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Any fans out there wish to share how their teams and players did in any of the initial exhibition games? I saw the result of SJU and the DII squad they faced and read some observations, but haven't seen any others.

Nova played a DII school, West Chester, and gave them a pretty good beat down. Won 88-50. Everyone played except Ennis (hand, will be out a month) and Archidiancono (starting PG who had a minor injury). Pinkston, our best player, put up 27 and Hillard 25 I think (6 of 6 from 3). Pinkston hit 3 threes as well. If he has improved his outside shot it will be troublesome for defenders since he's always excelled at breaking down his man, getting to the hoop and drawing contact. We held them to below 30% shooting. Not much of a test but good to see both the O & D dominate a team they should.

Butler's exhibitions have been encouraging. The biggest positive has been in the play of freshman Elijah Brown (son of NBA coach Mike Brown). I've been saying for a while now that he was going to be a star, the only question is how soon. If the Blue/White scrimmage and 2 exhibitions are worth anything (maybe they aren't, its always hard to tell) he will be a big time scorer from day 1. Butler's biggest question has been where will the scoring come from, and it's encouraging that they may have an answer. The combination of Dunham and Brown on the wing is going to be lethal for the next 3 years. It will be interesting to see how consistent the young duo is the first time in the Big East. It's not going to be enough to bring Butler into the Big East title picture or anything, but I think it will be enough to make them a threat on any given night.

If you care about reading about either of Butler's scrimmages here are some reactions from ButlerHoops.com

http://butlerhoops.com/blog/butler-defe ... reactions/

http://butlerhoops.com/blog/butler-beat ... -analysis/

Seton Hall beat DII Caldwell College 67-49. Fuquan Edwin did not play. Sterling Gibbs looked very good (15 pt, 4 assists, 1 turnover) in his first action for the Pirates. Gene Teague had a solid game as well, and Patrick Auda (despite missing nearly all of last year with a broken foot) looks like a new man. He may be the most improved play on the team since he last saw action.

Creighton won 89-61 over a D2 school from South Dakota. McDermott had 26 in 24 minutes. All 20 guys on the team played. Best performances from newbies were Isaiah Zierdan, a redshirt freshman known for his shooting who hit a couple triples and scored 8 and Juco transfer Devin Brooks, originally from Harlem, who dished out 7 dimes while scoring 6. Also, freshman Zach Hansen looks like he has earned a spot off the redshirt radar as he looks good and at 6'9, 245, we can use his size.

Not much to take from these games. Northern State was literally chucking up 30 footers and made a bunch in the first half to keep it fairly close but only hit one in the second half.

Xavier looked about as I expected them to in their exhibition yesterday, which is NCAA tourney caliber. Dee Davis, our starting point guard, missed the game due to a 10/25 concussion but the team still won pretty handily, 84-54. Xavier has a ton of great-looking newcomers who will play major roles.

All that said, it's tough to take too much away from an exhibition game.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131102/SPT0102/311020073/Xavier-makes-statement-with-84-54-exhibition-win

Kris Dunn reinjured his surgically repaired shoulder in our exhibition against Rhode Island College. Still waiting to here the severity.

On a positive note, NC State transfer Tyler Harris looked like the best player on the squad. Very smooth player. Huge height advantage in this one so we will see if it continues as the real season progresses.

The one spot where PC does not have depth us at PG so if Dunn is out for an extended period of time the Friars could be in trouble.

ljay wrote:Creighton won 89-61 over a D2 school from South Dakota. McDermott had 26 in 24 minutes. All 20 guys on the team played. Best performances from newbies were Isaiah Zierdan, a redshirt freshman known for his shooting who hit a couple triples and scored 8 and Juco transfer Devin Brooks, originally from Harlem, who dished out 7 dimes while scoring 6. Also, freshman Zach Hansen looks like he has earned a spot off the redshirt radar as he looks good and at 6'9, 245, we can use his size.

Not much to take from these games. Northern State was literally chucking up 30 footers and made a bunch in the first half to keep it fairly close but only hit one in the second half.

Agree with above, especially Devin Brooks, it was just one game but he looked REALLY good.

EMT wrote:Kris Dunn reinjured his surgically repaired shoulder in our exhibition against Rhode Island College. Still waiting to here the severity.

On a positive note, NC State transfer Tyler Harris looked like the best player on the squad. Very smooth player. Huge height advantage in this one so we will see if it continues as the real season progresses.

The one spot where PC does not have depth us at PG so if Dunn is out for an extended period of time the Friars could be in trouble.

PC wins 97-65 . Dunn to get MRI on shoulder tomorrow. Everyone in friar town holding our breath....

Seems like the Big East has been hit hard with injuries before the season even starts.

Hall2012 wrote:Seton Hall beat DII Caldwell College 67-49. Fuquan Edwin did not play. Sterling Gibbs looked very good (15 pt, 4 assists, 1 turnover) in his first action for the Pirates. Gene Teague had a solid game as well, and Patrick Auda (despite missing nearly all of last year with a broken foot) looks like a new man. He may be the most improved play on the team since he last saw action.

Also, everyone played (except Anthony a freshman who they are considering for a redshirt) even our two walk-ons. Edwin didn't play because of some sort of rules violation, nothing serious just a "boneheaded" mistake as it was described. Still, you hate to see that from your senior captain. Good that Willard isn't afraid to sit anyone though for any reason. Sends a good message to the team, especially the younger guys.