what conference is Wesley a part of?   we should find that board and rub it in i guess; that's the new trend these days.   but then again, i dont think any of us care that much to exert that extra energy!! 

Quote from: cugrad on March 07, 2010, 02:55:12 AM
  How well did Scranton or SU do in the ECAC tournament? 

in all of my years of watching SU basketball, they have never played in the ECACs.  what does it mean? nothing.  more or less a pity party. so before you go bragging about being in it and others werent, dont forget hte fact that the others more likely than not did not want to play in it.  if you dont win your conference tournament/get an at-large, i think it is time to cut your losses.  why did CUA perform poorly? maybe at this point in the year, the kids are ready for a break, and thus, played with no passion/desire/intensity--after all, what were they truly playing for in the long run?  perhaps that is why SU, and it appears scranton as well, defers ECAC invites. 

another win or two may look pretty on your record, but whatever value this boosted final record has in recruiting is far out-weighed when the coach must explain, for example, the team lost in the conference semi's.

Quote from: NEPAFAN on March 06, 2010, 11:39:26 AM

Quote from: hoopit123 on March 06, 2010, 08:33:27 AM
look at my squad!!! continuing to prove me right---WINNING a tournament game. first ever for a LC team if im not mistaken.

Your team?!

my squad as in the team i had chosen from day 1 to be the best in the LC this season, is all.

look at my squad!!! continuing to prove me right---WINNING a tournament game. first ever for a LC team if im not mistaken.

....maybe that's where susidad is??? took off for winter hibernation in florida with wife and golf clubs??
..if so, I am utterly jealous.    unless he merely got banned from the board?!?

time to dust-off the golf bag!!!

no worries, matt, all in good fun.  after all, after this we may not speak til next fall!! but its been fun.

OH, and ps....whats the deal with all the moravian love?
were they not the 2nd worst team in the conference??? and they get two players on the all-star teams???
...not to mention from what i saw they were mediocre players at best (weaver was a much better player as an underclassmen, but then again, he had mroe around him then)

in light of this, take it for what its worth everybody, but i say majors got snubbed.   

perhaps the coaches were consciously trying to not display its SU-favoritism like they did last year, giving all the awards to SU.  maybe they heard matt griping about Patch receiving POY last year as part of some conspiracy and thus tried reallly hard to rule out any past suspicions!

Quote from: cold_case on March 02, 2010, 02:16:08 PM

Quote from: hoopit123 on March 02, 2010, 02:04:31 PM
ashworth for POY...hooray!  re-vamp your campaign starting now for next season, matt.  maybe JB will finally get his  (but against the defending POY?! hm!)

You just have to incite him, don't you?

i mean, how can one resist.  however, i'm sure JB still won the Matt L. POY award, for the 2nd straight year!!!! (maybe even 3rd straight, going for the sweep next year!)

thegrove:  mediocre player from SU last year---must be referring to last year's Matt L POY runner-up. 

oh great, we can discuss the all-star teams instead of pretending to be interested in the ECAC's

congrats to ashworth for both awards---the josten's is very prestigious.  was it he who was a finalist last year as well?  i forget who it was in the landmark that received that last season.

ashworth for POY...hooray!  re-vamp your campaign starting now for next season, matt.  maybe JB will finally get his  (but against the defending POY?! hm!)

sooo, what does he who correctly predicts on day 1 the conference winner get???

must say, nothing against you scranton poster's or them in general, but i am happy to see MMA win...they run a good program down there; they've really worked their way higher and higher up in the LC the past 3 seasons.   that is the sign of a good program--getting better each and every year.

yeah, really.   what the heck happened up at scranton?  either danzig is a magician, or the kids just decided they didnt like getting beat up on anymore and pulled it together!

i remember discussion (and i admit, it may have been me) that after a being abused a number of times the 1st half of season and especially after at SU that scranton was just going to pack it up for the year.  Open mouth, enter foot!!!

its time for this discussion to pass on, but you just keep lighting the fuse with statements out in left-field.

banzhaf and patch were totally different players playing different positions.  how did JB dominate JP?  last i checked JB sat in the post, i've watched a lot of SU games while JP was here and i could probably recall post-up situations of his on my two hands.  patch was a slashing guard more or less, JB is, well, we've been there.  Cosgrove kid was the SU center, maybe he got dominated.

again, your argument is full of 'hearsay', if you will--little theories in your own mind that really never played out in reality.
it's time to stop making excuses...he didnt win POY last year, he wont this year, and if i was a betting man, he wont next year as well as ashworth will still be keeping him company.   OH! and they'll both be seniors so thank god some dominant sophomore wont get hosed because of his class-year!

there are all kinds of crazy tiebreakers. i believe it goes a little something like this:

1. head to head
2. how each team did against the other playoff teams, starting with the highest
    i.e. last year, usmma was 3rd seed. i believe both scr. and SU split with them as well, which moved it down to the 4th seed Catholic for comparison.

now, im not sure of the order here, but next its either:
coin toss, or
point differential, that comes next.

i dont recall how it panned out last year??  did both SU and Scr. split with both usmma and CUA? if so, then it must have moved down to the two 'wild card' tie breakers.

this is college athletics...it is hard to believe the coaches would vote a senior as POY just in pity that its his last chance.    that sounds like an excuse.

in other news, there are playoff games in two days eh?

For SU to go TO usmma and pull off a win, they basically need the perfect game, in their eyes: a terrible shooting game for usmma, an electric shooting game for SU, and the players on usmma somehow looking past them and not being prepared mentally to play.

responses to these requests: at home, VERY hard to believe usmma will not shoot well.  SU could perhaps shoot very well, but against usmma defense, its too hard to get open shots to consistently shoot well throughout the entire game.  also, who knows which SU team will show up??? and lastly, and which i think will be the most prevailing factor, usmma is seeking revenge--not only must they be hungry at a shot at the title, it was SU that knocked them out last year.  oh, and they are a military academy--mental focus and concentration is pretty much a given.  they will probably be firing on all cylinders from the tip.

usmma entire starting 5 also has the playoff experience that only about 2 players on SU have.   i would think this is important as well.  there are a whole bunch of inexperienced freshmen on SU, lets hope they take it well and dont 'shell' up.

SU CAN do it, just a lot of ifs---favor has to be leaning toward usmma