Here is the schedule for the first 9 of 90 CAA games:
Friday December 28: 4 games all at 7:00 P.M.
Delaware at Hofstra
Towson at Elon
Drexel at Northeastern
James Madison at William & Mary
Saturday December 29: 1 game at 7:00 P.M.
College of Charleston at UNC Wilmington
Sunday December 30: 4 games
Towson at William & Mary at 4:00 P.M.
James Madison at Elon at 4:00 P.M.
Drexel at Hofstra at 4:00 P.M.
Delaware at Northeastern at 5:00 P.M.
This season the CAA made the 10 teams into 5 pairs of travel partners. I like the concept, but I don’t like that teams play only 1 game the weeks they play their travel partner. I would have preferred that teams play their travel partner consecutively in one week. The reason is that I like when teams have the same amount of conference games played. Some conferences don’t care about that, but in recent seasons the CAA has had every team have the same amount of conference games with rare exceptions like postponements due to weather. Each team will play 18 CAA games in 10 weeks. Teams will play Friday December 28 and Sunday December 30 followed by the Thursday and Saturday pairs of January 3 and 5, January 10 and 12, January 17 and 19, January 24 and 26, January 31 and February 2, February 7 and 9, February 14 and 16, February 21 and 23, and February 28 and March 2. The travel partners that play this week are UNC Wilmington and College of Charleston. UNC Wilmington will host College of Charleston on Saturday. UNC Wilmington chose to play on Saturday because the teams didn’t have two games that required a day off in between. Hofstra plays travel partner Northeastern at home on Saturday January 5 and at Northeastern on Saturday February 2. The travel partners listed from north to south are:
Northeastern in Boston and Hofstra in Hempstead, NY
Drexel in Philadelphia and Delaware in Newark (northwestern Delaware)
Towson in Towson, MD (just north of Baltimore) and James Madison in Harrisonburg, VA (northwestern Virginia)
William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA (southeastern Virginia) and Elon in Elon, NC (in between Greensboro and Durham)
UNC Wilimington in Wilmington, NC (southeastern North Carolina) and College of Charleston in Charleston, SC (southeastern South Carolina)
With second leading scorer Eli Pemberton and eighth most used player Dan Dwyer out, Hofstra used all 10 available players for at least 12 minutes of their 107-54 lead over Rosemont. Rosemont led 4-0 before Hofstra went on a big run. Justin Wright-Foreman scored 14 points in 22 minutes. He entered averaging 25.7 points in 37.9 minutes. Kenny Wormley, who played 24 minutes in Hofstra’s first 12 games, led with 20 points and 29 rebounds. Wormley played in the first 4 games but none of the last 8 before yesterday. His third assist of the game gave Hofstra a team record of 26. He had 6 steals. Desure Buie had 13 points, 10 assists, and 4 steals; without any misses, fouls, or turnovers. He leads the CAA in free throw percentage, is tied for the CAA lead in steals, and took the CAA lead in assist-to-turnover ratio. His .946 free throw percentage is tied with Oklahoma State’s Lindy Waters III for the best in Division I, which has 353 teams. In the last 17 complete seasons, 10 players have had a free throw percentage that high. .946 is well above the CAA record of .921 by James Madison’s Kent Culuko in 1993-1994. Connor Klementowicz, who is a walk-on, had 9 points and 5 rebounds (which were all offensive) in 17 minutes. He is a junior who had 6 points in 22 minutes in his career before yesterday.
It was tied for Hofstra’s fifth largest margin of victory, and Hofstra’s largest margin of victory since a 95-41 win over Hillyer in the fourth game of 1951-1952.
Hofstra got their best win of the season at Stony Brook by 71 to 64. Stony Brook led early, but Hofstra led the whole second half. Thank you to Jerry Beach at http://defiantlydutch.blogspot.com/2018/12/ill-be-quirky-suny-stony-brook.html for writing that this was the best combined winning percentage for Hofstra and Stony Brook before they played each other since Stony Brook joined Division I. Justin Wright-Foreman scored 15 and passed Norman Richard for ninth on Hofstra’s career points list. Hofstra decreased their free throw percentage by making 13 of 18, and in order to keep their free throw percentage lead Incarnate Word must miss some in their game at DePaul. Stony Brook made all 3 of their free throws, which was the fewest free throw attempts Hofstra allowed since 257 games ago.
Hofstra is 9-3. Their next game is Saturday hosting non-Division I Rosemont, and their next Division I game is on Friday December 28 hosting Delaware. That will be the first of Hofstra’s 18 CAA games without any out of conference games in between.
Edit: Incarnate Word made 9 of 12 free throws to let Hofstra keep the free throw percentage lead.
Here’s the Top 10 in free throw percentage through December 17 after Incarnate Word decreased from .814 to .804 yesterday. This is from ESPN:
As cactus, the creator of Flying Dutchmen fans said, I have the fifth most posts because HUSID74 and HUSID80 are the same person. I’m not going to move up or down soon. The forum tells each person’s most active topic and what percent of the forum’s posts they have, which I like.
I used the NCAA’s website to get a schedule page and statistics page for every CAA team for complete seasons. I attached five PDF files that each have 2 pages per team. The CAA has 10 teams now and had 10 teams from 2014-2015 through 2017-2018. The CAA had 9 teams in 2013-2014. I plan on doing the seasons starting with Hofstra’s first season in the CAA in 2001-2002. From 2001-2002 through 2017-2018 is 17 seasons and 184 team seasons. I spent time downloading each page and combining many pages into one file per season. I don’t know when I will finish, but here are five downloadable files for now:
2017-2018 CAA Men’s Basketball Results and Statistics by Team
2016-2017 CAA Men’s Basketball Results and Statistics by Team
2015-2016 CAA Men’s Basketball Results and Statistics by Team
2014-2015 CAA Men’s Basketball Results and Statistics by Team
2013-2014 CAA Men’s Basketball Results and Statistics by Team
353 teams play Men’s Basketball in Division I. Years ago, I named about 90 percent of the schools and the conference they are in off the top my head. That’s not just naming the conference given the school name. I named the schools off the top of my head. Teams move conferences, and I didn’t expect to be able to do that well today. I missed 35 teams, so I got 90.1 percent. I needed one more team in the Horizon League, Patriot League, or West Coast Conference to reach 90 percent. I though I was missing a team in California with a C name. I know there is the Monterey-Salinas-Santz Cruz radio market. Santa Cruz is not in a Division I school name, I already named California-Santa Barbara, and I realized I needed Santa Clara. I checked what Horizon League school I missed, and I was disappointed I didn’t name Illinois-Chicago. I named Chicago State and didn’t think about another school having Chicago in its name. Repeatedly I have been unable to remember Bucknell, who is in the Patriot League. Once Santa Clara got me over 90 percent, I didn’t try to name a few more. I named every team in 21 out of 32 conferences and missed 1 team in 4 conferences.
Hofstra has played 11 out of their 13 out of conference games. The last out of conference game is hosting Rosemont, which is Hofstra’s only game against a team not in Division I. Hofstra will play its 9 CAA opponents twice each to make 31 games (30 vs. Division I) before the CAA Tournament, which will be in North Charleston, SC from Saturday March 9 through Tuesday March 12. It will be played near College of Charleston, which is the southernmost CAA team. Hofstra is 8-3 with no great wins or bad losses. Here are Hofstra’s ranks out of 353 teams in Division I, with 177th being the median:
NET: 129th (3rd in the CAA), Strength of Schedule (SOS) isn’t given
RPI: 174th (4th in the CAA), SOS 327th
Sagarin: 105th (2nd in the CAA), SOS 328th
I liked when there were blogs about Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Men’s Basketball and one specifically for Hofstra. These sites no longer exist. I decided to do something about it by blogging. I already post on message boards. Here are some links:
1. Men’s Basketball Conference RPI: http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2019/conferencerpi
RPI means Ratings percentage Index. Many sites have RPIs, and unfortunately they are not identical. I use Warren Nolan’s site, which updates constantly. He also has RPIs for Women’s Basketball and Baseball. Unfortunately, he stopped having RPIs for Softball, which Hofstra is good at.
2. Men’s Basketball NET: https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings
The NCAA made the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) which they are testing by using it for Men’s Basketball while continuing to use the RPI for other sports in 2018-2019. This site updates once a day. It ranks all 353 teams but does not have exact values, and the NCAA has not released its formula.
3. Men’s Basketball Sagarin Ratings by Conference: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/sagarin/2019/conference/
Jeff Sagarin makes his rankings so that the point difference between the teams plus or minus 3.20 for home court predicts the margin of the game. He makes rankings for multiple sports. He does not announce his formula so USA Today can have exclusivity rather than other people being able to reproduce his rankings. For next season, this link will have the 2018-2019 rankings, and you will need to change the year in the URL to 2020 to get the 2019-2020 rankings.
4. Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Men’s Basketball section: https://caasports.com/index.aspx?path=mbball&
5. CAA Men’s Basketball statistics:
https://static.caasports.com/custompages/stats/MBB/201819/CONFSTAT.HTM
For next season, you will need to change 201819 in the URL to 201920. You can get Women’s Basketball statistics by changing MBB in the URL to WBB. The CAA has statistics going back to 2005-2006, which is 200506 in the URL. Some conferences have statistics going farther back.
6. NCAA Men’s Basketball Statistics from ESPN: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/statistics
There are the Top 100 players in individual statistics and all teams in team statistics.
7. CAA Men’s Basketball scoreboard from ESPN: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard/_/group/10
8. Hofstra statistics during home games: http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=hofs
It has links to statistics during home games for all Hofstra sports. All CAA teams use this form of statistics, which I love. It provides much more detail than you get from ESPN about NBA or NCAA games. When Hofstra plays at a team in another conference, sometimes that school uses this statistics format and sometimes that school uses another statistics format.
9. Hofstra Men’s Basketball schedule: https://gohofstra.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball
Using a drop-down menu you can get Hofstra’s schedule for every season going back to 2000-2001
10. My twitter: https://twitter.com/EvanJ3535/
Most of what I tweet is not about Hofstra. The sport I tweet the most about is baseball, but I don’t tweet about sports much during their offsesason.
11. Defiantly Dutch blog: http://defiantlydutch.blogspot.com/
This is by Jerry Beach, who is a journalist. He has historical statistics that I like that are not easily available.
12. Jerry Beach’s twitter: https://twitter.com/JerryBeach73
13. Hofstra Men’s Basketball season statistics:
https://static.caasports.com/custompages/stats/MBB/201819/hofstra.htm
To get previous seasons, change the URL how I described for Link 5.
14. Flying Dutchmen Fans message board: http://www.flyingdutchmenfans.com/index.php?sid=e4dae2a923907a713e86036357ee58cc
My username is EvanJ. I have 1,626 posts, which is the fourth most.
15. CSNBBS message board’s CAA section: https://csnbbs.com/forum-677.html
My username is EvanJ. Of the ten CAA teams, three have a significant amount of fans there. They are James Madison, UNC Wilmington, and William & Mary. Northeastern and Drexel might have 3 to 5 fans. There’s one fan of Elon and one fan of College of Charleston who don’t post much. I’m the only fan of Hofstra. There are no fans of Delaware or Towson.
16. College Basketball at Sports-Reference Play Index: https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/
Unfortunately it does not go as far back as the Sports-Reference Play Indexes for other sports. I love the baseball-reference Play Index. Many of my tweets cite play indexes.
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