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Saturday, June 03, 2006
While we were fishing
Here's a quick recap of some of the headlines from the past week;

Cruzing the Philippines -- Holy Cross guard Kyle Cruze has been chosen to an Athletes in Action team that will take a 12-game tour of the Phillipines beginning June 23. In a related column, Cruze told his hometown paper, the Knoxville News Sentinel people in the northeast are more generous and hospitable than folks in Tennessee think they are and that the biggest on-court challenge he has faced at HC is learning to be a more complete player after building a rep as a three-point shooter in high school.

The young and the inbred -- After losing his top two assistants, Lafayette coach Fran O'Hanlon has retooled his staff. Former No. 3 guy Drew Dawson, a 2003 LC grad, has been promoted to the top assistant spot. New to the staff are 2003 Penn grad Andrew Toole and Mike Farrell, a 2004 Lafayette grad. Dawson, who has been a Division I assistant for two seasons, is by far the most experienced of the three. Toole has never worked as a coach (though he comes to Lafayette with a network of recruiting contacts developed as director of the Eastern Invitational Basketball Clinic). Farrell spent the past two seasons as a graduate assistant at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, an NAIA Division II power in Daytona.

Scheduling woes -- Bloomberg News columnist Scott Soshnick's piece on the scheduling challenges facing mid-major teams has a decidedly Patriot slant. It features three schools -- Bucknell, Holy Cross and George Mason.

Our favorite quote comes from HC great Bob Cousy, who pulls no punches: "All the powerhouses want to book the patsies."

Wachen McNaughton -- If your only interest in German basketball is Bucknell's Chris McNaughton, you'll want to scroll right to the last question in this interview with German national team coach Dirk Bauermann. That iswhere he mentions McNaughton as one of two young players expected to get a longer look as Germany puts together its team for August's World Championships in Japan.
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