Things I like more than 1980 Topps cards, or homages to 1980 Topps cards: Not many. (Motte's fellow Iona grad Dennis Leonard actually had a card in the actual 1980 Topps set!)
Hey Indiana in 1976, we’re coming for you. The Flying Dutchmen got the season off to a rollicking start Monday night, when they overcame a 12-point deficit and all sorts of foul trouble in the first half (BROOKE SHIELDS BIAS) and a seven-point deficit in the final four minutes of the game to knock off Princeton, 83-77. The Dutchmen will look to stay perfect tonight, when they are slated to host Iona in a local rivalry game at the Arena. Here’s a look back at the win over the Tigers and a look ahead to Rick Pitino & Co.
THE MOST RECENT GAME SUMMARIZED IN ONE PARAGRAPH
Aaron Estrada (27 points, five rebounds) had the most prolific season debut by a Hofstra player in 11 years, but Jaquan Carlos hit the biggest shot, a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 1:11 left that highlighted a game-ending 16-3 run by the Dutchmen that turned a seemingly sure defeat into an impressive victory. The Dutchmen were whistled for 11 fouls and trailed by as many as 12 points in the first half but chipped away throughout the second half, when they got within three points five times before the Tigers scored five straight points to take a 74-67 lead with under four minutes left. Estrada and Carlos took over from there, scoring the Dutchmen’s final 14 points and single-handedly combining for all the big plays in the game’s decisive 75-second stretch. Estrada had the assist on Carlos’ first 3-pointer, which pulled the Dutchmen within 76-74 with 2:26 left. Carlos then stole the ball from Ryan Langborg and had the assist on Estrada’s tying basket 43 seconds later. Following a timeout, Carlos fouled Tosan Evbuowman, but he missed the front end of a 1-and-1 and Estrada fed Carlos for the go-ahead 3-pointer. Estrada followed with another dagger basket after a turnover by Evbuowman and finished off the run by hitting a pair of free throws with nine seconds left. Carlos finished with a career-high eight points and three assists in just 15 minutes. Darlinstone Dubar had a double-double (11 points, 12 rebounds) while Amar’e Marshall had 15 points off the bench in his collegiate debut. Another newcomer, junior German Plotnikov, scored nine points while playing 30 minutes, many of them as an undersized center.
3 STARS OF THE GAME (vs. Princeton, 11/7)
3: Aaron Estrada
2: Jaquan Carlos
1: Darlinstone Dubar
SEASON STANDINGS (duh)
Aaron Estrada 3
Jaquan Carlos 2
Darlinstone Dubar 1
WAS THIS A UNICORN SCORE?
No! The Dutchmen most recently recorded an 83-77 win over Hartford at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 26, 1996. It was the last win I’d see as a collegian and the last win Hofstra would record without Speedy Claxton on the roster until Nov. 17, 2000. That’s a span of 1,725 days that included two Leap Days and two presidential elections!
The Flying Dutchmen recorded 11 unicorn score victories last season after recording no unicorn scores in 2020-21, 13 unicorn scores in 2019-20 and 10 unicorn scores in 2018-19. The term unicorn score was coined by Mets superfan, historian and blogger Greg Prince to describe a score by which the Mets had never previously won. You may also know it as a “Scorigami,” a term popularized in the NFL.
WHO HAD THE KEITH HERNANDEZ?
New feature! So I guess first we should explain…
WHAT IS THE KEITH HERNANDEZ?
Some of you younger kids may know Keith Hernandez as one-third of the greatest booth in baseball. Some of you slightly older kids may know Keith Hernandez as Jerry Seinfeld’s friend and the very brief boyfriend of Elaine Benes. And you older folks, like me, know Keith Hernandez as the leader of the World Series-winning 1986 Mets, a previous World Series winner with the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals, the co-NL MVP in 1979…and, getting to the point of this whole exercise, the all-time leader in game-winning RBIs, which is a stat inexplicably discontinued by Major League Baseball following the 1988 season. Holds are still a thing and guys get them by blowing 80 percent of a five-run lead but MLB drew the line at giving a guy a GWRBI for a first-inning RBI in a 10-0 win. Anyway. Keith had 129 game-winning RBIs at the time of the stat’s discontinuation, thus ensuring him at least one permanent spot in history even if he never gets the rightful call to the Baseball Hall of Fame. THUS, circling back to our original point, I am going to award a Keith Hernandez to the Hofstra player who hits the basket that puts the Flying Dutchmen ahead for good in their wins this season. So the answer is…
WHO HAD THE KEITH HERNANDEZ?
Jaquan Carlos has the first official Keith Hernandez in Hofstra history by hitting the go-ahead basket with 1:11 left. History!
THE FLYING DUTCHMEN AFTER ONE GAME
As you may have gathered by now, the Dutchmen are 1-0. This ties the 2022-23 team for the best record in school history through one game! Forty-nine other teams began 1-0, most recently the 2018-19 squad. Long time ago, in more ways than one. Here is how some notable Hofstra teams have fared through one game:
NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAMS
1975-76: 1-0
1976-77: 1-0
1999-2000: 0-1
2000-01: 0-1
2019-20 (IT COUNTS TO US): 0-1
NIT TEAMS
2005-06: 1-0
2006-07: 0-1
2015-16: 1-0
2018-19: 1-0
NCAA DIVISION II TOURNAMENT TEAMS
1958-59: 0-1
1961-62: 1-0
1962-63: 1-0
1963-64: 1-0
Some other notable, uhh, one-game starts:
2021-22: Speedy Claxton loses his debut
2020-21: Mike Farrelly loses his debut
2013-14: Joe Mihalich loses his debut
2010-11: Mo Cassara wins his debut
2001-02: Tom Pecora wins his debut
1994-95: Jay Wright loses his debut, retires in shame
1988-89: Butch van Breda Kolff wins his re-debut
1980-81: Dick Berg wins his debut
1979-80: Joe Harrington loses his debut
1972-73: Roger Gaeckler loses his debut
1962-63: Paul Lynner wins his debut
1955-56: Butch van Breda Kolff wins his debut
1947-48: Frank Reilly wins his debut
1946-47: Jack McDonald wins his re-debut
1943-44: Jack Smith loses his debut
1936-37: Jack McDonald loses his debut in Hofstra’s first game
This feature is inspired by Mets superfan and blogger Greg Prince, who measures how the current Mets compare, record-wise, to previous teams through the same point in the season.
FOR STARTERS
The win snapped a three-game losing streak in season openers for the Dutchmen and kept them from losing four straight openers for the first time since 2006 through 2009. The Dutchmen are now 49-38 all-time in season openers.
HAND OUT SOME NAME TAGS
The first lineup of Speedy Claxton’s second season featured three starters new to the program in graduate seniors Nelson Boachie-Yiadom and Bryce Washington as well as senior Tyler Thomas. Claxton’s first lineup in the 2021-22 opener featured four newcomers.
DOUBLE DIGIT COMEBACK
The win over Princeton marked the first time the Dutchmen have overcome a double-digit deficit in a win since Feb. 19, when they trailed Northeastern by 11 points before pulling out a 76-73 win on Joe Mihalich Day. It was the third double-digit comeback under Speedy Claxton.
11/7/22: Trailed Princeton by 12 in an 83-77 win
2/19/22: Trailed Northeastern by 11 in a 76-73 win
12/4/21: Trailed Bucknell by 10 in an 88-69 win
The 12-point comeback was the biggest for the Dutchmen since they trailed by 16 points in the first half of a 75-71 win over Northeastern on Feb. 8, 2020
In addition, the Dutchmen’s win probability bottomed out at 5.5 percent when they trailed 74-67 with 4:05 left. That was just a smidge higher than their bottoming out point against Northeastern on Feb. 19, when the Dutchmen had a 5.1 percent chance to win upon falling behind 73-65 with 1:31 left.
AARON’S ALL ACES AGAIN
Aaron Estrada overcame two first-half fouls to score 27 points Monday night — the most points a Hofstra player has scored in a season opener since way back on Nov. 11, 2011 — exactly 11 years ago tonight! — when Nathaniel Lester, who’d missed the previous season with an injury, returned and scored a career-high 33 points in an 89-71 win over Long Island University. Three players scored at least 25 points in a season-opener in the subsequent 10 seasons. Zach Cooks (against Houston on Nov. 9, 2021) and Brian Bernardi (against Canisius on Nov. 13, 2015) each had 26 points while Justin Wright-Foreman had 25 points against Army on Nov. 10, 2017.
CARLOS’ BIG FINISH
Thanks to his key 3-pointers in the waning minutes, Jaquan Carlos finished with a career-high eight points Monday night. Carlos had six points against Monmouth last Dec. 22 — the last points he scored all season! He was scoreless in his limited action spread out over 11 subsequent CAA games.
D-STONE’S DUB-DUB
Darlinstone Dubar posted his second career double-double — and his first against a Division I opponent — by finishing with 11 points and 12 rebounds Monday night. Dubar is the first Hofstra player to post a double-double in a season debut since Rokas Gustys had 10 points and 23 rebounds against Coppin State on Nov. 11, 2016. Big night for Nov. 11! Twenty-three rebounds sounds wild, but even wilder is the fact Gustys got to 10 points while going 0-for-8 from the free throw line. Those were…memories, for sure. Anyway, Dubar posted his first double-double last Nov. 12, when he also had 11 points and 12 rebounds against Molloy.
HARD-WORKING PLOTNIKOV
Junior German Plotnikov, a transfer from North Platte Community College, scored nine points in 30 minutes off the bench in his Hofstra debut Monday night. He’s the first reserve to play at least 30 minutes in his Hofstra debut since freshman Chris Jenkins scored 17 points in 33 minutes in an 88-84 loss to Monmouth on Nov. 8, 2013 — Joe Mihalich’s first game as the Flying Dutchmen’s head coach.
COMPLETING THE TRANSFER
A quartet of transfers — junior German Plotnikov (nine points), senior Tyler Thomas (six points) and graduate students Bryce Washington (three points) and Nelson Boachie-Yiadom (two points) — combined to score 20 points Monday night. It marked the second straight season in which at least four transfers made their Hofstra debuts in the season opener. Here are some notable debuts by transfers since 1991:
2021: Zach Cooks: 26 pts/4 rebs/3 assists vs. Houston
2021: Aaron Estrada: 15 pts7 rebs/2 assists vs. Houston
2021: Darlinstone Dubar: 9 pts/7 rebs/2 steals vs. Houston
2021: Abayomi Iyiola: 6 pts/11 rebs vs. Houston
2021: Jarrod Simmons: 0 pts/1 reb vs. Houston
2020: Shawndarius Cowart: 2 pts/2 assists/2 steals vs. Rutgers**
2019: Isaac Kante: 8 pts/11 rebs vs. San Jose State
2018: Jacquil Taylor: 6 pts/10 rebs vs. Mount St. Mary’s
2018: Dan Dwyer: 3 pts/6 rebs/2 blks vs. Mount St. Mary’s
2018: Tareq Coburn: 2 pts/2 rebs vs. Mount St. Mary’s
2017: Joel Angus III: 13 pts/6 rebs vs. Army-West Point
2017: Kenny Wormley: 3 pts/2 rebs/4 assists vs. Kennesaw State
2016: Deron Powers: 12 pts/5 assists/4 rebs vs. Coppin State
2016: Hunter Sabety: 2 pts/5 rebs/1 blk vs. Coppin State
2015: Denton Koon: 14 pts/5 rebs/1 steal/1 blk vs. Canisius
2014: Juan’ya Green: 14 pts/9 assists/5 rebs vs. Jacksonville
2014: Ameen Tanksley: 16 pts/3 assists/2 assists/1 blk vs. Jacksonville
2014: Brian Bernardi: 22 pts/3 assists/2 rebs/1 steal vs. Jacksonville (6-8 3PT)
2014: Malik Nichols: 15 pts/3 assists/2 rbs/1 blk vs. Jacksonville**
2013: Zeke Upshaw: 22 pts/3 assists/3 rebs vs. Monmouth (2-8 3PT)
2013: Dion Nesmith: 10 pts/5 assists/2 rebs vs. Monmouth
2012: Taran Buie: 14 pts/2 assists/2 rbs vs. South Dakota State
2012: [name redacted]: 12 pts vs. Monmouth
2012: Daquan Brown: 2 pts/1 assist vs. Tulane
2011: Stevie Mejia: 7 pts/1 rb/4 assists/1 steal vs. Long Island
2011: Bryant Crowder: 13 pts/6 rbs/1 steal vs. Rhode Island**
2010: Mike Moore: 13 pts/4 rbs/4 assists vs. Farmingdale State
2010: Dwan McMillan: 15 pts/2 rbs/6 assists/1 steal vs. Farmingdale State**
2010: Brad Kelleher: 2 pts vs. Florida Atlantic**
2008: Tony Dennison: 5 pts/4 rbs/1 assist vs. Clemson**
2008: Cornelius Vines: 12 pts/3 rbs/3 steals vs. Clemson**
2008: Miklos Szabo: 4 pts/11 rbs/2 assists/1 steal vs. E. Tennessee State**
2007: Darren Townes: 5 pts/5 rbs/1 steal/1 blocked shot vs. Holy Cross**
2007: Dane Johnson: 3 pts/1 rb/3 blocked shots vs. Holy Cross**
2004: Kenny Harris: 3 pts/1 rb/1 assist/2 steals vs. Florida International**
2004: Adrian Uter: 0 pts/2 rbs/1 block vs. Florida International**
2000: Osei Miller: 2 pts/2 rbs vs. Northern Illinois
1999: Greg Springfield: 7 pts/5 rbs/10 blocked shots vs. New Mexico State***
1998: Jason Hernandez: 7 pts/ 2 rbs/1 assist/2 steals vs. Maryland
1998: Abdul Sylla 0 pts/3 rbs vs. Youngstown State
1997: Mike Renfro 6 pts/3 rbs/1 assist/1 steal vs. Bucknell**
1996: Lance Dunkley 2 pts/3 rbs/1 assist vs. Stony Brook**
1996: Duane Posey 8 pts/4 rbs/1 assist/2 blks vs. Stony Brook
1995: Seth Meyers 14 pts/5 rbs vs. Stony Brook
1995: Lawrence Thomas 20 pts/4 rbs/2 assists vs. Villanova
1994: Jamil Greene 1 pt/2 rbs/1 assist vs. New Hampshire**
1993: Chris Johnke 0 pts/5 rbs vs. Iona**
1991: Demetrius Dudley 33 pts/7 rbs vs. Navy
**--junior college transfer
***--10 blocked shots are a school record
THE FRESHMAN THREE
After no freshman appeared in last season’s opener against Houston, a trio of freshmen played Monday night. Amar’e Marshall (15 points), Christian Tomasco (two points) and Griffin Barrouk (no points) all made their Hofstra debuts after redshirting last season. The Dutchmen last had three freshmen appear on opening night on Nov. 10, 2017, when Jalen Ray, Matija Radovic and Stafford Trueheart all debuted. Marshall is the first freshman to score in double figures in his debut since Ray had 10 points against Army. The 15 points by Marshall were the most by a freshman in his debut since Eli Pemberton scored 20 points off the bench against Coppin State on Nov 11, 2016. Here are some notable debuts by Hofstra freshman since 1991:
2021: Jaquan Carlos: 0 pts/2 rebs vs. Duquesne (game no. 2)
2020: Kvonn Cramer: 8 pts/4 rebs/3 steals vs. Rutgers
2020: David Green: 0 pts/1 reb vs. Rutgers
2020: Vukasin Masic: 0 pts/1 reb vs. Rutgers
2019: Caleb Burgess: 0 pts vs. San Jose State
2019: Jermaine Miranda: 0 pts/2 rebs vs. San Jose State
2018: Kevin Schutte: 0 pts vs. Mount St. Mary’s
2017: Jalen Ray: 10 pts/2 assists vs. Army-West Point
2017: Matija Radovic: 5 pts/5 rebs vs. Army-West Point
2017: Stafford Trueheart: 0 pts/1 reb vs. Kennesaw State
2016: Eli Pemberton: 20 pts/4 rebs/1 steal vs. Coppin State
2015: Justin Wright-Foreman: 0 pts/1 reb vs. Canisius
2015: Desure Buie: 2 pts/2 assists/1 steal vs. Canisius
2014: Rokas Gustys: 4 pts/10 rebs vs. Jacksonville
2014: Andre Walker: 4 pts/11 rebs/6 blks vs. Jacksonville
2013: Chris Jenkins: 17 pts/2 rebs/1 blk/1 steal vs. Monmouth
2013: Jamall Robinson: 8 pts/4 rebs/2 assists vs. Monmouth
2012: Jordan Allen: 2 pts/1 reb vs. Monmouth
2011: Moussa Kone: 6 pts/2 rebs/1 steal vs. Long Island U.
2010: Shemiye McLendon: 16 pts/4 rbs/2 assists vs. Farmingdale State
2010: Stephen Nwaukoni: 8 rebs vs. Farmingdale State
2010: Roland Brown: 4 pts/5 rebs/1 steal/1 blk vs. Farmingdale State
2009: Chaz Williams: 7 pts/6 assists/5 rebs/37 mins vs. Kansas
2009: Halil Kanacevic: 12 pts/12 rebs/3 blks 31 mins vs. Kansas
2007: Charles Jenkins: 5 pts/9 rebs/1 assist/1 steal vs. Holy Cross
2007: Nathaniel Lester: 2 rebs vs. Holy Cross
2007: Greg Washington: 2 rebs/2 blks/1 assist/1 steal vs. Holy Cross
2005: Arminas Urbutis: 6 pts vs. Florida International
2005: Greg Johnson: 12 pts vs. Florida International
2004: Antoine Agudio: 20 pts vs. Florida International
2003: Loren Stokes: 2 pts vs. Marist
2003: Carlos Rivera: 10 pts vs. Marist
2001: Kenny Adeleke: 10 pts vs. Florida Atlantic
2000: Joel Suarez: 22 pts vs. Northern Illinois
1999: Rick Apodaca: 5 pts/2 assists vs. New Mexico State
1999: Danny Walker: 0 pts vs. New Mexico State
1998: No freshmen
1997: Roberto Gittens: 15 pts/6 rebs vs. Bucknell
1997: Norman Richardson: 2 pts/3 rebs vs. Bucknell
1996: Speedy Claxton: 13 pts/9 rebs vs. Stony Brook
1996: Joe Brown: 4 pts/3 rebs vs. Stony Brook
1995: Tim Beckett: 6 pts/7 rebs vs. Stony Brook
1995: Anthony Davis: 7 pts/2 assists vs. Stony Brook
1995: Ahmad Jackson: 2 pts/4 rebounds vs. Stony Brook
1993: James Parisi: 23 pts/7 rebs vs. Lehigh
STINGY WITH THE FREE THROWS
Thanks to the Brooke Shields bias, the Dutchmen didn’t shoot a free throw in the first half Monday and finished the game 4-of-6 from the line. The free throw-less half was the first for the Dutchmen since they didn’t attempt a free throw in the second half of the season-opening 83-75 overtime loss to Houston on Nov. 9, 2021. The zero free throws in the first half were the fewest for the Dutchmen in the opening 20 minutes of a game since they were 0-for-1 from the line in the first half of a 73-71 win over UNC Wilmington on Feb. 7.
NUMBER TEN THROUGH THIRTY-THREE
With Monday night’s win, Speedy Claxton improved to 22-11 (.667) as head coach. That’s the fourth-best winning percentage for a Hofstra coach through his first 33 games at the helm.
Paul Lynner 26-7 (.788, 33rd game was the third game of his second season in 1963-64)
Butch van Breda Kolff I 26-7 (.788, 33rd game was the seventh game of his second season in 1956-57)
Frank Reilly 23-10 (.697, 33rd game was the 14th game of his second season in 1948-49)
SPEEDY CLAXTON 22-11 (.667, 33rd game was the first game of his second season in 2022-23)
Mo Cassara 21-12 (.636, 33rd game was the final game of his first season in 2010-11)
Jack McDonald I 18-15 (.545, 33rd game was the second game of his third season in 1938-39)
Dick Berg 16-17 (.485, 33rd game was the sixth game of his second season in 1981-82)
Butch van Breda Kolff II 15-18 (.455, 33rd game was the fourth game of his second season in 1989-90)
Jack Smith 13-20 (.394, 33rd game was the 14th game of his second season in 1944-45)
Tom Pecora 12-21 (.364, 33rd game was the first game of his second season in 2002-03)
Jay Wright 12-21 (.364, 33rd game was the fifth game of his second season in 1995-96)
Joe Mihalich 10-23 (.303, 33rd game was the final game of his first season in 2013-14)
Roger Gaeckler 9-24 (.273, 33rd game was the ninth game of his second season in 1973-74)
Three coaches had one-season tenures lasting fewer than 33 games at Hofstra. Jack McDonald went 18-6 in the lone season of his second stint in 1946-47 while Joe Harrington went 14-14 in 1979-80 and Mike Farrelly went 13-10 in 2020-21.
TWICE AS NICE?
The Dutchmen are looking to start 2-0 for the 29th time in program history and the first time since 2017-18, when they opened 3-0.
OVER THE AIR
Tonight’s game is slated to be carried live on FloHoops.com (subscription required). Hofstra will provide a radio feed as well as live stats at the Pride Productions hub.
IONA AND THE MAAC
Iona, under this little-known third-year head coach Rick Pitino, is 1-0 this season after opening its slate Monday with a 78-50 favorite of Penn, which was narrowly favored to win the Ivy League over Princeton. So tonight is basically the Ivy League championship game already!
Iona, which had its streak of five straight MAAC tournament championships snapped last season when Saint Peter’s won the automatic bid and made the sensational Cinderella run to the Elite Eight, was the near-unanimous pick to win the MAAC this season. The Gaels received 10 out of 11 first-place votes. Junior Nelly Junior Joseph was selected to the All-MAAC first team (and might be the preseason player of the year if balloting were redone after Jose Perez left Manhattan following the firing of Steve Masiello) while sophomore Walter Clayton Jr. was named to the All-MAAC second team.
Joseph had a double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) Monday while Clayton flirted with a double-double in finishing with nine points and seven assists. Daniss Jenkins (19 points), Quinn Slazinski (16 points) and Berrick JeanLouis (12 points) all scored in double figures for Iona, which hoisted 25 3-pointers, because that’s what Rick Pitino-coached teams have done since I was in elementary school.
The Dutchmen and Gaels have one common opponent. Iona is slated to play Princeton on Dec. 13. FYI: Hofstra beat Princeton, 83-77, on Monday night.
Tonight marks the final game of a three-game home-and-home series that began Dec. 5, 2020, when Iona earned an 82-74 win at Hofstra Arena and continued with…another 82-74 win by Iona in New Rochelle last Nov. 16. That’s quirky! The wins give Iona a 22-20 lead in the all-time series between the schools, though perhaps it’s actually only 22-21 because Willie bested Killian the Gael in a game of rock/paper/scissors to determine the 2020 host. Iona is Hofstra’s third-most frequent non-conference opponent behind only Wagner (53 games) and Manhattan (46 games).
Hofstra is 103-120 all-time against current MAAC schools. For the second straight season, Iona is the only MAAC foe on the Dutchmen’s schedule this year, which marks just the third time in the last 17 seasons the Dutchmen haven’t played at least two MAAC schools (the 2014-15 schedule had no MAAC teams).
At KenPom.com this afternoon, Hofstra is ranked 134th while Iona is ranked 97th. KenPom.com predicts a 75-74 win for the Dutchmen. Per the wise guys in Vegas, for entertainment purposes only, the Dutchmen are 1-point underdogs. Well, which one is it?! The Dutchmen are 1-0 against the spread this season.
I helped preview tonight’s game in podcast form with my good friend, Jaden Daly, whom you may remember from such blogs as A Daly Dose of Hoops and such Twitter threads as my goodness how are they still quoting The Simpsons? Jaden interviewed both me and another good friend, Iona super fan Guy Falotico. Check it out here!
A FAMILIAR FACE
Rick Pitino is just the fourth coach to oppose the Flying Dutchmen with three different schools. Pitino first faced the then-actual Flying Dutchmen way back on Dec. 29, 1986, when Providence cruised to a 97-61 win in Rhode Island. Future national champion head coach Billy Donovan was one of five Providence players to score in double figures. Almost exactly three months later, the Friars were in the Final Four. Gerald King scored 24 points for the Dutchmen.
And Pitino’s second game following his second national championship LUKE HANCOCK BIAS was against Hofstra on Nov. 12, 2013, when Louisville beat the Dutchmen, 97-69, in Joe Mihalich’s third game at the helm. Dion Nesmith led the Dutchmen with 24 points while the late great Zeke Upshaw had 17 points.
The only other coaches to oppose Hofstra with three different schools are Jim Lynam (Fairfield, American and Saint Joseph’s between the 1969-70 and 1980-81 seasons), Nick Macarchuk (Canisius, Fordham and Stony Brook between the 1977-78 and 1999-2000 seasons) and Jim Baron (St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island and Canisius between the 1992-93 and 2015-16 seasons).
THINGS YOU CAN SHOUT ON TWITTER IF CALLS GO DO NOT GO HOFSTRA’S WAY
Casey Stanley is ducking me bias! (My friend and longtime foil returned to Arkansas State following last season…sure is a coincidence he left as soon as I could see him at the Arena again!)
Rick Pitino is leaving any day now for a Power 5 gig now that he’s been exonerated by the NCAA bias! (Hi Guy!)
Tim Welsh actually coached a game for your school bias! (Ninety-two of them, as a matter of fact)
Jason Motte bias! (The pitcher who recorded the World Series-clinching out for the Cardinals in 2011 was a catcher at Iona)
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