tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53849105416408554242024-03-14T01:04:46.381-04:00The College HardwoodCoverage of Division I, II, III Men's and Women's Basketball.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.comBlogger741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-59282012099979453172019-01-17T07:18:00.000-05:002019-01-17T07:18:05.595-05:00Hofstra Shows Their Pride and Mettle in a Road Win over ElonLast Thursday evening, I was glued to my computer, watching the live stream of Hofstra vs. William and Mary go not one, not two, but three overtimes. In the end, the Pride made more shots than the Tribe and held on for a 93-90 victory. That meant two things to me.
One, Hofstra was now going to Elon Saturday still undefeated in the CAA at 4-0.
Two, I was going to be thereAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-19215350596368331212019-01-05T11:07:00.003-05:002019-01-05T11:07:57.219-05:00For Hofstra, The Time Is Now
It's been going on eighteen years since Hofstra Men's Basketball last made the NCAA Tournament. The Pride moved from the America East to the CAA right after winning their second America East Championship in a row. They would find the Colonial Athletic Association a much more difficult conference to make their mark in.
Hofstra has had very few significant chances to make theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-5033687198148140432018-11-28T07:28:00.002-05:002018-11-28T07:28:47.659-05:00Middle School is Old SchoolIt's been a long time since I posted on this blog. Over eleven months to be exact. I wasn't planning on writing a brief article. Then Monday evening happened...
As I was nearly home from work, I got a text while driving from my older son, Matt.
"Can we go to the Alcorn-Crayton game? It's at Alcorn. 12 minutes away. And Bryson wants a ride if we are Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-43096404701603204052017-12-23T09:33:00.001-05:002017-12-23T10:17:50.209-05:00Back to the Future - Philly 70's StyleWhen Hofstra - Villanova was scheduled earlier this year, Hofstra fans, myself included, thought this was a neutral site game. I even wrote on Wednesday about "Wright Comes Home", about how Jay Wright was coming back to the Long Island area, with a team of his playing at the NYCB Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum again after seventeen years.
Well Wright did come home...or Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-14346261290215200492017-12-20T07:39:00.001-05:002017-12-20T07:39:56.781-05:00Wright Comes Home
Villanova Head Coach Jay Wright is returning to home, well his former home on Long Island, when he brings in his #1 Wildcats to face his former team the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen. OK, Hofstra is now the Pride, but they were still the Flying Dutchmen when Wright was the head coach.
Jay Wright started his basketball career playing alongside Carson Puriefoy Sr. at Bucknell (Carson Puriefoy JrAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-6990128558322491812017-03-18T00:31:00.000-04:002017-03-18T00:31:09.967-04:00Pictures from South Carolina's 90-40 Win Over UNC Asheville
My wife Michelle and my older son Matthew were at the First Round Regional of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena Friday evening. They got to the see South Carolina defeat UNC Asheville 90-40. The halftime score was 48-22. In the second half, the Gamecocks over the first five and half minutes outscored the Bulldogs 16-1. The Gamecocks nowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-22326502496662106612017-03-05T22:33:00.003-05:002017-03-05T22:33:47.872-05:00Pictures from CAA Tournament SemifinalsThe CAA Tournament Semifinals featured two different styled games. The first semifinal was a game that Paul Westhead would love. End to end action, lots of three pointers and points galore. The System personified. UNCW outlasted William and Mary 105-94 in absolute clinic of offense. It's not too often you shoot fifty six percent, hit twelve three pointers, score Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-56804499002327422612017-03-05T09:06:00.000-05:002017-03-05T09:06:23.980-05:00Pictures from CAA QuarterfinalsIt was a fun day full of #CAAHoops Championship Quarterfinal action. Two of the four games, Elon vs. William and Mary and, surprisingly, James Madison vs. Charleston came down to the last minute. Delaware did their best to hang in there with UNCW before fading at the end. The only game that was truly a blowout was Towson's start to finish dismantling of Northeastern 82-54.  Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-60418693704718124322017-03-04T01:43:00.000-05:002017-03-04T06:58:53.629-05:00Eight Point Halftime Leads Are Never Safe on CAAHoops Pillow Fight Friday (Recap of CAA Tournament Friday Games).
Friday night was my first time at North Charleston Coliseum. Despite having lived in Columbia, South Carolina for four and half years, I never had an opportunity to see an event at that venue until the chance came to see my tenth CAA Tournament, which was being hosted at the North Charleston Coliseum this weekend.
I can tell you that parking was a breeze, perhaps partly due to three Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-9672737438931053452017-03-02T14:13:00.002-05:002017-03-02T14:23:52.893-05:00CAA Tournament - Lovely To See You Again My Friend
When Hofstra moved to the Colonial Athletic Association starting in the 2001-02 season, the first CAAHoops tournament the Pride was in down in Richmond, I was sitting at home in Seaford, NY, listening to the games on WRHU radio. Chelle and I were renting an apartment on the side of a house from my brother's long time friend Tom Graziose.
The 2001-02 Hofstra season was somewhat Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-1646828659543882462017-02-05T17:18:00.000-05:002017-02-05T17:27:19.187-05:00When a Season Ends...
Kyle Whelliston, founder of the now defunct Mid-Majority basketball website, always noted that except for one team, a team's season ends in a loss. I always disagreed with that, with my philosophy being that a season just ends. Where Kyle's philosophy seemingly was based in sorrow, my philosophy was based in closure. While for most teams a season does end in a loss, the end Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-6065574001066995942017-01-16T12:50:00.003-05:002017-01-16T12:50:47.904-05:00It's All About the D Part 2 - Relentless (Recap of Ole Miss vs. South Carolina)
Later on in the day after our team won our first basketball league game of the season, Matt and I went to the Ole Miss-South Carolina Men's Basketball Game Saturday night. Our day ended as it started - with tenacious defense.
It was to be expected to see tenacious defense with the Gamecocks. They entered the game in the top five in the country in several defensive categories; Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-66399541346343613032017-01-15T12:36:00.001-05:002017-01-15T12:46:48.483-05:00It's All About the D (Part I)
I make this confession now. I love defense in sports. Being a baseball coach, I love when the teams I have been a coach for play terrific defense. There's nothing better than a nicely turned double play. One of the true joys of my life was when my older son Matthew caught a fly ball in center field, then threw a strike home on the fly to his teammate/catcher/friend Eli Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-38329981090171408242016-12-30T12:09:00.001-05:002016-12-30T12:09:12.961-05:00St John's Rallies to Beat Butler to Start Big East PlayGood game and great atmosphere at a sold-out Carnesecca Arena last night as St John's rallied from a ten point second half deficit to defeat Butler 76-73 in the opening Big East conference game for both teams. Even got a free Jack Kaiser Bobblehad doll and a souvenir t-shirt. Red Storm shot 54 percent for the field in the victory. For further details, see Jaden Daly's terrific recap Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-51644188323674283862016-12-23T11:10:00.001-05:002016-12-24T09:02:41.790-05:00Hofstra Gives Their Fans an Early Christmas Present (Recap of Siena vs.
Hofstra)Last season, Hofstra was one regulation free throw away from winning the CAA Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Instead, the Pride lost in overtime to UNCW and ended up playing in the NIT, where they would lose a first round heartbreaker to eventual NIT champion George Washington 82-80.During last season, Hofstra suffered its worst loss, certainly by point Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-34937701859850029732016-12-12T06:51:00.000-05:002016-12-12T06:53:51.777-05:00Jaden Daly Previews the Pirates for the Seton Hall-South Carolina Game at MSGGood morning, college hoops fans! It's time for the annual Daly Dose of Hoops/College Hardwood preview swap as South Carolina takes on Seton Hall tonight at MSG. While I preview South Carolina for Jaden Daly on his terrific Daly Dose of Hoops site, Jaden previews Seton Hall for us on this site. Enjoy!
Hi everyone, Jaden Daly from Daly Dose Of Hoops here, joining you once Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-92208844722923655102016-12-07T11:39:00.000-05:002016-12-07T11:44:48.080-05:00St Bonaventure Rallies Late and Defeats Hofstra 81-75Last night in Hempstead, St Bonaventure, down four points, 72-68 with 5:15 left, outscored Hofstra 13-3 the rest of the way to win the game 81-75. The Bonnies' win broke a three game winning streak for the Pride, while the Bonnies won their fifth game in the row. It also avenged a home loss last season to the Pride up in Oleana, New York.
We're going to do a new segment here breakingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-80402718099703322822016-11-22T12:17:00.001-05:002016-11-22T12:17:42.649-05:00Gamecocks, Tiger Burns and Black Bears Oh My (Recap of South Carolina vs Maine Women's Basketball Game)
Last night, my color analyst, aka my older son Matthew, and I took in our first University of South Carolina Women's Basketball game of the season. Weeknight games usually consist of my wife dropping off Matthew where I work, USC School of Law (by the way, in South Carolina, as Ian McCormick would tell you, the University of South Carolina is USC, not Southern Cal). We then haveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-6810402137122310542016-03-07T14:19:00.000-05:002016-03-07T14:20:24.507-05:00Back to Where It All Begins
Ten years and two days ago, my dear friend Tony Terentieff, known on this blog as Tieff, was driving another dear friend Mal Galletta, now head coach of the St John's University golf team, and I home from Richmond, Virginia. We had just seen Hofstra rally from a halftime deficit to convincingly defeat George Mason in the 2006 CAA Semifinals. The Pride had won their previous game Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-5223229367239159822016-01-18T09:54:00.000-05:002016-01-18T09:54:05.901-05:00Sessions' Late Free Throw Allows South Carolina to Survive Texas A&M
After a heavy morning rain, the clouds subsided and the sun came out in Columbia, South Carolina on Sunday, just in time for the Gamecocks to face the #15 Aggies of Texas A&M, It was the third game of an eleven game gauntlet for South Carolina where they face nine ranked teams over the span, including finishing up with five ranked teams in a row.
Sun, Jan 10 - 83-58 win over #20 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-69256811210926531152016-01-11T09:29:00.002-05:002016-01-11T09:29:44.197-05:00South Carolina's Strong Defensive Start Dooms MissouriThe #20 Missouri Tigers had to be telling themselves yesterday, "If we can come out strong against South Carolina, we've got a chance to win." In the Gamecocks last several games, especially against SEC conference foes Arkansas and Vanderbilt, #2 South Carolina struggled out of the gate. Against the Razorbacks, the Gamecocks were tied at nine after one quarter. Against the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-37572294184506006842016-01-03T22:18:00.000-05:002016-01-03T22:18:15.603-05:00Roy Drives The Gamecock Truck that Runs over Arkansas
South Carolina entered its SEC conference opener against Arkansas on Sunday ranked #2 and undefeated at 12-0. Combined with the men's basketball team's 13-0 start and Columbia, South Carolina was home to the best combined women's and men's college basketball teams' record in the country at 25-0. This was not lost on the 13,407 fans in attendance at Colonial Life Arena, which was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-54692739797159984942015-12-29T07:42:00.001-05:002015-12-29T09:50:29.306-05:00Hofstra Rallies to Win The "Jordan Allen Invitational"On Monday night, Hofstra hosted 1-9 Sacred Heart in the last non-conference game for the Pride before the start of the CAA conference schedule on Thursday vs. Delaware. It was also the return of Jordan Allen to the Mack Center. Allen played two seasons for Hofstra before transferring to the Pioneers. Just like their 68-54 win over now 2-10 Florida Atlantic, the Pride would Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-88767916446697672782015-12-22T07:50:00.000-05:002015-12-22T07:50:00.867-05:00Daly Dose of Hoops Scouting Report on Red Storm for South Carolina vs.St John's.
As we do at least once a year, my good friend Jaden Daly of "Daly Dose of Hoops" and I guest blog on each other's site. With South Carolina and St John's playing each other tonight at the Mohegan Sun Arena, I am doing a scouting report of South Carolina on Jaden's site today, while Jaden is scouting St John's on my site. No one and I mean NO ONE, knows St John's better than Jaden Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384910541640855424.post-60756806003159953722015-12-21T12:27:00.001-05:002015-12-21T12:27:34.071-05:00Stony Brook Outworks Hofstra, Holds on to Win 71-68Last season, Hofstra and Stony Brook renewed their rivalry after a few years of not playing each other. The Pride won last year's "Battle of Long Island" on a last second shot by Dion Nesmith 66-65 at Mack Arena. It stood to reason that this year's "Battle of Long Island" game would come down to the final seconds and sure enough it did.This year's game was at Stony Brook's recently Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068814551973487809noreply@blogger.com0