MBB: Conference of New England

[yeah buddy]

bynes was good and a dominant force at times.
Marstaller was a first team all conference, preseason honorable mention all american caliber player who scored right around 1500 points in his career.
good win for Gordon. saturday against salem state will be a great test.

[backboard]

Last night:

Roger Williams 55 - Wheaton 75
Billy Barrett had 17 points but was the only player for RWU to score in double digits.

Wentworth 60 - Coast Guard 73
WIT was able to slow down potential All-American Craig Johnson but let everyone else score.  Shane West scored 15 with 8 boards and rookie Brendan Monteiro recorded 13 points and 6 assists.

Gordon 76 - Endicott 66
Trigg with 24 and Greg Walker with 14.  For Endicott, Stewart and Whitelaw had 22 and 21 respectively.

Curry 78 - Wheelock 71
The first win of the year for the defending champs.  Quashed Simmons led the way with 25 and Mark Marstrullo right behind him with 23.

Anna Maria 66 - Becker 104
Back to back games for Becker scoring more than 100.

Salve Regina 48 - Johnson and Wales 52

Nichols 79 - Conn. College 81
Chris Paquin scored 20 but hot shooting by Connecticut won the game.

NEC 67 - Newbury 83
Good scoring by the starters for NEC, but no bench means no win.

[backboard]

Thursday's best:  Few candidates for this one-->  Trigg, Whitelaw, Barrett, Simmons, Mastrullo, or Paquin. Take your pick

Thursday's worst:  Michael Connery, Curry.  3 points (1-7, 1-6 3-PT) and 4 fouls in 31 minutes.

[Word Life]

I was out all day and see I missed some lovely banter...

A lot of great performances last night from individual players, I will go with the player who carried his team late in the game and got the W.

The Bynes/Marstaller discussion, I do completely understand your argument for Bynes backboard.  He was a more dominant rebounder and defender.  Marstaller was a much more complete player though, as I think scout mentioned.  When you think of TCCC big men in the past few years the first name to come to mind is obviously St. Clair, after that I think you have a select class which includes guys like Baranger, Nemanja, Marstaller and a few others.  Bynes is not in that class by any means.  He was definitely a solid player, but he didn't single-handlely win games for his team at times like the previously mentioned players did.

Tomorrow nights game has huge regional, and potential at-large bid implications for both teams (Gordon vs. Salem State).  Gordon should be playing with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder after the tough loss they suffered to Salem State two years ago at home, which their Junior class was around for.  Should be a great game and a fun one to watch for those who get to see it.

[CCC Talk]

Bynes was also about 6'3 playing in the post, only played 3 years and helped an underdog team win a conference tournament.

I think Gordon's strength has always been it's guards (logan in particular in that era) and a lot of what Marstaller got was due to the abundance of talented guards.

As for this year, I think Trigg-Doyle will be an ongoing discussion

[cccc-fanatic]

UNE beats Fort Kent 96-85 in Paul Bunyan Tournament

[cccc-fanatic]

UNE wins Paul Bunyan tournament against Husson 74-71

[backboard]

Gordon down by 2 at the half, 29-27

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Has there really been a two page argument centering around the career merits of Weonard Bynes?

Gosh, I need to find a new conference.

[backboard]

Are your comments really worthy of merit when you haven't seen him play?

[backboard]

Gordon loses to Salem State.  It actually would have been nice to see a Top 25 CCC team.  Perhaps it would given  the conference some credibility

[number1chargerfan]

Last night Colby-Sawyer 85-72 over Worcester State in Hockenberry Tournament

Matt Lemieux continues a great season under the radar with 23 and 9
Will Bardaglio with 16 points and Jon Chaloux with 12

Today Colby Sawyer 74 Norwich 58 to win Hockenberry Tournament

Andrew Cousins 21 points on 7 of 13 shooting
Duncan Szeliga with 20 points and Dave Rosso with 12

Szeliga honored on all-tournament team while Lemieux is named tournament MVP

[scout]

Sorry I haven't been around the past few days to put up some analysis on the weekend games. Finals are coming up and if I want to get into med school, they are somewhat important.

In any case, I'm excited to get home and load the Hoopsville podcast onto iTunes. Gordon's Coach Schauer makes an appearance.

I'll be back a little later to start up some discussion of some sort.

[CCC Talk]

Med School out of Gordon huh?

I'd suggest the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Hispanoamerica

[scout]

Med School out of Gordon huh?

I'd suggest the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Hispanoamerica

Really? Thanks and no.

KU Med is more like it.

I appreciate the 'thoughtfulness' though.