January 8, 2020
Lafayette 84, Bucknell 81
I don't like to see us letting Bucknell score 81 points, but when we do, we better score at least that many. We barely do, and squeak out a win in our Patriot League lid-lifter.
Tim Hutchinson's 25 points lead all scorers. He adds 8 rebounds for good measure.
Daniel Warnock scores an economical 14, taking only 8 shots, while grabbing 6 rebounds, blocking a shot, and getting a steal. Ben Miele (11) and Jack Senn (10) score in double figures, and each adds 4 assists.
Winning shootouts against 6-9 Patriot League teams isn't really how
Graham Sims teams roll. I wonder what kind of team this year's edition really is?
Record: 14-4 (1-0).
January 11, 2020
@Lafayette 93, American 74
We rout the Eagles with perhaps the best exhibition of shooting I've seen from a Lafayette team.
Code:
Lafayette 93, American 74
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American (6-11, 1-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
James Zimmer C 31 2-7 3-4 2 2 2 2 7
Maurice Wales PF 32 5-8 0-0 2 2 1 3 10
Don Kincaid SF 26 5-8 2-2 0 1 1 4 16
Joseph Alexander SG 34 5-13 5-7 3 7 1 1 19
David Partain PG 34 2-5 2-4 1 4 7 1 8
Justin Spiller PG 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Oswald Riddell SG 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
John Henninger C 11 2-2 1-2 0 1 0 1 5
Dario Morales SF 13 3-5 2-4 0 2 1 2 9
Charles Hepler PF 5 0-3 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Andres Mahon SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Turnovers: 9 (J.Zimmer 1, M.Wales 1, D.Kincaid 2,
J.Alexander 1, D.Partain 3, J.Spiller 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (J.Zimmer 1, M.Wales 1, D.Kincaid 1,
J.Alexander 1, J.Henninger 1)
Steals: 9 (J.Zimmer 2, J.Alexander 2, D.Partain 2,
J.Spiller 2, D.Morales 1)
3P FGs: 11-24 (D.Kincaid 4-5, J.Alexander 4-9,
D.Partain 2-5, D.Morales 1-3, C.Hepler 0-2)
Lafayette (15-4, 2-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Todd DeHaven C 35 9-12 9-9 3 11 2 3 27
Daniel Warnock PF 30 7-10 1-2 3 4 3 3 21
Tim Hutchinson SF 32 3-8 3-3 4 8 8 3 10
Jack Senn SG 32 4-6 3-4 0 1 1 2 13
Ben Miele PG 26 3-4 0-0 0 1 1 4 8
Matthew Ackerman SG 19 4-6 0-0 0 0 1 3 12
Matt Robles PF 12 1-4 0-0 0 4 1 1 2
Rob Prendergast PG 7 0-1 0-0 0 2 1 0 0
Rodney Lundgren SF 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Jonathan Baldwin C 5 0-0 0-0 0 3 0 0 0
Turnovers: 14 (T.DeHaven 3, D.Warnock 2, T.Hutchinson
2, J.Senn 1, M.Ackerman 3, M.Robles 2, R.Lundgren 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Robles 1)
Steals: 3 (J.Senn 2, B.Miele 1)
3P FGs: 15-23 (D.Warnock 6-8, T.Hutchinson 1-3, J.Senn
2-3, B.Miele 2-3, M.Ackerman 4-6)
Player of Game: C Todd DeHaven (LFYTE)
We make 60.8% of our field goal attempts, and 16 of 18 from the line. You can see how well we found the range from behind the arc.
Todd DeHaven takes young
James Zimmer to school. We recruited Zimmer hard, and he's going to be a very good player, but he's not there yet. DeHaven is.
Look how close
Tim Hutchinson came to recording our first triple double!
Interesting coincidence: American has a new coach this year: longtime assistant
Jose Black, in his first head coaching position. Black replaces
Jimmy Reynolds, with whom Graham enjoyed a spirited rivalry for the past few years. Reynolds left for a new opportunity at Northern Iowa...the team Lafayette routed in the first round of the Coaches Invitational this year.
Record: 15-4 (2-0).
January 15, 2020
Lafayette 62, @Colgate 60
I seem to remember several tight, low-scoring matchups against Colgate. We win this one on a buzzer-beating floater by
Todd DeHaven that caps off an 18-point, 13-rebound performance.
Tim Hutchinson enjoys a double double, too--11 points, 10 rebounds--and with one more rebound,
Daniel Warnock (13 and 9) would have joined them.
Jack Senn (10 and 6) is almost as productive.
Record: 16-4 (3-0).
January 18, 2020
Lafayette 81, @Lehigh 60
Jamie Kelso is upgraded to Day-to-Day, with 88% of his health restored. If this were a must-win game, I'd suit Jamie up, but it's January and we don't need to take chances with him. He won't play until he's completely healthy.
Without him, we hold a second straight opponent to exactly 60 points. That's a good recipe for victory.
Tim Hutchinson's 22 points lead us, with 18 from
Todd DeHaven and 13 from
Jack Senn.
Ben Miele dishes out a career-high 6 assists, and his fellow frosh
Matt Robles plays well off the bench with 9 points and 3 rebounds.
Record: 17-4 (4-0).
January 25, 2020
@Lafayette 74, Navy 57
The last three games have featured the level of defensive play we've come to expect from
Graham Sims's teams. It's rare for Lafayette to allow an opponent, especially a Patriot League opponent, to make 40 percent of its shots. We hold Navy below that mark, which feels much more like Lafayette basketball.
Four players score in double figures:
Jack Senn (17),
Daniel Warnock (16),
Todd DeHaven (13), and
Tim Hutchinson (12).
DeHaven collects his 9th double double of the year; the current Division I pacesetter in that category has 11. Hutchinson also adds 4 steals.
Jamie Kelso returns to limited action, and scores 6 points in 7 minutes.
We have a two-game lead in the conference standings, as the other seven teams are delighting in roughing each other up on an alternating basis.
Record: 18-4 (5-0).
January 29, 2020
@Lafayette 69, Holy Cross 59
Robert Wiley, whom we would have liked to sign coming out of high school, is enjoying an excellent senior season. He recently scored his 1000th career point, and he reminds us why we thought he was going to be good tonight; he scores 19, but we do a good enough job guarding his teammates to win comfortably.
It's 10 double doubles for
Todd DeHaven now, as he records 13 points and 12 boards. He's now averaging a double double, which no Lafayette player has managed to do.
Daniel Warnock follows suit with 16 points and 11 rebounds.
Tim Hutchinson and
Matt Robles add 10 each.
We're back up to #5 in the Mid Major poll, which seems like a more accurate assessment of how good we are. Alabama-Birmingham, Gonzaga, Temple, and Memphis are ranked above us.
Record: 19-4 (6-0).
February 1, 2020
@Lafayette 81, Army 70
We complete our sweep of the first half of the Patriot League season tonight, overcoming 23 points from conference scoring leader
Chris Buckley.
Tim Hutchinson scores 21 of his own, while
Ben Miele contributes 16, featuring 3-for-4 from three point distance.
Daniel Warnock enjoys a 10-point, 11-rebound double double, and
Todd DeHaven has 12 and 8.
Chris Buckley is closing out a remarkable career. He set a Patriot League record with 43 points in a single game earlier this month. He'll probably score the 2000th point of his career in his next game, and he'll almost certainly break
Jack Jessie, Army '15's record for career points. Jessie finished with 2105.
Record: 20-4 (7-0).
Code:
2019 Patriot League Standings
TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Lafayette 7 0 1.000 20 4 .833 14 69
Colgate 5 2 .714 13 8 .619 237 37
American 4 3 .571 9 13 .409 187 47
Holy Cross 3 4 .429 12 9 .571 161 46
Bucknell 3 4 .429 10 12 .455 239 35
Army 3 4 .429 7 15 .318 308 38
Lehigh 2 5 .286 6 15 .286 163 30
Navy 1 6 .143 5 16 .238 311 31