MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[Matt Letourneau]

Instead of whining about free throws, why don't you focus on the 50-32 rebounding margin...hell, it was better for Catholic to miss their second free throws since more often than not they got the offensive rebound anyway.  That was HUGE in the last couple minutes.

I actually said that I thought Mary Washington should have tried to score more on penetration last week.  The problem though is that you've got a series of smaller guys driving on big guys, and as much as Baker (for instance) may have wanted to draw fouls, Wheeler and Dwyer just were parking themselves in the line with their hands up and forcing the offensive players to go around them.  That alters the shots without a foul. 

[andre james smith]

Matt-  did hale get hacked on the last play? yes or no? its a simple answer... only one word needed

[Matt Letourneau]

No, its really not a simple answer.  It could have been called about five different ways, and ultimately the officials apparently decided to call it the only way they could that made any sense.

There was a fight for the ball.  Did Hale get hacked? Probably.  Did Fumai get hacked? Probably.  Did everybody else get hacked? Probably.  At one point more than one guy had their hands on the ball.  Is that a jump? Maybe.  Did Hale got knocked going for the ball in the first place? Yeah, could be.  But did he clear out Fumai and the other CUA players in trying to secure it? Quite possibly. 

And then he ends up on the floor, he chucks something up--was it even before the buzzer went off? I don't know.

Out of all this you want a foul called?  Dream on.

And that's just the last play.  You know as well as I do that before that play, there were probably about 3 other fouls that could have been called and weren't, starting with the last inbounds play where Dwyer got the ball and had guys jumping on him. 

But the definitive play of the game--the Baker play--was clean on both sides.  And it was great drama, great basketball. Mano a mano. 

[andre james smith]

That's a long one word Matthew.... I see that your answer to my question was probably, and I respect your honesty.... and I see that you have chosen not to defend your CUA student thugs... probably a wise decision.  I know that you claim that the last game was all Salisbury's fault, which I am in no standing to disagree with since I was all the way up in York, PA..... but this ugly incident which will probably be swept under the rug by you and you CUA comrades which created and control this board is the second incident in as many games at the home court of the CATHOLIC University of America.

I do agree with you that the play on the floor was as good a game as you can ask for.  Everyone played hard and fair and left everything out on the floor.

[Matt Letourneau]

Congratulations to former Catholic coach Mike Lonergan for clinching the America East Conference regular season championship tonight--in just his second season, with a bunch of underclassmen, no less.

Vermont beat Boston University to improve to 14-1 in the conference, 22-6 overall.  Lonergan SHOULD be a candidate for Division 1 Coach of the Year, and I would think he's a mortal lock to win AE Conference Coach of the Year.

So glad he wasn't good enough to coach Columbia.  Ha.

Meanwhile, Rod Wood is going to be sitting at home...oh, the humanity. 

[Pat Coleman]

That's a long one word Matthew.... I see that your answer to my question was probably, and I respect your honesty.... and I see that you have chosen not to defend your CUA student thugs... probably a wise decision.  I know that you claim that the last game was all Salisbury's fault, which I am in no standing to disagree with since I was all the way up in York, PA..... but this ugly incident which will probably be swept under the rug by you and you CUA comrades which created and control this board is the second incident in as many games at the home court of the CATHOLIC University of America.

Seems like hearsay to me. Your "friends" can't even "speak" for "themselves"?

Also sounds like the second consecutive incident with Mary Washington at an opponents gym, if I remember Scott Guise's posts from the other night.

I wonder if something doesn't ring true here. That's all.

I will remind that the Terms of Service say something about hearsay.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Here are the latest QOWI:

Rank   QOWI   Rk in-reg   Team   Reg. W-L   Overall
1   11.625   1   Amherst   0.958 (23-1)   24-1
2   11.565   1   UW-Stevens Point   0.958 (23-1)   24-2
3   10.950   2   Trinity (Conn.)   0.850 (17-3)   21-3
4   10.810   3   Worcester Polytech   0.905 (19-2)   21-2
5   10.696   1   Chicago   0.818 (18-4)   20-4
6   10.692   2   St. Thomas   0.885 (23-3)   23-3
7   10.667   1   Mississippi College   0.952 (20-1)   22-2
8   10.625   4   Salem State   0.920 (23-2)   23-2
9   10.600   1   Lake Erie   0.950 (19-1)   23-2
10   10.520   5   Rhode Island College   0.880 (22-3)   22-3
11   10.476   2   Washington U.   0.810 (17-4)   19-4
12   10.412   3   Occidental   0.824 (14-3)   19-5
13   10.400   1   Brockport State   0.840 (21-4)   22-4
14   10.400   2   Virginia Wesleyan   0.880 (22-3)   23-3
15   10.391   4   St. John's   0.870 (20-3)   20-6
16   10.292   2   St. Lawrence   0.792 (19-5)   20-5
17   10.292   1   Ramapo   0.792 (19-5)   20-7
18   10.250   3   Aurora   0.913 (21-2)   23-2
19   10.238   3   DePauw   0.900 (18-2)   21-4
20   10.217   6   Keene State   0.826 (19-4)   22-4
21   10.217   3   Rochester   0.739 (17-6)   17-7
22   10.208   4   St. John Fisher   0.792 (19-5)   20-5
23   10.200   1   Messiah   0.800 (16-4)   19-6
24   10.174   2   Johns Hopkins   0.864 (19-3)   21-4
25   10.143   3   Lincoln   0.786 (11-3)   17-7
26   10.125   7   Brandeis   0.750 (18-6)   18-6
27   10.083   4   Augustana   0.833 (20-4)   20-5
28   10.080   4   Catholic   0.800 (20-5)   21-5
29   10.000   4   Averett   0.800 (16-4)   18-6
30   10.000   5   Loras   0.818 (18-4)   20-6
31   9.960   5   Hood   0.800 (20-5)   21-6
32   9.960   5   Mary Hardin-Baylor   0.840 (21-4)   21-4
33   9.957   2   John Carroll   0.739 (17-6)   18-8
34   9.913   6   UW-La Crosse   0.739 (17-6)   19-7
35   9.909   7   Whitworth   0.864 (19-3)   22-3
36   9.900   3   Wooster   0.900 (18-2)   23-3
37   9.870   5   New York University   0.783 (18-5)   19-5
38   9.833   8   UW-Oshkosh   0.750 (18-6)   21-6
39   9.800   6   King's   0.720 (18-7)   18-8
40   9.778   6   Centre   0.778 (14-4)   20-4
41   9.778   9   Lewis and Clark   0.778 (14-4)   19-6
42   9.773   7   Maryville (Tenn.)   0.864 (19-3)   19-6
43   9.762   6   Hamilton   0.714 (15-6)   18-6
44   9.741   2   Stevens   0.778 (21-6)   21-6
45   9.739   7   Alvernia   0.913 (21-2)   22-4
46   9.731   3   Manhattanville   0.808 (21-5)   22-5
47   9.708   8   Scranton   0.708 (17-7)   19-7
48   9.708   8   Bates   0.708 (17-7)   18-7
49   9.667   4   Hope   0.833 (15-3)   22-3
50   9.667   4   New Jersey City   0.708 (17-7)   18-8
51   9.636   8   McMurry   0.818 (18-4)   19-6
52   9.625   9   Husson   0.875 (21-3)   21-5
53   9.625   9   Guilford   0.833 (20-4)   21-4
54   9.619   5   Ohio Northern   0.667 (14-7)   19-7
55   9.565   9   DeSales   0.739 (17-6)   19-7
56   9.476   6   Wittenberg   0.810 (17-4)   22-4
57   9.450   7   Westminster (Pa.)   0.800 (16-4)   18-8
58   9.429   5   Elmhurst   0.762 (16-5)   20-5
59   9.360   10   Tufts   0.600 (15-10)   15-10
60   9.348   7   Utica   0.739 (17-6)   18-6
61   9.318   6   Grinnell   0.727 (16-6)   17-6
62   9.300   7   Wheaton (Ill.)   0.650 (13-7)   17-8
63   9.273   10   Greensboro   0.773 (17-5)   20-6
64   9.261   10   FDU-Florham   0.609 (14-9)   17-9
65   9.250   11   Bridgewater State   0.708 (17-7)   17-7
66   9.238   5   Richard Stockton   0.667 (14-7)   17-9
67   9.235   10   Redlands   0.765 (13-4)   17-7
68   9.200   8   Capital   0.680 (17-8)   17-8
69   9.190   9   Baldwin-Wallace   0.714 (15-6)   18-8
70   9.190   12   Colby   0.667 (14-7)   15-10

I would say that Hood is in a bit of a more comfortable position. I think the CAC sees two teams in the tournament - baring a TON of major upsets in other conferences. However, I would feel more comfortable if Hood won the title and CUA got the Pool C bid.

[ex_mu14]

Matt.

What's up with the CUA Thugs??

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Oh come on now... CUA thugs? Marymount thugs? Mary Wash thugs? Goucher thugs?

EVERY SCHOOL has some idiots in their midsts. Quit trying to bait people into comments.

We all moved on from the last major problem with CUA/SAL... and the last one was obviously minor in comparison.

While CUA seems to have issues with some fans (according to the last story)... SO DOES EVERY OTHER SCHOOL!

I don't think the last "version" needed to be brought up on this board in the first place. Move on!

[mwgoonie]

hey everybody, its been a good 4 or 5 year run onthe d3hoops.com for me but I'm throwing in the towel. i wish everybody's team the best of luck, even in new conferences. I'm sure I wont be missed, judging that I didn't even make any new posts and my karma dropped to -9.

That's a long one word Matthew.... I see that your answer to my question was probably, and I respect your honesty.... and I see that you have chosen not to defend your CUA student thugs... probably a wise decision.  I know that you claim that the last game was all Salisbury's fault, which I am in no standing to disagree with since I was all the way up in York, PA..... but this ugly incident which will probably be swept under the rug by you and you CUA comrades which created and control this board is the second incident in as many games at the home court of the CATHOLIC University of America.

Seems like hearsay to me. Your "friends" can't even "speak" for "themselves"?

Also sounds like the second consecutive incident with Mary Washington at an opponents gym, if I remember Scott Guise's posts from the other night.

I wonder if something doesn't ring true here. That's all.

I will remind that the Terms of Service say something about hearsay.

As for YCP's posts about classlessness, he should not be talking, as my primary sources explained to me that he was just emotional about the tough loss on Tues and admitted so to MW personel.
As for last nights events, the police report speaks for itself.

[kitchenrat]

Wow! Canceling your posting board account because of a difference of opinion? Drama Queen Much?

Any who.... Guess I picked the wrong few days to be on the road for work and away from my computer huh? As for the Spartans season all I can say is they played better then I ever thought they would and with a few breaks they could have had two or three more wins. That said, I think they are ripe to have a great season next year with Pat Kelly playing his best ball at the end of the season, Nick Brady getting better each time he touched the floor and other Freshman stepping up and playing well.

As for the game on Tuesday, you can't take anything away from MW, they played a great game and hit some amazing shots all game long as the shot clock was about to expire. I thought two of the Offensive fouls on York were preposterous but then again I saw a foul called on MW that was downright terrible too so I won't say anything about he over all impact of the Ref's because it was negligible.

As for the visiting fans, I'm not going to touch that. As an alum, and employee I best stay out of it. If this was last season before I came to work here, I would have been all over that, but now... not so much.

Congrats to Catholic on another 20 win season, and so long from the CAC after tomorrow. I found out on my travels for the school that the President of CUA and I both went to the same High School (St. Joseph's Prep Seminary in Princeton NJ) so I guess I will root for them on Saturday. When I was at St. Joe's I played on the Basketball team and Lou Carnesecca to come to campus to give us a clinic when the Redmen played in the Philly area. At that same time we went to St. John's for studies and Fr. O'Connell was one of the Priests we studied with. I'm surprised that CUA has a Vincentian President, and that Fr. O'Connell isn't at a Vincentian School (Although Niagara is out because Fr. Joe Levesque is the President there, he was the President at St. Joe's when I was a student.) 

[bbald eagle]

you'll be missed, goonie 

[Matt Letourneau]

Yes, Father O'Connell has been a great President for CUA and also a big supporter of the basketball program.  He does come to games now and then and I know he plays close attention.

His first year at the University--1998--was my freshman year so I got to know him pretty well--even before he took the job actually.  He was an Administrator at Saint John's before that.  The Bishops brought him in to "fix" some of the lingering problems with the school, put it on a path more in line with the Church's teachings, and improve the physical plant and financial security.  He's been successful with those things.

[CACsportsnut]

Well......conference tournament is almost over....picks for the top player, coach, freshman and CAC teams should soon be coming out...whats everyone's picks?


POY: Gutekunst - 19 pts, 11 rebs, 2 blk
ROY: Brady - 10 pts, 4.5 rebs, 44 three-pointers made
COY: Dickman - Lead Hood to the championship game in their first year in the league

1st Team All-CAC

McGowan
Gutekunst
Junghans
Grey
Williams

2nd Team All-CAC

Baker
Russo
Fumai
Dwyer
Lesesne

Players getting snubbed since there isn't a 3rd Team All-CAC:

Wheeler
Stanbeck
Irmer
Odumeru
Lee

[Matt Letourneau]

I'll get back to you on that after tomorrow night!

This is the time when those awards, at least to me, are won and lost!