10Q
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02-10-19 09:14 AM - Post#275777
In response to Quakers03
I expected a win. A team that can beat Villanova should beat Yale. But I get why we didn't.
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Quakers03
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02-10-19 09:25 AM - Post#275779
In response to 10Q
After shooting 50% from 3 the night before? That is an excellent team we played in their gym and we were right in that thing. If Cornell hadn’t pulled the upset I imagine we would have been in the best spot or at least close. Now it gets harder.
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AntiUngvar
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02-10-19 02:08 PM - Post#275802
In response to Quakers03
Does it get harder? Six of Eight in Philadelphia; none of the remaining opponents are Monmouth.
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10Q
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02-10-19 02:09 PM - Post#275803
In response to AntiUngvar
Let’s not make a Monmouth out of a mole hill.
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AntiUngvar
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02-10-19 02:20 PM - Post#275805
In response to 10Q
All kidding aside, I'm envious of the fact that you guys are sure to have rooting interest in next month's Big Dance, one way or another (or both)!
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penn nation
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02-10-19 02:29 PM - Post#275806
In response to AntiUngvar
Speaking of which--they won again last night, are now in sole possession of first place and have jumped from KP 350+ (12 games into the season) all the way to #289.
Does it get harder? Six of Eight in Philadelphia; none of the remaining opponents are Monmouth.
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AntiUngvar
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02-10-19 02:35 PM - Post#275809
In response to penn nation
Right now, they're the best men's D-1 school team from the state of New Jersey.
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13otto
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02-15-19 10:07 AM - Post#276446
In response to 10Q
It's kind of depressing that a team that went 4-0 in the Big Five is struggling to make the Ivy Tournament. There is still plenty of hope, but the room for error is rather small. Let's get a home sweep next weekend. If we don't, that window will narrow a lot more.
The first 2/3 of this season reminds me of the 2001-02 season. We opened that season with a win at Georgia Tech (as an 11-point underdog) en route to a 6-1 start, with the lone loss being to then #2 Illinois, by 7, in a game in which we were an 18 1/2 point underdog. We would finish the 2001-02 non-conference portion of our schedule with a 13-3 record, including an outright Big 5 championship with a perfect 4-0 city series record. But we started off the Ivy League season 2-3, with losses at Harvard (RPI #174), at home vs. lowly Columbia (RPI #214) and at Yale. We were 3 full games out of first place behind 5-0 Princeton & 6-1 Yale, no longer controlling our own destiny. Harvard was 5-2, in third place. With no Ivy League Tournament, we had to win out and hope that Yale and Princeton would split, just to gain a 3-way tie. We all know how that season played out.
This season, we currently trail first-place Yale by 3 games, and second-place Cornell, Harvard & Princeton by two games each, but have to catch only one of those 4 teams. With 6 of our final 8 games at the Palestra, the odds of doing so should be more favorable than they were in 2002. It all starts this weekend at the Palestra. With a sweep, we're right where we need to be.
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penn nation
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02-15-19 10:42 AM - Post#276454
In response to 13otto
We were neck and neck with the Illini in that pre-Thanksgiving tourney in Vegas for a good stretch of the game, too.
In terms of this year, we have better odds due to a 4 team tourney although we've already lost the tiebreaker to Princeton and can only tie Cornell and Yale in head to head at best (we're not catching Yale, at any rate).
The Cornell rematch is a must win for us, period. We must also beat Harvard at least once and if we lose to them this weekend we increase the degree of difficulty on making the IL tourney considerably.
It's kind of depressing that a team that went 4-0 in the Big Five is struggling to make the Ivy Tournament. There is still plenty of hope, but the room for error is rather small. Let's get a home sweep next weekend. If we don't, that window will narrow a lot more.
The first 2/3 of this season reminds me of the 2001-02 season. We opened that season with a win at Georgia Tech (as an 11-point underdog) en route to a 6-1 start, with the lone loss being to then #2 Illinois, by 7, in a game in which we were an 18 1/2 point underdog. We would finish the 2001-02 non-conference portion of our schedule with a 13-3 record, including an outright Big 5 championship with a perfect 4-0 city series record. But we started off the Ivy League season 2-3, with losses at Harvard (RPI #174), at home vs. lowly Columbia (RPI #214) and at Yale. We were 3 full games out of first place behind 5-0 Princeton & 6-1 Yale, no longer controlling our own destiny. Harvard was 5-2, in third place. With no Ivy League Tournament, we had to win out and hope that Yale and Princeton would split, just to gain a 3-way tie. We all know how that season played out.
This season, we currently trail first-place Yale by 3 games, and second-place Cornell, Harvard & Princeton by two games each, but have to catch only one of those 4 teams. With 6 of our final 8 games at the Palestra, the odds of doing so should be more favorable than they were in 2002. It all starts this weekend at the Palestra. With a sweep, we're right where we need to be.
Edited by penn nation on 02-15-19 10:44 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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