Winthrop University
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In a game that will not qualify for the SportCenter highlights, High Point got a rebound basket from Cruz Daniels with 2.4 seconds left to beat Winthrop 42-40 on Wednesday in the Winthrop Coliseum.
For two teams normally accustomed to playing games that have a bearing on first place in the Big South Conference, this one, between two young teams still searching for themselves, gave each a piece of the cellar at 1-3.For High Point coach Bart Lundy, the game tape will look like an offensive instructional tape, or at least the last couple of minutes will.
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Basketball dominates the Winthrop sports calendar again through the middle of next week. But the indoor track season resumes soon, and golf is on the horizon, along with softball and baseball.
SAME PLACE, DIFFERENT TIME -- The women's basketball team's game Saturday against Liberty will tipoff at 2 p.m. rather than the previously planned 7 p.m. start time. The change was formalized Monday. Fans of the hardcore variety now have an opportunity to see the women take on the always-tough Lady Flames, then drive 65 miles to Clinton to see the men play at 7 p.m. at Presbyterian.HOW MANY MILES? -- Anne-Marie Nyhof, mother of women's basketball senior Yvonne van Daalen, is in town to see her daughter play. She has seen Winthrop games each season. This year, she will attend three contests, all at the Winthrop Coliseum, but they are all road games for her.
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The Winthrop Lady Eagles return to the Coliseum for a 7 p.m. game today against Campbell. They last played at home on Dec. 7, when they beat George Mason. Since that game, they have had a game rescheduled and lost twice in the Bahamas Sunsplash Shootout.
Winthrop coach Bud Childers and his team are looking to break the two-game skid against the Fighting Camels in this game.Campbell, out of the Atlantic Sun Conference, will be a good measuring stick for Winthrop. A charter member of the Big South from 1986-94, Campbell amassed an 80-26 record in the conference before leaving for the A-Sun. -
After 10 games, it's already been a long season in one respect for Winthrop basketball. The Eagles are 1-9 and have lost nine in a row.
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If basketball coaches have nightmares about games, Winthrop's Randy Peele lived his in the first half, when the Gators shot the ball, passed it, rebounded it and took it away from the Eagles in rolling to a 42-point halftime lead on their way to a 74-45 victory.
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The College of Charleston isn't exactly dedicated to playing hard on the defensive end, and the Cougars sometimes throw the ball around like it's a hot rock.
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If Gregg Marshall hadn't changed his mind at the 11th hour and backed out on the coaching job at the College of Charleston, it's not likely the Cougars would be running onto the Winthrop Coliseum court tonight to play the Eagles.
