By René Reyes/DFP Staff
There is a sense of urgency for the Boston University men’s basketball team.
No player has embodied the Terriers’ sentiment more than Darryl Partin, whose collegiate career dwindles down with each passing day. The senior swingman has pumped in 65 points over the last three games, including a career-high 33 points in a comeback win over the University at Albany on Monday.
With only five regular-season contests remaining before the America East tournament and BU (13-13, 9-3 America East) pinned to the No. 3 spot in the standings, Partin and his teammates will welcome the University of Maine (11-11, 5-6 America East) to Case Gymnasium Thursday night at 7 p.m.
“Darryl has done a good job of carrying us at certain points when we need him offensively,” said senior guard Matt Griffin. “He’s really been aggressive, assertive and taken the role on of taking tough shots. He did a great job against Albany of making tough shots when we really needed it."
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
From the FreeP: Partin the way to victory: BU tops Albany
By Craig Meyer/DFP Staff
Boston University coach Joe Jones may not have been there, but he is familiar with what happened last season when the BU men’s basketball team traveled to SEFCU Arena to take on the University at Albany.
In that game, the Terriers trailed the Great Danes 38-22 at halftime, but shot 56 percent from the field in the second half and stormed back to win 70-67 on Jan. 15, 2011.
Monday night in the same confines of SEFCU Arena in Albany, N.Y., the Terriers found themselves in a similar predicament, trailing the Great Danes 46-31 at halftime and then 64-49 with 11:30 remaining.
But even for Jones, who was on the sideline for Boston College last season when BU completed that comeback, there was a sense of déjà vu that spread among his players who were all-too-familiar with the situation in which they found themselves.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Boston University coach Joe Jones may not have been there, but he is familiar with what happened last season when the BU men’s basketball team traveled to SEFCU Arena to take on the University at Albany.
In that game, the Terriers trailed the Great Danes 38-22 at halftime, but shot 56 percent from the field in the second half and stormed back to win 70-67 on Jan. 15, 2011.
Monday night in the same confines of SEFCU Arena in Albany, N.Y., the Terriers found themselves in a similar predicament, trailing the Great Danes 46-31 at halftime and then 64-49 with 11:30 remaining.
But even for Jones, who was on the sideline for Boston College last season when BU completed that comeback, there was a sense of déjà vu that spread among his players who were all-too-familiar with the situation in which they found themselves.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Monday, February 6, 2012
From the FreeP: Terriers defeat worst team in conference
By Shep Hayes/DFP Staff
Saturday afternoon, the only team without a win in NCAA Division-I men’s basketball entered a game aganist Boston University. Saturday evening, that team finished its game still winless.
Binghamton University fell to the BU, 68-53. With the win, the Terriers snapped a two-game losing streak of their own, and improved their record to one game shy of .500 for the third time this season.
In front of at crowd of 3,232 – which included six fans in the Bearcat student section wearing paper bags over their heads – at the Events Center on Binghamton’s campus in Vestal, N.Y., BU (12-13, 8-3 America East) built an eight-point lead in the first half. The Terriers enlarged it to as many as 22 points over the Bearcats (0-23, 0-11 America East) with 2:27 left in the game en route to the win.
The Terriers first-half offense was built around 3-point shots and free throws. BU hit 4-of-8 treys it attempted in the first frame, and it was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free-throw line in the first, and 15-for-19 at the line in the game.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Saturday afternoon, the only team without a win in NCAA Division-I men’s basketball entered a game aganist Boston University. Saturday evening, that team finished its game still winless.
Binghamton University fell to the BU, 68-53. With the win, the Terriers snapped a two-game losing streak of their own, and improved their record to one game shy of .500 for the third time this season.
In front of at crowd of 3,232 – which included six fans in the Bearcat student section wearing paper bags over their heads – at the Events Center on Binghamton’s campus in Vestal, N.Y., BU (12-13, 8-3 America East) built an eight-point lead in the first half. The Terriers enlarged it to as many as 22 points over the Bearcats (0-23, 0-11 America East) with 2:27 left in the game en route to the win.
The Terriers first-half offense was built around 3-point shots and free throws. BU hit 4-of-8 treys it attempted in the first frame, and it was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free-throw line in the first, and 15-for-19 at the line in the game.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
From the FreeP: Terriers ready for college basketball’s worst
By Craig Meyer/DFP Staff
In a recent article on Grantland, the ESPN and Bill Simmons-run platform for long-form sports journalism, writer Michael Weinreb chronicled the 2010-11 season for the Towson University men’s basketball team.
This season has been a lean one for the Tigers, who just picked up their first win of the season Jan. 28 and are currently 1-23, good enough for last place in the ultra-competitive Colonial Athletic Association.
The title of the article? “A Visit With the Worst College Basketball Team in America.”
While no reasonable spectator of the game would look at Towson and see anything more than what the Tigers are, a bad team, the standings of all Division-I college basketball teams is one category in which Towson doesn’t finish last.
That dubious distinction belongs to Binghamton University, a program that stands as the lone winless team among 344 squads in Division-I basketball with a 0-22 record on the season.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
In a recent article on Grantland, the ESPN and Bill Simmons-run platform for long-form sports journalism, writer Michael Weinreb chronicled the 2010-11 season for the Towson University men’s basketball team.
This season has been a lean one for the Tigers, who just picked up their first win of the season Jan. 28 and are currently 1-23, good enough for last place in the ultra-competitive Colonial Athletic Association.
The title of the article? “A Visit With the Worst College Basketball Team in America.”
While no reasonable spectator of the game would look at Towson and see anything more than what the Tigers are, a bad team, the standings of all Division-I college basketball teams is one category in which Towson doesn’t finish last.
That dubious distinction belongs to Binghamton University, a program that stands as the lone winless team among 344 squads in Division-I basketball with a 0-22 record on the season.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
From the FreeP: Terriers unprepared in loss to Vermont
By Shep Hayes/DFP Staff
Mere minutes after his team failed to complete an end-of-game turnaround, Boston University men’s basketball coach Joe Jones walked into the media room at Agganis Arena, sat down in a red folding chair and began to discuss how his team failed to win the game.
There was one major issue on the coach’s mind.
“I did not think we were ready to play tonight,” Jones said. “I thought we had three practices where I didn’t feel like it was up to our standards. I did not think we were mentally ready to play tonight, and that’s on all of us – every coach, every player involved in the program.”
The Terriers lost to the University of Vermont 68-67 Wednesday night at Case Gymnasium – their first home loss of the conference season. The loss is the second of the Terriers’ first conference-losing streak of the year.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Mere minutes after his team failed to complete an end-of-game turnaround, Boston University men’s basketball coach Joe Jones walked into the media room at Agganis Arena, sat down in a red folding chair and began to discuss how his team failed to win the game.
There was one major issue on the coach’s mind.
“I did not think we were ready to play tonight,” Jones said. “I thought we had three practices where I didn’t feel like it was up to our standards. I did not think we were mentally ready to play tonight, and that’s on all of us – every coach, every player involved in the program.”
The Terriers lost to the University of Vermont 68-67 Wednesday night at Case Gymnasium – their first home loss of the conference season. The loss is the second of the Terriers’ first conference-losing streak of the year.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
From the FreeP: Comeback falls short as BU succumbs to Catamounts
By Craig Meyer/DFP Staff
With just more than four minutes remaining and a largely impassive Agganis Arena observing a double-digit deficit, Boston University men’s basketball sophomore point guard D.J. Irving moved around a well-placed screen from senior center Patrick Hazel and calmly pulled up to sink a 3-pointer near the top of the key.
The basket was the Terriers’ first from 3-point range all game, and for many in attendance, it was a sigh of relief and a breakthrough for a BU team that had struggled to shoot and score against a suffocating University of Vermont defense.
But Irving’s shot was just that at the time – a nice step for a team that didn’t want to be shut out from beyond the arc, but at the time the ball swished through the net, BU still trailed Vermont 57-43 with 4:01 left in the game. For most intents and purposes, the result of the game wasn’t in doubt – but BU would put it in doubt.
Beginning with Irving’s 3-pointer, BU closed a 17-point deficit to a single point in just over three and a half minutes.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
With just more than four minutes remaining and a largely impassive Agganis Arena observing a double-digit deficit, Boston University men’s basketball sophomore point guard D.J. Irving moved around a well-placed screen from senior center Patrick Hazel and calmly pulled up to sink a 3-pointer near the top of the key.
The basket was the Terriers’ first from 3-point range all game, and for many in attendance, it was a sigh of relief and a breakthrough for a BU team that had struggled to shoot and score against a suffocating University of Vermont defense.
But Irving’s shot was just that at the time – a nice step for a team that didn’t want to be shut out from beyond the arc, but at the time the ball swished through the net, BU still trailed Vermont 57-43 with 4:01 left in the game. For most intents and purposes, the result of the game wasn’t in doubt – but BU would put it in doubt.
Beginning with Irving’s 3-pointer, BU closed a 17-point deficit to a single point in just over three and a half minutes.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
BU vs. Vermont Live Blog
Starting lineups:
University of Vermont Catamounts
F Luke Apfeld
F Brian Voelkel
F Matt Glass
G Sandro Carissimo
G Brendan Bald
Boston University Terriers
F Dom Morris
F Travis Robinson
F Patrick Hazel
G Darryl Partin
G D.J. Irving
Final Score: UVM 68, BU 67
Team leaders:
Points
UVM: Luke Apfeld, 16
BU: Darryl Partin, 19
Rebounds
UVM: Brian Voelkel, 8
BU: Darryl Partin, 6
Assists
UVM: Brian Voelkel, 5
BU: D.J. Irving, 4
From the FreeP: BU seeks revenge against Catamounts
By René Reyes/DFP Staff
Five nights after being on the losing end of America East’s “Game of the Year,” the Boston University men’s basketball team can’t be caught getting too high or low about any one contest, as has been this team’s mantra since the first day of BU coach Joe Jones’ tenure.
The University of Vermont is not Stony Brook University, which the Terriers (11-12, 7-2 America East) lost to on Friday, but the Catamounts (13-10, 7-2 America East) are just as much of a physical and disciplined squad, the same one that defeated the Terriers on Jan. 5 by 14 points at Patrick Gymnasium.
Jones admitted before yesterday’s practice that his preparation for Wednesday’s showdown against Vermont at Agganis Arena has not wavered from the previous 23 games of the 2011-12 campaign.
In a tilt that will determine sole possession of second place in the league standings, his players may think otherwise, considering the competitive nature of this BU group.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
Five nights after being on the losing end of America East’s “Game of the Year,” the Boston University men’s basketball team can’t be caught getting too high or low about any one contest, as has been this team’s mantra since the first day of BU coach Joe Jones’ tenure.
The University of Vermont is not Stony Brook University, which the Terriers (11-12, 7-2 America East) lost to on Friday, but the Catamounts (13-10, 7-2 America East) are just as much of a physical and disciplined squad, the same one that defeated the Terriers on Jan. 5 by 14 points at Patrick Gymnasium.
Jones admitted before yesterday’s practice that his preparation for Wednesday’s showdown against Vermont at Agganis Arena has not wavered from the previous 23 games of the 2011-12 campaign.
In a tilt that will determine sole possession of second place in the league standings, his players may think otherwise, considering the competitive nature of this BU group.
Read more at dailyfreepress.com.
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