Chris Datres

Who or what has been the cause of the beef between us and Loyola? The Hounds released their schedule and they've got Lancaster Bible on there as their 2nd game of the season. I get that there wouldn't be a home-and-home series in season with them but doing a constant home-and-home with them would at least check one home game box for each side every other year. It's also kind of absurd that two schools that close in proximity don't play each other anymore.

That's a good get to have JMU for a home-and-home. I'm sure they're as strapped as we are to get opponents to schedule them. That Bryant game will be a nice one to attend over Xmas.

Not going to be any different from the tourneys we played in Savannah and Ft. Myers the last few years. In both arenas, there might have been more workers than there were fans.

Can't wait to see Penn State (York) on this schedule!! 😎

Brian swims a 1:00.29 in the semifinal and that was 12th out of the 16 swimmers in the round. An insane 10 swimmers were below a minute and 2 of those won't even get into the final. A great run for Brian as he swims his two personal best times today but he was just beaten by better competition.

Benzing with a 1:00.16 in his preliminary heat in the 100M Breaststroke in today's Olympic Trials. That was the 7th best time of 81 competitors and qualifies him for the semifinals tonight at approximately 8:45pm on Peacock. Semifinals is 2 heats of 8 and the top 8 times will qualify for the final on Sunday night.

And then they’ll wonder why they start 2-6 in conference having given away 3 of those games in the last 3 mins because they don’t know how to play in clutch situations.

Home vs UMBC

So what we know so far about the 24-25 schedule: at St. Mary's, at Robert Morris, the Alberta MTE

Tibo scored a TD!! https://x.com/bclions/status/1799965711068234022?s=46&t=EVKcQgftLjvvjND07GaBLQ

I’ve been to Alberta but not Lethbridge. Bring the woollies!! https://twitter.com/madeformarch/status/1799150616108748883?s=46&t=EVKcQgftLjvvjND07GaBLQ

No different from Stephen Izzo at Michigan State or Hurley's kid at UCONN. Well, maybe a bit different because they actually blow out D1 teams so the walk-ons get a little run.

Fortunately, I only deal with HS and below. There isn't enough money to pay me to work adult league games. I did it for baseball when I first started at age 22 and wow, the crying that would be involved in some situations. I think if you also played the game, you get a better perspective as an official as to what the player and/or coach is complaining about but there are some times, I've wanted to turn to a whining coach and be like, 'if you'd like to switch spots, I know I could draw up a better offensive set than whatever it is you're running right now'. I also wear glasses on the court and once had a kid react to a foul call by looking at his coach and saying 'he even wears glasses too'. That was maybe the easiest T I've ever given out. To the kid's credit, he did apologize at halftime for it.

I wanna know more about this league you're reffing in Delaware and just how much crap you get from those guys on the court.

Here's something mystifying. Where was this production when he was here? It's like we were the desert around his oasis of success before and after playing here. https://twitter.com/NBL1/status/1792822971196965066

Given that IUPUI won 6 games last season, getting triple that will make him feel like he should cut down the nets.

Here's something encouraging...Someone named Matthew Winick, who is the college basketball editor for The Score ranked all D1 to D1 transfers and here's what he had to say about our newest addition: Abdou Samb Towson IUPUI D IUPUI's worst player last year, per EM. IUPUI! One of the 20 worst players in the country. Non-threat offensively. Only scores at the rim, turns it over a ton. OK shot blocker but should be much better in that area. No idea what Towson is doing.

We gonna give up 30?

Welp, first half was fun. We've taken the first step of getting back to respectability and winning the conference. Now we've gotta work on beating the big names of the game again. All 4 of our losses this year were to higher pedigree teams (Loyola can be debated based on their lack of playoff status this year).

Good to see Bill O'Brien getting some offseason work as a lacrosse official.

Everything is low on Downs. Cuse definitely worked the tape machine this week.

That turnover on the 2 on 1 is gonna be the turning point.

Big to be leading at the half. If we can just level the faceoff situation in the 2nd half, we'll win this one going away.

Caught a break there with that call. Now, how about we win some faceoffs, huh?

Good start. The defense on the EMO and then drawing the shot clock violation certainly helped.