No Connor = 2 Losses

Why the hell are there two home games when the majority of the student body is not even at school?  Most students cannot check in until 12 o'clock on Sunday.  Its horse-shit.

Jan 7th story from FUS, story from them and the box score.

Jan 10th story from FUS, story from them and the box score.

(3-6) (0-4)

Best of the Rest part III

This week in "Best of the Rest" Curtis gets the recognition for his 20 point effort in the loss to Hilbert.  These consolation prizes do not taste as sweet as they did when we were winning.  But if I remember correctly, there has not been a week without a Barronballer on the list*.  I'll take that.

*I did not post it, but last week I think Duke was on the list.

Welcome to the AMCC

Well, Penn State Altoona's Nittany Lions are much better than our Barons.  Bad prediction.  The Lions ran away with the game.  From Altoona, it sounds as if the game was never that close.  Maybe Altoona won because of the live broadcast on public access television that reached Blair and Cambria counties, or maybe it was because the Altoona's bench outscored the ours 46-5.  No box score, but the leading scorers

Flanagan 16 points 6 rebounds

"Jason Ducoulombier" 13 points 7 rebounds

managed to produce about 67% of the offense tonight.  The loss now has our Barons in seventh place.

Welcome to the AMCC part II- more info rolling in.

Well that was ugly. More info has come in about our "game" with Altoona.
Fast Facts:
-Final score: 86-43. That's not a typo and neither is this...
-Half Time Score: 40-15. 15 points in a half? That is down right fugly.
-Conner had 18 points not 16, our mistake.
-Only 6 Barons scored! Six! Compare that to the 46 bench points that Altoona scored.

I guess you could sort of expect this in our first ever conference game. While we predicted a win, our gut feeling has always been it will be a "growing" season. And nothing makes you grow like scoring half as many points as the competition. This was just an old fashion blow-out. Their leading scorer only had 11, meaning the whole team and probably the towel boy saw some playing time.

Well a loss is a loss, albeit a killer loss, and we might as well just put this behind us get ready for Friday's home game. Hope to see you all out there. Maybe even a few of Greg's superfans will show up. Please? Lets get a crowd this game.

Sorry this post is all over the place and short on humor, but Labor Econ can do that to your brain. See ya Friday Baronballers!

THE BARONS ARE BACK!!!!!

Tony "Showtime" Houghton Kicked Our Ass

Our Barons dropped the season-opener 91-74 to Penn State Beaver.  The score does not indicate a close game, but from here and here a different story is told.  Apparently, the Barons jumped out to an 8-0 lead and eventually a 15 point lead.  But by half-time the Nittany Lions trailed only by one point.  Then in second half Tony "Showtime" Houghton put on a clinic and made some key plays to put the Barons to rest.  

Last season the Barons defeated Penn State Beaver 77-75  when FUS won four of their last six game, so it is a shame that we lost.  But I really wasn't expecting our young team to win their first road game this season.

Wednesday marks the home-opener for the Barons, they will open against the Penn State New Kensington Nittany Lions at 8:00 p.m.  The Barons have had mixed results when playing the NK Lions.  FUS has lost 74-61 (2.11.08 away), lost 79-64 (1.31.07 away) and won 63-45 (11.10.06 home) in the past two seasons.  If the trends continue then FUS should blow out the Nittany Lions tomorrow.  But I am not even going to worry about the history, I believe that our FUS Barons will ride the opening night success to a 1-1 record come Wednesday at 11:00. 

Last Place Already?

Now that Franciscan University of Steubenville is right in the middle of all the action in the AMCC, the standings, player of the week and history of the AMCC can be checked out.  Who does these polls and why do they hate us so much?  There is no way Mount Aloysius should be in ahead of our Barons.  Here are the standings 

AMCC Preseason Poll (last season AMCC), (last season overall)

1. Penn State Behrend  (15-3) (24-5)

2. La Roche (10-8) (13-13)

3. Medaille (9-9) (15-13)

4. Penn State Altoona (10-8) (14-13)

5. Frostburg State (8-10) (9-16)

6. Pitt-Bradford (6-12) (10-15)

7. Pitt-Greensburg (10-8) (11-15)

8. Hilbert (8-10) (12-13)

9. Mount Aloysius (1-17) (5-20)

10. Franciscan (6-19)

and here is the site.