LECFAN32 I agree with you, but I think that as the season goes on, UMD and RIC will figure things out and get on a roll.  Both teams have new looks, but both teams are very well coached, so it is just a matter of time before they start to look like they did last year. 

As for Keene State, I also agree that they have a very talented team, but in the guard positions.  They do not have any big bangers like they use to have that can score, and also defend other teams bigs.  This could cause problems for them this year, but I think that once keene figures it out and some of the rookies get some confidence they could cause match up problems.   

For the league, it seems like is down again this year.  It seems through the past 3 or 4 years as a whole, the league has gotten weaker.  So I feel that this opens things up for a lot of upsets in the league, and could cause problems with getting more than one team into the tourney