Game 29: AT LaSalle, March 6th, 8 PM, NBCSN

[Scythe]

I've been waiting to use this all day

 

[mason2k1]

Our defense wins the game?!?

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

YEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

 

[GMUgemini]

Still not comfortable with the time left.

 

[Washingtonian]

Mason wins 59-57!

 

[gmutom]

Great defense on both of those possessions and great use of the foul to give. Very gritty win.

 

[gmu2006]

Marko won this game for us tonight. Great defensive intensity by the team to.

 

[GMUgemini]

Now I'm pissed that home URI game didn't count.

 

[DeepValue]

Kudos to Van Gundy for acting like this was such a great game. Good win for Mason!

 

[gmutom]

Richmond up by 4 at the half against vcu. If anybody still needs a hoops fix, switch over to CBSSN.

 

[Walter]

Very nice win.

 

[Five Two]

The guys played really hard tonight. J2 with a put-back dunk?! When has that ever happened? So frustrating that we are extremely inconsistent player-to-player and game-to-game.

 

[99 Patriot]

Dominant game by our bigs. Proud of the effort. I have a feeling this is what game will look like next year. Good on the refs to let both teams play too.

 

[Cool Disco Dan]

Very good defensive win - Marko to the rescue after a number of bad offensive possessions and shots.

 

[sigmanorm]

Anyone else making that trip to the Barclay?

I will be there with the family

 

[psyclone]

Gonna be a difficult half -- if I were LaSalle, I'd press us more than just in the half-court. Cory doesn't handle that well and we really don't have a pg. Playing BA there just minimizes his offensive game.

Hmmm--so what do I know. LaSalle didn't even seem give us a lot of pressure in the half-court in the second half. Was that because we were getting inside pretty successfully?

Seems like pressuring the ball in the first half led to a lot of our turnovers. Was it a function of them needing to play bigger guys (presumably less mobile) because we were killing them on the boards? Inquiring people want to know!

 

[gmutom]

Dominant game by our bigs. Proud of the effort. I have a feeling this is what game will look like next year.

Definitely nice to see we can win a game on a night when Sherrod and Allen shoot a combined 5-20. We needed the double-digit contributions from Marko and Patrick, and hats off to Copes for snagging 10 boards despite being in obvious pain. Very gutsy performance.

 

[mason2k1]

Their last possession looked like our old team.
Hold the ball and force a bad shot.

BA and SW combined for 15 pts?
I'm glad our bigs stepped up.

I wonder what we'd look like if we all showed up for the same game.

 

[GMURaider]

Say what you want... This team did not mail in games despite a losing record. The young guys are learning that it takes this kind of effort to win in this league. I predict they'll remember that and 2014-2015 will be one of the best bounce back years in GMU history!

 

[psyclone]

Kudos to Van Gundy for acting like this was such a great game. Good win for Mason!

I kind of like SVG as color guy--granted it wasn't an artistic success of a game, but I don't remember either team being ahead by more than 4 the whole second half--so it was competitive. And justifiably he did question many of the refs non-calls. They didn't seem to call anything underneath on either side. That hurts Wright's and Allen's drives.

Was LaSalle really in line for an NIT bid with just a couple of more wins? What's their rpi?