MBB: Conference of New England

[yeah buddy]

woweee, everyones getting a little testy, even hoops fan.

[scout]

woweee, everyones getting a little testy, even hoops fan.

It happens. Just wait until conference play starts and everyone's finished with winter break.

Did anyone listen to the Hoopsville broadcast? It's usually pretty solid and a good barometer for the rest of the nation.

[Word Life]

That's what a Monday will do to people. 

[Hugenerd]

Med School out of Gordon huh?

I'd suggest the following:

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

Thats funny.

[ILive4This]

So the North East Region Posters' Poll is back, if you are interested in participating, which clearly you are, please submit your polls to either my email or my message box here by 9pm mondays (so for this week tonight, sorry for the short notice).

Thanks

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Salem loss may not look so bad by the end of the year.  Salem has name recognition and actually played a decent non-con schedule this year.

This week alone they took out MIT, WPI, and Gordon.  While those aren't huge wins, they are the kind of teams Salem has been losing to the last couple years.

[Word Life]

WPI???  17th in the country, pretty big win...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

WPI???  17th in the country, pretty big win...

The ranking is a holdover from last season.  They won't be ranked in the next poll.

In the grand scheme of things those three wins are solid for the NE region, but just average in the national picture.

Still, I don't think Gordon's loss will look so bad come the end of the season.

[Hugenerd]

WPI is still ranked 19th, only dropped two spots.  Salem State moved into the top 30.

[massd3fan]

HoopsFan,

   WPI's Ranking is based on THIS YEAR...not last.  If you check the pre-season poll (Which did have holdover elements to it - see Brandeis) WPI did not garner any votes!  the #17 ranking was based on the 4-0 start with wins over Brandeis & RIC.

From the box score (a 10-pt OT win), It looks like they "played down" to Fitchburg St. over the weekend.

A truer test is looming this weekend for them  Vs Elms.

[yeah buddy]

well now that we have received the much needed clarification that WPI's ranking is not a holdover from last year and that they remain in the top 25 at #19 it is clear that Word Life was correct in saying that that was a pretty big win for Salem State.

[cccc-fanatic]

UNE beats Tufts 89-81
A few weeks ago, people were saying how weak our conference is this year. UNE's two recent wins against Colby and Tufts should speak well of our conference's ability.
Go TCCC!!!!

[backboard]

While the Tufts win is impressive, I'm not terribly shocked.  UNE played at home and they're a tough opponent on their own court.  Tufts has played some pretty good competition, losing every important game.  Their wins are over weak teams and UNE took advantage of it.  Their trap defense is very quick and has caused problems for a lot of teams.  I expect them to build on this win and have a strong conference record.

Last night:

WNEC 71 - Union 79
The loss puts Western New England at 1-7

Anna 47 - Framingham State 77
The Amcats shot 26% on the night and were out-rebounded by 11.  Anna Maria falls to 2-6.

Nichols 68 - Fisher 66
Chris Smith led the way with 15 points and 19 rebounds.  Nichols improves to 4-4.

Salve Regina 58 - Conn. College 78
Woodworth continues to have a good season with 21 points and 10 boards.  Salve drops to 3-6.

Endicott 52 - Wesleyan 75
Who would imagine that Endicott would be out-rebounded by 20?  They fall to 4-5.


Only one game tonight, Curry at Lesley

[backboard]

Curry 75 - Lesley 78 OT

Mastrullo had 34 points (11-23, 7-16 3-PT) and Chris Bonadies contributed 17 and 11.  But Curry committed 22 turnovers and Lesley scored 31 points off of them as a result.

[number1chargerfan]

Colby-Sawyer defeats Bowdoin 63-57, a great game to see live. Colby-Sawyer led at the half 34-31 and lead by as many as 14 but down the stretch Bowdoin decided to start playing like Bowdoin with some help from some questionable calls including one where a charge AND a block were called on the same play.

Matt Lemieux continued his great season under the radar season by exploding all over the stat sheet, recording 7 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists.

Freshman Will Bardaglio led the Chargers with 13 points while Duncan Szeliga chipped in with 8 points and 10 rebounds.