Here's the condensed game on Youtube: about 6 more minutes of game action than the highlight video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsM9HD6yteI

Congrats Lady Royals on the win over Pitt today!  They won 3 of the 4 quarters, and after Pitt staged a 29-8 run over the course of 13 minutes, the Lady Royals showed no quit and went on their own 12-0 run and finished strong.  Great way to head into conference play!

Lady Royals roster is up.  No surprises.

https://athletics.scranton.edu/sports/womens-basketball/roster

First 3 posted commits are all listed at 6'1."  Not the elusive 6'4" with a 3.3 GPA. 

We'll see soon enough if the one known big has shown up on campus...

Slowly but surely...

https://x.com/Scranton_MBB/status/1962985177321455745

In other news, Catholic U is getting a DI transfer, Carly Catania out of University of New Hampshire (and Villa Maria Academy):

https://unhwildcats.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/carly-catania/10956

They're probably waiting for that elusive 6'4" kid with a 3.3 GPA.

Last year, they didn't post the recruit information on the website until August 30, so they still have a week...

While we're on the subject:  why haven't they posted the rosters for the fall sports?  Season openers are less than a week away!

Here is someone who is bullish on the Lady Royals.

https://x.com/fromtheheartpn/status/1940204044892741759

Pellecchia and Bruns (both first team All Americans) are definitely better ingredients, and that pizza they made last night and all year was mighty fine.  Congrats to NYU on their back-to-back unbeaten seasons.

Congrats, too, to Kaci Kranson on being named 2nd-team all American!

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Be better Scranton! LOL

Considering the Lady Royals were hosting, that would have been a very short flight. 

And If I recall correctly, they shouldn't have hosted that year, either.  There was some issue with Ursinus not being able to host...

Given that Scranton was 1 point behind IWU, Bowdoin was 46 behind Scranton, and Scranton had a road win against a ranked opponent, I couldn't imagine the voters having Bowdoin leapfrog Scranton...

If they finished tied, the first 6 tiebreakers wouldn't yield anything:

https://landmarkconference.org/sports/2022/4/25/championships-tiebreakers.aspx?path=champs

It would likely got to Catholic because of the 7th tiebreaker (NPI ranking), assuming there is no change in their position between now and then.

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/42874

In the least suspenseful news of the evening, the Lady Royals clinch a conference playoff berth tonight with their win over Drew.  With a win on Saturday over Goucher, they clinch a home playoff game.

Goucher in 14 games not against Scranton:

11-3
Points for: 105.9
Points against:  73.1

Against Scranton:

0-1
Points for: 41
Points against: 100

Scranton's defense has been stellar all year (leading the nation in scoring defense), including today with 13 steals and 8 blocks while holding ranked Catholic to 37.5% shooting and 20 points under their average.  This could be a very dangerous team in March.