MBB: NEWMAC

[WPI89]

MassD3 - Glad you are back and feeling better - just in time for the games to begin - too bad no Crimson & Gray - at least in the real tournament!

[amh63]

Welcome back Mass..D3fan!!   I too watched the UNC trample my local UMD team.  I had to turn it off since it was a mismatch on senior night in the Dean Dome.
Enjoy the D3 games you may watch.  Hope MIT and Amherst play in the Elite 8...somewhere....maybe F & M.  If so, I will attend live in . Lancaster, PA.  The last time Amherst played there in 2004, they beat the favorite host and moved on to the Final 4.

[ECSUalum]

No more bad mouthing the MIT basketball team, otherwise your in for a prank:  This article is cool

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2012/02/mit_pranks_from_giant_torpedoes_to_stolen_police_cars_.html

[WPI89]

Some great pranks - thanks for sharing the article East Conn.  One more I can add (not MIT) from second hand experience - as my best friend's brother flew cargo plains for the Navy (may have been c-130 but I think they are just Air Force?) - in 1983 - the week of the Army/Navy game - he piloted a plane that dropped 250,000 ping pong balls into Michie Stadium up at West Point - I have seen the pictures!!!!  The Army football team had to practice on the soccer field for 3 days.  Legend has it that the last verified ping pong ball was found in the stadium in 1994 (11 years later they were still cleaning up).

Could you just imagine if the press got a hold of something like that today..........simpler times my friends!

[amh63]

Thanks ECSU..and WPI89....for the stories.  I own and have read the book from which the MIT pranks on-line article draws from.  It is a classic fun read book that is obtainable somewhere on the MIT website.  My favorite pranks include putting a campus police car on the dome ...the best insider joke was interrupting the Havard-Yale football game in Cambridge with a large beach ball at half time.  The ball rose out of the playing field and resulted in clever remarks exchanged between MIT and Harvard prezs'.
The book is entitled "Nightwork" by Institute Historian ...T. F. Peteterson.  Published in 2003.  Subtitle..."A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT".   It should be obtainable at the MIT bookstore or from the MIT Press bookstore. 
Sorry about not pointing the info earlier.  The prank at the football game and the balloon with a MIT logo brought a smile to my brother who is unfortunately a Harvard man.  It happened in 1982.  Do not know if it can happen today.

[pjunito]

Those stories are what college athletics is all about... Comradely, rivalries, and growing!   Thanks for the stories!

[ECSUalum]

Some great pranks - thanks for sharing the article East Conn.  One more I can add (not MIT) from second hand experience - as my best friend's brother flew cargo plains for the Navy (may have been c-130 but I think they are just Air Force?) - in 1983 - the week of the Army/Navy game - he piloted a plane that dropped 250,000 ping pong balls into Michie Stadium up at West Point - I have seen the pictures!!!!  The Army football team had to practice on the soccer field for 3 days.  Legend has it that the last verified ping pong ball was found in the stadium in 1994 (11 years later they were still cleaning up).

Could you just imagine if the press got a hold of something like that today..........simpler times my friends!

WPI89,
Definitely an MIT Calibre prank!!!!  sooooo funny!!!!!!!!  1994 eh  hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[ECSUalum]

Thanks ECSU..and WPI89....for the stories.  I own and have read the book from which the MIT pranks on-line article draws from.  It is a classic fun read book that is obtainable somewhere on the MIT website.  My favorite pranks include putting a campus police car on the dome ...the best insider joke was interrupting the Havard-Yale football game in Cambridge with a large beach ball at half time.  The ball rose out of the playing field and resulted in clever remarks exchanged between MIT and Harvard prezs'.

amh63

So great that such brilliant guys can have such a wonderfull sense of humor!!!

Now MIT BB, go out and kick some ass!!!

[WPI89]

Holy cow - Western, Eastern, RIC, Magnus, and MIT all get going right away at 5:30 - will know early if this can be a big tourney for New England!

I can't find a loser out of that bunch but I will say those 5 go 4-1 just to be safe.

[pjunito]

When does WPI play?  Tomorrow at what time...

[WPI89]

Games are early.  First game at noon and then WPI/Bridgewater at 2:00.  Championship Sunday at noon.

[GoTech73]

MIT up 34-24 at the half.  MIT came out pretty shaky, but settled down after the first 5 minutes or so.  They have appear to have a pretty significant advantage in the paint.

[GoTech73]

MIT wins 62-55. Was a battle the whole game as Skidmore wouldn't go away, kept making 3s in the second half. Mitchell Kates played a fantastic game for the Engineers, leading all scorers with 24. Skidmore was able to totally shut down Jamie Karraker, who had no points on 3 attempts and really no decent looks all night.

[Hugenerd]

MIT wins 62-55. Was a battle the whole game as Skidmore wouldn't go away, kept making 3s in the second half. Mitchell Kates played a fantastic game for the Engineers, leading all scorers with 24. Skidmore was able to totally shut down Jamie Karraker, who had no points on 3 attempts and really no decent looks all night.

Kates almost had a triple double, I thought he was going to get it because he only needed 2 more assists with a little under 10 minutes to go.  He ended up with 24, 11, and 8.

[mass_d3fan]

HN

What is the story on Bender?  He did not play in the second half.