3 Games in 48 Hours – WM, Liberty, and Eastern Kentucky

Game Notes

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Watch the Liberty – Lehigh game Saturday night live on the Big South network. At $4.95 not a bad deal.

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William & Mary Game Footnotes

Final: LU wins by 25 (82-57)

3 W&M bigs (two 6’8" and one 6’9") dressed in shirts and ties on bench

Arena seats 8,000. Head count for our game = 85 (that’s eighty five!). Assume it’s a late arriving crowd for second game – Liberty vs. Eastern Ky.

LU went on a 40-7 run in 1st half

LU up by as many as 41

Blowout gives extended minutes to non-starters and first action to BJ, CG, and TS with less than 3 minutes to go. Everyone dressed saw action.

LU’s top 4 scorers: GK (16), CJ (15), HG (14), Stefan C (10)

00, like you I bought the game but was called away at the last minute (wife, ya know – – dinner I forgot about) so I’m hoping I can pull it up on "Demand" once it’s archived by the school. Would have been nice to see (live) the team explode for 90. Impressive stat sheet highlighted by CJ’s 32, Jordan’s 8 for 10 night (after cold shooting 3 for 13 in 3 previous games), starting front line performance (15 of 21 from the field), and Mackey’s 10 point / 5 assist / 1 turnover night. Reed’s post game comment about the team not feeling the job was done by simply winning two down in Virginia was great to hear. Eastern Kentucky won’t be a pushover today. They’re also 2-0 over the last two days. Voice only today / no video. A 4 and 2 start over 12 days would be sweet.

Stats and More Stats

Some numbers that may have escaped you……..

From last game (Eastern Kentucky)
14 players suited up – 14 played, 12 scored, 10 pulled down a rebound, 10 got to the line and scored, 9 got double-digit minutes, and 7 were credited with at least one assist

BJ gets his first bucket.

CJ attempts just 6 shots from the field (last year average = 17.3). In fact, no one took more than 8.

Conroy Baltimore pulls down 5 rebounds in 4 minutes.

Bench contributes 28 points (37% of total).

From weekend in Virginia (W&M, Liberty, and Eastern Kentucky)
LU FG% = .506

Opponent FG% = .380

Stefan Cvrkalj was not afraid to shoot the basketball and score whenever given the chance. Points per minute of playing time:
CJ .68
SC .52
JH .49
GK .49
HG .45
MM .31
CS .27

6 Game Season Totals
John Adams tops the team with a .900 FT%

Point Guard play off to a solid – if not good – start with MM and CS combining for 24 assists while yielding just 15 turnovers (1.6 ratio) and averaging a combined 10.9 PPG

Team Scoring differential = +9.5 PPG

Team Rebounding differential = 34.2 to 35.0 or -0.8

Same starting 5 each game

CJ’s MPG and FGA are down from previous season totals with only slight dip in PPG
MPG 30.8 vs 34.5 (down 10.7%)
FGA 13.3 vs 17.3 (down 23.1%)
PPG 19.2 vs 21.3 (down down 9.8%)

"Bigs" off the bench (Minutes / Points / Rebounds per game)
JA 12.2 / 3.5 / 3.2
JM 7.8 / 1.7 / 1.3
CB 5.0 / 1.7 / 2.0

"Smalls" off the bench (Minutes / Points / Rebounds per game)
CS 16.7 / 4.2 / 1.5
AD 14.7 / 4.3 / 1.8
SC 9.0 / 5.0 / 0.4

With added minutes both Holden Greiner and Jordan Hamilton have stepped-up their performance relative to minutes played with little to no impact on Gabe Knutson’s fine play

Holden Greiner
29.2 MPG / 11.7 PPG / 6.8 RPG
vs. Last year
20.5 MPG / 6.4 PPG / 4.3 RPG
up 42% / up 83% / up 63%

Jordan Hamilton
23.0 MPG / 7.8 PPG / 2.7 RPG
vs. last year
16.3 MPG / 5.0 PPG / 1.9 RPG
up 41% / up 56% / up 42%

Gabe Knutson
25.5 MPG / 13.2 PPG / 3.7 RPG
vs. last year
29.6 MPG / 12.2 PPG / 5.7 RPG
down 14% / up 8% / down 35%

3 Starting "Bigs" Combined
MPG up 17% / PPG up 39% / RPG up 11%