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Showing posts with label Stony Brook Seawolves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stony Brook Seawolves. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Video: BU Terriers Basketball celebrates win over Stony Brook
YouTube Video I just uploaded of the celebration on the court after BU beat Stony Brook, we didn't have a lot of students at the game so the BU Dance Team decided to storm the court.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
AE Tournament 2010: BU stuns SBU, advance to Final at UVM
3/7 - BU v. Stony Brook - America East Semifinal #1 - BU wins 70 - 63
BU Recap
Boston Globe Recap
I have not been more excited for a game all season than this one, and I was never disappointed (except for maybe the first five minutes of the second half, but I will get into that later). BU is in the final two, they went into Hartford and did what they needed to do - win two games.
The Atmosphere
Let me describe the atmosphere to give you the full flavor of the game. I went into this game, like I had the day before with my father Vito and in the same BU Basketball shirt I wear to almost every game. This time instead of sitting behind the basket, we sat at half court about four rows up, surrounded on three sides by UVM fans. Before the game we went to this tent in the southwest corner of the Gym for a coupe of beers. (This actually surprised me that there was a beer tent on a college campus connected to the game. They roped off an area and you could not bring a beer outside of that area, they had TV's set up, some pretty fancy food and a place where you could make your own signs, with very limited profanity retrictions).
Once the game started I started rooting and shouting for the BU Terriers like any BU fan would. But I noticed something else; the Vermont fans were also rooting for BU (not quietly rooting, they were pretty loud for most of the game, they were doing cheers, clapping, standing up and screaming at the ref). I was shocked. I immeidiately resented all of the Vermont fans surrounding me, they're BU's biggest rival and they are rooting for us? Then I realized why, because of the format of the America East conference tournament, if BU beat Stony Brook and UVM beat UNH, UVM would host the championship in Burlington, VT, because they would be the higher seed. Even after realizing this, I still resented UVM fans, I wanted UNH to win in the next game but I wasn't rooting for them. It's like being a Yankees fan and for some reason, some odd situation happens, where Red Sox fans start rooting for the Yankees because it somehow benefits the Sox if the Yankees beat another team (there has to be some made up word or term for this situation, if not I am fielding suggestions). This is completely unaccepteable. They are rooting for something that their team cannot control, it's idiotic and I hate it. Hopefully, come Saturday at noon on ESPN2, every one of the UVM fans who was rooting for BU will come to regret it.
Another person rooting fervently for BU was my father. As per usual when he came to one of these events he bought a hat of the team he was rooting for. I appreciated the support, it felt like I was watching the game with another BU alumni or BU fan. He was actually getting more heated than the BU alumni occupying the one side of us that was not UVM fans. He even got more heated than myself on occaision. A couple of times when the ref called a bad foul that went against BU, he stood up and started screaming at the top of his lungs at the ref. And we were four rows from the scoreres table, the ref definitely heard him, a couple of times I had to tell him to calm down. When Coach Chambers got his technical foul, I was convinced that the ref was T-ing up my dad for something he said not the coach of BU. This I had nothing against, I loved this, I was so glad he came with me.
Then there were the people that were rooting for SBU. They came in force. At one point during the game I tweeted a twitpic (see below) of the SBU student section, the word "Seawolves" all nine people who spelled out the plural form of their teams mascot outnumbered the total BU student section, if you read my blog post on Terriers Basketball attendance and why it was so poor, especially among students, this seemed to be on par. It was more of a home game for Stony Brook and an away game for the Terriers. The easiest way to recognize who has more fans at the arena when a game is played at a neutral site, listen to the noise during foul shots. When BU was taking their shots from the charity stripe the arena was significantly louder than when SBU took their shots (surprisingly though, BU held the advantage in foul shots made, SBU missed more than half of their chances, maybe this was the difference in the game).
The Game
The most exciting game I have seen all season. The atmosphere was electric and I found myself actually being nervous for all of the players and coached involved. This was the biggest game Coach Chambers has ever coached and the biggest game BU's seniors have ever played. Keep in mind, BU has not been to the conference championship since 2003 and has not won the conference tournament since 2002. A win in this game would bring BU to a game they haven't been to in over half a decade.
I'm dividing this game into five parts. I'll write a paragraph on each:
The rest of the first half was the Core Lowe Show. He was making deep deep three-pointers. All around me I was listening to UVM fans just saying "WOW, how did he make that shot?" Coach Chambers knew what Lowe was doing, the fans knew what he was doing. I just smiled and knew, like I mentioned in my preview, if Lowe and others could stay hot from three the Terriers will win this game. But that was not the only story of this portion of the game, BU's defense did a fantastic job, limiting SBU to only 15 points in the last 17 minutes. I was hoping they would carryover both their defensive and offensive performances over into the second half.
At halftime BU led 37 - 24.
The first five minutes of the second half punched me in the gut. I was twice as deflated when BU allowed SBU to go on a 16 - 0 run to start the second half and give up the lead that they spent so much time building in the first half. I and every fan in the Arena was in panic mode, completely in shock that they allowed this to happen and so were Terriers.
At the start the middle of the second half Coach Chambers decided that he had enough. He called time out and got pissed. For about a minute, between when the time out was called and the band started playing, one entire half of the arena could hear Coach Chambers yelling at his players, he needed to start a fire or BU was going to see this one slip away. Whatever he did worked, BU didn't take the lead but they kept it within at least 5 points the entire time. Still they were getting frustrated, and so was I that we were not able to pull closer.
In the last five minutes of the game, all of that frustration culminated with a stupid foul called against BU. Coach Chambers got emotional and got a technical foul right away. He was saying to his team" "I'm doing everything I can to win this game, I want it bad, how much do you guys want it?" The players responded, they went back to finishing the easy baskets and playing great defense. To end the game they went on a 9-0 run to lock up the win, and advance to the final Saturday noon ESPN2 at Burlington against the only America East team they have not beaten so far this season: The Vermont Catamounts.
Random notes and thank yous
BU Recap
Boston Globe Recap
I have not been more excited for a game all season than this one, and I was never disappointed (except for maybe the first five minutes of the second half, but I will get into that later). BU is in the final two, they went into Hartford and did what they needed to do - win two games.
The Atmosphere
Let me describe the atmosphere to give you the full flavor of the game. I went into this game, like I had the day before with my father Vito and in the same BU Basketball shirt I wear to almost every game. This time instead of sitting behind the basket, we sat at half court about four rows up, surrounded on three sides by UVM fans. Before the game we went to this tent in the southwest corner of the Gym for a coupe of beers. (This actually surprised me that there was a beer tent on a college campus connected to the game. They roped off an area and you could not bring a beer outside of that area, they had TV's set up, some pretty fancy food and a place where you could make your own signs, with very limited profanity retrictions).
Once the game started I started rooting and shouting for the BU Terriers like any BU fan would. But I noticed something else; the Vermont fans were also rooting for BU (not quietly rooting, they were pretty loud for most of the game, they were doing cheers, clapping, standing up and screaming at the ref). I was shocked. I immeidiately resented all of the Vermont fans surrounding me, they're BU's biggest rival and they are rooting for us? Then I realized why, because of the format of the America East conference tournament, if BU beat Stony Brook and UVM beat UNH, UVM would host the championship in Burlington, VT, because they would be the higher seed. Even after realizing this, I still resented UVM fans, I wanted UNH to win in the next game but I wasn't rooting for them. It's like being a Yankees fan and for some reason, some odd situation happens, where Red Sox fans start rooting for the Yankees because it somehow benefits the Sox if the Yankees beat another team (there has to be some made up word or term for this situation, if not I am fielding suggestions). This is completely unaccepteable. They are rooting for something that their team cannot control, it's idiotic and I hate it. Hopefully, come Saturday at noon on ESPN2, every one of the UVM fans who was rooting for BU will come to regret it.
Another person rooting fervently for BU was my father. As per usual when he came to one of these events he bought a hat of the team he was rooting for. I appreciated the support, it felt like I was watching the game with another BU alumni or BU fan. He was actually getting more heated than the BU alumni occupying the one side of us that was not UVM fans. He even got more heated than myself on occaision. A couple of times when the ref called a bad foul that went against BU, he stood up and started screaming at the top of his lungs at the ref. And we were four rows from the scoreres table, the ref definitely heard him, a couple of times I had to tell him to calm down. When Coach Chambers got his technical foul, I was convinced that the ref was T-ing up my dad for something he said not the coach of BU. This I had nothing against, I loved this, I was so glad he came with me.
Then there were the people that were rooting for SBU. They came in force. At one point during the game I tweeted a twitpic (see below) of the SBU student section, the word "Seawolves" all nine people who spelled out the plural form of their teams mascot outnumbered the total BU student section, if you read my blog post on Terriers Basketball attendance and why it was so poor, especially among students, this seemed to be on par. It was more of a home game for Stony Brook and an away game for the Terriers. The easiest way to recognize who has more fans at the arena when a game is played at a neutral site, listen to the noise during foul shots. When BU was taking their shots from the charity stripe the arena was significantly louder than when SBU took their shots (surprisingly though, BU held the advantage in foul shots made, SBU missed more than half of their chances, maybe this was the difference in the game).
Stony Brook Student Section
BU Student Section (to be fair there might be a few more this was taken during the horn malfunction in the first half)
The most exciting game I have seen all season. The atmosphere was electric and I found myself actually being nervous for all of the players and coached involved. This was the biggest game Coach Chambers has ever coached and the biggest game BU's seniors have ever played. Keep in mind, BU has not been to the conference championship since 2003 and has not won the conference tournament since 2002. A win in this game would bring BU to a game they haven't been to in over half a decade.
I'm dividing this game into five parts. I'll write a paragraph on each:
- The first 3 minutes of the game
- The rest of the first half
- The first 5 minutes of the second half
- The middle of the second half
- The last 4 minutes of the game
The rest of the first half was the Core Lowe Show. He was making deep deep three-pointers. All around me I was listening to UVM fans just saying "WOW, how did he make that shot?" Coach Chambers knew what Lowe was doing, the fans knew what he was doing. I just smiled and knew, like I mentioned in my preview, if Lowe and others could stay hot from three the Terriers will win this game. But that was not the only story of this portion of the game, BU's defense did a fantastic job, limiting SBU to only 15 points in the last 17 minutes. I was hoping they would carryover both their defensive and offensive performances over into the second half.
At halftime BU led 37 - 24.
The first five minutes of the second half punched me in the gut. I was twice as deflated when BU allowed SBU to go on a 16 - 0 run to start the second half and give up the lead that they spent so much time building in the first half. I and every fan in the Arena was in panic mode, completely in shock that they allowed this to happen and so were Terriers.
At the start the middle of the second half Coach Chambers decided that he had enough. He called time out and got pissed. For about a minute, between when the time out was called and the band started playing, one entire half of the arena could hear Coach Chambers yelling at his players, he needed to start a fire or BU was going to see this one slip away. Whatever he did worked, BU didn't take the lead but they kept it within at least 5 points the entire time. Still they were getting frustrated, and so was I that we were not able to pull closer.
In the last five minutes of the game, all of that frustration culminated with a stupid foul called against BU. Coach Chambers got emotional and got a technical foul right away. He was saying to his team" "I'm doing everything I can to win this game, I want it bad, how much do you guys want it?" The players responded, they went back to finishing the easy baskets and playing great defense. To end the game they went on a 9-0 run to lock up the win, and advance to the final Saturday noon ESPN2 at Burlington against the only America East team they have not beaten so far this season: The Vermont Catamounts.
Random notes and thank yous
- Thank you to the Albany fan who sold us his $300 worth of tickets for $20 because Albany made an early exit, the seats were awesome, I even ended up selling one for $10.
- During the Stony Brook game, Tina Charles of the UConn Huskies women team, came in halfway through the first half, just after her Huskies beat Syracuse for their 70th straight win an NCAA women's record. Thanks for your interest in America East basketball Tina!
- Thank you to my father Vito, for providing me with transportation to and from all of the games this weekend.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
AE Tournament 2010 - BU beats Hartford to play SBU in the Semis
3/6 - BU v. Hartford - Terriers win 87 - 46.
In the program people will forever wonder why BU played Hartford in the quarterfinal instead of Binghamton. On Monday night, apparently after all of the AE 2010 Tournament programs were printed out, Binghamton withdrew from the tournament because of their off the court issues. So instead of playing Binghamton like initially planned BU played Hartford. This seemingly odd but very understandble event sparked a couple of thoughts in my mind:
This win seems to continue the trend of how BU has performed thus far all year. Versus the lowly teams in the conference they will dominate play from almost beginning to finish. Very rarely have they been in a close game and they always win versus the inferior opponent. As a fan tracking BU all season, I noted many times that they are undefeated versus teams below them in the standings and 1 - 5 versus opponents above them in the standings (the only win coming against Maine on senior day).
3/7 - 5:00 PM EST - BU v. Stony Brook - Reich Family Arena
Today they can completely negate that 1 - 5 record versus superior opponents by knocking off the best team in the conference: The Stony Brook Seawolves (which is not an actual animal). The Terriers have been mandhandled by the Seawolves both times they have played. The Terriers were never able to find a rhythym in both games and would go prolonged periods of the game without scoring a field goal.
The big stat in both of the previous BU v. SBU contests and what I expect to be the huge difference in this contest is how hot the Terriers can get from 3 point range. In the first game they shot about 35%, shooting 12 of 37 from beyond the arc. In the second game they made a paltry 4 of 22 from beyond the arc about 18%. Both of these percentages are unusually low for the Terriers. If they can shoot like they did yesterday in the Hartford quarterfinal, the Terriers will win this game and upset Stony Brook to advance to the AE Final for the first time since they won the tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament in 2002.
Random Notes:
In the program people will forever wonder why BU played Hartford in the quarterfinal instead of Binghamton. On Monday night, apparently after all of the AE 2010 Tournament programs were printed out, Binghamton withdrew from the tournament because of their off the court issues. So instead of playing Binghamton like initially planned BU played Hartford. This seemingly odd but very understandble event sparked a couple of thoughts in my mind:
- What happened to all of the Binghamton fans who bought tickets to the men's tournament? Did they get a full refund? Did any of them already have the hotel booked so they decided to go anyway?
- BU will now have to play the University of Hartford in the quarterfinals, seemingly a worse matchup than Binghamton, who just a week and a half earlier we beat by 43 points. The last time we played Hartford we won by only 3 points on the back of a Jake O'Brien three pointer.
This win seems to continue the trend of how BU has performed thus far all year. Versus the lowly teams in the conference they will dominate play from almost beginning to finish. Very rarely have they been in a close game and they always win versus the inferior opponent. As a fan tracking BU all season, I noted many times that they are undefeated versus teams below them in the standings and 1 - 5 versus opponents above them in the standings (the only win coming against Maine on senior day).
3/7 - 5:00 PM EST - BU v. Stony Brook - Reich Family Arena
Today they can completely negate that 1 - 5 record versus superior opponents by knocking off the best team in the conference: The Stony Brook Seawolves (which is not an actual animal). The Terriers have been mandhandled by the Seawolves both times they have played. The Terriers were never able to find a rhythym in both games and would go prolonged periods of the game without scoring a field goal.
The big stat in both of the previous BU v. SBU contests and what I expect to be the huge difference in this contest is how hot the Terriers can get from 3 point range. In the first game they shot about 35%, shooting 12 of 37 from beyond the arc. In the second game they made a paltry 4 of 22 from beyond the arc about 18%. Both of these percentages are unusually low for the Terriers. If they can shoot like they did yesterday in the Hartford quarterfinal, the Terriers will win this game and upset Stony Brook to advance to the AE Final for the first time since they won the tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament in 2002.
Random Notes:
- If BU wins hope for a New Hampshire upset of UVM, that will put the AE Title game either in Agganis Arena or Case Gym, which is guaranteed to be a huge event for the BU Basketball program.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
The 2010 America East Tournament
Right now I am on a Peter Pan bus writing this post on my phone, please pardon the brevity. I could write a couple housand words about all of the storylines but here are the mains ones to look out for.
- An 8 team tournament? Binghamton withdraws decides to stay home because of all of their off the court problems.
- Who is the best player in the America East, Marqus Blakely of UVM or John Holland of the Terriers?
- Will Stony Brook continue it's regular season dominance in the postseason?
- Will BU continue to stay hot and finally live up to it's lofty preseason expectations?
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Terriers lose a pair of away games.
1/27 - Boston U Terriers v. Maine Black Bears - Alfond Arena - BU loses 56 - 54
This game was a hearbreaker from the very beginning to the very end. BU went through a few stretches where you thought there were going to break away. But then in usual BU fashion they went cold for extended period of time while Maine continued to play consistently.
Towards the end is where I got emotional. I was close to turning the game off actually. But I left it on and BU overcame a ten point deficit in just under 5 minutes to actually tie the game with 2.9 seconds left. I anticipated that this would go into OT, if BU could play good enough defense to not let them get a good shot off the ball would bounce off the iron and fall short. Finally things would roll our way.
It would not be so. For years to come I will wonder what Coach Chambers said during that last time out. I don't want to pretend to be a coach but this is what I would be telling my team given the same situation:
"Keep your arms up, don't foul, keep them out of the lane, AND don't let them get off a high percentage shot."
Those last two points were somehow lost. The Maine Black Bears got off a layup at the last second to win the game. Let me repeat a layup. BU played the worst defense they have all season in 2.9 seconds. It's embarrassing to lose on a layup off of an inbound play with 2.9 left. There is no excuse. The only positive I bring out of this game is that with a double digit deficit so late in the game this Terriers team did not give up.
Other notes:
I did not get a chance to listen to or watch this game, I did look at my phone for occasional updates on the score. BU went on their second game of a three game road trip and did what they seem to do best: lose on the road to a team that is better than them. This seemed a lot like the last time the Terriers played the Seawolves.
I hate using injuries as an excuse, so I never do and neither should Coach Chambers or the rest of the team. I really don't care that the Terriers are dinged up. Our team needs to step up and our coach needs to prepare the team better for games. For the second time this year the Terriers looked really flat in the first minutes of the game and were never able to fully recover and find a groove (the other time was the Vermont away game). When I checked the score for the first time it was 10 - 0 and Stony Brook led. I checked several times and each time it looked about the same or worse than the first time I checked. Eventually BU got bashed 71 - 66 after they played 40 minutes of mediocre Basketball.
This result infuriated me. Admittedly I was out to dinner and had a few beers so I may have overreacted. The loss set off a series of tweets directed at Coach Chambers blaming him for blowing the season. I think this might have been a little too harsh. When you are stuck in the moment you will say very irrational things. But later it got me to thinking, what/who is responsible for the Terriers mediocrity this season? Who would be your scapegoat?
Was it the right move to fire Dennis Wolff and hire Pat Chambers?
This was a very surprising and controversial head coaching move during the offseason, and looking back right fully so. The fresh look that that the Terriers were looking to get by making an unexpected coaching change just isn't there. Here are a few things that have made this situation into a debacle.
Hopefully I will be proved wrong in March.
Other News and Notes:
This game was a hearbreaker from the very beginning to the very end. BU went through a few stretches where you thought there were going to break away. But then in usual BU fashion they went cold for extended period of time while Maine continued to play consistently.
Towards the end is where I got emotional. I was close to turning the game off actually. But I left it on and BU overcame a ten point deficit in just under 5 minutes to actually tie the game with 2.9 seconds left. I anticipated that this would go into OT, if BU could play good enough defense to not let them get a good shot off the ball would bounce off the iron and fall short. Finally things would roll our way.
It would not be so. For years to come I will wonder what Coach Chambers said during that last time out. I don't want to pretend to be a coach but this is what I would be telling my team given the same situation:
"Keep your arms up, don't foul, keep them out of the lane, AND don't let them get off a high percentage shot."
Those last two points were somehow lost. The Maine Black Bears got off a layup at the last second to win the game. Let me repeat a layup. BU played the worst defense they have all season in 2.9 seconds. It's embarrassing to lose on a layup off of an inbound play with 2.9 left. There is no excuse. The only positive I bring out of this game is that with a double digit deficit so late in the game this Terriers team did not give up.
Other notes:
- Our eighth man and a key sub Tunde Agboola was injured during this game and it is not looking very good. The injury could not have come at a worse time.
I did not get a chance to listen to or watch this game, I did look at my phone for occasional updates on the score. BU went on their second game of a three game road trip and did what they seem to do best: lose on the road to a team that is better than them. This seemed a lot like the last time the Terriers played the Seawolves.
I hate using injuries as an excuse, so I never do and neither should Coach Chambers or the rest of the team. I really don't care that the Terriers are dinged up. Our team needs to step up and our coach needs to prepare the team better for games. For the second time this year the Terriers looked really flat in the first minutes of the game and were never able to fully recover and find a groove (the other time was the Vermont away game). When I checked the score for the first time it was 10 - 0 and Stony Brook led. I checked several times and each time it looked about the same or worse than the first time I checked. Eventually BU got bashed 71 - 66 after they played 40 minutes of mediocre Basketball.
This result infuriated me. Admittedly I was out to dinner and had a few beers so I may have overreacted. The loss set off a series of tweets directed at Coach Chambers blaming him for blowing the season. I think this might have been a little too harsh. When you are stuck in the moment you will say very irrational things. But later it got me to thinking, what/who is responsible for the Terriers mediocrity this season? Who would be your scapegoat?
Was it the right move to fire Dennis Wolff and hire Pat Chambers?
This was a very surprising and controversial head coaching move during the offseason, and looking back right fully so. The fresh look that that the Terriers were looking to get by making an unexpected coaching change just isn't there. Here are a few things that have made this situation into a debacle.
- Almost all of the starters returning and all of the seniors are Wolff recruits. When you have that many returning key starters and seniors to a team it would make more sense to keep the same system and let the coach have one more chance to perform.
- They hired a first-year head coach. Coach Chambers has had zero head-coaching experience and only several years of coaching experience at Villanova. Now all of a sudden he is thrust into a head coaching position for a team with the highest expectations entering the season. That is a tough position to enter into.
- BU is still plagued by injuries. I don't know what this is. My theory was that they played games at the beginning of the season, the non-conference games, like they were conference tournament games. Their non-conference schedule was way too ambitious. Tough games against tough opponents will take their toll. It's not great to see a senior captain break his hand in practice.
Hopefully I will be proved wrong in March.
Other News and Notes:
- With the losses to Stony Brook and Maine earlier, BU falls to 1-4 versus the teams ahead of them in the standings and 5-0 versus the teams below them. The Terriers are winning all of the games that they should win and losing all of the games that they should lose. Right now they are the definition of a middle of the standings team.
- The Bracket Busters matchups were announced today. BU was not picked for one of eleven games televised on ESPN. BU will travel to Delaware to take on the Blue Hens on February 20.
- I watched BU beat Northeastern in the Beanpot Semis tonight. During the past week I have seen two BU Ice Hockey wins and two BU Basketball losses. These two programs are run so differently, it's really baffling. How is it that the hockey team doe so well year after year yet the Basketball team always comes way short of expectations every year?
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Terriers Out -played, Lose to Stony Brook 84 - 75.
Was I excited going into this game? You bet I was. I arrived a little late, BU was up by a few, I sat right behind the BU bench so my friends watching on NESN might be able to see me in the background. This was the conference opener. BU is preseason number one and the Stony Brook Seawolves were preseason number four. I thought, this is a great way to show New England that BU will be a force to be reckoned with in the America East Conference this season, instead I think the Terriers showed that they are just and average to mediocre team early in the slate. Hopefully the Terriers will be able to learn a lot from this game, and put up some conference wins sooner rather than later.
BU was just outmatched in this game. Rebounds and turnovers were about the same with Stony Brook holding a slight edge in both categories. BU's field goal shooting was horrible, they shot .377 from the field. They committed a ridiculous amount of fouls compared to the other team (to be honest I thought we were getting hosed in terms of fouls and I let the ref know on occaision what I was thinking. If there weren't kiddies there I would have easily dropped at least a bakers dozen worth of F-bombs). I think the one plus was the performance of Jake O'Brien.
Jake O'Brien's emergence over some recent opponents is a huge plus for the Terriers. He and John Holland should anchor a team that is losing a lot of seniors next year. Jake O'Brien has been BU's version of the answer he can do it all, shoot the three and box out down low. I'm excited to see this kid do more in the future.
As for Stony Brook, I have to give them a lot of credit. They went into an actually pretty full Case Gym and they took care of business. Bryan Dougher made an outrageous amount of three pointers throughout this game (it was very reminiscent of Dayton Rob Lowery's performance). Dougher was hitting almost everything, he led a team that hit 12 three pointers in 20 attempts. This is no coincidence, I don't think the Terriers are doing enough to defend against the three. A lot of these are wide open looks. I said it after the Dayton game and I will say it again, you can't give up this many threes to an oppoenent and expect to win. Coach Chambers needs to make this a focus when going over film this week.
Random Notes:
BU was just outmatched in this game. Rebounds and turnovers were about the same with Stony Brook holding a slight edge in both categories. BU's field goal shooting was horrible, they shot .377 from the field. They committed a ridiculous amount of fouls compared to the other team (to be honest I thought we were getting hosed in terms of fouls and I let the ref know on occaision what I was thinking. If there weren't kiddies there I would have easily dropped at least a bakers dozen worth of F-bombs). I think the one plus was the performance of Jake O'Brien.
Jake O'Brien's emergence over some recent opponents is a huge plus for the Terriers. He and John Holland should anchor a team that is losing a lot of seniors next year. Jake O'Brien has been BU's version of the answer he can do it all, shoot the three and box out down low. I'm excited to see this kid do more in the future.
As for Stony Brook, I have to give them a lot of credit. They went into an actually pretty full Case Gym and they took care of business. Bryan Dougher made an outrageous amount of three pointers throughout this game (it was very reminiscent of Dayton Rob Lowery's performance). Dougher was hitting almost everything, he led a team that hit 12 three pointers in 20 attempts. This is no coincidence, I don't think the Terriers are doing enough to defend against the three. A lot of these are wide open looks. I said it after the Dayton game and I will say it again, you can't give up this many threes to an oppoenent and expect to win. Coach Chambers needs to make this a focus when going over film this week.
Random Notes:
- Case Gym, as mentioned before, was surprisingly full for this game. Which was a little bit more surprising considering that all of the students are still on break. However, not that many students show up anyway so I don't know how much of a difference this would have made.
- I thought whoever brought the "let em play" sign was a genius. However, I feel as though the ref took this as a slight and called more fouls on BU than they did on Stony Brook.
- Message to the Refs: C'mon really!? Call a foul on the other team! 25 - 15 is pretty lopsided.
- I did take some real-time pictures that I was going to tweet during the game but did not get a chance until after the game. Murphy's law dictated that my phone must run out of battery at halftime as I was about to tweet the pictures (bee below).
- Let me know what you think of the pictures, I think they could be better (click on the pictures to view a larger version). I just got a Motorola Droid for Christmas (thanks mom) and it includes a 5 megapixel camera.
During a first half timeout
Probably one of Bryan Dougher's many three pointers
Next up:
Boston U at New Hampshire
1/7/2010 at 7 PM
Listen: 1510 AM
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