Gordon has their roster up and they looks like they brought back all their returning players.  In addition for what seems like the first time in his tenure Todd Murphy has brought in a sizable recruiting class, 7 players in total.

2  Dylan Marshall           Fr.  G 5-10 160   Purcellville, Va. Woodgrove
5  Jaren Yang                Fr.  G 5-8 150     San Francisco, Calif. Saint Ignatius College Prep
10  Steven Vampatella   Fr.  F 6-6 170      Mansfield, Conn. E.O. Smith
11  Lucas Pierre Barbey  Fr.  G 6-1 170     St. George's, Bermuda Blair Academy
15  Jake Hart                 Fr.  G 5-11 185   Allendale, N.J. Hawthorn Christian Academy
21  Graham Tienhaara    Fr.  F 6-4 185     Holden, Mass. Whitinsville Christian
24  Carter Bras              Fr.  F 6-4 200     Coppell, Texas Grapevine Faith Christian

Don't know much about these guys but from what I have seen/read online, Marshall and Yang appear to be ball handling guards, that can get to the rim at times and are spot up shooters.  Barbey went to Blair Academy which is one of the better prep schools in New Jersey and puts out a few D1 players a year.  If he got minutes there he should be a good player who is able to jump in and play right away.  The others are a bit unknown but Tienhaara comes from Whitinsville Christian which produced the Bajema's and Hans Miersma so he will be interesting to watch develop.  Over all looks to be a good sized class and the new comers should compliment the returning players well.  If one on them can run the point that would help a great deal.  Should be an interesting season. 

Anyone know anything about any of these guys?

Interesting notes from Todd Murphy at Gordon:

"We started practice over a month ago now and I think the best description that I can give for this preseason is tumultuous.  During the summer months we had comprised a recruiting class of seven players to add to our 13 returning players to make up a roster of 20. That is more than I traditionally like to carry on a team, but our walk-ons from previous seasons have earned the right to be a part of the team so we will work with it.

To make a long story short, we began our season this past Friday with a trip to Baltimore for a tournament and only 14 players made the trip. Many factors came into play to lower that number that much, but we are still very happy about the players remaining on the team and we still have a lot of confidence going into the season."

Could be an interesting season.

Gordon updated their roster, no surprise (at least not to me) the Estonian's are no longer listed.  Looks like Udoka Obiora is a new addition, 6-5 SO F from Boston Trinity.

Looks like Gordon has their roster up, new faces, 5'-7" Guard from Portland, ME that was on a good Maine HS team but was at best a 3rd option, a 6'-5" Forward from Spaulding HS in NH and two guards from Estonia.  Is this a new recruiting pipeline?  Gordon has had a handful of foreign players over the years but they were either not good enough to get playing time, very good individual players with not team ability, or had problems staying eligable for various reasons.  Anyone have any word on these two Estonians?

Not saying I don't buy your story but I highly doubt that AMC, one of the weaker schools both academically, athletically, and facility wise in the current TCCC was asked to the meeting, and a school like CSC was left out.  Maybe I am wrong, but that is just my feeling. 

Over all I think this "cutting of the fat" so to speak, makes this new conferences one of the top overall conferences in the New England for all sports, not just basketball.  I would rate the conferences as follows:

1. NESCAC
2. NEWMAC
3. NEW Conference/LEC
4. MASCAC
5. GNAC/NAC
6. NECC

Someone said the the new conference will not have an AQ for tournaments for any sport, is this true?  It can't be, I am guessing there might be a one year waiting period before the new conference gets an AQ, but then they should have all the rights and responsibilities that they have now.  Does anyone know the answers to this question?

I saw something similar to this in the Portland Press Herald http://www.pressherald.com/sports/boston-college-reaches-final_2010-04-09.html (at the bottom of the article).  One difference is that Curry is not included in the new 9 team conference according to the article.  Which to my makes sense, but I guess what doesn't make much sense is a 9-team conference.  8 conference games make sense for most other sports but, how will it work out in basketball, an unbalanced schedule?

What are other peoples thoughts, looks like the NH teams will have to find a new home.

Aaron Trigg was named a Jostens Trophy Finalist.  Great stuff, congratulations to Aaron.

Quote from: Hoops Fan on March 01, 2010, 11:16:12 AM

Middlebury played about their best game of the year in the NESCAC final against Williams.  They're peaking right now - I just don't see any way Gordon wins this game, at least not without a superhuman shooting performance from deep.

I have seen quite a few NESCAC games this year as I live close to Bowdoin and Bates.  Gordon would have been at top 3 or 4 team in that conference.  I saw Bowdoin a handful of times this year and Colby and Bates twice each, GC was a better team than Bates and Bowdoin and would have hung with Colby.

Middlebury and Williams have a big teams, much bigger than your average NESCAC school.  This is one area where Gordon can match them.  Gordon has some quality big men and I think that is going to be what allows them to hang with Middlebury.  If they can match their big men, I think Bajema and Trigg are as good of guards as there are in the Northeast.

I think it is going to be a much closer game than you think.  I would think that Middlebury is obviosuly the favorite based on playing tougher competition all year and hosting the game in their own gym.  I would say Gordon is a 6 point underdog.

Should be interesting.  Middlebury and Gordon played some similar opponents, both beat Bates, MC by 9 and GC by 14.  Both beat Union, MC by 20 and GC by 22.  Both Played CSC, MC lost by 8 and GC split losing by 9 and winning by 19.  So with by looking at those results, I think it will be a good game also looking at each teams rosters they look as though they match up well with each other.  What does anyone know about RIC or Rutgers-Newark?

The GC - CUrry game is going to be interesting today.  As I said before the GC - CSC game, I have been watching GC games all year (online as I'm not in the area).  I believe that today's game will come down to TOs.  Gordon had a lot of close games during their winning streak.  In those close games they were averaging 20+ TOs a game, when they took care of the ball they were winning easily.  The last time they played Curry it was a 6 point win for the Scots.  GC had a +19 edge in rebounding, but they turned the ball over 26 times.  In that game Trigg and Bajema combined for 44 points, while Jackson and Mastrullo went for 41 (though they shot the ball poorly).

I think this game is going to come down to GC taking care of the ball.  If Gordon turns the ball over less than 15 times I think GC wins by 10+.  If Curry can force TOs and get to the line I think it is basically going to be a pick-um game.

Those are just my thoughts but it should be interesting.

Quote from: number1chargerfan on February 23, 2010, 09:41:13 PM
They won't have a live feed Saturday if they can't beat the Chargers Thursday!

All this talk about a CSC upset is nice.  I realize CSC dealt the Scots their only conference loss of the year, and that back in 2006 the Chargers upset the then 15-1 Scots in the semi-finals, but to borrow a phrase from Rick Pitino, "can you leave me the keys to the restaurant I'll lock it up."  Wait wrong quote, the one I was looking for is "Andrew St. Clair aint walking through that door." (At least not as a player).  That 2006 game might as well have ended when he dunked in the lane 2 minutes in.

I have to give the edge to GC based entirely on their vastly improved rebounding over years past.  I have watched 90% of their home games via the web-cast.  There was a point in this season when I was nervous about the number of turnovers they were making (they were averaging 20+ for while, including 21 at CSC) but that seems to be cured.  Foti is obviously a good coach and will make this game close, but this GC team seems to know what it takes to win games, I like GC by 6.

As I said early in a post there are not going to be divisions in the CCC, so each team plays all other teams once for a 13 game schedule.  As for Gordon's extra games with EC and ENC those are extra games that are going to be considered non-conference games.

Again I am just going off of what I heard.  Secondly it make perfect sense to me that they would not have divisions with 14 teams.  For one thing with the current format that would mean an additional 3 conference games for each team.  This reduces both the number of games and travel.  19 games is far to many for league play.