In what looked like a blow out in the first half turned into a close game later. However, the crowd still left happy as the Terriers scored over 60 points (Right: Strong hits a foul shot to make it 60), beat Bucknell and got a two for one deal at Raising Cane's after the game.
Boston University played high quality basketball in the first half. They scored 32 points with 43% shooting and held the Bison to 16 points and 19% shooting. Everything indicated that this would be a blowout. Wrong. Bucknell had a very strong second half -they pulled to within three at one point- but were not able to completely erase the Terriers early lead.
During the past few weeks there have been two Terrier teams. The First Half Terriers and the Second Half Terriers. I refer to this as the "First and Second Enigma." The First half Terriers are aggressive, play hard, don't sit on an early lead or get discouraged when they are behind, they keep battling. The Second Half Terriers show an early effort, then fade. They sit on a fat lead and then lose it. I'm not sure why this happens, it may have to do with injuries and foul trouble. The Terriers continue to show signs of greatness but cannot play a complete game. This team is still not living up to preseason expectations. All Terrier fans hope that the team can find a solution to the enigma by the January 2nd matchup against Stony Brook, their first in-conference game.
Game Notes:
- Player of the game: Jake O'Brien led the Terriers with 17 points.
- Corey Lowe was back and hit a really long three in the first half.
- I attended this game with a few friends, we all got free tickets from a student outside the of the arena. Apparently there were a few promotions that were designed to lure more people to the game. This was all a part of a "final project" for a marketing class, they had to get as many people to attend the game as possible. I don't think they received an A. The attendance at Agganis games continues to be disappointing. Pat Chambers promised better attendance when he interviewed for the job, I am not seeing it so far.
- I felt bad for the Dance Team, they were having really bad luck with the PA system a couple times.
- One guy mentioned UConn football, I tried to high five him but was denied because I was wearing a Yankees hat.
- Also, when I got my picture taken next to the BU Hockey National Championship trophy I think the person purposely cut my hat out of the picture because I made a snippy remark about not caring about the Red Sox and Celtics tropy (judge for yourselft, see the picture below).
Yankee hat cut out purposely?
Next Up:
Boston U at Marist
December 12, 2 PM
Listen: 1510 am
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