Empire 8

[Jacketfan2011]

How do the pairings work?  Is it 1/8, 2/7 etc?

[bports]

Yeah that is how they work and they do not reseed. Brockport has three tough games all on the road before the chase. They are at a div2 school in PA, at hamilton and at st lawrence. I would think if they were to win all three of those they should probably be the 2 seed.

[e8bballfan]

Early CHASE seedings anyone?

1 U of R
2 Geneseo
3 Brockport
4 Naz
5 RIT SJF ??
6 SJF RIT ??
7 Roberts
8 Keuka (just cant seem to get out of the 8 hole year after year)

Geneseo won't get the 2 despite their record- they haven't played anyone. For those of you who say "o but they played NYU and beat them!" look at NYU, they graduated EVERYONE, UR will put a spanking on them this year that's for sure. They beat Alfred by 17, a team that SJFC just spanked by 30+.

Seedings would be assumed to be...

1-UR
2-Brockport St.
3-Naz
4-Geneseo St.
5-SJFC
6-RIT
7-Roberts
8-Keuka


...and yes, the pairiings are  1v8, 2v7....And what are the host sites for the Chase this season?

[Caz Bombers]

Who decides who gets what seed?

[Razor]

No offense E8ballfan, but if your telling me an undefeated Geneseo team is going to get a 4 seed in the Chase then your out of your freakin mind!!  Who cares that Fisher beat Alfred by 30 and Genseo beat them by 17??  Didn't Geneseo BEAT Fisher??!  Why would Naz be seeded above them?  Under your line of thinking Naz beat Oneonta by 10 and New Paltz by 16...Geneseo beat Oneonta by 28 and NP by 21 so shouldn't they be seeded above Naz??  Get real!!

[bamm]

Who decides who gets what seed?

Caz, I haven't answered this because I have no idea.  Obviously there is a committee of some sort, but I have no idea who is on it.  Every year I get a little more annoyed that I don't know this.

[Caz Bombers]

Who decides who gets what seed?

Caz, I haven't answered this because I have no idea.  Obviously there is a committee of some sort, but I have no idea who is on it.  Every year I get a little more annoyed that I don't know this.

I like to make believe it's the Stonecutters, one of the many key decisions they make, along with keeping the metric system down, robbing cave fish of their sight and making Steve Guttenberg a star.

[bports]

I believe there is a dinner a night or two before the tourney and the coaches vote on it?

[JQV]

Out of curiosity, how high is the local interest in the Chase Tourney?  Do the games draw pretty good attendance?  Any media coverage of the event?

[bamm]

Out of curiosity, how high is the local interest in the Chase Tourney?  Do the games draw pretty good attendance?  Any media coverage of the event?

Plenty of coverage in the Democrat and Chronicle.  The championship is generally covered by all of the local news channels, and the games in the winners bracket always draw a good crowd -- definitely much more than your average local D3 contest.

[gobombers15]

Bombers drop a close one to St. Lawrence in OT, 85-81. Nice effort by the Bombers without Burton, who missed the game due to the injury sustained in the Stevens game. Jeff Bostic with 15 and 10, Matt Ruger with 17 off the bench, and a host of Bombers with 10 or 11 points. St. Lawrence hits a three in the waning seconds to force the extra session. It's too bad that Ithaca is hurting any chance at an at-large bid with these early season losses to sub-par teams. It would have been nice to see Ithaca at full strength in all their games this year but it hasn't gone their way. Looks like it's going to be E8 Tourney Championship or bust with respect to the NCAA's.

[e8bballfan]

k razor, you got me a little there on the common opponents w-l, pt margin...but let's look at this. the chase is going to be real deep this year, w/#1 UR, top 20 Brockport, and Naz, a team receiving votes in the top25 polls. I just think that Geneseo hasn't played anyone yet this season and at this point, they would be the 4 seed, IMO.

However, there are still many games to be played before the chase seedings are even created, so we will see.

...and just saw the UR-SJFC boxscore, how does Ndbizu only put up 2 shots all game? Anyone who went to the game got any details on the overall game?

[bombersquadron]

Ithaca loses at home to St. Lawrence in overtime, final score 85-81. Ithaca holds two point lead at the half fuled by great play off the bench from Matt Ruger who had some big threes to give Ithaca the lead. Ithaca carries lead until St. Lawrence takes two point lead with 2:28 to play in regulation. Bombers regain lead but a double clutch three pointer by Andy Hoercher with nine seconds left ties the game at 72. This shot was complete luck, he doubled pumped and leaned in to draw contact and got nothing and threw up a pray that was answered.

Important to note, Bombers played with out Burton. At about the six minute mark or a little under in the second half, Sean Leahy subbed out of the game and didn't return to action. He sat at the end of the bench with the trainers, not sure what happened to him but he stayed their for the rest of the game. A couple minutes later Scott Ruffrage took a hard hit to the face on the defensive glass and was down on the floor. He left the game and didn't return either. He also sat with the trainers as they checked out his eye area which was bleeding. Ruffrage left the floor and returned  to the bench in street clothes before overtime started.

Bombers going into Tom Brown to start overtime for a And 1 and he puts them up three. Shortly after Brendan Rogers fouled out of the game with 4:26 left to play leaving Ithaca with no point gaurds. Freshman Chris Cruz game into overtime for his first action of the day. Ruger took over the ball handling duties and everyone played hard but Ithaca couldn't pull it out. Clutch free throwing shooting from St. Lawrence to end overtime.

Great play from Josh Sharlow, kid had a huge game for St. Lawrence 29 points, 4-7 from three and 9-10 from the charity stripe. However, wasn't impressed by St. Lawrence big men, really didn't do anything on offense but they out rebounded Ithaca by 8. Ithaca also missed ten foul shots to SLU's 5. The team played hard, a really tough loss to end first semester, but i feel they are much better than their 4-3 record. Hopefully they will grow from this game.

[Jacketfan2011]

Ndubizu took 2 shots mostly because he didn't need to take more.  Dominiak and Onyiriuka had a lot of good looks.  Plus Uche was in a little foul trouble and Millbrand was playing pretty well.

In fact, a Millbrand steal, 3/4 court drive and allyoop to Onyiriuka in the second half pretty much brought the house down.

[Jacketfan2011]

Well, I just looked at the box score myself and noticed that Uche played 27 minutes.  So, foul trouble really wasn't a factor.