Men's Basketball to face North Dakota State, James Madison and Duquesne

[ysuindy]

Men’s basketball plays the next three nights in the Legends Classic.  The games will be played in the Palumbo Center on the campus of Duquesne in Pittsburgh.

YSU plays North Dakota State at 4:30 today (Monday), James Madison at 4:30 Tuesday and Duquesne at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday. 

North Dakota State

The Bison are 2-1 with wins over lower level schools Valley City State 93-47 and Mayville State 73-40 sandwiched around a loss at Indiana 87-61 in the opening round of the Legends Classic. 

Pomeroy predicts a 72-70 NDSU win, with YSU having a 45% chance of winning. 

Sagarin has YSU as a 2 ½ point favorite on overall, a 2 point favorite on Predictor.

Massey predicts a 74-68 YSU win, giving YSU a 69% chance of winning.

Should be a very good game.

James Madison

The Dukes enter at 0-1, having lost at UCLA 100-70 in the opening round of the Legends Classic.  JMU will play Duquesne Monday night before playing YSU.

Pomeroy predicts a 73-68 YSU win, with YSU having a 65% chance of winning. 

Sagarin has YSU as a 6 point favorite on overall, a 5 ½ point favorite on Predictor

Massey projects a 77-68 YSU win, giving the Penguins a 78% chance of winning.

The computer predictions will change somewhat after the Monday games.

Duquesne

The Dukes enter at 0-2, having opened the season with a 69-66 loss at Albany before losing at Georgetwon 73-67 in the opening round of the Legends Classic.  Duquesne will play both North Dakota State and James Madison before playing YSU.

Pomeroy predicts a 70-69 Duquesne win, giving YSU a 43% chance of winning.

Sagarin has the Dukes as a half point favorite on overall,  a 1 ½ point favorite on Predictor.  YSU would be favored on a neutral court.

Massey projects a 73-69 Duquesne win, giving YSU a 38% chance of winning.

The computer predictions will change somewhat after the Monday and Tuesday games.

Three very competitive games, three very winnable games.  YSU’s depth will be tested with three games in three nights.  The Penguins had good bench production at George Washington – a few of the bench guys are going to have to step up the next three nights if the Penguins are going to come home with 3 wins.

Pomeroy currently has YSU at 121 overall, third best in the Horizon behind Valpo and Cleveland State and just ahead of Detroit.  The Horizon teams are currently 23-9 overall and the league has moved from 15th to 12th in Pomeroy’s conference rankings.  He predicts a 19-10 YSU overall record

Sagarin currently has YSU at 95 overall.

Massey has YSU at 74 overall.  Current game projections show YSU finishing 22-7!

[ysuindy]

Tied at 24 at the under 4 media timeout.  YSU came out and scored six quick points but then started to struggle on offense.  Belin has two fouls and we are hurting on boards with him out.  NDSU at line coming out of the timeout.  KP has 8.  NDSU 16-14 rebounds.  YSU in bonus for rest of half.

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Bison lead 19-18 at the under 8 media timeout.  KP sat for most of that stretch and the offense struggled.   YSU had no rebounds in that stretch, NDSU now leads 11-8.  YSU shooting 7 for 16, Bison 8 for 18.

Think this game will be as expected, close throughout

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YSU leads 16-10 at the under 12 media timeout.   KP with 6, Blake Allen with 4.  YSU shooting 50%, winning the boards 8-6.  Bison shooting 33%

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YSU leads 10-8 at the first media timeout.  Penguins on a 8-0 run.

[IAA Fan]

Indy:

Are you getting the impression that Slocum is trying to play as many back-ups as possible? I get the impression that we could blow this game open if we wanted to.

[ysuindy]

NDSU hits a fade away three at the half and leads 34-27.  Didn't see much of that stretch. 

9 offensive rebounds for NDSU is simply too much - YSU isn't going to win if the Bison get  9 more in the second half.

I think back to YSU have a 24-19 lead earlier and trying a lob pass from 35 feet that went out of bounds.  YSU has scored 3 points since then (and that was around 10 minutes left)

Amiker and Allen played 18  minutes - other starters played between 12 and 14.  NDSU bench is outscoring YSU bench 13-5.

3 NDSU starters with two fouls.  Only Belin has two for YSU.  Guins 8 for 10 at line (good) but 1 for 7 from three (bad)

Fan - seems like trying to protect fouls and get some guys some playing time.  Suspect YSU will ride the starting five hard second half.  I don't think YSU can blow this game open, but I do think YSU can win this game.

Playing in front of a nearly empty gym - maybe our guys need some hostile fans to feed off of?

[lakesbison]

ohhh there you are!!   yes the gym is nice, but EMPTY!!

You can delete my if you want, i just thought you had 1 for each individual game.


nice run by YSU to cut it to  36-34  17 left

[ysuindy]

I don't know what I-AA Fan would prefer, but I just started updating a single post figuring no one else would post.

Fan - where do you want to continue this? 

I need to walk away from the computer (and get some of that stuff called work done).