MBB: NEWMAC

[7express]

Anyone get any info on Clark this year??  Western gets them on Monday night in a game I think was added pretty late because when our originally schedule game out (early September) the game wasn't on there.

[Hugenerd]

They are a much better team with All-NEWMAC forward Brian Vayda in the lineup. He has missed the last few games, although I am unsure of the cause.

[mass_d3fan]

WPI bounces back with a 100-80 in over Fitchburg St. 

Carr – 26 pts, 6 rebs
Coppola – 22 pts, 5 assts
Galloway – 10pts, 4 rebs
Mastascusa – 10pts, 5 rebs
Brown 9 pts, 4 assts
Shannon – 5 pts, 7 assts
Kolb – 9pts, 3 rebs

Carr & Galloway combined to go 5 for 5 from beyond the arc.

Merry Christmas To All !!!

[Hugenerd]

MIT-Tufts highlights:

http://mitbasketball.blogspot.com/2011/12/7-mit-wins-thriller-at-tufts.html

[mass_d3fan]

Congrats to Jamie Karraker for being named NEWMAC Player of the Week! 

[Hugenerd]

New rankings are out, MIT climbs to #4, WPI drops to #20.

[WPI89]

#4 is pretty cool.  I could see an ESPN segment coming soon.  Congrats to those Engineers.  Tough to win every night but their main obstacles may be the 2 games against WPI!

Assuming they are done till break - I have not looked?

[Hugenerd]

They play their last non-conference game against Wheelock tomorrow and then are off until January.

[amh63]

There is a D3hoops front page story that Wheelock has replaced its head coach....the only one it ever had.  Should be interesting to see how the team reacts to the change of coaches in the upcoming game against MIT.

[Hugenerd]

There is a D3hoops front page story that Wheelock has replaced its head coach....the only one it ever had.  Should be interesting to see how the team reacts to the change of coaches in the upcoming game against MIT.

They already played 2 games since the resignation, including last night against Mt. Ida, which they won. Their coach now is the AD, without any assistants, who used to be the Curry women's coach.

[Hugenerd]

MIT gets an early commitment, 6'8" Miles Nolting from Florida:

http://www.pinecrest.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=123277&rc=0

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXJcGGuWVc

[toooldtoplay]

Interesting. Has a hook shot a bit like Hollingsworth. Next center in training next year??

From source hoops scouting service:

Miles Nolting, 6'9 center, Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest: No player, and I mean no player, surprised us the way Nolting did.  He looks like your average tall, plodding post player that can't jump over the daily paper.  Once the ball went up, those thoughts went out the window.  Nolting scored on jump hooks inside, connected on a baseline drive after using a ball-fake to lift the defender out of position, knocked down an eighteen footer and dunked home a couple of offensive rebounds.  He has good touch around the rim for putbacks, passes well from both the high and low post areas and plays very hard.  No, he isn't a great athlete but his performance will certainly put more letters in his mailbox.

[Hugenerd]

Article about Bartolotta overseas this season:

http://mitbasketball.blogspot.com/2011/12/bartolotta-continues-dominance-overseas.html?m=0

[mass_d3fan]

Tough loss for WPI today against Western Conn.

Carr played very well, even with foul issues.  He posted a double-double with 22 points and 11 boards and kept the Colonials from doing much of anything inside.  Offensively, Coppola had 24 and Jamie Shannon put up 17.

Brooks scored 40 and got the line for almost twice as many attempts as the entire WPI team - although 11 of them came in the final 1:18 of the game. He also had a game-high 9 assists.

As I posted earlier on the LEC forum, the difference in this game was WCSU's ability to hit the open 3s (14 for 25) that WPI seemed to keep gift wrapping for them.  The Engineers were defending the interior fine (No surprise, we all knew Western was not going to win this game by going inside anyway), but they kept coming off the Colonials perimeter shooters anyway.  Brooks had 6 assists in the first half, all of them leading to 3's, including a 4-pt play by Ryan Pelletier to close out the half.  The Engineers never adjusted to the fact they could not keep sliding off to help where help was not required.  Coach Campbell did a great job managing Brooks and keeping him focused.

Good win for the Colonials on the road. 

Not quite sure what to make of this, but apparently senior Fernando Perez and junior Ricardo Bonhomme are no longer on the team.  They were not listed on today's program and tonight when I looked at the stats page, they are listed now as not active.

[mass_d3fan]

Clark wins easily over Southern Maine, 82-62.  Vayda did not play again.

Travis Curley (23pts), Mitch Renshaw(15pts), DJ Bailey(13), Tucker Esborn(10pts) and Drew Billington(7assts) led the Cougars.