MBB: Little East

ECSUalum · November 26, 2017, 09:18:51 PM

Quote from: 7express on November 26, 2017, 05:22:54 PM
The Eastern women are not very good so far, Amherst should not have a problem with them.

Agreed, I have watched a few women Warrior games and considering the Amherst women's recruiting every year, Easter is rarely a match for the Lady Jeffs. Coach Bierly schedules Amherst to show the team what a top tier team looks like early in the season to attempt to harden them for LEC play! Just hope it is not a total blowout!!

AllStar · November 30, 2017, 01:37:42 AM

ECSU is off to a good start. Keene has a young group and a lot of new faces...thus the early-going hasn't been smooth. But at least they did manage a very good win at MIT. We'll see if Keene can improve moving forward. UMB hasn't really beaten anybody and they were just hammered by MIT. UMD has mostly taken care of all the teams you would think they would at home. Plymouth is 2-2 against a relatively weak schedule. Western is 1-3, but did get a nice win over Brockport. RIC has narrow wins over Pine Manor and Regis and a confounding 31 point loss to Sage on the way to 2-4. USM has really struggled so far, scoring 72 points or less in 5 games (only managing more against UNE's Grinnell-like system). In fact, they've scored 53 or less three times in their six games.

AllStar · December 01, 2017, 12:11:25 AM

With the conference schedule beginning on Saturday, here's what it looks like. We'll begin filling these in with color soon!

Greek Tragedy · December 01, 2017, 01:15:23 PM

Fancy!

7express · December 01, 2017, 04:36:08 PM

Greek, AllStar started with these in the middle of last season, they really are cool and fancy.

7express · December 02, 2017, 02:22:11 AM

First round of conference play gets going tomorrow.

Eastern @ RIC
USM @ Western
Boston @ Keene
Dartmouth @ Plymouth.

Best game: Not a lot to pick from on here unfortunately. RIC is terrible, but usually the eastern/RIC game would be the play here, but I'll say Boston Keene. Keene has had an up and down season following good wins with bad losses followed by a good win, let's see if they can get some consistency going to end the first half.
Most important game: USM @ Western. These were your 7th & 8th place teams respectively last season. Always a good idea to get your season started out on a winning note, even more so when you were the 2 worst teams the previous season.
Worst game: RIC @ Eastern. Eastern has won 4 of the last 5 against the Anchorman by an average of 27 points. Usually RIC is a stout defensive unit but this year they lead the league in points allowed (578 more than 120 more than the 2nd worst team [Southern Maine at 455]), and even though they lead the league in scoring as the only conference team to score more than 500 points, they are the only team that's played 7 games so far. Points will be hard to come by for them against Eastern while I doubt points for Eastern will be difficult to come by. That recipe in my book= not a very good game.

eastern 89 @ RIC 65
USM 73 @ Western 92
Boston 74 @ Keene 80
Dartmouth 63 @ Plymouth 58.

warriorcat · December 02, 2017, 10:10:27 AM

Good analysis, 7. The pre conference schedule has highlighted that the LEC does not have multiple top 25 teams this year with everyone dealing with the loss of key players from the last couple of seasons. Eastern appears to be the team to beat. They return two of the better proven players (Gonzalez and Brown) but how will they cope with life without Lindo?. The unexpected loss of their two underclass big men makes Dartmouth practically a new team. Keene has Nichols and Wright and a large group of freshmen and an unproven sophomore. I am most curious about Western in light of their comeback victory over Trinity on Thursday. I think home court will be a factor in many conference games this year.

Let the games begin

ECSUalum · December 02, 2017, 03:35:07 PM

KNUCKLEHEAD ON THE CAMERA ALERT from RIC!! Looking at an empty court half the time!! Focus on your job and stop texting, Ridiculous!! Get the kids from the nearest elementary school to run the camera!!!!

amh63 · December 02, 2017, 09:03:47 PM

Guess, ECSU won!
Strange, the coverage at RIC is normally fine. Guess when the former RIC Head Coach left, the video coverage departed too.
ECSU...your Warriors are playing well....am concerned.
FYI, two ranked Nescac teams lost today. Williams lost to Wesleyan in Willytown, Colby beat Bowdoin....and Tufts lost to Salem St. in Medford. Oops that is three ranked teams.

ECSUalum · December 02, 2017, 09:32:08 PM

Quote from: amh63 on December 02, 2017, 09:03:47 PM
Guess, ECSU won!
Strange, the coverage at RIC is normally fine. Guess when the former RIC Head Coach left, the video coverage departed too.
ECSU...your Warriors are playing well....am concerned.
FYI, two ranked Nescac teams lost today. Williams lost to Wesleyan in Willytown, Colby beat Bowdoin....and Tufts lost to Salem St. in Medford. Oops that is three ranked teams.

amh63, Yeah, not a good day for a lot of top 25 teams! I just don't understand these colleges that give a student or somebody responsibility for the camera and they just do not give a s..t what they are doing!! GOSH!!!

Should be another good game in Le Frak this Jan!
BTW Former RIC Coach Walsh was 7-25 last year and is 1-7 this year with the University of Maine Blackbears!

AllStar · December 03, 2017, 12:50:01 AM

amh63 · December 03, 2017, 10:47:48 AM

ECSU....thanks for the Walsh update. As you probably know, both Walsh and the Warriors HC are Hamilton alums. Speaking of camera coverages....several of the WBB games recently featured ranked teams. In particular the Rochester vs Tufts game in the Williams Tourny. This was the early game. You would think that a game between the 9th ranked team and the presently ranked number one would have video coverage. No...only stats! Should not be because of funds? Williams can afford it, I would think.

deiscanton · December 03, 2017, 12:16:55 PM

Quote from: amh63 on December 03, 2017, 10:47:48 AM
ECSU....thanks for the Walsh update. As you probably know, both Walsh and the Warriors HC are Hamilton alums. Speaking of camera coverages....several of the WBB games recently featured ranked teams. In particular the Rochester vs Tufts game in the Williams Tourny. This was the early game. You would think that a game between the 9th ranked team and the presently ranked number one would have video coverage. No...only stats! Should not be because of funds? Williams can afford it, I would think.

Williams should be able to afford video coverage, but at least JC DeLass covered Rochester vs Tufts on the audio for Rochester's WYSL FM. He also did radio for Rochester vs Williams yesterday. I find him good at radio PBP.

amh63 · December 05, 2017, 10:59:53 AM

ECSUalum...congrats to your Warriors! Ranked today into D3hoops top 25...above Amherst at 20th.

ECSUalum · December 05, 2017, 04:30:55 PM

Quote from: amh63 on December 05, 2017, 10:59:53 AM
ECSUalum...congrats to your Warriors! Ranked today into D3hoops top 25...above Amherst at 20th.

Thank You sir, they actually appeared last week at #24. Eastern should handle Manhattanville tonight, but on Thurs they have WPI in Geissler Gym which will be my first game I will attend. WPI has a talented young team who scared the bejesus out of me in Worcester, when they went on an 18-3 run off the the tipp-off! Then, we go to Fla and play Cabrini and Penn State Behrent, 4-1 and 5-1 teams resp, we return north and play your excellent Amherst squad in Le Frak!

After the Amherst game we dive into LEC play. It will be wonderful if ECSU can stay in the top 25 after the aforementioned 4 games, but I think they could easily go 2-2 if they don't maintain focus and play well.