All credit to Susquehanna tonight as they outclassed CUA in every category, winning 87-81 in a game that wasn't that close, leading by as many as 24 in the second half. Susquehanna was better tonight and truthfully they are the better team overall at this point.
Yet another game for CUA where defense was optional. This was a total system failure by everyone involved for CUA tonight. There was seemingly no offensive or defensive game plan. Jay Howard, coming into this game averaging 25 points a game, played 38 minutes and took 9 shots.
Six games in, there's enough of a sample size for their to be genuine concern as to what is going on with this team. A haphazard substitution pattern that doesn't allow any bench player to get into the flow of the game. One game a bench player with play 15 minutes, another night he'll play 2 or 3. Two of the bench players are now upperclassmen and they haven't been put in situations where they can succeed since they never know who much they will play.
The formula has been the same since the start of last season: the same starting five for the last 30 games or so. The formula is no longer working. It may now be time to start benching people who won't defend.