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The noise level is more boisterous and the atmosphere more lively at the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra than at any other college gymnasium in Philadelphia, especially in matchups between Big 5 teams. “This is a great place to play when it is filled,” Penn junior Ugonna…
· 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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s mid-January now, the third week of league play all over the land. More rivals are hooking up, intensity escalating. What happened in November and December, setting the record straight, still matters. Just not as much. Win the league regular season title and gain extra…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →At times, the Patriot League opener between Lafayette and Bucknell seemed to be a battle of who could play the ugliest Wednesday night at Davis Gymnasium. There were hard falls, sloppy handling of the ball, and so many stretches where neither team seemed to know what to do with…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Rich Baker, the ex-Stroudsburg High star making his first homecoming appearance as a starting guard for Rider, swished a 3-pointer from deep in the corner for his first basket Wednesday night. For Baker, what happened after that was just as he had hoped. First, Rider used its…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Howard University coach Frankie Allen stood in stunned silence after a 3-pointer was made by Lafayette College senior guard Brian Burke late in the second half. Allen did a lot of the same throughout the Leopards’ 93-84 non-league victory Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 2,021…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Mini runs, that’s what Lafayette and Princeton had all game. Neither team could pull away until the final four minutes. Then the Leopards went cold from the outside and Princeton ran valuable time off the clock, punctuating their stall-offense possessions with layups as the shot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →What happens when the head basketball coach goes on a rampage, criticizing one player in particular in front of everybody in the gymnasium? Both are boiling, the coach from repeating himself and not getting expected results, and the player from being berated by a man other than…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The night started with Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon, a Philadelphia native, having to listen to Drexel coach James “Bruiser” Flint being cheered by Dragons fans after receiving an Internet award for being the best-dressed coach in college basketball. “I knew I wasn’t even in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a game that was lost in a crushing way, kind of like The Grinch waiting for everybody to go to sleep before stealing gifts. Only this was a game Lafayette had control over, holding leads of seven points in both halves. But carelessness with the ball and missed layup…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Fear in the form of 6-foot-6, 320-pound St. Peter’s center Kamaal McQueen was hustling toward Lafayette College’s Brian Burke. Not much would have been left of the skinny Burke had McQueen landed on him. Burke was thinking the same thing before using a swift move to avoid a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has been close. Really close to Miami of the Big East in the second half on Saturday. The Leopards also led Penn State by 13 points in the first half last Wednesday. The two road games ended in defeats, 75-66 to Penn State and 79-69 to Miami. Lafayette beat Albany,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →They wait. They think, visualizing as best they can how the season-opening college basketball game will go. Winning big, yes that’s it, but the butterflies are still there. So are the what-ifs, like “What if we lose?” Like us, the nationally ranked team getting upset by the team…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Opening the basketball season with opponents his team would be favored to beat is not something that entices Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon, even if that decision ultimately leads to the Leopards getting blown out. After opening its season at Albany of the lightly-regarded…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The guessing game doesn’t work on College Hill. So don’t ask Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon to pick a number of games he might win in the 2001-02 season. He can’t do it. He doesn’t want to do it. Besides, a fair prognostication cannot be made now. The Leopards…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →You can look at the 102 losses in five seasons and wonder why Sal Mentesana continues to have passion for his job as coach of the Lehigh men’s basketball team. “I’ve never questioned what I do,” the 53-year-old Mentesana said. “I love this. My passion for the game has not…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was the 11th day of December last year, a trial-filled day that Lafayette senior guard Brian Burke couldn’t stop thinking about as he stood at the podium accepting the ECAC Award of Valor on Oct. 2 in Hyannis, Mass. Stories of players returning to play Division I basketball…
· Andre D. Williams
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