MBB: Conference of New England

[7express]

There's a lot of games tonight because this is the majority of the teams last game before Thanksgiving break.  A lot of schools played tournaments on Saturday and Sunday, so its a way to fit in 1 more game before they go home for a couple of days.  All 16 team in the LEC play tonight (when you include men and women) and aside from the Boston men who have a tournament next Friday and Saturday everyone else is off until next Sunday at the earliest.  I doubt teams would want a week off from actual competition when they started the season 2, 3 or 4 days ago. 

[uconn05]

I completely understand your point but I'm still not a fan. Also, since most teams played multiple games this weekend, it leaves them will very little practice time over a 10 day period. If the conference schedule allowed I'd rather practice today and tomorrow, come back on saturday for another practice, game on Sunday night then games Wednesday and Saturday. That way you have a three game week but it's spaced out and there is adequate practice time preceeding the games. Just my opinion.

[7express]

I don't like it either, but I understand why they do it.  I think the players like it more though, by playing tonight they get to go home tonight a day earlier then they would have if they had back to back practices.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

A couple things - the T in TCCC stands for "the" and is only there because someone else in MA already had rights to CCC.  We can still use CCC and usually do.


Most of the teams regularly play Tuesday games, so this isn't a surprise tonight.  Also, with the change in conference size and the increase in the number of conference games, there are very few open spaces to fit the non-con games in.  I saw ENC is playing tonight and tomorrow.  The schools are still trying to adjust to the full schedule, I think.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

WNEC goes down to Amherst 61-104, Amherst is looking good so far.  No real stats to report for WNEC, no one scored in double figures.  Only 12 turnovers though, that's something to build on.

WIT takes out Connecticut College 63-51.  Well done.  Mayo had 17 (and continues to get to the line and hit FTs) and Johnson had 16.  Lots of FTs and forced turnovers.

UNE crushed by Mt Ida 52-90.  This is shaping up to be a very bad team.  Fenner managed 12 points.  The team shot terribly and were outrebounded by quite a bit.

Curry falls to WPI, after leading early, continuing their problems closing out games (which is mostly a defensive issue, which is nothing new), 76-83.  Jones and Lambros had 20 a piece, Stephens had 22 and 13.  Very similar numbers all the way across.  CC won the rebound battle and went to the line a lot (shooting about 60%, which is likely the difference).  7 turnovers from Jones didn't help.

ENC takes out Suffolk 90-82 to achieve a winning record for the first time in a while.  They almost gave away a big halftime lead, but the amount of scoring has to be a bright spot for the coaching staff.  21 from Ezeigbo, 15 a piece from Barbosa and McCoy.  Three point shooting was largely the difference.

Gordon beats Salem State 69-68 to continue a great week for them.  Miersma went for 21 and 19 (apparently Salem has not post presence).  Dempsey had 13 boards; Hamilton and Thomas were both in double digits scoring.  55 team rebounds and 29 turnovers.

RWU falls to J&W 56-68.  Tough loss.  Down 18-33 at the half, they won the second half, but obviously it was never close.  14 from James Lecardi.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC is hosting Wheelock tonight.

[amh63]

Hoops Fan.....seems that we are both behind the times on school designations.  Had to correct my post on the NESCAC board from WNEC to WNE, after reading the professional writeup of the game on the Amherst website.  Western New England University went to a University from a College and dropped the "C" from their marker..so to speak.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Hoops Fan.....seems that we are both behind the times on school designations.  Had to correct my post on the NESCAC board from WNEC to WNE, after reading the professional writeup of the game on the Amherst website.  Western New England University went to a University from a College and dropped the "C" from their marker..so to speak.

They'll always be WNEC (pronounced wee-neck) to me.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC cruised to a 20 point halftime lead and coasted home 87-62 over Wheelock.  Ezeigbo had 20 points in 20 minutes and the bench got a lot of time.  ENC shot 56% from the floor.


UNE is at the Mass-Boston tourney this weekend and Curry travels to MIT Saturday.  Could a CCC team knock off the pre-season #1?  Could happen, especially since MIT is down two starters.

[Pat Coleman]

A couple things - the T in TCCC stands for "the" and is only there because someone else in MA already had rights to CCC.  We can still use CCC and usually do.

Actually, the CCC no longer does this. Which makes me feel good about not ever having spent my time updating the sites to make the change.

[7express]

UNE loses to host Mass-Boston 72-30 in the opening game of the Harbor invitational tournament @ Boston.    Charles Fenner III had 10 points to lead UNE who made just 10 field goals the entire game and allowed Boston to shoot almost 50% from the floor for the game (Beacons finished at 48.9%).  UNE plays the loser of Trinity St. Joseph's (VT) tomorrow in the consolation game starting at 1:00 PM and currently Trinty leads 51-38 with 12:00 minutes to play.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

UNE is not very good this year.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Curry gave MIT a good run, losing 63-71.  Antonio Jones led CC with 13 points.  MIT appeared to have been ready for Sedale, he only had 8.  They gave up a ton of points to Mitchell Kates at PG - this seems like the complete opposite of how most Curry games go.  Strange.

Also,

UNE won a game!! It wasn't against a d3 opponent, but they beat St. Joe's (VT) 70-63.  Devin Thompson had 23, Fenner had 21, and Jesse Sykstra went for 14 and 13.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

WIT at Wheelock

NC at Fitchburg

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nichols over Fitchburg 84-81.  All five starters in double figures; Sheehan had 23.