Quote from: SpringSt7 on March 14, 2025, 09:16:53 PMHard to believe but Jamie Cosgrove is now the NESCAC active leader in Elite 8 appearances with 3. App with 2 and Reilly a few minutes away from joining the list.

Trinity is playing the best basketball of anyone left in the tournament in my opinion

Agreed, Trinity looks great. All the games should be fun tomorrow. Williams' old friend Aaron Kelly at Catholic had a great win today. They might be very tired though.

D3 Datacast says it would be a small upset if a NESCAC team doesn't win the national championship. Wow.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 09, 2025, 12:25:26 PMSame thing happened in the CCIW title game - player traveled celebrating the win before the horn.  No call.

Although I thought perhaps the clock started a little slow at Tufts.  I was surprised he had enough time to even get to the rim.  It's funny that they'll review how much time was left on the clock, but rarely to they review whether the clock started on time to begin with.  Seems like both are important when we're talking tenths, right?

Williams lost the national championship game to UW-Whitewater in 2014 when, with 4.3 seconds to go, Williams went ahead by 1 on a tip in by Mike Mayer of a Duncan Robinson miss, and Whitewater took the in inbounds pass straight down the court, through all 5 Williams players, and laid it in, all in about 3.5 seconds. Nobody wants to foul the guy, so it is very hard to stop him. Great play by the Redlands guard.

Nothing excuses taunting of fans or parents by Redlands players. That should not happen, ever. Without making excuses for Redlands, I have personal knowledge of the verbal behavior of the group of Jumbo fans in question when Williams played Tufts. They are the most graphic, profane fans currently in the league. The visiting team hears them clearly from across the court. I do wish Tufts would police that a bit. It is in very poor taste. I actually like Tufts (even you Jumbo!), but this is an aspect of Jumboland that could use improvement.

Fan behavior in the NESCAC has varied over the years. Once, maybe 7-8 years ago at Wesleyan, the football team sat behind the Williams bench and got so profane and disgusting that complaints were made that made all the way to the top and the Wesleyan president had to apologize to the Williams president. In the 1990s, it was commonplace for profane drunk students to be kicked out of games all over the league.

What a crazy game in Medford. Redlands is so hard to play. They keep coming at you. Given the way most of the game played, it is hard to believe Tufts lost - but they did. I can't believe I'm writing this, but I am sorry Tufts lost. They are a very good team.

I don't think any D3 team can get comfortable with Redlands. They make you anxious no matter weather you easily break their press a few times in a row or not. They adjust to how you play and then stop that and make you play another way. This Redlands team is also very sloppy, and that is where Tufts has a big advantage. I do think Tufts is likely to win, but not without considerable basketball indigestion!

Watching Redlands, coached by Denny Bridgeland, playing St joes. Williams has played bridgeland teams twice, winning one and losing one. They are relentless. If you turn the ball over too much, you are in trouble.

Btw, I am quite confident that Hank Morgan was the runaway choice for POY.

The advantage that the voters ( the coaches) have over fans is that have watched hundreds of hours of play of all 11 teams in the league. They have analyzed the play of all the opponent players, and had to formulate game plans against them. They are in a far better position to judge their relative strengths and weaknesses. Though I don't always agree with their decisions, I know that the coaches have seen a lot more than I, or any fan has, and usually get it right. However, everybody gets an opinion.

Will the Wesleyan fans show their true loyalty & enthusiasm for the team by showing up at the game drunk at Noon on a Sunday? Not an easy ask!

Trinity certainly looked the best of the four teams playing today. Maybe they are peaking at the right time.

Quote from: jumbomumbo on February 28, 2025, 05:40:28 PMEnough of the NESCAC UAA chit chat. D3>D2 hands down

If I can brag about Williams' former assistant coach Mick Hedgepeth. Mick was the HC at Sewanee and Berry after leaving Williams and last year got the HC job at D2 Alabama Huntsville. In his first year, his team lost their first game and have now won 27 in a row. They won their league 22-0. What a way to start your new coaching gig!

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Quote from: stlawus on February 22, 2025, 05:41:03 PMFeel bad for Declan Porter.  Had an injury his senior year of high school in 2019, carried over into the next year at prep school where the season was cut short due to covid so he didn't get a lot of game time, sat out 20/21 and basically only got 2 years of run at Williams his frosh and soph years.  Wasn't in game shape to start 23/24 and had an injury that kept him out most of the season as well as half of this year where he just couldn't get it going again.  Left Canton as the section's all time leading scorer and a lot of hype, just a series of unfortunate events followed. 

I heard porter didn't play the first half of this year because he was not enrolled, not because of injury.
The entire Williams team needs to hit the weight room.

Every college basketball player I know already does lift very hard, with specially designed programs. I am sure the Ephs will continue to do so.

Quote from: rdanie03 on February 19, 2025, 12:18:18 PMI don't see an upset brewing. The Top 4 are all top 15 teams in the country who can all but lock up home-court privileges for the first weekend of the NCAA tourney with a 1st round win, while no one outside the top 4 is higher than Williams at 59. This year's NESCAC might be the most top-heavy it's ever been, as with the exception of Williams beating Trinity, no one has taken a game off the top 4.

That's why they are upsets.

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Quote from: rdanie03 on February 09, 2025, 02:56:14 PMI think the most likely underclassman all-american in the NESCAC is probably Dylan Reilly. Elite shutdown defender and one of the best catch and shoot guys in league history

In the time it took you to write this post, Matt Saint Amour knocked down 10 triples.

Any memories of Blake Schultz at Williams? Maybe not known as one of the best three point shooters but he hit a ridiculous 52% from three his senior year (77-148). That Williams team in 2009-10 shot 46% from three for the year! Still don't know how they didn't win the title, though that Stevens-Point team was good.

A tired Blake Schultz front rimmed a 3 point shot. If that shot goes in, I think we win. The difference between winning and losing can be so tiny.