Quote from: ronk on December 14, 2025, 04:21:17 PMI felt Scranton had a good chance to win the remaining nonconference games; they had a 51-42 lead today v Stevens but then fell behind by 8, before coming back to win. 

Good day for the conference yesterday. In addition to the Royals win, Wilkes and Etown both had similar come-from-behind wins on the road over Arcadia and Shenandoah respectively. Getting a road win over an ODAC team always helps.  Should offset some bad losses earlier in the week by Goucher (x2) and Juniata. Etown was already getting votes before the win so they should garner more this week. Will be interesting to see if Scranton starts to get some attention.

Quote from: saratoga on December 08, 2025, 12:14:20 PMRight now I'm having a hard time deciding if the Royals have actually improved or if their schedule in general & the Landmark in particular are just really bad.

The Landmark is significantly improved IMO. Last year the conference went 33-37 in OOC games. This year the conference is 28-8 in such games.  Only one team (Goucher at 1-2) doesn't own a winning record OOC. The OOC SOS looks to be very similar to last year and that's before some upcoming matchups against some tough teams. Susquehanna has Chicago and Johns Hopkins down in Puerto Rico. Catholic has Chicago (also in Puerto Rico) and Mary Washington. Most teams have some good competition before January.

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Quote from: NEPAFAN on December 04, 2025, 08:35:01 AMRoyals are 5-1 and actually have a positive rebound differential.

Nick Ruisi is averaging 5.5 rebounds and has scored 19 and 23 in his last two games.

Spatola leads the team in rebounding at 5.8

Real test will be Saturday 12/6 @ Susquehanna! No matter what team Danzing(Bessior also had problems in that sand box)brings in or what team Frankie has it is a hard place to win especially for the Purple/White/Gray. For some reason Frankie loves beating Scranton, hopefully this weekend changes that.I am very surprised of the start for the men and how  young this team is. Keep the momentum going and good luck

 Susque game is 1/10; this Saturday they are @ Juniata.

I'm not sure what I waz looking at I thought it was at Susquehanna but yes at Juniata. Should be another place that is hard to win at. Has anyone seen Etown play yet and if so how good are they?

Etown blew the doors off of Susquehanna the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The River Hawks have one of those games a year it seems (see @Scranton last year) so that might have been it. But Etown seems greatly improved on the defensive end. Last year they only held two teams under 65 points. This year they've already done it three times including F&M and Susquehanna. The emergence of Zuri Harris as a scorer to go along with Finarelli also helps. This is the first time since I started following the conference five years ago that a good team may miss the tournament.  Even the bottom three teams are greatly improved with Lycoming and Juniata already matching their win totals from last season. Makes for an interesting season.

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Quote from: NEPAFAN on November 21, 2025, 10:25:32 AMDo we have a new Landmark basektball fan on the board?

 I think he posted a few times last season; may be a Susque fan.

I am. My son is a senior for the River Hawks so I've been following the board for four years.

Good night for the Landmark as the conference goes 4-1 on opening night with wins by Catholic, Juniata, Lycoming and Scranton. The lone setback was Goucher dropping a close one to Stevenson. Catholic stomped a good Lynchburg team out of the ODAC. Lynchburg just played D1 Queens and actually led in the 2nd half. Nice to get road wins from Lycoming and Juniata.

Quote from: Great Day to be a Royal on October 14, 2025, 11:47:18 AMRoyals hooping it up in Canada. Up on IG. Result I saw was a win over McGill.

The boxscore is up on the McGill website for anyone interested. 

https://mcgillathletics.ca/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/2025-26

Landmark Conference Returning Minutes*:

With teams releasing their schedules and rosters decided to determine what percentage of production each team has returning this year.

Minutes
Lycoming - 84.81%
Elizabethtown - 72.52%
Juniata - 70.38%
Wilkes - 70.18%
Moravian - 69.62%
Goucher - 68.15%
Susquehanna - 60.77%
Catholic - 55.01%
Scranton - 51.04%
Drew - 48.21%

Points
Lycoming - 82.26%
Moravian - 77.41%
Wilkes - 73.41%
Juniata - 72.73%
Elizabethtown - 71.00%
Susquehanna - 63.71%
Goucher - 62.42%
Catholic - 55.59%
Scranton - 51.41%
Drew - 41.63%

Rebounds
Lycoming - 84.94%
Juniata - 80.24%
Wilkes - 77.53%
Elizabethtown - 75.29%
Moravian - 73.72%
Susquehanna - 73.21%
Goucher - 61.41%
Catholic - 59.70%
Drew - 59.17%
Scranton - 57.60%

*A few teams (Elizabethtown, Moravian, Drew, Goucher, Lycoming) haven't released their rosters yet so had to speculate. Drew hasn't released their roster on their site but they did post it on Instagram a while back and these calculations are based on that. That's where it was noted that Taylor Perlmutter had transferred from Moravian to Drew.

Fun run by We Are D3. Aftershocks very physical and it took a bit for D3 to adjust to it. Still team should be very proud of their run.  Looking forward to next year.

Quote from: OUVan59 on April 08, 2025, 10:27:08 AMCooper Haberern from Susquehanna is in the portal.  He's a career .394 shooter from 3 (447 attempts). 6'4" wing. 11.2 ppg last season. Has one year of eligibility left after sitting out 2022-23 with an injury. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs requiring him to look elsewhere to continue playing.

Haberern ends up at York (PA).

Cooper Haberern from Susquehanna is in the portal.  He's a career .394 shooter from 3 (447 attempts). 6'4" wing. 11.2 ppg last season. Has one year of eligibility left after sitting out 2022-23 with an injury. Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs requiring him to look elsewhere to continue playing.

Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on March 07, 2025, 06:59:23 AM15 schools had both men and women make the tournament

                                                              Seed and quadrant
School                                                    Men    Women
Cal Lutheran          7UR  13UL
Calvin                9DR  14DL
Christopher Newport  3DL  5UR
Cortland            14UR  6UL
Gettysburg            9UL  2UR
Illinois Wesleyan    3DR  2DL
Montclair State      4DL  12UR
New York University  1UR  1UR
Randolph-Macon        2DL  3UR
Trinity (Conn.)      1DL  9UR
Tufts                2UR  10UR
UW-La Crosse          2DR  12DR
Western New England  10DL  7UR
Wisconsin Lutheran    8DR  11UL

Catholic had both men and women in the tourney as well.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out since it pushes the championship game back a couple of weeks.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 17, 2024, 01:17:39 AMHaving the biggest crowd ever only filled the place 1/3 full. I think it's tacky having a big curtain or covering up the upper level or other ways of making the place look smaller.

Thankfully, that didn't come across on TV at all. Crowd looked and sounded great on the broadcast.

Congrats to Catholic on a well deserved title.  My son plays for Susquehanna and he said he loved playing in that environment, as well as the environment at Drew on Thursday. Fun season (sorry Scranton, I know not for you guys) and the best team came out on top.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on July 08, 2023, 10:04:31 PM
So he's not going to CWRU like everyone else and his former teammate? LOL

Hah, he actually did follow a teammate to Widener, Dominic Dunn.  Susquehanna's lack of graduate programs not letting them take advantage of the extra year.