• Southern Wesleyan

 #6847  by apaladin
 Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:04 pm
Never thought I would be excited about this game but right now I just want to see the Paladins play again. See y'all Wednesday!!
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 #6848  by Paul C
 Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:18 pm
This is a great game to get the young kids some quality reps. Hope to see a lot of Pugh, Bothwell and Slawson.
 #6852  by apaladin
 Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:24 am
This is kinda strange but this game, the NGU game and the Villanova game are all non-bracketed games in the Advocare Invitational. The actual bracketed tournament is in Florida on Thanksgiving Day and goes thru Sunday. 8 teams -Villanova, Canisius, Florida St., LSU, Memphis, Charleston, Oklahoma St. and UAB. Furman is the only team not participating in the Florida event. This is strange. Maybe we get a little money for putting the label on the games? Why would they include non-D1 games. Why would they let Furman be a ninth team that doesn't participate?
 #6855  by gman
 Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:38 am
apaladin wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:24 am
This is kinda strange but this game, the NGU game and the Villanova game are all non-bracketed games in the Advocare Invitational. The actual bracketed tournament is in Florida on Thanksgiving Day and goes thru Sunday. 8 teams -Villanova, Canisius, Florida St., LSU, Memphis, Charleston, Oklahoma St. and UAB. Furman is the only team not participating in the Florida event. This is strange. Maybe we get a little money for putting the label on the games? Why would they include non-D1 games. Why would they let Furman be a ninth team that doesn't participate?
Where do you see that?
 #6857  by MNORM
 Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:16 am
apaladin wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:24 am
This is kinda strange but this game, the NGU game and the Villanova game are all non-bracketed games in the Advocare Invitational. The actual bracketed tournament is in Florida on Thanksgiving Day and goes thru Sunday. 8 teams -Villanova, Canisius, Florida St., LSU, Memphis, Charleston, Oklahoma St. and UAB. Furman is the only team not participating in the Florida event. This is strange. Maybe we get a little money for putting the label on the games? Why would they include non-D1 games. Why would they let Furman be a ninth team that doesn't participate?
Didn't we "participate" in a similar tournament last year? I'm fairly certain we were in a non-bracketed side of the Phil Knight Invitational when we played Northeastern and UNH in Nashville...in front of about 100 people.
 #6862  by apaladin
 Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:03 am
gman wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:38 am
apaladin wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:24 am
This is kinda strange but this game, the NGU game and the Villanova game are all non-bracketed games in the Advocare Invitational. The actual bracketed tournament is in Florida on Thanksgiving Day and goes thru Sunday. 8 teams -Villanova, Canisius, Florida St., LSU, Memphis, Charleston, Oklahoma St. and UAB. Furman is the only team not participating in the Florida event. This is strange. Maybe we get a little money for putting the label on the games? Why would they include non-D1 games. Why would they let Furman be a ninth team that doesn't participate?
Where do you see that?
https://espnevents.com/advocare-invitational/bracket/
 #6923  by Fessor
 Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:44 pm
gman wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:54 am
58 seconds of this 60 second piece are really well done.
 #6942  by Paul C
 Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:31 pm
CharlieFU wrote:
Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:16 pm
Pleased to see Slawson get significant minutes.

Clark might be our most improved player
No kidding. Every time I say "Mounce is our most improved player", Tre Clark does something that makes me say wow.
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 #6943  by apaladin
 Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:47 pm
Good crowd considering, lots of new faces but I wonder if this is there first FU game experience will they come back? I know CBR wanted to play a lot of players and that is fine I just wish we could have made it a little more fun for new fans to get them to come back. Hard to believe we were behind this team late in the first half. They are 0-5 with their closest loss a 12 point loss to Coker. With that said a lethargic game was certainly not unexpected. On to UNCA Sunday. They have struggled early but we need to be ready. FYI- Sundays game is on channel 40 at 4pm.
 #6944  by Paul C
 Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:01 pm
Attendance was 1,506

Normal attendance for a November mid-week D2 game is probably 800

yeah, clearly our least impressive outing of the year. Glad it was So Wesleyan instead of a competent D1 team. Our shooting was off, our defense was out of sync and if not for Rafferty in the post it could have been a really bad night. But the youngsters got experience and the team as a whole got a bit of a reality check.
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