MBB: Conference of New England

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nichols was playing without Kuntz again and Pat Flanagan (forevermore to be called "the one man wrecking crew") closed a sizeable gap to hand RWU the win 79-75.  Sheehan had 19 and the bench chipped in, but the one man wrecking crew was too hot to handle.  Flanagan had 34 points and 12 rebounds, along with three blocks and two steals.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

UNE gets its first win of the year and ruins my home team sweep prediction, beating ENC in Quincy 60-54.  Ugh.  I don't even want to look at a boxscore for this one.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Curry beats WNEC 69-60.  Shaw had 18, but shot terribly and was held in check pretty well.  Jones had 20 with 19 rebounds.  He won this game.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Down goes Salve.  WIT wins 62-58.  Derrick Mayo had 14 and 8 for Wentworth.  Birrell had only 18 as Salve shot 1-12 from three at home.  This is that inconsistency I was talking about.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Tonight:

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

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Curry took out ENC in OT 78-67.  Curry had 6! players in double figures. Jones only had 11.

WNEC beats Roger Williams 69-68.  Shaw had 24, but it looks like the rest of the squad is starting to show up for these things.  One-man-wrecking-crew went for 22 and 13.

62-48, Endicott over UNE.  Callo went for 14 and 17.

Salve 83, Nichols 75.  Nichols had a big lead for a lot of the game, but SRU worked it back and won in the end.  NC is still without Kuntz, but Sam Horning went 4-5 from deep to lead the team with 16; I'm not sure Sheehan even scored in the second half.  Birrell had 22 and 8 with 7 assists and 4 steals.  Dinneen had 21 and Pringle 19 - they were a combined 7-13 from three point range.

WIT ruined the road team sweep with a one point win over Gordon 60-59.  Derek Mayo hit a three with 5 seconds left to win the game.  Park Thomas had 17 to lead all game scorers.

[WITball]

10pts 2rebs isnt much for a POY contender? Wit has confused me this year....they have one player averaging more than 10 ppg (Corey T.) and he is also tied as the leading rebounder at 5.4 with Derek Mayo...There is no clear standout player but they seem to get it done as a team, when it matters. In conference play the games have been decided on average by 6.75pts...and if you take out their 21 point win over WNEC your looking at a 4.7pts. I hope they can start putting teams away like they did WNEC.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

10pts 2rebs isnt much for a POY contender? Wit has confused me this year....they have one player averaging more than 10 ppg (Corey T.) and he is also tied as the leading rebounder at 5.4 with Derek Mayo...There is no clear standout player but they seem to get it done as a team, when it matters. In conference play the games have been decided on average by 6.75pts...and if you take out their 21 point win over WNEC your looking at a 4.7pts. I hope they can start putting teams away like they did WNEC.

WIT has a POY contender?  Since when?

[WITball]

Look at the box score, dempsey had 10pts 2rebs...wit definatley does not have a POY contender.

[CCC Talk]

All POY discussion has to probably start and end with Birrell...

also I believe WITBall is referencing the every year candidacy of David Dempsey for POY by the Gordon faithful...

[Chantastic]

Clutch rally from WIT last night - came back from down 7 with 2:45 to go.

If Salve wins the league Birrell will certainly deserve the MVP award.

[Chantastic]

I'm all for POY going to best player on the best team and at this point it's been Birrell. 

I do think that Dempsey is the league's best all around player.  My suspicion is that 9 out 10 coaches in the league would pick him first if starting a team from scratch out of current CCC players. He is not exactly surrounded by a tremendous supporting cast.  When you see someone for Gordon put up relatively modest point totals in the 10-16 point range, you have to remember that they are walking the ball up the court and turning it over a full 25% of the time.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It will be Birrell - and if it's not, it will be Jones from Curry.  Maybe there have been enough coaching changes of late to make things different, but generally they've voted for the all-around best player without regard to which team is the best.  They also tend to reward longevity.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Saturday games, assuming no one wimps out and cowers in fear of the snow:

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

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC and Endicott wussed out with the snow - the other four games are being played.