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20 Schuylkill League Swimmers Head To Bucknell

... I can. “Hopefully I won’t lose the feel for the water. You can’t lose your training in two days. Basically, it’s the final two days of taper, so hopefully that won’t throw too many people off.”. Added Zimmerman: “Sometimes it’s nice to have a day off, prepare mentally instead of physically. Lay around, stretch, drink lots of water, get the blood flowing through the body.”. Role reversal. When I first started to cover Schuylkill League swimming in 2004, the league’s girls’ swimmers were the best in Pennsylvania. Led by strong teams at Panther Valley and Blue Mountain, Schuylkill League girls’ swimmers garnered 52 state medals from 2004-2009, including 12 gold and a Class AA team runner-up trophy by Panther Valley in 2007. Over that same time frame only one Schuylkill League boys’ swimmer — Blue Mountain’s Scott Thomas — collected a state medal, eighth in the 500 freestyle in 2006. Fast forward to today. Since 2009, when Panther Valley’s ...

West Virginia Turns Back Bucknell's Upset Bid, 86-80

... Phillip made all four free throws over the final minute, and the Bison's hopes realistically ended when Nate Jones missed a three-pointer with 35 seconds lef that kept the West Virginia lead at 81-74. West Virginia forced 15 turnovers but did allow more than 70 points for the 17 th time this season. The Mountaineers entered the game 7-9 when surrendering 70 or more points. The Bison showed perseverance in facing and even overcoming the Mountaineers stifling press defense. Each time it appeared West Virginia was poised to blow the game out, Bucknell charged back. The Bison overcame a 27-12 deficit in the first half to close the gap to 36-33 on Avi Toomer's layup. Then after Elijah Macon completed a three-point play to put the Mountaineers up 45-33 in the opening seconds of the second half, ...

Smaller Bucknell Managed The Press, But Not The Boards

... Bison squad will be 6-9 Nana Foulland, who won the conference’s player of the year and defensive player of the year awards as a junior this season. Foulland scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds in 30 minutes against the Mountaineers. “He’s a really good player in any league,” Huggins said. “He’s athletic, and not just at the offensive end. He changed so many shots. He really disrupted us offensively with the shot-blocking ability.”. Bench power: West Virginia outscored the Bison, 37-5, off the bench. The Mountaineers rank 42 nd in the nation in bench minutes, according to the Pomeroy analytics, with the reserves getting 38 percent of the team’s minutes. Bucknell’s bench saw a decent amount of minutes against Patriot League foes but not much against the Mountaineers. Davis stuck mostly with six guys. The seventh man got eight minutes. Big 12 vs. ACC: West Virginia will try to buck a conference trend when it plays Notre Dame of the Atlantic Coast Conference on Saturday. The Big 12 was 1-6 vs. the ACC this season. West Virginia had the only win, ...

Season 108 Episode 35

... XM 201. Where are they from? Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Series History: WVU leads the series 8-0. Last Time: West Virginia 112, Bucknell 71 on January 3, 1977. SB Nation Blog: Mid-Major Madness. Record: 26-8 (16-3 Patriot). Head Coach: Nathan Davis (he just got his nails done). Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports. KEYS TO THE GAME. Exploit the sloppiness of Zach Thomas. The Bison’s top-scoring forward is not the best ball handler. He is the team’s leader in turnovers which includes abysmal performances at American (7 TOs) and against Navy in the conference semis (5 TOs). Get Jevon Carter on him and his scoring should be a non-factor. Find an answer for Nana Foulland. The 6’ 9” center will be the primary rebounding adversary for the Mountaineers. Find a matchup for him *cough-cough* Elijah Macon *cough-cough* to equalize the rebounding battle. HOW AFRAID SHOULD WE BE (ON A SCALE OF 1-10). Three. I’m as afraid of ...

Bucknell Ready For Mountaineers

... about Bucknell following the selection show Sunday, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is now expecting a battle from the 13 th-seeded Bison. “They’re good,” Huggins said on the Big 12 coaches teleconference. “You don’t win 28 and not be good, no matter who you play.”. The Mountaineers coach also had a lot of praise for Nana Foulland, the Patriot League Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. “Their big guy is really good,” Huggins said. “He passes the ball well out of the post.”. In addition to pointing out Foulland was the Patriot League “MVP,” in Huggins’ words multiple times, he added the Bison had other ways they could hurt his team. “They shoot the ball extremely well from the perimeter,” Huggins said. “They have multiple ballhandlers.”. The biggest focus for the Bison heading into the game has been handling West Virginia’s pressure defense. “It’s not the first time that we’ve played a team with a press,” junior guard Stephen Brown said. “I expect them to deny the point guard, which is my position, but we have plenty of guys who can ...

Former Radford High Star Jones In Ncaa Tournament With Bucknell

... Toomer starting while Jones was sidelined, so the coaches did not restore Jones to the starting lineup once he was healthy again. Jones has come off the bench in each of the past 12 games. He has played double figures in minutes in only four of those 12 games. "My high school coach, Rick Cormany, really instilled the idea of being a great teammate, no matter if you're playing all the minutes or you're not playing at all. So I just tried to keep that in mind," he said. Bucknell will be playing Thursday against a school that once employed Jones' father. The elder Jones spent one season as a WVU assistant when Nate was 5 years old. "I remember it snowed a lot," he said. W&L graduate. Bucknell assistant Paul Harrison is a 1993 graduate of Washington and Lee, although he never played basketball for the Generals. Harrison became a high school coach before moving into ...

Thomas Doesn't Get Win, But Sees Dream Come True With Bucknell

... contingent of Bucknell fans at Key Bank Center. Oakdale basketball coach Terry Connolly also made the trip to lend support to his former protégé. Zach Thomas, Frederick County’s all-time leading scorer for boys basketball with almost 2,300 points, played 37 of 40 minutes for Bucknell. He finished with 13 points, six rebounds and two assists. But the 13 th-seeded Bison (26-9), regular season and tournament champions in the Patriot League, fell to fourth-seeded West Virginia 86-80. “Aside from losing, of course, it was a great experience coming here,” Thomas said through a smile afterward in the locker room. “You know, experiencing all the stuff, the press and everything, it’s cool.”. Thomas did not have a good-shooting performance. He was 3-for-9 from the field. But he sank seven of his nine free throws and was credited with a steal, four turnovers and four fouls. “We ...

Pulitzer-winning Composer To Perform At Bucknell

... with moments of light popping through. She was inspired to write the fourth movement, “Flowers,” after interacting with a woman who works at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton. She said the woman was “one of the sunniest people I ever met” even though she was the daughter of miners who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. “She had this wonderful experience of growing up in a multigenerational family,” said Wolfe. She said she was fascinated with how the miners had come to rely on each other, causing families to become tight-knit throughout the community. “When she would describe her life it was picnics and dinners and games that they kids would play.”. Instead of describing her life as bleak, the woman told Wolfe about the beautiful gardens the women of the community grew. She began reciting the flowers that formed the gardens, and Wolfe scribbled them down. The list became the backbone of the movement. “I felt it was important not just to be doing doom and gloom, but also have some representation of the vitality of the lives they led,” Wolfe said. “In this dark subject, we need some ...

Unprecedented' Moment For Bucknell Hoops Programs

... a seat quietly Monday afternoon, simply soaking in the atmosphere as his basketball programs made history. The Bison women, who clinched their first NCAA tournament bid in nearly a decade with an overtime win Sunday, learned their first-round opponent Monday — Big Ten champion Maryland. Bucknell and coach Aaron Roussell will head to College Park, Md. for a Friday tip against the 30-4 Terrapins. The Bison enter the game 27-5 overall and winners of 22 of their last 24 games. Bucknell’s players and coaches sat quietly as the bracket was announced Monday, although a whisper emerged when UCLA, seeded fourth, drew 13 th-seeded Boise State. Moments later, Bucknell’s name popped up opposite a Maryland team that has won three consecutive Big Ten tournament titles. “We’re still celebrating the fact that we’re in the NCAA tournament,” Roussell said. “To be able to play in an arena like that against a big-time opponent in an environment like that is something we’re really excited about.”. Hardt said Sunday’s victory cemented a remarkable run for the programs over the past two weeks. It marks the first time ...

Feminists At Oberlin, Bucknell, Temple Host Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

... Weil, an art and art history lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, argued that the Edit-A-Thon events seek to fill in the gaps that might exist on Wikipedia due to the overwhelming amount of male editors. “The intent is not to disproportionately overstate the roles of women or downplay the achievements of men through a malicious rewriting of history,” she explained. “Rather, this project seeks to revisit gaps in scholarship and canonical history — places in which the accounts of women’s contributions to society may, for one reason or another, simply not exist.”. A similar event was held at Bucknell University on March 3. A page describing the event argued that Wikipedia content is “skewed” as a result of the overwhelming amount of male contributors: “Content is skewed by the lack of female participation, creating imbalance in this increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.”. Similar events were held at Temple University and the University of the Arts, both in Philadelphia. ...