MBB: NEWMAC

amh63 · January 07, 2013, 10:44:03 AM

WPI89.....been awaiting your break down of the Babson-WPI mismatch! Your school's SID was on last night's D3hoops broadcast to access the NE. Where have you been?

WPI89 · January 07, 2013, 01:27:43 PM

Coaching 5th grade hoops. Watching my daughter play HS hoops. Despite WPI's incredible season thus far - I have only seen a few games on video and none live yet. Your boy Racy down has reeled off 4 or 5 very nice games in a row. His "little" brother has become the 3rd option for the team as well.

Heading up to Worcester twice in February but nothing "live" until then.

mass_d3fan · January 07, 2013, 01:44:50 PM

WPI89

I can't add anything on this game beyond the box score. I spent my weekend enjoying the lovely strain of the flu running around the Northeast this winter.

It looks like they did a good job on Wickey (1 for 10 shooting) and Babson shot an embarassing 2 for 24 from beyond the arc. Wish I had seen it, but alas...

MIT looks to have finally figured out their game some. Matt Redfield appears to be eveloving into that 3rd scoring option and presence in the paint alond with Tashman.

mass_d3fan · January 08, 2013, 01:14:57 PM

Congrats to WPI for reaching #8 in the D3Hoops poll. I believe this is the highest ranking ever for the Engineers.

Also kudos to Matt Refield for being named NEWMAC Player Of The Week for the 2nd time.

WPI89 · January 08, 2013, 02:36:10 PM

You beat me to it Massd3 - I was going to ask you - I can't find any higher ranking? They got to 15 with Ryan Cain and the team 2 years ago got to #13 in the country - I can't find anything higher than that. Don't think the 1984 final 8 team was ever ranked that high (if there even were rankings).

Maybe Dave or Pat have a way to look it up but I couldn't find any top 10 rankings - although I feel like they may have snuck in there at some point in the recent past.

mass_d3fan · January 08, 2013, 04:35:37 PM

Two years ago the team led by Robinson, Carr, Etten, Nadeu, etc got as high as #10 in week 11.

The 05-06 team led by Cain, Flynn, etc got to #13 in week 10. I thought one of those teams led by Cain got to #9, but I may be mistaken.

Hugenerd · January 08, 2013, 04:37:09 PM

Big early (conference) season matchup tonight, with MIT @ Springfield. Should be fun to see where the two teams stackup against eachother. I hope MIT will be able to utilize their size advantage: Springfield doesn't play anyone over 6'5" and MIT starts 4 players 6'6" or taller (with 6 to 7 players that height or taller in the rotation, even in the absence of the injured Hollingsworth and Levene), with the other starter being Mitchell Kates. The game will be Kates' 100th for his career (99th for Tashman, as he played one less game their freshman season).

Speaking of Kates, congrats to him for reaching 5th on the all-time scoring list, with 1490 points. He is also now the career assists leader at MIT, as he closes in on 500 for his career (476 currently). Kates entered the season already leading the MIT career steals list (he is currently at 228). Congrats also to Will Tashman for moving into 2nd on the all-time rebounding list (870 currently) and moving into 18th on the all-time scoring list (1152 points).

WPI89 · January 08, 2013, 10:04:16 PM

Crimson and Gray 14-0. Gets interesting Thursday vs a Worcester State team playing well right now.

7express · January 08, 2013, 10:33:54 PM

Quote from: WPI89 on January 08, 2013, 10:04:16 PM
Crimson and Gray 14-0. Gets interesting Thursday vs a Worcester State team playing well right now.

If Western Connecticut can beat them and Dartmouth only loses to them by 1 (who's atrocious) then I don't see how the #8 team in the country doesn't beat them either.

WPI89 · January 09, 2013, 10:34:47 AM

Agreed but Worcester Sate also scored 100 at Trinity, lost to Magnus by 2, beat Springfield, crushed Clark, and beat St John Fisher. Just seems like they may have a pretty high upside - albeit some major inconsistency.

WPI89 · January 09, 2013, 10:35:44 AM

Springfield beats MIT in the 50's. Nerd any detail?

7express · January 09, 2013, 10:58:38 AM

Quote from: WPI89 on January 09, 2013, 10:34:47 AM
Agreed but Worcester Sate also scored 100 at Trinity, lost to Magnus by 2, beat Springfield, crushed Clark, and beat St John Fisher. Just seems like they may have a pretty high upside - albeit some major inconsistency.

That's true. Some teams just get up for big games, and especially an inter-city game like this one. I mean look at Western: lost to AMC by 6, beat that Worcester team, beat Clark (both on the road), tied with Keene state at halftime albeit falling short at the end, but then they lose to Mitchell by 20, lose at home in back to back games to TCNJ & WNEU two bottom dwellers of their conferences. That's why you play the game, I still think WPI takes them.

Also, not to nitpick, but they scored 100, but they went to Overtime. Trinity scored 93, IIRC. And that game wasn't a true road game either; it was played @ UMass-Dartmouth.

Hugenerd · January 09, 2013, 12:10:06 PM

Quote from: WPI89 on January 09, 2013, 10:35:44 AM
Springfield beats MIT in the 50's. Nerd any detail?

Nope, other than MIT had 2 more starters out, Justin Pedley and Reinier Strobos, in addition to Dennis Levene and Paul Dawson (plus the obvious Karraker and Hollingsworth). MIT was still up by 5 with about 3 minutes to play, but they were unable to close it out. Burke and Frankel had pretty decent nights for the Engineers, but Tashman and Kates had really poor shooting nights and Redfield had 6 turnovers.

I dont live in the area anymore so I dont really get to see any games. My hope now is that they can get healthy by the time the NEWMAC tourney comes around. With 3 starters and 6 rotation players out, things are not looking good if they remain the way they are for the rest of the season.

WPI89 · January 11, 2013, 07:50:37 AM

15-0.

Again - didn't see the game but very much enjoyed the recap late last night. Last few have been the same formula. Take control early, leave no doubt late and get contributions from many. At 9-8, WPI went on a 21-3 run and it was over.

Sure is a fun ride.

rlk · January 12, 2013, 05:13:34 PM

Nerveless 3 by Jimmy Burke with 1.4 seconds left wins it for MIT over Babson. He scored 2 more when MIT stole the inbounds pass and got fouled, so the final was 69-64. Matt Redfield had another nice game; only 8 points, but 6 blocks and a nice jam (and an attempted alleyoop from Mitch Kates that got broken up). Freshman Justin Pedley had 11 points on 3-4 from downtown. Tash had 22, and Kates had 10 to go with 12 assists. A scare late when Mitch went down, but went back in a few minutes later.

MIT had a big size advantage over Babson, but allowed entirely too many second chances.

Photos will follow later. I got a clean shot at Jimmy's game-winner and also Redfield's slam.