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Post by SCAR on Nov 9, 2005 14:36:55 GMT -5
Looks like Whit Holcome-Faye is back in form. He dropped 37 in an exhibition game on Sunday. Looks like Radford plays VT on Thursday! Regular season is starting for some this week. Crazy how time flies. It is the Pre season NABC classic. Maybe it is on Television.
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Post by WinthropEagleFan on Nov 9, 2005 14:49:07 GMT -5
In the only other exhibition game so far, UNCA saw how much it hurts to have their starting point guard (KJ Garland) injured, because even though they won, they committed 38 turnovers.
It's good to see the real season start this week. RU will be playing three games this week in the NABC Classic. As far as I can tell, there will be no tv for it though.
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Post by realist on Nov 9, 2005 17:47:35 GMT -5
Alright, let's hope RU can get at least one of these.
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Post by PAmedic on Nov 10, 2005 22:45:10 GMT -5
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Post by PAmedic on Nov 10, 2005 22:50:38 GMT -5
and let me point out several things int this write-up that amused me: (CHRIS should appreciate this stuff)
1. hmmm, big rivalry. I bet Tech was pumped.
2. Radford fell far: from 0-0, all the way to 0-1 in just 1 game.
3. similarly: big improvement for Tech, from 0-0 to 1-0 in just 1 game. Whew, back over .500.
great reporting
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Post by WinthropEagleFan on Nov 11, 2005 6:57:11 GMT -5
and let me point out several things int this write-up that amused me: (CHRIS should appreciate this stuff) 1. hmmm, big rivalry. I bet Tech was pumped. 2. Radford fell far: from 0-0, all the way to 0-1 in just 1 game. 3. similarly: big improvement for Tech, from 0-0 to 1-0 in just 1 game. Whew, back over .500. great reporting Well, the New River rival talk wasn't exclusive to the RU side...here's the headline from VT's website: "Hokies open season with 80-50 win over New River rival Radford " |
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Post by LUconn on Nov 11, 2005 7:51:41 GMT -5
The word "rival" is overdone these days. It's almost as if they're trying to tell us that they're both in the New River Valley by using the term rival.
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Post by PAmedic on Nov 11, 2005 9:07:00 GMT -5
as opposed to an "old river"?
or, Old Man River, for that matter?
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Post by PAmedic on Nov 11, 2005 9:08:08 GMT -5
still funny to read "improved to 1-0"
that's setting some lofty goals!
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Post by Chris Lang on Nov 11, 2005 9:12:13 GMT -5
Eh, it's a sports information release. Those aren't always known for their impeccable reporting and writing.
The only sport Tech and Radford are truly "rivals" in is baseball, and even that's a stretch. Tech should have won this game by 30. After the VMI debacle last year ...
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Post by Realist too lazy to log in on Nov 12, 2005 17:16:38 GMT -5
RU beats Western Carolina by 13 in second game. WCU is bad, so at least they beat them.
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Post by ATrain on Nov 12, 2005 17:30:58 GMT -5
HAHA...looks like I started a trend when I made a post from a public computer
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Post by PAmedic on Nov 13, 2005 10:57:42 GMT -5
being lazy is not a new trend- I've had a patent on that for years. Ask Mrs Medic2b
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Post by realist on Nov 13, 2005 14:40:04 GMT -5
RU wins again, this time over Bowling Green. They are bad too, but RU may be better than many have predicted in-conference this season.
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Post by SCAR on Jan 5, 2006 22:50:21 GMT -5
Winthrop beat Birmingham So badly tonight! They are going to be tough this year. 84-43 final. A real balanced effort. They held Tom Viglianco scoreless for BS and he was their leading scorer. Elswhere, VMI's head coach Duggar Baucum is out for a few games with a medical condition that he has been dealing with most of his life. I talked with Jason Allison one of his assistants that played at LU when I was a coach and he said they should have won today but they lost by 3 to Chuck South 76-73. I wanted to go to the game but I thought it was at night. They tipped off at noon I think. Bigsmooth and I are probably going to go see VMI/Coastal on Saturday afternoon and then come back and watch some NFL playoffs and then go to the Liberty/Radford showdown. Can't wait for the weekend!
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Post by Sly Fox on Jan 6, 2006 0:30:55 GMT -5
Is Jason running the show for the Keydets until the head coach gets back?
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Post by realist on Jan 6, 2006 1:49:17 GMT -5
Man that game was U G L Y. It wasn't even as close as the score. WU lead by 49 at one point I think. If WU plays like that consistently that 16-0 could come true. I thought it would be closer since BSC played Alabama really tough and lost to them by only 4. I think some of it has to do with Marshall figuring out BSC. You take away their backdoor cuts and they have nothing. Vigilanco couldn't hit anything. Shuler will be a tough match up in conference, he just bullied everyone tonight inside.
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Post by SCAR on Jan 6, 2006 2:22:15 GMT -5
No Sly, Jason is not the interim coach at VMI. He said I forget the young man's name but he was at Tusculum with Duggar so they go back and he made him the associate head coach....Realist, thanks for the update on the WU/BSC game.
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Post by realist on Jan 6, 2006 2:26:38 GMT -5
Scar are you coming down for our game? I've got to get out of a work obligation for it. I might come down sick.
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Post by Chris Lang on Jan 6, 2006 10:04:13 GMT -5
What impressed me the most, just from looking at the box score, was that Winthrop had six different guys score eight or more points. Nice balance there. There isn't one guy to shut down.
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Post by SCAR on Jan 6, 2006 10:35:04 GMT -5
They are a very balanced team that comes at you in waves of talent. So far Gregg Marshall has been able to keep everyone happy for the most part with PT and touches etc....Realist, right now I am planning on attending. I have recruiters talking to me a lot about my next Project Management assignment (my job that actually pays the bills :-)) but I am trying to defer them til after basketball season so I can do some traveling to the other Big South games. Right now I am a go. I was there 2 years ago when we played really well there and won. I listened to it on radio last year and it sounded like we got off to a bad start but we were able to battle back and have a chance to win in regulation and OT. Let me know Realist if you are there. Would love to meet you and WEF. Also if you guys are on FACEBOOK.com hit me up on there.
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Post by bigsmooth on Jan 6, 2006 15:24:46 GMT -5
daniel willis coached in duggar's absence at the VMI game. read the story form the roanoke fishwrap...a ref even tore his knee up! so much for the businessman's special!
VMI chokes on lunch special
Keydets coach Dugger Baucom misses the game because of an undisclosed surgery.
By Ray Cox
381-1672
The Roanoke Times
LEXINGTON -- VMI basketball player Reggie Williams didn't need his head coach to tell him that Thursday's 76-73 lunchtime loss to Charleston Southern would have wide-ranging implications.
"This is how our losing streak started last year with a loss right after Christmas," he said. "We cannot let that happen again. This is a very tough loss."
Charleston Southern began an 11-game league losing streak for VMI last season, Bart Bellairs' last as coach.
Perhaps the only good part of the spirit sinker of a defeat was that new Keydets coach Dugger Baucom didn't have to see it. Baucom was absent while undergoing unspecified surgery. He asked that the details not be revealed, VMI spokesman Wade Branner said. Baucom may be back on the bench as early as Saturday's home game with Coastal Carolina, Branner said.
Baucom told his team two days ago that he would be having the surgery, VMI freshman Chavis Holmes said.
"That was the first we heard of it," he said.
Assistant coach Daniel Willis took the helm in Baucom's absence.
"VMI played very well, just as well as Dugger would have wanted," said Charleston Southern's first-year coach, Barclay Radebaugh. "Daniel Willis did a great job coaching."
The interim coach couldn't gave drawn up a much better shot for the win than Williams got with about six seconds left. Williams advanced to the left of the key where his running 21-footer was wide left.
"I thought the [defender] was going to stay on me, but he backed off a bit," Williams said. "I would have liked to have gotten my feet under me a little better. With under six seconds left, it's tough."
Williams joined Travis Holmes in scoring 19 points and Williams added a team-high nine rebounds. The Keydets (5-7, 0-1 Big South) fought the Buccaneers (6-6, 1-0) to a 39-39 draw on the backboards, but 6-foot-8 Vernon Huger had 16 rebounds, 11 offensive.
"That gave them a whole lot of second shots," Williams said.
An erratic-shooting team all year, Charleston Southern was at its best in the clutch Thursday, canning 51.5 percent of its second-half shots, going 5-for-11 from 3-point range. The Bucs canned 11 of 27 triples overall with Chris Moore nailing 7 of 9 en route to a game-high 23 points.
VMI, by contrast, was 6-for-19 from distance as Matt Murrer drilled his three. Murrer, who had 14 points and seven rebounds, bottomed out a trey with 1:06 left to tie the score 71-71. It was the last of seven ties to go with 18 lead changes.
"We missed the switch on Murrer then," Radebaugh said.
Chavis Holmes added 11 for the Keydets, who shot 48.3 percent from the floor and sank 11 of 17 foul shots. That didn't make anybody feel any better.
"They came in here and stole one from us," Chavis Holmes said. "We'll play them again."
Official Nathan Quick went down in the second half with an apparently torn ACL. Officials Rick Ridenhour and Joe Mazella worked the rest of the game.
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Post by WinthropEagleFan on Jan 6, 2006 20:08:24 GMT -5
They are a very balanced team that comes at you in waves of talent. So far Gregg Marshall has been able to keep everyone happy for the most part with PT and touches etc....Realist, right now I am planning on attending. I have recruiters talking to me a lot about my next Project Management assignment (my job that actually pays the bills :-)) but I am trying to defer them til after basketball season so I can do some traveling to the other Big South games. Right now I am a go. I was there 2 years ago when we played really well there and won. I listened to it on radio last year and it sounded like we got off to a bad start but we were able to battle back and have a chance to win in regulation and OT. Let me know Realist if you are there. Would love to meet you and WEF. Also if you guys are on FACEBOOK.com hit me up on there. That part about Marshall keeping everyone happy has probably been the key to this team (along with last year's)...if anyone on the team is concerned more about their own numbers more than the team's, it sure isn't showing. They all seem to feed of the successes of each other. The squad definitely has alot of talent, but the chemistry and teamwork has been a huge benefit as well. |
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Post by SCAR on Jan 7, 2006 17:18:03 GMT -5
I went to the Coastal at VMI game with my wife and BigSmooth and we had a blast. I am really enjoying the Big South this year so far from what I have seen. VMI is really tough at home as Liberty knows all too well. They were able to get it done today and are sick that they lost to Charleston So on Thursday because Coastal is way better. Paley and Leasure and Sonko got off for Coastal but I really like the Twins for VMI, Chavis and Travis Holmes (Larry Blair's Cousins by the way). Reggie Williams and Matt Murer played well for VMI too. Second game in a row that Coach Duggar Baucom was not on the bench but Daniel Willis did a good job in his stead. My boy, former Flame Jason Allison did a good job too. We used to tell him that he was going to be a division 1 coach someday. I believe the win still goes on Baucom's record. Got to see the new look Buzz Petersen Chanticleers. They are pretty good but they don't have much of a post player and for that matter neither does VMI. Tadas Mankevicius was injured and in street clothes. Now to turn my attention to Radford/Liberty tonight!!!!
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Post by bigsmooth on Jan 8, 2006 7:55:01 GMT -5
as always a pleasure to hang with SCAR and Mrs. SCAR. VMI and coastal are decent teams though if you can pressure VMI they will crumble as they really do not have true point guard. williams is a silky smooth player and murrer is a stud as well. the holmes twins are good, and there is not a shot they do not like. VMI wil be a true test. coastal is paelay. that brotha is strong and can tahe over the game. leasure as SCAR said can drain the 3, and buzz peterson really coaches hard. both teams really pass the ball well. there is really no game in the big south where we can afford to take a break. it should make for a fun season. and i must steal this from SCAR, but if history is correct VMI is the only school to have two sets of twins to start in the backcourt. the first set was the williams twins, ramon and damon from roanoke, and now the holmes twins who are cousins of larry blair.
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Post by SCAR on Jan 8, 2006 14:34:15 GMT -5
Winthrop is playing #4 Memphis tough in the 1st half and at half time of the CBS game Michgan at Wisconsin, they showed highlights of the game. Seth Davis said he gives Memphis credit for scheduling Winthrop because they are a tough Mid Major school. I have it on TIVO and rewinded to make sure I heard what he said :-). Anyway, that is good for the Big South.
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Post by realist on Jan 8, 2006 15:16:04 GMT -5
Memphis 37
WU 30
under 16 timeout.
If we could make free throws it would be tied.
Phillip Williams decided to show up for the first time this year.
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Post by realist on Jan 8, 2006 15:17:56 GMT -5
WU down by three
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Post by realist on Jan 8, 2006 15:23:07 GMT -5
down by 7 with 10 to go
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Post by SCAR on Jan 8, 2006 15:56:18 GMT -5
Realist, WEF, I am glad you guys finally brought the Winthrop website into the 21st century. Much nicer look.
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