A weekly round-up of Atlantic 10 men’s basketball.
UD cruises to win over French pro team
PARIS — The University of Dayton men’s basketball team completed a very successful exhibition tour in Europe Wednesday, with a 79-49 win over ESC Trappes of the French National 2 League. UD went 4-0 on the trip, defeating the Netherlands National U-23 team, and three professional teams.
Senior guard Paul Williams and junior forward Josh Benson each scored 16 points to lead the team in scoring. Senior guard Josh Parker scored 13 points and junior guard Kevin Dillard added 11. Freshman big man Alex Gavrilovic led the team in rebounding for the second straight game with 12 and Parker had a team-high seven assists.
Dayton finalizes pre-season and non-conference dates
University of Dayton fans will get their first chance to see the 2011-12 Flyer basketball team in October one week after the official start of practice, it was announced today. Dayton’s annual Red/Blue scrimmage will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET at UD Arena.
Further details will be announced closer to the date. Admission to the Red/Blue scrimmage is free.
The Flyers also filled two open dates in their schedule adding a second exhibition game and the final non-conference road game during the regular season.
Dayton finalized its two-game exhibition schedule that will lead into the season opener against Western Illinois on Nov. 12. UD’s first exhibition game will be on Saturday, Oct. 29 against Walsh, followed by one that had previously been announced against Findlay on Sunday, Nov. 6. Both exhibition games will start at 4:00 p.m. ET.
LSU transfer ready for fresh start with UD
When first-year University of Dayton basketball coach Archie Miller was scouting AAU events as an assistant at Arizona, he made a few mental notes on Matt Derenbecker.
“He really caught my eye out there on the circuit,” Miller said. “I wasn’t recruiting him per se, but some tournaments you sit yourself at a court and have an opportunity to see a guy two or three times. I was like, ‘Wow, he has a chance (to be really good).’ ”
Flyers to face Murray State
The University of Dayton men’s basketball team completed its 2011-12 schedule Wednesday by picking up a 2-for-1 series with Murray State that starts on the road.
The Racers will play at UD Arena in 2012-13 and 2013-14 in exchange for a home game this season with the Flyers. Although Murray State has become a regular postseason team of late, winning 54 games the last two years, UD was hoping for a series with an opponent from one of the six power conferences to fill that final slot.
Former Bonnie, Adegboye, makes the cut
The first round of EuroBasket will be hosted in Panevezys where the Standard Life GB men will take on the home nation Lithuania (31 Aug), Turkey (1 Sept), Spain (2 Sept), Portugal (4 Sept) and Poland (5 Sept).
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Summer workouts with the 49ers
Temple’s Dunphy featured on ESPNU
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Duquesne announces non-conference schedule
PITTSBURGH – A total of seven home games, plus a neutral-site game vs. Pitt at CONSOL Energy Center, highlight the 14-game non-conference portion of Duquesne University’s 2010-11 men’s basketball schedule announced today.
The Dukes will open the season on the road in the 2K Sports Classic in early November. DU will play one of four possible opening round opponents: Arizona, Mississippi State, St. John’s or Texas A&M, before playing three games at a subregional site on Nov. 18-20. The complete bracket for the 2011 2K Sports Classic will be announced at a later date.
Duquesne will open at home against Green Bay on Sunday, November 13 between the 2K Classic opener and subregional round. The Dukes will host Louisiana-Lafayette following the 2K Sports Classic subregional on Saturday, November 26.
Click here for complete non-conference slate and in-depth previews of opponents.
Martins Abele transfers to Duquesne
PITTSBURGH – Duquesne University head men’s basketball coach Ron Everhart announced today that Martins Abele (Saldus, Latvia/Oak Hill Academy/Radford), a 7-1, 290-pound transfer from Radford, has signed a grant-in-aid agreement and has been admitted to the University.
Abele (ah-BELL-ee), who averaged 5.4 points and 5.1 rebounds in 19 games (nine starts) last season for Radford, will have three seasons of eligibility remaining.
Fordham finalizes non-conference ledger
Bronx, N.Y. – The 2011-12 Fordham University men’s basketball non-conference schedule was released today and it features a home game in the Rose Hill Gym with Georgia Tech from the Atlantic Coast Conference and a meeting with St. John’s University at Madison Square Garden.
Georgia Tech comes calling to the Rose Hill Gym on Thursday, December 29th, the third all-time meeting between the Rams and the Yellow Jackets. It will mark the first time an ACC team has visited the historic venue since North Carolina State played there on December 17, 1965 (Boston College played in the Rose Hill Gym in 1980 as a member of the Big East while Virginia Tech played there in 2000 as a member of the Atlantic 10).
GW preps for 2011 CBE Classic
PRINCETON, N.J. – The George Washington men’s basketball team will play four games as part of the 11th annual CBE Classic, highlighted by a Nov. 13 regional round matchup at California that will be televised live on ESPNU.
First-year head coach Mike Lonergan and the Colonials will meet the Golden Bears for the first time in program history at Cal’s Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif., at a time yet to be determined.
GW is set to return 12 letterwinners and four starters from last season’s team that finished 17-14 overall and tied for fourth in the Atlantic 10 regular-season standings.
Click here for complete Classic schedule and more.
UMass to open against FSU in Battle for Atlantis
AMHERST, Mass. – The bracket for the Battle 4 Atlantis, an eight-team tournament held on Thanksgiving weekend at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, has been released and UMass will face Florida State in an opening round game at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 24. The Minutemen and Seminoles will be preceded by a 2 p.m. game between the teams in the same half of the draw as them, UCF and College of Charleston.
The winners and losers of the UMass/FSU and UCF/CC games will meet on Friday, Nov. 25, with winners at 2 p.m. and losers at 7 p.m. The other side of the bracket features first round matchups of National Champion Connecticut against UNC-Ashville on Nov. 24 at 7 p.m., followed by Harvard vs. Utah at 9:30 p.m.
Rhody to appear on College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon
KINGSTON, R.I. — Rhode Island will play to a national television audience as part of ESPN’s fourth annual College Hoops Tip-off Marathon on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
URI will open up play in the TicketCity Legends Classic at Texas, in a game that will be aired on ESPN and ESPN3.com at 4 p.m. ET.
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Phil Martelli Teams Up With Former Hawk Artur Surov for Clinic in Finland
VANTAA, FINLAND – Saint Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli participated in a coaching clinic in Vantaa, Finland, from August 19-21 at the Club Puhu Juniorit. The clinic was organized by former Hawk player Artur Surov.
Click here to read the entire release and see a picture of Coach Martelli looking short.
Bills in Canada: SLU hoopsters blog their way through the Great White North
We had lunch at a restaurant in the Byward Market in Ottawa, which is a large public market right by the team hotel. We then pulled out of Ottawa at 3 p.m. and headed across the Ottawa River into the province of Quebec. We drove through the countryside for about an hour and a half before arriving at our destination: HorizonX Rafting. We were given quick instructions, then boarded another bus to take us upstream.
XU media guide selected as best in the nation
CINCINNATI — The 2010-11 edition of the Xavier University men’s basketball media guide has been selected as the “Best in the Nation” in the University Division by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America. Kansas State was selected second followed by Oklahoma and West Virginia.
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SJU adds Evan Maschmeyer
Evan Maschmeyer, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound wing guard from Jeffersonville (Indiana) High, has enrolled at St. Joseph’s and will be eligible to play for the Hawks this season.
A solid three-point shooter, Maschmeyer averaged 15 points a game and helped Jeffersonville reach the Indiana Class AAAA semifinals.
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Speaking of the Atlantic … as in Ocean … I hope you guys living on or along the eastern seaboard are safe and not suffering from the severe flooding and/or power outages. I know there are areas inland that have received so much rainfall from Irene that there is indeed severe flooding along major rivers and streams. Hope you are well and best of luck to you if there is a storm impact in your area.
Meanwhile, could you please arrange to have some of that rain sent down here to Texas … we’re still going through a record-setting drought. 🙂
Wally, I was trying to think of someone I knew in Texas with whom I could joke about the rain situation. Crazy, isn’t it? Flooding in one part of the country, droughts in another. Although one thing I find interesting is that Texas seems to have a record-setting drought every year. Aren’t y’all used to it by now?
I live 1/4 mile from Massachusetts Bay, just south of Boston. No flooding, no power outages, just a lot of broken limbs strewn everywhere. In fact, a huge tree limb fell on all three lines (electric, cable, phone) to one of my neighbors’ houses and not even their services were affected. Hard to believe. Not everyone in New England was so lucky, of course. Saw a lot of footage of some nasty flooding in Vermont.
I saw a report yesterday that estimated if New Jersey was flat, the entire state would be a lake …or sea right now.
Chas – I was wondering how you were doing. Happy to hear all is well.
Thanks Casey. Yeah, if I didn’t know better, I would say it just felt like a uniquely nasty storm to me. Since we were supposed to get the worst winds (with the west side of the storm getting the worst rain), we were probably pretty lucky that it was barely tropical storm force by the time it got to us.
We caught the fringe as we do with many of the hurricanes – spooky cloud formations.
I’ve never seen a person embrace their (his!) receding hairline more spectacularly than the Charlotte 49ers’ Alan Major.
HELMET STICKER!!!!!!!!!!
That means a lot coming from an English teacher despite my pronoun-antecedent error. Sorry, Mr. Gotham! You taught me better than that.
Chas —
This is my 2nd summer in Houston after 9 years in Alaska, so all I can say is that last summer was a whole lot wetter than this one. And so was 1999-2001 … when we were here the first time. Last year, we’d have one to three decent storms per week. This year … seems like one every couple of months. Seriously. City of Houston is having to tap into Lake Conroe for water (emergency supply) which is like 50 miles north.
Usually, Houston and the Gulf coast in general is dodging hurricanes and tropical storms instead of the east coast. It’s really a weird turnabout if ya ask me.
Grammatical boundaries should not be placed upon humor.
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Casey – Since you posted that article on Martelli visiting Bristol, I have a story. Remember Anthony and Kristen from my wedding, my college roommates? Anthony graduated from Bristol and always used to tell me that back in the day, they were the ‘Bristol Bunnies’ and their colors were pink and brown. I always dismissed this as some exaggerated fabrication until one day while in Bristol, he took me into a barber shop and there was a photo of a former basketball player with “bunnies” outlines in brown and pink on a horrid uniform. What a terrible sports existence that had to be.
Bunnies? Hmmm…Was there another school known as the Labradors? I bet the bunnies frustrated them. 🙂
Fordham must be returning a lot from last year because that non-conference schedule is pretty tough for a team that went 7-21. Syracuse, St. John’s, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Manhattan and Siena.
That is a tough slate. The Rams return their top player in Chris Gaston and have a pretty solid recruiting class. This will be Tom Pecora’s second season. Looks like he doesn’t want to hide from anyone.