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Monday, November 27, 2006
How good is Holy Cross? After his team got spanked by Bucknell on Saturday, Yale head coach James Jones told a reporter the Crusaders, who visit the Bulldogs Wendesday, are probably the best team in the league.
Certainly their record would indicate that, but skeptics point out HC has spent the first two weeks of the season tuning up at home against the weakest part of its schedule. Four of the Crusaders'five games have been at the Hart Center. None of the five teams HC has beaten have a winning record. Combined the five are 6-19.
The next five are . In fact, the next five-- beginning -- are almost the mirror opposite -- five road games, four against teams with winning records. Only Yale (1-3) fails to measure up during that stretch. And a rested Yale, in New Haven, just two nights after a road trip to Syracuse, will not be an easy task. The four other opponents in the next five have a combined record of 18-3, the three losses spread neatly, one apiece, among Dayton, Duke and Providence.
A win over any of those four would get HC over that close-but-no-cigar-hump it could not quite get past against the likes of Kansas, Kentucky and Marquette in years past.
The challenge won't be hanging with the likes of Syracuse, Dayton, Duke and Providence. The Crusaders starting five has the talent to play with those guys. The tough part is avoiding being worn down in the second half by teams that are deeper, stronger and more athletic.
Suffice to say we will no a lot more about Holy Cross when this stretch is over than we know right now.
Elsewhere, , Lehigh has a big-name foe of its own, with Billy Taylor taking the Hawks home to , the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in South Bend, and we get our first chance to see American when they travel up 270 to Emmittsburg to take on Mount Saint Mary's.
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Certainly their record would indicate that, but skeptics point out HC has spent the first two weeks of the season tuning up at home against the weakest part of its schedule. Four of the Crusaders'five games have been at the Hart Center. None of the five teams HC has beaten have a winning record. Combined the five are 6-19.
The next five are . In fact, the next five-- beginning -- are almost the mirror opposite -- five road games, four against teams with winning records. Only Yale (1-3) fails to measure up during that stretch. And a rested Yale, in New Haven, just two nights after a road trip to Syracuse, will not be an easy task. The four other opponents in the next five have a combined record of 18-3, the three losses spread neatly, one apiece, among Dayton, Duke and Providence.
A win over any of those four would get HC over that close-but-no-cigar-hump it could not quite get past against the likes of Kansas, Kentucky and Marquette in years past.
The challenge won't be hanging with the likes of Syracuse, Dayton, Duke and Providence. The Crusaders starting five has the talent to play with those guys. The tough part is avoiding being worn down in the second half by teams that are deeper, stronger and more athletic.
Suffice to say we will no a lot more about Holy Cross when this stretch is over than we know right now.
Elsewhere, , Lehigh has a big-name foe of its own, with Billy Taylor taking the Hawks home to , the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in South Bend, and we get our first chance to see American when they travel up 270 to Emmittsburg to take on Mount Saint Mary's.
MATCHUPS: | | |
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