Game! Of! The! Night! 1/26/2008: Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart
Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart (NEC) There are a lot of great games this weekend, but precious few mindbendingly awesome ones that will set tones for weeks to come. We're going to be tracking the Cleveland State at Wisconsin-Milwaukee clash in the Horizon, seeing that CSU dropped a game on the first leg of its Cheese State trip last night at Green Bay, and Milwaukee is pretty hot lately at 6-3 in the league, with eight wins in its last 10. App State at Chattanooga is suddenly huge in the SoCon, as both 7-2 squads (who've both been beaten silly by South leader Davidson) fight over the North Division. Saint Joe's at Temple: Philly phun with a pair of remaining one-loss Atlantic 10 teams. But none of these matchups thrill us half as much as the hot Nutmeg State battle between two candidates for the Northeast Conference championship. The Q is tied at the top with Wagner at 6-1 (10-8 overall), while Heart is a single beat behind at 7-2 (10-8). While Robert Morris got the big headlines for beating Boston College, don't forget that Sacred Heart played them within five on Dec. 28, then beat Holy Cross two days later -- the 52 percent shooting performance against the Crusaders still stands as the highest total against that compromised defense all year. The Pioneers lost a lot of the scoring that led them to the 2007 title game, but they've been excelling with the bread and butter of any undersized, underskilled mid-major bunch: ball control and perimeter defense. They lead the NEC in both 3-point field goal defense and fewest turnovers. Then there's Quinnipiac. With new head coach Tom Moore, the |
|
