MBB: Conference of New England

[Ralph Turner]

Back in the 2008-09 season, a bunch of Texans helped lead UNE to the NCAA's.

One of those players was Anthony Johnson from Austin TX.

Anthony transferred to McMurry and has played on the 2010-11 and 11-12 ASC championship teams.

He played an outstanding 2012 ASC semi-final game against UMHB's outstanding senior guard, Marlon Miller, and then gave the best effort he could against HSU's pre-season All-American Matt Addison.  Johnson's defense has been key to McMurry's success.

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Endicott will be playing Oswego State in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Oswego, New York.  Oswego State is the SUNYAC champ and is currently ranked #14 in the country with a 25-3 record.  One of those losses came to Division I UT-Pan American who Wentworth also played this year.

The two teams in the immediate bracket are Eastern Connecticut and Medaille, another New York college out of Buffalo.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Endicott is going to get crushed.  Oswego matches up better at nearly every position.  Bad draw for EC.

[NJBalla35]

According to this, Coach Mulligan has resigned at UNE. Does anyone else have any info? 

http://hoopdirt.com/blog/b560f9d1/daily-dirt-2-28-12/

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

According to this, Coach Mulligan has resigned at UNE. Does anyone else have any info? 

http://hoopdirt.com/blog/b560f9d1/daily-dirt-2-28-12/

No one hears anything from UNE.  It makes sense, though, he'll likely move on to be recruiting coordinator somewhere.  He got a half dozen dudes from Texas to pay to go to school in Maine for a year, just for the chance to lose a first round game in the d3 national tournament.  That's good recruiting!

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Endicott is up on Oswego State 37-33 at the half!  Karkow hit 3 threes. 

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Endicott up 62-56 with five minutes to go.  They were up by 13 at one point in the second half but Oswego is gaining a lot of momentum.

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Endicott up just two points, 66-64, with 1:30 to go.

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Oswego has the ball with 11 seconds left, tie game 66-66.  Timeout.  Endicott has thrown nearly everything away.

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Overtime.  WHAT A CRAZY GAME!  Chris Ward from Oswego was fouled shooting with no time officially left on the clock.  An Endicott fan went ballistic on the refs and got tossed.  Ward missed BOTH free throws.  WOW.

[pjunito]

Did they miss both free throws?

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Yup, Greene just fouled out on an offensive foul call.

[pjunito]

WOW!!! Crazy stuff... thanks for the updates!

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All-American Burridge dunks it with 3 seconds left.  Oswego wins 72-71.  I have never seen a team fall apart as bad as Endicott did tonight.  Throughout the last 5 minutes of the second half and throughout overtime, they looked scared, couldn't catch routine passes, and couldn't make routine passes.  At one point the ball was literally passed to Phil Rowe from the top of the key without a Gull anywhere in sight.  It was cool to see Endicott with a 14 point lead halfway through the second half, but it almost seems like it would have been easier to swallow for them to lose by 30 then throw EVERYTHING away like that.  Great game and good heart from Endicott but very hard loss.

[pjunito]

Becker is up 16 with 2 mins left at William Patterson!