Ryan Davis reaches 1,000 career points

Vermont 86 UMBC 59

Happy Birthday to me!!!!!

Ryan Davis returned to the lineup and finally scored his 1,000th career point as Vermont dominated UMBC from the opening tip. A great accomplishment for Davis and a real credit to him for his patience in his development. His transformation over his career has been fun to watch. Today's game was all about the beauty of the game of basketball. The way this team passes and the cohesiveness with which they play is a beautiful thing. The Cats had 24 assists on 33 made baskets which is just an incredible number. So many great looks and guys trusting their teammates.  Especially the passing from Davis and Nick Fiorillo. They combined for 7 assists and are so good at finding the open man whether that is for a kick out or running a two man game out top. Really impressive stuff. The defense was also locked in. Clearly after watching the tape after the Hartford loss they focused on cleaning up the defensive mistakes. UMBC can get red hot shooting the ball and was coming off a 95 point performance against Stony Brook. Vermont was able to slow down their uptempo style and make them play in the halfcourt. 

Aaron Deloney was great off the bench leading the Cats with 20 points on 7-10 shooting. He was in attack mode from his first touch and really got hot in the second half. Davis finished with 18 points on an even more efficient 8-10 shooting. He also tossed in 4 rebounds and 4 assists for good measure. Justin Mazzulla drained another couple threes and finished with 8 points. Isaiah Powell also scored 8 points to go along with 8 rebounds and 3 assists. Nick Fiorillo had another nice all around game off the bench with 7 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists. Kam Gibson continues to produce as he as re-enters his shooter off the bench role with 6 points and added 7 rebounds as well. Robin Duncan was the maestro of the passing attack as usual with 6 assists. 

Now on the road to Binghamton on Wednesday. I am off to Disney World with the family for the week so I will not be writing up Wednesday's game. I won't be watching Senior day on Saturday either but should be able to write it up the next day. This is the first game I will have missed completely in a long time so you will all have to survive without me!