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Most points scored in a CAA game since the UNH win in 2012 (64-35). Just trying to see if anybody is up or cares that I put "edged" in the title.

Good to see we’re not overreacting off the first game. No such thing as a bad win. If the sky is already falling after game 1, then I’m gonna stay away from the misery around here. I’m surprised we haven’t called for any firings yet.

I’ve always rooted for guys who left for greener pastures. Leaving to go to a conference rival. F that. He can kick rocks

You could be Boise State or TCU this morning and trying to figure out what THAT was. Or Auburn and Georgia Tech, thankful that your stupid basketball IQ didn't cost you a buy game. Expectations is the dirtiest word in the sports dictionary because it will skew your thinking on everything that happens. Having a first game against someone like Loyola allows for the wiggle room to figure out a rotation and see where the chemistry is. My eyes went to FG% defense and 3-pt FG defense in the box score and liked what I saw, especially from 3 which has been something our defenses have struggled with annually. Houston is not going to be a fun trip on Saturday because they play a brand of ball that sometimes belongs in a back alley more than an arena. However, maybe there's something on that Lehigh game tape that we can learn from to keep us in the ballgame.

I would be remiss if I didn't give a quick shout-out to my local friends at Kennesaw State University for clinching FBS Bowl eligibility earlier this week. What a tremendous story and accomplishment. Football program launched from scratch in 2015. Notable success at the FCS level over a several years, take a leap of faith into FBS in 2024 and become bowl eligible in their first season in which they could do so. Their success and path should be the blueprint for Towson. Eigenbrot, Ginsberg and staff should fly to ATL for in-person conversations with KSU's longtime AD, Milton Overton and KSU's President Kat Schwaig for a deep dive into how they've achieved what they've achieved so quickly. All of that, of course, assumes that Eigenbrot and Ginsberg even care about the long-term success & viability of TU's football program. Will KSU ever compete for an FBS Playoff spot? Highly unlikely. However, playing nationally televised games on reputable networks against teams people have heard of with the chance of making one of dozens of bowl games seems like a fun and rewarding existence. Go Tigers & Go Owls.

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Still here ..*SD. Why does every post you make have to be a sarcastic, childish comment. We get ityou want football dropped. You are constantly make fun of other posters, the players, coaches and staff( all programs). You have your opinion, but we’re entitled to have ours as well. I’m calling BS on you… enough.

The whole purpose to the play-in games should be for all those mediocre big conference teams who couldn't do better than 7-11 in their conference and get whacked before the quarters of their tournament. Oh hey, you're Texas or North Carolina so by name, here's a pass into the big Tournament no matter how terrible you were this year. And let's make sure while we're doing this, let's penalize the low-budget teams who have to take 4 or more guarantee games just to keep the athletic department afloat and EARNED their way into the Tournament. It's not about the competition anymore, it's about how much money we can make. Just goes to show that people in power often don't have the faintest clue what they're doing.

For context those D1 matchups were Towson's win against a mediocre Patriot League, Hampton losing to Milwaukee who is picked to win the Horizon (still can't make excuses against other mid-major leagues), Hofstra losing to a low-level Big 12 UCF (who we will get a shot at later), NC A&T losing to the predicted worse team in the SEC in South Carolina, Campbell losing to a middle-of-the-road Big Ten team in Wisconsin and an alright Big 12 West Virginia team, and Northeastern dropping a close winnable game (and one where they were favored) to a team picked second in the Patriot League. Not exactly stellar, but the Northeastern one is the only game you could argue where a CAA team should have won. Hofstra was +9.5 Campbell was +21 against Wisconsin and +16 against West Virginia Towson was -9.5 NC A&T was +22.5 Hampton was +6 Northeastern was -2.5

https://towsontigers.com/news/2025/11/2/towson-mens-basketball-opens-season-against-loyola-at-cfg-bank-arena.aspx https://towsontigers.com/documents/2025/10/31/Loyola.pdf Love the new game notes. List wingspan and projected starters (only because it was St. John's).

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=610233&_gl=1*y6mqly*_ga*MTAzNzU3MjY0MS4xNzU2MzkwNDA1*_ga_2ZWVK1X7BJ*czE3NjIyMjEwMjMkbzQzJGcwJHQxNzYyMjIxMDIzJGo2MCRsMCRoMA.. Tyler Tejada scored 24 points on 8-of-14 from the field in 39 minutes to lead the Tigers over Loyola 67-56 on Monday night. It was an ugly first half where both teams shot poorly in the first half as the game was tied at the half 28-28. But Towson, who went 0-for-4 from three-point land in the first half, made 3 of 7 in the second and hit 14-of-18 free throws to take the game by 11. Towson shot 43.9% from the field and held the Greyhounds to just 34% shooting and 4-of-22 from the three-point line The Tigers outrebounded the Greyhounds 40-29 and committed just. 10 turnovers (nine assists). Dylan Williamson had a solid game with 14 points and five assists, with 3 turnovers. Jack Doumbia did not start, but started the second half and wound up with 13 points and 7 rebounds in 30 minutes. "There's nerves, expectations. Excellent second half. Really guarded them. We fouled too much. Got the ball to Tyler and Dylan. Still figuring some things out," said Pat Skerry after the game on Monumental. "We took care of the ball, defense looked good, Ndefo and Womack did some good things as a freshmen. Liked the second half. Threw us off with some zone stuff in the first half. Embeya is a key guy. Has to stay on the flor. Mor Seck did a nice job. Trying to figure out the rotation." "Trying to find a rhythm. Started out slow," said Tyler Tejada after the game. "This one was for real. There were some nerves and once we settled down, we played our game".

Don’t think anyone said the sky is falling. Simply not happy with the result. We are a good enough program to expect more than just a tight win against a Ken Pom 200 team.

I'll say this. Ndefo whiffed that dunk earlier and then Tejada had him for an ally oop in the second half and Embeya clipped him. We were all out of sorts and Embeya's offense is just dreadful at times. I know PS loves him but Seck is a little more aggressive on offense. Yeah, I get it. This doesn't look like a top team in the CAA. Same thing last season. We looked like dreck in November. We just have to keep getting better before conference play and win a few non-conference games against middies. We have to play a lot better than we did tonight, especially in the first half, to beat anybody decent. I think, until guys like Womack, Schmid and whoever steps up, it's Tyler and Dylan's team with Doumbia contributing as a 3rd option.

I've been complaining about the website for years, especially the facilities page that shows one picture from about 10 years ago. Check out every website in the nation, even the mid-majors, low-majors, almost every one is very braggy about their facilities and are not to be kind. They have videos, pictures, stories, etc. This is not 1990 when I was there and we had nada. We had our largest margin of victory since 1983 yesterday. That was in their recap, but it should have been all over social media. Is it a big win or that important? Not really in the grand scheme of things, but you need to brag when something spectacular happens. BTW, I don't think anything was posted on Twitter/X about our MBB tomorrow against Loyola. I mean a preview. I had to check the website and it's up there.

I think the way the athletic department handles their social accounts is below average. The main athletics page should be reposting EVERYTHING that each sport individually posts. But that doesn't happen. I don't follow the women's soccer or field hockey accounts so I had no idea that they both had elimination games in their final regular season games until I looked at the CAA standings page. Regardless of result, those things need to be reposted by the main athletics page. So I can certainly see why there'd be zero connect between the sports.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't agree about giving bulletin board material to the opponent, whether it's calling Delaware "Chickens", which is not why they beat us. The A&T tweet was dumb but irrelevant and not why we EDGED them. I'm sure it didn't start a fight, but we were running up the score in the fourth quarter. Not very Shinnick-like and calling a timeout with 5 seconds let to get the players on the bench to the locker room to avoid another fracas at midfield. Something happened. I'm not lying or bullshitting. They also have more things to worry about than a Tweet.

ESPN+ is also included in a number of streaming bundles. Hulu, Disney, Fox etc with and without commercials. Flo is not. Add Flo as an option to Paramount+, then maybe I'd consider upgrading. But as a standalone not integrated into smart TVs, it's just so small time. Yes! M-F tournament was much better.

I’m stunned. A legit P5 kid , with all of the measurables. Alabama camp time was 4.61! He held offers from Texas A&M, Houston , Cal, K State, Arkansas, App State, Arkansas State, Tulane, Oklahoma State , Texas Tech, Baylor, Colorado State, S Miss. UMiss , TCU and Towson. Strong interest from U Alabama and LSU. Grant is 100% committed and will be here in January. There are no games being played this late in the recruiting period. Commitment is solid.

The optimist in me says that Shinnick has a knack for recruiting talented freshmen QBs and that Grant Smith likes the idea of being a very big fish in a very small, algae-filled CAA pond. The pessimist in me says that Grant Smith is only verbally committed to Towson and is playing some kind of bizarre game of poker with other programs and will ultimately sign somewhere, much bigger and more notable, on signing day.

They need to win. They need to get better games at home. Attendance always upticks for Saturday games and ones in Feb for obvious reasons. There is a DJ for what it’s worth. My issue is the student being next to OUR bench with the actual seats, instead of near the opponents bench. Towson did a great job with marketing and promotion last year. There were some good changes from the past. This coming from me.

Disclaimer: I did not watch the whole game. What I did see was a lifeless team, which is especially disappointing given the off week. I guess Kent made it interesting at the end, but too little, too late. I’m not so sure Indorf starts next week. If I’m Shinnick, I want to puff up my record with a chance to beat another HBCU. Remember, of his 15 W’s, 8 are vs HBCU’s. Speaking only for myself, it’s hard to muster a great deal of enthusiasm about next week, or the remainder of the season for that matter. No running game; special teams that aren’t special; uneven play at QB; and a defense that’s offensive. The sad train 🚂 rolls on. Next stop, Fayetteville

I think after 13 games and the likes of Wilson College and Notre Dame of MD it will all even out. Thank god we play Houston & Kansas.

I’m not sure why Elon is so good at destroying our perfect seasons, but it isn’t a big surprise that this team got caught on a rough day and dropped one. Despite a pretty rough loss on Sunday wherein the Tigers were up 14-12 in the 5th set, they still remain in first place in the conference. They will pick up two free wins on the road at Hampton next week, and will go into Stony Brook and Hofstra sitting at 11-1. Not a bad place to be.

CAA closing the gap on the top conferences in basketball. Unfortunate football side of things are disastrous, but CAA basketball seems to be making headway.

Look, Monmouth is really not a good football team. This is what happens in a watered down FCS and a horrible CAA. Yesterday’, We allowed Monmouth ( yes, Monmouth) to run for 200+ yards at 5.0 per carry! How could the coaching staff think that giving the ball back to “the #1 offense in FCS football”😉with 5 minutes remaining, was gonna give us a chance to win?

Chickens should immediately disband the hoops team. I hope they get slaughtered in C-USA.

Great talent on those teams; Olajuwon, Clyde the Glide Drexler and others. Guy Lewis could never get over the hump. Losing to NC State was unconscionable. Didn’t they beat Louisville, with Darrell Griffith (wasn’t his nickname something like Dr. Dunkenstein 😂?) to get to the championship game vs Valvano’s Wolfpack

reminds me of the old T-Unit days at the Towson Center with the free bateman's wings. ❤️ i would have made it free and reward the kids that go and cheer, but if they think they can get some money out of it, or the small price makes you feel more bought in, that's fine. i don't understand youths these days anyway.

This one isn’t a Towson thing… Houston game is on espn+

The more I look at this promo schedule the better it looks. This is way better than anything we’ve had the last few years unless I’m crazy. Call me weird but I’m excited for that Hawaiian t shirt and plush pillow 😅

Ranking 80 men's NCAA basketball teams by March Madness potential - ESPN

That year we were two-point underdogs against New Mexico (we should have been favorites) and six-point underdogs to Kent State, who we beat. We were 3.5-point underdogs at UMass in 2022 and 2.5-point underdogs at home in 2023. We were 14-point underdogs when we beat Oregon State in 2012. For all of those games, I am sure there are a lot more where we didn't win. That sounds like a fun trip. I was just in KC and did that list of sites 6-7 years ago. It is a fun city. I also visited the largest WW1 Museum, which I didn't realize is the largest of its kinds in the nation. If you don't already have it on your radar, there is a famous BBQ place 3-4 blocks down the road from the Negro League HOF (and Jazz Museum in the same building) called Arthur Bryants. I recommend it.

Wyatt Draeger is from San Diego State. They added a nose guard from Air Force, who is barely playing. Wooten is from Georgia by way of Duke and Mercer. I don't know if the recruiting is poor, though the transfers are iffy. Scheme, play-calling, playing the right personnel seem to all be issues right now over recruiting, though adding a legit transfer QB still made the most sense instead of going with a true freshman.

This is up to two people: Prez Ginsberg and Steve. If they want to continue another season of this, attendance will be a flat 4-5,000 at best with nice weather. Probably have to win the league next season to get to postseason in likely a one-bid league. I think it's more than just firing Dulin and bringing in a new defensive scheme. That won't hurt, but play-calling, whether it's Pete or Neugbauer, something has to give esp. in the red zone. I don't mind using Watkins but he's a short-yardage wildcat QB. Why use him when it's 2nd and 10? What's the point? The running backs are not good to be kind. I'm not saying Battles is the next T-West, but he's much more explosive than Wooten. Does he miss holes sometimes? I'm sure he does but Wooten gets like 1-2 yards on every first down carry. Is it all the RBs? The play-calling? The scheme? How about make a personnel change on the O-line instead of trading positions? Did they think that the return of a blocking tight end like Butler was going to change things with the running game? It didn't. You had two weeks to try and fix the 13th-ranked rushing game in the CAA and that what they do? Hoping that guys got healthier instead of playing some of the young guys? As for the quarterback. There's a reason why Towson has been mediocre since Frisco. Only Tom Flacco has been an above-average QB since 2013-14. You can't win with an average QB unless you have T-West and a great Oline. We have neither. Seems like this staff is more reactive than proactive and that's not a good sign.

Team has to cleanup these fouls. Other than that, super impressed with the first half. Second half not so much. Give that, ultimately expected a much worse loss.

Anyone watching the stream on espn+

You don’t have to win a title to leave a conference or for someone to take you.

Let me enjoy being the top program please 🫣

Too bad we’re not playing the Turtles 🐢 on 11/3. Instead, they’re playing Coppin and we’re playing Loyola

"What I loved is this kind of team...I love how we battle." I think I said this before about such a comment. This is the equivalent of answering if a girl is good looking and they respond: "She has a great personality."

Maybe a very scattered post here & there, but not the groundswell you seem to be intimating. I dunno, this just seems to be a complete and utter non-issue, particularly in light of the real glaring issues like why we can’t run block, why our lead RB is not particularly dynamic, why we have no pass rush, why our tackling is so poor, why we can’t get off the field on 3rd and long, and why our play calling is often times terrible.

Two 5-set wins on the road against the Tribe put the Tigers at 8-0 in conference play. To the outsider fan, this season so far probably looks like business as usual, with Towson dominating the league like normal. But, as evidenced by this weekend, that really is not the case. The Tigers struggled on offense for long stretches during these two matches, and instantly faced an 0-2 deficit on day 1 before absolutely roaring back and crushing the Tribe in sets 3, 4, and 5. Yes, they are undefeated, but that doesn’t fully explain the difficulty they’ve had. They’ve already gone to 5 sets 4 times, which was something they didn’t even do once the last time the went undefeated. That doesn’t mean the season has been disappointing or concerning though; quite the opposite in fact. The fact that this team has gutted out a bunch of tight matches and still remains unscathed is outstanding.

BTW, nobody on here has solutions. All we here are complaints, which is fine. This is a message board. We don't have $48M like Penn State does to buy out a head coach for two seasons. It is what it is. Unless we go the BP route and figure out what that means. But I'd like to hear more than just fire Pete this season or next season or in 2027. If you hire an AD, I'd like to see him or her being able to select the head coach themselves with some consulting available. Get rid of the freakin' committees.

They actually have an exact idea what they are doing. The UNCs of the world don't want to share their money with the Towsons of the world. That is why the ninth-place team in the SEC or Big Ten gets in ahead of a strong 2nd place in the CAA. They know exactly what they are doing.

Isn’t it a bit early on the calendar for this?

The 3rd piece is retaining them, like he did, at least for this upcoming season, with TT and DWill