MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm actually surprised Guilford has been doing as well as they have.  That's a huge switch in style and philosophy.  Lots of credit to Palumbo's guys for adjusting so well.

[Seatfiller]

Roanoke got a good win yesterday at Lynchburg 92-68.  Was a tied game at half and Jackson Bell for RC came out of the half on fire.  Bell scored 25 of his 31 points after half.  Roanoke plays at home Friday against Bridgewater College.

In other ODAC news:

Washington and Lee won at Bridgwater college 69-59.

Randolph Macon loses at Virginia Wesleyan 64-65

Hampden and Sydney throttles Randolph 97-61

EMU loses at Shenandoah 61-65

Guilford wins at home against Averett 76-57

So how many of us had Washington and Lee sitting at #1 towards the end of Janurary in the ODAC? I certainly did not.

[Tigerfan]

The Jackets - Marlins game must have been a nerve-racking watch.  The box score says the lead changed hands a remarkable 19 times and the score was tied 11 times.  For reference, the 2 point AU win over RMC had 5 lead changes, the W&L 2 point win over GC had only 2 lead changes (also remarkable with GC having a 10 point lead at the half) and W&L's 1 point win over Noke had 5 lead changes. 

[y_jack_lok]

The Jackets - Marlins game must have been a nerve-racking watch.  The box score says the lead changed hands a remarkable 19 times and the score was tied 11 times.  For reference, the 2 point AU win over RMC had 5 lead changes, the W&L 2 point win over GC had only 2 lead changes (also remarkable with GC having a 10 point lead at the half) and W&L's 1 point win over Noke had 5 lead changes. 

Definitely nerve-racking. Before the game the RMC announcers, who made the trip down and called the game on radio, cited VWU's relatively poor three-point shooting this season. That changed last night as they hit 10 of 22 for 45.5%, which I think was at least a 10-percentage point improvement over their season average. Several times RMC defenders were just slow to get out and contest those shots. Down by six at the half, the Marlins switched their offensive strategy and got the ball in to Amari Moorer more frequently. He's good around the basket and passes well also. It all worked for them. Conversely, the Jackets couldn't hit their three-point attempts (4-18). Neither team was that great from the free throw line.

Just like at Averett, the Jackets lost on a contested three with seconds remaining. Both of those shots were taken from nearly the same spot on the floor -- albeit different floors.

So RMC has two road losses by a total of three points, both on last second made three pointers.

[rmc1982]

The Jackets - Marlins game must have been a nerve-racking watch.  The box score says the lead changed hands a remarkable 19 times and the score was tied 11 times.  For reference, the 2 point AU win over RMC had 5 lead changes, the W&L 2 point win over GC had only 2 lead changes (also remarkable with GC having a 10 point lead at the half) and W&L's 1 point win over Noke had 5 lead changes. 

Definitely nerve-racking. Before the game the RMC announcers, who made the trip down and called the game on radio, cited VWU's relatively poor three-point shooting this season. That changed last night as they hit 10 of 22 for 45.5%, which I think was at least a 10-percentage point improvement over their season average. Several times RMC defenders were just slow to get out and contest those shots. Down by six at the half, the Marlins switched their offensive strategy and got the ball in to Amari Moorer more frequently. He's good around the basket and passes well also. It all worked for them. Conversely, the Jackets couldn't hit their three-point attempts (4-18). Neither team was that great from the free throw line.

Just like at Averett, the Jackets lost on a contested three with seconds remaining. Both of those shots were taken from nearly the same spot on the floor -- albeit different floors.

So RMC has two road losses by a total of three points, both on last second made three pointers.

If you let teams hang around like that and don't put them away- especially when they are at home-thats the recipe for getting beat late and thats exactly what happened! Not to take anything away from the Fish- they did what they hd to do to beat us! Plus we certainly didn't help ourselves with our 3 point and free throw shooting either! We had chances to put them away and we just didn't! Still-losing two games -both at the buzzer on 3 tough pointers- isnt terrible either-but both games we did the same thing-which I'm quite sure Josh Merkel is driving in their heads at practice right now! Not a terrible loss but we will drop in the polls again- but I wouldn't think much lower than 10th.We're still very much in the hunt for an ODAC and a National Championship- IF we can get those lazy spells out of us! GO JACKETS!