MBB: Conference of New England

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 16, 2006, 08:38:59 AM

Where are you coaching these days, E, sorry I mean 3?

Crusader3 · March 16, 2006, 10:01:26 AM

Oh no you found out who I was, just kidding. I'am coaching at Fenway High School boys varsity team. we just joined the MIAA this year. They were playing in a weak charter school league, now we play in the Boston City League. I enjoyed my first year being a head coach even though alot of older coaches thought I was too young to be at that position, but hey I was able to take the school to their first ever state tournamnet in school history.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 16, 2006, 10:36:28 AM

Awesome. Way to go. I'm always glad to hear about the CCC guys succeeding after basketball. If you get a few more State Tournaments under your belt and pick up a master's degree, you might be on the short list the next time ENC needs a coach.

Crusader3 · March 16, 2006, 11:02:39 AM

Thanks. I am currently working on my Masters at ENC and hopefully I will graduate in may of 07. My goal is to coach college basketball eventually. Right now I have been working with the Northeastern Mens basketball team so I can get some sort of experience. As for ENC who knows what may happen?

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 16, 2006, 11:06:53 AM

So are you teaching at Fenway as well or is it just the coaching gig right now? You always seemed like such a quiet guy; I wouldn't have guessed you had it in you, but good job and I hope you continue to do well.

Crusader3 · March 16, 2006, 11:38:56 AM

I'am not teaching I work in marketing for the Boston City schools in helping develop their athletic websites and notifying their communities about their athletes acheivements. You can consider me a teacher because I'am teaching these young boys the game of basketball. I'am still a quiet guy but when I coach I'am a totally different person. I had a passion when I played and now I have passion as a coach.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 16, 2006, 11:41:26 AM

Cool. Just don't teach them that follow-through of yours. It worked for you, but I still haven't figured out how!

Really, its cool to hear from former players. Anyone else lurking out there: summer is a great time to catch us all up on where you're at.

jps920 · March 17, 2006, 08:35:28 AM

Hoops, if you check the d3 site, the all northeast region has St. Clair at center and Rhoten as a forward.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 17, 2006, 08:54:41 AM

Yeah, but that's done by the SIDs. The All-America team is done by d3hoops.com and they've always had both Rhoten and St Clair at center. I've lobbied to get St. Clair listed as a Forward, because he's really a 4, not a 5, but to no avail. He has a better chance at making the team at Center anyway; there are too many good forwards in d3.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 17, 2006, 09:29:58 AM

I just thought I would throw in the end of year stats for the CCC on a national scale:

St Clair and Lamb both finished at 20.1ppg, good enough for 41st nationally.

Lamb finished 34th in FG% with 60.1%.

Matt McManus was 18th in 3pt% at 44.7%; Bartelle found his way into 50th place at 40.5%.

Grendal was 20th in rebounding at 10.2rpg; Stickney came in 35th at 9.5rpg.

Stickney also finished 40th in blocks with 1.8bpg.

My Freshman of the Year pick, Bobby Montrod finished 2nd in steals with 3.5spg.

Gordon finished up #4 in scoring defense allowing 59ppg; Salve was 12th with 60.5ppg; Endicott was 22 with 62.1ppg; and Curry was 30th at 63.0.

Gordon also had the #23 scoring margin, winning by an average of 11ppg.

Endicott was 35th in FG% defense, dropping considerably from last season, they allowed 40.2%.

Salve finished 37th in team 3pt% at 38.7%; Gordon snuck in at #50 with 38.2%

Gordon also got in for team FT% with 72.6%, good for 49th place nationally.

Salve was 46th in rebound margin, out-boarding their opponents by 5.5 per game.

Gordon was 27th in blocked shots per game with 4.4 per game; Curry was 49th with 3.8. Both schools as a team averaged less than Drew Cohen from Colby, who led the nation individually with 4.8bpg; he beat all but 14 teams nationally.

Curry ended the year 15th in fewest turnovers, 12.1 per game.

Gordon was 20th in fewest fould per game at 15.4, followed closely by Nichols at 15.5, good for 24th. Anna Maria was in 33rd with 15.9.

Finally, I am proud to announce that for the first time in several years, no major d3 records were set against a CCC team... way to go guys.

john · March 18, 2006, 08:55:13 PM

hoops fan................................. you have to be on here somewhere..when are they going to put up the all american team?

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CSCIce · March 20, 2006, 08:31:07 AM

No St. Clair on All-American

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · March 20, 2006, 08:46:41 AM

Well, CSC didn't get him the ball enough in the pre-season, which hurt his stats. That coupled with the overall poor performance of the team as a whole will get you left out of the All-America team. I think everyone, even the d3hoops.com people were expecting CSC to roll the CCC and make waves in the national tournament, when they didn't, it hurts the image of everyone associated.

If it makes you all feel any better, Justin Wansley and Tyler Rhoten were left off entirely; both were selections their sophomore and junior years and both are better than St. Clair. That just tells you how tough the competition was this year.

Pat Coleman · March 20, 2006, 06:30:04 PM

Quote from: Hoops Fan on March 20, 2006, 08:46:41 AM

Well, CSC didn't get him the ball enough in the pre-season, which hurt his stats. That coupled with the overall poor performance of the team as a whole will get you left out of the All-America team. I think everyone, even the d3hoops.com people were expecting CSC to roll the CCC and make waves in the national tournament, when they didn't, it hurts the image of everyone associated.

If it makes you all feel any better, Justin Wansley and Tyler Rhoten were left off entirely; both were selections their sophomore and junior years and both are better than St. Clair. That just tells you how tough the competition was this year.

Well, first of all, preseason stats don't count. Non-conference stats do, for sure, but not preseason. The preseason is exhibitions and scrimmages.

That's just to keep Sager off your case.

As for St. Clair, hey, I tried like heck. Too many good post players, and he wouldn't have fared any better with the forwards. Had just as much trouble cutting those nominations down as well.

john · March 20, 2006, 06:34:55 PM

haveing only been with the ccc for four years i started to wonder about the lack of any of those playes as all americans, then i went back and read all the past post this year and some i have saved from other years..many people have said the same thing about the ccc...until we get a team that goes into the ncaa and does something the players will not get any awards no matter how we feel about them. we just never seem to get over that bump in the road until someone puts that team out there we are all going to sit here and complain about something that we can not control..when you take the player of the year in the northeast region and he only makes fourth team that says something about us and the other players that are out there..agree or not those are my thoughts about it all..