Maybe the 20 points allowed by SLU was a fluke. Or maybe GW is just terrible away from the Smith Center. The Colonials fell 53-66 to Fordham, who improved to 1-2 in conference and 7-8 overall. GW is now 1-1 and 5-7. Fordham was outshot and outrebounded but hit 11 threes and 13 foul shots, versus 1/10 and 4/7 respectively for GW.In the time I watched the streaming game, before getting angry and turning if off, it appeared that Fordham's ball movement was frustrating GW, leading to open threes, and GW made dumb mistakes on offense, resulting in 16 turnovers. The Hatchet said the team lacked a spark.
GW narrowed the margin in the second half, but Fordham pulled away again.
On the bright side, Damian Hollis had his second straight double double, Rob Diggs scored 19 on 8/14 shooting, and Mo Rice had 13 points on 6/14 shooting, 7 assists, and 8 rebounds. Those numbers are Carl Elliott-esque.
Joseph Katuka and Hermann Opoku both started but played 20 minutes between them, accumulating 2 points and 6 boards total. Miles Beatty didn't play again, I guess still feeling the effects of hurting his Achilles tendon in the shootaround before the Binghamton game.
Links after the jump.
--AP recap
--Hatchet recap
--Hatchet road woes analysis
--Hatchet conference analysis
--Box score
Comments
We did seem sluggish at times, but we were down 13 at half came out to start the 2nd half and we were on fire and balled some the best basketball I've seen this team play all season to come back and actually take the lead.
As much as I love Hobbs some of his substitutions were a bit puzzling at times including not playing Rob Diggs down the stretch - I think he sat on the bench for the last 4 plus minutes.
This team isn't as bad as the score looked they could have won, but they definitely lost a lot of steam about 1/2 through the second half.