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11/7 Lafayette Leopards at Miami (7:30)

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Notsince1985 said:
Lafayette was 10-20 last season. They beat Rutgers by 2 (by far their most impressive win). They lost to Duke by 33 and Syracuse by 34. Most publications predict them to finish last in the Patriot League.
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New coach this year too after Fran O'Hanlon retired. Three starters return -- two 6/7 Fs and a 6'2 Guard.
 
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Lafayette, my alma mater, has, like most older east coast schools, a weird basketball history. Butch Van Breda Kolf had his first college coaching job there after leaving the pros. While at Lafayette, he coached Pete Caril, the long term, highly successful Princeton Coach. They made it to the Sweet Sixteen in 1957. Tom Davis, later of BC and Iowa got started as the coach for Lafayette after leaving an assistant job at American. Two of Kelly Tripucka's (ND and pros) brothers played at Lafayette and one was quite the shooter with an average of 26 points per game and conference POY. We beat ND in South Bend when Digger was the coach. We lost to Miami in 1999 in the NCAAs in Boston. Program has be floundering in recent years under a coach who had early success to had a27 year Lifetime Achievment Award type contract. Michael Jordan the coach comes from Colgate after an extended European career. We are not Loyola of Chicago.
 
SPAMM said:
Lafayette, my alma mater, has, like most older east coast schools, a weird basketball history. Butch Van Breda Kolf had his first college coaching job there after leaving the pros. While at Lafayette, he coached Pete Caril, the long term, highly successful Princeton Coach. They made it to the Sweet Sixteen in 1957. Tom Davis, later of BC and Iowa got started as the coach for Lafayette after leaving an assistant job at American. Two of Kelly Tripucka's (ND and pros) brothers played at Lafayette and one was quite the shooter with an average of 26 points per game and conference POY. We beat ND in South Bend when Digger was the coach. We lost to Miami in 1999 in the NCAAs in Boston. Program has be floundering in recent years under a coach who had early success to had a27 year Lifetime Achievment Award type contract. Michael Jordan the coach comes from Colgate after an extended European career. We are not Loyola of Chicago.
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Thanks for that interesting history. Not hoops-related but Joe Maddon also went to Lafayette. 2x World Series-winning Manager, 3x MLB's Mgr of the Year.
 
hotshot said:
Thanks for that interesting history. Not hoops-related but Joe Maddon also went to Lafayette. 2x World Series-winning Manager, 3x MLB's Mgr of the Year.
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Joe was one of my favorite managers. He only won one World Series tho with Chicago in 2016. Lost to Phily in 08 with the Rays.
 
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Looks like they split the student section. They kept the lower bleacher section by the home bench with the rest on the visiting end with the band as reported.
 
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