MBB: Conference of New England

[threeball23]

Sad day for the CCC...We lose to Becker, Framingham and Elms all in the same night?  Not good.

[akirk]

Hayes,

Glad to see that you are still keeping in touch with the CCC.  I have to say GC looks good this year. How's life treating you?

[BlazerFan]

Don't forget Elms is a NCAA tourney team from last year, they won the NAC beating a good Lasell team and gave Salem St a good game at Salem in the tourney.  They only lost 1 kid from last year and gained a few good freshman and a juco transfer

[threeball23]

Life is great.  I got married last month so I cannot complain.  God has been good.

I may have spoken to soon about the games tues night. I have to say I don't follow Elms or Framingham to closely...but I know that in the past they have not had the best teams.  Guess I thought RWU would take care of Framingham, maybe they have still not recovered from losing Gumb (?)  But I still feel that any team in the CCC should beat Becker...I can remember my jr yr they had a kid eating a snickers bar while running lay-up lines before a game...

[broke_ya_ankles]

Endicott picked up a nice win tonite with a 52-52 win over a struggling Bates team, george got a pass from ellis while cutting to the basketball for the and-1 to take the lead, and ultimately the win

good win for EC

[24/7/365]

I LOVE IT WHEN BASKETBALL GAMES END IN TIES!  You almost never see that.  Some might say that it's even impossible.  Luckly EC found a way to get the impossible done tonight.

[broke_ya_ankles]

haha my bad, typo....
53-52

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

EC with a nice win.  I don't care if they're struggling, any CCC win over the NESCAC is good in my book.  Bates did play very poorly, but its tough to know how much of that can be attributed to the EC defense.  EC shot only 15% from the arc themselves.  It's important to note that Zak Ray got shut down pretty well.  Matt George had 12 points to lead EC.


Onyechi was good and under the radar last season, but I would scarcely chance to call him dominant.

Also, it was Framingham's second consecutive win over the CCC.  The bottom of the conference is looking to be in sad shape this season.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Tonight's games:

AMC hosts Becker
CSC @ Bowdoin
ENC hosts Framingham (second match-up between these two in a week)
GC @ MIT (this could be a grudge match; the engineers have gotten the best of the scots in recent years)
NC hosts Worcester State
RWU hosts RIC
SRU hosts Johnson & Wales
CC @ Trinity (CT) (Too bad Lamb isn't around to take on Tyler Rhoten)
WIT hosts Daniel Webster

[rufus]

Congrats to all the EC fans, your team has earned the respect of this Bates Bobcat fan.  Good luck the rest of the year.

[broke_ya_ankles]

saw colby-sawyer lose to bowdoin tonite, man this game was ugly, 37-25 at the half and just sloppy play all around, csc is in trouble if they dont tighten things up realllly soon they wont be playing for a CCC championship

also anyone know why thorpe hasnt been suiting up??

[dwebbs]

After a slow start, Gordon beat MIT 64-59 in OT. D'Auria hit a 3 with his foot on the line to send the game into overtime. Anyhow, Gordon stepped in up on the defense end when their offense was stalling. They're a solid 4-0 heading into the playoff rematch against SRU.

Marstaller lead the way with 22 points and 7 boards, and Logan also put up 20.

[cant dog]

A slow start for Gordon.  Collapsing defense by MIT and their height made scoring difficult.  I was surprised that Gordon had about 6 times as many fans as the Engineers seemed to have. 
It is interesting that there was only one lead change and as a GC fan that made the game easier to watch.  Several did question the foot on the line late in regulation, the screen was set high and if the refs had made a different call I would have wanted instant replay.  I believe they did right by giving the 3.  If GC had ended up losing I would probably sing a different song.
A tough game - a good win.  Vogelzang was the spark for the team and made it fun for the fans.  It is great to see teamwork and unselfish play.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Becker over AMC 74-69.  Becker is now 2-1 vs the CCC; I have to believe its their best record against us in a while, or perhaps ever.  No box.

CSC, as mentioned, goes down to Bowdoin 65-68.  They really are going to have to win the tourney; too many early losses will keep the SOSI way down.  Sad really, this team, while accomplishing a lot, has really underacheived over the last four years.  St. Clair 13 and 11.  Pat Kenny had 15, Butterworth added 10.  Bray went for 5 pts, 6 boards, 4 assists and 2 steals.  CSC outrebounded, but 27 turnovers is not going to cut it.  Maybe they can survive without defense, but not with poor ball control as well.

Curry, however, put down Trinity, yes that Trinity, even without their two best players.  67-62.  Can anyone say lookout CCC?  The big stiffs absent again (this is where I officially stop mentioning that) but Curry had no problem anyway.  Mohrin had 17, Prescod 16, Bartelle 14 and Marcus Jones had 10, while Lamarre had 14 boards.  I can't imagine how well these guys will be playing when Tim Jones and Lamb come back.  Outrageous.  Trinity shot 15% from the arc and Rhoten had 22 and 16, but apparently they played well enough.  They came back down 13 at the half, just a good showing all around for Curry.

GC over MIT in OT 64-59.  Logan and Marstaller carry GC with 20 and 22 respectively.  Free Throws helped them win in the same way it cost CSC the other day.  Good game; shows a lot of promise.

Nichols over Worcester State 72-67.  Justin Lewis had 18, Butler had 14 and Ron Powers had 11, including 3-3 from three (as far as I know; he's not a shooter).  Nice win.  Chris Vallee put in ten.  Worcester doesn't look to be too good, but they played really bad.  I'll give some credit to NC.

RIC over RWU in OT 80-77.  RIC has been playing really well, so this is actually a great result for RWU, seeking to get back on track.  I know there is a box score, but the internet is giving me trouble getting to it.  Either way, this is progress for the recovery of RWU.

SRU over Johnson and Wales 60-55.  Grendal went for 13 and 15, beginning to pick up Gumb's slack.  Hazzard had 16 and Coute 12.  Salve only shot 50% from the line, but hit a bunch of big ones down the stretch for the win.

WIT over Daniel Webster 84-60.  Wentworth allowed nearly 50% shooting, but dominated on the boards and took an extra 25 shots during the game.  WIT really has some great rebounders; could be a nice assest, especially if they convert well.  Hall had 12, Cappa had 10.  PB went for 11 pts 4 assists, while Doyle had 10 pts and 5 assists.  They are playing ten guys 12 minutes or more; a solid, deep team.  I'm not saying they will get anywhere, but they can scare some people pretty good.

ENC goes down to Framingham for the second time in a week, 53-79.  John Riuru and Colby Dasilva (two guys I've never heard of) led ENC with 14 and 13 respectively.  ENC rebounded well, but committed 32 turnovers and allowed 55% shooting from the floor.  I wonder if Corey got hurt, he played only five minutes.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

This weekend:

EC plays Hamilton Friday night at the Wesleyan tournament.

On Saturday:

EC gets the winner or loser of Wesleyan and Mitchell
CC @ Christopher Newport

Then the start of CCC play

NC @ CSC
WIT @ UNE
SRU @ GC
NEC @ ENC
AMC @ RWU

It will be imteresting to see the Salve-Gordon game; these seem to be the two teams playing best right now.