MBB: Little East

[LECFAN32]

very sloppy game for western in Boston, looks like their not getting that great of ball movement from the video n not getting into sets like they could be which is short for brooks dribbling a bit too much..however things appeared better vs an inferior cobleskill team.. dont underestimate the long drive on a players mentality and legs and is a miserable day overall coming home in one day, so winning by 20 is a positive.

dartmouth down late to worcester.. looks pretty inconsistent and has lost one of their promising freshman kershaw.

akinrola looks very difficult to defend in the league this year, especially since hes been in much better shape.

[littleeastguy]

UMD Pulls it out. RIC pulls out the win without Mason Choice.

[7express]

RIC men & women look to be the class of the league this year.  With all do respect to the USM & West Conn women, and the Eastern & Western men, as long as RIC doesn't commit stupid mistakes and plays their games, both teams should win the league by a couple games.  Really think the only game the RIC women lose is @ Southern Maine while I can't see the RIC men losing anywhere else other than @ Keene, @ Western @Eastern @ Dartmouth and I'd venture to say they win at least 2 of those 4 games.

[AllStar]

RIC men & women look to be the class of the league this year.  With all do respect to the USM & West Conn women, and the Eastern & Western men, as long as RIC doesn't commit stupid mistakes and plays their games, both teams should win the league by a couple games.  Really think the only game the RIC women lose is @ Southern Maine while I can't see the RIC men losing anywhere else other than @ Keene, @ Western @Eastern @ Dartmouth and I'd venture to say they win at least 2 of those 4 games.

I think both leagues will be more competitive than what you said here.  Just my opinion, though.

[AllStar]

5-1 for the Little East tonight.  UMass-Boston was routed by No. 7 MIT 90-47.  Other than that, UMD, USM, ECSU, RIC, and PSU all won.

I'd say the standout game was Plymouth (preseason picked last) knocking off RV Tufts in OT on the road, 79-73.
RIC beat Salve Regina 69-55...big game for the Anchormen coming up against No. 15 WPI on Thursday.
UMass-Dartmouth rebounded from being waxed by squeaking by Worcester State, 69-67 on late free throws.
Eastern clobbered one-win Green Mountain, 88-48 - as expected.
Southern Maine beat UMaine-Farmington, 77-61.

[AllStar]

One game on Wednesday, as Keene State travels to No. 8 Williams. 

[7express]

I think both leagues will be more competitive than what you said here.  Just my opinion, though.

We'll find out, but right now it's a clear gap between them and the rest of the league.  Combined they have 2 losses; an 8 point loss to Emmanuel who is in the NCAA tournament every season because they win the GNAC every year, and a 1 point loss to UNE on a made free throw with 1.6 seconds left.  If Eastern ends up sweeping them over the weekend I'll retract my statement but I said right now no one else is close.

[warrior]

Anyone know what happened to Mason Choice? Injury? Discipline? Personal?

[littleeastguy]

Mason Choice is out with a mild concussion. He is expected to be back.

[wcsu91]

RIC Men I dont think will run away with the LEC title. West Conn and Brooks will not let that happen. Leauge is way to competative this year to make that kind of statement and we are only one league game into the season. 13 more to go. Dont know or care about the women's teams.

[7express]

Keene state @ Williams in the only game on the schedule tonight.

I'll take 88-72 Williams.  Williams slowly getting their full compliment of players back, and Keene state can't stop anyone (65.5 oppg this year, 71.7 the last 3 games).  I think Keene can keep it close for a while, but Williams pulls away in the second half.

[warrior]

Rashad Wright was in street clothes vs. Williams.  Anyone know the story behind that one?

[ECSUalum]

Keene state @ Williams in the only game on the schedule tonight.

I'll take 88-72 Williams.  Williams slowly getting their full compliment of players back, and Keene state can't stop anyone (65.5 oppg this year, 71.7 the last 3 games).  I think Keene can keep it close for a while, but Williams pulls away in the second half.

7express,

Williams College FGM, 3PM, and FTM, @ 63.6%, 60.0% and 87.5% respectively pretty much explains what happened last night in Williamstown MA.  Gino and Christian did another great job with the play by play, even tough it was not a fun game for them to broadcast.
BTW LEC TV had the audio but the video was blacked out.  To watch you had to pay 15 bucks

Am I  being too cynical of the "CAC"?  Sorry, let me go back and take my pill

[AllStar]

Rashad Wright was in street clothes vs. Williams.  Anyone know the story behind that one?

I think he was sick. 

I don't know how many teams could have beaten Williams last night, judging by this quote from the game article:
Williams head coach Mike Maker was pleased with the performance. "We can't play much better than we played today," he said. "That's as well as we've played in this building that I remember, and it was a total team effort.  To have have only nine turnovers against a pressing team of that caliber, and to hold them to nine offensive rebounds when they average eighteen per game, and to have 19 assists on 35 baskets – you can't ask for much more. I was very, very happy with our performance."

[7express]

WPI @ RIC
Lesley @ Boston
Western @ Framingham
Dartmouth @ Curry
Lyndon @ Plymouth.

I like LEC to go 5-0 this evening; with RIC & Boston the 2 best chances of losing.