Davidson 61, Hofstra 52

AP:

NEW YORK -- Jake Cohen scored 18 points, including a three-point play with 45 seconds left, and Davidson beat Hofstra 61-52 on Monday night in the third-place game of the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden.

Cohen, a 6-foot-10 freshman, was fouled as he made a reverse layup with 45 seconds left. His free throw gave the Wildcats (4-8) a 60-52 lead with 45 seconds to play.

Not only a good win going into the short Christmas break but for this group a good two games at the Garden. Now can wear the white jerseys for a little while when they get back to the village. Coming around. DavidsonWildcats.com. Matt McKillop on Facebook: needed this badly. GoHofstra.com.

A commenter in Albany

Says about the Siena head coach:

Bob McKillop didn’t leave Davidson. Why won’t Fran be any different?

I can think of three differences right off the bat: Kerrin, Matt, Brendan.

June 15, 2008

Chris Clunie on the phone from New York: “Matt didn’t want to disappoint his dad, and his dad didn’t want to disappoint Matt, and I think that permeated throughout the team.”

Brendan Winters on the phone from Denver: “He was harder on Matt than anybody else. He rode Matt. So it was okay when he did it to the rest of us.”

May 20, 2008

Don Hogan on the phone from Florida: “Bob had been my high school coach at Holy Trinity High School. Any time I was coasting a little bit, that voice, that booming voice. He’d call you out.”

Matt McKillop in Atlanta: “I had to outwork everybody. I had to hit people.”

Len Kosmalski on the phone from Florida: “Landry wants to be around toughness and competitiveness.”

Pete Thamel on the phone from Boston: “The academic side jumped out at me. George Mason can get in pretty much whoever they want.”

The family business

Uch on the McKillop men.

92-70

Everybody comes to see Stephen make magic. And that’s fine. He’ll almost always oblige. But what all those people also end up seeing, and this goes for all the people in Charleston and all the people in Boone and all the people in Statesboro and now all the people in Chattanooga -- what I’m saying is that what’s becoming harder and harder to miss is Davidson doing what Davidson does. Watch the games. Look at the box scores. I see Andrew. I see Max. I see Will. I see Ben. I see Brendan. I see Bryant. I see Steve. I see a team that right now, on Jan. 28, 2009, is better than its predecessor was on Jan. 28, 2008. I do. So. That’s 10-0. That’s 40 in a row. The story’s not over. The story continues. AP. Early Uch. UTC. UTC Notes. UTC Quotes. The Chattanoogan. Davidson. DavidsonNews.net.