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Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Mason Nation ()
Date: March 08, 2009 05:23PM

George Mason plays Towson (loser team) at 6pm on Comcast MASN. Mason will most likely win seeing as Towson did terrible in regular play. If Mason wins they will play VCU which is an unstoppable team tomorrow.

Mason needs to win both games to get into the NCAA March Madness.

Not looking good for Mason to make the tournament this year.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Eastsider ()
Date: March 08, 2009 07:18PM

A few years back they went to the basketball madness super bowl. I saw it on the news and then they put up a big electronical sign outside GMU when they won.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: March 08, 2009 07:37PM

Eastsider Wrote:
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> A few years back they went to the basketball
> madness super bowl. I saw it on the news and then
> they put up a big electronical sign outside GMU
> when they won.


eletronical...'strategery' much?

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: March 08, 2009 08:08PM

Eastsider Wrote:
>> I saw it on the news and then they put up a big electronical sign outside GMU
when they won.



That sign was a big topic on here at the time and was the source of some many, many good photoshops.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Eastsider ()
Date: March 08, 2009 08:15PM

inkahootz Wrote:
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> eletronical...'strategery' much?


Just curious, why did you pick on "electronical" instead of "madness super bowl" or the fact that they lost in the Final Four?

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: March 08, 2009 08:31PM

Eastsider Wrote:
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> inkahootz Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> ---
> > eletronical...'strategery' much?
>
>
> Just curious, why did you pick on "electronical"
> instead of "madness super bowl" or the fact that
> they lost in the Final Four?


Because it reminded me of a 'Bushism'. LOL

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: March 08, 2009 11:05PM

Mason won over Towson. The game was even until the final last 5 minutes when Mason made a run for points shooting some amazing three pointers.

Mason vs VCU 7:00 Monday evening for the NCAA bid. The game will be on MASN\Comcast.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Date: March 08, 2009 11:18PM

Lurker. Wrote:
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> Mason won over Towson. The game was even until the
> final last 5 minutes when Mason made a run for
> points shooting some amazing three pointers.
>
> Mason vs VCU 7:00 Monday evening for the NCAA bid.
> The game will be on MASN\Comcast.


Go Mason!

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Posted by: inkahootz ()
Date: March 08, 2009 11:27PM

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2010 02:55PM by inkahootz.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: inkahootz has a point ()
Date: March 09, 2009 09:33AM

I admire Mason's run to the final four a few years back and their continued 20 game a year success (in the Patriot league - 20 games along doesn't often bring them to the NCAA tournament). And I think Larranaga runs a clean program, which is stunning at the Div. 1 level. I think the amount of misconduct is stunning (thank you AAU ball). GMU is one of the good guys.

GMU was very good at track and field - they indeed won the NCAA indoors when John Cook was there. But surrounding Cook was all sorts of whispers about questionable activity (and frankly, they sounded believable with a certain few of the Olympic level foreign athletes), and GMU to their credit found it not to their liking and moved on. They now recruit US athletes, with much less success. But they are real students.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Steve K2 ()
Date: March 09, 2009 10:13AM

inkahootz has a point Wrote:
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> I admire Mason's run to the final four a few years
> back and their continued 20 game a year success
> (in the Patriot league - 20 games along doesn't
> often bring them to the NCAA tournament).

They're in the CAA not the Patriot League.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: March 09, 2009 12:12PM

VCU uses a full court press that is going to be very difficult for Mason to work with. VCU's Maynor has the ability change up speeds and confuse the Mason players.

Mason will really have to step up and top any of their previous performances this year to win tonight.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: March 09, 2009 01:02PM

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: March 09, 2009 01:04PM

"Electronical" is now a word I will use frequently.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: VCU RAM ()
Date: March 09, 2009 02:56PM

Mason's goin down tonight.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: Litty ()
Date: March 09, 2009 05:03PM

If Mason wins tonight will that make Mason one of the best colleges? Will I have to listen to Mason students yelling about how great the basketball team is?

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: March 09, 2009 09:00PM

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: SBS ()
Date: March 09, 2009 09:45PM

inkahootz has a point Wrote:
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> I think the amount of misconduct is stunning
> (thank you AAU ball).
> GMU is one of the good guys.
>

Curious, what does AAU have to do with it?

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: March 09, 2009 10:09PM

pgens Wrote:
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> .


Finally a good quality picture of that sign.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: nyynym25 ()
Date: March 10, 2009 08:15AM

Wow. They got killed 71-50!

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: March 10, 2009 08:44AM

Talk about laying down and dying, talk about so severely sucking, how pathetic.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Date: March 10, 2009 09:25AM

SBS Wrote:
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> inkahootz has a point Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > I think the amount of misconduct is stunning
> > (thank you AAU ball).
> > GMU is one of the good guys.
> >
>
> Curious, what does AAU have to do with it?

AAU is disgusting. It is basically a basketball mill where kids are recruited at an early age to spend all their time playing basketball at the expense of academics, family life, character development, etc. The college programs that use AAU players have to skirt NCAA rules by hiring the deadbeat trainers from AAU to work for their programs. The NCAA needs to grow some balls and stop this shit. It is ruining college basketball.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: inkahootz has a point ()
Date: March 10, 2009 05:15PM

Apologies for getting the wrong league. Mason is indeed in the CAA.

And Washington Locian is spot on.

And he is particularly spot on as to how to pursuing AAU ball is at the expense of personal development. It is one thing to make sacrifices for your high school team (and that team has a vested interest in academic sufficiency because being eligible is a necessity) for three months; it is quite another to make those sacrifices all year along for your pimpish coach/AAU trainer, with a travel schedule that would make a sales executive blush.

And worse yet, AAU ball only elevates certain skills - such as driving to the basket, dunking, and fall away jumpers. These skills look flashy game and after AAU game where weak defense is played, but don't make for high level college play where every possession means a heck of lot. The whole process has turned college coaches into eternal recruiters - of both the athlete and their entire AAU flock that surrounds them.

This is of course is a way of complimenting Larranaga. He is still dedicated to coaching in the veritable lion's den that is now NCAA basketball. And GMU deserves kudos for doing it right.

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Re: Mason Plays Towson at 6pm on MASN Can They Make NCAA
Posted by: SHAQ in the da Woods ()
Date: March 10, 2009 05:37PM

Larranaga summed it up best when he said,

"My players just didn't have the drive to win like VCU did. Hopefully we will get an NIT bid, learn from mistakes and get our team together. We played awful tonight, we barely made any lay ups and you just can't playing like that."

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