Final Four, you are right about Niki Loback, but that doesn't happen very often.
And that can happen at any school.  But bad news for you and rest of the Com Conference, I hear Messiah is bringing in transfers from Maryland, PennState, and Rutgers next year to make up for the COY slight
GO MEN and WOMEN FALCONS on Friday!

BOOYAAAAAAAAA

Final Four, please read ALL my posts and notice that I have never ripped into a player!
But the Com coaches do deserved to be ripped into.  One of their peers goes 39-3 over three years and is never voted COY.  Come on, what world are you living in?  Evnen if the Albright coach did a good job, it has to be about results at some point.  I saw this stuff playing sports in high school and hate it.  But this is college, and you expect better.  Results matter rather than effort, or emphathy, or injuries, or anything else.
Also, please enlighten this board as to which teams are having "DI players falling into their laps"?  I would be very curious to know that.

One last comment on the voting.
It just makes the other coaches and the league look bad when the obvious right thing to do doesn't get done, if that makes sense.

At the end of the day it was Messiah with the conference trophy, and Cook with the MVP award....so I hope the Com Coaches will have a little mmore integrity and judgement next year when they vote.
But the big problem is which game to go to next Friday...Gonna have to go see the Miracle MEn play as the women will probably romp, and after the Widener game, I gotta go see if the Men are the team of destiny...
But BOTH TEAMS ARE GOING TO THE BIG DANCE!!!!!!

BOOOOOO  YYAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Congrats to all of the players who made all conference.  Individual recognition is nice, but subjective, and every year there are players who you think should make it and don't, and players who do make it and shouldn't.  It will always be that way.  But this year there are a couple of real head shakers which deserve comment.

Take player of the year.  In the Freedom, Scranton dominates, goes 14-0 in league play, Mellody scores 16 per game, is the dominant player on the dominant team, and repeats as POY.  Makes sense?  Absolutely, and congratulations from a rival fan.

In the Commonwealth, Messiah dominates, goes 13-1. Like Mellody, Cook scores 16 per game, but unlike Mellody who is primarily a scorer, Cook also leads her team in rebounds, steals, assists, and block shots.  She leads the league in steals and block shots (when was the last time that happened?), and is second in the league in rebounds with 9 per game.  She is the dominant player on the dominant team in the league and a certain logical choice to repeat as POY?  You would think.  But the Commonwealth coaches vote, and she doesn't repeat as POY.

The coach of the year award is even more bizarre.

In the Freedom,  Coach Stong repeats as coach of the year even though the Freedom coaches have to be getting tired of getting pounded by Scranton.  But it is a classy move by his peers to recognize him as the coach of a team which is dominating the league.
In the Commonwealth, Messiah rips through the league again, and the coach of the year is Mike Miller of Messiah.  Right?  Wrong!!!  The coach of the year in the Commonwealth is Janice Luck of Albright.
Albright?  Yep,  the Albright which was 5 and 9 in league play. Let's point out here that Albright that didn't even make it to the conference playoffs.
A coach could be motivational, inspirational, sing the national anthem, prepare her team, sell tickets, buy pizzas for the opposing team at halftime,  take the refs out to dinner after the game, and clean the gym at midnight, but if that same coach only wins 5 games in the conference,  they shouldn't be coach of the year.  Period.  Even if Albright was young and improved a lot over the course of the season as De Sales did in the Freedom side.  Come on coaches...what are you thinking?  Do the right thing!!!!

So maybe Miller didn't get coach of the year because he gets it every year, and the coaches couldn't bear to give it to him again.  Let's look back a couple of years.

Last year Messiah was 12-2 in the league. Was Miller coach of the year?  Nope.

The year before, Messiah swept the league going 14-0.  Surely he was coach of the year that year.  No way.  He gets snubbed.

Additionally in these years Messiah was not picked to win the conference by these same coaches in the preseason poll so it isn't like Messiah had so much talent that any nitwit could coach them to all these victories.

So Coach Miller goes 39-3 over the last three seasons in the regular season, and is never once recognized as coach of the year by his peers.

Does anyone else think this is very strange, and embarrassing to the conference? 

We will never know what happened, and it long run it doesn't matter, but clearly the criteria is much different on the Commonwealth side than the Freedom side, and these results cause one to wonder what the heck is going on when the coaches vote like this.

Unbelievable game, one of the best ever.  Thought it was over when Quinn fouled out.
Congrats to the guys and onto the big dance...booooo  yaaaahhhhh

Hard to believe no one posted about the Widener/Messiah game and its ending.  The most amazing comeback I've ever seen.  Widener had a 5 point lead with 15 seconds left.  Messiah had the ball.  Lauren Schurr shot a three,  missed, Messiah got the rebound, Eli Cook shot a three and made it with 0.53 seconds left...that's a half a second!  Timeout Messiah.  Widener has the ball under the Messiah basket with 0.53 seconds left.  They throw it long, but noone on either team touches it.  Ball goes back to the where it was inbounded.  Still 0.53 left.  Neither team has a time out, Messiah runs a inbound pick play, Eli Cook catches the ball under the basket and shoots to tie the game at the buzzer.  Unbelievable.  Run that scenerio a 1000 times and it would never happen again. 
Overtime was all Messiah based on the momentum swing.   Both teams had their conference bid locked up, but the end of the game was as nuts as it gets. 

Could have been 50 points as Messiah played everyone, and limited time to the starters.