MBB: Little East

WCSUFan14 · February 28, 2012, 03:58:13 PM

Quote from: 7express on February 28, 2012, 03:20:54 PM
@wcsu91 and @wcsufan14

as of 3:20 on Tuesday, still no e-mail of a fan/student bus.

In your honest opinion, do you think they will have one if they haven't sent out a notice yet? And is there anyway that they would allow it if enough people request it?

7express · February 28, 2012, 05:12:24 PM

Quote from: WCSUFan14 on February 28, 2012, 03:58:13 PM
In your honest opinion, do you think they will have one if they haven't sent out a notice yet? And is there anyway that they would allow it if enough people request it?

I doubt it, if they haven't posted one my now, but I'll give it another day. Maybe a lot of people requested it today and they'll post it tomorrow. If it's not there by tomorrow then there's definitely not going to be one.

WCSUFan14 · February 28, 2012, 05:24:44 PM

I doubt it, if they haven't posted one my now, but I'll give it another day. Maybe a lot of people requested it today and they'll post it tomorrow. If it's not there by tomorrow then there's definitely not going to be one.
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Damn. Is there anyway I could send a request even though I don't go to westconn? Would be a hell of a time if we could get one! Would know a lot of people that would love to join!

7express · February 28, 2012, 06:08:37 PM

Quote from: WCSUFan14 on February 28, 2012, 05:24:44 PM
I doubt it, if they haven't posted one my now, but I'll give it another day. Maybe a lot of people requested it today and they'll post it tomorrow. If it's not there by tomorrow then there's definitely not going to be one.

Damn. Is there anyway I could send a request even though I don't go to westconn? Would be a hell of a time if we could get one! Would know a lot of people that would love to join!
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I'd send an e-mail to Ed Farrington, the athletic director and ask him about a student bus. He may not know, but it's a good place to start. His e-mail is farringtone@wcsu.edu

WCSUFan14 · February 28, 2012, 06:31:07 PM

Thank you for all your help 7express! Really do appreciate it! Will definitely shot him an email ASAP! Thanks again lets hope we can get some help.

WCSUFan14 · February 28, 2012, 08:09:33 PM

Just emailed the western AD and said there will be no busses for the games

. Really hoping to attend the game thought it woulda been alotta fun.

7express · February 28, 2012, 08:38:35 PM

I just sent you a PM WCSUfan14.

falcons2010 · February 29, 2012, 01:28:16 PM

I think WCSU loses in 1st round. I think there a bit overrated. Brooks is great, probably the best point guard in the nation. Hwoever, I have a funny feeling there one and done

7express · February 29, 2012, 02:20:05 PM

I know absolutely nothing about Christopher Newport. Looking on the Centennial board, it seems like they like to run like we, but they play better defense. If they have someone that can guard Brooks, we may be in trouble. I'll start to take a look once I get an Internet connection back here.

falcons2010 · February 29, 2012, 02:39:25 PM

I dont know much about them either, but kinda like you said, if Brooks is guarded well, or has a bad game, it could spell trouble.

7express · February 29, 2012, 03:04:39 PM

Newport is 10-2 in road/neutral games compared to only 9-6 for Western. The Captains have 4 players averaging at least 11.1 ppg; Western only has 1 averaging over 10.2, and only 3 in double figures. Newport averages more ppg and gives up less points per game: Western has outscored opponents by 158 points this year; they average 81.9 ppg and give up 75.8 opponents ppg. Newport has an averager of 84.2 ppg, gives up an average of 72.1 ppg, has outscored opponents by 327 this year including outscoring opponents by more than 200 in the second half. Granted, the Little East is better than the USA South, but the stats don't lie. However, they've only played 5 games against teams in the NCAA tournament and lost 4 of those 5 games. Newport also has a +5.4 rebounding margin, but is giving up 30% from 3 for the year. Not sure how the defense is (juding by the stats not good), but of the 19 players listed on the CNU roster 15 of the 19 are 6 foot or taller.

Yah....this is going to be a lot tougher game then I first thought when I saw it, shouldn't have locked at the stats

littleeastguy · February 29, 2012, 03:04:59 PM

Very interesting numbers from the D3 Index. I have been looking at this site all year and the numbers have been pretty spot on.
https://sites.google.com/site/d3basketballindex/tourney-odds

Eastern CT: 78.7% chance they win their first game, good odds in my mind. 43.9% they make the Sweet 16, second in their pod behind Oswego with 48.7 so pretty close.

RIC: 74.5% they win game one and 43.6% they make the Sweet 16. Even though that is lower than Eastern it still makes them the favorite in their weaker more balanced pod, Staten Island is second behind them to win the pod.

Western: Projected to lose round one 53.3% of the time. So not great numbers even worse when you look Sweet 16 with only a 18.5% chance of making it.

Overall this site at least gives decent if not good odds at least one team makes the round of 16. The odds almost even favor us sending both Eastern and RIC. That would be a great weekend for the LEC!

7express · February 29, 2012, 03:10:26 PM

I have both RIC and Eastern advancing to the elite 8 in the bracket I did on D3hoops. I have no doubt RIC can beat Salem state, Staten Island then either MIT/Hartwick. The winner of Eastern/Oswego beats Cabrini (Cabrini is severely overrated, imo). I don't think Western ends up beating F&M (hell, they may even lose to Newport). I have Eastern losing to Mid, RIC to Amherst again, and Western losing to F&M in the bracket I did.

WCSUFan14 · February 29, 2012, 04:21:42 PM

You can say that western could lose Friday IF and that's a BIG IF Newport has someone to guard DaQuan. But I think that western, especially DaQuan, will be looking for revenge. If DaQuan is well guarded it could be an ugly game for western BUT if DaQuan has a good game and carries his team I believe western gets an easy win. It'll be a very good game, 2 pretty evenly matched up teams except for one edge on western, they have DaQuan Brooks. Prediction: Western 78 Newport 72.

littleeastguy · February 29, 2012, 05:10:17 PM

Conley Taylor and Mike Cherry do seem to be quite a talented backcourt for Newport. Taylor is 3 time all conference and a D3Hoops Regional Team winner. Can score and looks to be a good sized strong kid. Cherry is a very talented looking Freshman.
Neither sound like shut down defenders but they do look like very good players, should be a good game.