MBB: United East Conference

[Shooting Star]

What has anyone heard about Wells and their prospects for a successful first campaign?

[iscoredabasketonce]

I have been out of the loop for the summer, but what happened at Cobleskill?  I assumed Coach McCarthy would continue to coach as they moved up to DIII...Any news on who the new coach is?  Why did he step down?  Is he still the AD?  What players are coming back?

[Ethelred the Unready]

University of Dallas?  Really?

[bballfan44]

yep its true,  it was approved about a month ago.  It was a way to keep the bid.  The deal is for 2 years. 

[Ralph Turner]

yep its true,  it was approved about a month ago.  It was a way to keep the bid.  The deal is for 2 years. 

2 years?

Thanks for the info and +1!

That does not shut out UDallas for availability, if the SCAC tries to expand then.

[WNYHoops]

This seems crazy to me. How are they going to determine seeds for the tournament if they are not even playing a regular-season schedule? Are they just going to flip a coin to see who goes to the NCAA's. It is the NORTH EAST Athletic Conference ... and the last time I checked Dallas was located in the Southwest United States.

Plus living in Buffalo and being Bills fans, we hate everything about Dallas!!

[bballfan44]

Yeah it stinks for the kids,  there will be no all-league teams now.  And the regular season doesnt mean to much now because everyone makes the play-offs.

[hickory_cornhusker]

Further proof that Dallas is an east coast city unfortunately trapped in the state of Texas. The University of Dallas Crusaders join the like of the Dallas Cowboys who play in the NFC East and the Dallas Desparados from the Arena Football League and are in the Eastern Division.

[FutureD3playa]

Does anyone know where Wells got most of there players from for this year?....and wat will the seeds look like for the conference tourny in your eyes?

[bballfan44]

Wells got most of there players from JUCO schools.  most of the kids are good players but couldnt get in to any other school so wells took them.

The seeding is going to be tough this year.  It goes by strenght of schedule.  You could have the best record against your confrence teams but still might not get the number one seed because you sucked against your non-confrence teams.  So who knows  But this is what i think the seedings will be.

1. Cazenovia
2. D'youville
3. PSU-Berks
4. SUNY IT
5. University Of Dallas
6. Wells
7. SUNY Cobleskill
8. Keuka
9. PSU-Harrisburg

[WNYHoops]

Not sure how they are seeding the tournament and, of course, practice is still more than one month away. I have not seen any rosters posted on web sites yet, but I will take a stab at it judging by who is supposed to be coming back at each school:

1) SUNY IT
2) Caz
3) DYC
4) Cobleskill
5) Dallas
6) Berks
7) Harrisburg
8) Wells
9) Keuka

[Ralph Turner]

I will applaud the commissioner and the presidents of the NEAC for trying to keep the AQ bids in the sports which have them now.  The conference exhausted all of other legislative avenues that would have permitted them to keep the AQ.  The "Rent-a-University" was close to the last option to maintain the AQ.

If the conference had not done this, then the NEAC would have been competing against all other Pool B schools, including the Landmark Conference schools this year, the UMAC schools, the GSAC schools, including Maryville TN which has 10 straight Pool B bids, and the New England Collegiate Conference schools. 

Last season, I thought that Chapman CA men were more serving than the two Landmark schools (Scranton and Moravian) who got Pool B bids last year.  We do not know whether there will be 3-4 bids in Pool B in 2009.

As for this season, these are the schools that are eligible for the NCAA tourney from the NEAC.

1) SUNY IT
2) Caz
3) DYC  (Moving to the AMCC in 2009-10)
4)Cobleskill Provisional year #1
5) Dallas
6) Berks
7) Harrisburg Provisional year #2
8 ) Wells
9) Keuka

You barely have 7 full members including Dallas as the affiliate.  You actually need to borrow Dallas for year #2 and #3 of Harrisburg's provisional status, then hope that Harrisburg is a full member in 2011-12.  That will be stretching it too close for comfort.  (As I understand the provisions, a conference may fall below the required 7 members for two years.  This gives the NEAC a chance to maintain the AQ.

I recommend that the NEAC look at inviting Lancaster Bible, currently in Provisional Year #3 and Penn State-Abington which could start provisional year #1 in 2009-10.

[Pat Coleman]

Abington was already invited.

[bballfan44]

Abington will start participating in the league next year.  And Lancaster wants to join the league BBC and PBU went to

[Ralph Turner]

Abington will start participating in the league next year.  And Lancaster wants to join the league BBC and PBU went to

Lancaster Bible College?  The CSAC, nee PennAC?  That makes sense.