MBB: Little East

[magicman]

Would like to see Eastern Connecticut come back and get a win against Carthage today. Also hope Buffalo State can avenge East Coast pride and take down North Central.  I'm a fan of Cardinal basketball just not those Cardinals. Good luck to the Warriors and the Bengals.

[amh63]

ECSU....Thanks for your confidence in Amherst's offense.  Sure you are not "setting up" the LJs for an upset ?

Amherst's next game is also in Florida...at Nova Southeastern?...do not know what conference or athletic level school it is in....D3, NAIA, or D2?  Guess it will be interesting to see if there are any zebra impacts other than the normal calls.

Last season, there was a very unusual ref related call in the Amherst vs RIC game in Rhode Island.  Fortunately, it did not affect the outcome of the Amherst win.  It resulted in much posting on the "CAC" board.  I was reminded of it when I went to the review the game again on video....after watching the RIC vs. ECSU barnburner game.  Nice to have your conference achived videos on hand.   Wanted to see who was still on the RIC team from last season.  Also, wanted to see again the play of T. Carter of RIC...I met both the player and father in Salem VA. last season....stayed in the same hotel. Talked to the father for about a hour in the hotel lounge before the All-Star game.
Anyway....the "strange" call.
The situation occurred in the last part of the game as RIC was rallying in the game.  Amherst player gets fouled going to the hoop.  Gets two penalty shots that were made and Amherst goes up by 7 points...nearing the 70 point barrier, a critical barrier for RIC's Coach Walsh.  Coach Walsh has openly stated that if an opponent scores over 70 points, RIC will lose.  Game is stopped and refs goes into a huddle and looks at replay monitor.  Delay last for more than 10 min. according to the confused announcers.  Amherst's coaches goes back to refs several times.  When the game resumes, there has been a few seconds added to the game clock....to 1:23.  Two points are removed from Amherst's score. A foul removed from RIC....from 7 to 6 and one added to Amherst.  The ball is given to RIC!  Amherst's coaches protests.
After the game, the announcers get an explanation from Coach Walsh.  It seems that a foul charged to RIC earlier was not correct....this was way earlier than the one called that sent the Amherst player to the foul lane.  Coach Walsh stated he had learned that you can get an correction even if it is later in the game.  Therefore, the fouled Amherst player was only RIC's 6th foul at the time.  There was no shooting foul......thus the two made foul shot pts were removed.  Adjustments to time and foul count on Amherst were made.  It seems that Amherst was protesting the final move....the one giving the ball to RIC vice to Amherst.  An error still not clearly explained to Amherst's coaches.
RIC did not score when they got the ball.  Amherst threw a long pass over a full court press by RIC to a streaking Kalema who scored on a layup and was fouled in the process.  His prior two points on the foul line that was taken away was "rewarded" with a 3-point play.  Sometimes, the Gods of BB are kind   Oh yes, RIC comes to LeFrak late in the season.  Hope Amherst's team will be ready then.

[magicman]

Eastern Connecticut falls to Carthage in another tight game 61-58.

The Warriors fell behind after the first few minutes of the game when the Redmen, down 9-8, went on a 10-0 run to grab an 18-9 lead at the 10:53 mark. Carthage continued to apply the pressure and increased the margin to a 15 point advantage at 26-11 with 7:41 left in the period. The Warriors would come back with 9 unanswered points with 5 from Brian Salzillo and 4 from Trachone Preston to get it down to 26-20. A basket by the Redmen's Cameron Van Wyk and another jumper by Salzillo ended the first half scoring and the Redmen went into the locker room with a 28-20 lead.

Coming out of the break it looked like a repeat of the first period as Carthage once again had a 9-0 spurt to boost the margin back to 15 points. The Warriors would cut into that lead over the next 6 minutes and finally got to within two possessions at 43-38 with 9:33 to go on a jumper by Salzillo and a layup by Brandon Yarborough. The Redmen's lead would fluctuate between 4 and 8 points over the next  8 minutes until Eastern got it down to a 3 point deficit at 52-49 with 1:49 left in the game on a 3 pointer, by who else, Brian Salzillo. Carthge would come right back, however, and get an old fashioned 3 point play by Malcom Kelly to boost the lead back to 6 and after an Eastern turnover, the Redmen's Marlon Senior was fouled and made both free throws to increase the lead to 8 with 1:02 remaining. Another Eastern turnover resulted in more free throws for Carthage and now the lead was 9. A three pointer by the Warriors'  Preston with 37 seconds narrowed it to 6 and the foul parade was in effect. Down 60-55 with 6 seconds left  Preston was fouled attempting another 3 pointer.  he made all 3 free throws to bring the Warriors within 2 points at 60-58 and the Redmen's Kelly was fouled on the inbounds. He made 1 of 2 and Eastern had a 3 point attempt at the buzzer to try and send the game into OT that wouldn't go down.

Brian Salzillo led the Warriors and was the game's high score with 23 points (10x18 fg, 3x9 3's)and he had 3 steals. Trachone Preston had  15 points (4x9 fg, 2x5 3's, 5x5 ft) with 5 assists and 3 rebounds. Leroy Haye didn't score but led the Warriors with 8 boards, in only 14 minutes of floor time. MIke Garrow had a rough day for Eastern as he was only 1x9 from the floor. He finished with 8 points and 6 of those came on a 6x9 effort at the line. Brandon Yarborough finished with 8 points (4x6 fg) and 5 boards.

Warriors were 21x54 from the field (38.9%), 5x19 from behind the arc (26.3%) and 11x16 from the line (68.8%). They did have more  turnovers than Carthage  with 14 for the Warriors to 12  for the Redmen.  Eastern had 37 rebounds to 30 for Carthage. The Redmen's ability to limit their turnovers today was the key to victory for them. Yesterday they were hounded into 28 TO's by Buffalo State and 17 of those were outright steals. No such trouble for Carthage today.

Carthage was led by Marlon Senior with 18 points (5x11 fg, 0x2 3's, 8x11 ft), 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals. Malcom kelly had 15 points (4x6 fg, 1x2 3's, 6x8 ft), and 4 rebounds. Cameron Van Wyk had 14 points (7x11 fg) 4 rebounds and 3 steals.

The starting center for the Redmen Mike Kastel injured his groin during warmups for the game and did not play. In addition starting guard Donte Logan twisted his ankle and left the game for good with 8:36 to play and the Warriors closing in. Logan finished with only a single point, 4 assists, 2 rebounds and a steal.

The Redmen shot 20x47 from the field (42.6%), 3x11 from 3 point range (27.3%) and 18x25 from the line(72.0%).

Eastern falls to 7-3 and will probably drop completely out of the Top 25 poll. The Warriors will return to action on January 4th when they return to conference play with a trip to Plymouth State and a 3:00 PM tip off.

Carthage improves to 7-4 and will be off until they open conference play at Augustana on january 4th at 8:00 PM 

[ECSUalum]

Salzillo takes a last sec 3 to tie but missed. Carthage 61-58

Off day by Garrow and overall poor 3pt shooting was a key factor in loss, ECSU trailed for most of the game and by as many as 15 .

At least the boys had some nice weather in Orlando... in the 80's

Regroup and get ready for Plymouth St and the rest of LEC play after Christmas.

[7express]

Looks like Eastern just lost by 3 61-58 as Brian Salzillo missed a 3 at the buzzer that would have forced overtime.  Mike Garrow once again fouled out of the game scoring just 8 points, and Brandon Yarborough also got disqualified with 8 points which no doubt hurt the front court depth for the Warriors.  These were 2 good teams, but obviously not the results Eastern wanted.  Have to go back to Connecticut for the holidays and regroup for a tough LEC slate which should be the main goal for all 8 teams anyways because winning the LEC tournament looks like the only entry for the conference into the NCAA tournament, and winning the conference gets you a leg up on the other 7 teams towards that ultimate goal.

35-25 LEC; 50-15 me.

Conference is off until next Sunday, the 29th when USM plays a tournament @ St. John Fisher at 8 PM.  Merry Christmas to all!

[ECSUalum]

Happy Holidays to all and best of luck to your teams in the New Year

[7express]

Amh63, ECSUAlum, Warrior, Allstar, and everyone else Merry Christmas!!

[AllStar]

Merry Christmas to everyone!

[7express]

Sunday schedule:

USM 68 @ St. John Fisher 76.
SJF is out in the middle of nowheresville in Western New York out of the Empire 8 conference.  My sister and brother in law both played soccer in the E8 at Stevens, and boy are they happy that don't have to make that trip from Hoboken to Pittsford, NY (just southeast of Rochester) anymore.  About the only trip worse for them was to Alfred (West Central New York about halfway between Olean [St. Bonaventure University] and Elmira).  SJF has played a pretty tough schedule with games against Oneonta State, Medaile, Buffalo State, Bethany (an NCAA team 2 seasons ago), Geneseo State, and of course the annual Wendy's tournament of Rochester Area schools where they beat Rochester and lost by 12 to Brockport.  They have only played 2 home games this year and lost both of them including a 27 point L to Bethany their last time out on the 18th.

[7express]

Sunday results:

SJF over USM 77-65.  Cole Libby had 16 for USM and Conor Sullivan lead the Huskies in team highs in points (18) and rebounds (10).  Taking out Jacob Litttlefield, the Huskies bench contributed 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block and only 4 points in 53 total minutes.  Littlefield had 4 rebounds and 13 points in 21 minutes.  Keegan Ryan lead SJF with 20 points.

35-26 LEC; 51-15 me

Monday schedule:
USM vs. Clark (@ Rochester) 1 PM
Geneva vs. Dartmouth (@ Miami)

USM 67 vs. Clark 73.
Tough turnaround for USM.  The game last night likely ended around 9:40 PM and they have to come back at 1 PM.  Clark is 8-2 on the season but the 2 losses are head scratchers: 1 is to 2-6 Western New England and the other is to 4-4 Conn College???  After playing 3 LEC teams last year, this is Clark's only game against an LEC team this year.
Dartmouth 78 vs. Geneva 62.
Geneva is located in Beaver Falls, PA which is located northwest of Pittsburgh and plays in the Presidents Athletic Conference.  Including the 7 games this year, the Golden Tornadoes (awesome name) are 14-45 their last 59 games compiling records of 6-20 in 2011-12, 5-21 in 2012-13 and 3-4 so far this season.

[AllStar]

Sunday results:

SJF over USM 77-65.  Cole Libby had 16 for USM and Conor Sullivan lead the Huskies in team highs in points (18) and rebounds (10).  Taking out Jacob Litttlefield, the Huskies bench contributed 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block and only 4 points in 53 total minutes.  Littlefield had 4 rebounds and 13 points in 21 minutes.  Keegan Ryan lead SJF with 20 points.

35-26 LEC; 51-15 me

Monday schedule:
USM vs. Clark (@ Rochester) 1 PM
Geneva vs. Dartmouth (@ Miami)

USM 67 vs. Clark 73.
Tough turnaround for USM.  The game last night likely ended around 9:40 PM and they have to come back at 1 PM.  Clark is 8-2 on the season but the 2 losses are head scratchers: 1 is to 2-6 Western New England and the other is to 4-4 Conn College???  After playing 3 LEC teams last year, this is Clark's only game against an LEC team this year.
Dartmouth 78 vs. Geneva 62.
Geneva is located in Beaver Falls, PA which is located northwest of Pittsburgh and plays in the Presidents Athletic Conference.  Including the 7 games this year, the Golden Tornadoes (awesome name) are 14-45 their last 59 games compiling records of 6-20 in 2011-12, 5-21 in 2012-13 and 3-4 so far this season.

Pretty close on that SJF vs. USM score prediction!

These games right after Christmas are always harder to predict, not only because you don't know if teams have any additions/subtractions, but they play unfamiliar teams.

[7express]

I had no idea I was that close.  Usually I'm like 50 points off that I don't bother to check the score I predicted.  The bottom line: which team wins and which team loses is the only thing I look at.

[7express]

Monday results:

Clark pounds USM 75-55.  Tyler Penney had 12 for the Huskies, Nicholas Deprato had 26 for Clark.  Yup, it looks like last season was a fluke.
Dartmouth over Geneva 90-80.  No boxscore.

36-27 LEC; 53-15 me

Tuesday schedule:
Colby @ Plymouth 3:00 PM
Goucher vs. Dartmouth (@ Miami) 4:00 PM

Colby 58 @ Plymouth 62.
Damien Strahorn returns to Foley gymnasium with the White Mules; Strahorn coached the Panthers the 2010-11 season.  Colby is 4-3 coming off losses to in-state NESCAC rivals Bates & Bowdoin the opening weekend of December, and also fell @ Dartmouth earlier in the season.   The Panthers return from the holiday break 6-3, but on a 2 game slide after starting 6-1.
Goucher 53 vs. Dartmouth 75. 
Goucher gophers, try to say that 10 times fast!  They are 4-5 and have lost 5 of their last 7 games.  Since Dartmouth is off until January 9, I wonder if they'll hang around Miami for a bit.  if I were a player I'd like to stick around and head up to the Clemson/Ohio State Orange Bowl game on Friday night.

[AllStar]

Colby blows out Plymouth 66-51.

[AllStar]

Goucher beats UMass-Dartmouth 83-76.