MBB: City University of New York Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Especially for Wayne Coffey, who's been a friend to Division III in the past.

[Rhodes Scholar]

CUNYAC teams went 1-6 yesterday against out-of-conference teams. Staten Island got the sole victory beating Hood, 81-73 in overtime.

[xalva66]

Hunter lost to Amherst last night 103-79  but beat SUNY-PURCHASE in the consolation game 80-43. They take on Manhattanville on Tuesday and then Wilkes next Saturday. Any predictions or possible pre-season CUNY rankings.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Hunter lost to Amherst last night 103-79  but beat SUNY-PURCHASE in the consolation game 80-43. They take on Manhattanville on Tuesday and then Wilkes next Saturday. Any predictions or possible pre-season CUNY rankings.

I haven't seen any CUNYAC teams play this year, so I'm not making any predictions. My guess is that there's going to be a lot of parity this year. What's your take on Hunter this year? Except for Ciraleglio and Evans they have an entirely new team.

[xalva66]

havent seen them play yet but only losing to the defending national champions by 23 isnt a bad start.

[Rhodes Scholar]

John Jay is 2-0 this year against NJAC teams. The Bloodhounds beat Montclair State, 72-62, on Nov. 17 and they beat Ramapo, 80-75, last night at Ramapo. Both victories are big for John Jay, but the latter win is more prestigious and a pretty substantial upset.

[Truck]

Rhodes,

Did you see that Ramapo game in person?

[Rhodes Scholar]

Rhodes,

Did you see that Ramapo game in person?

No. I saw William Paterson at City Tech last night.

[Billy 40]

This would be the best of the worst tournament. When did they run this Tourney? Brooklyn was D1 in basketball before they shut down teh program - half of their players were from Texas and the otehr schools in Brooklyn, with teh exception of St. Francis woudl have been blown out by possible triple digits.

[swingO]

 The tournament was a DIII type tournament which featured Pratt when they were pretty decent in the early 90's, Medgar Evers, Polytechnic Univ. and St. Joseph's College. Now with Brooklyn College and New York City Tech, the idea is to get a local rivalry tournament going since these DIII games between the schools are very competitive and now they all belong to conferences.  If you're looking for DI tourneys in Brooklyn, only two schools fit the profile. So as far as DIII fans go, King of Kings would be the best of DIII Brooklyn Schools.

[Rhodes Scholar]

I watched Stevens beat CCNY, 70-57, earlier this evening at City. The Ducks led all the way, but CCNY kept it reasonably close throughout the contest. Stevens did not look like a top 25 team and will have to play better if they want to rank among the nation's elite.

Stevens has far more size and talent than CCNY, but the visitors didn't put it together against the scrappy Beavers. Tim Williams and Virgil Gray played well for Stevens, but Waleed Farid, who is probably their best player, had a very poor outing.

City got decent performances from Xavier Gonzalez and Franklin Canales, but Taleek Norman, the leading scorer for the Beavers, struggled. CCNY is a young team with a lot of new faces. A lack of experience and a lack of size will probably hurt them this year.

[hopefan]

Good grief  -  no comments on York beating NYU, at NYU  -  in my Midwestern/UAA oriented view of things, that has to be a huge upset!!??

[Rhodes Scholar]

Good grief  -  no comments on York beating NYU, at NYU  -  in my Midwestern/UAA oriented view of things, that has to be a huge upset!!??

Last year it would have been a huge upset, but not this year. NYU lost five of their top six players and their talent level has fallen dramatically. It seems certain that NYU is going to be in for a tough season.

[Rhodes Scholar]

After taking in the Stockton @ Baruch game, I went uptown to watch the Keystone @ Hunter game. The Hawks won their home opener, 82-79. These two teams are evenly matched and the game was close from the opening tip.

Hunter has a lot of new faces and actually has some muscle for the first time in years. Gerard Ciarleglio and Lance Evans are their only two returning players. As far as the newcomers go, Joseph DeLuca, Frantz Millien and Michael Dodd appear to be the best of the lot. DeLuca can score down low and has a pretty good outside touch. Millien is physical and can get you some garbage baskets. Dodd is a good three-point shooter who is accurate when he can plant his feet.

The best player on the floor, however, was Keystone's Tercel Taylor, a 5-10 shooting guard. Taylor is a good shooter who can run the floor and take it to the basket as well. He's a very good overall player and is only a freshman.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Does anyone have any info on Brooklyn? The Kingsmen are now 5-1 with wins against Greensboro and York (NY). It should be noted that Greensboro dealt #7 Guilford their only loss of the season this year.