St. Joseph Scouting Report

- The youngest team under 16 year head coach Phil Martelli

- combined the entire team has 11 years of college experience and the average age is 19.8

-14th in the A10 in field goal defense, allowing opponents to shoot 48 percent per game.

-leading scorer is Carl Jones, the Hawks have 3 players averaging double figures.

-Phil Martelli has used 11 of 12 scholarship players in each of the first three game.

-Leading rebounder is freshmen Langston Gallaway.

- 25th best recruiting class in the nation

- 19-4 all-time against the Stags (9 in a row)

-only won one road game last year (at George Washington)

-0-2 start was the worst start for the Hawks since 1998-99.

Exciting Home Games might be empty

This past week the Fairfield men's basketball team announced their complete 2010-2011 schedule. To view the complete schedule click here.

In a year when the buzz around campus is how good the basketball will be and the promise that they have. In a year when the coaches and players have guaranteed an appearance in the championship game. In a year when record attendance figures are being set for the fall sports including 950 fans attending the Women's Soccer game aganist Boston College, most people would expect an exciting and popular season for the men's basketball team.

However, that might not be. A couple of exciting and much hyped games will be affected due to the campus vacation days and location changes. These games include:

Sacred Heart (played at Mohegan Sun)

St. Josephs (tournament game, Thanksgiving break)

Vermont (Christmas break)

Army (possible Alumni Hall game)

Niagara

St. Peters

St. Joseph's is arguably the most hyped non conference home game of the season while the Army game is another example of one of the few Alumni Hall games occuring when no one is on campus.

This may just be some bad luck and the attendance figures are sure to be broken during the MAAC Championships in the Arena this year. But it would have been nice to have the student's support before the tournament and get even more hype on campus.