MBB: Landmark Conference

[ronk]

 They've just announced a new superintendent; maybe he wants to choose the coach.

[ronk]

 Royals almost had defending champion UW-Stevens Point on the schedule this year; both are in the Las Vegas Tournament, but the powers that be evidently didn't want to detract from a possible NCAA tournament matchup between the teams so the Royals play Ripon and Ramapo, instead.

[NEPAFAN]

Ronk,


Have you gone to the dark side too? Or is Saratoga hanging out at your house and forgot to sign out of your account?



That Boise State victory doesn't look so impressive after what JMU did, huh?

[saratoga]

NEPA: No, that was Ronk's post. It's becoming painfully evident to even the most ardent & patient of Royal's fans that a once very proud basketball program has truly slipped deep into the depths of mediocrity.
Where a schedule was once filled with schools such as Ursinus, Hamilton, Army & Rochester, it now bears the names of basketball powerhouses Casenova, DeYouville, Penn Tech & PSU Hazleton.
There once was a time when Bess scheduled any D-1 he could, now we are at the point where schools that have only had programs for 5 years are the preferred choice.
Attendance is beyond poor, student support is non-existant & the excitment generated the last 5-6 years wouldn't send a charge through a 5 watt light bulb.
Not good my friends & not seemingly getting any better any time soon. Prepare the smoke & mirrors yet again.

[NEPAFAN]

I don't disagree with anything you said Saratoga. I am one to give the benefit of the doubt, but enough is enough.

[ronk]

  Royals are cited in The Sporting News as one of a number of teams with possible breakthrough year. Maybe they had a better recruiting season than we suspected.

[saratoga]

Speaking of recruiting...I wonder if the inebriated Mormon with projectile vomitus ended up going to Moravian?

[Warren Thompson]

Speaking of recruiting...I wonder if the inebriated Mormon with projectile vomitus ended up going to Moravian?

An "inebriated Mormon with projectile vomitus ... going to Moravian"? Kindly clarify.

[NEPAFAN]

  Royals are cited in The Sporting News as one of a number of teams with possible breakthrough year. Maybe they had a better recruiting season than we suspected.

Ronk,

Did you read that in print or on the net some where? I wonder if they have access to information we don't or just picked Scranton for the hell of it.

[ronk]

NEPA,
  It's from the Multi-Regional Topics(top 25 Talk) from 2 days ago by Titan Q. Don't know who their analysts are.

Quote from: Titan Q on September 18, 2010, 01:54:42 pm
Here is the Sporting News preseason Top 10...

1. UW-Stevens Point
2. Franklin & Marshall
3. Randolph-Macon
4. Wooster
5. St. Norbert
6. Eastern Mennonite
7. Williams
8. UW-Whitewater
9. St. Mary's (Md)
10. Virginia Wesleyan

And their "possible breakthroughs" (listed alphabetically)...

Albright
Anderson
Augustana
Baruch
Cabrini
Carthage
Chapman
DeSales
Gettysburg
Hobart
Hope
Illinois Wesleyan
Ithaca
John Carroll
Maryville
MIT
Plattsburgh
Ramapo
Rhode Island
Ripon
Rochester
St. John Fisher
St. Lawrence
St. Thomas
Scranton
SUNYIT
Texas-Dallas
Wash U
Wesley
Wheaton
Whitworth
Wittenberg
York (NY)

 

 

[saratoga]

Warren: kindly refer to post 2304 dated March 30, 2010 by Matt L.
Must be a "shooting" guard. 

[NEPAFAN]

NEPA,
  It's from the Multi-Regional Topics(top 25 Talk) from 2 days ago by Titan Q. Don't know who their analysts are.

Quote from: Titan Q on September 18, 2010, 01:54:42 pm
Here is the Sporting News preseason Top 10...

1. UW-Stevens Point
2. Franklin & Marshall
3. Randolph-Macon
4. Wooster
5. St. Norbert
6. Eastern Mennonite
7. Williams
8. UW-Whitewater
9. St. Mary's (Md)
10. Virginia Wesleyan

And their "possible breakthroughs" (listed alphabetically)...

Albright
Anderson
Augustana
Baruch
Cabrini
Carthage
Chapman
DeSales
Gettysburg
Hobart
Hope
Illinois Wesleyan
Ithaca
John Carroll
Maryville
MIT
Plattsburgh
Ramapo
Rhode Island
Ripon
Rochester
St. John Fisher
St. Lawrence
St. Thomas
Scranton
SUNYIT
Texas-Dallas
Wash U
Wesley
Wheaton
Whitworth
Wittenberg
York (NY)

 

 

Thanks. A little strange to see Scranton's name up there with some of those other schools. I imagine Rosters for all Landmark schools should be up shortly, so we shall see.

[ronk]

Landmarkers,
   Noticed a policy change:
The Landmark Conference recently developed a new policy regarding conference men's and women's basketball doubleheaders.  Beginning this year, the men's teams will play the first game of conference doubleheaders during the first round of competition and the women will play in the second game.  In the second round of competition, the women will play first followed by the men.

[Matt Letourneau]

What?

Are you serious?  Now we're going to have men's basketball games at 5:30 or 6?  By "round of competition" they mean the first group of league games? 

I'm totally supportive of women's basketball, but can we at least acknowledge that from a spectator standpoint, men's is a much bigger draw? 

My biggest gripe with Landmark is that they seem to go out of their way to be un-fan friendly.  As if the entire enterprise exists in a vacuum, with no thought given whatsoever to what actually might generate some excitement and interest.  They should realize that an integral part of the experience for student athletes is representing their institutions in front of their fellow students. 

[TheGrove]

Does any other conference determine the doubleheader schedule as such? I'd think it would be up to the individual schools.