Dukes End Season with Loss to W&M
By Mike Kaplan,March 7, 2010
WILLIAM & MARY 70, JAMES MADISON 65 The 40 minutes JMU played Saturday night epitomized the Dukes’ entire season – flashes of brilliance, crippled by inconsistency. On Saturday, Madison fell to William & Mary 70-65 in the quarterfinal round of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament at the Richmond Coliseum. The Dukes (13-20 overall, 4-14 in the CAA) were undercut by a second-half collapse, which proceeded a nearly flawless opening period that ended with a 33-24 lead. JMU couldn’t... Read more »
Tribe Gives Free Lesson (Commentary)
By Tim Chapman, The BreezeMarch 7, 2010
JMU should learn from season-ending loss RICHMOND – In one word Pierre Curtis summed up the season as “inconsistent.” The senior is absolutely right. The most disheartening thing for Curtis and classmate Matt Parker is that the inconsistency was not only in the X’s and O’s. It was inconsistency in heart that plagued and an already injury-riddled team. It also had little to do with the seniors. The Dukes’ season is over after they blew a 14-point second-half lead in the quarterfinals... Read more »
Bowles Shows Up in First-round Win (Commentary)
By Tim Chapman, The BreezeMarch 6, 2010
RICHMOND – Former JMU standout Terrence Carter might be a prophet. At halftime of the Dukes’ first-round win over Drexel on Friday night, the former captain made a prediction. Like a wise sage, Carter said junior Denzel Bowles would take over in the second half. Bowles did. (And while the prediction was probably the same thing on the mind of every JMU fan, it was believable coming from Carter. He has always had an air of maturity unparallel to anyone else in the program’s recent years.) He... Read more »
JMU Upsets Drexel in First Round
By Mike Kaplan,March 6, 2010
JAMES MADISON 77, DREXEL 66 Last week, JMU basketball coach Matt Brady said that “40” could be his team’s magic number in the conference tournament. Translation: the Dukes’ would need a total of 40 points from the dynamic duo of forwards Denzel Bowles and Julius Wells in order to beat favored first-round opponent Drexel. Brady was spot on. Bowles posted a game-high 22 points, and Wells added 18 to lead 11-seed JMU to a 77-65 victory over six-seed Drexel before a crowd of 5,494 at the Richmond... Read more »
CAA Tournament Blog (Link Below)
By Tim Chapman, The BreezeMarch 5, 2010
Seniors Mike Kaplan and Tim Chapman are blogging live from the men’s CAA tournament in Richmond. Coverage will include in-game highlights and fun, random stuff throughout the four days. Enjoy! http://caatournament.blogspot.com/ Read More →
Dukes Stage Comeback to Open New Stadium with a Win
By Mike Demsky and Jordan LaBella,March 4, 2010
JMU baseball pulled out a thrilling 11-10 victory against the Longwood Lancers on Wednesday afternoon in its home opener. The game, which doubled as the grand opening of the brand new Veterans Memorial Park, brought a sense of added excitement along with it. JMU earned its first win of the season following a rough start on the road, in which the Dukes (1-3) lost to nationally ranked Coastal Carolina and UC-Irvine, as well as to North Carolina State. Madison lead off the offensive duel with a one... Read more »
‘Year of Parity’ in CAA
By Colleen Hayes,March 4, 2010
After a highly competitive season, full of record-breaking moments and season-ending injuries, the Colonial Athletic Association now rests on the final 40 minutes of regular season play to determine which tie-breaker scenarios will set up the conference tournament. “What a year of parity,” Old Dominion coach, Wendy Larry, said. “We talk about how it’s happening in our conference every year and how we’ve improved our scheduling and gotten more national recognition. I think this is the... Read more »
‘Just Trying To Prolong It’
By Mike Kaplan,March 4, 2010
Pierre Curtis says he’s going to treat Friday’s game just like any other. But the next time JMU takes the floor, it won’t be like other games. The lights will be brighter. The stakes will be higher, and if the Dukes are on the short end of the scoreboard when the final buzzer sounds, it’ll all be over. The Colonial Athletic Association tournament kicks off Friday at the Richmond Coliseum, and the 11-seed Dukes’ first-round draw is a rematch with six-seed Drexel at 8:30 p.m. JMU (12-19... Read more »
Moats, Brooks Perform At NFL Combine
By Michael Demsky,March 4, 2010
Defensive end Arthur Moats and offensive guard Dorian Brooks represented JMU at the NFL Combine on Saturday through Tuesday. With the national media swarming Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the duo proved why they were the first Dukes invited to the showcase in a decade. “It was a great experience,” Brooks said. “I was honored to be there. Just being around those guys — the top players in the country — it was great.” The combine provided the players with an opportunity to impress... Read more »
Turning Loss into Life: A Pierre Curtis Story
By Tim Chapman, The BreezeMarch 1, 2010
Part 4: Senior basketball player finds new perspective as proud father (Part 5 will run in Thursday’s issue. Part 6 will run Thursday on breezejmu.org. Parts 1-3, originally published in 2007, can be found below this article.) It is a cold Wednesday night in early February and an all-too-familiar scene for Pierre Curtis. As the clock winds down on an embarrassing defeat at home, he watches the lower sections of the Convocation Center empty. Season-ticket holders, disgusted and disappointed, leave... Read more »
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