MBB: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks for a great breakdown of the conference tournament, nice.

[David Collinge]

Pat has caculated the top 200 QoWIs nationwide and posted the result in a couple of the multi-region rooms.  Here's the GL teams extracted from that list, FYI.  I have added the in-region win %, which can be found here.

OK, these passed a great deal of scrutiny tonight. Through Sunday's games:

Rank   Points   Team
11   10.600   Lake Erie (.950)
20   10.318   John Carroll (.727)
21   10.316   Wooster (.895)
31   10.100   Ohio Northern (.700)
38   9.950   Wittenberg (.800)
47   9.765   Hope (.824)
60   9.500   Capital (.667)
65   9.450   Baldwin-Wallace (.700)
72   9.316   Westminster (Pa.) (.842)
75   9.261   Otterbein (.609)
82   9.174   Penn State-Behrend
115   8.619   Ohio Wesleyan (.739)
116   8.619   Carnegie Mellon (.524)
118   8.588   Calvin (.647)
132   8.435   Heidelberg (.522)
135   8.400   Bethany (.700)
148   8.188   Tri-State (.625)
159   8.083   Wilmington (.500)
164   8.000   Muskingum (.478)
166   7.944   Albion (.556)
197   7.591   Mount Union (.364)

Based on this, I'd expect Wednesday's regional rankings to be

1. Lake Erie
2. Wooster
3. JCU
4. Hope
5. Wittenberg
6. Ohio Northern

[jzflak15]

This is what the All Conference Team will probably look like:

   First Team

Tyler Franklin
Dallas Reinard
Kevin Buchynski
Derrick Thonton
Robert Williams

Second Team

  Roman Mims
  James McNeil
  Dan Thomas
  Antoine McCall
  Darnell Campbell

Honorable Mention

Stacy Grady
Dale Deberry
Sam Hanik
Glen Ufland
Quinton Dziabo


Player of the year: Dallas Reinard
Newcomer of the year: Zach Spitz Altoona
Coach Of the year: Al Seretti Altoona

[ChicagoHopeNut]

An exciting championship game for the AMCC today. Penn St. Behrend played great the entire game but let it slip away on the road in the last 5 seconds. Lake Erie hit a three with 4.7 seconds left to take its first lead of the second half at 59-58. Penn St. Behrend got off a desperation shot to end the game but it fell well short of the basket and Lake Erie will head to the NCAAs for the second year in the row.

Penn St. Behrend should be encouraged after a good year, finishing 19-7. There were no seniors on Penn St. Behrend's team so they should be a force to be reckoned with in the AMCC next year.

Thanks to Lake Erie for preserving another Pool C slot as well.

[Toph]

Thanks to Lake Erie for preserving another Pool C slot as well.

Thanks to Lake Erie for realizing that an 850 seat gym isn't large enough to host a tournament game and yielding to the JCU/Westminster winner...oh, that didn't happen?

[StormFront]

Campbell hasn't dressed since his injury and is out for the rest of the year, no matter how far they go.

Jajcen Harris has a broken toe and sat out the last few regular season games.  He is limping around campus, but had the toe numbed before the AMCC playoff games and probably will do the same for the NCAA tournament.  You can see when the medications wear off, though, as he grimaces after a few minutes in the game.

While LEC hasn't missed Campbell all that much, they are a very different team and can do nothing inside without Harris in the lineup.  Skopal, his backup, is big but doesn't have Harris' shot, agility, or hands.

[Toph]

The question is will they beat JCU or Westminster, or will they have the same sort of showing they had last year?

[pennstghs]

well even if they improve a little upon last year it could be another blowout

[diehardfan]

We're collecting previews for each team in the tourney on one of the multiregional boards. If I get them by friday I may even be able to stick them in one document for people to peruse. A fun little tourney resource of sorts. Could someone here do one for Lake Erie? Hawkbacker seems over qualified for the job, but anyone is welcome to do it of course! Thanks!

http://www.d3sports.com/post/index.php?topic=5147.0

[StormFront]

Lake Erie is a much better team than last year's, but still had moments when they seemed to lose focus. 

The latest news from the campus is that Harris will play as much as he can.  Campbell has his cast off and is practicing.  Look for him to start on Saturday.

Unfortunately for Lake Erie, the new President of the school wants to take them to Division II in 2008 when they start their football program.  They won't be competitive again for a long time, if ever.  There isn't a whole lot of Division II talent on the team.

The President is selling the move to the Board and faculty by saying that Division III is breaking up or splitting in two and that teams are leaving D3 left and right.

[sac]

The President is selling the move to the Board and faculty by saying that Division III is breaking up or splitting in two and that teams are leaving D3 left and right.

A well informed individual

[Toph]

Perhaps we can persuade the president that it would be a much better idea to hold Saturday's game at Carroll...since JCU brought 300-400 people to Capital, imagine how many will come to a game that's just up the road...and you won't have the facilities for it. 

Seriously, if I were in charge at JCU I would offer 750 tickets to Lake Erie College.  That's the size of your gym, and not even half the size of Carroll's.  This is a joke.

[Hawk Backer]

Cry me a river.  John Carroll lost nine games, and if they beat Lake Erie, so be it.  But LEC earned the right to host with only one D3 loss. 

[Toph]

So your logic is to play in a bad conference, play (almost) nobody all year, and have a nice record to get a number one seed?  And if you're only counting D3 losses, JCU only has seven.  How many losses does LEC have with JCU's schedule?

[Hawk Backer]

Who knows, but thats why they play the games.... We'll see tomorrow, wont we?