Columbia 37P6
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01-30-17 01:44 PM - Post#219907
Now that Coach Engles has converted us into believers, I can't wait to see what he comes up with for Yale and Brown. More of the same? Or something different? We have a few scores to settle with Yale. They really beat us up under the basket the last few years, but Sears and Sherrod have graduated. The Yale and Brown games shape up as the biggest home basketball weekend of the season for the Lions. Wins over Yale and Brown would make us 5-1 for the season and put us in a position to contend strongly for the Ivy League Championship.
Edited by Columbia 37P6 on 01-30-17 01:45 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Columbia Alum
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01-30-17 03:16 PM - Post#219908
In response to Columbia 37P6
Brown is better than their kenpom indicates, they were leading Yale both times late in the second half. Whatever the odds and metrics might say, these are both tough games, we are definite underdogs against Yale but not significant favorites against brown. Brown are playing at a top half caliber recently. I really hope our guys don't sleep on brown, because 0-2 this weekend and 3-3 overall puts us in a bad spot for the tourney given that 5/6 games would have been at home against the easier competition. The toughest weekends are killer Ps again this year. We need at least 1-1 to stay on track, and 2-0 would be good.
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cc66
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01-30-17 03:45 PM - Post#219911
In response to Columbia Alum
The KP rojections are 38% against Yale and 70% against Brown, though against Brown, as with Columbia, the KP ranking does not reflect the recent improvement in the team's play.
After this weekend, we finish with 6 games away + two at home against Penn and Princeton. So if we don't hold serve this weekend, the justifiable enthusiasm over last weekend's outcome will evaporate pretty quickly.
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Chet Forte
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01-30-17 04:47 PM - Post#219918
In response to cc66
Last year Sherrod was the key to Yale's two wins. This year we are bigger and more physical. If we play both games this weekend with the intensity that we showed in the Harvard game, and if we can control their three point shooters we have a good chance since we are quite a bit bigger in the front court than either Y or B. Petrasek will have to produce.
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SomeGuy
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01-30-17 06:39 PM - Post#219938
In response to Chet Forte
I assume you mean bigger and more physical than Columbia was last year, and not bigger and more physical than Yale. Yale is (and almost always is) the most physical team in the league. They haven't outrebounded their opponents by as other worldly an amount as last year, but they've still outrebounded their opponents significantly this year, while Columbia has gotten outrebounded for the season. And while Columbia will have an inch on Yale's bigs, Yale's bigs will outweigh Columbia's (and note that Yale's starters this year are bigger than Sears and Sherrod). So Columbia will have an uphill climb to control Yale on the glass.
Of course, Yale's real rebounding advantage is at guard, where Oni and Dallier usually present a matchup problem. Dallier will be about 8-9 inches taller than Smith at PG, which will make for an interesting speed/size contrast (I assume they won't guard each other, but Yale will have a size advantage somewhere).
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