MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Dmac,
what is the most chatted and posted conf on d3hoops?

CCIW, WIAC, MIAA, NCAC, and MIAC have more than double the "pages" and many, many more posters from different schools in their conferences!

[Salem, VA]

Tonight starts the home strecth for CAC Hoops.  3 teams are playing for the homecourt.  Hood at 9-3 has lost 2 in a row and is in danger of falling into a first place tie with a lose and a York win tonight (no easy tasks @ St. Mary's).

Hood is @ Marymount, @ Goucher, @ York Home against Salisbury to finish season.
York is @St. Mary's Home against Catholic @ Marymount Home against Hood
Catholic @ York home against Salisbury @ Goucher home against Mary Wash

I can see this going down to the wire.  I see Catholic finishing in 3rd if York holds serve and beats them at home and they do have the toughest schedule.  Meaning the York Hood game will be for confrence title (Regular season)

York 12-4
Hood 12-4
Catolic 10-6

thats just my predicition and I am from York so Im going with them and there hot.  Should be a good game on Thursday with both teams are real hot coming in.

Good Luck tonight all

[Coach C]

I am going with the chalk in this one.  Gamber's Yorkies get it done and take home another title. 

The real question is wether Hood could get a Pool C bid with 6 losses if York wints the Pool A bid from the CAC.

C

[mwgoonie]

Rough past couple of games as MW is sliding further from the top. All the other teams are winning. LEt's hope Coach Wood and the Seniors and right the ship and get back on track.

2/6 : SAL  (WIN)
2/8: @ GAL (WIN)
2/10: GOU (WIN)
2/14: SMC (LOSS)
2/17: @ CUA (WIN)

16-8, 10-6 IN CONFERENCE

[kitchenrat]

York has a relatively rough stretch to finish of the season. At St. Mary's, Home to CUA (I am so mad I won't be able to go to that game) at Marymount and then home against Hood. They played these same four teams in the same sequence in January and the result was 2-2. If that held true this time around, they would be 16-9, 10-6 which would mean a home game in the tournament.

While winning at St. Mary's and MMU is never an easy proposition I think they can hold serve and earn the sweep in both of those games. Now that the rest of the offense is showing up and it's not all on Big Chad's shoulders I think they can be very competitive against Hood and CUA as well.

I'll stop short of saying they are going to win out, because the game tonight in St. Mary's City is a hard enough win (just ask Hood). I do feel a lot better about the Spartans chances then I ever thought I would back in October, and that is cause enough for celebration. And yes, I think it is reason enough to talk about Jeff Gamber as CAC coach of the year.

[Matt Letourneau]

Seems like everybody is ignoring the 1,000 pound gorilla lurking.  You know, the one with all the banners?

To my Spartan friends--what in the world in the drubbing York took against Catholic leads you to believe they can slot themselves right ahead of the Cardinals?  Sure, its at home this time, but at no point was that game particularly competitive.  It was NOT one of those games that "could have gone either way," as we say.

We'll see, but my eyebrows are raised at some of these predictions.  I'm not one to boast or make them myself, because I know how things can go.  I respect the heck out of York and what they are doing this year and years past.  But it doesn't seem to me like counting out the Red and Black is a particulary good move.

[ycp]

Matt,

Anyone would be foolish to discount the drubbing CUA gave the Spartans a few weeks ago. However, I will say this, York is a much better team than they were a few weeks ago. I realize that Catholic is also better and Thursday should be a great game. Catholic is the reigning tournament champ so I would hope that everyone still knows that the road to the 2007 championship goes through DC.

I believe that this is a very unusual year. There are seven teams that could get hot and win three straight games in the tournament. I don't ever remember in my 12 years in York that there has been as open a field in the men's tournament.

It should provide for some exciting basketball over the next few weeks.

[ycp]

From SMC

SMC 56-YCP 48

14:16 remaining in the second half

York took a huge early lead (I believe about 15 points) and SMC has been playing very well ever since.

[hoodfan]

Hood loses to Mu by about 14, Junghans was out with injury and MU's zone surrounded Gutekunst and made things difficult for him. Blazers are in need of a big win Thursday at Goucher

[Coach C]

Matt -

While it's not as tough a place to play as the old gym with the tile an d pipe smoke, I think that YCP rides the hoe crowd to a decisive win over CUA.

C

[ycp]

SMC 63-York 57 with 10 minutes left

[ycp]

St. Mary's is starting to pull away, 70-57 with 9:19 left

It looks like's the Spartans' chance to pull into a first place tie to go by the wayside.

[Pat Coleman]

I think that YCP rides the hoe crowd to a decisive win over CUA.

C

Are there lots of gardeners at York or something?

[ycp]

SMC 74-York 60 with 6:25 left

I don't have any stats but it seems like St. Mary's has lived at the line tonight.

[ycp]

SMC 79-York 69

3:05 remaining. York is struggling from the free throw line while St. Mary's can't miss