MBB: NEWMAC

mass_d3fan · December 29, 2011, 01:42:02 PM

Nice article on Marco Coppola as part of the write of the game Vs WCSU.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20111229/NEWS/112299881/1009/sports

JustAFan · December 30, 2011, 10:19:06 PM

Clark loses to #22 Birmingham Southern by one, 58-57, tonight in New Orleans in the Big Easy tournament. The game was close throughout--nine ties and ten lead changes an neither team having a lead of more than 7. The key stat might have been Clark going 5-19 from three point land. The Cougars do not seem to have a guard like WPIs Coppola who can shoot them back into the game when the regular offense is sputtering.

Clark again played without leading scorer Brian Vadya, whose last game was on Nov. 29th. Clark is a senior laden team that has come together nicely in Vadya's absence and will be a tough out when league play begins next week even without Vadya. If Vadya can return (and I don't know what his injury is) they are deep enough and experienced enough to win the league tournament notwithstanding their current 7-5 record. Except for a season opening 18 point loss to RIC, they've been in every game and their losses have been by 2,3,3 and 1 to good teams (Hamilton, Becker, Western CT and B'ham Southern), 3 of which occured during Vadya's absence. Notwithstanding their record, this is one of Coach Phillips' best coaching jobs, and if Vadya returns I would not want to face them in the league tournament.

ECSUalum · December 31, 2011, 03:05:30 PM

Watching WPI/St Joes game.
Nice Video quality on the WPI site!!! Best I have seen!

WPI 54 St Joes 40

mass_d3fan · December 31, 2011, 08:54:01 PM

WPI defeats St. Joes(ME) 68-58. Better defensive effort today from the Engineers. Offensively David Brown led WPI with a career high 18 points, going 5 for 7 from 3-pt land. Matt Carr posted 16 points, 7 boards and 2 blocks. Marco Coppola had 11points and 7 assists. Sam Longwell came off the bench with 4 points and 6 rebounds.

mass_d3fan · January 01, 2012, 08:49:36 PM

Springfield loses to Eastern Conn., 59-46. Eastern completely shutdown the Pride today holding them to 31% from the field and forcing Springfield's top scorer Alex Berthiaume to and 0 for 13 and only 3 pts on the day. Jordan rote was the lone starter to score more than 5 pts as he finished with 10. Pat Rossi came off the bench to score 10. Ryan Coburn grabbed 6 boards, but was held to 3 pts.

The Pride have to regroup quickly as they travel to Cambridge on Wednesday to play #4 MIT in the conference opener for both teams.

mass_d3fan · January 02, 2012, 01:42:51 PM

Congratulations to Matt Carr of WPI for being named NEWMAC Player of the Week.

http://www.newmacsports.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/POTW/mbkbPOTW010212

Hugenerd · January 03, 2012, 04:42:04 PM

MIT receives a vote for #1 in this week's poll! Looks like the comparative performance against Salem State won someone over.

WPI89 · January 04, 2012, 12:35:06 PM

I think the WPI women's score (if you had the Lady Engineers +69 in Vegas against Amherst, you lost) was so bad, it actually dropped the men's team a couple of spots in the polls (kidding.........mostly).

mass_d3fan · January 05, 2012, 12:00:04 AM

MIT survives against Springfield, 67-59

MIT:

Tashman - 18 pts, 6 rbs, 2 assts
Hollingsworth - 14 pts, 7 rbs, 2 assts, 2 blks
Karraker - 11 pts, 2 stls
Kates - 8 pts, 5 assts
Bender - 7 pts, 8 rbs

Springfield:

Berthiaume - 16 pts, 5 assts, 2 stls
Sienkiewicz - 9 pts, 3 rbs
Rote - 9 pts, 1 stl, 1 blk
Coburn - 8 pts, 5 rbs, 1 blk

WPI beats Coast Guard, 64-53

WPI:

Carr - 12 pts, 8 rbs, 2 blks, 2 assts
Copolla - 12 pts, 5 rbs, 4 assts, 4 stls
Kolb - 9 pts, 3 rbs
Brown - 7 pts, 6 rbs
Shannnon - 4 pts, 6 assts, 3 blks

Coast Guard:

Weems - 15 pts, 3 rbs, 3 stls
Knudsen - 14 pts, 6 rbs, 4 stls
Marshall - 9 pts, 4 rbs
Fernandez - 7 rbs

Babson defeats Clark, 71-64

Palazini - 20 pts, 1 stl
Rudolph - 14 pts, 3 rbs, 3 assts
Mack - 9 pts, 5 rbs
Florio - 8 pts, 8 assts
Wickey - 6 pts, 5 rebs, 1 blk
Braithwaite - 4 pts, 7 rbs

Clark:

Bailey - 14 pts, 4 rbs, 2 assts, 1 blk
Curley - 11 pts, 2 rbs
Esborn - 9 pts, 4 rbs
Renshaw - 9 pts, 9 rbs, 2 assts
Gubitose - 8 pts, 2 rbs

Still No Brian Vayda for Clark - Anyone know what the issue is with him ?

Hugenerd · January 07, 2012, 04:00:15 PM

MIT crushes Wheaton today by 33. No player for Wheaton scored over 8 points or had more than 3 rebounds. Starters played limited minutes because of the blowout. Karraker hit 8 3s to lead MIT, Kates had 15 points.

Hugenerd · January 09, 2012, 02:25:40 PM

MIT's Jamie Karraker win's POW for the 2nd time this season, 4th time an MIT player has won out of 6 total weeks the award has been given out:

http://newmacsports.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/POTW/mbkbPOTW010912

amh63 · January 09, 2012, 04:14:21 PM

Hugenerd......It would seem that MIT should move up in the standings this week, given the lost by the 3rd ranked team last week. Maybe even get points to crowd Virginia Wes.

Hugenerd · January 09, 2012, 09:18:52 PM

Quote from: amh63 on January 09, 2012, 04:14:21 PM
Hugenerd......It would seem that MIT should move up in the standings this week, given the lost by the 3rd ranked team last week. Maybe even get points to crowd Virginia Wes.

MIT indeed moves up to 3 in the country, 21 points behind VA Wesleyan and 17 ahead of Emory (both about an average of 1 place in the poll).

MIT has their first 2 conference road games this week, but it appears they shook the rust off in the NEWMAC opener, and played pretty well against Wheaton. Hopefully they keep it rolling this week. A win on Wednesday ties MITs all-time consecutive wins mark (15).

mass_d3fan · January 10, 2012, 07:17:45 AM

Congrats to MIT for moving up to #3 and to WPI for returning to the Top 25 at #24.

Congratulations also to Jamie Karraker for his 2nd POW award.

MIT has a couple of road games, but should have no issues with Coast Guard & Babson. WPI has 2 home games this week including Wednesday against a 9-4 Trinity squad. Springfield has Babson at home & Wheaton on the road. Clark has two home games with Wheaton & Coast Guard.

Still No info on Brian Vayda's status. I haven't heard anything here. I'm starting to wonder if Clark has tried to get a medical red-shirt for him if he may be back next year for a grad year.

Hugenerd · January 10, 2012, 08:54:52 AM

Quote from: mass_d3fan on January 10, 2012, 07:17:45 AM
Still No info on Brian Vayda's status. I haven't heard anything here. I'm starting to wonder if Clark has tried to get a medical red-shirt for him if he may be back next year for a grad year.

Noel Hollingsworth did the same thing last year, after going down 6 games into the season.