Both Regan and Morgan deserved to be POTY. I definitely understand the winning side of things, but Morgan's numbers were just too strong to not have him be the POTY. He carried Hamilton into the NCAA Tournament.

While this is POTY and not MVP, it holds value on how much they both mean to their respective teams. You take Regan off of Wesleyan, they aren't 26-1, but 20-22 wins and an NCAA Tourney berth is probably accurate. You take Morgan off of Hamilton, they'd be lucky to be a .500 team. Metaphorically speaking of course since we'll never actually know in this alternate dimension.

I think the NESCAC got most of the All-Teams right. I agree with mumbo and would've swapped Morakis and Espinosa. Singh and Lee's conference numbers weren't all that different. Lee was 39% from the floor and 26% from three with a few more turnovers and less rebounds and assists. Lee for the 2nd straight year had much better out of conference numbers, which may have played a factor.

In my opinion, Jarrel Okorougo was vastly underrated all year. Can defend 1-4 and give you some big time buckets when needed. Largely defends without fouling too which is an art form of its own.

Congrats to all who were awarded by the NESCAC!

Quote from: algernon on March 03, 2025, 04:21:03 PMHowever, I'm still not clear on whether the NYU men or the NYU women have the priority on hosting the second weekend.  The women have the priority the FIRST weekend.  Do they continue to have priority the SECOND weekend, or will the NYU men have priority the second weekend?

Men have priority second weekend this year.

Congratulations to Trinity on winning the NESCAC and for Hamilton, Tufts and Wesleyan getting into the tournament! The NESCAC is poised to have a nice run.

For the 1st Round, Wesleyan, Trinity and Tufts should be able to take care of business. Hamilton has a tough draw in my opinion with Western New England. They are a very good team with 5 players in double figures scoring. Really good rebounding team as well. I don't think anyone can stop Morgan, but I wouldn't be surprised if WNEU pulls this one out.

Here's to Friday!

Quote from: D3BBALL on February 28, 2025, 03:27:10 PMPick specific games, thats an objective way to look at things. They won both those games by 10 points.
Conference play 13 games, 30 minutes per game, shot 46%, 34% from 3, 9 Rebounds per game, 34 blocks, 15 points.
Clearly someone that is easy to guard!

You did mention that NESCAC would have trouble guarding him. You were given two examples of two games against NESCAC opponents that frankly, weren't very good this year and he did not perform up to his capabilities.

Not doubting this young mans talent as he clearly has it, but you giving his numbers in conference kind of validates the point that others are making, which is the NESCAC is better than the UAA. Frankly, it doesn't really matter who is the better conference. The only thing that matters at the end of March is who is holding that Walnut and Bronze trophy, not which conference is better top to bottom.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on February 25, 2025, 01:13:14 PMThe UAA has league games Saturday.

Thanks for the heads up. I've been knee deep in it I assumed since NYU had already clinched the conference that it was all over haha! Glad that McDaniel will be able to play one more!

Final update on some former NESCAC players who had eligibility left but moved on:

David Murray [Conn to D1 Merrimack] averaging 2.8ppg and 2.4rpg on 59% shooting in 8.6mpg as a reserve.

Ben Rice [Conn to D2 Johnson University] averaging 5.1ppg, 7.2rpg and shooting 40.6% from three. 14 starts on the year.

Ben Callahan-Gold [Trinity to D1 Binghamton] averaging 9.0ppg, 2.6rpg and shooting 37.3% from three. Also shooting 23-24 from the FT line.

Jarron Flynn [Conn to Springfield] averaging 13.2ppg, 4.0rpg, 1.8spg and 1.7apg. Started in all but one game that he has played. Shooting 58.1% from the field, but just 18.8% from three and 48.7% from the FT line.

Christian McDaniel [Hamilton to Case Western Reserve] averaging 2.5ppg 2.2 rpg and 1.0spg. Started the last 7 games for CWRU. His season is over as the UAA does not have a conference tournament.

Alex Stoddard [Williams to Babson] averaging 10.7ppg, 3.3rpg and nearly 1bpg. Shooting 40% from the floor and 34.9% from three.

Good luck to all the former NESCAC players as they are towards the end of their seasons!

Quote from: nescac1 on February 13, 2025, 11:21:02 AMCan Tufts and Trinity position themselves (I think just about lock down, but both might need one more win) hosting rights in the NCAA tournament with weekend sweeps?  Can Hamilton lock down a Pool C bid with a weekend sweep (two losses would on the other hand probably put them on the wrong side of the bubble)?  Williams has the most wild range of outcomes possible - with a sweep, get into the very back end of the Pool C picture and likely get a home game in the NESCAC tourney; with two losses, perhaps gets knocked out of the NESCAC tourney entirely and obviously end any Pool C chances. 

Tufts is officially hosting a NESCAC Quarterfinal game. They are 7-2 and the teams in 5th (Colby and Williams) are 4-4, unable to catch the Jumbos.

A Trinity win this weekend guarantees they host as well. The only way they don't host is if Colby and Williams wins out and Trinity and Hamilton lose out. That would put Williams, Colby and Trinity at 6-4, Williams wins the first tie-breaker by beating both and would get the 3. Colby wins the head to head tiebreaker by beating Trinity. It's possible those teams and Hamilton finish 6-4. If that happens, Williams would get the 3 via beating those three teams, Trinity would get the 4 based on their record against the top 4 (including tied teams) and Hamilton would get the 5 based on their win against Colby.

If Hamilton beats Williams on Friday, they are hosting no matter what. The only team that could catch up to them in that instance would be Colby, and as previously stated, Hamilton wins that tie-breaker.

What a fun time of year!
 

Quote from: SpringSt7 on February 12, 2025, 10:11:15 AMI think it's pretty hard to come with a top 7 that doesn't include Vetter. Almost all of his stats have increased from last season when he was an All American. Probably a good case study for winning maybe being a little overrated when it comes to these things? If I needed to win one game he is probably still the player in the league that I would pick first.

Vetter was a NESCAC 1st Teamer last year but he was not an All-American according to D3Hoops.com or NABC. D3Hoops had David Murray as their only All-American from the NESCAC. NABC had Murray and Ben Callahan-Gold.

https://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-americans/men/2024
https://nabc.com/awards/allamerica/divisioniii/

Vetter was a Preseason All-American for this year though! Shane Regan and Scott Gyimesi also made the list.

https://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-americans/men/preseason-2025

Quote from: Bucket on February 10, 2025, 07:02:48 PM

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.

Congrats to Keene State's Octavio Brito! The senior guard surpassed 2,000 career points in a 92-75 win over Castelton last night. Just the third player in Keene State history to reach that milestone. He's only 10 points away from getting to #2 on the all-time list. He is also in the top 10 in career rebounds, blocks and approaching the top 10 in career assists and steals. Congrats again to an excellent player!

Quote from: D3BBALL on February 03, 2025, 03:22:42 PMOn tournament seeding yes anything can happen but would take a lot for Trinity and tufts to move out of spots 2 and 3. Each I believe would need to lose 2 out of 3 games.
2 years ago I think the last regular season game, Williams vs. Conn, Williams with a win was the #1 seed with a loss would have been the 6th seed.

Both Tufts and Trinity are currently 5-2 and Hamilton is 4-2. If Hamilton wins out, which one of those would be against Tufts, and Trinity loses one of their last three, Hamilton would get the 2 seed with an 8-2 record. Tufts and Trinity would be 7-3 at best in this scenario. I don't think this will actually happen, but you can't rule it out.

I wonder if their coaching connections (Linton actually replaced App on staff at Army) and working for the same people/same philosophies gives him a leg up in terms of gameplanning for and playing against Williams style, although to be completely honest this is hardly the Mike Maker Princeton offense of yesteryear. Hard to imagine it isn't at least a small factor
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Speaking of the great Mike Maker, I saw St. Thomas play NDSU on TV yesterday. A lot of D3 connections in that one. Of course, Maker being the associate head coach at St. Thomas and the former Ephs coach was the NESCAC one. Miles Barnstable played at UW-Whitewater for two years before transferring to St. Thomas. He's currently leading the team in scoring. And St. Thomas was a D3 program until they were too good and their conference kicked them out.

Also, apologies for bringing up Whitewater! I'm sure Williams fans are still kept up at night after the end of the 2014 title game.

While there's only 4 (3 for a couple of teams) games left, a lot can happen. Surprisingly, there's a world where Williams can get the 4 seed. While it's far out there, there's still a possibility. It's also still a shot for Hamilton to get the 2 seed. Other than Wesleyan being the #1 seed and Bowdoin and Bates more than likely not being in the NESCAC Tournament, a lot is still up for grabs.

jumbomumbo - Agree with Tufts having Williams number. Last time the Ephs beat the Jumbos was the 2020 regular season finale. A bit shocking as Williams was rebuilding that year and Tufts had a legit shot at a deeper NCAA run until the season shut down.

Every team usually has a clunker at some point. It does make what Wesleyan is doing all that more impressive.

Tufts played very well the night before at Wes, just had a couple things not go their way. It's human nature to have a let down after a tough loss like that.

That Wes Trinity trip is especially brutal this year. Trinity has had Tufts number the last couple years which adds more of a difficult element. Hope that doesn't get in the players heads come tourney time.

All that being said, I do see Tufts rebounding from this and running the rest of the NESCAC table. They're too good and too well coached imo not too. One thing we all know though, the NESCAC is unforgiving. You have to earn everything.

Someone check on jumbomumbo. That was a rough one of Tufts!