MBB: Little East

ECSUalum · January 01, 2012, 12:22:54 PM

Quote from: magicman on January 01, 2012, 06:45:33 AM
Quote from: 7express on January 01, 2012, 01:04:48 AM
I hate when I posted something really long, i hit reply, my internet connection dies, and the whole thing dissapears before I was able to post it

I had that happen to me twice last week when I was posting the weekly results and summaries for our pick em league. And you know how long last week's post was. (This week's is equally as long because of you. ) I was so ticked off that I had to retype everything 3 times. Good thing I still have a great memory because so much of that post was off the top of my head. I've learned a lesson though. Now when I have a long post, before I hit reply or post I copy everything and save it so I can paste it, if need be.

ditto here. What I do if I have written a long post is highlight it and copy it before I hit post, that way if the transmission fails, i just paste it into a new post.

AllStar · January 01, 2012, 04:09:46 PM

ECSU is just beating the tar out of Springfield right now. 43-25 lead in the 2nd half.

Springfield continues to struggle since starting 5-0.

ECSUalum · January 01, 2012, 04:40:12 PM

ECSU 59 SC 46 Much better firsthalf vs 2nd but ECSU Defense was again the key to victory

Ecsumb SPR
Field goals 22-50 44.0% 17-55 30.9%
3-point FGs 5-19 26.3% 2-16 12.5%
Free throws 10-14 71.4% 10-18 55.6%
Reb (O-D) 38 (7-31) 33 (10-23)
Turnovers 16 13
Last FG 2nd-00:38 2nd-00:05
Large lead 22 (1st-04:46) 2 (1st-19:55)

Player FG 3FG FT Reb A F Pts

Nick Nedwick * 5-13 1-6 2-2 5 2 4 13
Jamie Kohn * 4-9 2-3 0-0 7 4 1 10
Chris Robitaille * 6-9 0-0 4-4 11 0 1 16

amh63 · January 01, 2012, 04:51:49 PM

Saw the score between ECSU vs. Springfield. Will now have to keep an eye out for ECSU in the future. Amherst had some trouble with Springfield earlier in the season.

ECSUalum · January 01, 2012, 05:06:46 PM

amh63,

ECSU continues to improve under Coach Geitner, (who by the way is Hamilton '87). I think we still have a ways to go before we can compete with the top NESCAC boys. We are missing the big, (>6'8") dominant forward/center like Amherst, Williams are known for.
However, continuous improvements are important. I will be happy if the Warriors at least be in position to win the LEC Tourney and a NCAA bid, but we have 2 or 3 big games with WCSU, RIC, Keene St and the rest of our Conference to successfully navigate.

The Wesleyan U game should be a good one!

amh63 · January 01, 2012, 07:47:57 PM

ECSUalum.... Didn't know if you meant the upcoming Amherst vs. Wes. game or the ECSU vs. Wes. game in middletown. Your game is an away game and ours is a home game......still it will be a point of reference of sorts. It you haven't been in Wes.' new gym you should go...much brighter and better than the old "cage" arrangement. An dining hall, etc. has replaced the building that BB games were held in several years ago. Wes. is a team that is a young team overall with some good experienced talent that is not always consistent in their play. Your team seems to be doing well against the CT. NESCAC teams. Go ahead and soften them up for us (Amherst plays Wes. twice during the season, as with Williams, with only one game counting....A "Little Three" tradition).

ECSUalum · January 01, 2012, 08:35:33 PM

Amherst63

Was talking ECSU vs WU.
It is good to hear that WU has spent some money to give Wesleyan's student/athletes a new facility. The guys certainly deserve good facilities as they have to work so much harder at institutions like yours to do well academically while being some of the best athletes in college sports!!!!

warrior · January 01, 2012, 08:57:31 PM

Wow - what a weekend! We had some ups and downs offensively, but defensively we were very consistent. The starting center for Hunter was suspended for his involvement in a fight the previous game - so we definitely got a break. With him back in the consolation final, they looked much better and won easily. The key this weekend, I believe, was shutting down the other team's top scorer. Kohn and Nedwick switched off in both games on the top scorers and really shut them down. Against Hunter, their 15ppg scorer was held to 5, and vs.Springfield, their 18 ppg scorer was held to 3! Needless to say, keeping big scorers like Daquan in check, will be the key to our success during this huge upcoming stretch we are facing vs. Plymouth, Dartmouth, Boston and Western. A few more wins, and I have to believe that we deserve some consideration in the top 25! Very exciting times for Eastern!

7express · January 01, 2012, 11:31:33 PM

I was there. Don't pay any attention to the final margin (what was it, only 13??) ECSU completely blew them out, this against a team that had only lost to Amherst by 10 and to Williams by 11. If the Warriors can play as good defensively the rest of the LEC season as they did this weekend, they may very well be the team to beat. I don't think ECSU could've played much better today tbh, they did hardly anything, if anything, wrong.

warrior · January 02, 2012, 10:25:15 AM

"I don't think ECSU could've played much better today" - 7express

Thanks for the compliment, but I thought we had a lapse in the second half, when Springfield went on a little run. Overall, however, I agree, that, since the RIC game, our execution on both ends had been very, very good. If we can keep it up vs. the rest of the league, good things will happen. One thing is for sure, the LEC as a whole is having a heck of a year so far. Wouldn't it be great if we had 3 teams in the top 25 some time soon!

Happy New Year everyone!

7express · January 02, 2012, 11:07:31 AM

I think that had more to do with substition pattern since they were up by so much. Gave the starters a break the end of the first half where they went cold as well. Aside from those last 5, and the 5 minute stretch in the 2nd where Springfield went on the run, they were dominant.

LECFAN32 · January 02, 2012, 09:54:05 PM

winning vs springfield is usually a positive thing, coach brock does a good job and in many ways their teams style of play matches up well with easterns in the halfcourt, where they both execute very well while springfield usually has a few big bodies but not a very deep bench for a few different reasons.. looking like a strong year for the lec.. hopefully they dont beat eachothers resume up too much in conference play..however that will be difficult.

a team like hunter however is a team many of the LEC school should beat.. once in a while they will have some transfers (i.e. marlon smith who had been penn states starting guard for 3 years and then came to hunter for 1 semester in 2008 or so) who want to come back home and put up big numbers but for the most part the programs and resources dont match up very well..but a win is a win.

7express · January 02, 2012, 10:29:21 PM

ECSUalum and Warrior, both of you have PM's from me concerning questions on the ECSU women's roster.

7express · January 03, 2012, 12:14:07 AM

Tuesday LEC schedule:
Dartmouth 66 vs. Northwood (FL) 78 (at Warner college).
This is the first of 2 games for the Corsairs down in Florida, they play Warner Wednesday afternoon. Both Northwood and Warner are NAIA-1 schools and both resides in The Sun conference. Division 3 teams have been awful against NAIA teams this year I beleive (D3 teams are 78-108 against NAIA teams this year but only 8-32 against NAIA-1 teams like Northwood and Warner are), and I doubt this is any different. Ex-Villanova coach Rollie Massimino is in his 6th year at the West Palm Beach school, and has a 148-34 record, including 11-1 so far this year.
Plymouth state 66 @ Bowdoin 81.
Bowdoin was going into the end of January last year in 4th place in the NESCAC, collapsed down the stretch, and snuck in the NESCAC playoffs on the final day of the year. With a young team they had expectations for this season, and so far they've lived up to it: a 7-2 record, and the 2 games they lost were by a combined 3 points, so they could very easily be 9-0 going into the new year. Plymouth state was at the opposite end of the sprectrum. They graduated all 5 starters from last year, are on their 3rd coach in the last 3 years, and frankly, at least in my opinion wasn't expected to do anything, but here they are on January 2 with a respectible 4-5 record including a victory over another NESCAC team expected to do big things in Tufts. Each team is 1-1 against each other's conference; Plymouth state got crushed by Amherst 90-63, and as a said earlier beat Tufts 79-73. Bowdoin lost a tough 1 point decision to Southern Maine 80-79 and beat Dartmouth 66-51. This is the final OOC game for each team before conference play starts; Plymouth resumes OOC play at home against Eastern on Saturday, while Bowdoin travels to newest NESCAC member Hamilton on Friday evening. That will be Hamilton's first ever NESCAC conference game.

7express · January 03, 2012, 05:09:20 PM

Men's top 25 poll is out: RIC #24, Western #28 (if going by ORV). WPI is between them at #26. Really don't see how WPI is 10 points ahead of Western and only 14 behind RIC. Western has played a more difficult schedule then WPI has (is it Western's fault Becker & Elms suck this year??), has a better record than WPI (both in number of wins AND winning percentage) AND beat them head to head. They really should be swapped.