Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 10, 2025, 12:38:00 PM

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Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 09, 2025, 07:58:10 PMUltimately they'll let it go because they're going to stop things to review the time anyway.  Once that decision is made, nothing after the bucket counts, so even if Redlands was on the floor before the whistle, it wouldn't matter in the end.

Do you mind explaining this further?  How do we know the officials were going to stop the game before the whistle? 

It's a game winning shot near the end of the game; isn't standard procedure at this point to make sure the time is right?  It makes total sense that Tufts is trying to get the ball in and score, but I can't imagine any ref letting a tournament game like that without checking.

You say that, but they never actually reviewed the clock or redid the inbound with 0.3 remaining.

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?

I timed it out while putting it on 0.25 speed this morning to see if there was any gap between when the clock did and should have run and it looked to have been dead on

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Quote from: D3boarder on March 09, 2025, 01:46:31 PMObviously bad sportsmanship from the Redlands side, but I feel like we're blowing it a bit out of proportion here. Just last week Trinity did the exact same thing to the Wesleyan fans and no one on here seemed to think it was a big deal. Losing to a team that acts like that makes the loss sting even more. Want to shut a team like that up? Win the game

I was at the Wesleyan Trinity game, it was nothing more than banter. The Wesleyan students were giving it to the Trinity players the entire game, nothing bad but heckling the entire game. After the game a few Trinity players went over to the student body, and stuck their shirts out. It lasted maybe 10 seconds. Was not a big deal at all.

I don't disagree. Perhaps Redlands was a bit more egregious but my point still stands. If we're completely ok with what Trinity did then we also need to be ok with what Redlands did. Personally, I'm not a fan of it in any scenario. But after a long game of being heckled by the student section you can't blame the players for trying to get a bit of payback.

Sure. But when you start gesturing to your groin and telling the student section to suck it, there needs to be consequences.

Quote from: jumbomumbo on March 07, 2025, 07:40:36 PMTufts Redlands 5:15 pm tipoff in Medford tomorrow. Should be a packed house. A win would get Tufts through to the Sweet 16 for the second straight year and 3rd time in 5 years.

Redlands full court presses all game and shot lots of deep 3s and also have slashers to the rim. Handed St Joe's their first loss in 19 games.

The winner of tomorrow's game will be the team who controls the pace. Tufts can play fast in transition and can also slow it in the half court and execute. Key will be if Tufts can stay disciplined when they do push the ball.

It looks like Redlands often sends 3 guys at the ball on the first pass in the backcourt. St Joes beat the press up the sidelines a number of times but also had a number of turnovers. St. Joe's wasn't necessarily opportunistic in transition - they often missed a 2 on 1 layup or turned it over. Tufts will need to recognize when it is best to just slow it down and run offense versus attack full speed.

I don't think Redlands sees the 3 ball fall tomorrow. The ball movement isn't quite what tufts is used to in the NESCAC. I think Tufts half court defense will give them fits.

Redlands shot the 3 at a 42.31% clip (11-26) against the Monks. They forced 17 turnovers but had 25 turnovers themselves. Yikes. Redlands won the rebounding battle 45-44.

I think Tufts wins the rebounding battle by 10, key will be the turnover battle. Need to keep our guys out of foul trouble. That being said, Redlands shot poorly from the stripe, 6-13.


I feel pretty confident in Tufts winning between 10-13 points tomorrow, maybe more. Redlands had maybe 10 fans in attendance today - it will be all hometown love in Medford tomorrow.

This is a good take but for the wrong reasons. When St. Joe's was in the zone(until their guys died out from only playing 7 all night), Redlands couldn't get any offense. We know the Jumbos 3-2 is borderline shutdown, so I would expect to see a lot of it

Prediction: 73-62 Tufts

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 06, 2025, 08:16:22 AMThe committee will have given Tufts two times for Saturday.  If you ask around the place, someone will know.  There will be a Yeshiva time, probably 8:30, and then a Tufts time (I'd guess 5:30ish by the way they staggered the other times).  They're not waiting to pick a time out of thin air.

As the head of production for Tufts broadcast team, I can confirm the Yeshiva time is 8:50 and the Tufts time is 5:15

Final Four. Tufts Emory Trinity IWU. Winner Trinity over Tufts in the natty

Quote from: nescac1 on March 03, 2025, 06:51:07 PMSo Khai is in the portal then?  Not sure how he would have two years since he played the last three seasons before this one? 

He is going to Grad school so he would get the 5th year automatically

Quote from: nescac1 on March 03, 2025, 05:13:33 PMStarting this thread up again with the end of the regular season.  The list will be MUCH smaller this year!

In the transfer portal:

Toby Harris, Brandeis (one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)
Nas Johnson, Arcadia (one year of eligibility)
Isaiah Amato, Whitman (I believe one year of eligibility as a grad transfer)

Seniors / grad students of note with (I believe) remaining eligibility:

Tristan How, NYU (grad student, but only played two years at UVA)
Luke Chicone, John Carroll (injury)
Shane Regan, Wesleyan (injury)
Omari DeVeaux, VWU (injury)
Malcolm Newman, Drew (injury)
Antuan Nesbit, Carthage (listed on roster but did not play this year, not sure why)
Nick Roper, IWU (injury)

Transferring to D3:

Also, Khai Champion(Tufts) did not play this year specifically so he would have 2 years of grad eligibility for wherever he ends up

Quote from: D3BBALL on February 28, 2025, 01:17:10 PMI would say this Emory has the best big man I have seen all year. Everybody in the NESCAC would have issues guarding him. That being said to say dominate and include Chicago and Wash u, not so sure.
I have said in earlier post that if nyu and Emory were in NESCAC no way Wesleyan would be undefeated but I also think nyu and Emory would have more losses. Would I give a slight edge to those 2, yes but not dominate. Tufts/Trinity IMO would have no issue with Chicago or Wash U.
Emory did not dominate Middlebury or Bowdoin.
Hopefully we will find out in the next few weeks.

I challenge the idea that Tufts would struggle to guard a big. They struggle with having Bernstein have to deal with mobile players off the dribble, but he can guard bigs better than almost anyone in the country

Quote from: jumbomumbo on February 24, 2025, 09:46:02 AMSaturday predictions:

Wesleyan 76 - Hamilton 64
Tufts 69-Trinity 67

Sunday prediction:

Tufts 71- Wesleyan 63. Cue the duck boats!!

I like this take. I think that if Tufts gets past Trinity, they are very likely to win the title. The bantams have been a problem for Linton, so I have some serious questions about their ability to get to the final

I 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.

Quote from: jumbomumbo on February 10, 2025, 01:46:48 PMGyimesi gets his 4th NESCAC Player of the Week award.

It should be Regan, but if Gyimesi gets Tufts to win the conference tourney, I think he will get chosen as POTY

I 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

I think Dylan Reilly makes it to the 2nd team. Maybe the best wing defender in the league and one of the best shooters in the country.

Quote from: nescac1 on February 03, 2025, 07:40:38 AMAll league thoughts:

First, I don't think Regan is anything close to a lock over Morgan.  He's a slight favorite, but Morgan's league stats remain incredible, despite being by far the primary focus for every opposing defense: 27-5-1.5 plus 1.5 spg on 60/50/90 splits.  He's still on pace for the most efficient offensive season in league history, I have to imagine.  You simply can't count a guy like that out of the POTY race at this point.  Regan is also having an incredible year (21-4-2 on 56/40/84 splits in league play), but Morgan has clearly been superior statistically, and Wesleyan has two first-team all-league locks and a COTY virtual lock so if he doesn't end up as POTY, it's certainly no crime. 

I'd say right now first team will be Morgan/Regan/Gyimisi/Morakis/Vetter/Johnson with one spot pretty wide open (as of now I'd go with Espinosa).  Espinosa, Pouye, Joseph, Stevens, Poulton, Lee, Hansen, Scherer, Okorougo, and Lazarre would be my picks for the last eight spots (ten guys for eight spots), with Pouye, Espinosa, Okorougo, and Hansen being near-locks for at least second team all-league.

Cuevas will likely be ROTY but Dan Civiello is not wholly out of range with a huge finish to the year - his per-minute stats are pretty wild and he has been crazy-good in league play: 14-6-2 plus over two BPG on 49/46/94 splits in only 20 mpg. Not many 6'10 guys around who can protect the rim and shoot like that.  Statistically, the only category Cuevas exceeds him during league play is PPG, although of course Cuevas has a big job being Bowdoin's only reliable scorer as a FY.  Besides those two, Garrett Clar, Aidan Yates, and Elias Chin would form my all-rookie team. Clar would be a strong ROTY contender most years, but the FY class is pretty loaded this season.     

Barring an epic collapse, Reilly will be COTY. 

DPOTY is a very tough call.  Jackson Cormier would be my pick right now, but Jon Medley, Josh Bernstein, Will Scherer, Dylan Watson and Pouye all could make a case down the stretch. Jalen Reese and Josh Cameron are also excellent defenders but don't play enough minutes to contend. 

I think Tufts would be worried if they had a challenging schedule remaining, but home vs. Hamilton, Amherst and Bates is about as easy a last 3 as anyone has.