MBB: Conference of New England

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Pre-season poll is out.  Gordon represents the CCC well, coming in with 57 votes, tied for 31st most in the poll.  They were the 4th highest vote getter from the NE region, coming in behind NESCAC powers Amherst, Tufts and Bates.

I guess GC isn't sneaking up on anyone this year.  They'll have to earn it every time out, with the target on their back.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

We've also got a roster for RWU.

As far as I can tell, everyone who should be back is back and they've added five Freshmen.  All the newcomers appear to be guards, or smallish forwards.  I don't think I'm up for researching freshmen this year; someone else is going to have to do the google searches.

[Maq Diesel]

As far as I can tell RWU roster is missing last years #1 recruit Conrad Griffin who was not as good as advertised but was a good 6'4"-6'5" swingman for them. Not sure what happened but he got a good amount of minuets off the bench and scored alright they will miss him this year.

[gullfan]

Preseason tourneys start soon. Anybody braggin' yet? EC has a tough row to hoe so I'd love to see .500 to start the season. Lots of questions. To paraphrase Paul Simon "where have you gone Matt de Georgio"!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Another random rumor alert.  Onyechi is transferring for second semester, no owrd on where.


GC travels to Emerson for a scrimmage tomorrow.

[backboard]

When Onyechi went down at the end of last year, his team was able to hang around for a while and barely missed the playoffs.  If they can continue that kind of play with the contributions for their freshmen, they could be alright.  With that being said, they could have been really good with Onyechi. coming back.

[Maq Diesel]

Gordon played at Emerson today and won by 23.  I did not get a chance to catch the game but from what I heard Gordon played sloppy.  I have seen Emmerson before and I know they play crazy pressing d-fence and that might have accounted for the sloppy play but Gordon is the better team and showed it with the winning margin.  Gordon has one more scrimage before the Tip-off tourney we will see how they look, I should be able to be at that one.  Anyone else know of any preseaon games?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Again, this is rumor from a new source.  So we'll all find out how accurate he is when the officials rosters come out.

He says Onyechi is not playing this semester and transferring to Curry for the second half.  Also, he says Montrod is not playing either.

[Maq Diesel]

I went a watched Gordon scrimage against Becker tonight and man was it ugly.  They played to games basically halfs and Gordon won the first 57-20 and their starters got less than 10 minuets of playing time.  In the second game which featured the Second half of the Gordon bench Gordon again won handily 44-24.  Gordon doesn't look like they are there wuite yet but this is going to be a very good team this year and the freshman class is going to be something special in a year or so.  As far as Onyechi goes I heard for a kid I went to high school with that went to NEC, that his injury towards the end of last year was so severe that it might have ended his carreer and he is not playing this year, but that is just what I have heard.  If he is going to Curry I would say Gordon #1 and Curry #2.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I think Curry will have a strong squad, especially with the trade off (essentially) of Lamb for Tim Jones.


However, the total lack of silence from New London is still bothering me.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC has their roster up.  It looks like they are returning most of the players from last year; Jasmin is there, but apparently he's 6'7" now.


They have a couple of upperclassmen names I don't recognize and a few freshmen, but not much height.

[heythere]

wow he grew 4 inches in the offseason, that must be nice lol

curry has a real good squad, if the transfer is true. look for them to make some major noise late in the year

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC won a scrimmage with Daniel Webster, for whatever that's worth.

They've also got a pretty good freshman pg, apparently.

[jj]

I don't think the ENC scrimmage win over Daniel Webster means much at all, BUT the news about a promising young PG is meaningful.  Who was the last good, true PG at ENC?  Been a while I think.  This may allow them to play a little more uptempo without all the turnovers they have had in recent years.

Also, it is early but the last playoff spot in the South may be up for grabs this year.  Nichols has some good players back but it looks like they lost both of their PG's from last year.  AMC has Nunally and Porcaro back and a new coach that gets alot out of his players.  ENC has returned their young players and may have added some more.  We'll see how it plays out.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Um, Matt Chewning was at ENC two season ago right?  Didn't he just graduate in '04.  That doesn't seem like a long time to me, but whatever.

The life cycle of players in here is getting short.



Who was that big dude CSC had a while back, the guy who won all those POY awards?




(Since jj may be relatively new, this is a disclaimer to point out that we're poking fun at each other and this jab should not be construed as trash talk or bad mouthing.)