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  1. Game Day!!!! 3:31pm tip here on the West Coast.. Old Man Stevens been busting my chops for those reports and I’m like hey Boss I gotta basketball game chat scheduled today with Matt, 2012, 2024, the TU Alum and likely TSU88, Blounge etc that I can’t miss. Going for 10 conference wins up in Long Island. He’s like.. “You still planning to take some days off the week of March 17th???? cause you know that is our busy time” I’m like this is literally like 34 years in the making and may never ever happen again.
    6 points
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    5 points
  3. Got to give them credit for winning these games. As you said, in the past we would find ways to lose these. Not sure this style will be conducive to winning 3 in 3. They are such a statistical anomaly. score and give up 66.8 PPG. One of the worst assist teams in the country. Play at one of the slowest tempos. Rank top 20 in "luck" (Has Towson athletics ever been considered LUCKY?!) One of the worst shooting teams (from the line and at 2') in the country. Average #'s in defense. One of the worst teams in the country at getting fouled. Very good at not turning the ball over (but playing slow and ISO ball aids that). Most interesting number is we allow 33 points in the second half of games, which is 13th in the COUNTRY. They also score 3.5 points more in the second half to first half, which shows adjustments are being made. Just a very odd team statistically wise.
    4 points
  4. The last three years we have had one nonsense loss in conference play. Last year, it was losing at Hampton to give them their first first conference win at 1-13, two years ago it was to William & Mary team who entered the day 4-9 in conference play, and the previous year it was given Northeastern its first conference win in 12 games. Let's see if we can avoid the banana peel completely this year. This game is definitely in that same category. We need to show up ready to play and not mess around.
    4 points
  5. I believe this is the second straight year, Williamson has caught fire in the second half in Newark to take us home to victory. Last night, he had 18 points on 7-12 FG and 4-5 3pt FG shooting in the second half. If I am getting this right, he had 2 pts on 1-2 FG in the first half last year before erupting for 21 points on 6-8 FG and 1-2 3pt FG in the second half. That is 39 pts (19.5 ppg) on 15-20 FG and 5-7 3pt FG in his last two second halfs at the Bob. Messiah Jones only played 16 minutes, but played some great defense with a team-high four steals. He also had six rebounds, and had a great pass out of a double-team right under the basket to find an open Williamson. I believe that was the three that gave us the lead for good. We had 11 steals, and have 21 in the last two games. Towson has had 10 steals of more five times, and two came against PSU-Wilkes Barre and a full game of garbage time against South Carolina. The other came against UC Irvine. Also nice to see a fairly strong game at the charity stripe. We only shot above 70% from the free throw line once in the first 10 games. Since that point, we have now shot over 70% in seven of the last 12 games. It is still not a great part of what this team does well, but it has been markedly better. Tejada, Tarke and Williams had 56 points last night. If they can get to 45-50 points, I feel like it gives us a good chance to win games. If you take away Samb and Lowery going 4-5, everyone else was 2-14 from the field. However, it seemed like everyone found little ways to contribute. My only worry is our offense at this point is really heavily reliant on Tarke, Tejada and Williams (occasionally May does something notable). It would be great if we could get May to do more, but right now the combination is working. As others have said, I think Skerry has done a good job with this team in conference play. I still think it is pretty talented and deep CAA team, and it has been nice to win games in a different way. I think this win signaled we are a conference contender, but I think it also means we have to raise the standard on this team. It feels like we should be favored in every game this rest of the way, and that at Elon, at Campbell and maybe at Monmouth are the only even close to excusable losses. Obviously you can only take each game one at a time. I also realize that just because we are on this winning streak doesn't mean all of our flaws have gone away. There is still a lot to fix as go here to try to end the long NCAA Tournament drought.
    4 points
  6. So we are all clear.. dinner invites will only be issued to fans on this board.. no late arrivals or gravy trainers hoping on the bandwagon will be able to attend our fan message board gathering in March. City TBD of course. First place in the CAA right now. What a run we are on.
    4 points
  7. Once Dylan got his shot back after that slump through late November and December, it's elevated not only his game but everyone else's. That defense in the final 4 minutes was outstanding again and is what put us over the top. I'm sure there's a lot of brow furrowing over allowing so many offensive rebounds and putbacks but hopefully that gets ironed out. This team has shown a ton of resiliency during this winning streak and it's something I really didn't expect to see after those first 10 games of the season. It's great to see and they really have a good roll going. So...first place all alone in the conference and the next home game is on big TV at a pretty advantageous social time. Marketing has a big challenge ahead over the next 36 hours but there's really no reason that there shouldn't be 3500-4000 fans in attendance on Saturday evening. Go hit the $1 beers for your early buzz before heading uptown. There's a winner on campus and it's time to make that arena loud.
    4 points
  8. Towson basketball tickets are the only thing that haven’t gotten hit hard by inflation the last 30 years! Still $10 a ticket! That was expensive back then! Was the $8 discount for being a student?
    4 points
  9. Seen this rodeo before but will take it like usual..lol
    4 points
  10. I wasn't around when the game was going on, but watched the first half this morning (I hope to watch the second half tonight, although doesn't sound too exciting). One thing that jumps off the page to me is a 20-2 edge in points off turnovers. I don't care who you are playing against, four turnovers in a game (59 possession) is pretty impressive. It is also really important when you don't do a lot of things well. The last two games we have had seven turnovers in 112 possession while our opposition has had 28 turnovers in 116 possessions. We are currently the lowest in the CAA with 8.2 turnovers per game in 11 conference games. Our opposition is at 11.8. That is a lot of extra opportunities for us to make up for what at times has been some really sloppy play. I was interested how this compares with other Skerry teams, and while we still have a lot of season left we are 9.3 turnovers per game. The lowest previous rate was 11.88 in 2019-29 (I know it shows just because you keep your turnovers down does mean you have a great year). If we keep it up this would be fourth time under Skerry that we had less turnovers than our opponents for a season. The best year for this was 2017-18 when we had a turnover margin of +0.59 (13.25 opponents to 12.66 for Towson). This year our turnover margin is +2.6 (11.9 opponents to 9.3 for Towson). We are also averaging 6.8 steals per game, which is the third-most by a Skerry team (we had 6.84 in 2016-17 and 7.3 in 2021-22). I think we can press more and get some steals, but the fact that we have averaged 9.0 steals per game in our last four contests has been helpful. From looking at the boxscore, it seemed like we barely got the two scorers we needed in the second half to pull out this win with Tarke and Williamson scoring 22 of the 34 points in that half on 7-13 shooting (the rest of the team was 4-18. Also really nice to see us go 13-15 from the charity stripe (7-8 in the second half). Props to Christian May for grabbing 10 rebounds and blocking two shots even though he still can't fully get his offense on track. Messiah Jones also had four offensive rebounds, seven points, and was +10 in 26 minutes (which is his highest minute total of the season). Most came with our early run, and he didn't do much statistically, but Sulaiman was a +15 in his 15 minutes on the floor. I mentioned some of the nonsense losses of the past and there are still some landmines out there, but give this team credit for finding ways to win when they don't play well. In the past (and at times this year), this team has made a lot of mistakes down the stretch and missed free throws in bunches, but in a crappy game with not much room for error (because of being dominated in other areas) this team had four turnovers and went 13-15 from the free throw line. Those are definitely ways you can win games where you don't play well, and good teams do that. As was mentioned earlier, Monmouth is 5-1 in home conference play with a good win against Charleston. UNC-W is its only loss at home this year. If we want to win the regular-season conference title, we need to keep pace with what UNC-W did there. We have seven conference games left, and the three road games are incredibly difficult as it relates to this conference. One game at a time, but we will need to do a lot better than we did last night to have any shot at Monmouth. We know that, Skerry knows that, and the players know it. That being said 10-1 is pretty damn awesome so far!
    3 points
  11. Octave and Frey, who each scored 16 against us a few weeks ago, have both missed the last few games. Looking at the rest of the road games, they are tough. Need to take this one.
    3 points
  12. Charleston can't beat UNCW. UNCW can't beat Towson. Towson can't beat Charleston.
    3 points
  13. This is getting way ahead of ourselves, but UNCW has won two straight, seven of the last nine, and is 5-2 against Charleston under Siddle. Ideally having those two teams face each other in the semis and us be on the side of the bracket would be nice. Of course, the two years I thought we had the best chances to win the CAA in recent memory we lost to William & Mary and Delaware in the semis so that logic only goes so far. I agree the conference isn't very good and that avoiding Charleston as long as possible makes sense. I know a lot of people disagree with me here, but I still think there is value as a program in winning a regular-season title. It is hard to do, and is a big accomplishment. We are a long way from thinking about that, but right now that is my primary concern. We have a long way to go to be at a level that would be high enough to think about doing anything significate in the tournament, but it is nice to see these guys find a lot of different ways to win.
    3 points
  14. Love the optimism. Hell, I’d go to Chernobyl if that’s where they sent us, as long as we’re dancing
    3 points
  15. Resiliency is a great adjective to describe this team. Other teams in the past would miss key FTs, give up easy offensive rebounds and miss countless shots and NOT find a way to win. 8-game winning streak NE 80-73 (had to come back from a 37-30 halftime deficit) at Drexel 93-82 (needed two 3-pointers from Tarke in the last minute to get to OT) Hofstra 65-60 (came back from an 18-point deficit in first half) Stony Brook 53-49 (started the game down 8-0 and down 25-19 at the half) NC A&T 83-67 (blowout) at NE 75-65 (started strong and controlled the game in the second half) at Delaware 76-66 (Down 59-54 with 5:22 left (DWill scores 8 of his 27 down the stretch to lead TIgers to win) The CAA is not good this year Towson is 9-1 UNCW is 8-2 after beating SBrook (our next opponent) Charleston is 7-2 and plays 7-2 W&M on Monday night Cambpell is red-hot at 7-3 Elon is 6-4 Monmouth is 5-5 after a dreadful start
    3 points
  16. I'm simply speechless.. Around 7th January, I figured we were digging a hole so deep, even the Mariannes Trench would pale by comparison. And like many on this board, I was sad and highly disappointed, and like others, vented my steam on TowsonFans. Being up in years, I just concluded I'm never gonna get to see the program even come close to measuring up to the teams of the early-to-mid 1990's.. And there's still something about this season's group that's kinda Don Stanhouse-esque: We're in a hole much the games, yet by some heavenly intercession, these guys have found it within themselves to pull through W's 8 of the last 9, including road games!!!!!!!! Talk about a 2nd wind - even Lazarus would be proud❗ I for one take back all the nasty negative remarks of 3-4 weeks ago 😞 Please forgive me... Yes, please forgive me by winning another 7-8 games. Or, at least the key games in March 🙏
    3 points
  17. Ok, where do I start? Did anybody think we'd be here after that six-game losing streak in non-conference play? Do you think we missed Tejada for six games and May's defense for four games? Not even going to go into the travel issues. I have to still say that this team is still an unfinished product. I thought they played about 35 incredible minutes on Monday. They moved the ball well, they pressed and forced turnovers. Tonight, I didn't see a lot of that other than some incredible clutch shooting from Dylan Williamson. DWill was incredible tonight though I'm not in love with all the ISO stuff and lack of ball movement (6 assists). If that's what it takes to win. If we can beat them off the dribble, then go for it. I thought the defense was going to struggle some tonight. We just played on Monday and they didn't. Plus they have some good offensive players, especially Camden. But the rest were just ok, I thought we got caught ball watching some and gave up too many backdoors and then the fouls were ugh, especially on No. 11. Not bad calls, but he fouled out in 16 minutes, yet still gives you six points and two rebounds. Starting Tarke in the second half made sense and we probably should have gone small earlier since the Hens didn't really play a center. Embeya, Jones and Samb combined for 3 points and 15 rebounds. I love the board work but yeah, they also took just three shots combined. I know people are just waiting for the shoe to drop. Maybe it does Saturday or next week, but all I know is that we're in first place in the CAA and it feels a lot better than it did in December.
    3 points
  18. Never imagined we’d be 8-1 at the halfway point of conference play. With W&M getting trucked by the Camels 🐪 tonight, we’ll be in sole possession of 1st place going into Saturday’s game vs Drexel. With decent weather, no football to compete with, students back & team on a roll, we should have a nice, and raucous, crowd. DWill is on a heater, and the other 2/3 of the 3-headed monster kicked in about 30 points tonight. Pretty amazing that we start 3 guys who combined avg less than 20ppg, yet we keep winning. Let’s enjoy the roll, and slay the Dragons 🐉 next
    3 points
  19. Happy Storm the Court Day to those who celebrate. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years.
    3 points
  20. It is great to have games where we can get two players cooking like Tejada and Williamson were last night. Between Tejada, Williamson, and Tarke they were 21-34 with 62 points on the night (9-11 from 3, which will not be duplicated again). Very similar to the Drexel game where those three combined to score 67 points on 25-42 (7-10 3pt FG between Williamson and Tarke). Who would have guessed that we would have had two big road games where the offense overwhelmed a solid home team to get the victory. I feel like 2021-22 was the only time we saw any of these type of victories, and I don't know if I remember hot shooting like this. I was also impressed with some of the defensive pressure as others have mentioned. We had six steals in the first half (felt like they call came early in the half), and Tarke finished with five on the night. We didn't even need our customary offensive rebounds, because we made so many shots. We have gone back and forth on if all of the guys coming back were quality experience or quantity experience. Some of these games where Williamson and Tejada have shot well have definitely shown quantity. I think I am repeating this, but since going to the bench Tarke is averaging 15.7 ppg on 52.6% shooting in an average of 26.8 minutes per game. I know some of this is just for appearances, but Skerry seems to have a good read on the players since they all returned and has made some good adjustments in conference play. To me the next game tells a big story. I want to see this team show some consistency and back up what they did last night with a similar effort against Delaware, a program that we have had our moments against recently but has also made us look bad at times.
    3 points
  21. Nice road W in a place we usually struggle. When the 3 headed monster of Tejada, DWill and Tarke are all on, we’re a tough out.,I’d like to see Lowery start over Suliaman, but I doubt Skerry’s going to tinker with the starting lineup, given the roll we’re on. Nice to see Tejada hitting the boards. Would be nice to get a W in what might be our last road game vs DE. A W would put us at 8-1, halfway through conference play
    3 points
  22. A-MEN !!!! Can't even follow the P by P because Patsos won't leave room for Spiro to get a word in!!!😡 Timing is everything when you're the color commentator. Without the P x P, there's no point in listening; better to just go to the stats-board option to catch the action & find out what's going on in the game.. And I STILL say Jimmy sounds like Charles McGraw in "Hang 'em High" (1968) 🙄
    3 points
  23. I attended todays game and we looked good overall. We definitely made the extra passes tonight and it led to good shots. Our big men were terrible though, I watched them miss easy buckets and drop easy dimes. Got bullied in the paint tonight. **Had a couple of alumni come out and they loved the $1 beer promo & the win. They plan on coming back.
    3 points
  24. Also, Tarke is a great quote. I asked him about that two-handed dunk late to basically cement the game and his comments were hilarious. Said, "there was a lot of chatter in the organization that they say I don't dunk anymore so I had to shut down those allegations in conference play." Then Tejada said, "it was supposed to be for me."
    3 points
  25. Looks like this team has found their January/February run. Hopefully it carries beyond that.
    3 points
  26. Yes. We are on the upward caa part of the skerry cycle. There will be a quick drop, losing a game or two to bad teams, then a slight uptick again right before the tournament, that gives everyone some false sense of hope. Only to crash down in an epic collapse in March. Agree. Was shocked when I saw the box score and play by play. He has been dreadful this season so it’s gotta be a good feeling for him to have a very solid game for once. winning on the road is tough and even more so at the DAC. So yesterday was a very good win in that respect. Again, I really like this schedule that they have. Can they take advantage? The last two games scoring 76 and 80 are the outliers on the season. This team is closer to the 62 ppg team the first 14 games of the year than the close to 80 one. Though I feel we are more in the 67-69 point per game range.
    3 points
  27. 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.
    2 points
  28. There are several downsides to this winning streak. First, it masks our flaws — to my mind we are not a very good team, despite our late-game tendency to snatch victory from defeat. Second, the recruiting philosophy of this staff will only be reinforced by our fool’s gold success, meaning we’ll continue to look not for shooters but instead bring in offensively challenged players who maybe can rebound. And third, even if the wheels come off the cart in the final month of the season, PS is almost assured to get another extension. That is not what I want to see, as the pattern of play this year is no different from what we’ve seen for too long. There’s no long-term (or short term) upside to that, IMO. I know I’ll be lambasted for raining on the parade - and I wouldn’t deny these players the praise they deserve for resiliency - but this group is not championship quality. Should they miraculously reach the big dance, they’ll get embarrassed in the first round.
    2 points
  29. Rebounding is effort. Embeya grabbing no rebounds in this game has to motivate him for the next. Sulaiman grabbed one rebound tonight in 15 minutes. Tejada had two rebounds and let one hit off his hands late in the game that led to a three-pointer by Sbrook. Jones (5), Lowery (4) and May (10) need help. Also, we did have 12 offensive rebounds, which usually leads to easy scores. Just 20 defensive rebounds. Stony Brook had 16 offensive rebounds and 29 defensive rebounds. Snoddy had 10 rebounds in 39 minutes and Nick Woodard, who I was impressed with his physicality, had 8. But as I continue to scrutinize the wins because it gets tougher after this one, I applaud this team and staff for getting the job done when it matters. There have been better teams in the past who get off to better starts and have double-digits leads in the second half only to piss them away. It's pretty remarkable how they close games out because the stats aren't exactly in their corner in a lot of categories. But they are great right now at one key stat: winning.
    2 points
  30. Embeya Samb. Jones. Suliman Tejada combine for 3 defensive rebounds. Need more from your tallest players. please press, we need all the ways buckets we can get
    2 points
  31. In the college insider.com mid major poll, so we got that going for us 😆
    2 points
  32. So, after the Monmouth game we’ll have played 2/3 of our conference schedule. I don’t particularly care if we finish first, though that would be nice. The important thing of course is to finish in the top four (and to hopefully finish in a position where we wouldn’t have to play C of C unless it were in the finals) The conference is pretty wide open. I mean who thought before the season that W&M & Campbell would be in play for a top 4 finish? Other than SB & NCAT any team could get hot in DC and win the championship. I’m concerned, given our propensity for falling behind early, and our limited scoring options, that we can string together 3 straight W’s come tournament time, but first things first; let’s lock down a top four finish
    2 points
  33. I still need to go back and watch this game. Just saw the highlights and talked to others who watched it. I agree with most what has been said on here about the ugliness of the game (from what I can tell by looking at the boxscore), and this team doing a good job of finding a way to win. I think we can do alright in D.C. with three guys scoring most of the points, but games like this where we have two players take nearly 60% of the shot attempts is a recipe for disaster. Credit to Tejada and Williamson for nearly shooting 50% from the field in a rock fight (the rest of the team shot 6-24), but that doesn't usually happen when two players are forced to take all of the shots. At least not with this program. Under the finding a way to win, we have to tip our hat to the Skerryball style today a little bit. Drexel shot 47% to our 39%, but we had 10 more shot attempts because of the 12 to 3 turnover edge, and although we only had two more offensive rebounds than the Dragons we managed to squeeze out seven more points on second chances. I know he only played 10 minutes, but it jumped out to me that Samb was +13 when he was on the floor (he did have two offensive rebounds). This means nothing, but I had to bring it up. I agree with Mat's assessment on Sulaiman. His game is somewhat limited in terms of shot-making, but he finds ways to make key efforts plays, and I feel like he always seems to bring energy for the crowd to feed off of when we are at home. Considering he was 4-5 from the FT line, while the rest of the team was 1-5 it definitely makes you feel like you want him shooting free throws down the stretch. Towson also continued to be active from a steals standpoint and Sulaiman had three of the seven tonight. It didn't look like Caleb did much tonight, but I do appreciate the three offensive boards in 11 minutes (five from him and Samb in 21 minutes). We definitely need more from our frontcourt down the stretch. The contrast of the two Drexel games for Tarke could not be more extreme (27 pts, 9-14 FG in game one, 3 pts, 1-4 FG game two). I am wondering for those who saw the game and dig into the strategy more, did Drexel do anything different on him defensively or is this just "Tarke being Tarke" and running hot and cold? It was mentioned that we missed some bunnies in this game. Missed layups is something that drove me nuts last year, and as much as I loved Charles Thompson he was probably one of the main culprits. This year has actually been better until the Drexel game. Here is a breakdown of the layup FGs in conference play. I actually let us off the hook for not being great at Northeastern and NC A&T games because we were pretty firmly in control of those games and things got ugly. I know by definition layups feel like they should be made, but I figure anything over 55% is fine, anything 60% or over is actually pretty solid, anything 50% or less is not good. This is the first time where we did it in a close conference game, and it almost game back to bite us. Layup FG - at UNC-W - 7-13 (53.8%); at Charleston - 9-15 (60%); Northeastern - 12-24 (50%); at Drexel - 13-20 (65%); Hofstra - 10-19 (52.6%); Stony Brook - 11-19 (57.8%); NC A&T - 6-13 (46.1%); at Northeastern - 7-17 (41.1%); at Delaware - 14-23 (60.8%); Drexel - 9-20 (45%). Finally, a place where I want to tip my cap to this team is turnover margin. We are second in the conference behind Campbell in this category and 65th nationally at +2.17 turnovers per game. We had only three turnovers in 53 possessions against Drexel. I know Drexel doesn't really turn you over, but that is a our lowest turnover total of the year (by three) and I would guess our lowest turnover rate (5.7%) (I will do that research later). In two games against Drexel we turned the ball over 10 times in 126 possessions. In conference play, our turnover breakdown (turnovers-possession-pct) is at UNC-W (7-66, 10.6%), at Charleston (9-68, 13.2%), Northeastern (8-61, 13.1%), at Drexel (7-73, 9.6%), Hofstra (8-59, 13.6%), Stony Brook (9-57, 15.8%), NC A&T (9-65, 13.8%), at Northeastern (14-66, 21.2%), at Delaware (10-65, 15.4%) and Drexel (3-53, 5.7%). It doesn't feel like many teams pressure in this conference so that is part of it, but give our guys credit for being good at this, because this seems new for a Skerry team (although I would need to do some more research). I know our pace is part of this, but that is why I included the percentage because it gives proper context. The end of the Northeastern and parts of the Delaware games are the only times in conference play where we have been overly sloppy at turning it over (obviously the Robert Morris game was the worst). This is a trait that could really help us if we can keep it up in D.C. Back on the road this week where it seems like this team has played better in conference play so far. Like I said last week, at Monmouth, at Campbell (they annihilated William & Mary and Hofstra this week at home), at Elon and William & Mary feel like the games to watch out for. Hopefully, we can bounce back from this poor offensive showing a do a better job on the road. As everyone else had said, kudos to this team for finding ways to win. Sorry this ran a little long.
    2 points
  34. All well said and my gut says for us to win in DC we are gonna likely need a break or two where maybe one of our 6-10 players in the scoring column goes off a bit and I’m gonna say that player will Caleb Embeya (4.3 points/6.3 rebounds/11-16 FT’s/17 minutes a game) He’s gonna play a big role for us to have a chance to dance 🪩 🤞
    2 points
  35. Night and Day from early season. Once these players run, ....it is about as good as I have seen Towson play in over a decade. Once they slow it down.......problems occur. To give them their due, it was actually fun to watch last night.
    2 points
  36. I do have to give Tarke his flowers. The guy has been sensational since coming off the bench in six games. Look at his non-conference shooting and his conference shooting. His overall shooting is at 36% FG/28% 3pt/64% FT. In conference, he's averaging 13ppg, 52%/48%/57.1%. Only the free throw shooting has suffered. His only bad game off the bench was when he went 0-6 and 0-3(3pt) against Stony Brook. Towson now has three players averaging over double digits. That doesn't sound like much but last season, we barely had anybody over 10 points per game. Lowery also with 21 blocks overall (1 per game) and apparently had two tonight (thought he had 3-4). But he's a potential performer on all-defensive team. Tarke for 6th man of the year as long as he keeps playing well off the bench. Yes, Lowery should start over Sulaiman, who is the fourth-leading scorer at 7.2ppg, but like to see him rebound more (3.7) in 20mpg.
    2 points
  37. I'm sure there are a few people that were wondering where Christian May was tonight. Well, he was leading the defensive charge against King and helped limit him to basically a non-entity. May might not have scored much (1 basket I think?) but the defensive gameplan was really good. We played with a lot more tempo at the defensive end and forced NE into a lot of things they didn't want to do. To make that defense better, we then ran off the turnovers and took advantage of the miscues. Life is a lot better when shots are going down and we're knocking down the open looks off of the extra pass. I thought the ball distribution was much better in spots at least until the lull at about the 6:00 mark of the first half and then at the end. Good showing on the big screen tonight. Except...at what point are we gonna learn that clockball doesn't work? Yeah, I know, up 14 with 3:00 left, it's in the bag, whatever. We decided not to attack open spots (DW had a wide open 3 from the right wing but because there was 12 on the shot clock, he didn't take it...and then dribbled into a turnover) and tried to bleed the clock. Then we looked like we hadn't ever seen a press. These are the things we can't have happen. They were good against A&T about extending that lead in the last 5 minutes. Tonight, it was a little bit of regression in that department and if NE had their crap together in the last 90 seconds, it could have been a real embarrassment. Goodbye and good riddance to Matthews Arena. Now let's get the Chickens on Thursday.
    2 points
  38. I don't care who is out for Northeastern, this game will likely be very difficult. As we have all said, we always seems to be sluggish when we play at Northeastern in that weird combo arena. Really good teams contending for conference titles will find a way to be 2-0 on this trip. I am not sure that is what the Tigers are right now, but that is the challenge for this week. The game will be ugly, and I am sure they will trail at some point. I believe Towson has had one really good offensive half against Northeastern each of the last three teams we have played them. The key is not to have such a disaster of a half like we did there last year that is nearly impossible to dig out from that hole. I do expect to win one of these next two games, but hope to pleasantly surprised. Certainly 0-2 is possible too, but I am hoping they are starting build more confidence as part of this winning streak.
    2 points
  39. THis not a donation, it’s paying players. Criticizing someone who does THis and has season tickets is a bit counter productive I don’t believe so..https://www.bakerlaw.com/insights/international-student-athletes-and-their-eligibility-for-nil-partnerships/
    2 points
  40. With W&M’s L today, we’re tied with them for 2nd place in the conference. A little early to be scoreboard watching, I suppose. Then again, after Thursday’s game, we’ll have played basically 40% of our conference games
    2 points
  41. I'm not upset about being 5-1. Don't get me wrong. I'll take it and It's fine. I just don't like the way we're playing. It's not even just boring. It's maddening to watch. We've had to come back in every game to win a close games. I guess the fact that we complained about losing so many close games a couple of seasons ago doesn't really hold with this squad, so I'll give them credit for having intestinal fortitude in conference play. T But we shouldn't need to come back from nine down or whatever it was in the 2nd half to beat freakin' Stony Brook at home. I wasn't surprised that we barely won today, but a bit surprised we put up 54 points against a dreadful defense. And we were so much better at Drexel on offense at a tough place to play and playing like this today against a bad team makes no sense. If we're playing like this in late February, we're not going to be in first or second place or fourth. This is a bad league. We need to take advantage. Charleston is winning games but they aren't playing a lot of D. W&M will play UNCW on Monday at 1pm or watching the repeat if it's on Flor. Will be DVRing that since I'm not off. That's a big one. Are they for real? Tough place to play (except for us). Also, we're in mid-January and it feels that this season has gone on for years. That might be just me because I was sick for about a month and missed the UMBC game (awful). We are certainly playing a bit better since non-conference though I think we played our asses off in Canada w/o TT and CMay. Just couldn't get over the hump.
    2 points
  42. You're lucky you didn't have to watch that dreck. Really, 5-1 is nice, but it's not enjoyable basketball when we can't put the ball through the hoop. I'll take Drexel and NE wins with slightly better D. It's a lot more fun to win 75-70 than 54-50. And I'll agree with 2012 that this type of basketball won't work for 3 days in D.C. And I don't just mean today's awful offensive display. They have to start playing better basketball. I get that you can't play a perfect basketball game for 40 minutes. How about a strong 25? I'd also like to see more intensity. We have a lot of calm guys. That's fine for winning games late but how about starting out with some passion? We've had 2,000 people and 2,600 people without students in the last two home games. It's not Charleston but it beats the NE crowd last week. A decent crowd should have you amped to play the game no matter who you're playing. Didn't see that even against Hofstra. You don't have to shoot 50% from the field to dive on the floor for a 50-50 ball. It's why I constantly complain about starting Hicks and falling in a hole early. It's not that he doesn't hustle. He just can't shoot. Let's take a look at the numbers. In 15mpg, he's averaging 2.7ppg, 1.0apg, 31.7% FG, 25% 3pt (9-36) and has gone to the line just 3 times. Has 11 turnovers in 19 games. To his credit, he has stayed healthy.
    2 points
  43. There were better highlights from the mascot game at halftime, where Doc the Tiger scored more points than practically everyone on our team
    2 points
  44. Nice win on "national" tv last night. Stayed in the fight while Hofstra couldn't miss in the first half. Big shots and free throws down the stretch which we all have seen us not convert in the past. This team will continue to be a head scratcher and even though I bitch and moan about this program from time to time it always feels good to win.
    2 points
  45. All issues should be fixed, send me a DM if you see any other errors.
    2 points
  46. Good comeback, this team is super confusing but they seem to know how to get a dub. Like others have mentioned they are winning games that usually don't go our way. Good win fellas!
    2 points
  47. unrelated, but the site is showing its lost its security certificate, essentially dubbing it a dangerous site which can compromise the computer.
    2 points
  48. Could you and TUTigers2012 just stop this ceaseless nonsense? We get it, you got us in the dance and he’s got us crashing & burning in the conference tournament (truth is probably somewhere in between). I’m not saying either of you should stop posting, but this tit-for-tat between you two is a bore, tbh
    2 points
  49. “Ain’t no stopping us now.. we on the move..” 3-1 in the CAA *2 road wins Congrats team and coaches.
    2 points
  50. Big pickup in the portal. Four star OT Mike Williams who went to Florida
    2 points
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