MBB: Conference of New England

[middhoops]

An old Middlebury fan, I came here to see some optimistic entries on behalf of Curry.  Apparently, we Midd fans have more fear of your conference winner than you have faith in them.
You might check out the NESCAC board to see the over/under on how many free throws Sedale Jones will take in the game, among other statistical trivia.
Not that I want Curry to win, but if they do:  I hope you gain followers.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

An old Middlebury fan, I came here to see some optimistic entries on behalf of Curry.  Apparently, we Midd fans have more fear of your conference winner than you have faith in them.
You might check out the NESCAC board to see the over/under on how many free throws Sedale Jones will take in the game, among other statistical trivia.
Not that I want Curry to win, but if they do:  I hope you gain followers.

The CCC board has been effectively dead this year.  Even when it wasn't, we rarely had posters from Curry (and when we did, they were players and coaches).  Based on attendance during the playoffs, it seems like Curry is actually starting to support its basketball team, so perhaps there will be more in the future.

I'll be interested to know how many fans they bring to Middlebury - please let us know your estimate.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Curry made a valiant comeback effort at Middlebury, but fell two points short.  AJ Stephens lead the way with a 20-10 night.

CCC season is over until November.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Wentworth is getting a new coach.  Devitt really improved recruiting there in his tenure and built the program into a pretty decent shape.  Not the easiest place to get basketball players.  We'll see how the search for a replacement goes.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Arlen Galloway is the new WIT coach.  Former assistant at Middlebury and coming from a stint assisting at Cornell.  Good pedigree.  NH kid.

I will not hold it against him that he's three years younger than me, although it hurts.

[warriorcat]

New follower of the CCC.  Are there any regular posters?  Who are the teams to watch this year?

[CCC Talk]

Should be an interesting year in the CCC

Gordon should be very strong, well coached and solid returning players

Curry loses some firepower but Coach Wynn always has something up his sleeve

Endicott probably has the most talent in the league, but they did last year and won 9 games.

The kid coach at Nicholls is in way over his head. They won't be much of a threat.

Salve is always a team to be contended with, strong recruiting class and a great coach.

RWU supposedly brought in a great class...they need it badly.

ENC made great strides last year, will depend on bringing in better players to take a leap.

WNEU should still be down.

UNE may not have the horses yet, but Ed Silva is a great coach. They wlll be good soon.

Wentworth lost an excellent coach in Tom Devitt and rumor has it he finally had enough of their AD, they bungled it pretty badly.

[ronk]

Should be an interesting year in the CCC

Gordon should be very strong, well coached and solid returning players

Curry loses some firepower but Coach Wynn always has something up his sleeve

Endicott probably has the most talent in the league, but they did last year and won 9 games.

The kid coach at Nicholls is in way over his head. They won't be much of a threat.

Salve is always a team to be contended with, strong recruiting class and a great coach.

RWU supposedly brought in a great class...they need it badly.

ENC made great strides last year, will depend on bringing in better players to take a leap.

WNEU should still be down.

UNE may not have the horses yet, but Ed Silva is a great coach. They wlll be good soon.

Wentworth lost an excellent coach in Tom Devitt and rumor has it he finally had enough of their AD, they bungled it pretty badly.

  I didn't know Coach Silva had left Elms; Scranton played his Elms' team in the 2008 NCAA and while I thought Scranton had the better talent, the relentless full court pressure of Elms used up most of the play clock and the players' energy so that there was little left in the tank for the final 10 minutes of the game.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Should be an interesting year in the CCC

Gordon should be very strong, well coached and solid returning players

Curry loses some firepower but Coach Wynn always has something up his sleeve

Endicott probably has the most talent in the league, but they did last year and won 9 games.

The kid coach at Nicholls is in way over his head. They won't be much of a threat.

Salve is always a team to be contended with, strong recruiting class and a great coach.

RWU supposedly brought in a great class...they need it badly.

ENC made great strides last year, will depend on bringing in better players to take a leap.

WNEU should still be down.

UNE may not have the horses yet, but Ed Silva is a great coach. They wlll be good soon.

Wentworth lost an excellent coach in Tom Devitt and rumor has it he finally had enough of their AD, they bungled it pretty badly.

Yeah, although it may have been a mutual parting at WIT, I'm pretty sure both parties wanted to stay with the other one gone.  They brought in an assistant from Middlebury.  Not sure if that will help with recruiting or not.  WIT is not the easiest place to get basketball players.  We'll see.

I was up in New England this weekend.  I heard good things about Gordon.  Once they get that perimeter defense fully implemented, they're usually quite competitive.

I did hear Isaiah Pringle from Salve will be out for the season - so that should slow them up quite a bit.

ENC brought in a talented group of kids, but they'll still be almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores.  The pace and defense should be fun to watch, but they'll have to work real hard if they find themselves in a half-court game - a couple undersized guys with length, but no real post presence.

Shaping up to be a great season like always.

[Maq Diesel]

Looks like Gordon has their roster up, new faces, 5'-7" Guard from Portland, ME that was on a good Maine HS team but was at best a 3rd option, a 6'-5" Forward from Spaulding HS in NH and two guards from Estonia.  Is this a new recruiting pipeline?  Gordon has had a handful of foreign players over the years but they were either not good enough to get playing time, very good individual players with not team ability, or had problems staying eligable for various reasons.  Anyone have any word on these two Estonians?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Gordon is opening the season down this way, but I don't think I'm going to be able to see them.  I can't justify two weekend trips to the "mainland" and I'm definitely going to the Hoopsville Tournament.

I hadn't heard anything spectacular out of Gordon, but things have been relatively quiet this summer.  In fact the only things I've heard about Gordon this summer is that the recruiting trail has been rough for them of late.  Maybe this is a new Baltic pipeline, who knows?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC took a pre-season trip to Hawaii, played an exhibition with Hawaii Pacific and did some scrimmaging with Chaminade.  There is a box score from the HP game, looks like the starters played almost the whole game.  Hawaii Pacific is not a world beater, but they're decent and have a lot of height (6'9", 6'11").  ENC did ok against them, even staging a second half comeback.  I suspect it was too early in the season for the newcomers to get much PT, but maybe the trip will be good for chemistry.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Curry's roster has six freshmen and a transfer (I assume).  It'll be interesting to see how they spread the scoring around this year.

EC has a roster up, but there's only 10 players on it, no newcomers and also missing three of their junior co-captains from last year (Magee, Knowlton, and Burkhardt).  Let's hope, for their sake, someone forgot to input all the names.  Wow.

Only two freshman on the roster for Nichols.  They should have pretty much the same team, minus Kuntz.

No roster yet from RWU.

Salve's got three freshmen listed, but Pringle is out for the year (no word on if he'll take a medical redshirt and come back).  Who knows what they'll look like.

UNE has a ton of freshmen listed, but only a couple with assigned numbers and stats - I wonder if they're making cuts still?

WIT has five freshmen listed - three very small guards (5'8", 147 really?), a big guard and an undersized forward.

A couple of freshmen guards at WNE.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Alright, curtain goes up tomorrow:

WIT vs Emmanuel @ Emerson
EC vs Fisher @ Wheaton
RWU hosts Mt. Ida
SRU @ J&W
NC @ Lasell
GC @ Goucher


I'd love to get over and see Gordon tomorrow, but the hour drive and an $8 toll might make that less appealing.  We'll see.

[jamiejohn]

Roger Williams and Endicott's roster are now up.

Still no preseason poll

http://www.rwuhawks.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball&
http://www.ecgulls.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/roster