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Lehigh seemed like it had turned into “Guard U.” under former coach Billy Taylor, who had five guards earn Patriot League first team, player of the year, and rookie of the year honors in his five seasons. But Brett Reed, who was Taylor’s top assistant coach in those five…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The 2007-08 recruiting class for the Lehigh’s men’s basketball team consists of a shorty, a skyscraper, and apparently a player who can take it to the rim as well as shoot from the outside. In all, coach Billy Taylor has signed six players, including 2007 Morning Call player of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s season is officially over, but the controversy remains. The Patriot League announced Thursday night that Army’s 47-46 playoff victory over Lehigh in will stand, despite acknowledging that Josh Miller’s buzzer-beating shot left his hand after the clock expired. The…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a finish that left Lehigh stunned and steamed Wednesday night. Freshman Josh Miller made a running bank shot after the buzzer sounded (as video from Lehigh’s Web site, lehighsports.com, showed) that lifted Army to a 47-46 win over Lehigh in the Patriot League tournament…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Patriot League Tournament starts next Wednesday with the top four seeds hosting quarterfinal games. The two remaining highest seeds will host semifinal games next Sunday. The championship game will be held at the surviving highest seed. This is the first year the league has…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh scrapped hard for every basket, rebound, and steal it got Wednesday night. But that determined effort didn’t result in victory against Bucknell, which prevailed in a 69-56 victory before a crowd of 2,530 at Stabler Arena. The Bison dominated Lehigh in most categories, but…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University center Jason Mgebroff didn’t return with a bang in his first game of 2007 on Wednesday night. But coach Billy Taylor was not discouraged by the five points Mgebroff scored in the Mountain Hawks’ 56-53 overtime win over Colgate in a Patriot League matchup in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a Patriot League game with rough play, bad free-throw shooting, and not nearly enough execution for Lehigh Wednesday night at Stabler Arena. It’s not like Navy didn’t give Lehigh every chance possible because the Midshipmen made only one free throw in the final nine…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Super Bowl XLI is a huge event for Lehigh men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor, who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, loving the Bears with all of his heart. But on Sunday his heart will be split. “I’m a Bears fan through and through,” he said, “but I really like Tony Dungy and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Jose Olivero believed he had a strong game. Kyle Neptune wanted him to prove it. That was four summers ago, when both were incoming freshmen at Lehigh. Olivero was coming from the Washington metropolitan area, Neptune from Brooklyn, N.Y. They were both guards, Neptune three…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nowadays, Lehigh’s Jose Olivero is being guarded tougher, sometimes by two defenders, by opponents and, as a result, he’s being dropped to the hardwood more than ever. He’s paying the price for being good, for being a returning All-Patriot League player, for being able to create…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh did not get the rebound it needed most Tuesday night. And Mountain Hawks senior Kyle Neptune didn’t succeed at forcing Columbia’s Niko Scott to lose his concentration from the free throw line with trash talk. Scott converted two free throws with 0.4 seconds left to lift…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University senior guard Kyle Neptune grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and one of the things he discovered at a young age is that the game of basketball is not always easy. Blessed with solid leaping ability, Neptune had his share of high-flying dunks during his freshman season,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nobody may ever see Lehigh coach Billy Taylor rattled. He’s just too smooth, and he’s played and coached at levels much higher than the Patriot League. But in today’s society, it’s always about what have you done for me lately. Winning sells tickets. Losing pushes fans away. So…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor is playing a waiting game to see if he’ll be offered the vacant men’s basketball head coaching job at the University of Pennsylvania. Taylor confirmed in a statement released by Lehigh officials on Thursday that he has been contacted by Penn athletic…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Life goes on for the Lehigh men’s basketball team, which found out on Friday that the Patriot League’s Council of Presidents has ruled that it will have to forfeit 13 games from the 2004-05 season for using guard Joe Knight, who was later ruled ineligible. Lehigh’s 2004-05…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Ray Barbosa can’t take losing at James Madison University anymore. He’s done that for three basketball seasons, but there won’t be a fourth. The former Allen High standout received his official release papers on Friday from the Colonial Athletic Association member school. He…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor hopes his season isn’t over, that the Mountain Hawks’ 19-12 record puts them in contention for a National Invitational Tournament bid. It’s nice to hope and it would certainly be a major boost for the Patriot League’s profile if Lehigh received a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh plans to start its engine early this afternoon and keep it running. But the Mountain Hawks (19-11) do not have history in their favor. They have not beaten Holy Cross (19-11) at the Hart Center since 1998. They are 0-4 against the Crusaders in Patriot League Tournament…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh was missing open shots. The Mountain Hawks were making bad passes. And what could have been the most costly bad pass came with eight seconds left, when star guard Jose Olivero tried to dump the ball inside. “I just made a wrong read,” said Olivero, a junior who two days…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Back in November, Lehigh junior guard Jose Olivero was dejected when he found out that he was not named to the All-Patriot League preseason team. He posted that team up on his dormitory wall to fuel his desire to prove that he deserved to be considered among the league’s elite…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The task is now daunting for Lehigh, which lost its rematch with Bucknell Wednesday night, and will have to refuel its tank for the Patriot League season finale at Holy Cross Sunday. The Mountain Hawks’ defense will have to be a lot better than it was in an 81-70 loss to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh posted its 10th Patriot League victory, 67-58 over Colgate, Wednesday night at Stabler Arena. Now the Mountain Hawks are six days away from a rematch with No. 24 Bucknell in Lewisburg. “My dad told me that rankings are nothing but a number,” said sophomore Bryan White.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University coach Billy Taylor is contending for his third Patriot League coach of the year honor in four years. That’s because Lehigh is once again contending for the league title, entering this week 7-1 in league play, just 11/2 games behind Bucknell. Taylor does not…
· Andre D. Williams
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