Marywood??

My God, Danzig has now allowed Absolution to Marywood twice now since the infamous shot heard round the world on 11/25/03.
Looks like cooler heads as well as detente have finally returned after all these years.

Looks like the Lady Royals got a big reprieve by somehow finding Union to add to the schedule now giving them 25 D3 games & one nice exhibition vs. UVT.

Probably the most ambitious schedule since Danzig's arrival.
What is generally a long winter watching the men to begin with just got a lot longer & colder.

Looks like a Royal roster capable of winning about 12/13 games.
Thank God the whole league is fairly weak.
Sad how times have changed...not all that long ago if the Royals didn't make the NCAA tournament it was a bad year.
Now if they can even make it into the Landmark tourney, it's a really good year.

Thanks scottiedawg,

Stevens would have been the 25th. game but with them pulling a Houdini, the Lady Royals were left adding the Univ. of Vermont...which is nice but it doesn't help them D3 wise.

Stevens should be penalized by losing to Kings twice.

Agree.
I wish the NCAA had a degree of institutional control over this type of nonsense at such a late stage but, I'm sure she may still be shell-shocked from those 30+ point losses to Scranton when she was at Moravian.
Some coaches seek out the best they can play while others love those easy wins.

Speaking of playing...
It would be nice if Scranton's SID office gets around to updating the Lady Royal schedule for 26/27' as well as the roster.
You are allowed to turn your homework in early.

So Stevens brings in a new coach & she immediately drops the Lady Royals from their schedule in mid-August.
Classy move.
Not too many good teams in D3 still have openings this close to the start of the season but the Lady Royals were able to turn lemons into lemonade.
Taking the place of "that" school will be the Univ. of Vermont.
So they were able to flip a very average team that wouldn't help their SOS to playing a D1 NCAA tournament team.

Here's to hoping the gate-keepers at the UofS spring for another assistant coach for women's basketball.
You're bringing in a new head coach & she only has 1 asst.?
Hell, with all his basketball acumen, Ben still had 3 quality assistants.
Get her some additional help so she has the same resources available.

 

Whenever I see it used...I think of Danzig.

    

Perhaps a retirement announcement this year??
23 or 24 years of very milquetoast basketball is more than enough.
Thank you...move along.

Looks like Stevens has hired former Moravian sharp-shooter Camille McPherson as their new head coach.
Very surprised she didn't get the Greyhound job.

Ben will have Lafayette the talk of the town within a few years.
Outstanding coach, great recruiter & good person...if Lafayette ups their financial awards to keep pace with other schools in the Patriot, he'll hold his own with any of them.
Stay well!

Love ya Kate.
Always keep that glass half full! 

Kate:

I love your passion for all things Del. Valley & women's athletics in general, but the reality of the matter is those 2 schools have 6 combined victories in the Landmark last year & the year before it was worse.

The fact of the matter in today's world of NPI is that those schools & their very poor results can & do impact good teams by being locked in for 2 games per year for each struggling program.

The reality is they are in the conference & until they make serious positive strides, they will continue to hurt the better teams in national rankings and it will continue to be incumbent on the better teams to schedule the best they can in non-conference games.

Not a dis...just the new world of NPI & competitive college athletics.

Hi Kate,

By all means...have at it.
They're all yours.