{"id":9309,"date":"2017-03-07T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:59:52","slug":"mens-hoops-over-women-getting-started-giving-day-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9309","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Hoops Over, Women Getting Started, Giving Day Next Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick post to set up a big couple of weeks coming up! We&#8217;ll start with hoops, but we really want you all to look out for a special post tomorrow. Warning, old guys are trying to catch up and we&#8217;re hoping to have lots of new stuff coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re a few days late in wrapping up a forgettable JMU Men&#8217;s Hoops season, but after a first-round win on Friday, the Dukes played hard but fell as expected to the two-seed Charleston on Saturday. This season was a strange one, as a disastrous November and December Out-of-Conference start to the season understandably fed the obvious narrative that this team was\u00a0terrible and Coach Rowe was over his head. But after that 2-10 start, and without excusing that start, the Dukes quietly went a respectable and not unexpected 8-13 the rest of the way, mostly in conference play. We&#8217;ve always been most excited about Coach Rowe as a recruiter and with seven seniors leaving the program, he&#8217;ll certainly get his shot this offseason to upgrade the roster. We do feel a bit bad for this group of seniors, most of whom joined a program we all thought was on the rise after the &#8217;13 tourney run. Cabarkapa, Lukic, Kent, Satkus, and Dalembert were all in that group (Vodonavich was around for the tourney run and Brown transferred in later) and all appeared to work hard for the program throughout their time and never had issues off the court and for that this group deserves thanks regardless of this year&#8217;s record. But an injuries to the promising Dalembert and the glaring lack of a true point this year pretty much scuttled any hopes of a better finish.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"9301\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=9301\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kent Jumper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9301\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Kent Jumper\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/587bb402b5f6e.image_.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>In more hopeful news, the women HOST the CAA tournament (thank goodness for getting that thing out of Upper Marlboro) this weekend. They open play Thursday at 5 against the winner of UNCW\/Charleston on Wednesday. They&#8217;re the two seed (sorry about the locale there top-seed Elon), but at the Convo anything seems possible.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, JMU&#8217;s second annual Giving Day is coming up one week from today, next Tuesday, March 14th. Last year&#8217;s event was a home run for the entire university, including the Duke Club, and this year could be even better!\u00a0We&#8217;ll have a special JMUSB challenge so come back tomorrow for the full announcement!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9309&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>This is a quick post to set up a big couple of weeks coming up! We&#8217;ll start with hoops, but we really want you all to look out for a special post tomorrow. Warning, old guys are trying to catch up and we&#8217;re hoping to have lots of new stuff coming up. Well, we&#8217;re a [&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":2119,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2119","url_meta":{"origin":9309,"position":0},"title":"Spring brings high hopes for Dukes!","date":"February 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As excited as we are about the postseason opportunities still potentially ahead for BOTH men's and women's hoops, today's warm weather got us thinking about fields, not courts.\u00a0 And while we're certainly no experts on the Spring Sports scene in the 'Burg, we wanted to share some serious hype about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ancarrow-300x224.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7407,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7407","url_meta":{"origin":9309,"position":1},"title":"Men&#8217;s Hoops Continues JMU Dominance over the Spiders!","date":"December 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"How about that? 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