Amcats overcome slow start and beat an improved Norwich team by 11 on Tuesday. Not an impressive win by the Amcats, but a W nonetheless.  Breakout game for point guard Jean-Louis who had 15 points, all in 2nd half.  Amcats improve to 4-2 with only losses coming to Babson and Amherst, both nationally ranked teams. 

Up to Riv tonight, going up against a team that lost to Lasell by 3 on the road...

Amcats with a loss last night to #5 Amherst.  Team was scrappy all night, trailing by 3 at half and it was a seven point game with 8 minutes remaining and then things got away from them.  They got thoroughly outrebounded with Amherst scoring a ton of second chance points.  The amcats also only got the the line 2 times all night... 2 times!

Bradanese had some type of mask on, so I'm assuming he broke his nose?  Still put up 20....

Always a tough, competitive game against Clark University tonight.

Also, not sure AMC would be considered a sleeper to crack the top 4 when they've been in the GNAC championship 3 of the past 5 years (the past two they haven't), were a number 3 seed last year and were picked as the preseason number 3.

Anna Maria got a solid come from behind win against an always tough Becker team.  Fell behind by as much as twenty and came back to win in OT.  Rough night from Bradenese, shot like 30% from the field and 25% from 3pt range.  Pryor and delorey carried the load for the amcats yesterday.  Tough test coming up for them as they travel to Amherst and then Clark back to back on monday and tuesday.

As someone new to the d3boards, and more specifically reading some of the posts about the GNAC, it seems to me that there is considerable bias towards Albertus Magnus as opposed to the other schools. 

In numerous posts, I have heard that people seem to believe Oliver is a great coach.  From an outside observer, I beg to differ.  He is a UNBELIEVABLE recruiter getting players of the likes of Askew, Watson, etc., but I  believe he has just has the more talented team and plays an uptempo style that favors his teams athleticism as opposed to "outcoaching" others.  With the talent that he has brought in over the past couple years, his teams should go undefeated in the GNAC. There may be people are that are over his teams and his own antics.  I had some free time, so I decided to check an obscure season statistic on Albertus.  They were given 23, I repeat 23 technicals this year as a team.  I always thought D3 basketball was about sportsmanship and integrity, and 23 T's doesnt exactly scream sportsmanship and integrity.

I also noticed quite the uproar over Watson not receiving POY.  So not knowing the actual statistics of either player, I compared Click from Anna Maria and Watson from Albertus.  Watson had the edge in ppg 23.1 to 19.4 for click.  Watson also shot the ball at an outstanding percentage of 55% but click also shot the ball at a 50% clip.   But click averaged more rebounds, dished out almost 3 times as many assists, averaged almost twice as many blocks, lead the league in steals and had a better assist to turnover ratio.  It seems Watson is the premier scorer in the conference, but if you look at the complete package, Click seems to have the upper edge.  Also, voting is generally done right after the regular season in most conferences, so at that point Anna Maria was the #1 seed so Click probably benefited from it as well. 

Someone said that if you take Watson off Albertus they are a 4 or 5 seed, what do you think would happen in Click wasn't on Anna Maria??