MBB: Little East

[7express]

KEENE WINS 92-91   ON TO SWEET 16!! Well Done Keene St Owls!  ALlstar, Keene plays their best in post season!!

I knew whoever won the Keene/Amherst game was going to the Sweet 16.  Outside of the 3 year run in the early to mid 00's when Stockton made I think 2 or 3 straight Final Four's the NJAC has been a perennial choke artist in the NCAA tournament.

[WPI89]

May be true Historicslly Allstar. But this was not a choke. This was 2.   Teams making play after play. Very high level basketball.

[AllStar]

May be true Historicslly Allstar. But this was not a choke. This was 2.   Teams making play after play. Very high level basketball.

I didn't say that.    Unfortunately the Ramapo feed froze at the end.  Anyways, congratulations to Coach Cain and the Owls!

ECSUalum...Thank you for the compliments!  I thought you guys had a tremendous team and was hoping you would make the Sweet 16.  Coach Geitner is great and I'm sure Eastern will reload next year, with hopefully more great games between the Warriors and Owls!  I should congratulate Hugh Lindo and the other ECSU seniors on great careers.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

KEENE WINS 92-91   ON TO SWEET 16!! Well Done Keene St Owls!  ALlstar, Keene plays their best in post season!!

I knew whoever won the Keene/Amherst game was going to the Sweet 16.  Outside of the 3 year run in the early to mid 00's when Stockton made I think 2 or 3 straight Final Four's the NJAC has been a perennial choke artist in the NCAA tournament.

Actually... Ramapo got out of the first round... the stat has been that outside of Stockton, the NJAC hasn't gotten out of the first round. At least Ramapo was playing in the second game.

[7express]

Yikes!  I didn't know it was that bad.

[AllStar]

[magicman]

Hey Allstar.

Congrats on your Owls making the Sweet 16 again. What were the odds at the beginning of the season that not only would your Owls make the Sweet 16 again, but would also meet the same team there, that you played last year in the Sweet 16, Christopher Newport. Not only that, you went through the NESCAC and NJAC again, to get there, with an overtime thrown in...just reversed the order.

Can you say Deja Vu all over again???  Hopefully the next chapter has a different ending. Good luck next Friday.

I would think that game will be at Babson, as they should host with 3 of the 4 teams in that quadrant from New England and Babson highly ranked in the Regional Rankings.

Good chance Middlebury will host a regional as well for the exact same reasons.

[ECSUalum]

May be true Historicslly Allstar. But this was not a choke. This was 2.   Teams making play after play. Very high level basketball.

I didn't say that.    Unfortunately the Ramapo feed froze at the end.  Anyways, congratulations to Coach Cain and the Owls!

ECSUalum...Thank you for the compliments!  I thought you guys had a tremendous team and was hoping you would make the Sweet 16.  Coach Geitner is great and I'm sure Eastern will reload next year, with hopefully more great games between the Warriors and Owls!  I should congratulate Hugh Lindo and the other ECSU seniors on great careers.

Thanks Allstar  It was great that Hugh, Dave and Brandon got to the big show for their Sr yr!  Good Luck to the Owls, the way they are playing , if I was CN I would not want to have to play Keene St NOW!!

[amh63]

A little late to the party here. 
First, Congrats to Keene's win!  Their HC has their talented players playing hard and well.
7Express, I too thought the winner of the Amherst/Keene game would get the win over Ramapo...other reasons than "historical" ones.  Having said that, I believe Keene will go further in the Big Dance than Amherst would have.
WPI...the broadcast from Ramapo also had technical difficulties at times! . Trying to see the winner of the game, only saw the score....no stats...nothing even on D3 hoops.  Did not know the game went to OT.
ECSUalum....congrats again to your Warriors for a fine season.  Am glad that Amherst will not face Lindo next year .  Expect both Amherst and ECSU will rebuild.  Think their next meeting will be in LeFrak....maybe we can watch the game there together.

[ECSUalum]

A little late to the party here. 
First, Congrats to Keene's win!  Their HC has their talented players playing hard and well.
7Express, I too thought the winner of the Amherst/Keene game would get the win over Ramapo...other reasons than "historical" ones.  Having said that, I believe Keene will go further in the Big Dance than Amherst would have.
WPI...the broadcast from Ramapo also had technical difficulties at times! . Trying to see the winner of the game, only saw the score....no stats...nothing even on D3 hoops.  Did not know the game went to OT.
ECSUalum....congrats again to your Warriors for a fine season.  Am glad that Amherst will not face Lindo next year .  Expect both Amherst and ECSU will rebuild.  Think their next meeting will be in LeFrak....maybe we can watch the game there together.

Thank You kind Sir,
I am certainly looking forward to future games between ECSU and NESCSC team in general and with the Lord Jeffs in particular!!  You have always been kind and supportive of the LEC teams and Allstar and 7, and I value your keen, (no pun intended), insight!  Will be rooting for Williams, Middlebury, Tufts and Keene in the Sweet 16!!  ECSU baseball just around the corner!!   +k to all the guys in the NESCSC crowd for their kind words!!

[JustAFan]

The Little East and the NESCAC have had some great games in baseball over the years, especially Tufts, Amherst, Trinity and Wesleyan, who have regularly played Little East teams for years both during the regular season and in the regionals, and it's great to see these matchups begin extend to the hardcourt as well. Along with the NEWMAC, these 3 leagues have a lot in common athletically.

[AllStar]

Seeing as this has not been posted yet (I know it happened a few days ago), I figured I'd post it here now.  Dave did an interview with Coach Cain of Keene State on last Sunday's Hoopsville show.  The interview begins at about the 39:00 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrxfytBcRZs

[AllStar]

Congratulations to Coach Cain and the Owls, as they advance with a 68-64 win over No. 2 Christopher Newport!

[7express]

They'll probably get crushed tomorrow but great win by the Owls.  Actually good night in general for the conference as the Dartmouth women won as well to get to elite 8.

[AllStar]