Tidbits - Lafayette Leopards

[BigEastPhil]

- Lafayette plays in the Patriot League and many have them pegged as the team to dance from the Patriot League.

- Current record is 7-2 with biggest wins against Princeton; Penn; FDU and St Joe's.

- 2 losses were to St Francis (NY) and Delaware.

- Head Coach is Fran O'Hanlon who has been their HC for 25 years. Wow!

- They average 78 PPG which is quite proficient along with 43% 3 PT Shooting % (wow). Their FG% is 51.5% and they hit FT's at 77%. So it appears they're pretty good offensively.

- Leading scorer is 6'2" Jr G - Justin Jaworski - who averages 21 PPG. Scorers 2 and 3 are Myles Cherry and EJ Stephens - who average about 11 PPG.

- Core of 3 above are JR's and SR's - so their nucleus is experienced.

 

[ScarletKid2008]

Those shooting numbers scare me a little bit. If they get hot, we’re in trouble becuase shoot outs are not going to be in our favor

 

[TDIrish27]

Normally I don't like 7 days off for a team but in this case I did.

Rutgers will come out with the Seton Hall game out of their minds and beat Lafayette easily IMO.

Time to play 9. :):)

 

[Dpgru]

I don’t think Lafayette has played any one with our length on defense all year. I saw them lose to St. Francis of bk and the only reason it was close was the leopard three point shooting. If we close out on their shooters effectively causing them to either be tentative or to rush the shots and pound it inside and get their inside guy in foul trouble this will be a blow out IMO. So it comes down to the energy with which we play from the get go.