MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[MuMu]

Bisonpride thanks for all of the stats.

I was laying on the beach today and thoughs came to my mind. I have not seen Hood play this year, so who knows what they will do the rest of the way. being a former play Its just tough for me to see them win the CAC in there first year.

Mike Grey we all should agree should be CAC player of the week. Hats of to the coaching staff setting him up for sucess.

[Matt Letourneau]

Yeah but Jones had more points!

Its a LONG week this week.  Lets see what happens.

[ex_mu14]

Mike Gray had 24 points (11 for 17 from the field) and 12 rebounds against Salisbury in a Win on Saturday. Then 36 points (15 for 19 from the field) and 10 rebounds against Gally in a Win on Tuesday.. Gray has put together two huge games in a row. I'm looking forward to another double double against UMW.

Yeah, Jones had more points and his team lost too. How many shots did Jones take Tuesday night?

[ex_mu14]

Marymount's box score has Gray with 38 points and 11 rebounds..

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Pierre was 16 for 23 from the floor... and six for eight from the free throw line... just to assist what ever arguement is being made. There are three games this week for most teams... let's see how Pierre does against York tonight and CUA on Saturday... and how Gray does UMW tonight and St. Mary's on Saturday (by the way... last Saturday's game won't count towards player of the week honors this week - names are submitted on Sunday/Monday of each week).

By the way... Goucher lost thanks to the very good play of Tyson Lesesne and Mike Smelkinson Tuesday night. Tyson didn't play much in the first half (five minutes) because of foul trouble, but still finished that half with 12 points on very good shooting from deep... and had 26 points for the game. He then practically carried the team back into the game in the second half along with great help from Mike Smelkinson (16 points). I think many have missed this, but Smelkinson has started the last four games for the Seahawks in place of senior Dan Englestad. My sources tell me Englestad is fine with this move... saying he just wants to win. And it's paying off... St. Mary's has won eight of the last ten... including four straight (which Smelkinson has started and Englestad has been the sixth man).

Oh... and Alex Irmer is a very good post player... with a few years left to play!

[mwgoonie]

DMAC,

I agree with your comments on SMC. I was at the MW@ SMC game lats saturday and agree that Smelkinson, Irmer, and Lesesne are developing into a good trio. Lesesne carried them in the first half and Irmer and Smelkinson really brought it to cut the MW 11 point half time lead. SMC is this year's CAC snake in the grass. They'll sneak up on teams and win few good games down the stretch and into the tourney.

[ex_mu14]

Alex Irmer played high school basketball in Arlington for Wakefield and i don't understand why MU didn't go after him. You have kids in your backyard going to other dIII school when they're ten minutes away from Marymount..

[BisonFan]

What ever happened to Luther Weedon from Gallaudet and Ozi Menakaya for Salisbury? They are/were both great players and we haven't seen all season!
Anyone know why none the Gally coaching staff showed up to Juniata?

[hoodfan]

Weedon left Gallaudet very early in the season. Maybe played 1 or 2 games if any at all. Just don't think he liked it there.

[mwgoonie]

[MuMu]

Come on guysss, I thought it was going to be a peaceful night.

MU didn't go after him for the EXACT reasonn he was forced out of Randolph Macon and the same reason that Tyson is no longer attending Delaware St.! It is pretty common knowledge in these parts. MU has a 6'8 post better than him, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor this fall. Not much a team can do about that. They brought in 5 excellent impact players (out of 8 total) into the program this year and only 1 of those 5 is in uniform right now(Stanback) due to injuries and that doesn't count Diamond missing half the season and now playing on one leg. They will be fine and they are going to do it the right way. By the way, how many people have been academically inelligible with this coaching staff at the school so famous for that problem? I know it's a hard number for most of you to reach, but it is ZERO, not one player on their team has been lost to grades for four years."

[MuMu]

D-Mac,
You talk about how Goucher exceeded expectations versus Marymount underachieving? Goucher had 2 All-Conference players last year to MU having none and no seniors last year. With Jones back now, Goucher has 2 again this year. Marymount rolls out a 6'2" center! With all of thier injuries they still took Hood to double overtime on the road, and have put up a battle in every game but the second half of York at York. MU has less talent that is healthy than everyone else in the league except maybe Gallaudet and they are still in it with no point guard and no center. How many teams in this league are TOTALLY dependant on their two best players? MU has been playing without theirs. I think Mary Wash and St Marys might be the only teams to survive that. Go ahead guys, slam all you want, it gets entertaining when you talk like experts on other programs. You might be accurate about your own programs, but most of what you say here on MU is false. A nd yes. I do stay in touch with the coaching staff there, do you guys?"
By the the way MU by 3 at MW. it was a great beach day by the way!

[ycp]

Live Stats for the York - Goucher Game

http://faculty.ycp.edu/~sguise/mbb/xlive.htm

[Matt Letourneau]

MuMu,
To be honest, my impression of Marymount this year is mostly based on the display I saw when they played Catholic at home.  It was disgraceful, from the coach all the way down to the lack of control the players had.  It reinforced all the negative things I've seen from Marymount over the years.

I understand what you are trying to say, but we are well past the point where Marymount simply is going to have to prove it before most of us will take them seriously.  Go out there, bring in good kids, have a winning season, don't have "incidents" like they had against Catholic or what happened when they visited DuFour last year when walls literaly fell down after a lockeroom fight, and make everybody see that they are different.  Every year, its the same thing--we always hear about how this year is going to be different, and it usually isn't.

I'm not saying that there haven't been good players--and good people--that went through the Marymount program.  But for whatever reason, they have not consisently played as a unit and utilized the talent they have.

As for St. Mary's, you have a valid point.  That institution has made a mockery of this league--and its supposed standing as an "honors" college (what a joke) with the Habel situation and they didn't seem to learn anything from it.  I have been just as critical of them as I have been Marymount. 

[bisonpride]

Gallaudet will recognize the women's volleyball team during halftime of tonight's men game for winning CAC championship and successful road to Sweet 16. They lost to the NCAA D-III national championship, Juniata College in the Sweet 16. They will unveil the 2006 championship banner that will will hang with other banners on the Field House ceiling.