MBB: Conference of New England

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · October 25, 2006, 08:53:38 AM

Herr had a fantastic year two years ago and played less of a role last year. I think he's certainly a big talent, but if he continues to sacrifice individual success for the benefit of the team (which I hope he does), he may not have the impact necessary to get the big award.

backboard · October 25, 2006, 10:33:03 AM

They should established an Unsung Hero Award. Mike Herr would defenetly be in the running for that.

jj · October 25, 2006, 11:52:23 AM

If Herr was on many other conference squads, he would most likely be the best player on that team and headed for 1st team CCC. But that's the price good players pay if they are on the best team in the conf. Small price to pay to be playing deep into March......right?

backboard · October 25, 2006, 12:42:03 PM

First team might be a reach since he would the focal point against other team's defenses, such as Prezzie-Blue and Onyechi. Although he would certainly earn a spot on the second team.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · October 25, 2006, 02:15:58 PM

I just noticed that the CCC women have adopted a new rule about making the playoffs for this season. If the team that finishes 5th in one division has more CCC wins and a head-to head win over the team that finished 4th in the other division, the 5th place team gets the 8 seed.

I wonder if this will ever happen on the men's side?

akirk · October 25, 2006, 04:14:48 PM

That rule change sounds fair to me. What does everyone else think?

I still do not like the whole seeding in the CCC. It should be top team in the North and South are 1 & 2 and the rest seeded by record. But this is to early to start complaining about the playoffs.

Hoopnews · October 25, 2006, 04:38:18 PM

While there are many different seeding options, when you have two divisions that don't play equal schedules there is no perfect seeding format. With that said, the way it is constituted on the men's side is the most fair.

Maq Diesel · October 25, 2006, 05:16:39 PM

We talk about this every year. The most fair thing to do would be make this a 10 team conference and then have the top 8 make the playoffs, but we can only dream. On another note EC has their roster up with all their players including the Freshman there are 6 of them. I am going to do a little research but if anyone knows anything about these fellas I would love to hear it.

Hoopnews · October 25, 2006, 09:35:08 PM

Does anyone know why Mayi and Evans aren't on their roster?

Maq Diesel · October 25, 2006, 09:48:36 PM

I heard Mayi got booted off for smoking or selling, having something to do with weed. But that is just what I heard don't take it as gospel. I had heard Evans wasn't comming back but the weird thing is he was in their little season preview article on their web-stie. Anyway I am going to chime in sometime tonight or tomorrow with a GC preview.

CCC Talk · October 26, 2006, 02:52:40 AM

I too have heard Evans will be back this year but you're right he dosn't seem to appear on that roster.

Also Hoops Fan for what it's worth from my guys I have heard that Oneychi WILL be playing this year, so we'll have to see how this plays out. I to had heard the rumor he wasn't but one of my trusted sources says he has been practicing and will play.

Also Wentworth appears to have their roster up as does UNE. UNE seems to have brought in some backcourt guys which they sorely needed with the guys they had leaving. Wentworth's Weonard Bynes is not listed on their roster- that also interests me. They may be even smaller than I thought!

Lastly yes Mike Herr is a very talented player but Kauffman is the one on that team that stands out for me. I think he's the best bet for POY

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · October 26, 2006, 08:46:56 AM

Word I got is that Evans blew out his ACL in practice??? Not sure about that, but it would explain his absence from the roster.

Kevin Powers in the younger brother of Ron Powers from Nichols. When Ron was a freshman, I heard rumors that his younger brother was even better, but that's total speculation and more than a year old.

I also heard EC had an "interesting" transfer, but no idea what that means or which guy it is.

On Onyechi, I'm believing things less and less from NEC. I never could get someone to confirm it and now I'm hearing even more crazy things. Who knows what's going on. We might have to wait until the first game to see for sure who's playing.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · October 26, 2006, 08:53:28 AM

AMC has their roster up, minus the newcomers. Bryan Porcaro is indeed back on the roster, which should help them out a little.

Gordon got their roster up since yesterday as well. All the big names and five freshmen, one 6'9" and another 6'8." It looks like they could be building a very competitive frontcourt for the future.

backboard · October 26, 2006, 09:28:59 AM

Wentworth has four kids over 6'4''. Seems to be on par with some of the teams they play. Does anyone know what happened to Bynes? That kid could jump

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · October 26, 2006, 09:31:28 AM

It's not official until its official, but if he is gone, it's not too uncommon at WIT. Wentworth had a pretty rigorous freshman year and lots of guys get out after that, moving on to other places. I don't know if that's what happened to Bynes or even if anything happened to him at this point, but it would make sense.