Oh my God, look at this, the Flying Dutchmen lost a game? *whimpers*
First the Kansas City Chiefs. Now the Flying Dutchmen. Is nothing sacred? The dream of an unbeaten season perished for the 89th straight year Tuesday night, when the Dutchmen never led in a 79-61 loss to Florida State.
However, even in defeat, we will persevere and continue to break out the postgame boilerplate material — albeit in a reduced form since there’s no unicorn score or Keith Hernandez bit, sigh — in a separate Keep It Perky while saving the individual news and notes and preview of the next game for, well, the next one.
As always, for a reminder of how Keep It Perky came to be as a concept and a name (shout out Jess K.), click here for the inaugural Keep It Perky from the win over Stony Brook on Feb. 1. And for now…the Florida State Keep It Perky!
THE MOST RECENT GAME SUMMARIZED IN ONE PARAGRAPH
The Flying Dutchmen gave up the first eight points — the first of three sustained runs they absorbed that ended any hopes of an upset over Florida State. The Dutchmen responded to the Seminoles’ opening spurt with a 14-6 run and tied the game on KiJan Robinson’s 3-pointer with 9:09 left. But the Dutchmen were scoreless on their next six possession as Florida State began a 13-2 run. Jean Aranguren and Cruz Davis had seven points apiece as the Dutchmen outscored the Seminoles 21-12 RUSH BIAS over a span of 7:16 bridging the halves to cut the deficit to 39-37. But Davis missed a potential game-tying jumper with 14:53 left and th Dutchmen turned the ball over on their next four possessions as Florida State took control with a 10-0 run. The Dutchmen got as close as nine just twice the rest of the way, though Jaquan Sanders’ 3-pointer pulled the visitors within 69-58 with 3:36 left before the Seminoles scored 10 straight points. Aranguren scored 14 points and added seven rebounds while Sanders had 13 points and a career-high five assists, though he also had a career-high six turnovers. Robinson tied a career-high with 13 points off the bench while Michael Graham (eight points, eight rebounds) flirted with a double-double. Davis finished with nine points.
3 STARS OF THE GAME (vs. Florida State, 11/19)
3: Jean Aranguren
2: Jaquan Sanders
1: KiJan Robinson
SEASON STANDINGS
Jean Aranguren 15
Jaquan Sanders 7
Cruz Davis 6
KiJan Robinson 1
TJ Gadsden 1
WAS THIS A UNICORN SCORE?
Sorry, force of habit.
THE FLYING DUTCHMEN AFTER FIVE GAMES
As you may have gathered by now, the Dutchmen fell from the ranks of unbeaten Tuesday and are 4-1 this season. This ties the 2024-25 team for the 11th-best record in school history through five games. From best to tied for 11th-best in one day, if these trends continue… Twelve other teams began 4-1, most recently the 2022-23 squad. Here is how some notable Hofstra teams have fared through five games:
NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAMS
1975-76: 2-3
1976-77: 4-1
1999-2000: 3-2
2000-01: 4-1
2019-20 (IT COUNTS TO US): 3-2
NIT TEAMS
1998-99: 2-3
2004-05: 5-0 (most recent 5-0 start)
2005-06: 4-1
2006-07: 2-3
2015-16: 3-2
2018-19: 3-2
2022-23: 4-1
NCAA DIVISION II TOURNAMENT TEAMS
1958-59: 3-2
1961-62: 4-1
1962-63: 3-2 (over .500 for good)
1963-64: 4-1
Other notable five-game starts:
2021-22: 1-4 (most recent 1-4 start)
2016-17: 2-3 (most recent 2-3 start)
2013-14: 2-3 (Joe Mihalich’s first team)
2012-13: 3-2 (last time over .500 that season because…well, you know)
2010-11: 2-3 (Mo Cassara’s first team, last time under .500)
2002-03: 1-4 (loss in fifth game was second loss in eight-game losing streak, tied for the longest of the Tom Pecora era)
2001-02: 4-1 (Tom Pecora’s first team)
1994-95: 1-4 (Jay Wright’s first team)
1993-94: 1-4 (VBK’s last team)
1982-83: 5-0
1978-79: 3-2 (last time over .500)
1974-75: 2-3 (last time under .500)
1973-74: 0-5 (most recent 0-5 start)
1972-73: 2-3 (under .500 for good)
1969-70: 0-5 (first 0-5 start)
1960-61: 5-0
1969-60: 5-0
1955-56: 5-0 (Butch van Breda Kolff improves to .500)
1954-55: 5-0
1952-53: 5-0
1951-52: 5-0
1948-49: 5-0
1947-48: 5-0 (Frank Reilly improves to .500)
1950-51: 3-2 (over .500 for good)
1944-45: 2-3 (under .500 for good)
1937-38: 3-2 (over .500 for good)
Full records not available for the following seasons: 1936-37, 1941-42, 1942-43.
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.
NUMBER TEN THROUGH ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE
With Tuesday’s loss, Speedy Claxton fell to 70-35 (.667) as head coach. That’s tied for the third-best known winning percentage for a Hofstra coach through his first 105 games at the helm.
Butch van Breda Kolff I 71-34 (.676, 105th game was the second game of his fifth season in 1959-60)
Frank Reilly 71-34 (.676, 105th game was the fourth game of his fifth season in 1951-52)
SPEEDY CLAXTON 70-35 (.667, 105th game was the fifth game of his fourth season in 2024-25)
Paul Lynner 70-35 (.667, 105th game was the 21st game of his fourth season in 1965-66)
Joe Mihalich 56-49 (.533, 105th game was the fourth game of his fourth season in 2016-17)
Butch van Breda Kolff II 53-52 (.505, 105th game was the 20th game of his fourth season in 1991-92)
Dick Berg 52-53 (.495, 105th game was the 23rd game of his fourth season in 1983-84)
Roger Gaeckler 47-58 (.448, 105th game was the third game of his fifth season in 1976-77)
Jay Wright 45-60 (.429, 105th game was the 23rd game of his fourth season in 1997-98)
Tom Pecora 44-61 (.419, 105th game was the 15th game of his fourth season in 2004-05)
The three-way tie for first become a two-way tie for first as the loss Tuesday drops Claxton into a tie with Paul Lynner for third place. I DID say the teams directed by VBK I and Reilly are in the midst of lengthy season-opening winning streaks, so these Dutchmen needed to keep winning for Claxton to retain a share of the top spot.
VBK II breaks a four-game tie with Dick Berg for sixth place while perpetual slackers Jay Wright and Tom Pecora continue to bring up the rear. Perpetual slackers!
The records are incomplete for Jack McDonald’s first stint from 1936 through 1943 as well as the tenure of Jack Smith (1943-46).
Smith finished 27-32 in his three seasons while Mo Cassara finished 38-59 in his three seasons. Three coaches had one-season tenures lasting at Hofstra. 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.
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