A Sea Of Red

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
founded 1865

Enrollment: 4781 Undergrad + 2270 Postgrad
Athletic Conference: Patriot League
Nickname: Mountain Hawks
Famous Alumni: Lee Iacocca, Roger Penske & Scores of CEOs

Official Basketball Website: http://www.lehighsports.com/sports/mbball/default.aspx

Head Coach: Dr. Brett Reed

Record 2-2
at St. Johns L 78-73
at Iowa State L 86-77
at Fairleigh Dickinson W 72-61
William & Mary at LU W 82-57
at Liberty

This is game number three for Lehigh in the 2k Sports Classic after losing to St. Johns , then coming to Lynchburg beating W&M in the first game of the Lynchburg pod. The Mountain Hawks are lead by 6'3" G- CJ.Mc Collum averaging 18.3 ppg, 6'9" F- Gabe Knutson averaging 14.8 ppg, and 6'7" F-Holden Grenier averaging 12.3 ppg and 7.5 rpg. McCollum is the nations leading returning scorer at 21.8 ppg. This will be a very difficult matchup for the Flames.

GAME TIME 7:00 PM

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Flames down 43-35 at the half. Jesse led the flames with 6 points 8 rebounds and 4 assists.

lehigh still up 58-49. minaya with 11, burrus with 10, and JC with 9.

flames down 58-53.at the 12:03 mark.

flames have cut it to three, the guys will not quit!

lehigh goes on a run to extend the lead back to eight, 63-55

Leigh still leads by eight 70-62

74-66 Lehigh still up 8. Flames cant seem to get closer.

86-72 Lehigh with 1:06 left but a JC 3 pointer makes it 86-75.

89-75 Lehigh with 28 sec left

Lehigh wins 90-80. Flames just had too many defensive breakdowns. Flames had 5 players in double figures, JC-18, Minaya with 16, Jesse with 12 ad 10 assists, speaks with 11, and burrus with 10. LU out rebounded a bigger Lehigh team 36-31. Hopefully we can beat the Tribe tomorrow.

Man, LU teams under Layer don't give up 90 points. But then again, they don't normally score 80 either.

We dug ourselves too deep a hole tonight. They got hot when we went ice cold

BJWilliams wrote:We dug ourselves too deep a hole tonight. They got hot when we went ice cold

How exactly do you get hot while being ice cold? There is an ointment joke there somewhere

I mean (as blatantly obvious as this sounds) that their shots were going in when ours weren't

Oohhhh. So the edit button DOES work

The injuries have just killed us. Losing Brown, Ogukwe and Geilo early means we erased any bench depth we might have had. With Vander Pol looking more and more like he'll be a non-factor this year, we're basically 5 deep with Jesse, John Caleb, Speaks, Minaya and Burrus.

It's going to be a long year.

JVP Is another Mc masters. If he is not going to be a scorer then be a beast on the boards! he cant even do that!

One minor positive tonight was the 5 points and 1 rebound out of Baird in 7 minutes of play. This squad needs more out of the post so that the pressure isn't always on the perimeter players. EKU and Lehigh are going to be quality mid-majors, so being scrappy/competitive with both is a good sign. Getting another win over a banged up W&M would be great as those wins will likely look better as the year goes on and W&M gets healthy.

Tough loss. Good effort.

Tough couple of days for the basketball team.

jcmanson wrote:Tough couple of days for the Liberty athletic teams.

FIFY

TDDance234 wrote:The injuries have just killed us. Losing Brown, Ogukwe and Geilo early means we erased any bench depth we might have had. With Vander Pol looking more and more like he'll be a non-factor this year, we're basically 5 deep with Jesse, John Caleb, Speaks, Minaya and Burrus.

It's going to be a long year.

I was listening to the William and Mary game tonight and they said he is dealing with a sore back so that may have to do with his struggles early on this year

I REALLY like the lineup with Speaks in instead of Vander Pol. We're shorter, but so much quicker. And Coach Layer said in the post-game interview that Speaks is probably his best defender.

With Burrus's shot blocking and rebounding abilities, he's a poor man's Charles Barkley.