Cabrini Men’s Cavaliers have been on war path since the start of the season. Guns blazing, no mercy shown to teams that stand in the way of defending their Colonial States Athletic Conference championship.
With a 6-0 record the Cavs showed they are were worthy of their now sixth-place national ranking. They started the season with a 10-point win against then 10th-ranked St.Mary’s College of Maryland at the Hoops National Invitational Classic in Owings Mills, Md.
The men who have beaten teams by a 12-point margin have a full arsenal of offensively talented players.
With no surprise, returner junior-guard, Aaron Walton-Moss has contributed with an average of 27.5 points a game as reported on Cabrini athletics website. Walton-Moss named this week’s CabriniAthletics.com Student-Athlete of the Week had stand out back-to-back performances against the University of Scranton and Widener University where he contributed a total of 73 points.
A veteran of the program, Walton-Moss puts on a show every game, a show that is not always well received by head coach Marcus Kahn who is far from shy in showing his sometime frustrations with the junior.
Walton-Moss, along with transfer-senior point guard AJ Picard and senior guard Fran Rafferty, have combined more than half of the team’s scoring.
Picard who was recently inducted into the 1000-point club credits his offensive success to the chemistry he has made with his teammates.
“We pretty much work well off of each other. We started getting that chemistry off early in the season, at open gyms and all that. If we can get our chemistry and get everyone involved the sky is the limit pretty much,” said Picard in a Cabriniathletics.com interview.
League play began at home on Nov. 2 against the Gwynedd-Mercy Griffins. With ease the men’s Cavs paraded around the less-than-successful defense of the Griffins.
The talented trio has yet to crack under the pressure of their competition. Teams going forward will need to respect their versatility as players and the basketball knowledge they all have.
However, teams like Amherst College, ranked no. 1 in the nation, have only allowed their opponents to score 75 points a game. The true test for the men’s Cavs may not come during conference play but after as they battle against teams just as good if not better than them.
