Straight guts. This team has that killer instinct in their DNA. We’ve been missing it for about a decade now.
Game 17: GMU (9-7/ 2-1) vs St. Bonaventure (11-4 / 3-1) on Wednesday, January 26, at 7PM.
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Pablo
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The Patriots just missed tying the program's EBA record - https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.si...s/2021/11/8/2021_22_Mason_MBB_Record_Book.pdf:
"Most 3-Pointers Made: ........... 16, vs. Md.-Baltimore County, 2/11/88 ..............................................................................................vs. Troy State, 12/10/94"
Not much that I can add to what has already been said. Let's not forget about Ticket. Truly a difference maker tonight.
Had hoped for a better turnout. (Do our casual fans not understand a home game with the Bonnies is a game you circle on the schedule?). It should be treated as significant as a vcu game.
In one season we have (so far) slayed the Maryland dragon, clipped Dayton, and knee-capped the Bonnies.
What's next? Davidson?
Props to the players and staff...thanks for making my night.
Had hoped for a better turnout. (Do our casual fans not understand a home game with the Bonnies is a game you circle on the schedule?). It should be treated as significant as a vcu game.
In one season we have (so far) slayed the Maryland dragon, clipped Dayton, and knee-capped the Bonnies.
What's next? Davidson?
Props to the players and staff...thanks for making my night.
By George.
Starter
We got you, such a great photo
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Beltway Basketball Beat: Better late than never for George Mason - WTOP News
It’s been a roller-coaster ride for George Mason basketball, but the college basketball season is often many seasons in one where a team can reinvent itself,
wtop.com
The local beat?
Bona buried by George Mason’s barrage
It had the potential to go this way, based merely on both teams’ track record.
"Bona had rallied before at EagleBank, roaring back from 15 down with much of this same core to beat the Patriots 61-49 in 2020. But these weren’t the altogether average Patriots the Bonnies had seen in years past. This is a much-improved GMU group, under first-year coach Kim English, that asserted itself in a way that Bona didn’t."
Would rather have 2687 enthusiastic fans than 6000 fans who think they are at the opera though
NewPatriot
Starter
To paraphrase Dick Motta: "The fat lady sang" for Bona last night.
Morrison and The Beard days, as I recall.
About 2,680 more than when I used to go to games.
Quentin Daniels
Hall of Famer
Half Full
If we'd managed just two more FTs against GW (12-19 63%), or had just one more stop or made basket, or if Josh had been good to go, the team would be on a four game win streak and have won 7 of its last 8. The only loss being a competitive game against #6 Kansas on their own court and wins over unanimous pre-season favorite St. Bonnie and Dayton.
Half Empty
If we'd missed just two more FTs against Dayton, or had just one fewer stop or made basket, we'd have lost 8 of our last 13 including one to bottom-feeder GW.
Honest take
The team looks like they're playing really well right now and having a lot of fun on the floor. We should see what their made of with 4 of our next 5 games against Richmond, St. Louis, and vcu, picked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively in the pre-season poll and all currently in the top half of the A10 standings. The short rotation is a bit of a concern with 5 games in 11 days coming up, including road trips to St. Louis, Richmond, and Philly, and Josh having some tendinitis issues in his knee already.
If we'd managed just two more FTs against GW (12-19 63%), or had just one more stop or made basket, or if Josh had been good to go, the team would be on a four game win streak and have won 7 of its last 8. The only loss being a competitive game against #6 Kansas on their own court and wins over unanimous pre-season favorite St. Bonnie and Dayton.
Half Empty
If we'd missed just two more FTs against Dayton, or had just one fewer stop or made basket, we'd have lost 8 of our last 13 including one to bottom-feeder GW.
Honest take
The team looks like they're playing really well right now and having a lot of fun on the floor. We should see what their made of with 4 of our next 5 games against Richmond, St. Louis, and vcu, picked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively in the pre-season poll and all currently in the top half of the A10 standings. The short rotation is a bit of a concern with 5 games in 11 days coming up, including road trips to St. Louis, Richmond, and Philly, and Josh having some tendinitis issues in his knee already.
Thats correct- the last time they defended the homecourt well was 2011-2012, like 12-1 if I recall from when I looked at the record book. That was following a 14-0 year.
Win at home, split on the road, and you’ll always be in the conversation (depending on how it splits its somewhere between 12-6 and 14-4).
CKE made the same comments in the presser..
We don't go to St Louis....party on folks!
Included all our one possession losses too.
"This team knows more than any other how these possession games can go..."
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