MBB: Little East

7express · January 19, 2013, 03:45:39 PM

Halftime scores:

RIC 25-22, Western 30-25, USM 41-36, no score or live stats from Keene/Dartmouth

ECSUalum · January 19, 2013, 05:48:20 PM

Stats. for USM @ ECSU game:

Southern Maine Team Statistics Eastern Connecticut
71 Total Points 87
37.1% (26-70) Field Goal % 59.6% (31-52)
46.2% (12-26) 3pt Field Goal % 50.0% (8-16)
46.7% (7-15) Free Throw % 65.4% (17-26)
35 Rebounds 36
13 Assists 14
8 Turnovers 11
8 Pts off Turnovers 8
11 2nd Chance Pts 11
24 Pts in the Paint 34

If ECSU had played defense in the 1st half like they played in the second half the game would have been a bigger blowout. USM led by 5 at the half, as Robitaille could not stop Sean Bergeron's out side 3s. Eastern lead by 20 with about 3 min. to play. Overall balanced scoring, (Hundley 17, Garrow 15, Robitaille 16, Ives 12, Salzillo 11 and Preston 11), by everyone, with Tyler Hundley having a breakout game, hitting 3s all over the place.
TRESCHON PRESTON IS ~~GOING TO BE~~ AN AMAZING PLAYER FOR THE WARRIORS......... WOW!!!!!!!

Finally getting over this freaking flu

7express · January 19, 2013, 05:55:07 PM

Western loses 68-64 😥😡👎. 1 reason to describe this game "pull your hair out frusterating." Western was down 2 with the shot clock turned off and turned the ball over. I'm not sure what Bistons final free throw totals were, but Biston made 4-4 to end the game including 2 after the turnover. I'm meetin my uncle and cousin (who goes to BU) for dinner so I'll have Sat results tomorrow. The only other final I know of is that Eastern blew out USM in the 2nd to win going away.

7express · January 20, 2013, 11:12:21 AM

Sat schedule:

Keene 89-60 over Dartmouth.
Keene's been playing a lot better since taking Anthony Mariano out of the starting lineup and bringing him off the bench, scoring a game high 25 off the bench for Keene. After a dissapointing start to the season in 2012, the Owls are a respectible 4-2 to begin 2013 and finally playing as a team me and many others expected them to be at the beginning of the season.
Boston 68-64.
Boston's final free throw numbers were only 16-24, but they made 4 straight to end the game which is all that matters. Starting to look like the first year ever coach Campbell will have a losing record, starting to run out of time.
RIC over Plymouth 57-54.
RIC was up 8 with 2:40 to play, but a couple 3's from Plymouth and missed free throws from RIC kept this interesting.
Eastern blows out USM in the 2nd half 87-71.
Eastern held USM to 24.4% shooting in the 2nd half while they themselves shot a ridiculous 68% to outscore the Huskies 51-30 in the second stanza to eliminate a 5 point lead at halftime relatively easily.

Tuesday schedule:
Western @ RIC
Dartmouth @ Boston
Eastern @ Keene
Plymouth @ USM. Eastern/Keene best of the day.

7express · January 20, 2013, 11:53:16 AM

7expresses's midseason LEC report.

Since Saturday was the official "halfway" point of the '12-13 LEC season (conference game #7), seems like a good time as ever for my midseason report card. After 7 games here's how they shape up:

1) Eastern 12-5 (6-1)
1) RIC 14-2 (6-1)
3) USM 10-7 (5-2)
3) Keene 10-6 (5-2)
5) Boston 9-7 (3-4)
6) Western 4-12 (2-5)
7) Plymouth 3-13 (1-6)
8) Dartmouth 2-13 (0-7)
Note: At the moment Eastern has the tiebreaker over RIC and USM has the tiebreaker over Keene, so that's why those 2 teams are listed first even though they have worse records then the teams below them do. That's how I do all my standings, if I know who has the tiebreaker I'll put them first if I don't I'll go by winning percentage.
Conference games that will impact the season between now and February 16:
Eastern @ Keene Tuesday, January 22
RIC @ Eastern Saturday, January 26
Keene @ USM Saturday, February 2
USM @ RIC Saturday, February 9
Keene @ Eastern Tuesday, February 12
RIC @ Keene Saturday, February 16

All conference selections:
Player of the year:
Alex Kee- USM

First team:
Alex Kee- USM
Ryan Martin- Keene
Chris Robitaile- Eastern
Alex Burt- Plymouth
Conor Sullivan - USM
Brian Salzillio- Eastern

Rookie of the year:
Trechone Preston-Eastern

Storylines for second half:
How much, if any, will Boston's current 6 game homestand have on the race?
Boston's 68-64 win over Western yesterday started a stretch of 6 straight LEC games at home in the Clark Athletic Center where they will see everyone except Eastern. Right now they are 3 back of the conference lead and 2 back of the final bye. With them finishing the season with 2 straight road games (@ Dartmouth, @ Eastern), I say they need to go at least 4-2 (which would involve beating 1 of: USM/Keene/RIC) to make any sort of dent.
Biggest surprise
USM. Sitting there with 1 of the first round home games, and a game back of the overall conference lead. You don't want to play them in Maine in the tournament.
Biggest dissapointment
With how awful the conference is this year them being 0-7 and 2-13 overall is basically a shoe-in (even though I said they'd do lousy). This should be Western, but as I've said this was going to be a tough year and at least have 2 conference wins
Team with the most to gain- Contenders division
Keene. Their rolling right now, still play Eastern twice, and get RIC at home to end the year. They still have a couple tough road games (Boston, USM and Eastern), but its set up nicely.
Team with the most to gain - non contenders division
Plymouth. Done with RIC, get USM twice, get Eastern up in New Hampshire later on, they've been playing well as of late. End the season with 2 straight home games (USM & Western). Wouldn't surprise me if they jumped up to 5th or at least past Western for 6th.
Team with the most to lose- contenders division
USM. Have been playing well, but are a terrible road team. They still have road games left @ Western, @ Boston and @ RIC as well as a home game with Keene. They could drop out of that first round home game pretty quickly.
Team with the most to lose -non contenders division
Western Connecticut. in 28 seasons on the Western bench, coach Bob Campbell has NEVER had a losing record. With at most 12 games left this season (9 regular season + 3 in the LEC tourney), but in all likelyhood only 10 left (9 regular season and quarters of LEC tourney). With a record of 4-12 this year we pretty much have to finish the regular season 9-0 to assure Campbell of a .500 record. HOWEVER, if they do finish 9-0, that would leave us 9-5 in conference good for probably 3rd or 4th place, so there's a less than 1% chance that we could actually finish with a winning record this year!!! However, 2 more losses this season (could be by next weekend) will assure Campbell of his first losing season on the bench. Save the season for coach, and I'll take whatever happens from that! And if by some chance this team makes it all the way to the LEC finals and loses? 10-2 (with 1 of the losses being in that LEC final game) would get us to an even 14-14. 9-1 to end the season (with the 1 loss being in the LEC quarter finals) would get us to an even 13-13. A lot to ask for from this group this year, who havene't even won 2 straight yet this season yet alone 9.

7express · January 21, 2013, 02:21:26 PM

Tuesday schedule:

Western 54 @ RIC 75.
If we can't beat Boston, TCNJ, or WNEC and struggle to beaat Plymouth and Dartmouth, yah, I don't think we have much of a chance. Add in the fact I think we have 1 win at the Murray Center in the last 10 years, I'm definitely not expecting much. Maybe close for a half, but RIC should pull away in the 2nd if its somewhat close at halftime. I just hope the women can get the win.
Dartmouth 65 @ Boston 75.
Another game that should be close for a half. Boston is the better team, has better players, and is playing at home. They should run away in the second if they don't in the first.
Eastern 65 @ Keene 70.
Keene is playing well, playing at home, and I believe Keene starts the spring semester on Tuesday, so its never good to play at Spaulding when school is in session. Eastern has won 7 of the last 8 against Keene and hasn't lost in Keene since 2009 however so they definitely have their number as of late. This year's Keene's team is different then the last 3 or 4 years, so I think Keene bucks the trend in this meeting at least.
Plymouth 64 @ USM 72.
This game, Dartmouth and Keene are their remaining LEC games the rest of the season in Gorham, so they've gottta take advantage of beatable opponents at home (Plymouth certainly qualifies as one) to stay in the upper half.

7express · January 21, 2013, 07:43:22 PM

RIC up to #21 in the latest poll. Once again, they are the only team ranked or receiving votes:

D3hoops.com men's Top 25, Week 8

Through games of Sunday, Jan. 20:

#

School (1st votes)

Rec

Pts

Prev.

1

St. Thomas (19)

16-0

619

1

2

Rochester (2)

16-0

585

2

3

Middlebury (4)

15-0

583

3

4

Whitworth

16-1

534

4

5

North Central (Ill.)

16-1

519

5

6

WPI

18-0

506

6

7

UW-Stevens Point

16-2

483

7

8

Wooster

14-2

430

8

9

Williams

16-1

393

10

10

Catholic

15-2

358

11

11

Ramapo

16-2

351

12

12

St. Mary's (Md.)

16-2

317

14

13

UW-Whitewater

14-3

303

15

14

Amherst

15-2

278

16

15

Christopher Newport

13-2

236

17

16

Illinois Wesleyan

14-3

226

18

17

Calvin

15-2

207

21

18

Albertus Magnus

15-1

197

19

19

Brandeis

14-2

127

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20

Stevens

14-1

123

24

21

Rhode Island College

14-2

119

25

22

Ohio Wesleyan

13-3

115

9

23

Hampden-Sydney

15-2

106

--

24

Washington U.

12-4

102

13

25

Wheaton (Ill.)

13-4

51

20

Dropped out: No. 22 Guilford, No. 23 Augustana.

Others receiving votes: Franklin and Marshall 48; Rose-Hulman 47; Virginia Wesleyan 32; Transylvania 25; Guilford 24; Wesley 22; Adrian 15; Augustana 12; Randolph 12; St. Norbert 8; Marietta 6; MIT 4; Emory 1; Springfield 1.

7express · January 22, 2013, 05:01:13 PM

RIC updating the bleachers at the Murray. Kept the seat back seats behind the benches up. Previously, they've only been up for the tournament.

7express · January 22, 2013, 08:20:10 PM

Boston 28-26, Eastern 34-28, USM 31-27, Western 28-17 are halftime leaders. Colonials ended first half on a 15-0 run final 6+ minutes. There've never been able to finish a game, hopefully that changes but RIC looks disinterested.

pjunito · January 22, 2013, 08:23:48 PM

17 points in a half.. Sounds like more than a disinterest.

ECSUalum · January 22, 2013, 09:28:58 PM

Gino Valante and Bob Weiner really did a nice job on the game tonight in Keene!! I think the Keene St broadcasts are some of the best certainly if not in the LEC in all of New England. Great job guys!!!
ECSU over Keene 62-57, Can,t comment on scoring as the Box Score is not complete, but Salzillo and Preston brought the Warriors back from a 10 point deficit with 9 min adn some tremendous rebounding by Yarborough.

7express · January 23, 2013, 12:51:17 AM

Tuesday results:

RIC 56-51.
21 offensive rebounds for RIC which they turned into 15 points was the difference. The killer being when Western was still up 2 with about 2:30 to play and RIC got literally 5 straight rebounds off of missed shots and on the 6th possesion hit 1 of only 2 three pointers they'd hit all game to take the lead and never trailed again. Another game where we can't close the deal, at this point I just want the season to end there's no hope.
Eastern 62-57.
What's that 8 of the last 9 now Eastern has beaten Keene?? And also, if anyone else but Trachone Preston wins rookie of the year they should just abolish the award. Preston had 17, chris Robitaile 16, Rashard Wright for Keene lead all scorers with 19.
Dartmouth over Boston 68-57.
How does Dartmouth win there (@ Boston) and Western can't??
USM over Plymouth 71-46.
There were only 2 double figure scorers this game: Alex Burt for Plymouth had 14, and Brandon Tomah lead the way for the Huskies with 15. Nobody else was in double figures.

Standings (as of 1/22/13):
1) Eastern 13-5 (7-1)
1) RIC 15-2 (7-1)
3) USM 11-7 (6-2)
4) Keene 10-7 (5-3)
5) Boston 9-8 (3-5)
6) Western 4-13 (2-6)
7) Plymouth 3-14 (1-7)
7) Dartmouth 3-13 (1-7).
Barring an unforseen collapse by one of those top 4 (most likely team would be USM if there is one), those 4 are going to be your 4 quarterfinal hosts, seeding to be decided. Also, the bottom of the conference is really, really awful which is the main reason the LEC is only getting 1 team in the tournament this year if RIC wins the tournament. Last year they were the only conference with three 20 win teams (RIC, Western & Eastern), this year it looks like they could be one of the few with three teams finishing with 20 losses. Luckily I doubt that happens because I don't see how Western can lose 7 more games the rest of the season with Dartmouth at home, & Conn College & Plymouth, but you never know.

2 games Thursday:
Dartmouth @ Elms, Boston @ Tufts. Both start at 7:00. Neither of them are likely to win, but I like Boston's odds a smidge better then Dartmouth's, but both have a win probablity of less then 15% imo.

amh63 · January 23, 2013, 11:14:00 AM

7 Express....see that you got your bet down for tonight. Caught a little of the RIC game last night....since Amherst goes to RI next week.
Your team looked good for a half. Did you make the trip?
ECSU....seems your team is making a run for the post season! Who knows, if our teams continue to play well and win, there maybe a meeting somewhere in the future....in LeFrak?

ECSUalum · January 23, 2013, 01:24:09 PM

Quote from: amh63 on January 23, 2013, 11:14:00 AM
7 Express....see that you got your bet down for tonight. Caught a little of the RIC game last night....since Amherst goes to RI next week.
Your team looked good for a half. Did you make the trip?
ECSU....seems your team is making a run for the post season! Who knows, if our teams continue to play well and win, there maybe a meeting somewhere in the future....in LeFrak?

amh63,
Still a bit early to think about the post season, but the Warriors are playing with excellent confidence these days, and we have some exciting players (offensively), with Brian Salzillo, and Chris Robitaille, but most exciting is a standout freshman, Trechon Preston, who will be a star in the LEC if not in the country in 2-3 years. A 50%/40% 3pt/FG shooter, very poised with the ball, can dish on his way to the baseline when it makes sense, AND can play D!!!!
God willing we see the NCAA and, if so, it would be fun to finally get to the famous FRAK and have a chance to say hello!!!

Good luck and health to the LJs for the remainder!!

ECSUalum · January 23, 2013, 01:45:08 PM

ECSU's remaining schedule:

JANUARY
Sat. 26 RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE* GEISSLER GYM 3 p.m.
Wed. 30 WESLEYAN U. GEISSLER GYM 7 p.m.
FEBRUARY
Sat. 2 at Plymouth State U.* Plymouth, NH 3 p.m.
Tues. 5 WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE U.* GEISSLER GYM 7:30 p.m.
Sat. 9 at Massachusetts Dartmouth* No. Dartmouth, MA 3 p.m.
Tues. 12 KEENE STATE COLLEGE* GEISSLER GYM 7:30 p.m.
Sat. 16 MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON* GEISSLER GYM 3 p.m.

Based on the fact that 5 of 8 overall, (4 of 6 Conference) games are at home, and we play 4 of 6 vs teams with below .500 conference records, I have to conclude it should be, (

$:-\$ ) down hill from here to the LEC tournament. Just need to beat RIC and we have home court advantage, assuming nothing crazy happens with the rest of the conference games. However..... conference games are ALWAYS tough, so the Warriors need to stay focused and play them all as if they are LEC Tourny championship games!!!