MBB: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference

[gobombers15]

True, but I've been far from controversial on these basketball boards. I'm gonna end this back-and-forth with Pat, I learned my lessons on the football boards the hard way. Do not trifle with El Guru.

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to Pat and all the other AMCC posters. Hope it's a great one.

[upb88]

Ooooooh, Pat Coleman. I'm realllllly scared. What's Pat gonna do? Hold on, a black sedan with tinted windows just pulled up, and some men in dark suits just got out. They're coming to the door. What the hell... Heeyyyyyy...  dfg dfg fdsssssssd gg   fffff



Belated Merry Christmas to all. And thanks again Pat for this site and board.

[upb88]

Hey Chick, you have karma now! Merry Christmas!

Well as you can see, I have no karma what so ever...

Merry Christmas......

8)

[berlychick]

Thanks!

To all on here  Merry Christmas and
a Great New Year of nothing but basketball.....

Good Luck UPB...I will be heading your way the first of the year
to watch a few games with my son!!

[jzflak15]

Lake Erie should get some national recognition...if both games Lincoln and Fisher were at home they would have been two Wins for sure. As for the  AMCC the 2 best obvious teams are lake erie and penn state behrend. Watch out for Pitt Bradford though. No one ever talks about them. Dan Thomas is a very good player, inconsistent but can be very good at times. As for La Roche I think they will squeak into the playoffs, If Devin returns that will help alot but you cant count on one kid. There best players to this date has been Zack Kostorick a freshman and Frank Davis a sophomore. Davis is probably one of the best defnesive players in the Mid Atlantic Region. La Roches problem is mainly that they do not have a point guard who can run the show. Grady is a 2 guard, and will benefit with a good point guard that can penetrate and get him the open look. Thats the strong point of his game. Alot of people are counting La Roche out, but watch for them and Bradford to sneak up on some people. My predicited finishes

1. Lake Erie
2. Penn State Behrend
3. Pitt Bradford
4. Pitt Greensburg
5. La Roche
6. Penn State Altoona
7. Hilbert
8. Mt Aloysius
9. Frostburg State
10. Medaille

Player of the year: Kevin Buchynski Penn State Behrend
Newcomer Zack Kostorick La Roche

[Hawk Backer]

LaRoche is 0-2 and lost to Medaille... 'nuff said.

Granted, they will benefit from Taylor's return, but you say yourself the main problem is that they don't have a point guard.  Is Carl Krauser transferring for 2nd semester?  If not, I really don't see them doing much at all.

I agree on Bradford, although to be honest if you're going to hype Bradford I would look at Hilbert and say the exact same thing.  People don't know a lot about them but they have talent and are young.  They beat Bradford at home last season and Thomas hit a tough game-winner to beat the Hawks near the end of last year.  Reinard is an all-league type player, Reyes is solid at the point and if Ufland finds his shooting touch (#1 in AMCC in 3-pt. % last season, shooting only 25% thus far from beyond the arc), they're going to be in the post season.  I might like to add that they also were up by 13 with eight minutes left against Lake Erie. 

We shall see.  It should be an interesting second semester.

[Pat Coleman]

They haven't gone unnoticed. We wrote about them in Around the Nation back at the beginning of the month, for example. They might not get any Top 25 votes without having beaten one of those teams but they are not off the radar.

[berlychick]

I havent been paying too much attention to anyother
team in the conference besides UPB..so my 2 cents is
if you want to talk about that team you can't do that
without mentioning Ryan Race....
He is leading scorer and from what I have been hearing
and reading doing a heck of a job on the boards.
this is a young man who I have watched for a few years and
he is an all around "team" player.  Something that they needed
from a local boy...since the other local boy didnt seem to have that same
"team" play in him.

Really can not wait to see him up close in Jan 06

[jzflak15]

I played for La Roche back when we won the championship in 04...if you remember right we had 7 players and that was it.....We havent had a good point guard since Cliff Foster left.. When we get devin back we will be a totally different team. There isnt a big guy in the conference who can run the floor with him or match up with him athletic wise. THis will also open up alot more open shots for Grady, Frank Davis and will allow Nate Davis to maybe play on the wing more, which is his more natural position. You have to remember yes we lost to Medaille.. but theres 16 more conference games left to play.....Where we need to get tougher is on the defensive end, if this happens and we guard like we can and were supposed 2 we could give any1 a run. As for ryan race, he always seemes to have his best games vs us. he is averagin like 27 a game yes...but he played westmibnster and marietta both teams who like 2 run and gun.. I think he is a tough kid dont get me wrong. But i think Thomas runs that team. You need a good point guard 2 win. When we won we had cliff..... Thats why I think lake erie and behrend are so favored because richardson is very dangerous and believe it or not Justin jennings from behrend is probably the best true point guard in the conference..hes not a scorer but just plays the position well.......Also you must remember it is so hard 2 win on the road...Medialle will win more than one conference game this season... and the kid Mcneil they have is a player from what i hear...all im sayin is that La Roche should move grady to the point so that they have some 1 expereinced there. Dover who was my closest friend transferred...another pg quit...that has been our problem the past 2 seasons just no leadership...if you dont have leadership then you dont have anything at all.....

[jzflak15]

AS for hilbert you might be right... they are a tough team...they are coached very well also..it will be interesting....frostburgh state is done..peterson quit...they lost some leadership...all they have left is ryley and owen... and they have no perimeter really!

[gobombers15]

Lake Erie should get some national recognition...if both games Lincoln and Fisher were at home they would have been two Wins for sure.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I think it'd be a tough game even if Lake Erie were the host. Keep in mind Fisher dominated that game for the first 35 minutes and were it not for a furious comeback by Lake Erie, it would have been a relatively easy victory.

Granted, I don't know how good Lake Erie is at home. If they're half as good as Fisher is at home, they'd be very tough. Maybe now that the two teams have some familiarity with each other they could set up a home-and-home series down the line. I sincerely doubt it, however, because nobody outside their conference wants to go to Fisher; their gym is a little bandbox with spectators(aka students) sitting literally two feet away. They're right on top of you.

It'd be fun though to see those two teams go at it again! Hope everyone had a happy holiday and has a great new year!

[Pat Coleman]

I sincerely doubt it, however, because nobody outside their conference wants to go to Fisher; their gym is a little bandbox with spectators(aka students) sitting literally two feet away.

Shh, don't give away the secrets. Better for your conference that nobody knows that.

[cantbestopped]

I really like what lake Erie can do on the court but to say that if the sites of their losses were flip flopped they would be definite wins is absurd, each game is an individual game and you never know what would happen. Conference play goes on the same as always in that the upper teams can beat the upper teams and the lower teams squeak some games out.... but as Chris Berman says, "That's why they play the game".

[Hawk Backer]

Opening games of the 2006 calendar year were played last night...

Behrend dropped Allegheny, 78-64, as the team shot 56% from the field and got another fine game from sophomore center Kevin Buczynski (23 pts on 7-15 shooting).  JJ Ferguson also had a nice game for the Lions, adding 19, as PSB improved to 7-2 on the season.

Geneseo State notched its second win of the season as they withstood a game-high 29 points from AMCC POY candidate Ryan Race and hung on for the victory.  The Panthersm who fell to 4-5, had it going early, as Race had seven of the team's first 15 points and gave the team a 15-8 advantage.  Geneseo was too big for UPB and used a 41-22 rebounding advantage to take control of the game.  Five players scored in double figures for the SUNYAC school, including a team-high 13 from Greg Spears.  Jon Hannon was the only other player in double-digits for the Panthers with 11.

Corey Vander Sluis posted a career-best 23 points and added eight boards as Hilbert used a 40-23 second half spurt to wipe away a halftime deficit and cruise to a 66-51 victory over D'Youville.  Dallas Reinard added 22 points and a team-best nine boards to help the Hawks to the win.  Michael Reyes also had a strong floor game for Hilbert, adding nine assists against just two turnovers.  The Hawks improved to 3-5 on the season.

One thing I am very surprised at from last night's matchups was the way Dan Thomas was used against Geneseo.  He didn't start and really was not a factor in the contest.  Was he hurt?  Disciplinary problems?  Whatever the reason, UPB is not the same team without him. 

Another potential factor from last night is the way Allegheny played against PSB.  They shot 52% in the second half, which is very surprising.  Usually Behrend is tough on the defensive end.  Maybe a little California jetlag could be contributed to this. 

DYC is not very good and Hilbert took care of business in the second half of the game like they should have.  When the Hawks play to their abilities, they can play with anyone, but when they play the way it looked like they played in the first half, they are very vulnerable. 

[Hawk Backer]

Greensburg falls to Grove City, 80-73.

Scavincky DNP...  Don't know the story on that one.

Grove City beat Medaille by only 8 and lost to PSA. 

This conference is mindboggling.