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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Bison's inside attack, its own cold shooting, more than Colgate can handle (Updated with links at 7:55 a.m.)
By ERIC THOMAS
Special to Hoop Time
For the first 4:56 of live game action, nothing but frustration could be found on the face of Bucknell head coach Pat Flannery.
The Bison sideline boss watched his team play careless, turnovers, shots weren't falling, good looks were all around, but nothing was dropping.
The Bison faced an early 6-0 hole, which might not look like much, but when you have more turnovers than field goal attempts in that stretch, it feels deeper than it really is.
But, Bucknell did what Bucknell has had to do a lot of lately, rally from behind.
Key three pointers by Abe Badmus and Jason Vegotsky fueled a late first half charge, and the inside play of Chris McNaughton and Donald Brown was too much in the second half as the Bison defeated Colgate 50-36 at Sojka Pavilion Saturday afternoon.
It was Bucknell's 29th consecutive home win, and the fifth straight over the Raiders. More importantly, the Bison picked up their 10th and kept pace one game back of Holy Cross in the league standings at 4-1.
Oh, and don't forget about that Bison defense either. Bucknell held Colgate scoreless for a seven minute stretch of the first half.
It wasn't just the seven minute stretch that frustrated Raiders head coach Emmett Davis, it was the entire late first half and second half performance; Repeated looks late that didn't fall, turnovers, being out-rebounded by the Bison,
"Bucknell got to the ball quicker," said Davis. "I thought they did that throughout the second half. They were just quicker to the loose balls and we didn't shoot the ball from three or anywhere for that matter very well. When you shoot the ball that poorly and you score that number of points its hard to beat anybody."
McNaughton had only three field goal attempts in the first half, but finally ended the early drought when he connected in the paint on a beautiful pass from Brown. It was the start of something big. Over half of Bucknell's 50 points came in the paint.
Colgate's Daniel Waddy responded by giving the Red Raiders the lead at 12-10 with 4:46 to play, but Badmus connected from deep the next trip down the floor for the Bison to give them lead they would hold the rest of the way.
A minute later, Vegotsky, hit from the right wing to extend the lead, and then on the next Bison possession hit his only other basket, a three-pointer from the left wing for a 19-14 lead with 2:38 to play in the first half.
"What we started doing was rebounding a little bit better and we got ourselves going a little bit," Flannery said.
The Bison defense clamped down on Colgate in the second half, holding them to 6-of-17 shooting and overall held the Raiders to a dismal 26-percent for the game. Colgate also went 0-14 from the arch for the contest.
"I thought we did a real good job defensively," said Flannery. "I thought the big difference as the game went along, the things they were doing to Donald Brown, he really showed a lot of maturity tonight and really did a great job adjusting to the way they were playing him. Chris has really been playing well and hard and I really like what our upper classmen did tonight."
The Bison immediately went to McNaughton to start the second half and that started a stretch of 16 points in the paint in 15 minutes. All other Bison points in that stretch came via the free throw line because of the position Brown, McNaughton and reserve forward Darren Mastropaolo had inside against a lesser Raiders interior defense.
"I just relied on my teammates because I knew they were capable of making plays and I just let the game come to me," Brown said.
McNaughton acknowledged that it was tough inside, but repeatedly, he was able to seal on the baseline or in the lane and beat his man to the bucket for high percentage shots.
"They have some pretty physical guys in there trying to play me one-on-one. It's always tough playing Colgate, you know it's going to be a physical game," McNaughton said. "I think we just have to do a good job of playing physical ourselves, I think we can play physical."
Flannery should be pleased with the play of his underclassmen as well. He put a rotation on the floor that consisted of Justin Castleberry, Stephen Tyree and Patrick Behan early in the first half. Castleberry struggled, but Tyree and Behan combined 2-of-4 shooting and played 18 minutes. Tyree's tip-in off a Brown miss gave the Bison a 23-16 first half lead and caused the near sellout crowd to erupt for the freshman.
"Certainly, defensively we weren't giving them a lot of looks," Flannery said. "Offensively the right guys got the ball."
McNaughton led the Bison with 12, Brown added 11 and six rebounds. Kendall Chones led Colgate with nine.
Notes: The Bison held the rebound advantage 35-21. . .Colgate as a team had just five assists and turned the ball over 13 times. John Griffin did not have an assist and had one turnover. . . he is among the national leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio . . . the 36 points allowed by the Bison were the fewest since January 18th of last season when they gave up 32 to Lafayette . . . Jon Simon, who hit eight 3-pointers against Lehigh was held to 2-of-11 shooting and was 0-of-5 from the arch . . . It was the ninth time in 11 games Colgate failed to shoot 40 percent from the floor . . . Colgate's Willie Morse was a DNP in front of a crowd that included early arrivals for a high school nightcap between his alma mater State College and a Hazleton team coached by BU grad Mike Joseph . . . Morse sat after missing most of the past week's practices with the flu
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By ERIC THOMAS
Special to Hoop Time
For the first 4:56 of live game action, nothing but frustration could be found on the face of Bucknell head coach Pat Flannery.
The Bison sideline boss watched his team play careless, turnovers, shots weren't falling, good looks were all around, but nothing was dropping.
The Bison faced an early 6-0 hole, which might not look like much, but when you have more turnovers than field goal attempts in that stretch, it feels deeper than it really is.
But, Bucknell did what Bucknell has had to do a lot of lately, rally from behind.
Key three pointers by Abe Badmus and Jason Vegotsky fueled a late first half charge, and the inside play of Chris McNaughton and Donald Brown was too much in the second half as the Bison defeated Colgate 50-36 at Sojka Pavilion Saturday afternoon.
It was Bucknell's 29th consecutive home win, and the fifth straight over the Raiders. More importantly, the Bison picked up their 10th and kept pace one game back of Holy Cross in the league standings at 4-1.
Oh, and don't forget about that Bison defense either. Bucknell held Colgate scoreless for a seven minute stretch of the first half.
It wasn't just the seven minute stretch that frustrated Raiders head coach Emmett Davis, it was the entire late first half and second half performance; Repeated looks late that didn't fall, turnovers, being out-rebounded by the Bison,
"Bucknell got to the ball quicker," said Davis. "I thought they did that throughout the second half. They were just quicker to the loose balls and we didn't shoot the ball from three or anywhere for that matter very well. When you shoot the ball that poorly and you score that number of points its hard to beat anybody."
McNaughton had only three field goal attempts in the first half, but finally ended the early drought when he connected in the paint on a beautiful pass from Brown. It was the start of something big. Over half of Bucknell's 50 points came in the paint.
Colgate's Daniel Waddy responded by giving the Red Raiders the lead at 12-10 with 4:46 to play, but Badmus connected from deep the next trip down the floor for the Bison to give them lead they would hold the rest of the way.
A minute later, Vegotsky, hit from the right wing to extend the lead, and then on the next Bison possession hit his only other basket, a three-pointer from the left wing for a 19-14 lead with 2:38 to play in the first half.
"What we started doing was rebounding a little bit better and we got ourselves going a little bit," Flannery said.
The Bison defense clamped down on Colgate in the second half, holding them to 6-of-17 shooting and overall held the Raiders to a dismal 26-percent for the game. Colgate also went 0-14 from the arch for the contest.
"I thought we did a real good job defensively," said Flannery. "I thought the big difference as the game went along, the things they were doing to Donald Brown, he really showed a lot of maturity tonight and really did a great job adjusting to the way they were playing him. Chris has really been playing well and hard and I really like what our upper classmen did tonight."
The Bison immediately went to McNaughton to start the second half and that started a stretch of 16 points in the paint in 15 minutes. All other Bison points in that stretch came via the free throw line because of the position Brown, McNaughton and reserve forward Darren Mastropaolo had inside against a lesser Raiders interior defense.
"I just relied on my teammates because I knew they were capable of making plays and I just let the game come to me," Brown said.
McNaughton acknowledged that it was tough inside, but repeatedly, he was able to seal on the baseline or in the lane and beat his man to the bucket for high percentage shots.
"They have some pretty physical guys in there trying to play me one-on-one. It's always tough playing Colgate, you know it's going to be a physical game," McNaughton said. "I think we just have to do a good job of playing physical ourselves, I think we can play physical."
Flannery should be pleased with the play of his underclassmen as well. He put a rotation on the floor that consisted of Justin Castleberry, Stephen Tyree and Patrick Behan early in the first half. Castleberry struggled, but Tyree and Behan combined 2-of-4 shooting and played 18 minutes. Tyree's tip-in off a Brown miss gave the Bison a 23-16 first half lead and caused the near sellout crowd to erupt for the freshman.
"Certainly, defensively we weren't giving them a lot of looks," Flannery said. "Offensively the right guys got the ball."
McNaughton led the Bison with 12, Brown added 11 and six rebounds. Kendall Chones led Colgate with nine.
Notes: The Bison held the rebound advantage 35-21. . .Colgate as a team had just five assists and turned the ball over 13 times. John Griffin did not have an assist and had one turnover. . . he is among the national leaders in assist-to-turnover ratio . . . the 36 points allowed by the Bison were the fewest since January 18th of last season when they gave up 32 to Lafayette . . . Jon Simon, who hit eight 3-pointers against Lehigh was held to 2-of-11 shooting and was 0-of-5 from the arch . . . It was the ninth time in 11 games Colgate failed to shoot 40 percent from the floor . . . Colgate's Willie Morse was a DNP in front of a crowd that included early arrivals for a high school nightcap between his alma mater State College and a Hazleton team coached by BU grad Mike Joseph . . . Morse sat after missing most of the past week's practices with the flu
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