Coaching Change

[lehigh90]

Reed's numbers are pretty impressive until you get to the end ...

Overall 204-149 (.578)
Conf 102-72 (.586)
10 out of 12 winning seasons, one losing season was his first (14-15 that year)
5 20 win seasons out of 12 seasons.

Then, the bombshell ...

1 PL title

Just looking back through his record, what the hell was he doing in '10-'11, coming off a PL championship, with CJ and crazy talent, a team that would win 27 the next year, and 21 even with CJ injury in 2 years? How do you go 16-15 that year???

I can't remember back, but what a disaster that year was in retrospect.

[StablerBum]

Yeah - it's kind of crazy to think about how much talent Lehigh had over CJ's career. The best PL player in history plus Gabe Knutson (10th all time in scoring, All-PL), Holden Greiner (All-PL, 1k points), Mackey McKnight (2x All-PL, 1k points, all time assist leader at the time). All four future pros and had 2.5 seasons together before CJ got hurt his senior year.

I don't think they beat another Power Conference team during CJ/Gabe/Holden's time on campus aside from Duke (the biggest no doubt!). Came close a number of times (St. Johns, Michigan State, VCU) but didn't get any W's. Biggest wins (aside from Duke) during that era were Bucknell.

[Bison_137]

Just looking back through his record, what the hell was he doing in '10-'11, coming off a PL championship, with CJ and crazy talent, a team that would win 27 the next year, and 21 even with CJ injury in 2 years? How do you go 16-15 that year???

I can't remember back, but what a disaster that year was in retrospect.

That team had lost three starters, two of whom were stars (Hall and Carrington), so I think it was not unexpected that they took a step back. To me the bigger problem with that year's results was the PL part of the schedule. They went 6-8, tying for 4th through 6th place (out of 8). And they lost three of their last four league games, which put them onto the Bucknell side of the bracket. Team that year definitely did not get better as the year progressed, despite starting two sophs and a freshman PG.

Btw, the preseason poll prior to that 2010-11 season was the closest in league history. Five of the eight teams got at least two first place votes and were all very close in total votes:

1. American (7 first-place votes) 79
2. Bucknell (3) 76
3. Lafayette (2) 73
4. Holy Cross (2) 70
5. Lehigh (2) 69