MBB: Conference of New England

[James]

The following athletes make up the current roster of the Men's Basketball team.

 
Athletes:

     

William Barrett  03  FR  5'10"  Fairfield / Fairfield CT 
Chris Cormier  05  SR  6'0"  Trumbull / Trumbull, CT 
Ben Camobreco  10  SO  5'10"  Duxbury / Duxbury, MA 
Brandon Parrish  11  JR  6'3"  Lincoln / Lincoln RI 
Ryan McGovern  12  JR  5'11"  Prout School / Wakefield, RI 
Conrad Griffin  21  FR  6'3"  Wiscasset / Wiscasset, ME 
Ryan McGinn  22  FR  6'4"  Peru / Plattsburgh, NY 
Marty Paciorkowski  24  FR  6'3"  Concord / Deerfield, NY 
Michael Wooley  33  FR  6'4"  Nathan Hale / Seattle, WA 
Tucker Bashaw  34  FR  6'0"  Champlain / Williston, VT 
Daniel Gumb  40  SO  6'6"  JFK Somers / Patterson, NY 
Geoff Baranger  42  SO  6'11"  Fairfield / Fairfield, CT 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Cormier is a solid player and quality leader for the team.  Lots of underclassmen talent.  I'm not sure if you noticed, but Dan Gumb made second team last year and Barranger really came on near the end.  I also think Parrish has been forgotten.  He was amazing as a freshman and struggled with injury last season.  I think they are definately a contender now.

[All-around]

I was just saying that because i saw them scrimmage and they didnt look too impressive to me at all. I also saw curry play last year and they look a lot better in my opinion. But again it is just preseason...

[incite3]

I didnt get a chance yesterday to look at the posts, and it seems I missed a lot.  Personally I love all of the back and forth talk.  It adds character.  Who would we be if we didnt have a team that we were truely rooting for.  Thats basketball, and we're basketball fans.  I love it!  The season is upon us.

[dwebbs]

It looks like Mike Schnackenberg is going to get the fifth starting spot for Gordon on Friday -- making their starting five Kaufman, Logan, Marstaller, Herr, and Schnack. Also, you should really look for Schnack to have a blow up year. He played really well over the summer, and should get more playing time this year.

[broke_ya_ankles]

for what its worth its confirmed that sammy evans of endicott will miss the entire season with stress fractures in his foot, that could turn out to be a big blow considering sam showed some signs of being a solid player last year and im sure the gulls were looking for him to emerge even more this season as he could have complemented marinkovic very well with his athleticism..... they def lose some depth by losing evans

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

If Evans is out that's big news.  EC is going to have to rely on some of the freshmen forwards they brought it.  Not that its necessarily bad.  I have a sneaking suspicion that they were pretty good to begin with.  I'm not sure if the new coach can coach or not, but I do know he can recruit like crazy.

This definately puts things up in the air for second through about 6th place in the conference.  CSC comes in favorites, but there are a lot of solid teams after that.  We may actually have some more balanced records this season.

[ccchoops]

The CCC better watch out for the Curry Colonels who have returned all of there starters from last season. Rahiem Lamb will carry them when he comes back in Janurary but until then curry has a solid mix of outside shooting and inside bodies. The Curry freshman class has Two big men and a point gaurd to add to the mix so they are only getting better. Mike Weaving the 6'5 freshman from Ridgewood, New Jersey played excellant defense against Franklin Pierce, although the same could not be said for Curry Center Robel Ghebremichael who got dunked on by Franklin Pierce's center Justin Powell. Curry will be ok though with Weaving off the Bench along with James Bartelle and Mike Morhin until Lamb comes back then Curry will dominate.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Thanks for showing up, but the party ended an hour ago.  We've gone down the Curry roster a couple time already, but I'm glad we have you around for Curry updates during the season.  LAst year no one was reporting anything.  I hope you all stick around for the long haul.

[MLamont1214]

In reply to comments on Curry's last schrimmage, I attended the schrimmage. Curry seems to be big with these two Freshman, as well as Lamb 6'6 and a couple of 6'4 new comers. The two Freshman played decent amount of minutes. From what I saw they seem to lack the scoring ability (needs improvement), but are both fairly well on defense (could use improvement also). Franklin Pierce received alot of help from their big man Justin, who did not have any dunks but did very well with his back to the basket. Both Freshman did fairly well guarding Justin, Mike Weaving used his big body to make it impossible to get position, as well as Robel Ghebremichael, who blocked a couple shots. I see alot of talent in this Curry squad, especially with the shooting I saw from Mike Mohrin and James Bartelle. I strongly believe Curry played good without Jones or Lamb, and felt if either had played Curry would have walked out with a win. Although they lost by 4, I can only imagine what they will do in their conference. I was at the game last year when CC lost to RW, and with the same team returning I feel confident in saying they will beat them this year.

[24/7/365]

Reiterating a point made earlier, we know CC is going to be good.  We have exhausted that topic, so it need not be discussed any further for fear of finally pushing Hoopsfan over the proverbial edge of sanity.

On a happier not, CCC BASKETBALL STARTS TONIGHT!  With the majority of teams competing either tonight, or later on this weekend, CCC basketball has finally begun, thus giving us 6 months to rant and rave about any given topic at any given time.  I, of course, will be heavily touting GC and the fine young squad they are carrying this season.  With a solid first year under their belts, their still very young Sophomores, are all looking to have break out years.  Combine that with the veteran leadership of Logan and Herr, and you have yourself a winning formula.  They open tonight with Framingham State in the Gordon College Tip-Off Tournament.  This will be an exciting, most likely high scoring game, which has the potential of being an all out shooting contest before the night ends.  Look for some big individual numbers when the smoke clears.  And look for GC to walk away victorious.

Good luck to the rest of the teams in the conference.  I'm hoping that this is the year that the CCC puts itself on the D3 map, and begins gathering notoriety from all the other contenders in the country.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Thanks for the consideration of my mental health... I just want to see some basketball!

This got pushed three pages back already, so here is the repost.  I'll try to do this regularly during the semester so we can all see what's on the block.

Friday
SRU vs #25 Catholic @ UMass-D tourney
ENC vs Lesley
EC vs Fisher (Not St John Fisher) @ Amherst Tourney
GC vs Framingham State (Gordon Tip-off Tourney)
CSC vs ME-Machais @ Keene State
NEC vs Castleton State
UNE @ Wesleyan (Wesleyan Tourney)
NC vs Becker @ WPI (Worcester Tourney)

Saturday
AMC vs Bard @ Rivier Tourney
SRU vs ME-Ft Kent or UMass-D @ UMass-D Tourney
RWU vs Lasell @ Brandeis Tourney
CC vs New Jersey @ Salem State Tourney
ENC @ Connecticut College
EC vs Fitchburg State or Amherst @ Amherst Tourney
CSC vs Husson @ Keene State
GC vs Southern Maine or Westfield State (Gordon Tip-off Tourney)
UNE vs Bridgewater State or Suffolk @ Wesleyan Tourney
WIT vs Lyndon State @ ME-Farmington Tourney

Sunday
AMC vs Johnson St or Rivier @ Rivier Toruney
RWU vs Newbury or Brandeis @ Brandeis Tourney
CC vs Maine Maritime or Salem State @ Salem State Tourney
WIT vs ME-Presque Isle or ME-Farmington @ ME-Farmington Tourney

[24/7/365]

Anybody wanna give a spread on the SRU vs. Catholic game?

[24/7/365]

GC started out their 05-06 campaign with a convincing win over Framingham State in the opening round of the Gordon College Tip-Off Tournament.  Gordon came out of the gates running on all cylinders quickly mounting a 7 point lead.  The Rams however clawed their way back and managed to obtain a 1 point lead going into halftime at 43-42.  The lead did not last long as sophomore stand out John Marstaller began making his presence known in the paint by dropping 19 points and grabbing 8 boards on the night.  Veteran forward Mike Herr helped the cause by amassing 18 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists.

The Scots had a series of scoring spurts in the second half, and eventually ended up winning the game 93-71.  The guard play for GC performed well also, as Logan and Kauffman combined for 25 points.  GC's bench came to play as Senior captain John Beebe shot 4-5 from the arc in the first half and finished the game with 13 total.  While Framingham State proved worthy for one half of play, GC was far superior and showed that in the second half.  GC looks towards tomorrow as they play Westfield State in the championship game.

[CCC Fan]

Last night CSC won 92-85 over Maine-Machias.  Matt Spanos the 6-6 Tech transfer dropped 21 points, 10 rebounds. Bray and Thorpe each had 15 and Kenny had 13.  Haven't seen today's Husson score yet.