MBB: City University of New York Athletic Conference

[Danny Weismuller]

A few points....

I def agree AG but Hall and Phillips do run that whole team, without either one of them.. Tech is probably has a similiar record to Medgar.

If Wilson from York made it wouldn't you think Marlon Smith would get in as well?

Talk about a snub for Brooklyn, Corey McFarlane is 1st in steals, 3rd in assists, 12th in scoring and 23rd in rebounds as a Point guard on the first place team. Nesbitt is 5th in scoring, 3rd in steals.

This is all good but as we know these awards don't mean anything unless you do it in the playoffs.

[Rhodes Scholar]

I agree that McFarlane and Nisbett were two of the best players not named all-conference. Another player not named who I was impressed with when I saw him was Kallai Sharpe of Medgar Evers. He's very quick, can shoot from outside and also has a nice pull-up jumper. He gave Hunter and Baruch a lot of trouble.

Podias clearly deserved Coach of the Year. The Bridges had an excellent regular season going 20-5 and 10-3 in the CUNYAC. That's quite a leap forward from their last four seasons when they went 8-43 in conference play.

[knight_life]

It has begin:

The tournament starts off with a bang, #2 Brooklyn and #3 CSI are both gone as John Jay and City Tech advance. York advances with a five point win over Lehman and now all that remains in the Battle of Lexington: Part 3.

Have to love the parody of the CUNYAC!

[xalva66]

parody is not the word. 1st team all-star mesjasz goes 0-12 from the field and 3 lower seeds make it to the semi-finals. Hunter vs Baruch was not a game. Marlon Smith dropped 37 points. it was ugly. hunter took it up to 30 and won by 24.

[NYBB]

Ahahaha Jamal Hall had a quadruple double!  Assists, Points, REbounds & TO's in their win against BK!!!

Let me also add that the BEST PG in D3 (Not Andrew Olson) scored 37 points today against Baruch, along with Gerard's 18, Dodd's 20 & Millien's 11.  Joe DeLuca didn't even play and with the upsets today (aside from York), I think Hunter is going to take this down easy.

[Rhodes Scholar]

CUNYAC Quarterfinal Results

#1 York 59, #8 Lehman 54
#7 NYC Tech 88, #2 Brooklyn 78
#6 John Jay 63, #3 CSI 59
#5 Hunter 90, #4 Baruch 67

As xalva66 noted there were three wins today by the lower seeds. York was the only higher seed that won. I saw two games: City Tech at Brooklyn and Hunter at Baruch.

Let's start with NYC Tech at Brooklyn. The Yellow Jackets led all the way and deserved to win. Jamal Hall played very well as did Ryan Phillip. Omar Mahoney showed why City Tech is not just a two-man team by repeatedly burning Brooklyn with threes and occasionally hitting a pull-up jumper. The big gun, however, was Hall, who waltzed around a variety of Brooklyn defenders the entire game. City Tech threatened to blow it open on a number of occasions but the Bridges managed to keep it respectable. It looked like Brooklyn was a bit tight today and City Tech, despite numerous turnovers down the stretch, played with a lot of confidence.

I must admit I thought Baruch was going to beat Hunter, especially when I found out that DeLuca wasn't going to play. But Marlon Smith wasn't going to let Hunter lose. He simply dominated the game and was head and shoulders above any other player on the court. He literally toyed with Baruch today, and that was the first time I saw him do that since he started playing at Hunter. In addition to Smith, Ciarleglio and Dodd also had good games. If Hunter plays like they did today, they will definitedly win the conference tournament.

[BubbaChuck3]

 CSI's best player, 6-foot-8 junior center Sean Weismuller, had quit the team abruptly in December and transferred to rival Brooklyn College, where he became immediately eligible and played the second semester.
   "You could probably safely say he ruined two teams," speculated CSI head coach Tony Petosa of the conference's preseason Player of the Year, "in one single season."

    These comments made by Tony Petosa just accentuate the fact that he is a huge coward. Last year, when Sean was dominating the CUNY for the Dolphins and led them to within 3 seconds of a CUNY title, Sean was Petosa's golden boy, Petosa would have taken a bullet for the young man.
  But now, because Sean left CSI for whatever reason, he turned from hero to hated. Petosa instead had a scapegoat for his season, something to deflect attention from the fact that maybe he just doesn't have it anymore as a coach. He now could say, well Sean's untimely loss broke my team apart and there was no putting it back together. Which ironically, nobody on the CSI side of things was saying when they went on an 8 game CUNY win streak, when everyone was saying that Sean's departure made them a better team. It's funny how quickly people lose their dignity, as soon as something goes wrong, they instantly give an excuse. No Tony Petosa, be a man. Sean Weismuller did not ruin two teams in a single season. He ruined neither. Maybe Tony Petosa ruined the CSI Dolphins, by not only driving Sean away, but by just not being able to hack it anymore as a coach. Maybe you should hang up the old clipboard there coach.

[xalva66]

where did that comment by petosa come from?

[BubbaChuck3]

for the entire article, including petosa's pathetic comments see here:

http://www.silive.com/sports/advance/index.ssf?/base/Sports/120324690067500.xml&coll=1

[xalva66]

NYBB,

Slow down with saying that Hunter is going to win it easily. The have to play York in the second round which I am sure is going to be a fantastic game. There is no bigger Hunter booster on this message board than me. Dont look past any of the teams who advanced. There are reasons why John Jay and City Tech had upsets in the first round. Regardless what the outcomes from Saturday's games are. The conference still has no clear cut favorite regardless how well Hunter played on Saturday. York squeeked out the win against Lehman and two lower seeds win in upsets. Yes I agree with Rhodes, if Hunter plays the way they did Saturday on Tuesday expect them to be in the finals on Friday but thats a big if, they need to have solid defensive games and that is all that is going to matter.

[Danny Weismuller]

Since I'm away this weekend, I'm following the games through the internet. I heard the BC/Tech game was ugly. It sounds like a lack of defense is something which haunted this team all season and caught up to them again.

On Petosa's comments....

Hmmm... All I could say is comments like that proves that my brother made the right decision.  Mistreatment from the coaching staff before and after he left made his decision an easy one. "Runied two teams" is a strong comment to make.  Petosa's star player goes 0-12 from the field and he wants to talk about my brother is the reason they lost.

Writer for the staten Island advance Jim Waggoner is another one who loved to mention my brother with negative connotations whenever he got the chance. CSI was just knocked out of the playoffs and the first thing mentioned is my brother's departure???
I don't know who Bubbachuck is but he is correct in stating that during their winning streak... all their comments was "they are playing so good as a team now and they are so together"...blah blah blah....

Anyway.. I could go on and on about all this stuff....but fact is..my brother is much happier where he is.. athletically and academically...and brooklyn has a bright future with only one graduating senior. 

[d3cunybbhoops]

Anyone who knows anything about Coach Tony Petosa would know that not only is he one of the long time class acts of the CUNY conference, who does things the right way, but that he would not make disparaging remarks in the press regarding one of his players, past, present, or future. Those comments, whether taken out of context, misquoted, or perhaps said in a moment of frustration or disappointment following a tough loss, should not be given any more credence than they deserve.  Whether it be Dennis Echols, Sean Weismuller, or any other player who can't commit to playing, practicing, and acting the way Coach Petosa demands, he has never stood in anyone's way of transferring and getting to a situation that is better for them, in fact he helps them as he always has. There is no one on this board or anywhere else that will be able to deny that fact with any shred of truth behind it.  Bottom line is that CSI and Brooklyn both lost and it has very little, if anything, to do with one player who left one team and ended up on another.  Good luck to the rest of the squads; York-Hunter on Tuesday should be a battle of epic proportions - and if you didn't hear the words for yourself, keep your comments positive and good luck to everyone the rest of the way.

[NYCGATORfan]

I didn't see the game but it sounds like the main weakness the Bridges showed all year came up to bite them against City Tech. The Bridges have been soft interior defenders and extremely soft defensive rebounders all year. From what I heard on the radio, the Bridges got killed on the glass.

Jump shots can run hot and cold, but with the Bridges unable to get those boards, they must've been tight trying to catch up to the Yellow Jackets.

With all the athleticism Jean-Baptiste and Weismuller show, they still need to get tougher. It's just like in the NBA, no matter how athletic a frontcourt is, if it isn't tough, it will struggle in the postseason.


What an intriguing second round though!

Hunter vs York is one hell of a matchup, and John Jay vs City Tech will have a cinderella trip to the Finals.

[Danny Weismuller]

cunybbhoops: I have much respect for the program at CSI.. I hope Petosa didn't make those comments verbatum as the paper said "speculating" 
Those comments are fine to make but don't use a loss of a player as a scapegoat for losing.

And Gator.. you are right about defense. I said it about a month ago that the bridges can score with anyone but defending is a different story.

City tech or John Jay will be in the finals which is pretty crazy.

[xalva66]

Just my opinion, I believe Petosa should have won the Coach Of The Year. He lost the Preseason Player Of The Year in the middle of the season and CSI won 8 straight games.