MBB: Conference of New England

[Gregory Sager]

Eastern Nazarene fills its vacant coaching position:

http://www.enc.edu/org/athletics/mensbasketballstats.html#aller

Ironically, given the fact that Gordon just lost its head coach to Wheaton -- as Mike Schauer was a Wheaton grad who had played for, and served as an assistant coach under, his predecessor Bill Harris (who, to add to the incestuousness of the situation, is a Gordon grad) -- Eastern Nazarene has just hired a head coach, Jim Aller, who played for Harris when the latter was the head coach of The King's College in downstate NY.

[akirk]

Does anyone have any info on new players? or anything relating to the CCC?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nope.  I'm officially out of the loop now.  Hopefully I can get back to New England soon and get re-engaged.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Gordon has their roster posted with three freshmen on it - David Dempsey, a 6'5" guard from CT; David Hammer, a 6'5" guard from CA; and Scott Nelson, a 6'0" guard from NJ.  They have a ton of sophomores on the roster, a number of names I'm not familiar with, but I don't know if that means much.

Regis has their returners listed, but no new players.

Salve also has their returners listed with no freshmen.  Jabreche Boyd is coming back to play as a graduate student; he must have had another year of eligibility.

UNE has their roster up.  Two freshmen - Sam Simpson, a 6'0" guard from ME and Nevin Lessard, a 6'6" forward, also from ME.  They've also got a transfer guard, already named a captain.  5'10" Kadare Brown from Baton Rouge, LA via Laramie County, WY CC (same school as Jakyri Simpson), although it doesn't appear Brown played anywhere last year.

No one else has new info yet.

[T990]

UNE: what, no Texans in the class of 2013 ?   

[CCC Talk]

Salve has a preliminary roster up. No freshmen listed yet though....

Gordon's roster is up among the new sophomores is who I presume is Jerry Logan's brother. Also all the names back that were expected.

Wentworth's roster is up. Looks like they added some size with a 6'11 and a 6'6 transfer. Also a Franklin Pierce transfer in the backcourt.

UNE looks to have retained most of it's far away guys that had eligibility left.

Nothing yet from Curry or CSC or RWU who should all be contenders this year.

[number1chargerfan]

Chargers should have two freshmen in the starting five and they have 2 or 3 others who look to make significant impact.

[backboard]

2009-10 TCCC PRESEASON MEN'S BASKETBALL POLL

Gordon 172 (5)
Colby-Sawyer 169 (5)
University of New England 166 (2)
Wentworth 144 (1)
Roger Williams 130
Endicott 123
Nichols 123
Curry 118 (1)
Salve Regina 91
Western New England 82
Regis 62
Anna Maria 35
Eastern Nazarene 35
New England College 20

http://www.thecommonwealthcoastconference.com/News/mbball/2009/11/6/mbbpoll09-10.asp?path=mbball

[CCC Talk]

I return for my picks yet again!

Doing my best here with the information provided.

14 Bottom of The Barrell

14.  NEC - Hennesey is back from last year and they played a few encouraging games down the stretch, but still not close to contending.

13. ENC- D'angelo Alson and not much else. Losing Diandre Brown hurts a lot.

12.  WNEC- Take the 2 best players off a not very good team...

11. Salve- See above....

On The Fringe

10. Anna Maria- They return Derek Johnson and supposedly have a touted recruiting class.

9. Roger Williams- I do not understand the high pre season ranking for this team. Flanagan and O'Dell are good players but they will depend a lot on Freshmen.

In It

8. Nichols - Bring everybody important back from a playoff team last year.

7. Regis- In the playoffs? Believe it. Derek Neal and a cast of new recruits lead them to the tournament

6. Wentworth- Lost Todd Doyle but added a 6'11 transfer. Be interesting to see.

5. Endicott- New coach, new style of play. Whitelaw and Karkow will get them to 5th

On the verge

4. Colby-Sawyer- Bringing back Chaloux and Rosso and reloading with a big time recruiting class. CSC stays in the top echelon of the league.

3. Curry- The Colonials don't stay down for long, their roster is up and it is impressive.

Fighting It Out

2. UNE- Jefferson and Simpson graduate but style of play does not. Will still be athletic and difficult to handle.

1. Gordon- Everybody back. Could finally be the Scots year.

Player Of The Year Odds

Aaron Trigg Gordon 2-1
Brady Bajema Gordon 5-1
Quinten Thompson UNE 10-1
Marcale Robinson UNE 10-1
Mark Mastrullo Curry 4-1
Dan Singh Curry 8-1
Jon Chaloux CSC 7-2
Dave Rosso CSC 15-1
Graham Whitelaw Endicott 15-1
Aaron Karkow Endicot 10-1
Matt Abbott Wentworth 15-1
Sam Herrick Wentworth 20-1
Derek Neal Regis 5-2
Pete Adkins Nichols 10-1
Pat Flanagan RWU 15-1
Derek Johnson AMC 25-1
D'Angelo Alston ENC 30-1
Shane Hennesey NEC 25-1

All others 30-1

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Rookie Of The Year: Wouter Van Eng Colby-Sawyer
Coach Of The Year: Nate Hagar Regis

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Just got plane tickets today.  I will be back in New England for a week over the Thanksgiving holiday.  I am going to try and get to at least one game.

Ideally I'd like to get up to Gordon for the ENC game on Dec 1st, but there are a good number of d3 games in Eastern Mass over the holiday for a change, so there are a number of possibilities.

[T990]

Player Of The Year Odds

Aaron Trigg Gordon 2-1
Brady Bajema Gordon 5-1
Quinten Thompson UNE 10-1
Marcale Robinson UNE 10-1
Mark Mastrullo Curry 4-1

Hey, thats Mark Mastrullo from Billerica, Mass.

I was looking at Curry's roster, and I see that Danya Abrams is an assistant coach (!).

Curry Roster (pdf)

[scout]

Just got plane tickets today.  I will be back in New England for a week over the Thanksgiving holiday.  I am going to try and get to at least one game.

Ideally I'd like to get up to Gordon for the ENC game on Dec 1st, but there are a good number of d3 games in Eastern Mass over the holiday for a change, so there are a number of possibilities.

So jealous. I'm excited for the seasons to start and the conference battle to begin. Fortunately, it appears that more schools will be streaming video and almost all schools will at least have streaming audio. So, for those of us who are 1500 miles away from the action, we'll have no excuse for being misinformed.

I'm going to hold off on my predictions for a bit. We're just under a week away from most of the conference kicking off, but there are some interesting story lines intertwined.

[scout]

Also... Not sure who would be interested, but I think it'd be fun to do a local conference version of the Pick'em league that a bunch of people do nationally.

We could have five or six games a week involving TCCC teams and we'd just do a straight up Pick'em. We could keep track as the season progresses and the like...

Yes, this is blatant forgery... But it seems fun, so yeah...

If you're interested, let us all know...

We'll either have a burgeoning stable of participants... Or it'll be just me... I'm not sure which is more likely

[All-around]

Curry has brought in Jarrell Jackson this year who is coming from a JUCO out west and who had previously signed with Divison 1 Dusquene. They also have Phillippe Jourdain who transferred from a D2 out west somewhere.

Wentworth also has 3 scholarship transfers in Jack Barrett (Franklin Pierce), Sam Herrick (UNH) and Matt Abbott (UNH).

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'll do pick'em if you're willing to put in the leg work.  I'd say we should just do conference games - that might make things a little easier.