I figure this is a good a time as any to introduce you to the new Blue Hens Basketball Mascot: Blue Hen Ballz. The Mid-Majority is a great source for mid-major basketball and is a must read during the season. He travels around with his appropriately colored basketball mascot, Bally, who can be seen sitting on press row throughout the basketball season. As Bally's popularity grew, so did the demand of the readers for mascots of their own. Long story short, with my membership for the upcoming season, I got the chance to have Delaware represented in the bunch. All of the site's school-specific mascots are called Ballz, so therefore, mine is dubbed "Delaware Ballz," but I feel like Blue Hen Ballz has a much better ring to it so that's what I'm going with. You can look for him to be featured in a decent amount of the updates throughout the season.
As for the actual teams, the Men's schedule was released back on Wednesday and what better way to celebrate than to give a full game-by-game prediction of the season so far ahead of the opener at Radford. Here we go! (All predictions based solely on gut instinct and what I know without overly researching anything)
- 11/11 - at Radford ==> W (1-0)
- 11/18 - at Villanova ==> L (1-1)
- 11/22 - vs. Cornell ==> L (1-2)
- 11/26 - vs. Lafayette ==> W (2-2)
- 11/30 - at Boston U. ==> L (2-3)
- 12/03 - vs. Drexel ==> W (3-3, 1-0 CAA)
- 12/07 - at Penn ==> W (4-3)
- 12/10 - at Delaware St. ==> L (4-4)
- 12/19 - vs. La Salle ==> W (5-4)
- 12/22 - at Howard ==> W (6-4)
- 12/30 - vs. Temple ==> L (6-5)
- 01/02 - at UNCW ==> L (6-6, 1-1 CAA)
- 01/04 - vs. Hofstra ==> W (7-6, 2-1 CAA)
- 01/07 - at William & Mary ==> W (8-6, 3-1 CAA)
- 01/11 - vs. Old Dominion ==> L (8-7, 3-2 CAA)
- 01/14 - vs. VCU ==> L (8-8, 3-3 CAA)
- 01/18 - at George Mason ==> L (8-9, 3-4 CAA)
- 01/21 - vs. Georgia St. ==> W (9-9, 4-4 CAA)
- 01/23 - vs. Towson ==> W (10-9, 5-4 CAA)
- 01/25 - at Northeastern ==> W (11-9, 6-4 CAA)
- 01/28 - at Drexel ==> L (11-10, 6-5 CAA)
- 02/01 - vs. George Mason ==> L (11-11, 6-6 CAA)
- 02/04 - at James Madison ==> L (11-12, 6-7 CAA)
- 02/08 - vs. UNCW ==> W (12-12, 7-7 CAA)
- 02/11 - at Georgia St. ==> W (13-12, 8-7 CAA)
- 02/14 - at Hofstra ==> L (13-13, 8-8 CAA)
- 02/18 - Bracket Busters ==> L (13-14)
- 02/22 - at Towson ==> W (14-14, 9-8 CAA)
- 02/25 - vs. Northeastern ==> W (15-14, 10-8 CAA)
With a finishing record of 15-14 (10-8 CAA), the Hens should get the 6-seed in the CAA tournament (JMU had the same conference record last season at the 6-seed). I don't see an NCAA berth in their future, but the chance at making one of the now numerous post-season tournaments is there if the Hens can make it to the CAA semifinals. No matter how the season does play out, AH2D will be supporting them all season long, as will Blue Hen Ballz!
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