MBB: Little East

[wcsu91]

Anyone know where Christopher Newport plays out of? What region or conference?

[7express]

Anyone know where Christopher Newport plays out of? What region or conference?

The USAsouth is their conference, and their in the South region, however their leaving the conference after next year (forgot what conf their going to).

Doing some research: F&M is 25-2 and has lost 2 games by a combined 6 points; they've been in the top 15-20 all season long.  Christopher Newport is 23-4 and has only lost once December 16.  However, the USA South was awful this year (3 teams with a winning record 1 of those 3 was 14-11), and they've only played 1 good team in that time frame (Va Wesleyan) and that was the 1 game they lost in that stretch.  No matter how bad a conference is, you can't take a team lightly that finishes undefeated in it, which is what CNU did.

[ECSUalum]

AMCC Conference Standings:


Medaille                                17-1 25-2
La Roche                               13-5 18-8
Penn State-Behrend                13-5 16-11
Hilbert                                  11-7 15-12
D'Youville                              10-8 10-16
Pitt-Bradford                          9-9 10-15
Mount Aloysius                       8-10 10-15
Pitt-Greensburg                      7-11 9-16
Penn State-Altoona                 2-16 3-22
Franciscan (Ohio)                    0-18 0-24

SUNYAC Conference Standings:

Oswego State      18-0 25-3
Cortland State     14-4 21-7
Buffalo State       11-7 18-9
Brockport State   11-7 14-13
Geneseo State     11-7 14-13
Fredonia State     8-10 13-12
New Paltz State    6-12 9-17
Plattsburgh State  6-12 8-18
Potsdam State     3-15 5-20
Oneonta State     2-16 3-22

LEC

Eastern Connecticut   11-3 22-5
Rhode Island College   10-4 22-6
Western Connecticut  10-4 20-6
Keene State             10-4 19-8
Mass-Dartmouth        7-7 13-13
Plymouth State         4-10 9-16
Southern Maine         3-11 11-14
Mass-Boston            1-13 5-20

CCC Conference Standings:

Salve Regina       15-3 19-9
Endicott             12-6 20-8
Wentworth          12-6 17-10
Nichols               10-8 13-14
Roger Williams      9-9 13-13
Curry                 9-9 11-15
Gordon               8-10 9-17
Western N E        6-12 9-17
University of NE   6-12 6-19
Eastern Nazarene 3-15 4-21



I think the best method to guage the competition besides W-L record in/out conference is to go to their NCAA.com stats as well as look at match-ups vis a vis roster

IS THERE ANOTHER CONFERENCE WITH THE QUALITY OF TEAMS WE HAVE IN LEC??

[LECFAN32]

sunyac is a better conference..slower style of play, but big physical teams (played at cortland state before western)..great facilities, kind of similar to the lec in big public schools that try n do well by their student athletes as far as resources.

amcc is a low,low conference and medaille kind of beats up on everybody year after year..like albertus but not as talented.

franklin and marshall is a very high quality program led by their coach glenn robinson, has had a strong tradition for 30 years, big discipline forwards, small quick guards. eastern did much better with their draw. oswego as good as they are dont go very deep and tend to play in the halfcourt which bodes well for the warriors style of play obviouly.

[littleeastguy]

I agree that SUNY is good, but this season is what 7 was getting at I think and this years the LEC is better. Eastern, Western, RIC and Keene are better than Cortland their second place team this season.

[7express]

The only team's chances I don't like to advance are Western's ironically.

RIC should be able to beat Staten Island, and I think Eastern ends up beating Oswego just because they play the similar styles.  F&M only gives up 54.8 ppg, has balanced scoring, has outscored their opponents by over 400 points this year, and gets balanced scoring on the offensive end.

[WCSUFan14]

Disappointed western isn't holding a home game this Thursday Was looking very forward after seeing the projections. At least westconn got into the tourney. Unfortunately it looks like westconn has some tough teams to play. Let the best team win, you never know what can happen!

[ECSUalum]

The only team's chances I don't like to advance are Western's ironically.

RIC should be able to beat Staten Island, and I think Eastern ends up beating Oswego just because they play the similar styles.  F&M only gives up 54.8 ppg, has balanced scoring, has outscored their opponents by over 400 points this year, and gets balanced scoring on the offensive end.

7,
WCSU can beat anybody on a given day, and can go deep in this tournament, if they just focus on playing good D, (like they did vs ECSU in O'Neill), and protect the ball.  The offense, a we all know, will take care of itself.  Can't wait to see Daquan et al unleash in this tournament.  I feel sorry for CNU and F&M.      GO COLONIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[7express]

Actually, now that I printed out the brackets and have taken a look at them, this really opens up for Eastern & RIC.  Cabrini is highly overrated, imo.  Eastern can take them out on a neutral court since this will either be @ William Paterson or @ Middlebury (probably @ Mid).  I already have RIC beating Salem state and Staten Island and once again on a neutral court I think they can take out MIT or Hartwick.  Neither of those teams scare me.  Whenever you play as good a defense as RIC and Eastern do you can beat anyone, and ECSUalum is right, if Western can turn up the defensive pressure along with Brooks getting the offense involved we very well could have an RIC/Western matchup with a right to go the final 4.  Don't believe me or think I'm crazy??  I said it earlier this year I will take these top 4 teams in the LEC over ANY of the top 4 in ANY conference in d-3.  It's time for the LEC to do work this year, I really do believe at least 2 of the 3 can make the sweet 16 if not even the elite 8 and possibly final 4.

[ECSUalum]

YEEEHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WCSUFan14]

ECSUalum & 7Express - Agree with both of you! Western definitely can be ANY given team on any given day. As long as westconn plays D and has a well spread offense, they could make it pretty far in the tourney. I agree with 7 when saying its LEC's time to make some noise! I got a feeling that one of the 3 teams is going very far. Good luck to all! And by the way, does anyone know if the western game will be available online on friday? Would love to watch live video! Thanks again

[WCSUFan14]

Beat*

[7express]

ECSUalum & 7Express - Agree with both of you! Western definitely can be ANY given team on any given day. As long as westconn plays D and has a well spread offense, they could make it pretty far in the tourney. I agree with 7 when saying its LEC's time to make some noise! I got a feeling that one of the 3 teams is going very far. Good luck to all! And by the way, does anyone know if the western game will be available online on friday? Would love to watch live video! Thanks again

Probably.  Check the scoreboard on the day of the game, they try to get as many tournament games on video as possible.  Worst that happens is their will be live stats availible.  granted, it's not as good as video, but at least it's something...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Oswego State is better than people think.  I agree the Oswego - EConn winner beats Cabrini, but there are a lot better matchups Eastern could have drawn.

[Bucket]

Not the NESCAC board, but since we're talking NCAA match-ups, particularly in the east/northeast...as a Midd partisan, a potential second-round match-up with Albertus Magnus terrifies me.