Stags 3 point favorite over Penn - WIN 62-53

[FU73]

Daniel Curry Index has the Stags a 3 point favorite this afternoon (4:30pm)

Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off

East Regional Final Round at Charlottesville, VA[/b]
Fairfield 60, Penn 57
Championship
VIRGINIA 65, Delaware 57

Midwest Regional Final Round at Ann Arbor, MI
Bowling Green 70, Iupui 68
Championship
MICHIGAN 71, Cleveland State 56

North Regional Final Round at Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Morris 75, Fordham 62
Championship
PITTSBURGH 74, Lehigh 65

West Regional Final Round at Manhattan, KS
Lamar 71, North Texas 67

dcindex-choop.blogspot.com/

[FU73]

Game Notes:

www.fairfieldstags.com/documents/2012/11/13/MBB_Game_Notes_vs._Penn.pdf?id=794

[JoeStag]

Expect Stags to get games at Lehigh or Delaware (assuming they lose to Virginia)

[FU73]

Consolation Round

The three highest seeded teams not advancing to the semifinals will host doubleheaders on Nov. 19 and 20.

The matchups for the consolation games will be pre-determined and will not be based on wins/losses to ensure no rematches from the earlier rounds.

www.ncaa.com/championships/basketball-men/nit#!season_tip_off

Lehigh is the #5 seed
Robert Morris is the #6 seed
Cleveland State is the #7 seed
Delaware is the #8 seed

[JoeStag]

Pomeroy says there is a 66% chance of us winning this game. Here are the 3 key players for Penn:

6-3 Jr. Miles Cartwright who averages 21ppg, has made 5 of 9 from the arc, and leads the team with 4.0 assists..... I assume he is a scoring PG

6-8 Jr. Fran Dougherty who averages 15ppg, 8.5rpg, and can also hit the "3"

6-2 Fr. Tony Hicks who averages 8.5ppg. He was a Parade All-American and come highly regarded.

Penn seems to be a very good shooting team. The only way we lose ths games is if we let them hit open 3's.

[vastagman]

Stags up 43-34 at the under 12 minute timeout.

[vastagman]

Stags up 59-49 with 1:33 left.

[FU73]

Stags win 62-53!

Derek Needham with 14 points.

Amadou Sidibe with 8 boards in 15 minutes but 5 fouls.

Fran Dougherty with 10 boards and 31 of Penn's 53 points.

[vastagman]

Didn't see or hear the game, but you've got to love the fact that Penn (in spite of Dougherty being on fire) only shot 35% as a team.

[FU73]

Game recap already on Stag website.


www.fairfieldstags.com/news/2012/11/13/MBB_1113124610.aspx

[typhaon]

From the box...

Matthews was 1-2 from 3pt.
Barrow 0-1 from 3pt.

SJ encouraging them to extend their range?

Mikulic only 10 mins - 0pt, 0rb, 2blck.
Sidibe with 4pt, 8rb, 2blck in 15 mins.

SJ resting Mikulic some... playing a rested/active Sidibe? Sounds good.

Gilbert 9pts in 27 mins. A 3pt and a couple of dunks, including one that was described as "MONSTER" by someone at the game.

Jenkins 3TO in 4 mins - but got his first NCAA points.

Less than 24 hours after a tough loss to VA - I like the win. Like the contributions from everyone.

[FU73]

Boxscore:

www.pennathletics.com/pdf8/980348.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=1700

[tmaac71]

Nice win! This team is interesting. Watched them on ESPN3 last night and Mikulic looked great. He will be very good in MAAC play. Good to see the other guys stepping up a bit today as well. Hearing that Coleman Johnson is going to be another nice addtion. Way to go Stags!!!

[stagmaster]

Agree with JS, this is a good program win.

[stag76]

Heard the postgame show on WICC. Needham seemed to imply that Josip got a lot of pine time today because of a defensive lapse (not communicating) and SJ wanted to send him a message.

Liked the way SJ used the bench. Lots of minutes for Gilbert who'd definitely have less tired legs than the guys who played many minutes last night.