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Sunday, December 11, 2005
(Originally posted: Saturday, 9:25 p.m., updated 9:06 a.m.)
In what is beginning to look a lot like a rock, paper, scissors kind of competition, the Patriot League pulls out to a two-game lead in the season series against Ivy League teams with a split of two Patriot-Ivy matchups. Ten more matchups between the two leagues remain.
Meanwhile, you aill have to forgive the Express-Times and the Morning Call for their lack of coverage of the Lehigh and Lafayette games. Both papers ran only AP summaries this morning. Both papers' staffs were likely prettyy consumed with the Pa. high school state football championships, which featured Lehigh Valley teams in the AA and AAAA games Saturday.
Meanwhile, under the big top in Syracuse:
Syracuse 58, Colgate 35 -- No second strike for Patriot League lightning in the Carrier Dome, though for a little while anyhow they did have to post storm warnings in Salt City.
From the :
It did not help matters any that Colgate's most effective inside player, Kendall Chones, reinjured his ankle in the first half. Chones toughed out 20 minutes, but had only one shot.
Columbia 71, Lafayette 67 -- Lafayette coach Fran O'Hanlon must be going nuts trying to figure out a way to get his teams to start the game the way they finish it.
At Columbia Saturday, the Leopards spotted Columbia an 18-point lead, then battled back to cut it to 4 before finally succumbing. In three of their last four games, the 'Pards have spotted the opposition an edge with slow starts.
Lafayette shot 27.3 (6-22) from the field in the first half, including 0-9 from 3-point range. Even though they held Columbia to 11-33 (33.3 percent) shooting in the half, the Leopards still trailed 28-20 at the break.
The Leopards' offense was far more effective after the intermission. The problem was, so was Columbia's. The Leopards hit 15-29 (51.7 percent) in the second half, including 6 3-pointers. Columbia went 13-24 (54.2 percent).
Looking for a single line in the box score to blame the loss on? It probably comes under rebounding. Columbia held a 24-rebound advantage (46-22) overall, and grabbed 22 offensive rebounds. While the box score posted on Lafayette's Web site doesn't break it down, you can be fairly certain that with 22 offensive boards, Columbia would almost certainly have scored enough second-chance points to make the difference in a 4-point game.
Lehigh 67, Harvard 56 -- Lehigh held Harvard to 35.7 percent shooting and outrebounded the Crimson 42-30 to hand the visitors from Mass. their third loss in a row. Kyle Neptune was 9-16 from the field, including 3 treys, to lead Lehigh with 24 points.
In what is beginning to look a lot like a rock, paper, scissors kind of competition, the Patriot League pulls out to a two-game lead in the season series against Ivy League teams with a split of two Patriot-Ivy matchups. Ten more matchups between the two leagues remain.
Meanwhile, you aill have to forgive the Express-Times and the Morning Call for their lack of coverage of the Lehigh and Lafayette games. Both papers ran only AP summaries this morning. Both papers' staffs were likely prettyy consumed with the Pa. high school state football championships, which featured Lehigh Valley teams in the AA and AAAA games Saturday.
Meanwhile, under the big top in Syracuse:
Syracuse 58, Colgate 35 -- No second strike for Patriot League lightning in the Carrier Dome, though for a little while anyhow they did have to post storm warnings in Salt City.
From the :
Syracuse led only 22-18 at halftime and the Raiders seemed poised to make a game of it when Alvin Reed hit a fallaway jumper in the first minute of the second period.Reed was the only Colgate player in double figures, finishing with 11. The 35 points by the Raiders were the fewest ever scored by an opponent at the Dome.
The Orange, playing their first game in a week, responded with a 27-2 run, holding the Raiders without a basket for nearly nine minutes to take command. Colgate shot 29.8 percent for the game and committed 23 turnovers.
It did not help matters any that Colgate's most effective inside player, Kendall Chones, reinjured his ankle in the first half. Chones toughed out 20 minutes, but had only one shot.
Columbia 71, Lafayette 67 -- Lafayette coach Fran O'Hanlon must be going nuts trying to figure out a way to get his teams to start the game the way they finish it.
At Columbia Saturday, the Leopards spotted Columbia an 18-point lead, then battled back to cut it to 4 before finally succumbing. In three of their last four games, the 'Pards have spotted the opposition an edge with slow starts.
Lafayette shot 27.3 (6-22) from the field in the first half, including 0-9 from 3-point range. Even though they held Columbia to 11-33 (33.3 percent) shooting in the half, the Leopards still trailed 28-20 at the break.
The Leopards' offense was far more effective after the intermission. The problem was, so was Columbia's. The Leopards hit 15-29 (51.7 percent) in the second half, including 6 3-pointers. Columbia went 13-24 (54.2 percent).
Looking for a single line in the box score to blame the loss on? It probably comes under rebounding. Columbia held a 24-rebound advantage (46-22) overall, and grabbed 22 offensive rebounds. While the box score posted on Lafayette's Web site doesn't break it down, you can be fairly certain that with 22 offensive boards, Columbia would almost certainly have scored enough second-chance points to make the difference in a 4-point game.
Lehigh 67, Harvard 56 -- Lehigh held Harvard to 35.7 percent shooting and outrebounded the Crimson 42-30 to hand the visitors from Mass. their third loss in a row. Kyle Neptune was 9-16 from the field, including 3 treys, to lead Lehigh with 24 points.
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