MBB: Little East

[7express]

Just hear on twitter Lamonte Thomas is out for JWU, so JWU has no chance to win that game, I'll take RIC -16, 86-64.
I'll take Springfield -2 as well, 74-67
I think Bowdoin kills USM, I'll take them -10 easily 82-65

[littleeastguy]

I just saw that too. That changes it all, now RIC does cover 71 - 50.

[littleeastguy]

Anyone else watching the RIC game on their stream? This is as good of a broadcast as D1 game. Graphics, good announcers and multiple cameras.
http://www.littleeast.tv/play/index.cfm?fuseaction=embstay&id=26261123DD

[ECSUalum]

Was watching RIC vs JWU but game turned into a blowout.  Switched to KSC @ Springfield, which Keene turned into an exciting finish, and Gino Valanti was at his best with great color by Christian Harrison.  Just finished with an 85-79 victory by Springfield.  Keene did not shoot well in general and specifically from outside the arc.

Also noticed Framingham St giving Wesleyan a good game 72-69 Cardinals with 4:30 to go!! FS leading a good portion of game!!

USM looks like they will win vs Bowdoin

[7express]

Southern Maine gets a nice win against a pretty good Bowdoin team 70-69.
Keene loses to Springfield 85-79
RIC blows out a Lamonte Thomas less J&W team 89-62 in a game which I heard was horrible offensively in the first half.  That leaves the West Conn women (5-0) and RIC men (6-0) as the only undefeteated teams left.  Everyone has at least 1 win the conference, so at least we don't have any winless left.

[LECFAN32]

southern maine must be for real.. watched bowdoin vs umass dartmouth and their big, talented and smart

saw this same springfield team vs westconn in a scrimmage 3 weeks ago, altho springfield is prettyy decent and tough to defend against with how crisply they run their offense, definitely a g ame keene should win based on talent, which appears most of is coming off the bench these days.

hoping thomas is ok, looked like the leg tightend up on him very quickly sunday, without him they had no shot vs a very good and balanced ric team.

western vs. trinity tonight, not sure what to think of trinity but I would go western -8

[littleeastguy]

Lines for Tonight
Trinity -4 vs WConn
UMD -5 vs Bridgewater

I like West Conn with the points tonight. And I think getting five and starting to be healthy I like Bridgwater.

[7express]

@ LECFAN, these next 4 games will really test Springfield.  I think 4 of their next 5 games are either against Teams in the top 25 or ORV (others receiving votes).  They play Amherst and Elms this weekend, and Williams next weekend.

@ Littleeastguy: I'll take Western with the points and Bridgewater to beat the spread, but not win.
Not sure what to make of Trinity either; their 4-1, but their 4 wins have come against Sage (3-2), WNEC (2-2), Framingham state (3-5), and Wheelock (1-4) for a combined record of 9-13.  They got blown out against the only decent team they faced this year Eastern.  Granted this is their first home game, but it looks like Western is more talented, but I'll take West Conn for the 7 point win, 77-70.
Dartmouth is 2-2, but lost those 2 games by a combined 8 points, so they could very well be 3-1 or 4-0; Bridgewater is 2-2 losing by 3 @ Hamilton, and 12 at home to RIC.  Salem state is 0-1 against the MASCAC so far this year, with 1 game left against the conference (Worcester state on Dec 6), Bridgewater is 0-1 against the LEC and has a game left with Bosoton on January 12.  Close game throughtout, but Dartmouth wins by a couple baskets late in the game 73-69

[7express]

Western beats Trinity 74-68 behind DaQuan's 35 points and 11-19 shooting night (6-10 from 3 including some ridiculously long one's from the parking lot).  Gary Robinson chipped in 14 (5-9 from the field) in his best shooting game so far this year HOWEVER no one else scored more than 7, and the rest of the starting 5 had a combined 14 points, so two of our players accounted for over 65% of the scoring.  Once again, James Barnes picked up 2 fouls in the first 90 seconds of the game, and a 3rd early in the second.  He only played 6 minutes before he fouled out.  He can do some damage when he's out there, except he's spending a lot more time on the bench then on the court.
Dartmouth was a 72-65 win over Bridgewater. 

[AllStar17]

Thursday, December 1, 2011 Games with my Predictions (which will in all likelihood be quite wrong)

Salem State (4-1) at Plymouth State (2-2) - 7:30 pm
Pick:  Salem State 87, Plymouth State 63

UMass-Boston (1-3) at Suffolk (3-2) - 7:30 pm
Pick:  Suffolk 72, UMass-Boston 66

[LECFAN32]

hard to tell if this was a good win for western or not.. needing only 2 players in double figures and nobody else really doing anything usually isnt enough to beat a good team, barnes only played 6 minutes and this has become a fairly normal trend..judging by what I knew of him before the season and the shape he appears to be in it looks like they roll him out there for show..

with conference play starting this weekend the more productive players who can stay on the court without fouling deserve the start/minutes...also looking forward to seeing the development of britter and perkins as the season progresses.

increasingly like umass dartmouth as I watch them play more..lot of depth. new guys like tagger and clayton making big impacts

[ECSUalum]

This from Hugenerd over in NEWMAC thread.

LEC ranked 9th out of 44 toughest conferences in country. See details over on NEWMAC side.

James Eddy's ranking system is explained on the web site below:

https://sites.google.com/site/d3basketballindex/conference-ratings

[7express]

hard to tell if this was a good win for western or not.. needing only 2 players in double figures and nobody else really doing anything usually isnt enough to beat a good team, barnes only played 6 minutes and this has become a fairly normal trend..judging by what I knew of him before the season and the shape he appears to be in it looks like they roll him out there for show..

It might work against teams like Boston & Plymouth state who aren't that good, but when we play teams like Eastern, RIC, Dartmouth were going to need a few more people to step up.

[7express]

I like Salem state 89-64 and Suffolk 73-68 in the games tonight.
For Saturday (since I'm heading up to Boston right after my 10 am class tomorrow) I'll take:
West Conn 84 Boston 71
RIC 89 Plymouth 68
Eastern 76 Southern Maine 65
Dartmouth 82 Keene state 78 (3rd straight conference game Dartmouth has played Keene; they played the final regular season game of 2011, played in the first round of the tournament that year, and now get the first conference game of the 11-12 season.  The teams split the last 2)

[AllStar17]

Thursday Results:
Salem State 101, Plymouth State 82
UMass-Boston 100, Suffolk 98 (OT)

Conference play begins on Saturday.