Flying Dutchmen Fans

Our dumpster fire of a season continues Today we played a fatigued William and Mary team that has been on the road for three days
they battled the snow in Boston to get here to play at 3 pm today
Final score W&M 57 Hofstra 38
We shot 24% from the field and 7% from beyond the arc
We committed 22 turnovers and only 6 assists
We now sit at 1-7 in conference and 3-16 overall with one of those wins against Div3 Marywood
watched the game today after digging out of the snow
What I was wATCHING WAS NOT BASKETBALL

Yeah Stu we have discussed this ad-nauseum and where does this all go. We just keep kicking the can down the road when a coaching change apparently needs to be made unless there's some miraculous turnaround. This doesn't really resemble D1 basketball it has gone into free fall!

Sad to say but something must be done with this floundering program...a complete reboot is required.

I was going to wait for a few more games but this needs to be seen now
yes we are 1-7 in conference
The CAA womens basketball conference is also in decline
Now lets compare it to a conference we all look down upon the AMERICA EAST
Out of 31 conferences the AE is ranked #19 the CAA is ranked #25
Our mean NET is 236 out of 361 teams while the AE mean NET is 193
We have 3 teams with an NET of more than 300 with a 4th sitting at 297
the AE has only 1
OUR NET IS NOW #318

Just brutal.

So generally speaking, not just womens hoops, this is where I'd like to see something from Rick Cole. I want to see what our AD does when a program flounders. So far, HU has done literally nothing for any sport that fails. NOTHING. What is the point of the AD and the zillion assistant AD's if they routinely take no action to correct failing aspects of the department??

I really don't get it. It will be interesting to see if anything is done here - this is a program that produces very little, almost no return even if they were good. It's pure cost. Do they just let it go because there's no money to fix it anyway? Or do they use it to show they do still care and carry expectations of winning?

So far under Cole we've seen a healthy appetite at HU for mediocrity or below - and who knows, maybe he wants to but is hamstrung by the U leadership?? Either way I've seen little to no accountability or standards or expectations of producing champions. I've heard a lot of talk and and a lot of hope and wishing, and hear LOTS of excuses why it's hard and doesn't happen, but haven't seen much action to go along with the lip service.

Lax is very good example. As is wrestling. And softball. And baseball. And nearly every other sport HU is routinely subpar in for years on end.

And I get it - money is tight and most programs will be lucky to survive much less thrive. That's why I'm an unashamed proponent of all in on mens hoops and cut the sports to the D1 minimum. But I digress... related but sort of a larger topic.

For this, let's see if a change is made - let's see if a change can even BE made with what HU is prepared to do for this particular sport. If we aren't going to be willing or able to invest in winning, let's just be honest about it and truly focus our efforts so we can adjust expectations. But I would think being at least competitive in conf is a fair expectation...??

So to this subject continuing the free-fall we played S.B. last night and actually had a lead going into the 4th quarter 44-38. We get outscored 14-5 and lose once again 52-49. Just no excuse for our poor play in the 4th only scoring 5 points. It's just a total embarrassment turning the ball over on unforced turnovers missing easy bunnies at the rim. We're now 3-17 and 1-8 in conference. SB is 11-10 and 6-2 in conference. It's a shame to waste a career high for Micaela Carter who hit 4 treys and finished with 18 points. Magolico had 8 points and 9 rebounds, 7 for Karim who now starts and 5 points for Emma who actually got 18 minutes off the bench.

There's no question that we need a new focus and direction here and this program and its powers that be need to be purged. We should clean house IMO! Lets see if anything transpires here and the University makes the right move.

Polito is spot on. AGAIN. Cole in my view has been a big disappointment across the board. Nothing's done. Nothing changes. The beat goes on. Really can't put it all on him. Hofstra has not had a sports friendly administration since the Shuart days.

Yesterday we played Monmouth at home for ANYONE THAT'S INTERESTED, LOL!! We're up by 14 points after the 1st quarter leading 18-4. Now we all know that this is probably not going to sustain itself so true to form we get outscored in the 2nd quarter 20-8 and go into the half up by 2. We again come out strong in the 3rd quarter outscore Monmouth 19-13 and take an 8 point lead into the 4th quarter. If this team only played three quarter games we would have a much better record so following the never ending script we get outscored 22-9 and lose 59-54. Monmouth a very respectable team came in 13-7,6-3 and we are now 3-18, 1-9. I haven't listened to the post presser but coach has been preaching for a long time how we have to work on closing out games. Well how has that panned out!! Did I mention that we had 25 turnovers!!! Ugh.

I actually watched this on SNY. Some of the worst basketball i have ever watched. Women's BB is another dumpster fire in the HU athletic department. HU needs to clean house across the board, starting with Cole. The problem with that is that the administration would just make more poor choices making things worse.

So the miracle happened today as we beat HAMPTON 75-59. We lead almost wire to wire and took a 42-25 halftime lead. We got outscored in the 3rd period and took a 10 point lead into the 4th quarter. We stretched that lead and won by 16. Really solid game all around Sterling with 15 points 8 rebounds and 8 assists, Brown with 17 and 6 rebounds coming off the bench, Carter also with 15 points and 4 rebounds and finally Emma getting 25 minutes scores 14 4 rebounds and 1 block. With her 4 made three's in this game she's 1 shy of tying Jen Bricky for 2nd place of all time in made three's. Kudos to Emma this is quite an accomplishment and maybe she has gotten herself of the schneid and will be a major contributor down the stretch. We also out rebounded Hampton 47-27 limiting them to only 4 O rebounds. Owned the glass!

We played Campbell on the road yesterday and actually looked pretty good after a sluggish start behind the three point shooting of Emma whose minutes go as her scoring goes! She scores 11 points in the first half to give us a 4 point lead going in to the second half. We get outscored 17-11 in the third quarter and go into the 4th quarter now down 2. As has been so many times this year we couldn't buy a basket and get outscored 18-9 and lose by 11 58-47. We won't win many games scoring under 50 points. Sterling finishes with 14 points, Gooden and Emma 11 a piece and Sandra Magolico 6 points and 15 rebounds. If she could only finish around the rim this girl would be a big time scorer but just can't finish on easy layups! We are now 4-19 2-10 just a really disappointing year to say the least.

We won 60-51 at North Carolina A&T, who is now 1 game above us. Nevaeh Brown scored 17 including shooting threes 4-4, and had 8 rebounds. Eima Karim scored 14 including shooting threes 3-5. Chloe Sterling shot 2-14 to score 6, but she had 4 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals. NC A&T's Chaniya Clark led all players with 21 points.

Kudos to the team as any and all wins are positive considering our record. Too bad we don’t play like this more often but NCA&T not exactly a great team!

We led by 10 after one quarter, by 21 at halftime, by 35 after three quarters, and won 75-43 hosting last place UNCW, who fell to 6-20 and 2-13 in the CAA. UNCW does not have depth. Their sixth player played 27 minutes, their seventh player played 5 minutes, and only 32 bench minutes in a blowout is surprising. Our bench played 110 minutes, which is 55 percent. We used 15 players. Micaela Carter scored 23. We had nine players score, and they all scored at least 4. We had over three times as many points when we led 55-18.

https://gohofstra.com/sports/womens-bas ... core/13942 is the box score. The attendance was 493. We had 20 assists and 9 turnovers. It was the first time from 2014-2015 to now that we had at least 20 assists and fewer than 10 turnovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NondUGF0vc is highlights.

A real nice win as we try to build some momentum before the tourney. As dismal as our season has been we are still a team that other CAA teams have to worry about as we have a sound team with good players if we can put it all together. That may be a big if but we have been known to play well in the tourney and come up with some upsets.

Theme looks like they're finally healthy and I think can be very dangerous in the tournament except for Charleston. I think they match up very well with other teams now we are shooting the ball. Much better the team place good enough defense that if they scored 60 points in a game they should win it with the exception of Charlton, of course

https://gohofstra.com/sports/womens-bas ... core/13944 has the box score of a 45-44 upset win at Monmouth, who fell to 18-10, and 11-6 in the CAA. While down two, Emma Von Essen made a three with 1:53 left, which turned out to be the last points for either team. After that, Monmouth missed three layups and committed one turnover, and we missed two shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVyu5VCc9M is highlights.

Awesome win and a redemption for Emma who has seen her minutes limited and now has to come off the bench. Very happy for her and the team which has shown a determined resolve to win. Teams will have to beware when they play us because we're now playing better then our record shows.

On Thursday we lost 70-56 hosting Drexel in our last home game.

Today we won 62-46 at Northeastern to finish 8-21 and 6-12 in the CAA. We had balanced scoring. Chloe Sterling and Alarice Gooden scored 11, Nevaeh Brown scored 10, and Ema Karim and Sandra Magolico scored 8. We made 11 of 22 threes, and Northeastern made 3 of 17. Justice Tramble led all players with 15 points, but she was Northeastern's only double-digit scorer. Northeastern was 7-20 and 3-14 in the CAA. Today's other games are not over, but we clinched the 10 seed. Northeastern will play UNCW in the 12 vs. 13 game on Wednesday.