{"id":1898,"date":"2011-01-05T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2011-01-05T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T03:29:38","slug":"dukes-drop-99-points-in-win-over-towson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Dukes Drop 99 Points in Win Over Towson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/news_details.php?AID=53558&amp;CHID=64\">Dukes absolutely destroyed the Towson Tigers<\/a> by the score of 99-68 in the Convo tonight.\u00a0JMU started off slow with a couple early turnovers and sloppy mistakes. Fortunately Andrey Semenov sparked a run and the Dukes never looked back. The starters built up a lead and then the back-ups came in and picked up where the regulars left off.<\/p>\n<p>What a difference a year makes, huh? Last year, heck for most of the past decade, JMU fans clung to moral victories and praised the Dukes for keeping it close in CAA play. The Dukes entered tonight 11-3 and yet lots of fans were still waiting to see this team wake up and play up\u00a0to its potential. Well, this victory probably gave those fans a little bit of what they were looking for. It also might raise expectations even higher.<\/p>\n<p>Towson is by no means a power program, but JMU just blew their doors off. About the only disappointment tonight, was the fact that the Dukes fell 1 point shy of the century mark and thus denied fans in attendance free ice cream from Klines. How dominant were the Dukes?\u00a0Well, the team shot 66% for the game,\u00a0shot 85% from the line,\u00a0hit 12 threes, every player on the roster scored including\u00a0Freshman walk-on Andre Pierce, and the team had 26 assists.\u00a0It was really just a total beat down.<\/p>\n<p>So this was\u00a0an outstanding result, but there is a lot of basketball to play. The win puts the Dukes at 12-3 (2-1) and tied with a whole mess of teams a game behind George Mason in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caasports.com\/standings\/Standings.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8500&amp;SPID=3455\">CAA standings<\/a>.\u00a0The league is as good as it&#8217;s been in years and could earn multiple bids. No reason to think that the Dukes couldn&#8217;t earn one if they play up to their potential.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D1898&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 Dukes absolutely destroyed the Towson Tigers by the score of 99-68 in the Convo tonight.\u00a0JMU started off slow with a couple early turnovers and sloppy mistakes. Fortunately Andrey Semenov sparked a run and the Dukes never looked back. The starters built up a lead and then the back-ups came in and picked up where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[455,98],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8393,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8393","url_meta":{"origin":1898,"position":0},"title":"Dukes Drop 69-67 Decision at Towson","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In the penultimate game of the CAA regular season, JMU lost to Towson by the score of 69-67. The loss dropped JMU to 20-10 (10-7). Towson's win vaulted them past the Dukes in the standings, moving them to 20-10 overall, but 11-6 in CAA play. 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