MBB: New Jersey Athletic Conference

[Rhodes Scholar]

NJAC Tournament Matchups (Conference Records in Parentheses)

#6 Ramapo (9-9) at #3 NJCU (12-6)
These teams split in the regular season. NJCU won the first game on their home floor, 98-78. Ramapo won the second game, 88-87, in Ramapo. NJCU won six of their first seven conference games, then lost five of their next six, before winning their last six games. Ramapo, the preseason conference favorite, has run hot and cold this year as well. They won three straight conference games early in the season, lost three straight, then won five in a row, only to lose five of their last six. Ramapo has pretty good talent, but they haven't been consistent and there appears to be a lack of leadership and chemistry. NJCU has more cohesiveness and enough experience to make them the favorite here.

#5 Rutgers-Newark (10-8) at #4 TCNJ (11-7)

These two split in the regular season, with both teams winning at home. TCNJ had a seven-game NJAC win streak snapped last week at MSU. Rutgers-Newark has won as many as five conference games in a row, but they lost four of six games in February. This game is pretty much a toss-up, but the home court makes the Lions a slight favorite.

[irapthor]

Truck,

The live stats are updated every 30 seconds.

If you know any inspiring communications students, send them my way...I started the webcasts with the hope of luring some of them in, but the students are disinterested in gaining practical, hands-on experience.

[Truck]

I don't see the link, Ira...


Here it is y'all:

http://www.njcugothicknights.com/sports/livestats/mbasketball/xlive.htm


Thank God for Google. The link is nowhere on the main site.

[Truck]

Wow!!! Totally not what I expected. Ramapo has 20 min left in the season and they need to mount a 19 pt. comeback...


It can be done but it will be hard.

Ramapo came out shooting well, until the 10 min mark. They did not score for over 6 minutes.

Ramapo's stats are on top:


Ramapo College
New Jersey City University



33
   
Points
   
52
12-35 (34.3%)
   
Field goals
   
22-43 (51.2%)
4-10 (40.0%)
   
3-Point FGs
   
8-17 (47.1%)
5-8 (62.5%)
   
Free throws
   
0-2 (0.0%)
21 (8-13)
   
Rebounds (Off-Def)
   
24 (9-15)
5
   
Steals
   
4
1
   
Blocks
   
7
7
   
Assists
   
14
10
   
Turnovers
   
6
0.70
   
Assist/Turnover
   
2.33
5
   
Second chance points
   
12
5
   
Points off turnovers
   
12
13
   
Bench points
   
15
12
   
Points in the paint
   
22
4
   
Fastbreak points
   
6

[Truck]

2nd half:


What a comeback...

00:31 remaining

RAMAPO UP BY 9


Let's go 'P0!!!

[Truck]

Unbelievable comeback.

LET'S GO RAMAPO.

Coming back from 21 down, a 19 point halftime deficit and Ramapo is moving on to play on Thursday.

Just unbelievable.

Ira, 'Stalker, Amin - I'm looking forward to reading your reports on the game.


There's 9 seconds left as I write this, and Ramapo has the first double digit lead of the game. That's what champions are made of. What a way to come back in the face of adversity.

[Truck]

Here are the stats:

Ramapo College                  33   56   89   
New Jersey City University   52   26   78


RCNJ:
Jamall Jenkins: 10 pts
Ahmad Mosby : 25pts
Antoine Pryor: 14pts, 6Reb, 7 Assists
Quameir Harding: 12 pts, 13 reb
Timothy Wesley: 10pts


29-67 (43.3%) shooting
41 Rebounds
16 Assists
15 Turnovers *For the first time, Ramapo's ratio is over 1*



NJCU:
Dana John: 12pts
Alex Mirabel: 16 pts and 7 reb
Washington: 15 pts and 14 reb
Abe Williams: 13 pts

[Truck]

Ramapo will be playing Stockton

Very low scoring game...


                                                  1st     2nd      OT                 Final
Rutgers-Newark                   16      20      10             46
The College of New Jersey      17      19          2         38


Newark came up big in the OT period...

[irapthor]

Truck,

Not sure why you couldn't find the link..it was the top story on the web from 6:30 until 10 pm.

[phil]

Truck,
TCNJ threw the game away ... literally. After scoring a whopping 10 points over the final 19:00, TCNJ still had the ball and a three point lead with 1.6 seconds left in regulation – all they had to do was inbound the ball from under the RN basket. Instead, they run a play where Findlay tries to beat his man deep – he falls down – the pass goes out of bounds without touching anybody and Newark inbounds and hits a three to tie the game at the buzzer.

I'll leave others to hypothesize how one can inbounds a pass when you only need kill 1.6 seconds. Needless to say I don't think a Payton Manning post pattern is one of them. When you make a mistake like that, AND you shoot 25% for the evening you deserve what you get.

One NCAA appearance and zero wins in sixteen seasons – and counting.

Barring a couple high impact transfers and freshmen, next season will be number seventeen. One look at who's graduating and you'd be hard pressed to imagine them higher than 9th or 10th in the NJAC next season.

[Knightstalker]

I'm glad the wife was working on a paper last night and I couldn't post, it would have been very nasty.  The Gothic Knight players have no one to blame but themselves for last nights loss.  It was two games.  NJCU blew out Ramapo in the first half and Ramapo blew out NJCU is the second half.  Ramapo outscored the Knights by 30 in the second half.  As I was leaving the game an individual high up in the athletic department said it was the most embarrassing loss in thirty years.  The only three players who showed up in the second half were Mark Washington, Alex Mirabel and Abe Williams.  The rest seemed to come and go and just did not want it.

I did not expect the Knights to maintain the lead they had at half time but I have never seen them collapse like this.  One thing that happened and I don't know why it was allowed involved the Ramapo dance team at half time.  One, even though NJCU does not have cheerleaders or a dance team, why would they allow another schools team to perform?  Two, something was fouled up because there was only about ten minutes left in half time when they finally took the court.  It then took another three or four minutes before they even got started.  By this time the Knights had come back out to warm up, they were forced to stand around while the Ramapo Dance Team performed.  Why was this allowed to happen?  Once the players came out the officials should have cleared the court.  I don't blame this for the collapse, but to me it was an uncalled for situation and should not have been allowed to happen.  If I was a conspiracy theorist I would say this was done intentionally by the Ramapo dance team to disrupt the NJCU players because it is known that the Knights usually come out of the locker room fairly quickly.  But that would be silly, Wouldn't it? 


I wonder who the Knights get to play in the ECAC?

[Rhodes Scholar]

Phil: I saw Staten Island blow the CUNY  Women's championship against Hunter a couple of year's ago when they attempted the same inbounds pass. Given the fact that TCNJ was up by three, a safer strategy would have been to inbound the ball within about 10 feet of R-Newark's basket, because even if R-N stole the ball they would in all likelihood only be able to score two points. There would not have been enough time to steal the ball and either dribble it out or pass it to a teammate to take a game-tieing three. In retrospect it obviously wasn't the right call. But in Castaldo's defense, the odds that TCNJ would lose the game because of it are rather slim.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Like Knightstalker, I also saw Ramapo's remarkable comeback victory over NJCU last night. NJCU played about as well as they could have in the first half, and they were up, 52-33, at the break. All of the Gothic Knight starters as well as their bench contributed to their formidable first-half lead. It didn't look like the Roadrunners had a snowball's chance in hell to get back into this one. But they did. They never quit and were back in the game midway through the second half. NJCU still lead by nine with eight minutes to go, but they completely collapsed down the stretch. The Knights shot very poorly and committed a number of costly turnovers during crunch time. Ramapo, meanwhile, shot the ball very well and made very few mental mistakes when the game was on the line.

[mean]

Truck,
       What a game!!! It brought tears to my eyes because I know exactly how those guys were feeling. The cancer of the team has definately been removed. They were down and considersed done before the second half begun. But I can personally say that the guys that are on this team have too much pride to just lay down and let any team run them over. This team has made their identity shown last night. The look in their eyes seemed different, I felt their hunger, and seen the toughness come out. Players such as Noel Colon and Quamir Harding were on the Roadrunner teams of the past that consisted of Whitted, Radsom, Gadson, and myself (Wright) that always shown that toughness and confidence. Im just so proud of this group of guys because even though they were predicted to finish on top in the preseason and things seemed to fall apart, they continued to work hard and become a close team as they should have always been.

[Knightstalker]

Mean, I forgot to bring that up, what happened with Wilson this time?