MBB: City University of New York Athletic Conference

D-ro · December 31, 2008, 10:35:56 PM

I can say personally that Lehman college has a great team this season. im a member of the team in my fourth year playing for Coach Schulman. My freshman year playing with Sekani Franci, Willy Vargas and Kyle Lockett was the strongest team i played on in terms of talent and size, but this years team has more togetherness than the other squad. I think we demonstrated that just being able to play together will give us an opportunity to win games.

the game against William Patterson was proof of that. I think everybody felt we had no chance to win but we were able to fight against those odds. William Patterson is a great program, they have a great head coach and staff, and also great players. For Lehman, a city program, to have battled with this team down to the last second shows that we are serious contenders in the cuny conference and maybe in the atlantic region.

bks-best · January 01, 2009, 06:46:01 PM

ok lets be realistic now...leman college winning the cuny chip? got to be out of your mind to think that..yes leman is in the top 5 in cuny, but they dont have what it takes to win the cuny championship. they will not beat brooklyn,baruch,city, or york. take my words, they will not beat any of these teams come playoffs time.

nycfinest197 · January 01, 2009, 11:42:19 PM

I have to agree with D-ro, lehman has by far the best talent in cuny right now.. if you compare the cuny teams player by player lehman is very deep. 10 players deep in the rotation, they even got a better team than brooklyn on paper, but its on the court that will prove it.. don't be surprise if lehman gets on another wining streak and takes cuny..

CunyPlayer03 · January 02, 2009, 04:47:46 PM

I was wondering if anyone has seen any of the freshman this year and if you have, how do see you believe they will impact CUNYAC in future years....

I been told that there is a few freshman that are impacting right away.....

Jordan Young at CSI
James Abrams at City Tech
Jonathan DeJesus at Lehman
Chris Beauchamp at Baruch
Vincent Roberts at CCNY
Keith Thorton at York

D-ro · January 03, 2009, 05:56:08 AM

In response to bks-best, you cant seriously believe what you said.... we all seen brooklyn lose in the first round last year and we all seen john jay take the chip with a losing record, so to say lehman wont be able to beat any of those teams you named, only time will tell....this conference is very unpredictable and records really dont matter when it comes to some games

JWill · January 05, 2009, 12:12:00 PM

I can't really say what Lehman will do but it takes more than just talent to win a championship. They are a lot of other factors, time will though. Baruch went 1-1 in a tought tournmant down in Daytona. They're non-confernce schedule will really help them come conference play I think.
But knowing CUNY its know telling what team will have what player this half of the season.

JWill · January 05, 2009, 12:15:35 PM

Oh yeah for the record Baruch beat Lehman that year with Vargas, Lockett, and Franci in the semi to go to the championship that year.

BklynBasketball · January 05, 2009, 02:29:38 PM

i personally have to say the CUNY looks wide open to me this year. Bklyn was obviously preseason favorites, Baruch has been tearing it up this season and HAS to be in the mix. Lehman as Duane said is tough, City Tech has beefed up and is doing well, Hunter is in the mix, I mean you cant count out too m any of the CUNYS you know>?

knight_life · January 05, 2009, 05:01:52 PM

The scariest part of it all is that John Jay was in a similar situation at this point last year, but then had that big run and won the title. The CUNYAC is wide open, especially with the deep playoff format is currently has, many of the other conferences only advance six teams or in some sports four teams to the playoffs. So the eight team deep format leaves the door open for a John Jay type of team to steal the show.

I think this will be a big week, the ever popular Baruch/Hunter match-up and Brooklyn/City Tech on Wednesday and then Lehman/Hunter on Friday at Lexington. That's all the unbeaten squads going at this week, I think we will have a better picture of who's where come Monday....at least in terms of seeding as I stated above, its anyone's title this year.

D-ro · January 06, 2009, 05:20:06 PM

when baruch beat lehman that year with francis, vargas and lockett....baruch had a very good squad with Fedika, Karros, Roberts, and embengo (is it)... that team was no joke.

JWill · January 08, 2009, 11:21:28 AM

Another win for Baruch a blow out win over Hunter College.

Rhodes Scholar · January 08, 2009, 11:39:47 AM

I saw Baruch dominate Hunter last night. The Hawks were never in the game. Baruch got out to a big lead and Hunter was unable to mount any kind of comeback. Hilaire, Farid and Kunkel all played well for Baruch. Millien was the lone bright spot for Hunter. Baruch played like a team, while Hunter played like a bunch of individuals.

knight_life · January 08, 2009, 12:52:36 PM

I was there as well, the absence of Hunter's head coach could not have helped the team any. After speaking with one of the fans in the crowd, the head coach was with his wife who was in labor. The Bearcats just dominated from the start, the Hawks really looked like a team without any guidance whatsoever, by far the worst game I've seen them play all season, I was at the two NJAC games vs. William Paterson and Rutgers-Newark.

The last time those two teams played, it was the quarterfinal game last season where Hunter put a similar beating on Baruch, so I'm sure the were fired up for the rematch where as Hunter's team is virtually all new and probably didn't even know of that game last season.

BubbaChuck3 · January 08, 2009, 12:54:05 PM

While on the topic of dominant performances, how about Brooklyn thoroughly dominating City Tech? I was not at the game, but looking at the box score Brooklyn seemingly dismantled Tech 92-62, with a balanced effort from their entire team.

Rhodes Scholar · January 08, 2009, 01:17:48 PM

knight_life: The absence of Plevritis certainly didn't help, but I don't know how much of a difference he would have made. Hunter lacked any kind of cohesion and direction. Also, DeLuca has to stay out of foul trouble. He had the same problem last year, as did Millien. Plus, Flagg has a lot of athletic ability and talent, but he was forcing the issue yesterday and was not very productive.

BubbaChuck3: Sounds like Brooklyn was firing on all cylinders. I was expecting a far closer contest. In addition, I'm looking forward to seeing Lehman play.