Media Thread

[HUSID74]

This team continues to dominate the local news as far as college hoops goes. CBS-Channel 2 ran highlights of our win last night...shame the highlights looked amateur as our feed is low definition...a school with our communications department can't feed the networks high definition video???? Shame on us!

Also there was a caller on Fencessa's Show wanting to know if Hofstra could make the dance as an at large. Francessa showed his ignorance of college basketball by asking what our RPI is...guess he didn't get the memo about the new NET rankings. He did say that Joe is a "helluva coach."

[triplec2195]

This team continues to dominate the local news as far as college hoops goes. CBS-Channel 2 ran highlights of our win last night...shame the highlights looked amateur as our feed is low definition...a school with our communications department can't feed the networks high definition video???? Shame on us!

Also there was a caller on Fencessa's Show wanting to know if Hofstra could make the dance as an at large. Francessa showed his ignorance of college basketball by asking what our RPI is...guess he didn't get the memo about the new NET rankings. He did say that Joe is a "helluva coach."

I like Francesa but he 's not all knowing on every subject. People still talk RPI because the NET format is new and probably harder to remember in its infancy. Francesa probably knows far more about St Johns his alma mater then us. What's up with the non HD broadcast? I notice before our team is announced they show the Justin shot on the monitors beating NE and the quality is very sub-par!

[Sctvman]

Mihalich on with Francesa right now

[Polito]

Just listened to it, great interview and exposure, JAM did a great job.

Francesa is what he is, kind of either dig his style or ya don't, but the fact is this guy gives HU some play nearly every single year - he is always super complimentary of the program - and frankly, the % of his listeners that give a rip about HU is minuscule, so I love what he does - every bit counts, and his show is still a huge boost for local awareness every time

Thanks Mike!

[Flying Dutchmen]

Here's a link to the Mihalich interview:

https://wfan.radio.com/media/audio-chan ... e-mihalich

[HUSID74]

Agree, Mike has a huge following and now that we don't advertise on WFAN this exposure was great...adds more credibility to the program.

[triplec2195]

Agree, Mike has a huge following and now that we don't advertise on WFAN this exposure was great...adds more credibility to the program.

I really hate to hear the admission that we won't get in as an at large team if we don't win the championship. All teams have hiccups and for the kind of year we're having there should be some kind of reward for it other then the NIT. Of course I believe we will win this thing but remain cautiously optimistic.

[HofstraMathew]

Agree, Mike has a huge following and now that we don't advertise on WFAN this exposure was great...adds more credibility to the program.

I really hate to hear the admission that we won't get in as an at large team if we don't win the championship. All teams have hiccups and for the kind of year we're having there should be some kind of reward for it other then the NIT. Of course I believe we will win this thing but remain cautiously optimistic.

We had a shaky at best chance at an at large before the Northeastern loss. Unless something crazy that probably has like a 0.1% chance of happening happens we won't get an large bid. We didn't even make it on the first bubble watch from ESPN

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... d-terriers

Also note that VCU who we lost to is in the work still to do category. Also St. Johns who beat VCU is also in the work still to do category. When you start actually comparing us to the teams on this list we really don't have a chance to have a better resume then them; without even discounting for a potential mid major bias.

[triplec2195]

Good info. Mathew depressing but objective. Our destiny is in our own hands so we need to win the big ones and have the personnel to do just that.

[Sctvman]

More SportsCenter coverage of JWF. Grant Riller of CofC was also on during the top 10 segment for a dunk he made against Drexel earlier.

https://www.clippituser.tv/c/kqmbrz

[triplec2195]

More SportsCenter coverage of JWF. Grant Riller of CofC was also on during the top 10 segment for a dunk he made against Drexel earlier.

https://www.clippituser.tv/c/kqmbrz

Nice post, TY!

[EvanJ]

Newsday said Elon was our easiest CAA win, but we beat Delaware by more.

[joeg1]

Newsday said Elon was our easiest CAA win, but we beat Delaware by more.

Look beyond the numbers. Easiest is subjective

[EvanJ]

If Newsday is using a criteria other than margin, they should say what it is. If they say easiest without specifying why, people should be able to assume it was by margin. Furthermore, with margins that big, both games were easy enough that it's unnecessary to use anything other than margin of victory. It's like if Tiger Woods at his peak won one tournament by 11 and one by 10 (about one-quarter of 45 and 41), there's no need to think about which tournament he had the bigger lead after 2 or 3 rounds or more greens in regulation.

[joeg1]

If Newsday is using a criteria other than margin, they should say what it is. If they say easiest without specifying why, people should be able to assume it was by margin. Furthermore, with margins that big, both games were easy enough that it's unnecessary to use anything other than margin of victory. It's like if Tiger Woods at his peak won one tournament by 11 and one by 10 (about one-quarter of 45 and 41), there's no need to think about which tournament he had the bigger lead after 2 or 3 rounds or more greens in regulation.

I think the author probably didn't put that much thought into it, and took some journalistic license, which may not have been picked up by the more fastidious readers.

Or maybe they should create a multi-factor model and run a regression to determine "easiest." You know, Big Data and all. In fact that's a great idea- why not work on that?

[Cards]

I watched a few minutes of the Gonzaga game late last night on ESPN. Of note - on the bottom line scoring ticker they mentioned JWFs 48 and noted it was one of the top 5 scoring performances in D1 this year.

[HofstraMathew]

Elon has the worst NET ranking of any CAA opponent; that is probably what they used. Agree with you though Evan they should have specified what they used.

[joeg1]

NBC NY news 11:00pm (Ch 4) did a lengthy segment on the game (maybe 30 seconds). We followed St Johns and Seton Hall, but did get more air time.

[triplec2195]

NBC NY news 11:00pm (Ch 4) did a lengthy segment on the game (maybe 30 seconds). We followed St Johns and Seton Hall, but did get more air time.

That's a plus and why would we ever expect Newsday to be accurate its like an oxy-moron. Sad but true!

[EvanJ]

Elon has the worst NET ranking of any CAA opponent; that is probably what they used. Agree with you though Evan they should have specified what they used.

There's a difference between easiest win (by the score) and easiest opponent. I interpreted Newsday to mean easiest win, but I could be wrong.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... ng-records requires Insider, which is now part of ESPN Plus. 6 days ago, Joe Lunardi wrote that teams should have to be at least .500 in conference to get at-large bids. In the five complete seasons since realignment, eight teams have gotten at-large bids while below .500 in conference, and they got two wins combined. He ends by saying:

"Heaven knows Buffalo and Wofford and Hofstra and Murray State and Old Dominion and VCU and Temple and Utah State and San Francisco and UNC Greensboro couldn't match the lofty standard of .200 basketball as at-large teams. We can hear the fans from here: "Give us more losing teams, instead ... "