WBB: NEWMAC

[sumfun]

Don't forget Fiorentino who shut down Chili from Mulhenberg and Schweers from Christopher Newport. Renner can play post or point, and that doesn't mention the strength of others off the bench or recruits that Gromacki has been excellent in finding.  I'll still pick Amherst again due to competition in NESCAC and stronger out of conference schedule.   Kean is coming to Amherst next season as Amherst went down there this past season.

[MVP]

 Congratulations to All American Nicole Wurdeman for her recent national and regional awards.
Congratulations to all the D3 women particularly in the North and Northeast who performed at such a high level . 

[MVP]

If anyone knows where I could purchase game tapes of the Sweet 16 & Elite 8 tournament games hosted by Amherst 3/11 and 3/12 , please post here.

Babson V Bowdoin
Babson V Amherst

[MVP]

Looks like Babson will finally get to play Williams and Colby in non-conference contests in 2011-2012.
No respect, despite beating Colby, Bowdoin, Brandeis, E Conn, W Conn twice, Suny-Geneseo, Gettysburg, Emmanuel and reaching the Elite 8 last two seasons.

[MVP]

Congratulations to All American Nicole Wurdeman for her recent national and regional awards.
Congratulations to all the D3 women particularly in the North and Northeast who performed at such a high level .

[MVP]

Happy New Year!  Good luck to all the NEWMAC Women's B'Ball teams and fans!

[MVP]

Congratulations to Nicole Wurdeman and Sarah Collins for 2012 pre-Season All American honors!!

[MVP]

The D3 hoops national rankings are posted. Babson ranked #5 for 2012.  Babson has beefed up their schedule this year including facing Tufts & Williams in an early November tournament , Univ Wis-Stout and Southern Maine in a New Year's week tournament and another NESCAC opponent Colby in February. 

[7express]

Tufts won't be as difficult since Colleen Hart isn't there, I actually think the Brandeis game will be more challenging for them.  Also, the So Maine Babson game isn't quite set in stone yet; Babson could end up losing to Stout, and I doubt So Maine loses in their home tournament to MCLA, in that scenario Babson would play MCLA, Stout would play Southern Maine.

[MVP]

Good luck to all WBB NEWMAC players, teams and fans!! Another fun and exciting year. Some great match-ups in both the opening tournaments and holiday tourneys. 

[MVP]

Babson wins home opener easily against non-conference opponent Salem St.  Babson hasn't lost a home game since December 2009. The big three, saw limited minutes because of the mis-match, seniors Wurdeman shot 10-15  & King shot 7-14 while junior team-mate Collins shot 8-12 had terrific games, with all three close to double/doubles. The real story and the exciting aspect for another successful run was the strong bench. Sophomore guard, Liz Trainor had ten points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals.   First year forward, Heavern had 5 pts and 6 rebounds in 18 mins. Also, two first year guards, Young and OConnor both looked strong. Both have great hands, ball control and can draw fouls going to the hoop. 

[MVP]

Babson beats a tough Tufts team in the Williams tourament by nine Saturday night after trailing by nine at the half.
Babson then loses to a very good Williams team on Sunday because of  a poor FG% shooting performance of only 21%.  So, a good start to the 2011-2012 season at 3-1 for the Thanksgiving break.

[MVP]

Looks like Coast Guard and Smith are paying well to begin the season.

[amh63]

Find it interesting that Amherst and WPI, separated by about 30 miles, will travel over a 1000 miles to play a game against each other.  The Nescac vs. Newmac  matchup will occur in the D3hoops Classic on the second day.....in Las Vegas, NV.  I believe there is a live webcast of the game on the 29th of Dec.

[MVP]

Babson will face Wisconsin - Stout in the Univ of Southern Maine Huskies Invitational tournament on December 30th. The winner of this contest will play the winner of the second contest between USM and MCLA.
Hopefully we''ll see a match-up of University of Southern Maine V Babson on New Year's Eve. This will be a terrific game and will certainly help determine Babson's top 25 rank going into the heat of the season.