NESCAC1 awesome post sir, thanks for sharing so many historical nuggets about some of the greatest players in NESCAC history!!

Quote from: SpringSt7 on March 13, 2023, 02:23:57 PM
I have no idea why I'm wading into this at all but it's offseason mode so whatever: Hamilton ranked 301st in the country out of 412 teams in personal fouls per game. Hopkins ranked 57th in the country in free throw attempts per game. Make of that what you will.

You're right Spring St, at this point its all water under the bridge. It was a heck of a year for D3 ball, its too bad no NESCAC schools in the Final 4, but I will be watching nonetheless!

Quote from: Hamilton4 on March 04, 2023, 06:44:10 PM
30-30 at halftime at Hopkins, foul count is 10-3 in hopkins favor, worst home cooking I've seen in quite some time and yet the game is still tied. Singh may be out for the game with a leg injury that happened with about 6 mins left in half. This is a real dog fight playing 5 on 8 but I guess it's to be expected on the road in the post season

Bucket, I called it out as the worst home cooking during halftime when the game was tied. I've been watching college basketball for 45 years, and I called it out as the worst before the game was over. Had Hamilton won I still would've called it the worst that I'd ever seen. And I stick by the fact that outside of Swarthmore the Centennial is a pretty pedestrian conference, shots fired lol  . 

Quote from: centennial fan on March 06, 2023, 12:39:28 AM
Definitely sad to see sour grapes from such a proud program like Hamilton. In my opinion, JHU guard play was so much better than Hamilton's with James, Windley, Yeutter, and Nixon beating their man so often that the Continentals struggled to stay in front and resorted to fouling. Just watched the entire game back on demand and I don't think legitimately any of the fouls called were incorrect or at least not very debatable, weren't too many head scratchers. Hamilton shot 29% from 3 and 46% from the free throw line, if they were going to beat the better team (Hopkins) Saturday, they probably should've played better. Thank you for these gems though:

"NESCAC is looking like the league that we all know they are"
"Wouldn't be surprised to see all 4 teams advance today"
"I watched Hopkins play last night and was not impressed at all by them, I expect a Hamilton win tonight on Hopkins home floor"
"Iron sharpens iron so let's just say that the 4 NESCAC teams are 4 of the sharpest in this tournament"

Hilarious post that I will remember for ages because of how bad it backfired! Better luck next year!

Centennial, I was at the game in person, I had the luxury of sitting next to one of the JHU players older brother and even he was saying that the JHU was getting bailed out by the refs. The game was not called evenly on both ends plain and simple, JHU shot 39 free throws, Hamilton shot 13. Every time Conner Rood or Eric Anderson drove to the basket they were getting creamed and no whistle. Every time Yeutter or Johansson drove the refs would wait to see if it went in and if didn't they would blow the whistle. Late in the 2nd Half we closed out on a corner 3 and the JHU player flopped with no contact and of course the ref blows his whistle 3 free throws. So many what should've been stops resulted in free throws of which JHU is a good free throw shooting team. I can give credit to JHU HC for being in the head refs ear the whole game to include timeouts. And even with all of that it was a 4 point game with a little over a minute left. If that game is played on a neutral floor the better team would have clearly won. After watching JHU twice in two nights, in person, I'd say they'd be a middle of the pack NESCAC team, very similar to Trinity.

Final foul count last night at Hopkins was 33-9, I wish I could say we were outplayed but that hust wasn't the case. I know it sounds like sour grapes but I've never witnessed anything like this even in high school games I've witnessed home cooking but nothing close to last night smh.

30-30 at halftime at Hopkins, foul count is 10-3 in hopkins favor, worst home cooking I've seen in quite some time and yet the game is still tied. Singh may be out for the game with a leg injury that happened with about 6 mins left in half. This is a real dog fight playing 5 on 8 but I guess it's to be expected on the road in the post season

NESCAC is looking like the league that we all know they are so far! Wouldn't be surprised to see all 4 teams advance today. I watched Hopkins play last night and was not impressed at all by them, I expect a Hamilton win tonight on Hopkins home floor. Iron sharpens iron so let's just say that the 4 NESCAC teams are 4 of the sharpest in this tournament!!

Quote from: nescac31hoops on March 01, 2023, 01:30:42 PM

Quote from: Hamilton4 on March 01, 2023, 11:14:41 AM
JHU has won 13 of their last 14 but I question the quality of competition in their Centennial Conf vs the level of play in the NESCAC. For that reason I'm expecting the Continentals to continue their excellent play into the Sweet 16.

Although the Centennial may be a top-heavy league, the top of that league is one of the strongest in the country. Swarthmore is one of the best teams we have seen in division 3 in a while and beating them is something that is extremely impressive. Although they did lose in the championship to Swat, it was a great game that could have easily gone either way. I am excited for that game but can't really vision Hamilton beating a team that has played Swat so well.

Good luck to all the Nescac teams this weekend, hopefully all four make it to the next round!

My reasoning is partially based on the fact that JHU has had the same record for 4 of the last 5 seasons but has never made it past the second round. But we'll see thats why the games are played.

Assuming that all 4 NESCAC schools win their first round games. The likely second round opponents look extremely competitive:

#37 Hamilton vs #11 Johns Hopkins
#14 Williams vs #4 St. Joseph
#16 Middlebury vs Rochester
#32 Tufts vs #5 Keene St

On paper it appears that Middlebury received the best draw, theoretically they should be favored to advance to the Sweet 16. As for the other 3 NESCAC schools it will require defeating top 11 schools on their home floors which isn't out of the question for any of these 3 schools.

Williams has been Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde throughout the season, they will really need to bring their A game against St. Joseph but if the great version of Williams decides to show up I think they can control the game start to finish.   

Tufts is similar to Williams, will the Tufts that lost to Bates show up or will the Tufts that beat Williams and Middlebury show up? If its the latter than Keene St better get a good nights rest cause Tufts is a very physical team when they choose to be.

Hamilton is the champion of the NESCAC and 9-1 in their last 10 games. It really seems like their peaking at the right time. JHU has won 13 of their last 14 but I question the quality of competition in their Centennial Conf vs the level of play in the NESCAC. For that reason I'm expecting the Continentals to continue their excellent play into the Sweet 16.

My prediction is that both Middlebury and Hamilton survive the weekend. But would not be surprised in the least to see Williams and Tufts join them. I'm rooting for all 4 NESCAC schools in every game throughout the tourney!!

Great point I believe Guilford beat Emory H2H at Emory if Im not mistaken.

Coach Stockwell definitely out coached the other coaches these last two weekends with huge in game adjustments (losing at halftime to both Conn and Colby) to secure the chip!! Hamilton is very fortunate to have Coach Stockwell leading their program!!

Both Hamilton and Colby are 8-1 in their last 9 games, it should be a great game tomorrow!!

Drew Pastner has Wesleyan in and Hamilton out. Whereas Bob Quillman has Hamilton in and Wesleyan out. I was hoping that CMU dropped out of the RR which would've lowered Emory and Rochesters vRRO but somehow CMU made the cut this week in the RR.

As long as there aren't too many bid thieves and Hamilton defeats Tufts I think Hamilton is in regardless of Championship results, there's a chance that a few UAA teams drop out of their RR's which could have a trickle down effect on all of the UAA teams RRO count which would help us. So many variables!!

Bob Quillman has both Hamilton  and Wesleyan getting in. That would be 5 nescac schools.