Quote from: hugenerd on February 25, 2009, 02:09:04 PM

Quote from: ILive4This on February 25, 2009, 01:48:01 PM
I am changing the topic a bit, mainly because I have not posted in a while and something started to pop into my head. Although the overall record is simply not as good as last year for Brandeis, a win this weekend I believe gives them the same conference record as last season. I would argue that this year's team though less consistent than last year's is perhaps a better team when playing to its potential. The losses to Rochester at Home and Chicago on the road just should not have happened. 12-2 in conference is more or less what people expected for this year's squad and would have put them right in the thick of the conference battle with wash u. Now flip around the strange loss to lasell and the even more unforgivable loss to FSC and you have a 4 loss team.

I know you can not just take away losses, but it seems as of late the judges have figured it out. If they are some how lucky enough to squeek into the tournament, I feel they would make a run as deep or deeper than last year.

As you pointed out, they are not as consistent, and I think the hypothetical run you speak of would depend on which team showed up any given night.  With that said, I think they are a better team than Amherst and should be ranked ahead of them in the region.  Whether they can be last year's Wheaton and sneak into the tourney is yet to be seen. The losses to FSC and Lasell will definitely hurt though.  Without those two I think they are ranked top 5 or 6 in NE and with their OWP numbers they would have a much firmer hold on a C right now.

I think a main reason for their inconsistency is due to the inconsistency of their go-to-guy, Steve DeLuca.  In my observation, when DeLuca has played well against good teams, Brandeis usually wins.  When he struggles, the team tends to also.  In my opinion, Joe Coppens was a more consistent player last year which had a lot to do with them playing more consistently throughout the season.

I actually think it has more to do with playing style. Starting Kenny smalls puts a faster paced, shooting heavy offense on the floor. I do not know what team rule yemga broke, and he is a good ball player and an all around nice guy, but the team that made the trip to UR without him was a completely different team and since then they have been shooting the ball hot and putting up big points and big wins.

And to the other poster...a 30 point blowout at the palestra i think overshadows a small defeat in waltham.

I am changing the topic a bit, mainly because I have not posted in a while and something started to pop into my head. Although the overall record is simply not as good as last year for Brandeis, a win this weekend I believe gives them the same conference record as last season. I would argue that this year's team though less consistent than last year's is perhaps a better team when playing to its potential. The losses to Rochester at Home and Chicago on the road just should not have happened. 12-2 in conference is more or less what people expected for this year's squad and would have put them right in the thick of the conference battle with wash u. Now flip around the strange loss to lasell and the even more unforgivable loss to FSC and you have a 4 loss team.

I know you can not just take away losses, but it seems as of late the judges have figured it out. If they are some how lucky enough to squeek into the tournament, I feel they would make a run as deep or deeper than last year.

any announcement on whether the dancer was a student or a member of the group status quo from america's next dance crew on MTV as rumored?

Interesting pause in the WU/BRANDEIS game, as a breakdancing performance during a time out went wrong and a performer is down on the court. Not sure who this break in the action helps more.

The Bears have a very balanced offensive attack thus far with no players in double figures but many with 6 or 8

Cheap but fair comment about the rose art museum, I know this is not a forum for this type of discussion, but maybe it could be. The university is one of only 2 in the UAA with an endowment under 1 billion. Can you guess the other....CMU (although they have so many other smaller seperate endowments and trusts that they do not have much to worry about). The Rose's collection is valued at 350 to 400 million, and there were plans to build a 20+ million dollar studio art complex that there is no longer funding for and the Rose will be turned into, so add the opportunity cost and the addition to the endowment is more than significant.

A loss of culture, perhaps, but less than 15,000 viewed the art at the museum itself each year. The basketball team saw more activity at a school that does not take its athletics all that seriously (I refer to the student body) and takes its art extremely seriously.

Just putting that out there, I may be one of the few Alums that is not up in arms about this...maybe I should be?

While Brandeis should perhaps be 8-0 right now, or 7-1, one thing to keep in mind and that will help them if they win out or have just an Amherst loss (Amherst squeeked out a 2 pt win over emmanuel last week) is that all three of these teams were tournament teams last year and by the looks of it should be tournament teams again this year (UMD the exception as the LEC seems an interesting conference this year). 3 or 4 non-conf losses is a bit much but I do not think as dramatic as Chicago last year which had 6 or 7 if I am not mistaken.

So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

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After wins against Tufts and Babson, Brandeis sits at 2-3 and goes against another team with a rough start RIC in an effort to get back above .500. If Brandeis wins this game I think their season is at a fresh start and they will be fine (especially as we have seen DeLuca's play get back to top form). If they lose, more will need to be seen.