MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Matt Letourneau]

1:07 left, 68-60 Catholic.

[Matt Letourneau]

Catholic 74, Salisbury 72, Final.

Oy. Cardinals decided to join the Bricklayers Union for the final 2:00 and missed most of their free throws. 

In any event, Catholic sweeps Salisbury for the season series and keeps pace with York.  Huge win.

As if to prove my earlier point, Waslienko had 8 assists.  Wheeler led the way with 23 points, 11 rebounds, with Dwyer had 22 points and 12 boards.

Williams had a bad day for Salisbury--6-19 shooting, ended up with 16 points.  Odumeru was 6-18 for 17 points.


Catholic shot 45%, and outrebounded Salisbury 46-39 which is pretty impressive.

So Catholic's 17-5, 9-5, and will face Gallaudet on the road on Wednesday.

[andre james smith]

No box score yet, but the UMW website is has UMW beating Goucher 100-59 today at Goolrick... ouch

[ex_mu14]

The MU and York game was close until the end when MU had to foul....#31 for York had a good game but he had problems stopping Gray in the post. Everytime Gray touch the ball in the post he was scoring. He finished with 19 and 7. In the second half MU went away from the inside game. MU had Stanback and Majors guarding #31 for York. That was a huge mismatch...I thought Gray should have been on #31...

MU defense in the 2nd half cost them game.  York scored 54 points in the second half.

[cac]

Matt- Why is Catholic out rebounding SU 46-39 impressive? SU only rebounder is 6'3 and he has to work his butt off. Catholic had a huge height
advantage. I wouldn't call it impressive since SU missed a number of shots (30%) the first half.

[Matt Letourneau]

Because Ozi Menakaya is the leading rebounder in the league and was held to 7 rebounds.  Salisbury is the #3 rebounding team in the league.   I was told the first time that Catholic beat Salisbury that it really wasn't as impressive because Menakaya didn't play and he could have helped keep the rebounding margin in check.  So today he played and a had a subpar game.

[MuMu]

EXmu14,
I would look at the bench points.

MU=10
York=32

I think that was what happened?

[andre james smith]

Details from FredVegas...
Mary Wash makes a school record 22 3-pointers and an amazing 15 in the first half alone.  13 players scored for the Eagles and 10 players made at least one shot from distance.  Justin Baker showed why he is a premier player in this league with a triple double, 13 pts, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists.  A nice balanced attack for the Eagles who looks like have gotten back on track with 3 wins in a row after a rough middle of the season.  

[Dan Johnson]

OK smart people, Hood at York on Wednesday.  How does the tie-breaker work out if York wins and the Hood wins their final game?  Both would be 11-5...I know it is explained every year but I can't keep dibs.  And then throw Catholic and Mary Washington in the loop.  Either one of them can finish 11-5 also, but not both since they close out the regular season against each other.  Wow, what an exciting end of the season!!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Is no one reading the posts I have already put up on the tie-breaker??
Here it is again:

In the event of a tie, no matter the teams, the first criteria is head-to-head match-up.

If a tie still remains, then the results compared to rest of the conference are compared. This starts AT THE TOP of the conference. So, in the event of a tie on top, and since head-to-head is already used, this would skip to the third, fourth, or fifth placed team... and work it's way DOWN the rankings until the tie-breaker is broken.

If a tie STILL remains... I believe it then goes to a coin-flip (the old number-drawn tie-breaker was done away with years ago).

It is WAY to early to even start guessing how a tie-breaker would be worked out with UMW, CUA, YCP, and Hood because these teams haven't even finished facing each other twice.

So, in case York and Hood are tied for 1st... you first go to the head-to-head matchup... but they split (in your scenario)... so move on to step two.

You start with the #3 team and work your way DOWN the standings. UMW and CUA both split with YCP and Hood... so you would make your way down to MU, SMC, or SAL.

If MU is fifth in the conference, YCP gets #1 seed (YCP swept MU, Hood split).
Both YCP and Hood split with SMC.
And if it got to Salisbury, YCP split the season... so if Hood were to beat SAL on Saturday, they will sweep the Seagulls and have the edge on YCP.

SO... it is a bit too early to see what happens. There are plenty of teams right now tied or could shift positions. However, I believe if YCP beats Hood on Wednesday, they will have the upper hand on the #1 seed.

As for CUA and UMW... same story... too early to say! It is going to come down to where MU, SMC, and SAL fall into place.

UMW is thrown out because both YCP and Hood split with the Eagles.
CUA is also thrown out because bot

[bbald eagle]

One of the more interesting sidelights to the UMW game was the addition of Jon Blaine to the team's roster. He played a little and scored once. It seemed to enthuse the rest of the team. He won't be an impact player on the floor but seemed to enkindle enthusiasm from his teammates. This could be the type of intangible that helps the team and its chemistry.

[kitchenrat]

Won't someone please tell us how Tie-breakers are handled!

Just Kidding D-Mac.

Big win for York last night and another huge game, and last 5 minutes, for Chad. POY Hands down!

I'm pretty stoked to see Hood come to town this week to take on the Sparts. I think a win against Hood would go along way to making those guys believe they can win the whole CAC tourny even thought they have lost 6 of the players who got considerable playing time last year.

Think about that for a second: Bushey, Singer, Fass, Lee, Fry and Howard are gone. That's a starting 5 and a first sub off the bench for almost any team in the CAC.

Obviously, having Chad McGowan as one of the players who is back is a huge part of this teams success. But. Zerfing and Yeck have been just what you want out of Senior leaders and the addition of Lankford, Brady and Kelly to the mix has proved impressive. Brady is a POY waiting to happen at some point, and Lankford is a total glue player, keeping everyone involved and together.

Win or lose vs Hood and no matter what they do in the CAC's this has been a most impressive year for the Spartans.

[andre james smith]

This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering what the CAC tourney seeding looks like now that there are nine teams.  I'm assuming an 8-9 play in game to play the 1 seed like the ACC did for years before the recent additions from the Big East......

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Actually Andre... since this is the only year that the CAC will have nine teams (unless more changes take place)... #9 simply won't make the tournament this season.

[mwgoonie]

The Eagles score 100 points for the second time this season in a Barn-burner over Goucher. UMW is the only CAC team to score 100 and has done it twice. This team can score. They broke their school record for 3's with 22, the fourth time this year they've tied or broken the school record. Strong all around game for everyone on the squad. As for player of the year awards go, Baker will get some vote and hopefully can sway voters away from McGowan. While YCP, would be far far worse without McGowan, Baker is a better player. Over the last 9 games he has averages 13.6 ppg, 9.3 rpg, and 5.2 apg. He had a triple double yesterday! He's dominating in so many other ways.

Mike Lee has been the other anchor, averaging 12 ppg, 8.9 rpg, and 2.7 apg over the last 7 games. UMW has won their last three (the current longest streak in the CAC) heading into their rematches with St Mary's and @CUA.
UMW is #1 in Scoring margin, #2 in scording defense, #1 in assist per game, and 2 in Turnover margin. Very good indicater of a team that spreads the ball around, takes care of the ball, and plays great defense. Sound slike championship material. Mike Lee is #1 in the CAC is asst/to ratio, #9 in rebs per game, and #8 in assists. Baker is #6 in rpg, and #2 in the league in apg. These guys drive our team. Looking forward to the games this week. Must wins, esp Saturday at CUA.