Here is the link from the Binghamton Press
http://www.pressconnects.com/articl...WI-title-game?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Here were my thoughts on the game. Goretti took this game over in the third quarter and blew them out. This Billy Shank kid was the most amazing. He stole the show with his dribbling and deep shooting. Drew the most cheers and ohs and ahs from the crowd.
I watched Newton closely as SU was watching him the day before. Did not see any assistants in the building for the final. Francis assessment was spot on. The whole game he was driving to the rim, which seemed to come at ease. He had 8 points total on 2 baskets and 4-6 from the line. He was probably 2-11 from the field, with about eight misses at the rim, which he got to pretty easily. Just could not get any to drop. He could have finished with 18 points easy. His fouls shots were due to driving. Since he was all drive, he had a couple to's on trying too hard to get to the rim, and had a charge call on one. Also with his driving, he had many nice drive and dish passes to open team mates. He finished with 8 assists. I wanted to see his outside shot. He only took one, a missed 8 foot baseline jumper. Even with this lone jumper, he hesitated to see if he could drive first before he shot.
His defense, I thought was decent. The whole first half, he went man 2 man guarding Calhoun and I thought he did good against him. Calhoun was guarding him in the first half also. Newton drove by him a couple times. Second half they were not on each other that much.
As for Calhoun, when the game was close in the first half, Calhoun was not taking over the game which I was expecting. He kind of stood around alot, but when he was active, he was pretty smooth. Nice outside shot. 2'nd half he shot more and missed quite a few while trying to play catch up. He finished with 10pts on 3-17 shooting.
