Saturday, November 29, 2003
PL Defeats Lower-Tier Ivy Teams, Navy and Lehigh Suck
It's been a busy week for the PL. The best win of the week was by Colgate, who knocked off Cornell in OT with Linebaugh coming through in the clutch, as usual. Cornell ain't Princeton or Penn, but they could end up in 3rd or 4th in the Ivy league, so this is a strong win for 'gate.
Holy Cross thumped Harvard, as expected, but then lost to Princeton in a close one. Fingleton's line makes him look pretty useless, with three fouls, 2 points, no field goals and four rebounds in 11 minutes. Coach Willard said of Judson Wallace: "We watched the Colgate film and we could see he's really turned into a heck of a player." Well c'mon big Will, you could've just read that news here a few days before the Colgate game. If this kid keeps it up, no one in the Ivy League should beat Princeton.
The bane of the league this week was not Princeton, though. It was Sacred Heart, home of the Fightin' Aortas. They beat Army and Lehigh, both in close games. Yuck.
AU dropped a game that was closer than it looks to Delaware. It wasn't so much that Delaware beat AU, but that AU let Delaware win. An ugly game almost all around for AU, with Andres Rodriguez not looking like his usually dietylike self despite scoring 13. They ought to get things back together and beat perennial suckpot Fairleigh Dickinson tonight, who hopefully have gotten most of the felons off their team this season.
Bucknell lost to Yale, in another close one. They're looking like they are going to contend this year, which is surprising for a lot of people, myself included. Bettencourt didn't even play that well, but they still nearly knocked off a team that was competitive with UConn a week ago.
Good luck to teams playing tonight. I'll have a weekend wrapup Monday.
Happy Holidays. @ 5:30 PM
It's been a busy week for the PL. The best win of the week was by Colgate, who knocked off Cornell in OT with Linebaugh coming through in the clutch, as usual. Cornell ain't Princeton or Penn, but they could end up in 3rd or 4th in the Ivy league, so this is a strong win for 'gate.
Holy Cross thumped Harvard, as expected, but then lost to Princeton in a close one. Fingleton's line makes him look pretty useless, with three fouls, 2 points, no field goals and four rebounds in 11 minutes. Coach Willard said of Judson Wallace: "We watched the Colgate film and we could see he's really turned into a heck of a player." Well c'mon big Will, you could've just read that news here a few days before the Colgate game. If this kid keeps it up, no one in the Ivy League should beat Princeton.
The bane of the league this week was not Princeton, though. It was Sacred Heart, home of the Fightin' Aortas. They beat Army and Lehigh, both in close games. Yuck.
AU dropped a game that was closer than it looks to Delaware. It wasn't so much that Delaware beat AU, but that AU let Delaware win. An ugly game almost all around for AU, with Andres Rodriguez not looking like his usually dietylike self despite scoring 13. They ought to get things back together and beat perennial suckpot Fairleigh Dickinson tonight, who hopefully have gotten most of the felons off their team this season.
Bucknell lost to Yale, in another close one. They're looking like they are going to contend this year, which is surprising for a lot of people, myself included. Bettencourt didn't even play that well, but they still nearly knocked off a team that was competitive with UConn a week ago.
Good luck to teams playing tonight. I'll have a weekend wrapup Monday.
Happy Holidays. @ 5:30 PM
