Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman You play all winter for seeding, and for four of twelve teams for first round byes. And then you play a final week in the regular season, with precisely the expected outcomes. Predictably, of the twelve games played this week in the CAA, […]
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Colonial Notebook
Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman With Obama now safely ahead of Hillary, McCain long since having dispatched Giuliani and Romney, and even Boston folks now over the Pats’ near-perfect season, America’s hoops-junkies can return to their true passion. And with BracketBusters Saturday behind us, one week left in […]
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Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman What an exciting week in the CAA! Teams showed character in must-win games, even against the league’s best teams and on those teams’ home courts. The race for tournament byes is heating up, now with just three games to go. Never has the […]
Colonial Notebook
Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman The dynamic is different in different sports and conferences, that of whether some or all teams make the post-season, and whether or not seeding provides byes for some. In some college conferences (e.g., the Big East) only the first 8, 10 or 12 […]
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Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman One Trip, Two Wins for Huskies Those of you who read this space regularly – and even some who don’t – know how treacherous the road is in the CAA, that this is a conference in which home teams prevail almost 70 percent […]
George Mason Knocks Off VCU
Thomas Wills Mason to 63-51 Home Win over VCU by Jay Pearlman FAIRFAX, Va. – So some of you thought the big game of the week was a Sunday evening football game in Arizona, that the big sports story of the week was a certain pitcher named Johan being traded […]
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Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman Coach Benny Moss’ first season in Wilmington was a forgettable one. Fresh off winning the 2006 CAA tournament and a trip to the big dance, conference tourney MVP T.J. Carter missed the entire 2006-07 season with a groin injury, the Seahawks were a […]
Horizon Notebook: If Wright State Manages to Recruit Some Players, Look Out
They defended so well the night before New Year’s Eve against Cleveland State that I couldn’t wait for my next chance to see them play; that came last night in the Nutter Center in their conference game hosting Illinois-Chicago.
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Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman They’re the CAA school different from all the rest, academically, architecturally, sociologically. They’re one of five Virginia schools in a Virginia-based league, in fact, directly centered between stalwarts Virginia Commonwealth and Old Dominion on I-64. When one lists the Virginia schools in the […]
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Colonial Athletic Association Notebook by Jay Pearlman As the dust settles following a second full week of CAA play, a bit of normalcy had returned to the conference. Defending champion and preseason favorite VCU has bounced back from an earlier one-point loss at James Madison with three straight wins, this […]
