MBB Game 17 Monmouth, Jan 10 (Sat) 2 PM

[Wags]

I can see Edmead calling his own number and getting a couple or a few buckets in the second half to open things up for Cruz.

Gonna say Hofstra turns it around, 37-30, in the second half, to squeak by, 61-59.

Need an 11-7 Hofstra finish over the final 6:17 for this to happen. Possible. Need some stops and probably Davis/Edmead to come up big late.

Monmouth is as pesky as we thought they'd be.

Ugh, just one more Hofstra point and one fewer Monmouth point and it would've been right on.

Instead, 60-60. Overtime.

[Wags]

Speedy with a really questionable sub putting Victory back in for Sunday who had been playing great with around 2 to play. Victory then gives up the and 1 putback to tie it. And then Speedy keeps a million time outs in his back pocket. Could have gotten German back in the game only arguably our clutchest shooter. Make it make sense?!

And a bad foul by Victory. No chance to do anything there. Just let him score. He pushes him in the back and it's a game-tying and-1.

[dutchPride86]

Also have to mention Speedy wasting his challenge early in 1st half so didn't have it for Wills clean block in OT that was called a foul, even though kid missed both. Gotta be better

[dutchPride86]

Wow gutsy gutsy win. Obviously a game we lose last year. A lot to clean up but we'll take it.

Credit King Rice, Monmouth is just an obnoxiously annoying team to face (mean that as a major compliment to them). Rivera-Torres as good as anyone we've played all year.

Silas Sunday MVP of the game for me. Has been much better than Victory since conf play started. Huge impact on both ends, esp on defense. And Preston and Cruz making their FTs cant be overstated. Also Wills, give the kid credit for staying ready. Another giant 3 from him

Have to hope thats as bad as we'll play offensively all year. But the consistent effort on the defensive end and on the boards really making the difference now. Have to be ready to get every team's best effort going forward now, we're clearly the hunted again.

[cactus]

Worst game they played all year offensively and they still won. Give them lots of credit for that.

[EvanJ]

After committed 9 turnovers in the first half, we only committed 3 after that. In an overtime game, the teams used only eight players, and that includes Anthony Martinez, who played 1 minute. We won by making 29 free throws, which was our most since we made 29 in a 96-88 win at Monmouth on December 15, 2020. That was 168 games ago. From 2010-2011 to before today, every time we made at least 29 free throws, we scored at least 74 points. We became the sixth team this season to make at least 29 free throws and score 67 or fewer points, and teams are 2-4 when they do that. Two of the last three times a team won with at least 29 free throws and 67 or fewer points, the score was 67-64.

We became the second team from 2010-2011 to now to win with at least 67 points, 16 or fewer field goals made, and a field goal percentage of .271 or lower. The previous team to do that was Wichita State in a 69-63 win hosting Texas Southern on November 9, 2019.

DeCady and Onuetu became the seventh teammates this season to have 5 or fewer points and at least 9 rebounds. The previous time was Charleston's Chol Machot and Christian Reeves in Charleston's most recent game (excluding their game in progress that started after we ended), so two CAA teams had teammates do that in their most recent game.

Edmead had a career-high 24 points. He had at least 6 rebounds for the third consecutive game after doing that once in his first fourteen games. His rebounds increased from 1.7 to 2.5.

Here are the Analytics leaders. In efficiency, Jason Rivera-Torres led with 29, Davis was second with 19, and Edmead was third with 18. In game score, Rivera-Torres led with 23.4, Edmead was second with 16.1, and Davis was third with 13.9. In net points, Rivera-Torres was first with 18.5, Edmead was second with 8.0, and Davis was third with 6.2. Rivera-Torres shot better than Davis and Edmead. Rivera-Torres was clearly the player of the game.

We are one of 59 teams that are undefeated in its conference. That is 16.2 percent of teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRLKBNmwn8 is highlights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag4t7NP3z0w is the press conference.

Here are other CAA games:

Towson got their first CAA win 87-78 at Northeastern. Northeastern led 14-2, Towson led by 22 at 66-44, and Northeastern made it closer. Towson shot .607, which was higher than Monmouth and us combined. Towson's Dylan Williamson shot 10-15 to lead his team with 22. William Kermoury led all players with 28 points, 5 threes made, and 5 assists.

Drexel won 64-58 hosting William & Mary. Drexel's Shane Blakeney and Kevon Vanderhorst led all players with 13 points, and Blakeney led all players with 5 assists. Kyle Pulliam and Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi led W&M with 10 points. W&M attempted 13 more field goals, but they shot .367, and Drexel shot .511.

Charleston leads 28-26 at halftime hosting Hampton. Charleston led 15-5. Hampton had 13 more field goal attempts, and 13 more rebounds. Before today, our season-high for offensive rebounds against a Division I team was 13, and we had 16 today. Hampton had 13 offensive rebounds in the first half. Charleston's Jlynn Counter and Colby Duggan tied for the most points with 8. Hampton's Xzavier Long and Michael Eley scored 7, and Long led all players with 7 rebounds. Hampton had 1 more rebound than points, so two of the eight CAA teams so far today had at least as many rebounds as points at halftime. We had 24 of each.

UNCW at Stony Brook and Campbell at Elon did not start.

[triplec2195]

Putting Wills in for either Robert’s or Plotnikoff who was having a bad O game turned out to be a great move. He has the moves to drive the lane and dish but can hit an open 3. A very impressive 9 minutes from him and a big block on their 7 foot center. It was called a foul but don’t think so. This kid has some vertical leap. JWF would be proud.

[JoeyBagODonuts1]

UNCW at Stony Brook and Campbell at Elon did not start.

Stony Brook has an early 27-10 lead halfway through the first half.

[Wags]

We became the second team from 2010-2011 to now to win with at least 67 points, 16 or fewer field goals made, and a field goal percentage of .271 or lower.

Wondering if the 27.1% and 16 FGM are all-time lows in Hofstra wins, or at least in the shot clock era. I would imagine if not, they'd be right if there (or down there, depending on how you look at it LOL).

They made only one shot every 2.81 minutes and still won. I guess that says something that they could still do that.

Rivera-Torres and Ball were 14/28. Everyone else in the game was 21/88.

[EvanJ]

Charleston held on to beat Hampton 74-70. Charleston was favored by 9.5, so they failed to cover by 5.5 just like we did. Charleston's Colby Duggan led all players with 22 points, and Jlynn had 19 points and led all players with 7 assists. Jalyke Gaines-Wyatt led Hampton with 17 points. Hampton's Xzavier Long had the only double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Hampton never led, and Charleston led by as much as 12.

Stony Brook led UNCW 45-21, but UNCW went on a 16-0 run in 2:26. Stony Brook leads 45-37 with 15:45 left.

[stuball888]

Thoughts from this game
As mentioned before we shoot 27% overall and 23% from beyond the arc
But we went to the charity stripe 33 times and sank 29 for an 88% mark
Edmead 24 points on 13 shots and Davis 19 points on 12 shots
they got a good portion of the points from the free throw line
Shout out to Silas Sunday
Victory was in foul trouble and fouled out with 1 point and 9 boards
Silas filled in nicely with 8 points 11 boards and 2 blocks
Gutty rock fight win over a pesky Monmouth squad who gave us all we could handle

[Jojogunne]

Odds & Ends:

Congrats to Josh DeCady for playing tough D these last few games. If he could sink one or two shots a game, teams would have to come out to defend him, opening up the middle for his teammates.

Congrats also to AJ Wills for coming in off the bench to provide a spark in the second half. Hope he and Reaves get more run in the remaining games. It's a long season.

Also, we appeared to be down five players today: Two (Boyd and Lopez) are out for the season, and three (Morgan, Patterson and Williams), I assume, will be available at some point.

I also want to compliment the players who came upstairs after the game to sign autographs for and take pictures with a long line of young fans. They seemed to enjoy doing that.

And what about that awful play before the end of the first half? Jaeden Roberts went flying over a scrum of Monmouth players and appeared to land on his head. I was shocked to see him re-enter the game in the second half.

[HofstraMathew]

King Rice was not happy with at least one Hofstra fan. Complained to the refs and eventually Hofstra staff went over and talked to the guy.

Officiating had some bad calls but probably went both ways. But what was with that call at the end with them fouling Preston. I think the Monmouth's player maybe had a fingernail that grazed his jersey and they called that a foul.

[Jojogunne]

FYI, MSG will show the Monmouth game on Sunday at 10 am and 2 pm.

[Wags]

King Rice was not happy with at least one Hofstra fan. Complained to the refs and eventually Hofstra staff went over and talked to the guy.

Good thing they didn't have to toss the fan like Paul Davis at the Michigan State game last week.

Officiating had some bad calls but probably went both ways. But what was with that call at the end with them fouling Preston. I think the Monmouth's player may have had a fingernail that grazed his jersey and they called that a foul.

I thought Edmead was too quick for Rivera-Torres and avoided the foul, but the ref knowing they're trying to foul to stop the clock, was going to call it merely for the effort to reach for him.

[dutchPride86]

Officiating had some bad calls but probably went both ways. But what was with that call at the end with them fouling Preston. I think the Monmouth's player maybe had a fingernail that grazed his jersey and they called that a foul.

There are many problems with the CAA in general (the FloHoops deal at the top of the list), but a close second for me continues to be this league's inability to book even remotely quality refs for their Saturday games. Pretty much have to accept going in that every Saturday league game will be a mess. The 42 combined fouls for our game was a league high for the day fwiw

[Wags]

Officiating had some bad calls but probably went both ways. But what was with that call at the end with them fouling Preston. I think the Monmouth's player maybe had a fingernail that grazed his jersey and they called that a foul.

There are many problems with the CAA in general (the FloHoops deal at the top of the list), but a close second for me continues to be this league's inability to book even remotely quality refs for their Saturday games. Pretty much have to accept going in that every Saturday league game will be a mess. The 42 combined fouls for our game was a league high for the day fwiw

King Rice mentioned after the game the difference in the quality of refs in this game vs. their prior game, their win over W&M on Thursday, and how he thought that difference was at least one significant factor in the way his team was able to play in beating W&M vs. how they were able to play in losing at Hofstra. To be clear, he wasn't blaming the loss to Hofstra on the refs at all, but he noted a clear difference and the positive and negative effects on his team of each crew, Thursday vs. Saturday (to your point), their past two games.

It was a defensive grind anyway, and a lot of it should be a credit to both defenses, but shooters also need rhythm, and when refs are whistle-happy or making repeated bad calls (in general, fouls or otherwise), that can have a negative effect on shooting too, and that may have played into the really bad percentages we saw in this game.

Think about this, too. If I had told you before the game that A.J. Wills' 40% (2-for-5) shooting would be best shooting percentage of any Hofstra player in the game, would anyone have thought they could win? It's to their credit that they did with that happening.

[triplec2195]

King Rice was not happy with at least one Hofstra fan. Complained to the refs and eventually Hofstra staff went over and talked to the guy.

Officiating had some bad calls but probably went both ways. But what was with that call at the end with them fouling Preston. I think the Monmouth's player maybe had a fingernail that grazed his jersey and they called that a foul.

Yeah if you're not going to call that a foul during the game it can't be an automatic foul at the end. Just a joke and Preston was yelling he never even touched me.

[HUSID74]

Shout out to Wags for predicting the Hofstra comeback to win during our halftime conversation. He had alot more confidence than me at that point!
Ok we won ugly but we still won and short-handed at that....nowlet's get some guys back for PAYBACK Thursday vs. Stony Brook.

[Jojogunne]

SBU hung with UNCW yesterday and lost by only a few points. This could be another tricky game for us.