MBB: Little East

[7express]

DaQuan Brooks is an official member of the Portland Red Claws, the NBDL affiliate of the Boston Celtics.

[ECSUalum]

DaQuan Brooks is an official member of the Portland Red Claws, the NBDL affiliate of the Boston Celtics.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/maine/News.html

[7express]

Dartmouth schedule:
http://www.corsairathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/2012-13/schedule

Eastern, Western & RIC are still missing schedules, though the Western women & RIC women have their schedule out.

[7express]

Western schedule:
http://wcsu.edu/sports/MBasketball/schedule.htm

Eastern & RIC still have no schedules out only 2 in the conference yet to post them.

[7express]

Now officially t-minus 30 days until the start of the season.  LEC teams along with other division 3 schools officially start practice today.  The light is finally visable at the end of the tunnel.  Once I get all schools schedules I'll do my pre-season predictions.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The Preseason Top 25 is out: http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2012-13/preseason

[LECFAN32]

Always seems like they take guesses in terms of some of these preseason rankings..no little east teams in the top 25 a bit odd, teams in the conference always end up earning their rank every season anyway which is what matters of course. Feels like some of these guys are handed lofty positions, without much knowledge of how good the team will actually be.

surprised western didnt receive any votes, like I have voiced before this will not be a rebuilding year, actually will be closer to a team campbell prefers with balance, toughness, and lots of outside shooting due to some returnees, and three impact transfers who definitely starters in the little east talent wise.

not surprised keene did, they return talent and brought in a couple high level freshman with size, as always with them however colbert will probably sub a bit too much into his bench, not allowing guys to get comfortable, or establish a role which leads to breakdowns on both sides of the floor.

surprised that eastern received as many votes as they did going into the season, the 3 guys they lost did a ton for the program over the course of 4 years, changing the perception from mediocre, to an upper echelon team in the league with a direction. They return some talent but those guys were truly the core, and with a system as rigid as geitners involving lots of sets and structure, younger players usually have a tough time adjusting because they have to think about where to be so much, while i heard they brought in some talented freshman who knows what impact they will have.

but hey what do i know

[ECSUalum]

ECSU 2012/13 Mens Basketball Schedule:
http://www.easternct.edu/athletics/men_basketball/mbb-schedule.htm
They are down in Miami just before Christmas to play Buffalo St and Messiah College PA. They also play two other SUNY programs, Plattsburgh and New Paltz, nice they are getting to play some SUNYAC teams for a change.  Rest of schedule looks about the same as previous years with Trinity, Wesleyan, and CT College from NESCAC in addition to their LEC schedule

[7express]

Nine(9!!!!) teams in the poll that finished unranked last year.  That means about 30% of the poll consitutes unranked teams from last year.
My thoughts on preseason polls: Their like power rankings.  Completely useless, but good to talk about at the water cooler at the office.
"Wow Bob, did you see Hampden-Syden is ranked #25 after finishing last year 19-8??"
Polls in football shouldn't come out until at least week 4 or 5, and polls for basketball shouldn't come out until Christmas/New Years when we have a better idea on who's good and who isn't.

[Hugenerd]

Nine(9!!!!) teams in the poll that finished unranked last year.  That means about 30% of the poll consitutes unranked teams from last year.

Well, that's if you consider 36% to be about 30%.

My thoughts on preseason polls: Their like power rankings.  Completely useless, but good to talk about at the water cooler at the office.
"Wow Bob, did you see Hampden-Syden is ranked #25 after finishing last year 19-8??"
Polls in football shouldn't come out until at least week 4 or 5, and polls for basketball shouldn't come out until Christmas/New Years when we have a better idea on who's good and who isn't.

Gives the people something to talk about. Gets the people going.

[7express]

RIC's schedule:
http://www.goanchormen.com/index.html

Now that every school's schedule is posted (ECSUalum posted Eastern's schedule over the weekend) I'll have 7expressess annual Little east preview up sometime before Halloween, probably over the weekend since both my football teams have a bye this week so I'll have nothing to do on Sunday.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Nine(9!!!!) teams in the poll that finished unranked last year.  That means about 30% of the poll consitutes unranked teams from last year.

Well, that's if you consider 36% to be about 30%.

My thoughts on preseason polls: Their like power rankings.  Completely useless, but good to talk about at the water cooler at the office.
"Wow Bob, did you see Hampden-Syden is ranked #25 after finishing last year 19-8??"
Polls in football shouldn't come out until at least week 4 or 5, and polls for basketball shouldn't come out until Christmas/New Years when we have a better idea on who's good and who isn't.

Gives the people something to talk about. Gets the people going.

It also allows the voters to start getting a sense of the teams BEFORE games are played when you might just go on results and not on the teams make-up and extra "stuff."

And 9 teams not being ranked isn't exactly a shocker... furthermore, how many of those teams not "ranked" received votes in the last poll? Five... with RMC and Ramapo being strong teams that usually are considered - especially how much Ramapo brings back.

[WPI89]

Like all the chatter. 

If this year's pre-season poll was more similar to the last poll from last year - we would have people screaming that nobody did any research and they just picked the teams that were good last year....etc...etc......now people are complaining that there ate too many "new" teams.....perfect!

I think it is great to have some new blood in the top 25+ this year!

[7express]

According to Shawn Mobilio, Western plays a scrimmage at home against Elms College next Saturday November 3.
RIC plays an exhibition game @ Providence college also on the 3rd.  Those are the only 2 teams who have scrimmages/exhibitions that I'm aware of.

[amh63]

ECSU.....Interesting that your teams schedules the 3 CT nescac schools.  Your women's team seems to have a regular series with the Amherst team.  Would be nice to see the men's team add Amherst to the schedule.  Amherst has a regular series with RIC. 
There has been some comments on the "CAC" board that teams like Amherst and Williams have been having some difficulties filling out their schedules recently.  I believe that it is good for the better teams to schedule up with respect to other schools.  It does not really help develop teams when you play weak teams, imo.  Last year's game with RIC helped Amherst improve their "toughness"...is that a trait?