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The men’s basketball team at Lehigh is receiving ongoing accolades for posting a 16-11 regular-season record, which marks the first time since 1990-91 that the team has a winning record entering the Patriot League Tournament. But Lehigh has been stuck on 16 wins since beating…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Maybe it’s time to send out a search unit to find the Lehigh team that, at one point of the season, was in first place in the Patriot League. That team won, in part, because seniors Matt Logie and Zlatko Savovic were making clutch plays down the stretch to win close games. That…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh and Lafayette have split their two regular season meetings, but both need to do better in their final two Patriot League games this week. If both go 2-0, they could end up as the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds in the league tournament, which has its quarterfinal and semifinal rounds…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College senior guard Andrew Pleick saved his best scoring game for his final home game at Kirby Sports Center Sunday. He also handled the ball with exceptional care and did a good job distributing it to his teammates, much like he has all season. But when the Leopards’…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Making the adjustment from the high school to college game has been, at times, a smooth experience for Lehigh freshmen Chris Stephenson and Mitch Gilfillan. At times, however, it’s also seemed dreadful. Like the games where neither plays much or scores any points. Stephenson, a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh found American University not so hospitable, losing 69-59 Saturday at Bender Arena. The loss was Lehigh’s third straight on the road to a Patriot League team, preventing coach Billy Taylor from winning his 16th game and placing his name in the school record book for…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Webster Dictionary definition of ugly was played out early and often in the Lehigh-Bucknell Patriot League game Tuesday night at Stabler Arena. Both teams shot a barrage of bricks and had no rhythm from the opening tip-off on. But despite shooting 38 percent from the field,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Years of playing and making six-figure salaries as a professional basketball player has spoiled former Lehigh University great Daren Queenan, who was considering applying for an assistant coaching job at Winthrop University until he was told about the salary. “When coach [Gregg]…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Despite his arm being smacked, Zlatko “Zo” Savovic hung in the air long enough to dish to Matt Crawford for a one-handed dunk. It was just another in a long list of deft plays the Lehigh senior guard made against Navy Saturday night. Behind Savovic’s well-rounded play and senior…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Two tough road losses last weekend to Holy Cross and Colgate did not spoil what was a successful first half of play in the Patriot League for the Lehigh men’s basketball team. The losses — 63-39 at Holy Cross and 77-68 at Colgate — have the Mountain Hawks waiting impatiently to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A road trip that began with the Lehigh men holding onto sole possession of first place in the Patriot League, ended with a second straight setback. It wasn’t for a lack of hustle because Lehigh played hard on both ends of the court in a 77-68 loss to Colgate Sunday in a Patriot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s big challenge against Patriot League defending champion Holy Cross was more of a big chill, and ultimately a big letdown in a 63-39 loss Friday night at the Hart Center. Nobody in a Lehigh uniform made a field goal in the first half except senior guard Zlatko Savovic,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Patriot League standings has a sole occupant of first place. It’s not two-time defending league champion Holy Cross, which has the league’s tallest and best frontcourt; it’s Lehigh. But the Crusaders can move back into a tie for the top spot on Friday by beating the Mountain…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Cleaning off the glass with solid rebounding is something Lehigh senior Anne Tierney had considered a part of her job throughout her college basketball career. Tierney’s biggest rebounding job has been helping the Engineers (7-10, 4-1 Patriot) come back from a 1-7 start. It was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The 197th meeting between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette tipped off with enough fireworks to light up the city of Bethlehem Friday night. That’s because Lehigh and Lafayette went full-throttle at each other in a Patriot League game before a loud crowd of 3,892 at Stabler Arena. It…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The 197th meeting between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette tipped off with enough fireworks to light up the city of Bethlehem Friday night. That’s because Lehigh and Lafayette went full-throttle at each other in a Patriot League game before a loud crowd of 3,892 at Stabler Arena. It…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The music preferences of Lehigh starting guards Ra Tiah and Zlatko Savovic are about as different as their offensive styles of play. Tiah prefers rap music over anything else, especially songs performed by Jay-Z. Savovic is more into alternative tunes. “I like Three Doors Down,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Big East Conference has been a headache to Patriot League teams this season, though not as big as you might think. Not even to improved Lehigh, which had a chance to drown the fans in Coral Gables, Fla. on Dec. 30 with disappointment before Ohio State’s football team did the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Remember all the carelessness of Lehigh men’s basketball in the past when the opponent turned up the heat with pressure defense? And what about all the defensive breakdowns? And the seeming loss of passion for the game at times? Well those things may stay memories because you…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →First-year Lehigh men’s coach Billy Taylor decided he’d rather have his wits and the moxie of his players tested the second game of the season with a road trip to Big Ten power Illinois Saturday night than to play Wagner. The Engineers played Wagner the second game of the season…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The search for new players to fill the void left by graduating seniors and transfers led Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon into the European talent pool. O’Hanlon found two 6-7 forwards who, he said, are athletic but need work. In other words, Miran Omanovic, a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Three players with impressive athletic backgrounds have been sold on Lehigh University and men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor. Lehigh, despite having authored only one winning season since going 19-10 in 1991, has become the choice of 6-1 transfer guard Austen Rowland and of…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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