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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Bucknell 81, Navy 47
(Originally posted Sat. at 10:40 p.m., link added 8:31 a.m.)

By Eric Thomas

LEWISBURG – Navy men’s basketball coach Billy Lange walked out of Bucknell’s Sojka Pavilion Saturday night with what he hopes is the perfect example of what it will take for his Navy ball club to be a championship caliber team.

He hopes that his players watched carefully as Bucknell dissected the Midshipmen for the second time this season, 81-47, before 4,180 fans inside the cramped arena. The win was Bucknell’s 18th win in a row over a league opponent at home and the win kept them in front of Lehigh for first place with a one game lead over the Mountain Hawks.

“Give credit to their defense,” Lange said. “We told our kids they were going to take us out of stuff. Against Bucknell, you can’t assume you’re going to be able to run your offense fluently against them.”

“They’re tough. It’s what champions are. You defend, you rebound, you stay tough, you share the ball, and they do it very well,” Lange added.

Defend might be an understatement for this one. The Bison held Navy to just 27.7-percent shooting from the floor and forced 26 turnovers. Navy hit just 13 field goals, the third lowest total given up by the Bison this season.
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