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  1. Today
  2. Classmate was at the game today
  3. Towson moves to first place in the nation! Seriously, we should now be in the mid-major top 25.
  4. With Auburn and Duke losing today, Towson is now tied for 2nd behind Akron (11) for longest current win streak.
  5. Ok, so the stats are somewhat misleading. For example, we rank first in the league in points per game allowed (65.5). Yes, a lot of that is pace because we averaged just 67.9 points per game to rank 12th. But in the CAA (12 games), where average 71.1 points to rank 7th and allow 65 points per game to rank 2nd. I'll just list the stats for the 12 games played and if you wonder why we are 11-1 and have won 10 straight, I bolded the reasons. Just conference games only We're third at 6.1 per game in margin (yes, we don't blow many teams out) #We're 11th in field goal percentage at 42.5% and seventh in field goal defense at 42.9% #We're 4th in three-point percentage (yes we are) with 35.6% and 3rd in three-point defense (31.6%) #We're also fourth in three-point field goals made at 8.3 per game #We're 11th in free throw percentage (69.2%). #We're 4th in rebounding margin (+2.2) and first in offensive rebounds (12.8). The rebounding margin is low. #We're second in turnover margin (3.08) and sixth in assist/turnover ratio (1.23). #We're fourth in blocked shots (3.5), which is odd considering we don't have a shotblocking center but we do have Mekhi Lowery. We're 13th in assists with 10.42 per game. We're 7th in steals with 6.08 per game #We're fourth in attendance (conference only) with 2,141 per game. UNCW, Charleston and W&M are top three. Conference numbers only #This is pretty high scoring league. Tyler Tejada is 11th in conference play with 16.6 ppg and Dylan Williamson is 16th with 14.7ppg. #Not one player in the top 25 in rebounding. Back to overall where Tejada would be 7th overall i scoring with 16ppg and Will would be 20th at 13.8ppg. Lowery would be 19th in rebounding at 5.6 per game. Overall, FG and 3-point % DWill is 9th at 42.9% (43.2% conference-only) and Tejada is 10th at 41.9% (41.4% conference). Tejada is 6th in free throw shooting (83%) and I guess DWIll does not have enough attempts to rank in the top 8 because he's shooting over 40%, but is 41.8% for three in conference. Tejada also is shooting 86.5% from the FT line in conference. Tarke is at 63.2%. Lowery is averaging 0.9 blocks per game in conference and 0.9 in conference to rank 12th. Bottom line? The stats don't tell the entire story other three-point percentage (35.6%) in conference has been much better that it was in non-conference and overall (32.4%). The three-point defense has been decent all year, but even better in conference. And yes, the competition was better in non-conference and CMay's defense was certainly missed when he was out for those 4 games,. May is shooting 24% from long range and 64% from the line overall. He hasn't been great in conference (26.5% 3pt) and has only gotten to the line 10 ties (made 7). It's certainly not a great rebounding team with Lowery leading with 5.6 rebounds in 22.9 minutes per game. Embeya, Jones and Samb combined for 9.4 rebounds per game. Tarke has certainly played better in CAA play. He's shooting 36.6% from the field, 29.2% from 3 and 66.1% from the line with 4.5 rebounds and 30 steals in 25 games. In conference, he's shooting 49% from the field and 44.7% from long range at 12.3ppg but just 63.2% from the line.
  6. This basically put the game away (kind of)
  7. Some silly turnovers in second half but this team keeps winning and our 1-2 punch is putting that ball in the hole. Can’t look past any games of course but Campbell to me on the road will be our ultimate test before DC. That team is hot and I think will really match up well against us. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s them and us on March 11th but I digress. Bracketology update early next week and my guy says Seattle now ☕️ so I can pay off my bet 😉
  8. So, let's talk about this team and I can harp on a million different things, but I'll try and keep it positive. *This team lost six straight games in Nov-Dec. and nobody thought we'd be at this point, winning 10 straight and going 11-1 in the league. Credit to the team and coaching staff, while I'm not sure who the leader is vocally (assume Tomiwa is one), on the floor, Jones and Sulaiman set the example, going after loose balls, drawing charges, setting screens, etc. *Tejada had a nice bounce-back game from his home state though I still wonder if he was 100% (had no rebounds), but did shoot 6 of 12 and 3 of 6 from 3pt with 17 pts. CMay was big today on defense and made 5 of 10. I thought Cornelius Robinson did a nice job in DWIll, who was 5 of 12 (some tough angle misses on layups), did not get to the line and had four turnovers, but was 4 of 7 from 3pt range and had five rebounds and four assists. *The "others" showed up. Nenada Tarke had a good all-around game, but had just 10 points on 2-of-5 shooting (1-3 3pt, 5-6 FT). But he did have 9 rebounds and two assists. So having May score 13 points and Sulaiman score 8 pts on 2 big 3s, including a corner three from Dylan late in the game, was crucial. *Even if I thought the CAA was down this season, it's ranked 15th overall, which isn't bad. That's because teams like Campbell, Elon, W&M and even Monmouth (6-6) are no longer walk overs. I thought this was one of the best wins of the year because the Hawks won 19 of 20 at home, the crowd was pumped and let's face it, everyone is going to be pumped to beat us. Same with Delaware. As PS might say, that this is going to be their Super Bowl and possibly their last game against us for a long time. Certainly their last trip to TU/SECU Arena for a long time. *With 10 players, I always get worried when a guy goes down with a nagging injury. Fortunately, Lowery bounced back and MJones was ok after his ankle nearly got rolled up. *Even with the snow coming, it should be cleared by Thursday. Need a big crowd for this 11-1 team. I want to double check some of the stats later.
  9. Tied for the third-longest in school history. I assume this counts D2 days. https://towsontigers.com/news/2017/12/10/mens-basketball-inside-towsons-10-game-winning-streak
  10. Grind it out ,team win
  11. Yesterday
  12. They continue to find a way to find a way! 10 straight is the longest since the early 90s teams??
  13. https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=548065&vislive=tows Towson improved to 16-9 and 11-1 in the CAA after a 73-67 road win over Monmouth on Saturday, who dropped to 6-6 in the league. UNCW beat Drexel in double overtime today, which means they remain in second place at 10-2, but William & Mary lost to the Tigers' next opponent in Delaware to drop to 8-4. That means Campbell and Charleston are now tied at 8-3 for third place. Tyler Tejada returned home with 17 points including two big free throws in the end. Dylan Williamson added 14 and four assists (4 TOs), while Christian May contributed 13 points, but more importantly, great defense on Abdi Bashir (came in averaging around 21ppg), who had 19 points on 7 of 23 shooting. Towson outrebounded the Hawks 40-32 and shot 11 of 27 from beyond the arc (42%) and 10 of 11 from the line. Here is PS after the game on TT.com. "Great team win. Monmouth well coached. This atmosphere was like playing at UNCW or Charleston. REason why they are playing well at home. We guarded and rebounded well. Had a lot of guys making unselfish plays. Samb gave us good minutes. Lowery solid, Tarke solid. Tyler made two big ones. Dylan quarterbacking. CMay just guards so well.. He's the best defensive player in our conference. The work he did on Luster and Bashir was a spectacular job. Great win. We have to go back. Brave weather. Big week at home coming up."
  14. https://fevo-enterprise.com/event/bcpdtu0213?purl=0f93d053c1e4 Promo for 2 free tickets to the game on Thursday against Delaware
  15. Dragons and stripes not giving us any help so far today against white hot uncw
  16. Flying ✈️ to KC and arrive about 10 minutes into the tipoff. Yes this will be a tough one to steal today. Goh Tigers 🐯 🏀 and more importantly Goh Basketball Gods
  17. More over ‘12 ; we now have the MOST NEGATIVE post ever !
  18. Also, May and Lowery don’t need to score much tomorrow. They need to slow down Madison Durr and Abdi Bashir.
  19. It’s an odd team because in this case stats do lie but the most important stat is winning. Yes, we’ll probably go cold in one of the tournament games and not recover from a big deficit against a quality team. But to say that he’s just going to recruit non- shooters isn’t the case. Tejada, Williamson, Gibson and Conway were great or very good shooters in HS. Tejada is not shooting well overall and some of it’s the slow pace. But he’s a true scorer more than a great shooter. We haven’t many those type of players ever. He’s also not getting great looks because he’s the top option and not having a productive big on the offensive end doesn’t help What we do have is Tarke off the bench for 12+ points. That’s a plus. My biggest worry is that our four post players are not productive enough on offense, defense and the boards. Somehow, we’ve been able to get by without a center due to taking care of the ball and playing defense when it matters.
  20. Last week
  21. Lets just get to the dance 🪩 If this group can do it then truly all of us will be happy and we can move on from this 34+ year funk. The basketball gods owe us.
  22. This thought has crossed my mind. I have nothing to base this on, but I assume if we win the regular season title, and then lose early in the tournament that Skerry will get at least a one year extension. I’m not going to lambaste you. First, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion. Second, I think you make some valid points. Anyone who would look at our team and individual stats, without knowing our record, would reasonably assume we have a mediocre record. That we don’t is a tribute to a number of things, including, but not limited to, our knack of pulling games out at the end (a refreshing change from years gone by). It also hasn’t hurt that we’ve seemingly played a lot of teams missing key players due to injuries. Of course, in the interest of full disclosure, we played a bunch of games early in the season where we didn’t have Tejada. No one more than me fervently hopes we can continue “winning ugly,” but any objective observer (emphasis on objective) would I think admit to having a nagging feeling that the bubble might burst in D.C.
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