MBB: Little East

ECSUalum · December 24, 2014, 07:10:34 PM

[b]MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!!![/b]

7express · December 26, 2014, 01:49:24 AM

Thanks Alum, same to you and your family as well!

7express · December 29, 2014, 03:20:09 PM

Conference teams resume play tonight with the USM Huskies taking on the Guilford Quakers at Catholic University at 7 PM. The Quakers are located in Greensboro, NC and play in the ODAC which along with the NESCAC, CCIW, WIAC and until recently the UAA are probably the top 5 toughest conferences in the nation. The Quakers are 6-2 with both losses coming against top 8 opponents: they lost to @ #7 Emory by 2 and at home vs. conference opponent and #8 Virginia Wesleyan. The Huskies likely get run over by the Quakers. I'll say 88-54 for the Quakers.

AllStar · December 29, 2014, 08:49:43 PM

The live. stats for the Southern Maine/Guilford game appear to be having some issues.

AllStar · December 29, 2014, 09:43:04 PM

It appears the final stats are correct from the Guilford/Southern Maine game after the live stats did not seem correct. Guilford held off the Huskies 87-80. The Quakers had a 15-point advantage early in the second half, but USM was within 81-79 with 2 minutes left.

7express · December 30, 2014, 12:07:15 PM

Marietta 67-65 over Eastern today
Messiah 78-69 over Dartmouth
USM over York 77-65

7express · December 30, 2014, 12:17:55 PM

Guilford over USM 87-80.
Matt McCarthy lead the Quakers with 20 points and Jonny Rice had 15 points and 10 rebounds. 4 of 5 Huskies starters scored in double figures lead by Jacob Littlefield's 18. Huskies now play York (PA) in the consolation game, and the Quakers play the host Cardinals in the championship game both on Tuesday.

43-18 LEC; 46-21 me.

7express · December 30, 2014, 11:34:09 PM

Tuesday results:
Dartmouth loses to Messiah 85-82. No boxscore. Corsairs play #24 Marietta while the Falcons get #19 Eastern

Eastern loses a heartbreaker to Marietta in a battle between 2 ranked teams. No boxscore, but from the recap, sounds like Marietta won the game on a coast-to-coast dunk in the final seconds. Tough way to lose. Pioneers get Dartmouth while Eastern plays Messiah.

York (PA) beats USM 66-51. Dalton Myers lead the Spartans with 14 points while Max Bell had 9 points and 10 rebounds. Zach Leal had 11 to lead the Huskies. After starting the season 0-5, the Spartans go into 2015 winners of 3 of 5 looking to build on that for CAC play where only the top 6 teams at seasons end make the playoffs. Huskies next play Sunday against Bowdoin; Spartans are @ Christopher Newport on Saturday.

43-21 LEC; 48-22 me

Wednesday schedule:
Eastern vs. Messiah (@ Miami) 12
Marietta vs. Dartmouth (@ Miami) 2
Plattsburgh @ Keene 4

ECSUalum · December 31, 2014, 08:54:44 AM

7,
Eastern loses a heartbreaker to Marietta in a battle between 2 ranked teams. No boxscore, but from the recap, sounds like Marietta won the game on a coast-to-coast dunk in the final seconds. Tough way to lose. Pioneers get Dartmouth while Eastern plays Messiah.

It was sort of like in football when someone misses their assignment in the secondary and you leave a receiver wide open. To make it worse, Tre Preston put up a shot that bounced off the rim and Hugh Lindo almost had a buzzer beater with a last second slam dunk!!! There was a period in the second half, if I remember correctly, where Marietta sank something like 5 straight 3s!! The referees were a bit suspect in this game and had bad or no calls for both sides, however it was a really good game to watch and I thought ECSU would be more "rusty" after a 25 day lay off. Marietta has a very good team with #44 6'7" Garrett Stevenson hitting a bunch of 3s and who played exceptionally well!! Lets hope the Warriors have better luck vs Messiah today.

7express · December 31, 2014, 12:35:03 PM

Eastern 78-65 over Messiah
Marietta 89-75 over Dartmouth
Plattsburgh 74-72 over Keene

7express · December 31, 2014, 06:47:20 PM

Plattsburgh gets out of Keene with a 99-94 win, hand Owls loss #1 on the year.
Jeff Lunn had 16 for the Owls while Reggie Williams & Mike Mitchell tied for a game high of 22 to lead the Cardinals. Keene is @ Castleton Saturday, Plattsburgh has another undefeated team, Middlebury, Tuesday evening @ Plattsburgh.

Eastern over Messiah 87-80.
Trachone Preston lead all scorers with 27 points to lead the Warriors and Tarchee Brown had 11 points & 12 rebounds. David Fernandez-Brav lead the Falcons with 16 points and Geoff Boyle had a team high 10 rebounds. Falcons play @ Alvernia Saturday, Eastern resumes LEC play on Saturday with a home contest vs. the Plymouth State Panthers.

Marietta crushes Dartmouth 83-63.
Cody Borges (new guy, doesn't look familiar??) lead Dartmouth with 18, Jordan Rezendes had 17 and Wale Abraham had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Nobody from the starting 5 for the Pioneers recorded double figures, but that got 12 contributors who reached the scoring column lead by Keith Richardson with 15 points while Eddy Grenert grabbed 11 rebounds. Dartmouth is off until next Thursday when they play Western, Marietta is off until next Saturday when they play @ Ohio Northern.

44-23 LEC; 51-22 me.

Next games Saturday:

Keene @ Castleton 1 PM
Western @ Western New England 1 PM
Plymouth @ Eastern 3 PM

AllStar · January 01, 2015, 01:20:33 AM

Happy New Year to you, 7express (and all the other posters as well).

Its a shame that Eastern could not pull out the game against Marietta, but certainly not an awful showing by any means. Sounded like a good game...but the downside to some of these tournaments is that there is no video.

As for Keene's game against Plattsburgh, it was not the prettiest of games for either team (with missed free throws and turnovers). However, it was fairly entertaining. The Cardinals led for the vast majority of the game, but every time it looked as though they would pull away Keene would answer and come back again. Usually Keene's comeback attempt was answered by Edward Correa, who made 5-of-7 threes (and a lot of them felt big). This was certainly the best team the Owls have played so far and hopefully showed them things they must work on in order to do anything (certainly beats pasting another cupcake that you can't learn anything from). In the final few minutes, it seemed as if neither team wanted to cash in on their opportunity. Plattsburgh was missing free throws and giving Keene a chance (had the ball down 90-85 with a minute and a half left) but they committed an awful turnover after a timeout. That was just 1 of 21 turnovers...in other words, way too many. I'm sure Plattsburgh focused on them, but neither Nate Howard (5-of-18 shooting) or Tom Doyle (4-of-13 shooting) had very good games at all. In fact, Keene got 53 of their 94 points off the bench. The Owls were hurt badly by 35% shooting in the first half, and trailed 45-33 at the break. They shot 50% and scored 61 points in the second half, but Plattsburgh shot 55% themselves. After the Cardinals outrebounded the Owls 26-24 in the first half, Keene turned the tables and outrebounded Plattsburgh 24-14 in the second half. Big game next week that I'll pay attention to as Plattsburgh hosts Middlebury in New York. The Cardinals stuffed the Panthers last year in Vermont. Should be interesting.

ECSUalum · January 01, 2015, 10:57:11 AM

Allstar
The tournament in Miami where ECSU, Marietta, Messiah and UMD played was on video, but no play by play.
Happy New Year to everyone!

magicman · January 01, 2015, 11:03:28 AM

AllStar
I saw your post on the SUNYAC board and left a reply there for you.

magicman · January 01, 2015, 11:18:53 AM

The game between Keene State and Plattsburgh was very entertaining. It was a bit sloppy at times but it was end to end action for most of the game. The Owls certainly never gave up as they came back from double digit deficits on several occasions. I saw Keene in person last year and they have come a long ways since then. They will return a lot of talent next year as well. Good luck to them and all the teams in the LEC. We may have another SUNYAC-LEC meeting down the road when tournament time rolls around. I certainly hope so as they are usually good games. I'm always a little torn when Plattsburgh plays Keene State as one of my favorite cousins had a son that went there back when they were a DII school. I would occasionally make the trip over with my cousin to watch his son play. He was their top player for several years. So I usually root for Keene State to win the LEC. Makes it tough when they play my Cards but as I said I'm only a little torn. I want us to beat the Owls every single year.