MBB: Colonial States Athletic Conference

[Coach K]

First of all, welcome back to everyone. Looking forward to another year of D3 bball.

Danny Miller is about a 6'2-6'3 Forward from Lehighton, PA. He was a 1000 point scorer up there, and a decent athlete who never really reached his potential as a player. He did go division one for track to Mount St. Mary's; don't know why he left, however. He can shoot the ball a little bit, and can penetrate and get to the rim, but the biggest question with him is the mental part of his game. For the record, Lehighton had 3 coaches in the 4 years he was there. This prevented him from making progress as a player, although some say the reason for the coaching changes up there was because of him and his family, depends who you talk to. 

Good luck to the Crusaders, lets win one more PAC title before heading to the MAC!

[Coach C]

Jeff was a very nice young man, dedicated and hard working.  My best wishes to his family and friends at this terrible time.

C

[MR. PAC]

The vern look great against Catholic tonight.

[MR. PAC]

My predictions for the PAC this year are.


1. Alvernia
2.Eastern
3.Immaculata
4.GM
5.Cabrini
6.Neumann
7.Marywood
8.Miseri
9. centenary

[MR. PAC]

After that game against Catholic. Terrence Shawell is a lock for PAC player of the year.

[Jon]

PAC Preseason Poll released on Tuesday...

1. Alvernia    
2. Immaculata      
3. Gwynedd-Mercy      
4. Eastern   
5. Misericordia                   
6. Neumann             
7. Cabrini                 
8. Marywood                 
9. Centenary              

Alvernia opens up the season with Landmark Conference preseason favorite Scranton Friday night at 8:00.  That game, like all Alvernia home contests, will be webcast free of charge through the Alvernia Athletics homepage athletics.alvernia.edu

The season-opening tournament, the Tom Masano Auto Group/Sheraton Reading Tip-Off, also features two NAIA Top 25 teams, Walsh (7th) and Point Park (23rd).

[njlincolnlion]

Just a quick question:  Does anybody know how to get in touch with Kyle Myrick from Lincoln?

Just found out Kyle Myrick will be playing basketball for the Apollon F.C. in Cyprus for the 2007-2008 season.

[MR. PAC]

Where is everybody? Alvernia goes down in their first two games, but they were against two pretty good teams.

[hoopzwiz]

Slow start to the PAC board.
Good early season wins by Neumann at F&M and Immaculatta against DII Chestnut Hill.

I saw Alvernia in the openning tournament, they're still really good.  Can't see anyone beating them in a playoff game in Reading.

Gwynedd off to hot start. Cabrini seemingly improved. 

Misericordia, Marywood and Centenary........enough said.

Should be alot to talk about.

[MR. PAC]

Hoopwiz, agree with almost all of it. I don't know how good Chestnut Hill really is?

[Jon]

Is anyone tuning into various webcasts around the conference?  I know a few of us are providing audio/video streams of ALL home games and the conference is requiring all conference games to be audio streamed at the least.

I'm just looking for an informal poll of the audience to see what works and what doesn't.

Alvernia is at Eastern for a doubleheader on Saturday followed by two at Immaculata on Monday.

The annual Alvernia/Albright game is scheduled as the third game of a tripleheader at the Sovereign Center in Reading on Saturday, December 15.

2:00 - Boyertown High School vs. Reading High School
4:00 - Maryland Nighthawks vs. Reading Railers
7:00 - Albright vs. Alvernia

Ticket information can be found at http://athletics.alvernia.edu/sports/2007/11/14/MBB_1114073451.aspx?id=780

Former Alvernia Crusaders Ray Strickland and Brad Merriweather are both part of the Railers roster.

[WolfPAC]

Is anyone tuning into various webcasts around the conference?  I know a few of us are providing audio/video streams of ALL home games and the conference is requiring all conference games to be audio streamed at the least.

I'm just looking for an informal poll of the audience to see what works and what doesn't.

Alvernia is at Eastern for a doubleheader on Saturday followed by two at Immaculata on Monday.

The annual Alvernia/Albright game is scheduled as the third game of a tripleheader at the Sovereign Center in Reading on Saturday, December 15.

2:00 - Boyertown High School vs. Reading High School
4:00 - Maryland Nighthawks vs. Reading Railers
7:00 - Albright vs. Alvernia

Ticket information can be found at http://athletics.alvernia.edu/sports/2007/11/14/MBB_1114073451.aspx?id=780

Former Alvernia Crusaders Ray Strickland and Brad Merriweather are both part of the Railers roster.

Jon,   caught an audio and a video of a couple of Cabrini games.  The audio and live stats work well,  the video is a bit unclear(pixels)  and the panning of the camera is slow.   A few steals were happening while the camera stayed focused on the empty floor at the opposite baseline where the action was much earlier.   Overall a great concept,  with the announcers not too biased, friendly, and knowledgeable.  Just that you hear about a great steal and lay up while the camera is down the other end.  Frustrating at times. Perhaps the bugs are being worked out.    Thank you for  thinking of the viewer.  The PAC will benefit no doubt.

[Pat Coleman]

I see Alvernia has video links posted on our site -- hope the rest of the league follows through with their audio links. Would be great for listenership.

[Jon]

Wolfy,

Good to hear from you again.  Thanks for the feedback.  Every school is in charge of providing the manpower to run a webcast.  Our webcasts are just about entirely student run, which I think is a great resume builder for our communications majors.  I would have loved to have this opportunity in college.

It may be worth a quick email to the athletic department at Cabrini to just say, "Hey thanks for allowing us fans to follow the games LIVE on the net..." with a few suggestions to follow.  We all like to know at the very least that people are watching!

Enjoy the rest of the season.

[MR. PAC]

I was at  alvernia vs. Immaculata and both teams played very poorly. Immaculata beat Alvernia up inside.In my mind Alvernia is the better team, because Miller missed just about the whole preseason due to illness, and Shawell and King are the best tandem in the PAC.Also, Westmoreland is a tough young PG.He can guard any guard in D3.



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