Climbing Back On The Horse

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- The old idiom that one must “get back on the horse” after encountering a setback surely applies to this year's edition of the Red and Blue. They got tossed onto their collective keisters in three consecutive home buy games in November, only to venture south and win the ESPN Events Invitational amidst a five game win skein. A tough road trip to SMU was quickly followed by an impressive victory over Virginia Tech; a win over Southern helped erase the memory of a road L at Ole Miss; a stinging one point defeat at VCU begat a nice four game win streak that ended at GMU.

The Flyers have now won two in a row after besting an improved Fordham squad and a stubborn herd of Rhody Rams. Enuf with the “climbing back on the horse” BS already. The Flyers need to remain mounted and corral another flock of Rams, this one of the VCU variety on the road this Wednesday. There are ten games left on the Atlantic Ten slate until the conference tournament, so no time like the present.

Elsewhere:

– UDPride.com stat guru Figgie quantifies just how ugly a shooting exhibition that was on Friday vs. URI. It was the second victory since 2001 when shooting .309% FG or worse. Last occurrence was the infamous 0-24 3PT shooting debacle vs Auburn on 11/28/08. UD shot .278% FG in the 60-59 win in Chicago. Ugghhh.

– Elijah Weaver’s wrist injury comes at a most inconvenient time, after the departure of backup PG Lynn Greer III for St. Joe’s. In a recent tweet, Jablo quoted AG saying that Weaver will get his wrist checked again next week, and they'll know more then. "I think he's got to look at some options about what's next."

That doesn’t sound good.

– In case you missed the halftime video salute to “The Legend” Bucky Bockhorn, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT5A0yVUwvU&t=4s

– Frequent Twitter poster Professionally LOWD has partnered with UD to highlight top performances by 3 UD players in the pros on a weekly basis:



– Anyone here read Mongolian? This post of highlights of Mongolian Mike’s recent play in his home country gives us all a glimpse of what is to come:

https://twitter.com/dashaa_e/status/1487310879737716739

Not sure how or why Mike is playing overseas and not suiting up for ISA, but the fact that he is wearing a UD t-shirt during warmups is enuf reassurance for me.

– For those who question Mike’s athleticism, I submit Exhibit A:



– Most college hoops games are now featuring remote announcers. Here’s a look at the setup ESPN’s Mark Adams utilizes when he broadcasts a game from his “Hoops Cabin”:

https://twitter.com/EnthusiAdams/sta...36509376450562

– For those of us who are baseball fans and of “a certain age” this was a pre-internet, Sunday morning newspaper ritual:



That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at: swampy@udpride.com

	Bucky Bockhorn ARLEN 'BUCKY' BOCKHORN Known as "The Legend", Bockhorn played basketball for Tom Blackburn in the 1950s and went on to a career in the NBA. Tabbed NBA Rookie of the Year in his first season, he also played alongside Oscar Robertson for the now-defunct Cincinnati Royals. Buckhorn has been the color man for UD basketball games for years and teams with play-by-play announcer Larry Hansgen on NewsTalk Radio 1290AM and 95.7FM.

	Rhode Island RHODE ISLAND The University of Rhode Island was chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The school became the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1892. Located in southern Rhode Island, URI is a quintessential New England campus - rural in feeling yet close to the city of Providence, the state's capital. Linked to the city, the beaches, and nearly every corner of the state by both rail and public transit, the campus is easily accessible from Boston and New York URI currently offers 100 majors in seven degree-granting colleges. There are more than 12,000 students on the Kingston campus, about 3,000 in Providence, and a complement of about 700 faculty. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Rams.

	Fordham FORDHAM Fordham University is an independent Jesuit university established in 1841 as St. John's College on old Rose Hill Manor in the village of Fordham, then part of Westchester County in the Bronx, NY. The name Fordham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words "ford" and "ham," meaning a wading place or ford by a settlement. Rose Hill is the name given to the site in 1787 by Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, in honor of his family's ancestral home of the same name in Scotland. The College was originally staffed by diocesan clergy. The name was officially changed to Fordham University in 1907. Fordham's 10 schools enroll 14,448 students. There are 7,652 undergraduates, of whom 3,842 live in University-managed housing either on-campus or in the local community. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Rams. Athletic claim to fame is consistent mediocrity in nearly all sports and few A10 title winning programs.