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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Wednesday morning readaround
ET phoned last night. We're talking about Eric Thomas, not the Spielberg creation, and he was calling Hoop, not home.

The Bucknell beat writer for the Shamokin News Item used to do State College basketball games on the radio. One of his friends in Happy Valley had just called him to tell him about Eric Meister's monster night. Knowing Meister is headed to Holy Cross, E wanted to give us a heads up to look for the game story in the Centre Daily Times.

According to the CDT:
The Little Lions' 6-foot-8 senior center poured in 24 points and had 17 rebounds to go with four blocked shots in State College's convincing 63-48 victory over Hollidaysburg, a win that gave State College sole possession of first place in Section 1 of the Mountain Athletic Conference.
Meister did it, by the way, despite having had a migraine earlier in the day that was bad enough to force him to leave school early
."He may as well go home blind. He's a heck of a basketball player," said Hollidaysburg coach Mick Pentoney of Meister. "Between him and (former State College player) Willie Morse, nobody will be happier to see him graduate than me. They've been a nightmare for me for the last six years."
Morse, by the way, is in his sit-out year at Colgate after transferring there from St. Bonaventure.

PATRIOT ENVY: In today's Daily Pennsylvanian, the Penn student paper, Zach Levine pens a piece lamenting the Ivy League's wacky scheduling situation, which allows no flexibility for things like the Bracket Buster.

Writes Levine:
Until this year, the Patriot League -- the conference most similar to the Ivy League in both academics and sports -- did not participate in the weekend because of a Friday/Sunday travel partner schedule similar to what the Ivies have.

But this season, the league returned to a Wednesday/Saturday schedule, which allowed the freedom for Bucknell to reschedule its conference commitment for that weekend.

A system like that is not without its consequences, especially in leagues so focused on academics. To combat this, the Patriot League has worked hard to schedule games between geographically close teams for Wednesday nights.
Of course that is not a perfect formula, which is why this evening we will be in Annapolis, the league's southernmost outpost, watching Navy host Holy Cross, the league's northernmost school.
Published at 8:01 AM by Hoop Time.
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