Fish Dyn- sounds logical to me.  Come back on and give me an opinion!!

P.S. Fish Dyn I hope everything I said doesn't come true!  I'd love for there to be a BEAST FROM THE EAST!!!!!

Fish Dyn- again my arguement stems from the loss of a 3rd team all-american (bedford) who was not only the leading scorer but rebounder as a 6'3" guard, also I'm pretty sure that John Casnocha a 6'6" forward who averaged close to double figures also graduated. I'm pretty sure both were starters for the whole season.  Don't get me wrong other than a NY team I'd love for Amherst to kick some mid-western butt, but they lost some big time players and I can't see them beating Wooster in Salem (should that be the matchup).  In fact should SJF or B-port or even J Car come out of the bracket, for the first time in years, I think, at Salem even one of these lesser teams may have a least a shot at Amherst.  I'm not a Lord Jeff hater by any means, other than B-port & SJF, they are my sentimental favorite as my Dad went there.

Fish Dyn - I'll take that bet.  Amherst is a great team but I think they are down from previous years and the league is also.  They lost a couple of late league games to Trinity and to Williams in the tournament.  Trinity took an earlier exit from the dance compliments of Brandeis which was a UAA also ran. Williams got beat by Brockport and I think at home early in the year by a LL also ran RPI.  To further compound Brandeis took a seat to Rhode Island that barely got by 14-13 Coast Guard at home.  So my gut feeling is that while that bracket is usually nasty it is not where it has been in recent years.   I still think Amherst comes out of it but once you get them out of their home environment at Salem they'll have problems.  P.S. of the 4 bids the UAA got (Wash U, Chicago, UR & Brandeis) only Wash U is alive and they face UW- st pt this weekend.

pg04 - I met no disrespect to the SUNYAC with my post. In fact on 2/28 I said that Platts might spoil the UR-SJF party everyone suspected was going to happen.  The games played out as they would be expected too. The ECAC played out exactly according to seed in fact.  That being said I think SJF vs B-port will be a great game with B-port winning in a squeaker.  Think Wooster will be the opponent after beating J Carrol by 7-10pts.  My bracket has Wooster losing to UW-Stevens in the Championship game so though my heart will wish for a different outcome, my head leads me in another direction.  I also think that the NESAC is down this season and if Amherst comes out of the other bracket they will be more vunerable than they have been in the past.

Congrats to Vassar on ECAC win.  I'm pretty sure that every single game in that tournament played out according to seeding, which makes the organizers look like Einsteins. Glad to see some success for the oft maligned LL.

Sean Murphy from RIT (Rochester Tech) is playing for the Buffalo Silverbacks of the ABA.

SUNY IT is in Utica.

Magic- If Oswego smacks down Vassar at Vassar come back on here and rub my nose in it.  It could well happen, should be a good game.                   PS I think B-port @ SLU will be another opportunity at league bragging rights!! (and I don't know the outcome there either) on a neutral site I'd go with b-port- up there I'm not as sure.

Magic- Nothing against the SUNYAC but the only win there that is an upset is the 30 ft buzzer beater by Williams that gave Platts the win over UR.  The rest were to be suspected since they were all on home courts against teams that should be and were beaten.

SLU won by about 6 I think after having a lead as large as 18.

Diehard- Bear did another profile for the LL rep St Lawrence on the LL board.  I'd try to get it over here but I'm computer challenged.  By the way I'm drooling over this board, if I knew how to send Karma over to you I would!!!

Bear there's a link to Diehards I'd try to copy and forward to her but I'm computer challenged. The link is at the bottom of her post a few b4 yours. My apologies if you've already accomplised this but since I volunteered your sevices in the first place I want to make sure it gets into the compiled pdf that Diehard may create.

Diehard- this may sound strange but I think if you need an unbiased objective opinion on SLU ask The Bear over on the SUNYAC board.  He's about 10 miles down the road in Potsdam and his analysis is usually deed spot on.

I think that U of R has similiar reasons for not playing in the ECAC's if they don't qualify for the NCAA's.  What I was wondering if anyone knows why Geneseo didn't go to the ECAC's?  Certainly they were more deserving than Hilbert and probably a couple of the other teams also?!