad D3, Solid MM, Solid MM, Bad, Awful and Solid MM. Those views are off of watching the games, seeing the teams play multiple games, and your Kenpom. So the 3 really tough games that were evenly matched, we blew a late lead in a tight game at home in OT, hacked up a lead with 1.45 left on a neutral court and got smoked on the road. These are the types of teams we will play in conference where every point matters and comes down to a single possession, where we don't have the coaching, and go to player to win the close ones.

I think everyone is missing the point... The first year we needed to play that style because we didn't have the players and skills. This team has some guys who can score and can shoot. We are not going to score 80 a game, but Fobbs, Betrand, Sanders can score a bit. It's the coaching and philosophy that's the problem. Rarely do we switch defenses. Rarely do we show a press or even a token press (even with a stopped clock and 5 seconds left, we let them roll the ball up! Infuriating! Make them catch it moving away from your hoop!). Rarely do we run or push the pace, this is especially bad, since we do typically play good defense and create lots of misses. Rarely do we run good sets that result in a good shot. We run late crap, like horns, which leads to at best a 1-1 contested shot. Just look how easy it is for teams to get good looks off us as we over-rotate many times. They don't work particular hard for good looks, especially down low. Players get lost and free for high percentage shots. We always have to work incredibly hard for semi-decent looks. Always have, always will. Is some of it the players, not moving the ball enough and quick enough? Absolutely. But at some point that's on the leadership to change that culture/selfishness issue. Is some of it on the coaching staff for not calling great plays to run? Absolutely.

Fun stat. Since the 2012-13 season, we are 19-15 when holding opposing teams to less than 58 points a game. I would venture to say that is probably the worst winning % in the country.

Can't have a shoot around when you arrive just before the game! HAHAHA It's the same cycle EVERY single year: Slight optimism, Beat local teams, lay some stinkers with no offense, player leaves program, blow late leads, lack of creativity offensively and adjustments, No Alpha on the team, go on a 3-4 game strong run middle of CAA play, peak and go back to struggling towards the end, first round CAA exit, Excuses from TL and PS lovers (wait for next season), PS excuse of "just 5-8 close losses defined the season, new players come in, slight optimism returns. RINSE WASH REPEAT. It's literally the same thing every year.

UNCW also ran a pretty high powered offense and he penetrated and had players to kick it out to.

We have needed this for years.. It's the same cycle over and over again.

Well the program was dreadful from mid 90's to 2012, so... We have been close a number of times, and have leads late and then in typical Towson fashion, choke it up. To be fair, you also have to schedule good/decent OOC games, to get wins. But we are Towson and content on playing Morgan, Coppin, UMBC, Loyola and D3's every year... YAWN

It was 2011. And it was miserable. Leaving at 2 for a 7pm game in fairfax is inexcusable. If the plane couldn’t take off.. get a damn bus. You have to try and try really hard to only score 38 in a game. Vermont isn’t uva. Numerous sub 50 point games under skerry is ridiculous and embarrassing

It was 2011. And it was miserable. Leaving at 2 for a 7pm game in fairfax is inexcusable. If the plane couldn’t take off.. get a damn bus. You have to try and try really hard to only score 38 in a game. Vermont isn’t uva. Numerous sub 50 point games under skerry is ridiculous and embarrassing

Ivies do it. It’s another excuse by the old timers on here. Play better

38 points?! Half this board could shoot that. If this program wasn’t below average it could be an excuse. Leave earlier. 7pm on a Friday ?when classes end by noon latest. Come on. We used to fly out by 1.

Don’t fly up day of game? That could help. We are d1 sheesh. 38 points is fucking embarrassing

38 points lol loss number 25 under ps allowing under 60