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So much for playing easy non-league basketball games. The Lafayette College men’s and women’s basketball teams are not doing that. The men, despite losing three senior starters to graduation, will host defending Atlantic 10 tournament champion Temple on Nov. 21 at Kirby Sports…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette knew what was coming, but could not stop the Penn Quakers Tuesday night. That’s because the Quakers constantly scored off sharp cuts into the lane, dominated the boards, chalked up their share of steals and flew all over the Kirby Sports Center hardwood as if it were…
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Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College’s bid for a 14-0 regular-season record in the Patriot League ended with the Leopards’ 85-77 loss to Colgate on Friday in Hamilton, N.Y. But the the Leopards’ hope to win the league’s regular-season and tournament titles remains alive. Even if Lafayette coach…
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Read on mcall.com →Temple coach John Chaney’s sleeves were rolled up, his tie loosened. His voice kept rising, his eyes focusing intensely on the court and on the players he was trying to guide to a victory Wednesday night. It was typical Chaney, an elder statesman fired up from the opening…
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Read on mcall.com →Nobody is likely to ask the significance of playing in a Big 5 game if they saw the way La Salle and Penn were scrapping and clawing Tuesday night at The Palestra. But La Salle, which started three freshmen and two sophomores, just couldn’t match the poise, execution, and like…
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Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College scrapped back with a much-improved offense, a hustling defense that forced turnovers, and just about everything else it had left over the final 10 minutes of the second half against the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday night at Kirby Sports Center. But…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University’s rookie men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor has quickly found out how much of a demanding job it is to maintain cohesiveness in a Division I program. Taylor, 28, has also come to understand that there are some things that he just can not control. Like…
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Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League bragging rights and the chance to make history. Shooting-wise, it was not a classic. Too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton that Tuesday night before an emotionally intoxicated crowd of 8,700-plus…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League rank and the chance to make history, a classic in the making. Shooting-wise, though, it was not a classic. There were too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton a classic. But that didn’t stop the…
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Read on mcall.com →The verbal outbursts from the Scream I and II movies will compare little to the noise level inside the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra at 8 tonight in the most important game of the Ivy League season. “It’s going to be very, very, very packed,” said Carla Shultzberg,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The security guards had no chance of halting the wave of fans that stormed onto the floor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra after the final horn Saturday night. The startling thing is that the Ivy League title was not won with Penn’s 72-63 victory over Yale. But Penn…
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Read on mcall.com →Most of the Penn Quakers’ jumpers looked good, often swishing through the nets. The Quakers’ man-to-man defense was also tough, somewhat nasty at times. Penn’s NCAA Tournament life seemed to be on the line, and the Quakers played like a team on a serious mission in routing Ivy…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Whew! It was that close, that breathtaking. It was also that drenching, especially for La Salle coach Billy Hahn, who could have taken a shower at halftime of Tuesday night’s Big 5 game against Penn before a crowd of 3,722 at La Salle’s Gola Arena. By game’s end, after 45…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Lafayette Leopards got a break from Patriot League play, but that warranted no thanks to the schedule makers. Not even for Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon, who patroled the sidelines and matched wits against his former boss, Penn coach Fran Dunphy, throughout an exhilarating…
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Read on mcall.com →The “Beast” arrived just in time to take a bite out of Colgate with a yeoman offensive play, and helped ignite a furious Lehigh rally in the final 9 minutes of Saturday night. For some reason, Bobby “The Beast” Mbom did not play a lick in the first half, but Engineers coach Sal…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Watching from the bench at the climax of a Big 5 matchup in the old and stuffy Palestra seemed a little odd for Drexel freshman Danny Hinds Wednesday night. Especially since the game against neighboring University of Pennsylvania was close. “I don’t know if I would have been…
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