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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Black Knights in the spotlight
For the next eight days, your Patriot League hoops fix will come from one place: West Point, N.Y. While everybody else is off taking finals this week, Army plays a pair of home games, beginning this afternoon when Quinnipiac visits in a Northeast-Patriot matchup.

The Patriot League's combined 6-9 record against the Northeast Conference. makes you wonder about the RPI, since the Patriot is No. 23 (down another spot) in the latest conference RPI calculations. The Northeast's conference ranking is 27.

Four of the six remaining games between the two conferences are on Northeast home courts. That makes Army holding serve against Quinnipiac a key to any chance the league has of salvaging the series.

SCOUTING QUINNIPIAC: The 3-4 Bobcats come in 3-4, winners of two of their last three games, including a 92-88 overtime win at Lehigh, the Bobcats only road win thus far (1-2). The loss in that stretch also was an overtime game at home against Brown.

The Bobcats won at home against St. Francis (NY) their last time out. Demario Anderson, a 6-4 transfer from Central Connecticut, posted a 25-point, 11 rebound double-double, his second of the season, in the win. Anderson averages 20.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.

Evann Baker (12 ppg), a 6-3 freshman guard, is also averaging in double figures. Baker is an efficient (6 for 12) three-point shooter.

Quinnipiac shoots 45.6 percent as a team and holds opponents to 43.3 percent shooting. But the Bobcats are still being outscored by almost 3 points per game. The Bobcats favor a faster pace (78.6 ppg), but they give uo a lot of points (opponents averaging 80.1 ppg).
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