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Friday, January 20, 2006
Friday morning readaround
  • Tom's take . . . Tom Housenick of the Daily Item checks in with his take on the Bucknell women's celebration at Navy. While we based yesterday's comments on accounts of the incident in the Annapolis paper, Tom was actually an eyewitness. Among his observations:
    "I still can't understanding what all of the fuss is about regarding the Bucknell women's basketball team celebrating a win earlier this month at Navy with a post-game gathering near the center of the court.?

    Nothing directed at the Navy players and coaches. No beating chests. No tugging jerseys.

    Just a brief bonding ritual after an 88-51 rout of the Midshipmen.

    But, the way Navy officials responded, you would have sworn Bucknell players ran around Alumni Hall concourse shouting, 'Go Army.'"
    Tom's take: Much ado about next to nothing.

  • Here we go again . . . Tom Housenick also penned a look at Colgate in advance of Saturday's Bucknell-Colgate game. Check out this quote he got from Raiders coach Emmett Davis:
    "And I thought it was officiated very inconsistently. I thought we were the aggressors and (Lehigh) gets to the line 15 times in the first half and we don?t get any. But we certainly had our opportunities at the offensive end."
    When we saw the box score from that game -- Lehigh shot 31 free throws, Colgate 6 -- we actually started to write "If anybody had covered the game, Davis would probably have rolled out his familiar whine about the officials."

    We opted not to include that line in our recap because it didn't seem fair to speculate about what Davis would say, despite the fact that we have heard that lament so many times now that we suspect the guy has one of those little microchips that repeats it at the push of a button.

    Is it just us? Or are other people getting tired of hearing how Davis' merry band of jump shooters can't get to the foul line?

  • How will it play in Peoria ... A true feel-good story in today's Peoria Journal Star on Lehigh's Mitch Gilfillan, who, according to the story, was probably a better baseball or soccer prospect back at Notre Dame high, but followed his hoops heart to Lehigh.

  • Another oldtimer checks in . . . When we linked to Ed Laubach's column yesterday, we mentioned that he was one of two guys still around who were covering the league when we started to back in 1990. Actually, there is a guy we missed. We were reminded of that when we stumbled upon a column written by Joe Gross of the Annapolis Capital about Navy coach Billy Lange and his efforts to get the Mids back to the top of the league. Like Laubach, Joe doesn't cover as many games these days. His managerial duties as the Capital's sports editor keep him in the newsroom a lot. But he still sneaks over to Alumni Hall when he gets a chance, and as you'll see from his column, he still has a finger on the Middies' pulse.
    • Published at 7:37 AM by Hoop Time.
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