Santa Bring Me Some Noise
Well despite the best efforts of the majority of the crowd to hide from the basketball players, the UNCW Seahawks defeated the Bulldogs of UNCA last night 68-50. I make the comment about hiding from the basketball players because that seems to be the only logical explanation for being completely quiet during a basketball game. Seriously, the people got more excited about the mini-basketballs they throw out during timeouts than they did for a big 3-pointer by John Goldsberry earlier in the game. I think they should change the banner in Trask from "Toughest Place to Play in the CAA" to "Toughest Place to Play in the CAA Excluding Christmas Break". I mean there must have been some sort of contest to see who could sit on their hands the longest. It's pretty bad when only ten people in the "Student" section will make any noise of the 1,200 people in that section. But I digress...
The performance by the Seahawks was much better than the performance by the fans. UNCW registered their 4th home blowout in as many home games picking up another 18 point victory. The game started slow with some lackluster shooting by the Hawks, and great offensive rebounding and stifling defense by Asheville. But eventually the boys in teal returned to form and slowly pulled away.
Todd Hendley led UNCW in scoring pouring in 18 points and grabbing 5 rebounds. Vladimir Kuljanin and Beckham Wyrick crashed the board for the Seahawks pulling in 6 apiece. They also posted double digits in scoring with 14 and 11 points respectively. And, big suprise, John Goldsberry led the way in assists with 7. He also put in 17 points while only playing 23 minutes. John David Gardner had some solid minutes scoring 3, pulling in 4 boards, and dishing out 3 assists. He also looked very good on defense by not allowing his man to get a second of daylight for open shots. He has a street style of play to his game that looks eeriely similar to Mr. All Conference himself, John Goldsberry. A sign of things to come?
Boxscore
Highlights
In other CAA news ODU followed up their impressive victory of DePaul by blowing an OT game at Richmond. VCU logged a Conference win over GSU. Nothing else too spectacular.
UNCW, Northeastern, and Drexel still lead the way with 2-0 CAA records. They are followed by VCU at 2-1. And then Hofstra, ODU, GMU, and Towson at 1-1.
Complete CAA Standings
UNCW has a week off before facing the Cougars of the College of Charleston on Dec. 27th at 7:oo in Trask. Charleston stands at 4-3 on the year and are coming off a loss at VCU.
Till next time
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
And most importanly GO SEAHAWKS.
The performance by the Seahawks was much better than the performance by the fans. UNCW registered their 4th home blowout in as many home games picking up another 18 point victory. The game started slow with some lackluster shooting by the Hawks, and great offensive rebounding and stifling defense by Asheville. But eventually the boys in teal returned to form and slowly pulled away.
Todd Hendley led UNCW in scoring pouring in 18 points and grabbing 5 rebounds. Vladimir Kuljanin and Beckham Wyrick crashed the board for the Seahawks pulling in 6 apiece. They also posted double digits in scoring with 14 and 11 points respectively. And, big suprise, John Goldsberry led the way in assists with 7. He also put in 17 points while only playing 23 minutes. John David Gardner had some solid minutes scoring 3, pulling in 4 boards, and dishing out 3 assists. He also looked very good on defense by not allowing his man to get a second of daylight for open shots. He has a street style of play to his game that looks eeriely similar to Mr. All Conference himself, John Goldsberry. A sign of things to come?
Boxscore
Highlights
In other CAA news ODU followed up their impressive victory of DePaul by blowing an OT game at Richmond. VCU logged a Conference win over GSU. Nothing else too spectacular.
UNCW, Northeastern, and Drexel still lead the way with 2-0 CAA records. They are followed by VCU at 2-1. And then Hofstra, ODU, GMU, and Towson at 1-1.
Complete CAA Standings
UNCW has a week off before facing the Cougars of the College of Charleston on Dec. 27th at 7:oo in Trask. Charleston stands at 4-3 on the year and are coming off a loss at VCU.
Till next time
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays
And most importanly GO SEAHAWKS.
posted by TAH at 3:45 PM
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