CAA MBB Tournament 2024-25 - Early Outlook

[Wags]

Davis 3 to start the scoring, and we're off...

And then Hofstra missed the next 10 but another Davis 3 and a Davis layup makes it 8-2. So, Davis 8, Aggies 2.

[triplec2195]

Awful shooting on really wide open shots.

[EvanJ]

It took 6:42 to have the first media timeout. Davis has 8, and everybody else on both teams combined shot 1-17 to score 2, which were by Efstratios Kalliontzis. Graham has 4 rebounds. With all of the misses, both teams have at least 9 rebounds by the first media timeout. Stony Brook and Delaware combined to have 52 rebounds, and our game has 19 in just over one-sixth of the game.

Edit: We lead 12-2 with 11:58 left in the half. NC A&T just committed the first foul for either team. Sunday and Parnell were the first subs.

[dutchPride86]

Are we posting here or going to the game thread? Regardless, this is what an 11-14 play-in game in supposed to look like. yuck

[triplec2195]

Cruz Davis show can we protect a 20 point lead??

[HUSID80]

Are we posting here or going to the game thread? Regardless, this is what an 11-14 play-in game in supposed to look like. yuck

Cruz is playing like an MVP….hopefully showing the League he should have been selected to at least one of the League teams.

[EvanJ]

In today's first game, 8 seed Drexel leads 9 seed Elon 45-22 at halftime. Nine NCAA games started at 12:00 P.M. and are at halftime or early in the second half, and Drexel's lead of 23 is over double the next largest lead, which is 10. The half ended with Elon's shot going in and out, and Jason Drake making a three at the buzzer to make a 14-0 run and make Drexel more than double Elon. Drake has 14 points and leads all players with 3 assists, but he does not lead his team in scoring because Kobe MaGee has 19 points, and is tied with teammate Cole Hargrove for the most rebounds with 6. Elon's leaders have 6 points, 3 rebounds, and 1 assist, and it is very hard to not have a player exceed at least one of those by halftime. Drexel has more rebounds 22 to 12, and a great ratio of 9 assists to 2 turnovers. Elon shot poorly, and attempted 8 fewer field goals and 1 more free throw. Drexel shot threes better than twos. With 4 threes, MaGee is on pace to tie the CAA Tournament record of 8, but when I said that about Delaware's Erik Timko at halftime of yesterday's first game, he did not make a three in the second half, albeit his team still won. Nobody on either team committed more than 1 turnover. Nobody on either team had a bench point until Drexel's Villiam Garcia Adsten scored with 2:23 left. For the second consecutive game, the video has technical difficulties, but the technical difficulties for our game did not last long, and it is possible the technical difficulties will be fixed before the second half starts. Flo is not the only sports website with a problem. I tried to go to the Drexel forum on CSNBBS, and that has an SQL error.

We shoot threes negligibly better than our opponents, .33803 to .33797.

Edit: Drexel led by as much as 25. Elon shot .643 and scored 52 in the second half, but it was not close to enough, as Drexel won 91-74. Drexel's Jason Drake led all players with 25 points by shooting 8-13. Kobe MaGee scored 24, and made 1 three in the second half to finish with 5. Cole Hargrove had the only double-double on either team with 19 points and 10 rebounds, and he shot 8-11. TK Simpkins and Sam Sherry tied for Elon's lead with 23, and I wonder how many CAA Tournament games had both teams have two players score at least 23. Andrew King scored 11, and led all players with 8 assists. Elon had only 24 rebounds. Elon's bench scored 4 and attempted 3 field goals.

[Pbdutch]

How are we a 3.5 point favorite over Monmouth. As a matter of fact, we’ve been favored in almost all conference games this year and have been blown out by plenty of them. Crazy

[EvanJ]

KenPom expects us to win 68-64 with a 62 percent chance of winning. Monmouth is the 6 seed, but they are 12th in CAA in KenPom. They started 0-8 and finished nonconference 2-11, so a rating that includes all games will think of them differently than the CAA standings.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=584118 has statistics of the second game, and Delaware and Campbell are 9-9.

Edit: Delaware's John Camden made a three with 1 second left in the first half to put his team up 36-30, which is the largest lead for either team. It made him the only double-digit scorer on either team with 11. Teammate Erik Timko and Campbell's Tasos Cook scored 9. Delaware's Niels Lane and Campbell's Caleb Zurliene scored 8. Timko had 6 rebounds to tie teammate Izaiah Pasha for the most on either team, and Pasha led all players with 5 assists. Campbell's Colby Duggan did not do much in 19 minutes with 0 points from shooting 0-4, 1 rebound, and 1 assist. Neither team attempted many threes, but maybe they should attempt more because they combined to shoot threes better than twos. https://www.flohoops.com/live/142495 has video.

[EvanJ]

Delaware ended on a 19-6 run to turn a close game into a 79-62 win. Delaware's Niels Lane (24 points from 11-15 shooting), Delaware's Erik Timko (19 points from 7-12 shooting), and Campbell's Tasos Cook (19 points from 9-14 shooting) scored and shot well. Timko (12) rebounds and John Camden (15 points and 12 rebounds) gave Delaware two double-doubles, and they almost had three. Izaiah Pasha shot 3-13 to score 6, and almost had a double-double with 10 rebounds and 9 assists. Cavan Reilly scored 10, and Delaware had four double-digit scorers. Three Campbell players scored 10 or 12. Campbell shot threes 2-13 in the second half.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=584119 will have statistics of Hampton vs. Northeastern.

Edit: With 12:47 left, Hampton and Northeastern are tied at 47. Nobody on either team has more than 1 assist.

[Wags]

Okay, new narrative after Delaware's upset over Campbell today:

Delaware is sent off to C-USA with the way they ended the AE - losing to Hofstra!

12 vs. 11 in the title game!

[Wags]

Two double-digit seeds in the quarterfinals tomorrow.

Although they got blown out at UNCW this year, Hampton beat UNCW 83-70 at home the last time they met, so they'll have confidence.

[dutchPride86]

Two double-digit seeds in the quarterfinals tomorrow.

Although they got blown out at UNCW this year, Hampton beat UNCW 83-70 at home the last time they met, so they'll have confidence.

Seems Hampton made the right hire with Ivan Thomas. Gotta give them a ton of credit for completely turning that program around

[Wags]

Two double-digit seeds in the quarterfinals tomorrow.

Although they got blown out at UNCW this year, Hampton beat UNCW 83-70 at home the last time they met, so they'll have confidence.

Seems Hampton made the right hire with Ivan Thomas. Gotta give them a ton of credit for completely turning that program around

Outcoached - (?) or at least beat - the CAA's all-time winningest coach as lower seed in a CAA tourney game tonight.

[Wags]

Campbell scored 58 in the second half of their win at Delaware on Feb. 15. The Camels scored 62 in their CAA tourney loss to Delaware.

[Wags]

Towson (vs. Drexel) and William & Mary (vs. Delaware) are each only 2.5-point favorites on Sunday.

Towson swept Drexel, but in OT in Philly and 55-54 at home.
Delaware was 1-0 vs. William Mary (the only Delaware win over the Blue Hens' last 12 regular season games).
Hampton split with UNCW and won the last meeting.
Monmouth was 1-0 vs. Charleston.

Could we see four upsets on Sunday and 8 vs. 12 and 10 vs. 6 in the semis on Monday? CBS Sports Network would hate that.

[Wags]

In a conference where for many years, nothing has made any sense, it would be the most CAA thing ever if Delaware, after finishing the regular season 0-6 and 1-11, wins the tournament as a 12 seed on its way out the door for Conference USA.

[Pbdutch]

What a disastrous season. What’s next? Transfer portal I get. What does everyone else think of Speedy? I guess we literally had no good players or a stud like we’ve had in the past, but again, I think the coaching has been atrocious.

[The Shadow]

I wasn't sure what thread to put this information on, but NC State just fired Kevin Keats as head coach. Keats was at UNCW from 2014 to 2017. I guess the college coaching carousel has just started. I wouldn't feel so bad for Coach Keats as he still has seven million dollars coming on his contract.

[Jojogunne]

In a conference where for many years, nothing has made any sense, it would be the most CAA thing ever if Delaware, after finishing the regular season 0-6 and 1-11, wins the tournament as a 12 seed on its way out the door for Conference USA.

So true. Are you sure 0-6 is correct?