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Friday, March 09, 2007
Bison-'Saders by the numbers
Breaking down the Bucknell-Holy Cross matchup is as easy as 1 - 2 - 1,199.

0 -- Number of times, in the 16-year history of the league, a team seeded lower than No. 2 won the Patriot League championship
1 -- Number of teams who have ever won three Patriot League titles in a row (Holy Cross)
2 -- Consecutive championships for Bucknell heading into this game
3 -- Losses by the two teams combined to other league teams over the past three seasons (the two are a combined 81-3 against the rest of the league in that span)
4 -- Total number of league titles won by HC, the most by any team in the league. This is also Bucknell's 4th appearance in the league championship game
5 -- Combined number of seniors on the two team's rosters
6 -- Number of Bucknell wins in the 10 meetings between the two in league tournament play
7 -- National ranking of Holy Cross' 57.1 points allowed per game scoring defense. BUcknell has allowed 57.2 ppg.
8 -- Number of Patriot League championship games HC has played, number of consecutive league tournament wins for Bucknell coming into this one, Regular season losses for both teams
9 -- All-time Bucknell wins against Holy Cross in the Hart Center, also number of Bucknell losses to Holy Cross in Hart all-time
10 -- Bucknell road wins this season
11 -- This will be the 11th all-time tournament meeting between Bucknell and Holy Cross
12 -- This will be the 12th time the two team's seniors have faced each other in their four seasons
13 -- Straight Patriot League games in which Bucknell has outscored the opposition in the paint (Bucknell has done so 15 of 16 games this season. In the 15th it was even 22-22 in the first game against HC)
14 -- in a row, Bucknell's current win streak
14.5 -- points per game averaged by HC senior Keith Simmons in nine career PL tournament games
15 -- times this season HC has reached double figures in steals
16 -- times Simmons has led the Crusaders in scoring this season
17 --Straight wins in the Hart Center by Holy Cross, a school mark
17.2 -- points per game averaged by Simmons, tops in the league
18 -- Tournament wins by BU coach Pat Flannery, most in league history
19 -- Bucknell wins in 23 games where they out-rebounded the opponent
20 -- Bucknell wins in 21 games where they shot more free throws than the opponent
22 -- Bucknell wins this season
24 -- Holy Cross wins this season
43 -- Consecutive double figures scoring games by Simmons
44 -- Number of times the two teams have met (Bucknell leads series 25-19)
53 -- Straight games Bucknell has not allowed a PL foe to score 70 points
66 -- Holy Cross' ranking in the RPI
77 -- Wins in Hart center by HC since start of the 2000-2001 season. HC is 77-12 in Hart in that stretch
78 -- Bucknell's RPI
87 -- School record number of wins by Bucknell's current senior class
123 -- Career games played HC point guard Torey Thomas, 2nd on HC's all-time list
124 -- Career games played by the guy ahead of Thomas on that list, Crusaders' guard Keith Simmons, and by Bucknell's Chris McNaughton, who now holds the BU school record
137 -- Career blocked shots by HC center Tim Clifford (second all-time at HC, ninth all-time in PL)
156 -- League best all-time wins by Bucknell (156-68 -- .696 in 17 seasons)
158 -- wins as head coach of Holy Cross in eight seasons by Ralph Willard (158-88)
191 -- Career three-pointers by Simmons (2nd all-time at HC)
619 -- Combined career wins for Flannery (317) and Willard (302)
1,199 -- Minutes played this season by Thomas, breaking his own school record set last season

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