F&M has been loosing a lot lately, if they do not show up to play Wesley will run right by them.  Wesley also has a NCAA D3 player of the year candidate and is riding a high since winning the CAC.

F&M has to get by Wesley first.  Either way Saturdays game will be a good one.

Really though this is all opinion and it is all said and done with now.  Wesley will take their CAC championship title and live to fight another day.  Which is actually tomorrow.  It looks like it is going to be a game of contrasting styles.  Wesley's high octane vs F&M half court Princeton style.  As long as Wesley's shooters show up to play it should be a good game.

There is a reason they wait until after the conference championship to make up this team.  MATT HALE DID NOT SHOW UP TO PLAY.  Evan Martin shut him down in the semis only allowing him to score 2 points in the second half and them came back and shut down Patrick Prewitt from MMU in the championship game not allowing him to score a single point in the second half. 

Leadership:  Team Captain of Wesley.  Ask Rashawn Johnson who runs the team and he will tell you.  Every News interview he has had this year he declared it.
Coachability:  Team Captain of Wesley and their point guard (everything runs through the point)
Teamwork:  Just watch a game and you will see how Evan runs his team.
Hustle:  Without question Evan is a def monster.  It was stated earlier that Evan and Camontae Griffin are the two best on the ball defenders in the conference (that take hustle)
etc:  Showing up when the game is on the line and it is either win or go home (real players show up when it counts).  Matt Hale has been sitting at home since last Thursday.

Everyone thought oh oh oh it is going to be Mary Washington and St. Mary's and here comes Wesley winning it all after just being in this conference for two years.  Wesley deserved Coach of the year honors and two players on first team all conference. 

Ok so let us play selection committee here.  We can throw 4 players up on the board:  Matt Hale, Evan Martin, Nick Brady and Sekoe White.  Lets look at conference statistic categories and head to head match-ups.

Scoring:
3. Sekoe White
5. Nick Brady
7. Matt Hale
8. Evan Martin

Rebounding:
5. Sekoe White
7. Nick Brady

Assists:
3. Evan Martin
4. Matt Hale
5. Sekoe White

FREE THROW PCT:
2. Matt Hale
7. Nick Brady

Steals:
6. Evan Martin
8. Sekoe White
13. Matt Hale

3-POINT FG PCT:
3. Matt Hale
8. Evan Martin
13. Nick Brady
14. Sekoe White

3-POINT FG MADE:
2. Matt Hale
3. Evan Martin
6. Nick Brady
13. Sekoe White

BLOCKED SHOTS:
6. Sekoe White

ASSIST/TURNOVER RATIO:
4. Evan Martin
5. Matt Hale
8. Sekoe White

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS:
7. Sekoe White

DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS:
3. Nick Brady
7. Sekoe White

Ok so lets say that for every category that a player leads ( Just taking into account the players that we are debating  here ) they get 1 point, 2nd .75 pts, 3rd .50 pts, 4th .25 pts.  It would break down like this:
Sekoe White: 7 pts
Matt Hale: 5.5 pts
Evan Martin: 4.75 pts
Nick Brady: 4.25 pts

Since Sekoe's team finished dead last in the conference putting him on first team is a stretch.  The same should go across the board since the others were so tight.  Putting 2 players from a team that finished 3rd in the regular season and 4th in the conference playoffs is a stretch.  It would be hard to give Nick Brady first team with his team finishing 6th regular season and 5th during the conference championships.

Without Rashawn Johnson Wesley would not have been as good, like wise goes for Evan Martin.  Who was second only to Rashawn in every category for the Conference Champs and 2nd regular season team.  Evan out shined Nick Brady, Matt Hale, and Sekoe White (except for 1 game ) in everyone on of there head to head match ups.  Obviously the selection committee does not look at box scores. 

If all that does not make a strong enough case for you lets put Evan up against Matt when it maters the Conference Semifinals.  The real players show up when it it crunch time.  Here are the stats from that game.

Game Stats:
Matt Hale:  14 pts, 7 reb, 3 ass, 1 to, 1 stl
Evan Martin:  19 pts, 5 reb, 2 ass, 2 to, 2 stl
1st half stats:
Matt Hale:  12 pts, 2 reb, 1 ass, 0 to, 0 stl
Evan Martin:  5 pts, 4 reb, 2 ass, 2 to, 2 stl
2nd Half Stats
Matt Hale:  2 pts, 5 reb, 2 ass, 1 to, 1 stl
Evan Martin:  14 pts, 1 reb, 0 ass, 0 to, 0 stl

The thing is that Matt and Evan were guarding each other.  Well Evan was guarding Matt and Mary Washington was playing a zone.  2 pts in the second half when the game is on the line sounds 2nd team to me.

Do not get me wrong I think Matt Hale and Nick Brady are both excellent players.  But there is no way that Evan Martin did not deserve to be on the First Team with Brandon Altmann, Alex Franz, Camontae Griffin, and Rashawn Johnson.

POLITICS

All Conference team announced!!

First Team
Brandon Altmann Jr. C Mary Washington Vienna, Va./James Madison
Alex Franz So. G St. Mary's Catonsville, Md./Cardinal Gibbons
Camontae Griffin Jr. G St. Mary's Baltimore, Md./Dunbar
Matt Hale Sr. G Mary Washington Centreville, Va./Westfield 2nd in '08
Rashawn Johnson Sr. G Wesley

Second Team
Nick Brady Jr. G York Hanover/Delone Catholic ROY in '07
Evan Martin Sr. G Wesley Wilmington, Del./Laurinburg (N.C.)
Greg Palmer Jr. G Salisbury Salisbury, Md./Salisbury Christian 2nd in '08
Sekoe White Sr. F Gallaudet Lexington, Ky./P.L. Dunbar
Greg Woody Jr. G Stevenson Baltimore, Md./Mt. St. Joseph 2nd in '08

2009 CAC Player of the Year: Rashawn Johnson, Wesley
2009 CAC Co-Rookie of the Year: Tarek Ammoury, Marymount (G, McLean, Va./McLean)
2009 CAC Co-Rookie of the Year: Julian Watson, York (G., Odenton, Md./Arundel)
2009 CAC Coach of the Year: Scott McClary, Marymount (first time)

I have to say that I do disagree with some of the picks here.  Coach of the year going to the Marymount Coach I really think it should have went to the Wesley Coach.  They were one of the top teams in the conference all year while having no player over 6'3" in their starting line up.  Not to mention that this was only their second year in the conference.

How is Evan Martin from Wesley not on first team.  I agree with everyone on the first team but Matt Hale should have been replaced by Evan Martin.  The three times they played Evan had Matt Hale on lock down.  In the second half of the head to head playoff game Mat was held to 2 points.

Player of the year was a tight one in my opinion.  The two freshmen from York were pretty good as well.  Tarek is a one dimensional player who can not shoot.

Just my opinion but some of this seems like politics to me.