MBB: New Jersey Athletic Conference

[Knightstalker]

NJCU beats NYU 74-66 in a first round ECAC game played at top seed NYU.
Correction, NYU was the 3 seed.

[NYHOOPS8]

NJCU beats NYU 74-66 in a first round ECAC game played at top seed NYU.
Correction, NYU was the 3 seed.

Surprising. NYU had the makings of an NCAA team. Can't quite understand why they had such an up and down year.

[Knightstalker]

NJCU beats NYU 74-66 in a first round ECAC game played at top seed NYU.
Correction, NYU was the 3 seed.

Surprising. NYU had the makings of an NCAA team. Can't quite understand why they had such an up and down year.

NYU lost to NJCU twice this season.  NJCU plays great defense and combine that with 69% shooting in the second half, that is a hard combo to beat.

[Ethelred the Unready]

NJCU beats NYU 74-66 in a first round ECAC game played at top seed NYU.
Correction, NYU was the 3 seed.

Surprising. NYU had the makings of an NCAA team. Can't quite understand why they had such an up and down year.

NYU has been a puzzle since I started following the UAA 6-7 years ago.  Seem to have solid talent and win some pretty big games.  But lose way too many games they should win.  Odd

[NYHOOPS8]

Stockton had a win over a very good Plattsburgh team this past weekend. I caught a few minutes of the Jersey City/Stevens game and came out impressed with Jersey City. William Paterson and Ramapo are always at the top in this conference. Barring a down from those two, I can see 2-3 NCAA bids from the NJAC this year.

[hplc2222]

William Patterson just got by Kean last night 75-71 in overtime at Kean. Richard Stockton also won at Kean earlier 69-64, had an 8 point leadt at half, won by 5. Stockton plays at Montclair 5-7, on Saturday. That could be a tricky game. Montclair only lost at Mary Wahington by 6 points, but were blown out at home by William Patterson 79-60.

Does that say something about either the NJAC OR MORE ABOUT Mary Washintgon?

[Pat Coleman]

Conference opponents know you better than anyone else because generally they play you twice and see a ton of film. I try not to be too surprised by a conference result that looks odd.

Also, your Mary Wash-Montclair result happened on opening night. Lots of things can change after a dozen games.

[hplc2222]

but can Stockton beat Mary Washington if they played on saturday?

[hplc2222]

If Stockton can win at Montclair Saturday they will be  12-1.  They will then have 12 games left in the regular season. Here they are broken down home and away

Home :: Rowan, Brooklyn*, Kean, William Paterson, NJ City, Montclair, Ramapo

Away: Ramapo, TCNJ, Rutgers Newark, Rutgers Camden, Rowan.

[hplc2222]

Stockton is 6-0 in non conference games, winning games against teams from 5 different regions : northeast, east, mid atlantic, atlantic, and south.

Stockton is 11-1. William Paterson is 10-2 and beat stockton by 2 points at home. They coulld play 2 more times. The game at Stockton, and a game in the conference tourney.

If by some way William Paterson wins the NJAC ( not sure how they determne that) could Stockton get one of the 19 at large bids, at mayb e 22-5?

Or would it be imperitive Stockton basicaly beat William Paterson in the 2 games potentialy?

[mailsy]

It's possible. However, at conference tourney time, if there are a lot of upsets of "ranked" teams the odds go down of getting in. So I've always been told. "Win your conference tourney and you don't have to worry about looking in from the outside."

On another note. NJAC plays a conference tourney. Top 6 teams make it. Top two teams get a first round bye. Winners of the first round play at top 2 teams.(Lowest remaining seed at #1, next lowest at #2). Winners play at highest seed remaining.

Hope that helps. Just win the tourney!

[hplc2222]

Right, that was my understanding 2, since they changed from the 2 division set up. So, the top 6 teams by "conference record" get in the NJAC tourney,..... the 2 highest seeds get byes, .. so for those 2 highest seeds, it is pitentionaly only a 2 game tourney to win the tourney,...

but i asked this question oncve in another threatd and was told by i thing pat coleman, that it is up to each conference to edetermine who gets in,.. in other words, no hard and fast rule in D3 thnat the conference tourney winner gets an automatic bid.

so where i sit now, i am still not sure how the automatic bid works in the njac.

anyone can help?

[mailsy]

Right, that was my understanding 2, since they changed from the 2 division set up. So, the top 6 teams by "conference record" get in the NJAC tourney,..... the 2 highest seeds get byes, .. so for those 2 highest seeds, it is pitentionaly only a 2 game tourney to win the tourney,...

but i asked this question once in another thread and was told by i thing pat coleman, that it is up to each conference to determine who gets in,.. in other words, no hard and fast rule in D3 that the conference tourney winner gets an automatic bid.

so where i sit now, i am still not sure how the automatic bid works in the njac.

anyone can help?

In the NJAC, win the conference tournament and your in. For the NCAA D3 Tournament; 42 teams will qualify automatically(either winning conf. tourney or regular season champ, ie UAA) One team will qualify as Pool B. This is a team that is either an Independent or the conference that doesn't have an automatic bid(this is usually when a new conference is formed or their aren't enough teams in the conference-7 teams min.) and 19 Pool C bids. For Pool C they look at varying criteria. Such as out of conference(OC). Opponents out of conference(OOC) and games against teams that are regionally ranked. The tournament committee has a tough job every year determining who gets in.

So NJAC could get two. It has happened before.

[hplc2222]

ok, , i was confused, i wasnt aware that each conference touirney champion got in,... pat coleman on here was not clear with me on that,..  so a 22-3 teams could, lets say stockton, at the ednd of the into the ncaa, i get it, wasnt sure ,..

[Pat Coleman]

Every conference has a conference tournament other than the UAA.