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Tom Brennan clipped the nets Saturday one final time at Patrick Gymnasium in Burlington, Vermont. Now he’s going dancing one final time in the NCAA Tournament. Brennan, a Phillipsburg native, will not coach past this season, his 23rd overall and 19th at Vermont, an America East…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Villanova’s players and coaches sat anxiously in front of a big screen television in the Connelly Center Sunday night on the Main Line campus waiting to see who their next opponent will be, where they will play and when they will play. A portion of “Nova Nation” was stationed in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Overtime was so close Friday night. But Villanova did two things it had not done well all game — box out under the boards and grab a rebound. So the Wildcats ended up getting their hearts broken with two-tenths of a second remaining against West Virginia in the Big East…
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Read on mcall.com →For 40 minutes Thursday afternoon, Villanova’s defense resembled a goal-line stand. The “D’ was smothering and unyielding and it frustrated Pittsburgh so much in the Big East quarterfinals that All-Big East first-team forward Chevon Troutman twice picked up fouls for throwing…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Chevon Troutman, a bruising 6-7, 240-pound University of Pittsburgh senior, has been convinced for a long time that his teammate, 7-0 Emmaus High graduate Aaron Gray, is more than just a big fella. Flying elbows and dunks by Gray in practice keep Troutman and other Panthers,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo displayed the same grace when she spoke as she had when she played Saturday afternoon. But she did it with tears in her eyes instead of a smile of her face. Her season-high 30 points had gone for naught because Lehigh squandered a 12-point lead with…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best as well as who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, kept doing until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best, and who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, did until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This time of the college basketball season, opinions on teams can vary from week-to-week, depending on how those teams play. Good teams don’t falter, suspect ones do. Last week, I touted Lafayette for having won two straight games. Then the Leopards got wiped out by a 71-33…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh did not die easy. And Lafayette refused to die on its own court. The Leopards had an 11-point lead with 1:48 remaining, which dwindled down to one, before settling for an 81-76 victory Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette had lost its previous game by 19…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor called on his reserves to try and help rescue the Mountain Hawks from defeat against Navy Saturday night at Stabler Arena. It almost worked, but almost isn’t good enough. Numerous inconsistencies were too much to overcome, resulting in Lehigh’s 76-75…
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Read on mcall.com →Syracuse forward Hakim Warrick celebrated his homecoming with a parade of dunks against Villanova Saturday afternoon before a sellout crowd at the Wachovia Center. At times it seemed Villanova’s best defense against Warrick was to foul him. Twice Wildcat players landed on…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo kept moving through a crowded lane and begging for the ball. In the second half of Friday night’s Patriot League contest with Army at Stabler Arena, her teammates obliged. DePalo responded with bucket after bucket and helped lead the Mountain Hawks…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Finally, Lehigh experienced a super Sunday in Patriot League play. Joe Knight helped make it that way by converting the last basket of the first half, and then sent Lehigh students pouring onto the Stabler Arena hardwood by sinking a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the Mountain…
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Read on mcall.com →Phillipsburg native Tom Brennan has reached a point in life where he’d rather spend his summers sailing on Lake Champlain in Vermont than recruiting players across the country for his Catamounts basketball program. Brennan, 55, announced his retirement as Vermont’s head coach on…
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Read on mcall.com →Two starters on Villanova’s men’s basketball team are almost fully healed as the Wildcats prepare to play their first game as a nationally-ranked team since the 1996-97 season. Junior center Jason Fraser got the cast off his fractured right hand seven days ago and played 13…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s failure to inbound the ball with three seconds remaining against Holy Cross cost the Mountain Hawks more than just a shot at overtime Sunday at Stabler Arena in front of 2,104 fans. Lehigh’s 58-56 loss to Holy Cross prevented the Hawks from moving into a three-way tie…
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Read on mcall.com →James Madison sophomore Ray Barbosa was nearly unstoppable, hitting 3-pointers with defenders breathing hard in his face, running swift on the give-and-go and back-door cuts to the basket. Drexel senior Danny Hinds was off the mark, missing five of his six attempts, including…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s no surprise that “The Sopranos” is Lehigh senior Nick Monserez’s favorite television show. He’s just tough, especially when he defends and rebounds as emphatically as he did in the Mountain Hawks’ 63-45 Patriot League victory over Army Friday at Stabler Arena. “He’s…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Jessica DePalo appeared suited to be more than just a student-athlete before coming to Lehigh on a basketball scholarship four years ago. Lehigh coach Sue Troyan found that out on a recruiting trip to DePalo’s hometown of Rumson, N.J. that lasted longer than the normal working…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova needed more than outside snipers and flashy drives against Notre Dame Wednesday night at the Wachovia Center. The Wildcats needed muscle and a player willing to take and deliver elbows in a Big East contest that was every bit as rugged as expected. Will Sheridan, the…
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Read on mcall.com →Penn surrendered very few uncontested layups or open jump shots and the Quakers scored in the paint with more effectiveness than Saint Joseph’s, despite the presence of the Hawks’ Dwayne Jones, the 6-11 shot blocker, Tuesday night. Jones did his best, blocking five shots and…
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Read on mcall.com →Kansas knew a snowstorm was about to sock this city, but the second-ranked Jayhawks didn’t expect to get socked by Villanova, as well, Saturday afternoon at the Wachovia Center. That’s the risk of playing a tough non-conference game away from home against a team bent on pulling…
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Read on mcall.com →Georgetown University senior guard Mary Lisicky is having more of a Washington, D.C., experience than she’d like her parents in Whitehall to know about. “Georgetown has a lot of shopping centers, and, of course, there’s always clubs and bars, but don’t tell Mom,” Lisicky said.…
· Andre D. Williams
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