MBB: NESCAC

[amh63]

AC08 and F.U....
    Isnit thus forum a "Field of Dreams"?

[frank uible]

If one prefers.

[magicman]

The Basketball Times today named Blake Schultz of Williams College as co-winner of the Division III Player of the Year in their April edition. Schultz shared the award with Tyler Sanborn of Guilford College. They both were also named to the First Team All America squad.

Also, Williams coach Mike Maker and Guilford coach Tom Palombo were co-winners of the publication's Division III Coach of the year award.

[nescac1]

Congrats to Schultz and Coach Maker! 

Random NESCAC sighting: former Midd captain Sam Daly '06 plays Matt (the warehouse employee Oscar has a crush on) on The Office. 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2301600/

Looks like Tufts picked up a (badly needed) solid recruit, Tommy Folliard:

http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/new_hampshire.php

[nescac1]

A few bits of recruiting news:

Delbarton 6'3 shooting guard Thomas Killian is headed for Amherst, giving them a badly-needed solid perimeter shooter:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-766315109567400547/nj-boys-basketball-morris-county-season-review-2009-10/
http://njhoops.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1039853

Sounds like a solid all-around player, averaged 18-6-5, from a school where Amherst has found good players in the past (McLaughlin, Goldsmith).  Amherst definitely has strong ties to Jersey in terms of recruiting.  

Meanwhile, this appears to confirm that Taylor Epley, 6'4 swingman from Kentucky, is headed to Williams.  

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100408/SPORTS05/4080348/1002/sports/Szabo+triumphs+in+a+landslide

Epley put up strong stats as a senior, averaging 13.5 points and 5 boards per game and shooting 47 percent from 3 and 78 percent from the line, on one of the best teams in Kentucky.  One of his teammates is a big-time D-1 player, which may have limited Epley's shots a bit.  Epley will be one of many guys fighting for minutes at the three next year, which is just a huge question mark for Williams; Schultz will be impossible to replace, but hopefully a few guys can step up and combine to replace a good chunk of of his production. 

http://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/khsaa/kybbk09/31216?id=stats_31216_0

Coach Maker continues to bring kids in from places that are not traditional NESCAC recruiting areas (Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Kentucky, Colorado etc.).  

[Bucket]

With the opening at Cornell, I'm surprised there's not more chatter about potential implications for the NESCAC.

http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2010/04/updated-cornell-candidates-list.html#more

[Hugenerd]

With the opening at Cornell, I'm surprised there's not more chatter about potential implications for the NESCAC.

http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2010/04/updated-cornell-candidates-list.html#more

Not to mention the Dartmouth job (for which they had the same D3 coaches listed).  Seems like Maker and Hixon, as well Anderson and Grant from MIT, have their names mentioned for both of these jobs.

[frank uible]

When was the last time a coach moved from Head Basketbaa Coach in NESCAC to Head Basketball Coach in an Ivy?

[Hugenerd]

When was the last time a coach moved from Head Basketbaa Coach in NESCAC to Head Basketball Coach in an Ivy?

It wasn't to an Ivy, but Dave Paulsen went from Williams to Bucknell a few years ago, so I would say it is not an impossibility for a coach to go from the NESCAC to the Ivy league.

[Ethelred the Unready]

His parents are both listed with Drs. titles.  I assume here that he did not need a scholarship to go to Ark.  That maybe why he was a walk-on.  Why give a scholarship to a student that does not need one.

That's not how it usually works. Even the athletes who have the financial means and/or the academic credentials to have their schooling paid for by other means generally receive and accept athletic scholarships. Why? Because the scholie is part of the prestige, part of the bona-fides, of being a "real" D1 athlete. You get no cred from your peers if you tell them, "Well, I could have had a basketball scholarship, but since I had the grades (or parents with beaucoup bucks) I didn't need it, so I told the coach to give it to someone else in order to make the team better. Meanwhile, I'll play as a walk-on." Eighteen-year-old basketball players are generally not that altruistic or forward-thinking, and they're just as susceptible to peer pressure, ego, and the standards of American athletic culture as anybody else.
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That's exactly right. Pat Ewing Jr played for Georgetown a few years ago on an athletic scholarship as did Doc Rivers' son, Jeremiah. Obviously both of their families had the means to pay their way to Georgetown but their sons were nonetheless given schollies like all other Georgetown recruits. The Georgetown b-ball team usually carries a couple of genuine walk-ons, most of whom are D3-type players whose primary contributions are to serve as extra bodies in practice and cheer lead from the bench, with an occasional appearance during garbage time in the last-minute of blow-out games.

Ryan Dougherty was a walk-on at Georgetown this year.  Two years ago he was a seldom used freshman at Rochester.  Left and enrolled at Georgetown and was seen by JT Jr during a pickup game and was asked to be a practice player last year.  He made the roster this year and logged more face time on national TV than Dickie V.  It's all about strategic positioning during timeouts.....

[Bucket]

When was the last time a coach moved from Head Basketbaa Coach in NESCAC to Head Basketball Coach in an Ivy?

It wasn't to an Ivy, but Dave Paulsen went from Williams to Bucknell a few years ago, so I would say it is not an impossibility for a coach to go from the NESCAC to the Ivy league.

Especially when prior coaching experience involves being an Ivy associate head coach  for a decade, as well as being an assistant for a Sweet Sixteen Big East team.

[eph partisan]

With the opening at Cornell, I'm surprised there's not more chatter about potential implications for the NESCAC.

http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2010/04/updated-cornell-candidates-list.html#more

Not to mention the Dartmouth job (for which they had the same D3 coaches listed).  Seems like Maker and Hixon, as well Anderson and Grant from MIT, have their names mentioned for both of these jobs.

Anyone with a sense of how high up on the two lists these coaches are?

[ephoops]

When was the last time a coach moved from Head Basketbaa Coach in NESCAC to Head Basketball Coach in an Ivy?

Glen Miller left Conn College after the '99 season to become the HC at Brown.  Miller was coming off an undefeated regular season and a Final Four appearance.

Miller had a good run at Brown and then left after I believe 7 years to become the HC at Penn.  His tenure at Penn ended abruptly earlier this season..

[jayhawk]

Potential Amherst player: http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/apr/11/leadership-a-hallmark-for-toomey/

[jayhawk]

Cornell Basketball Blog:

Sources tell The Cornell Basketball Blog that while former Cornell assistant and current Hobart head coach, Izzi Metz, passed on the opportunity to interview for the Cornell head coaching position, Paul Fortier (former Cornell assistant, current Washington assistant), Joe Burke (former Cornell assistant, current Navy assistant) and Mike Maker (current Williams coach), have all expressed some level of interest in the job. Like Donahue before him, Burke played basketball at Ursinus College and then later worked as an assistant coach at Philadelphia University before arriving at Cornell for the 2001-2002 season (Donahue's second year at the healm).