Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Monday Mediocrity
A lousy day all around for the league. Defending champ Lehigh lost to Columbia in front of a lousy 512 fans. Columbia is a doormat team in the Ivy league, and was ranked 325 out of 326 in 2002. They're a little better now, but they're not a team that is going to be .500 in conference play, and it looks like Lehigh might not be either.
This is after LU lost to less than good Stony Brook on Saturday. It's almost enough to make my bitching about Army and Navy playing poorly against a lousy schedule (and bringing the league RPI down with them) look misplaced.
Oh wait, they both lost too.
Lafayette did their part in contributing to this suckfest, dropping a contest to Cornell, a team I (and that cursed Blue Ribbon Yearbook) may have overrated a tiny bit. Cornell plays 6 of the 8 Patriot League teams in OOC play this year, with only AU and Navy missing out on the fun.
You may have noticed this writer having large aspirations for the standing of the league-- sometimes it might sound like I think the league should be a super-Ivy -- all the academics, none of the sissy "non-scholarship" stuff. But when a night last like night happens.. I don't feel too optimistic.
Look at it this way: At this point, it's unlikely that the team which wins the league tournament will go to the NCAA tournament with anything more than a 16 seed.
Holy Cross got a win they needed over Fordham, a school that is a lot like the girl that leaves Kansas for Hollywood with big dreams, and ends up selling Star Maps and working at In-N-Out burger. Hooptime 3.0 does a good job of showing how much things have gotten lousy for Fordham since they left the league. Take note, antsy HC fans. @ 9:30 AM
A lousy day all around for the league. Defending champ Lehigh lost to Columbia in front of a lousy 512 fans. Columbia is a doormat team in the Ivy league, and was ranked 325 out of 326 in 2002. They're a little better now, but they're not a team that is going to be .500 in conference play, and it looks like Lehigh might not be either.
This is after LU lost to less than good Stony Brook on Saturday. It's almost enough to make my bitching about Army and Navy playing poorly against a lousy schedule (and bringing the league RPI down with them) look misplaced.
Oh wait, they both lost too.
Lafayette did their part in contributing to this suckfest, dropping a contest to Cornell, a team I (and that cursed Blue Ribbon Yearbook) may have overrated a tiny bit. Cornell plays 6 of the 8 Patriot League teams in OOC play this year, with only AU and Navy missing out on the fun.
You may have noticed this writer having large aspirations for the standing of the league-- sometimes it might sound like I think the league should be a super-Ivy -- all the academics, none of the sissy "non-scholarship" stuff. But when a night last like night happens.. I don't feel too optimistic.
Look at it this way: At this point, it's unlikely that the team which wins the league tournament will go to the NCAA tournament with anything more than a 16 seed.
Holy Cross got a win they needed over Fordham, a school that is a lot like the girl that leaves Kansas for Hollywood with big dreams, and ends up selling Star Maps and working at In-N-Out burger. Hooptime 3.0 does a good job of showing how much things have gotten lousy for Fordham since they left the league. Take note, antsy HC fans. @ 9:30 AM
