MBB: NEWMAC

[WPI89]

Yikes that is a haunting finish for Springfield. They missed all but one of their last 20 shots (maybe not exactly) to lose at the "buzzer".

NEWMAC 1-4. Too bad.

Can't wait for next Nov.

Lowther is all  NEWMAC minimum. Maybe NEWMAC player of the year. Looking forward to a strong WPI team.

Good luck to the sweet 16 this year.

[rlk]

Yikes that is a haunting finish for Springfield. They missed all but one of their last 20 shots (maybe not exactly) to lose at the "buzzer".

NEWMAC 1-4. Too bad.

Can't wait for next Nov.

Lowther is all  NEWMAC minimum. Maybe pjj ok sure of the year. Looking forward to a strong WPI team.

Good luck to the sweet 16 this year.

The women, however, are still in -- Smith won tonight to go to the Sweet 16.

[WPI89]

Go Smith!

[thebear]

Yikes that is a haunting finish for Springfield. They missed all but one of their last 20 shots (maybe not exactly) to lose at the "buzzer".

NEWMAC 1-4. Too bad.

Can't wait for next Nov.

Lowther is all  NEWMAC minimum. Maybe pjj ok sure of the year. Looking forward to a strong WPI team.

Good luck to the sweet 16 this year.

They led by 12 49-37 with 13:44 left, and proceeded to go 4 x 19 down the stretch, 1x10 from the arc.  :-(

[Greek Tragedy]

WPI	10-4	20-8	X Stephenson	X McNamara	X Downing	10 Walker***	X Wisniewski – Sr	9 Lowther	9 Needleman	8 Wheeler
SPRINGFIELD	13-1	23-5	X Ross – Sr	X Post – Sr	Witter – Sr	X Lindsay	X Costa	X Cummings	Baum	Sandifer
BABSON	10-4	20-7	X Coolahan – Sr	X Jaworski	X Ofring*** - Sr	X Ainge	15 Bradanese	14 Kirkpatrick	Pattyson	Bean/Welch/10 Gao
Emerson	7-7	14-12	X O' Connor – Sr	X Houston	X Waterhouse	X Martin	Beckwith	Davis***	X McLean	Holding – Sr
COAST GUARD	6-8	14-14	X Witkowski – Sr	X Baldez – Sr	X Kane – Sr	X Perez	10 Drummond	16 Cox	9 Frazier – Sr	8 Graytok – Sr
MIT	5-9	12-13	X Hinkley	14 Cho***	12 Chatziveroglou	X Pilsbury	18 Kordonowy***	10 Masys	Manyika***	Kostolansky***
Clark	3-11	8-17
Wheaton MA	2-12	7-17

[D3 Junkie]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

[Pat Coleman]

Agreed -- half the season is too little, though, really. We generally set the cutoff at two-thirds of games.

[WPI89]

^^  Greek Tragedy - great chart - what do the *** signify?

[Greek Tragedy]

^^  Greek Tragedy - great chart - what do the *** signify?

They didn't play a full season for one reason or another.  Injury? Eligibility etc. Some guys only played 6, 10, 14 games, for example.

X - starters. If there is a num er in front of the name, that's how many games they started if they didn't basically start every game. If a guy started 22 of 27 games, he just got an X.

[BaboNation]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

Yeah, what might have been.

Regarding the D3Hoops teams I'm pretty shocked that Jaworski got totally shut out.  He made the NABC 2nd team, which I thought was about right, but wasn't considered good enough for the D3Hoops 4th team?

Next year things will be interesting.  We've had 7 years with players of national prominence from within the conference (Flannery -> Ross). 

WPI returns a loaded senior class, plus Lowther, and if this 6'8" recruit (Ryan Biberon) can play they should be ranked all year.

I think MIT will make a significant jump upward with a healthy PG (Cho), greater familiarity with the rotation  playing together, and their ability to recruit outstanding student-athletes around the globe.

Babson should be in the top half of the NEWMAC.  Ideally they'll add a wing shooter and a big man/interior defender.

There are so many underclassmen within the conference who played significant minutes the future becomes more difficult to predict.  You just never know who will adjust to the college game, work on their game in the off-season, and get "coached up" to the point they look like a new star.

[Pat Coleman]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

Yeah, what might have been.

Regarding the D3Hoops teams I'm pretty shocked that Jaworski got totally shut out.  He made the NABC 2nd team, which I thought was about right, but wasn't considered good enough for the D3Hoops 4th team?

Well, our voters would say the same about Coolahan -- good enough for our team but not the NABC team?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Those two lists are very different voting panels and very different processes.  They're going to produce different results.

[BaboNation]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

Yeah, what might have been.

Regarding the D3Hoops teams I'm pretty shocked that Jaworski got totally shut out.  He made the NABC 2nd team, which I thought was about right, but wasn't considered good enough for the D3Hoops 4th team?

Well, our voters would say the same about Coolahan -- good enough for our team but not the NABC team?

Yes, I saw that.  Taking nothing away from Coolahan, who was a major contributor to the team, Jaworski is the better all-around player.  I've watched them both their whole college careers.  I don't like to lessen one player by comparing him to another, so this is awkward.

Not to make too much of one game, but since Ryan, I believe, was in attendance at the Ithaca-Babson game, it was pretty clear that without Jaworski, Babson wouldn't have been able to hang with Ithaca as long as they did.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

Yeah, what might have been.

Regarding the D3Hoops teams I'm pretty shocked that Jaworski got totally shut out.  He made the NABC 2nd team, which I thought was about right, but wasn't considered good enough for the D3Hoops 4th team?

Well, our voters would say the same about Coolahan -- good enough for our team but not the NABC team?

Yes, I saw that.  Taking nothing away from Coolahan, who was a major contributor to the team, Jaworski is the better all-around player.  I've watched them both their whole college careers.  I don't like to lessen one player by comparing him to another, so this is awkward.

Not to make too much of one game, but since Ryan, I believe, was in attendance at the Ithaca-Babson game, it was pretty clear that without Jaworski, Babson wouldn't have been able to hang with Ithaca as long as they did.

There were a number of games Coolahan kept them in, too.  It seemed like a team effort most of the year.  Hard to pick one star on that team, especially once Oftring went down.  I was impressed all around with how they responded to the loss.  That game was a truly impressive performance, even in the loss.

[BaboNation]

I definitely understand why he couldn't make an All Region team due to injury, but Frank Oftring might have been the best big man in New England this year. In his 4 games against 4 other All-Region big men (Rogers, Post, Stephenson, Rapoza), he averaged 17 points and 8.3 boards on 65%(!) shooting. This includes 29 and 10 on 11-16 against first team big man Rogers from Tufts.

A few incredible performances that can't be overlooked regardless of how many games he played.

Yeah, what might have been.

Regarding the D3Hoops teams I'm pretty shocked that Jaworski got totally shut out.  He made the NABC 2nd team, which I thought was about right, but wasn't considered good enough for the D3Hoops 4th team?

Well, our voters would say the same about Coolahan -- good enough for our team but not the NABC team?

Yes, I saw that.  Taking nothing away from Coolahan, who was a major contributor to the team, Jaworski is the better all-around player.  I've watched them both their whole college careers.  I don't like to lessen one player by comparing him to another, so this is awkward.

Not to make too much of one game, but since Ryan, I believe, was in attendance at the Ithaca-Babson game, it was pretty clear that without Jaworski, Babson wouldn't have been able to hang with Ithaca as long as they did.

There were a number of games Coolahan kept them in, too.  It seemed like a team effort most of the year.  Hard to pick one star on that team, especially once Oftring went down.  I was impressed all around with how they responded to the loss.  That game was a truly impressive performance, even in the loss.

So true.  Be well.