MBB: Landmark Conference

[Matt Letourneau]

Big win for Catholic tonight on the road at Merchant Marine, 72-62. 

[Matt Letourneau]

So much for momentum.

[NEPAFAN]

Yeah I think Asmar Capers just scored again. What did he have 45?

Goucher beats MMA on a last second 3 , and the Royals start slow and beat Susquehanna by 17 for their 10th win in a row.

Great Saturday in the Landmark Conference!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Big win for Catholic tonight on the road at Merchant Marine, 72-62. 

When you consider that a big win... there may be trouble in Cardinals land.

Matt... team started decently... what is going on in conference action?

[Matt Letourneau]

Big win for Catholic tonight on the road at Merchant Marine, 72-62. 

When you consider that a big win... there may be trouble in Cardinals land.

Matt... team started decently... what is going on in conference action?

No idea.  This wonderful fan-friendly conference makes it a little tough to actually follow teams.  But I know that they are really missing their starting center, Chris Kearney, who has been battling injuries for the last month or so.

[cold_case]

No idea.  This wonderful fan-friendly conference makes it a little tough to actually follow teams.  But I know that they are really missing their starting center, Chris Kearney, who has been battling injuries for the last month or so.

Here we go. Was he injured the previous three seasons? 

[NEPAFAN]

Got to admit that loss to Drew hurts.

[ronk]

Just the 1st of Drew "upsets", I suspect. The addition of Capers has changed the norm.
Coming attraction: Ronk's adjusted Landmark standings.

[ronk]

 With the theory that the spread-out Landmark road trip back-back games are more onerous that single bus trips of closer conferences and in view of the unbalance of the schedule at any time before its completion(e.g. Moravian has played only home games and Catholic only road games, at this point), I present the current official Landmark standings and then Ronk's adjusted projected standings based on the home team winning their remaining games. I will project that Moravian will lose to Catholic at home.

Official                       Adjusted
Scr        5-0               Catholic      10-4
Jun       3-2                Jun               8-6
Sus       3-2               Scr                8-6
CUA      2-3               Sus               7-7
Drew    2-3               MMA              7-7
MMA     2-3               Goucher        7-7
Mor      2-3                Drew           6-8
Gou      1-4               Moravian     3-11
 
With the addition of Capers to Drew, I suspect that they will be most likely to win a future road game.

[NEPAFAN]

With the theory that the spread-out Landmark road trip back-back games are more onerous that single bus trips of closer conferences and in view of the unbalance of the schedule at any time before its completion(e.g. Moravian has played only home games and Catholic only road games, at this point), I present the current official Landmark standings and then Ronk's adjusted projected standings based on the home team winning their remaining games. I will project that Moravian will lose to Catholic at home.

Official                       Adjusted
Scr        5-0               Catholic      10-4
Jun       3-2                Jun               8-6
Sus       3-2               Scr                8-6
CUA      2-3               Sus               7-7
Drew    2-3               MMA              7-7
MMA     2-3               Goucher        7-7
Mor      2-3                Drew           6-8
Gou      1-4               Moravian     3-11
 
With the addition of Capers to Drew, I suspect that they will be most likely to win a future road game.

Can we go back and compare how you did last year?

[ronk]

Sure, I'll try to get to it late tonite.

[ronk]

At the 1/2 point of the conference sched:

Standings                          Projected Final           Actual Final

MMA     6-1                         MMA         11-3            MMA        12-2
C          5-2                         Sus          10-4            Scr          11-3
Sus      4-3                          C               9-5            C             10-4
Scr       4-3                          Scr            9-5             Sus          8-6
J           3-4                         J                6-8            G              5-9
G          3-4                         G               5-9            J               4-10
D          2-5                         D               3-11          D              3-11
M          1-6                         M              3-11          M              3-11

I'm projecting the home team holding serve in the 2nd half except for MMA over M,J,D; C over D,G; and Sus,Scr over M.     

I put the actual final standings into the projection last January. Looks like Scr played 2 games better,ending up in 2nd vs. projected 4th; Sus did the opposite.The rest were largely as projected except for Juniata playing 2 games worse. I think there was was a larger gap between the 1st 4 teams and the bottom 4 last year. This year I see the league as more balanced from top to bottom and, consequentially, am projecting fewer home court losses for the rest of the season.

Looking back at the message board for this projection made last year, I saw that we had a lively discussion for at least a month culminating with the F&M fans run-in with the MMA AD at their NCAA game.

[NEPAFAN]

At the 1/2 point of the conference sched:

Standings                          Projected Final           Actual Final

MMA     6-1                         MMA         11-3            MMA        12-2
C          5-2                         Sus          10-4            Scr          11-3
Sus      4-3                          C               9-5            C             10-4
Scr       4-3                          Scr            9-5             Sus          8-6
J           3-4                         J                6-8            G              5-9
G          3-4                         G               5-9            J               4-10
D          2-5                         D               3-11          D              3-11
M          1-6                         M              3-11          M              3-11

I'm projecting the home team holding serve in the 2nd half except for MMA over M,J,D; C over D,G; and Sus,Scr over M.     

I put the actual final standings into the projection last January. Looks like Scr played 2 games better,ending up in 2nd vs. projected 4th; Sus did the opposite.The rest were largely as projected except for Juniata playing 2 games worse. I think there was was a larger gap between the 1st 4 teams and the bottom 4 last year. This year I see the league as more balanced from top to bottom and, consequentially, am projecting fewer home court losses for the rest of the season.

Looking back at the message board for this projection made last year, I saw that we had a lively discussion for at least a month culminating with the F&M fans run-in with the MMA AD at their NCAA game.

Interesting stuff. Thanks for looking it up last night. Royals have to embrace the Road Warrior mentality if the want to defend 1st place in the conference.

[Matt Letourneau]

No idea.  This wonderful fan-friendly conference makes it a little tough to actually follow teams.  But I know that they are really missing their starting center, Chris Kearney, who has been battling injuries for the last month or so.

Here we go. Was he injured the previous three seasons? 

No, but they're better this year than they were the last 3 seasons.  All I know is that they look considerably better when he's in there, especially on defense, than when he isn't.  He's misssed 7 games so far this year and its hurt them.


Until the Drew game, their other 4 losses had been by a TOTAL of 8 points.   So yes, one player does make that kind of difference, particularly when it is your starting center.

[NEPAFAN]

So who does everyone have for Friday's not so prime-time (5:30pm) match up between Scranton and Catholic?