Another Streak

Today at 4pm at the McCann Center the Lady Red Foxes will host Canisius for their seventh in-conference game. Marist is now in the part of their schedule where they are only playing conference opponents the rest of the way. Going into this Martin Luther King Jr. Day game Marist is currently undefeated in the MAAC winning all six of their games. This doesn't come as much of surprise for most people I would think as this team we know was picked to win the MAAC. But my feeling is it doesn't matter what people expect you to do, if you go out and do impressive things, your playing extremely well. Its like the New England Patriots. A few weeks into this past NFL season the Pats were undefeated and the talk of a perfect season started up. Weeks later when they finished 16-0, people didn't make less of their NFL record because it was expected, they still had to go out and do it, and for that it was incredibly impressive (for the record I am not a Pats fan at all). That in a way is the same for this Marist squad. They are expected to win the MAAC and also predicted by many to go undefeated in the MAAC. If this holds true they would be 18-0 in the MAAC and 28-2 overall. I bet those of you who thought they would go undefeated in the MAAC didn't think their record would have to look something like that. So there is my point, sure Brian Giorgis' can do what many expect, but still it is unbelievably impressive.

Since their loss on December 12th to Hartford, Marist has done all they could to prove that their first home loss in 26 games was no fluke. Since the loss they have rattled off six straight wins with all but one of those wins coming on the road. Standing tall at first place in the MAAC with a 6-0 record, they still have to continue winning in the conference. As they look in their rear view mirror, Manhattan is only one game behind them with a 5-1 in-conference record. It may take close to perfection to make sure they finish at the top of the conference, but let the challenge be out on the table. As I said in one of my first blogs, their is no limit to what this team can accomplish this year. Hopefully I will see you all at McCann for todays game.