Delaware v. Bucknell

[UDEL Fear the Bird]

Excited for the start of the season on Monday. Hens are five point favorites on DraftKings right now. If UD does not cover it could be a long season because I do not believe Bucknell will be any good this year.

[finpxz1]

Very interested to see what this team will be with so many new faces expected to have significant roles. Sure hope we can get out of the gate with a win, but Bucknell has historically been an issue for UD…especially on the road. We are 10 and 35 all-time in Lewisburg.

[DaveB]

Planning to attend with my son. Bucknell picked towards bottom of Patriot. If we are contending in CAA, this should be a win but like Fin shared, playing at Bucknell has been somewhat of a house of horrors.

Luckily most of those losses occurred before Delaware got serious about hoops.

Looking forward to all the new faces

[UDEL Fear the Bird]

Planning to attend with my son. Bucknell picked towards bottom of Patriot. If we are contending in CAA, this should be a win but like Fin shared, playing at Bucknell has been somewhat of a house of horrors.

Luckily most of those losses occurred before Delaware got serious about hoops.

Looking forward to all the new faces

I think our big question marks are in the backcourt so I am interested to see how that plays out in the first game. I will be attending the game as well with one of my friends who lives up there. Glad to hear there will be some other UD fans in attendance. The Sojka Pavilion is small but a nice venue to watch a college bball game.

[DaveB]

Game notes

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Starters

Trent
Bethea
Drumgoole
Davis
Houser

This is why I am optimistic about this team. You have a bench with Reilly, Lane and Ray. If Emory or Moss can give something, you have some good depth

[UDEL Fear the Bird]

Game notes

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Starters

Trent
Bethea
Drumgoole
Davis
Houser

This is why I am optimistic about this team. You have a bench with Reilly, Lane and Ray. If Emory or Moss can give something, you have some good depth

Thanks for sharing. Surprised that Ray is not going to start but if he does not he provides some nice bench depth.

[tenn hen]

Game notes

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Starters

Trent
Bethea
Drumgoole
Davis
Houser



This is why I am optimistic about this team. You have a bench with Reilly, Lane and Ray. If Emory or Moss can give something, you have some good depth

Thanks for sharing. Surprised that Ray is not going to start but if he does not he provides some nice bench depth.

excellent 6th man for sure. looking forward to see our early product in action and also surprised Ray is on the bench!

back in the day I applied to UD, Bucknell, and Vermont( one of my hs's best players ever played for them on a full ride) and was accepted at all three. I'm happy I selected our Hens. Bucknell was certainly one of our biggest rivals back in the 60's.

[finpxz1]

Delaware media department strikes again. There is a blurb in the game notes about Brandon Baffone’s father playing in the first ever game in the Bob Carpenter Center for Sallies in March of 1993. I’m assuming they meant the first ever “high school” game as UD beat Rutgers in December of 1992 in the first ever men’s college game played in the Bob.

[finpxz1]

Hard to believe MI is 53 and 64 all-time in the the CAA…that’s a .453 winning percentage over 7 seasons. And his most ever conference wins was 11 in 2019-20. Those are essentially Monte Ross kinds of numbers and simply isn’t good enough. This has to be a successful season for him or it may be time to pull the plug if we have yet another losing record. Having said that, really hoping this team can gel relatively quickly. On paper, feels like they should be able to compete for a CAA title. No more excuses!!!

[HENJOHN]

Hard to believe MI is 53 and 64 all-time in the the CAA…that’s a .453 winning percentage over 7 seasons. And his most ever conference wins was 11 in 2019-20. Those are essentially Monte Ross kinds of numbers and simply isn’t good enough. This has to be a successful season for him or it may be time to pull the plug if we have yet another losing record. Having said that, really hoping this team can gel relatively quickly. On paper, feels like they should be able to compete for a CAA title. No more excuses!!!

Wow. Had no idea the numbers looked like that. Time to Take Off and being more consistent. Lets start with this season please.

[DaveB]

The cupboard was bare when he arrived and a first time coach. If you back out his first 2 years, he is 42-39 in CAA play and 74-61 overall with a NCAA appearance. Not great but respectable.

With that said, I would like to see the needle moved starting this year. Certain teams like Charleston, Towson and Hofstra have had his number

[Henway]

Hard to believe MI is 53 and 64 all-time in the the CAA…that’s a .453 winning percentage over 7 seasons. And his most ever conference wins was 11 in 2019-20. Those are essentially Monte Ross kinds of numbers and simply isn’t good enough. This has to be a successful season for him or it may be time to pull the plug if we have yet another losing record. Having said that, really hoping this team can gel relatively quickly. On paper, feels like they should be able to compete for a CAA title. No more excuses!!!

No one is offering excuses. Let the season at least begin before talking about pulling the plug if we have another losing record. Full disclosure: Ross, 132-184 winning % of .418. In Conference, 79-100, winning % 441. Ingelsby, 111-100,winning % 526. In Conference, 53-64, winning % 453. And one more perspective look; Ross failed to win double digit wins in 3 of his 10 seasons. Ingelsby only one season, the covid shortened season.

[UDPat]

Delaware media department strikes again. There is a blurb in the game notes about Brandon Baffone’s father playing in the first ever game in the Bob Carpenter Center for Sallies in March of 1993. I’m assuming they meant the first ever “high school” game as UD beat Rutgers in December of 1992 in the first ever men’s college game played in the Bob.

It is HS, I think his dad hit a big shot in that game to send Sallies to the finals.

That's all I have to nice about his father. Had one conversation with the Dad, Thinks a lot of himself.

[finpxz1]

The cupboard was bare when he arrived and a first time coach. If you back out his first 2 years, he is 42-39 in CAA play and 74-61 overall with a NCAA appearance. Not great but respectable.

With that said, I would like to see the needle moved starting this year. Certain teams like Charleston, Towson and Hofstra have had his number

I guess…Pat Kelsey took over a .500 program at Charleston and has managed to go 48 and 19 in his first 2 seasons. As the great Bill Parcells used to say, “You are what your record says you are,”. Time for MI to put up or shut up in my humble opinion. Going into his 8th season, the time is now. Let’s start the 2023-24 season off right tonight against Bucknell.

[Udforever1]

The cupboard was bare when he arrived and a first time coach. If you back out his first 2 years, he is 42-39 in CAA play and 74-61 overall with a NCAA appearance. Not great but respectable.

With that said, I would like to see the needle moved starting this year. Certain teams like Charleston, Towson and Hofstra have had his number

I guess…Pat Kelsey took over a .500 program at Charleston and has managed to go 48 and 19 in his first 2 seasons. As the great Bill Parcells used to say, “You are what your record says you are,”. Time for MI to put up or shut up in my humble opinion. Going into his 8th season, the time is now. Let’s start the 2023-24 season off right tonight against Bucknell.

Agree that it’s time to put up or shut up but this program was not even close to 500 when he arrived. As one respected UD coach for another coach told me, “he’s trying to make soup out of chicken ****.” MI also didn’t have the luxury of the portal and guys playing right away that Kelsey has had.

But none of that matters now. It’s time to be a consistent threat in the CAA, or whatever conference we may eventually be in.