Award is "Player of the Year" not "Team of the Year".

Watched two tournament games last week where home court was a significant advantage.  Ursinus v/Swat at Ursinus  the Bears certainly benefitted against a very good Garnet team that stayed with their full court pressure the whole game and that seemed to cost them.  Bears at F&M, the home court certainly played out as the 200 plus noisy students under the Ursinus basket in the first half certainly flustered the Bears and they only scored 21 points and were down 43-21 at the half.  Second half was a different story when Ursinus closed to within 2 points before running out of gas and time.  Great job by Ursinus to hang in there against a team that clearly deserved the conference title.  As an aside, I don't know what Trevor Wall needed to do to win POY recognition the past two years. Great young man and baller!

Good exchange Greek and Stretcn4.  Great article on Trevor Wall https://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/1323757. Young man is a class act who might have been POY last year if Bears had a better record.  Bears will be a tough match up this year, especially if they improve their defense. Go Bears!

No mention of Ursinus or Trevor Wall???  You might be surprised.

Pat, Good idea.  That is what I had intended but I am technologically challenged.

Ryan, 13 conference games would be right, 8 (4x2)  in division and 5 in the other division

It's my understanding that the CC will be splitinto two divisions next year (2024-25).  I believe one division (let's call it the North) will include Swarthmore, Muhlenberg, Ursinus, Haverford and Wahington College.  The other division (let's call it South) will be comprised of JHU, F&M, Dickinson, Gettysburg & McDaniel.  Teams in each division will play each other twice (home and away) and teams in the other division once (alternating home and away).  This means each team will replace five conference games with non conference games. Do I have this right?

The Scranton game in 2003 was Mike's freshman year. I was at that game and exciting it was. Our only regret was that it should have been played at Ursinus if the AD had filed to host which he did not. That was arguably the best Ursinus team ever.  Dan Luciano was CC POY that year, Dennis Stanton the next year and Mike McGarvey the following two years. The other two strters were Steve Erfle and Naquan Williams, both excellent players. Mike was clearly the best player on the floor that game----scoring 19 points making 5 of 6 from three along with 5 assists and 3 steals. But---that was not enough since both Luciano and Stanton had sub par games.  Their biggest problem was free throw shooting as the Bears connected on only 8 of 20---most of them coming late in the game while shooting facing a raucus Scranton student body directly behind the visitor's basket. Final score 77-75  in favor of Scranton.

Congratulations to Mike McGarvey---hired as the Head MBB Coach at Lafayette after serving as the interim this past season!  Mike is a class act and excellent coach. He is a two time CC POY and a 4 year starting point guard at Ursinus during which time the Bears won the CC championship 3 times. Mike started his coaching career as an assistant at Ursinus, moved on to Colgate as an assistant, then to Lycoming as Head Coach and finally to Lafayette.

McBuckets----- Coaches & SIDs cannot vote for their own players or self.  Many coaches consider how much time, energy and resources are focused on on dealing with a specific player defensively.  For example Ryan Hughes and others selected were doubled every time they touched the ball or teams tried to deny them the ball.  Also, I think Caprise should have been 1st team vice Gaines as he is a much better all around player.

Great championship game. Team defense is what separates these two teams from the rest. DeAngelo should be POY, IMO.

DeAngelo would be the likely choice and a good one.  He was terrific against Ursinus. As for the 3-6 spots in the playoffs, much rides on this week's games with Muhlenberg at UC and Swat at Getty being very big ones. Likely will need the tie breaker.

McBuckets, The last one was only one of several he took during the game, but that was the one that bloodied his nose

Swat certinly succeeded in neutralizing Ryan Hughes. He wore a facemask last night against WC which indicates a broken nose or a facial fracture.  Probably a broken nose as he was bleedimg from the nose late in the game.   Against WC he was clearly not himself shooting 3 of 11 and only 9 points.  He adjusted to playing mostly as a facilitator. Wearing a mask inhibits a players vision----and confidence.  This will undoubtedly impact on UC's playoff chances and Ryan's chances of winning POY honors.  The game is deteriorating and if it's played like rugby, soon the players will be required to wear helmets and face masks.

Reserved Seat----I agree that it started with the pros and has trickled down. To reveal how old I am, it started with George Mikan in about 1950 with the then Minneapolis Lakers when he  bulled his way to the basket. He was only 6'10" but incredibly strong. I was a Lakers fan in those days but never have liked that part of the game. Some chnges I like, i.e. the shot clock and the 3 point shot.