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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 →“Yo, get over here,” yelled the well-dressed man with the salt-and-pepper hair on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Lehigh was down five at home and looking very much like a team that was about to drift even further away from Holy Cross in a Patriot League matchup. Then, Lehigh coach…
· 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 →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 →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 →Now that the Patriot League games are set to begin, the Lehigh and Lafayette men’s teams believe they will triumph more often than fail the rest of January and February. And March, if one is still alive following the league tournament. Never mind the previous 13 games for Lehigh…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Too much “hot Koko” on a cold Saturday night and countless spot-up 3’s early on led to an inevitable doomsday for Lehigh by halftime Saturday night. But getting thumped by the more skilled, quicker, smoother, sharper-shooting Penn Quakers was a picture that had been in Lehigh…
· 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 →Maybe some of the “ballers’ from the ‘hood where Rich Baker grew up have succumbed to negative influences, and had their dreams of playing Division I basketball shattered. But not Baker. He continued to improve his slashing and shooting skills at Stroudsburg High en route to…
· 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 →The Temple Owls are indeed a puzzle, because figuring them out can take all night. It may even take all season. That all depends on how fast sophomore guard David Hawkins can get on the same page with senior guard Lynn Greer and the rest of his teammates. One yeoman performance…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No place in this city thumped more from the sound of cheers and chants galore from college basketball fanatics than the Palestra in the inaugural Big 5 Classic on Saturday. Never before had all Big 5 teams played in the same building on the same day with such an attractive cast…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No place in this city thumped more from the sound of cheers and chants galore from college basketball fanatics than the Palestra in the inaugural Big 5 Classic on Saturday. Never before had all Big 5 teams played in the same building on the same day with such an attractive cast…
· 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 →Temple coach John Chaney looked quickly at center Ron Rollerson, who will be in the spotlight more than ever over the next two games, shoved the microphone closer to him and demanded that the 6-10 senior turn up his volume. Kind of like the way Rollerson turned up his game after…
· 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 →Three recruits with ball-handling skills and from far away places will be joining Lehigh’s men’s basketball program next year. They are not just average players, either, to hear Engineers coach Sal Mentesana tell it. He has been all decked out in a suit and tie to see them all…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The voice that has been known to rattle the ears of players was back at the Lehigh men’s basketball practice Nov. 3, along with his quick twist of the body and eyebrow raised in frustration. It was nothing unusual because Sal Mentesana, entering his sixth season as had coach of…
· 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 →Billy Hahn wants the administration, fans and anybody else associated with the La Salle University men’s basketball program to know that he’s a construction worker, not a miracle worker. He wants everybody to allow him to build and to have patience as he tries to lead La Salle…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was madness inside Madison Square Garden between two of last season’s Final Four participants — No. 2 Maryland and mistakenly unranked Arizona. The pollsters do overlook sleepers, if defending national runner-up Arizona can be called that. Sleep on them if you will. Maryland…
· Andre D. Williams
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