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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Time is running out for Quinnipiac in non-conference play. After Sunday’s 69-62 overtime loss at Boston University, the Bobcats are now 3-6 and have struggled offensively to the point where the confidence seems shaken, especially with turnovers emerging as a major issue.
Super-conferences might seem like the endgame in football, and they might work. In basketball, they don’t, and for other sports it’s even worse. A better idea is to let football be the only sport for these super-conferences.
Saturday’s 72-50 Rhode Island win over SMU might surprise some who saw only the score and knew only the records of the respective teams coming into the game. Look beneath the surface, and Saturday’s result might be a little surprising but certainly shouldn’t be a shocker save perhaps for the margin of victory.
Even the brightest minds at NJIT, a school known and respected nationally for its academics and research, couldn’t explain how the Highlanders came away with a 69-67 win over Army in a game where they scored just 16 first-half points.
For years, you could bank on one thing about Boston University: they would be a defensive-oriented team. This season, that doesn’t appear to be the case at first glance, although for a while on Tuesday the Terriers looked like they were ready to turn a corner before the second half of their 65-64 loss at Harvard.
La Salle is one team that wants to be in the conversation in the Atlantic 10, and after pulling out a 66-64 road win at Northeastern on Saturday night, the Explorers go into final exams looking like a team that could be in that mix.
A look at some important points coming out of Duke’s 90-67 blowout of Temple at the Izod Center in New Jersey, from the way Duke is playing right now to the highly partisan crowd that was on hand.
St. Francis College is not a school that might naturally jump out at the casual fan as a place of potential. But now in his third season, Glenn Braica is trying to change all of that, and with some early results, can see potential perhaps even better than when he took the job.
Connecticut will ride their guards as much as possible this season. Given their personnel, that’s about their only choice, and it’s also where their most natural leaders are. That includes the one who didn’t score for much of Friday’s win over Harvard largely because he was busy helping others do that.
If you envisioned Providence being 7-2 as they head into a break for final exams, you could easily have been right. But chances are, you didn’t think they would look the way they have thus far. You probably figured they would have a few more than five scholarship players healthy to go.
