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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 Lehigh men’s basketball coach who seemed to be tailor-made for the position will have the opportunity to prove himself and his team to the man who taught and motivated him back in Illinois. Dennis Taylor, whose son Billy is in his first season as Lehigh’s coach, will make…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →They were a highly-touted freshman class, each having played high school basketball within an hour’s drive of each other. Expectations of them were high from the start, and have not been lowered 17 games into their careers at Villanova. They all seem to still be operating on…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College gets a break from its Patriot League schedule tonight, but the Leopards’ 7:30 home game against the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania is a step up in competition. It could be considered a level higher than the Leopards’ games against Arizona State on Nov.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette threw everything it had at Patriot League heavyweight Holy Cross, except a knockout blow, Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. For Lafayette, there were guards Justin DeBerry and Winston Davis popping 3-pointers from way out. There was 6-10 center Rob Dill…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s guards Jameer Nelson and Delonte West were like a nightmare to the Temple Owls Tuesday night at the Liacouras Center. Nelson and West were so hot shooting 3s and dribbling through Temple’s trapping defensive pressure that they helped turn a close Big 5/Atlantic 10…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Coaching on the big-time level has brought big-time thrills to former Lafayette College assistant coach Pat Brogan, who is in his first season as an assistant coach at Penn State. But Brogan has not forgotten the eight seasons he spent coaching at Lafayette, a period that ended…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Robbie Thomson’s eyes opened wide, and his foot moved quickly as he blanketed the man he was assigned to defend Saturday at Rider. It was a tenacious side of Thomson, a side that the 2001 Saucon Valley graduate did not always show in high school. But on this more competitive and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Holy Cross’ upset of Boston College and Lafayette’s stunning defeat of the University of Massachusetts have done little to improve the Patriot League’s extremely low Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), and as a result, only the league tournament champion appears likely to advance to…
· 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 →Going to the playground to play basketball was a chance for “Slim” to throw down dunks that often impressed the older players in Tampa, Fla. “I remember a few times where the old guys would be like, “Slim, you have the highest ups on our team, you have to give us something,’ so…
· 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 →The return to the area where he used to live went better than expected for Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan Thursday night at Temple’s Liacouras Center. That’s because Ryan’s Badgers shot the ball so well from the outside that they seemingly took away whatever joy the Owls players might…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Those who wondered whether 28-year-old Billy Taylor could rescue the Lehigh men’s basketball team from the cloud it has been under for so long have their answer. Ten games into Taylor’s rookie season as a coach, Lehigh has confidence, better chemistry, and — best of all — a 6-4…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a classic no-blood, no-foul basketball game, the kind that forces tempers to flare and a capacity home crowd to fume at every no-call. Such was the case Tuesday afternoon. But Big Five matchups are typically grueling. Throw in the fact that it was Temple against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The only person walking around Lafayette College’s Kirby Sports Center with a mask on was the school’s mascot in Monday nights nonleague game against Albany. But it seemed as if the Leopards’ 6-10 center Rob Dill was also wearing a different face, one that was downright mean,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The losing streak is over. Thank the schedule makers for setting up a date for Lafayette with Division III Ursinus Tuesday night at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette, winless in its previous five games, took advantage of the many weaknesses from the undersized and overmatched Bears…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s not surprising that the Muhlenberg College men received 11 first-place votes in the coaches’ pre-season Centennial Conference poll. The Mules have won or shared the title eight out of the last nine years. However, those votes may have been based more on reputation than on…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winston Davis, the slasher, and Justin DeBerry, the shooter, are not so concerned that Brian Burke is no longer around to dial up 3-pointers with the game on the line for Lafayette. Neither is point guard Andrew Pleick or forward Mike Farrell, who, like Davis and DeBerry, would…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Muhlenberg College women are ready to run and shoot 3’s, and use their pressure defense to force turnovers that lead to more points. They have that much energy, that much depth, and a second-year coach in Ron Rohn who plans to use a system called, “organized chaos.” Fasten…
· 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
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