Toad
The gods took them down

Where's Walzy, Geronimo, Spengler? They must be sleeping off there hangovers.  What did the Amherst faithful do at the game?

Senator

Give a Williams guy some credit for once, Chris Rose is a player, leave the weird **** yourself!

St. John Fisher is getting punk'd by Amherst right now.

I'm serious bud.

Ben Coffin Named New England Div. III Player of the Year;

Dave Paulsen Coach of the Year

WORCESTER, MA -- Williams College junior forward Ben Coffin (Westford, MA) has been named the New England Div. III Player of the Year by the New England Basketball Coaches Association (NEBCA) and Eph head coach Dave Paulsen has been named the region's Div. III Coach of the Year by NEBCA.


Coffin led the 31-1 Ephs to the NCAA Div. III title by leading the team in scoring (13.6) and rebounding (9.1) and he was the 'unofficial' MVP of the NESCAC Tournament, Most Outstanding Player in the Northeast/East Sectional Tournament and the Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament.


"I'm really pleased that the New England coaches have recognized Ben's contributions to our team," said Paulsen. "From about the middle of January on Ben was truly outstanding. We always knew Ben was capable of playing at this level and we were just wondering when he would assert himself."


Previously Coffin was accorded All-NESCAC First Team honors, ECAC-New England First Team honors and NABC New England First Team honors. Coffin currently has 542 career rebounds and needs just 245 to become the Ephs' all-time leader. Coffin snared 291 rebounds this season. He is on target to crack the 1,000-point plateau as well with 753 points to date. Coffin needs just 247 points in his senior year to reach the 1,000-point plateau..

Coffin and Crotty were greatly responsible for the Class of 2004 establishing a Williams all-time best record of 104-16 (.867). In addition the Ephs qualified for post-season play all four years. In 2001 the Ephs won the ECAC-New England title and in 2002 they advanced to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament; in 2003 they won the NCAA title and in 2004 they finished second in the NCAA Tournament. Along the way Coffin and Crotty helped the current Ephs to tie the all-time Williams record for most consecutive wins (of 28 set in 1908-11 and lifted the current home court win streak to an Eph best 60. The Chandler Gym win streak of 60 is currently the longest home court win streak in NCAA men's basketball. The senior duo also contributed mightily to the record for most wins in a season (31) set in 2003.

Coffin graduates as the all-time leader in rebounds at Williams in Div. III play with 836. He was named the Most Outstanding Player – a first at Williams – at the 2003 NCAA Tournament. Coffin played in 116 games, starting the last 92 in a row. He ranks 8th all-time in Williams' Div. III scoring with 1,274 points. Coffin was named the 2004 NESCAC Player of the Year and against Keene State in the Elite Eight game this season he collected 21 rebounds to establish a new Williams record for rebounds in one NCAA Tournament game


One more thing GoBombers, I am am a Williams fan and Amherst will beat Fisher by at least 15.

Pat Coleman

In 2003 and 2004 I have a hard time believing that Ben Coffin was the ninth best player at his position, your All American teams are  not always correct.  He was a better player than Seth Hauben hands down.  I would argue strongly that he was top three at his position. It was a travesty that he was not listed with the string of games he has in the Nescac tournament and run to a National title.

To the Senator, yes Coffin was that good on defense that he shut Zieja down in that game at Williams. Oh I forgot Zieja was injured.  I guess Matt Hunt's broken finger doesn't matter as an injury and Williams was lucky all those years to.  Well I guess all that does matter is a National Championship banner hangs in Williamstown and everything else on this board is hearsay.

To second what Dman is saying here is some info from Williams site, he obviously was a great player.

Hunt averaged 21.5 points a game this past season as the Ephs compiled a 20-6 mark and won the ECAC-New England title. This was the seventh year in a row the Ephs won at least 20 games in a season. Most remarkable about Hunt's stellar season was that he played the final six games of his career with a broken bone in his right index finger (shooting hand) and averaged 22.8 ppg in those. Hunt had a game-high 32 points in the ECAC-New England championship game at Plymouth State (NH) connecting on 19 of 20 free throws. On the year Hunt made 149 of 169 free throw attempts (88%) to lead NESCAC.

Hunt tallied a career-high 33 points in a remarkable Eph win at Tufts on February 13th. "This is a most worthy achievement by Matthew as Basketball News only selects a First Team and then 15 players make Honorable Mention," notes Eph head coach Harry Sheehy. "I played here and I've coached here for 16 years so I know that Matt Hunt is one of the best we've ever, one of the toughest we've ever had and certainly one of the top twenty best Division III players in the country."

War National Championship banner!

Walzy
We have no excuses, but Amherst will always have plenty until they can hang a National Championship Banner in Lefrak,  lets see if they can get it done this year they certainly have the personnel,  I hope Zieja's knee is pain free now.

If Amherst blows it in the Nescac tourney I hope we do not find out that Bedford had a hangnail on his pinkie, Casnocha had gas from eating broccoli before the game and Wheeler wore the wrong sneakers.

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