{"id":131,"date":"2009-12-30T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-12-30T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T05:58:52","slug":"great-looking-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Great-looking score!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s team undertook a sweet roadtrip and a bold step up in competition by traveling to Stanford last night.\u00a0 But despite huge numbers from Bowles (which thankfully seems to be more than a trend), this game\u00a0actually wasn&#8217;t quite as\u00a0close as the 80-76 score\u00a0might indicate (but we&#8217;ll take it for sure and good\u00a0work fellas).\u00a0 Wells hit 3 treys late, including two semi-garbage time\u00a0in the last\u00a0ten seconds to make it tight.\u00a0 The first one did cut it to six with :30 to play.\u00a0 If this were actually a tourney game, we&#8217;d of been dancing in the aisles and chuckin&#8217; streamers at that point.\u00a0 From the little we could glean from following this online, Rob said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>seems like the typical &#8220;small school shows potential and then loses in the end&#8221; sort game. Bowles is definitely holding his own though and it was a smart move to schedule this game regardless of whether or not the Dukes win. Lots of turnovers for the Dukes. Even if JMU doesn&#8217;t win, this is a great pre-conf game to schedule. Going cross country will prepare them for CAA road trips and playing a PAC-10 team is always good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully, the badass Lady Dukes proved they deserved to stay in the Top 25 by running Lafayette out of the Convo faster than Rockheed McCarter can switch sports.\u00a0 Apparently the Leopards are good for at least two things:\u00a0whining about playoff berths despite a conference that couldn&#8217;t produce a winner even if it were D3 and padding JMU&#8217;s pre-conference resume.\u00a0 JMU 86, Lafayette 54<\/p>\n<p>In other WBB news, word is that this is going to be handed out to early arrivals for the women&#8217;s game on Sunday, January 17th: <img data-attachment-id=\"132\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=132\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MM-Bobble.jpg?fit=237%2C604\" data-orig-size=\"237,604\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MM Bobble\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MM-Bobble.jpg?fit=117%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MM-Bobble.jpg?fit=237%2C604\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"MM Bobble\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MM-Bobble.jpg?resize=237%2C604\" alt=\"MM Bobble\" width=\"237\" height=\"604\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s team hosts archrival Mason the day before so\u00a0should make for a good MLK weekend in the &#8216;Burg.\u00a0 No word yet on whether MM&#8217;s vein&#8217;s bust out of a reddening face when bobbling or if this will have a companion piece of a CAA zebra for him to\u00a0chew out.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D131&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s team undertook a sweet roadtrip and a bold step up in competition by traveling to Stanford last night.\u00a0 But despite huge numbers from Bowles (which thankfully seems to be more than a trend), this game\u00a0actually wasn&#8217;t quite as\u00a0close as the 80-76 score\u00a0might indicate (but we&#8217;ll take it for sure and good\u00a0work fellas).\u00a0 Wells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":312,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=312","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"Return of the Template Loss","date":"February 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the lack of posts lately. 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