MBB: NESCAC

[frank uible]

ephoops: Such a feature wouldn't play in Peoria.

[fpc85]

JeffCast will be the new home to free live webcasts of select Amherst home sporting events.

Tonight, JeffCast will make its debut as the Amherst's men's basketball team takes on visiting Babson College at 5:30 p.m. in LeFrak Gymnasium.

https://www.amherst.edu/athletics/jeffcast for a schedule of planned upcoming webcasts.

Is Bowdoin going to roll out a PBearCast?

glad this has happened even though it is a year too late for me.

[ephoops]

...Best part of the game for me was watching Schultz cover Basky--man, that was intense.  Two great players going head to head.  A fun game all around.

Schultz is from Atherton, CA (The Menlo School) and Bask is from Palo Alto, CA (Palo Alto HS).  They live about 10 minutes apart from each other.  They play pick up games together in the summer.  Thus, they are very familiar with each other's game...

Pat: It would be an interesting feature for D-3 Hoops.  Two guys compete 3,000+ miles from home, each is arguably the best player on their respective teams, and participate in the most intense rivalry (sorry Hope/Calvin fans) in D-3 hoops.

ephoops: Such a feature wouldn't play in Peoria.

Frank:

Surely Pat's readership in "Peoria" does not have such a parochial view of what constitutes interesting storylines...   

[frank uible]

Yes, they do.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Maybe.

I grew up in Peoria and would find the story quite interesting.

Of course, there may be reasons I left Peoria over four decades ago!

[Pat Coleman]

It actually does seem a little bit like that in terms of our readership but we wouldn't shy away from a good story just because it has a narrow audience. Most of ours do.

[frank uible]

The story is only possible in poopy pants NESCAC. The rest of the world doesn't relate to it.

[Gregory Sager]

Forget Peoria. Your problem is Holland and Grand Rapids. The MIAA readership would boycott reading that story once word got out that ephoops had had the impudence to claim that Williams/Amherst is "the most intense rivalry in D3 hoops."

[senatorfrost]

  Williams v Amherst is very intense as every body knows. Admittedly it is not as intense as Albion v Kalamazoo but it's still up there somewhere.

[Mr. Ypsi]

  Williams v Amherst is very intense as every body knows. Admittedly it is not as intense as Albion v Kalamazoo but it's still up there somewhere.

Nice try!

But Albion and Kalamazoo are in (shockingly!) Albion and Kalamazoo, not Holland and Grand Rapids.  I realize that people from wherever you are a senator may think all Michigan towns are the same, but we Michiganders like to keep them separate (less bloodshed that way).

[frank uible]

I once passed through Michigan on my way to oblivion.

[sac]

Is Amherst/Williams religious based?............if not,  it can't be as intense

You know the old saying, ........an atheist is someone who watches a Hope/Calvin game and doesn't care who wins.

[Pat Coleman]

Not religious-based, no, but the similar twist that Amherst/Williams has is that Amherst was founded by Williams expatriates. As a page on Williams' site puts it:

In 1818, several Williams trustees tried to move the college from the far western region of Massachusetts east to the Pioneer Valley. State legislators failed to approve the move, and the decision prompted the resignation of then college president Zephaniah Swift Moore. Accompanied by several college faculty and students, and, according to lore, volumes taken from the Williams library, Moore ultimately founded Amherst Academy, now Amherst College. Hence the origin of Williams' nickname for the Amherst team: "The Defectors."

So it's not holy war, no, but it does have a unique spin on it.

Not that I'm saying Hope/Calvin ain't No. 1.

[duffer]

Anyone notice the NESCAC home page and individual stats link? Must be some kind of glich in the page. It lists only AMH, BOW, & BATES stats and has such stats as 4.3, 6.7, 10.2 ppg. listed as leaders in scoring categories with most other categories missing all together. Didn't find any way to contact the web master to notify.

[duffer]

Check that other categories now listed, but none are correct