MBB: Conference of New England

[atn alum]

WOW

66.7 percent in a loss. That might be the highest ive ever seen by a losing basketball team in a non-grinnell style game at any level.

[Bill Gorman]

WOW

66.7 percent in a loss. That might be the highest ive ever seen by a losing basketball team in a non-grinnell style game at any level.

*cough* feel free to use it in your next column *cough* 

[backboard]

Some pretty good match-ups tonight:

Salve at Nichols
Anna Maria at Endicott
Regis at NEC
Wentworth at WNEC
Gordon at RWU
CSC at Curry
UNE at ENC

[gullfan]

Any ideas about what has happened to my Gulls?? As soon as I leave campus, it appears things have gone south. I've seen 2 games and the fire doesn't seem to be there - basing a lot of this on box scores.  A whole bunch of new faces - Corbett is hardly ever in, Bobby Montrond hasn't played in awhile, Sam Evans has been invisible, no consistency. Is it the players, the coach or what?

Somebody help me! Can't wait to be back for the Gordon game. Will they still be in it by the? Tyhe whole CCC seems to mixed up. RWU seems to be the team to beat (I picked them 2 years too late!).

GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[backboard]

No Marinkovic and Sullivan, which means no real inside presence or a go to guy.  Just my guess

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The current Massey ratings have RWU on top with WNEC and WIT behind.  It doesn't mean too much early, but at this point it shows which teams have played well against their schedules.

Interestingly, Massey says Gordon has the best home court advantage in DIII (although that might have something to do with a few really weak home opponents).

[Jim Rome Of The CCC]

*lust for life plays*

Clones....what is up...back in the CCC for the open. This board is quieter than Bill Belicheck in a room full of people with personalities....ha ha....funny how Scot Fan disapeers when they drop 2 straight and we don't have to hear play by play break downs of the goings on in the Bennet Center....do we even have a WNEC poster? J-Stew...lets find a WNEC poster, they're in the league now. A Regis poster would be nice too...they beat the Pilgrims the other night despite Jaziri yelling"hibachi!"...RWU....let me here from you Bristol the Hawks are doing it to the league right now. Pounding the ball into your 7 footer in a D3 conference is never a bad idea! Rack em.

I'm about 4 minutes over so I need to get out to break...but first lets read a couple emails.

Dear Jim,

I knew WNEC was joining the league...I didn't know Endicott was leaving....

signed, Endicott Basketball 2002-2007

yikes...that is strong.

One more email here.

Dear Jim,

I feel that such as US American CCC fans don't have maps and that make's its difficult for them to get to Colby Sawyer and or the Iraq and difficult or them to such as watch games therefore they post lot about such games without really seeing them.

-Miss Teen South Carolina

Sounds about right....you clones are ridiculoussssss...we'll be back with an interview with Jamie Cosgrove.

out

[backboard]

Pretty good game in Beverly as Endicott beats Wentworth in OT.  Doyle tried to win it but his three ball wouldn't go.  Joey Burgos misses his shot but follows it and puts it back in for the W.  Wentworth actually blew a 12 point halftime lead when it seemed like this one was going to be a blowout.  Prezzie-Blue had another horrible shooting night (3-13) as he continues to choke in important conference games.  Dolye led the way with 17 and Bynes had 14.  For the Gulls, Whitelaw led with 14, Burton with 13, and Burgos with 12.

Colby-Sawyer defeats Nichols 80-53.  Dave Russo led the way for CSC with 22 points while Nichols was held to 23.8% shooting.

Roger Williams wins big over NEC 91-62.  Barrett recorded 16, Gumb with 15, and Barranger with 14.  Onyechi had 16 and Jaziri was held in check with 15.

Gordon wins 93-63 over Curry.  Tim Jones dropped 21, Marstrullo with 17.  Bowers only played 15 minutes and had 4 points.  For Gordon, Trigg has really come into his own and had 25 and Bajema recorded 17.

UNE over Anna Maria 82-73.  Tyler Washington had 21 points for Anna Maria.  Jefferson and Stickney had 22 and 21 points respectively for UNE.

WNEC wins at Salve 71-58.

[punk4life]

"Prezzie-Blue had another horrible shooting night (3-13) as he continues to choke in important conference games." 

I'm wondering what game besides Gordon Prezzie-Blue has choked in. Sure his past effort against Endicott wasn't spectacular but it was very solid. Most guys would be pretty happy with 11 points, 6 assists, 4 steals, 2 rebounds and ZERO turnovers. Not a bad stat line for a point guard.

[broke_ya_ankles]

wow Endicott pulls off an impressive win against one of the top teams in the region in Emmanuel tonite 64-62 in beverly.  Burgos led 4 endicott players in double figures with 14 pts and 9 rebounds.  Spellman had a game high 22 for Emmanuel.    thats 3 in a row for endicott, looks like they might be able to salvage the season after all, but roger williams and gordon both at home next week will certainly be a large factor in determining what kind of character this team has

[witfan]

new poster  (poser?, we'll see)

wanted to thank you all for keeping fans of TCCC entertained and up to date with insights.  Been following TCCC (or CCC) for several years and regularly reading this site.   Hope to make a couple WIT games during conference play.

Noted a lack of posting even with some big early upsets and new arrivals so decided it was time to add to the confusion.

WIT's struggling, but with close games.  PB has everybody exactly where he wants them!  Plenty of time to recover, but they better start soon!

Thanks again.  Fans are reading!

[Pat Coleman]

Hey, welcome -- always love to have a lurker join the posting fun.

[dwebbs]

WIT is not struggling. If I've learned anything about them the past two years, they're tanking the regular season to get the 8th seed so they can knock out Roger Williams on the road in the first round of the playoffs. Again.

On another note, Endicott has come back to life, and it's going to make Saturday's game a real showdown. Gordon's going to have a tough time winning.

Hopefully with a new poster, we'll start getting some momentum back.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Just looking at the conference stats to see who to watch for in terms of first-team players.

There's some favorites, but there are a few spots on that first team totally up for grabs.

Tim Jones is clearly the best player in TCCC.  You just have to see him.  He seems to be healthy for once, so I think POY is his already.

Jaziri is hard to call.  We know he can play, but with the crazy numbers NEC is putting up with no results whatsoever, will scoring alone get him on the first team?  The same goes for Prezzie-Blue's lackluster season thus far.  Both guys have a lot of time to get back into the swing of things.

Szeliga should be a big contender in terms of big men, plus you have Bowers and even Marcellus from ENC (the rebounding leader).

Trigg from Gordon will have to be up there as well as a bunch of others I didn't mention here.

At this point, Jones is the only lock and Szeliga is close, after that there's about 10-15 guys fighting for 3 spots.  Conference play will be huge.

[broke_ya_ankles]

Endicott College picked up yet another impressive win to stretch their win streak to 4 games tonite defeating TCCC conference leader Roger Williams 67-64.   Endicott looked to have played extremely efficiently tonite shooting 57% from the floor for the entire game.  Tom Connor and Todd Burton shared the game high with 18 points apiece on a combined 15-20 from the floor.    I wouldnt look now but depending on what happens saturday in Beverly between Endicott and Gordon, Endicott could not only salvage the season but enter the TCCC tournament with the #1 seed....