MBB: Conference of New England

[warriorcat]

Eastern Connecticut  83
Nichols                       68

Nichols hung around for 30 minutes but too many fouls and too many turnovers allowed Eastern to pull away.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Eastern Connecticut  83
Nichols                       68

Nichols hung around for 30 minutes but too many fouls and too many turnovers allowed Eastern to pull away.

Looks like the typical Nichols story.  Shut down Sheehan and you got a good chance.  Nice to see an impressive stat line from Sam Horning off the bench, though - 15 and 8, great shooting percentages, no turnovers.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

WIT @ Clark
WNE @ Lyndon
SRU @ Wheaton

[warriorcat]

Salve Regina 74
Wheaton 58

Solid team effort.

Next five games on the road.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nice to have more people posting regularly.


WIT gets trounced by Clark.  They lost the second half by 21 points (only scoring 17).  New coach is still messing with the line-up.  Not looking good right now.

Salve's looking good.  This Hanlon kid was a great pick-up.  Imagine if they had Pringle.  Wow.

WNE beat Lyndon State, which tells us all of nothing.  Zack Askew went for 20 and 16.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Friday

ENC hosts Johnson State
GC hosts Worcester State
EC plays Wheelock at the Rivier Tournament
NC plays Mass-Boston at the Amherst Tournament

Saturday

NC and EC both plays TBD at their respective tournament locations.
WNE hosts Clark
CC hosts MIT (who lost big tonight)
WIT @ Tufts (which will be an ugly loss)
UNE hosts Bates
ENC hosts New England College
RWU hosts Coast Guard

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The CCC went 4-0 last night, admittedly against pretty poor competition, but a good showing nonetheless.  Eight game today and there's really no way we're not suffering some losses.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

WNE beat Clark, a pleasant surprise (matching double-doubles from Rinaldi and deFeo).  Endicott, however, lost to Rivier - a head-scratcher for sure.  Magee is on the roster, but hasn't played yet.  Is he hurt again?

Curry hung close with MIT, but MIT may not be as good this season as they've been recently.  Curry played 8 guys, no AJ Stephens, but Antionio Jones had 16 off the bench.

WIT lost to Tufts by 11.  I was at the Hoopsville tournament this weekend and Middlebury's coach said Tufts was the NESCAC team to watch this year.  I have to think this is a good result for Wentworth.  They got 27 from Ronnie Turner who is a sophomore who didn't play last year (and I can't find any school where he played last year).

UNE loses big to Bates; ENC beat NEC pretty handily.  Nichols got trounced by Amherst, but managed to score 84.

Roger Williams loses by one to Coast Guard at home.  Not great.

[warriorcat]

Salve Regina 64
Coast Guard 48

A slow start for Salve.  They only led by one at the half.  They outscored  CGA 16-1 during a nine minute stretch in the second half to pull away with their fourth win of the season, the first 4-0 start in school history.  Dineen (21) and Hanlon (19) led the Seahawks in scoring who shot 51% from the field for the game while holding CGA to 31% shooting.

Salve will have its work cut out for it in their next game.  They play at Division 1 Bryant on Saturday at 1:00 pm.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Salve Regina 64
Coast Guard 48

A slow start for Salve.  They only led by one at the half.  They outscored  CGA 16-1 during a nine minute stretch in the second half to pull away with their fourth win of the season, the first 4-0 start in school history.  Dineen (21) and Hanlon (19) led the Seahawks in scoring who shot 51% from the field for the game while holding CGA to 31% shooting.

Salve will have its work cut out for it in their next game.  They play at Division 1 Bryant on Saturday at 1:00 pm.

When did Bryant move up to d1?  Also, Salve's new PG was at Bryant last year (I think) - should be an interesting sub-plot.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Salve at Bryant on Saturday and Nichols at Husson on Sunday, then it's right into the conference schedule.

[warriorcat]

Bryant began the five year reclassification process in 2007.  Its teams became eligible for NCAA Division 1 tournament play in the Fall of 2012.  They are mambers of the Northeast Conference.

Barrett Hanlon is a transfer from Div 2 Bentley.  He played in one game (less than a minute) during his freshman year. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Bryant began the five year reclassification process in 2007.  Its teams became eligible for NCAA Division 1 tournament play in the Fall of 2012.  They are mambers of the Northeast Conference.

Barrett Hanlon is a transfer from Div 2 Bentley.  He played in one game (less than a minute) during his freshman year.

Maybe that was my confusion.  If it's not d3, I know really nothing about it.

[warriorcat]

Salve Regina 55
Bryant           82

As expected, Bryant handled Salve easily this afternoon.  The Seahawks played hard but they were no match for the D-I Bulldogs. 

Salve begins League play on Tuesday with a trip to Wentworth. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nichols looked bad losing to Husson, but they may have found a second scorer, which could be helpful in conference play... which coincidentally begins Wednesday:

UNE @ ENC
SRU @ WIT
RWU @ NC
CC @ WNE
EC @ GC


Big rivalry game in Wenham to start the year.  Enjoy.