MBB: Centennial Conference

Gabriel · March 14, 2013, 08:41:58 PM

Hopefully, Jesse Krasna will have a great senior season. He needs to dribble less and look down the court more and he will be fine. Already looking forward to next year for the Bears after three poor seasons.

Gabriel · March 18, 2013, 11:36:10 AM

No doubt, the NESCAC has the bragging rights this year. Three of the elite eight from one conference is quite an achievement. My guess is St Thomas and Amherst in the finals.

jhu · March 22, 2013, 11:16:23 PM

Congrats to Florida Gulf Coast University and Eagles' head coach Andy Enfield, a 1991 Johns Hopkins graduate, on their win over second-seeded Georgetown tonight. Enfield is the all-time leading scorer in JHU history with more than 2,000 career points and is one of the great all-time free throw shooters in NCAA history (.925). Enfield has been at FGCU for two years after serving as an assistant at Florida State.

NEPAFAN · March 23, 2013, 08:04:39 AM

His wife ain't bad either!

D.B. Cooper · March 25, 2013, 10:47:26 AM

Hayk Gyokchyan was awarded NABC 3d Team All-American honors!

Congrats to a player I enjoyed watching for four years. As a freshman one of my friends noted that Hayk had a nose for the ball, meaning being in the right place at the right time & doing the best thing (uncommon in a Freshman) and I had to agree. His development was a pleasure to watch thereafter, perhaps peaking as a Junior in the NCAA E8 run as most eyes and defenses were all over Georgio Milligan. His senior year featured numerous 30 & 40 point games, which came less often as team focused more effort on containing Hayk. His single handed comeback in the final 90 seconds against the Mules in the CC Semiifinal was a final impressive feat.

Reserved Seat · April 25, 2013, 12:31:02 PM

Interesting site for new recruits-- http://d3recruits.blogspot.com/

Gabriel · April 25, 2013, 12:59:57 PM

Reserved,

It is an interesting site. In noticed your Dips recruited a 6'8" forward from Princeton. I started following it about a week ago and note that not all CC teams are listed. My Ursinus Bears, for instance, are not listed but I am sure they have been recruiting aggressively as usual. Makes me wonder how they get their input.

In watching the D1 playoffs I noticed that several teams played with two point guards on the floor at the same time. Louisville and Michigan for example. Given that many teams are now using a dribble-drive offense now. Do you suppose D3 will move in that direction too?

Dave 'd-mac' McHugh · April 25, 2013, 02:52:18 PM

I have seen several teams over the years using two point guards, per se, in Division III. St. Mary's over the years has employed two guards even this past year the 2-guard was their point guard last season and such. Amherst basically had two points out there, even though they tended to run the ball through Toomey, when he was taken out of the play (i.e. North Central's defense) or they were trying something different, the ball ran through the other guard.

If anything, Division III tends to have the most variety in terms of defensive and offensive ideas and game plans... so seeing two point guards on the floor at the same time isn't that surprising, IMHO.

Gabriel · June 15, 2013, 08:22:51 AM

http://d3recruits.blogspot.com/

I like the idea of this web site but it hasn't provided much information lately. Much like Bill Belichick, coaches hate to give out too much information. Does any one have any recruiting information regarding the CC. Been quiet lately

Reserved Seat · June 17, 2013, 12:19:32 PM

The players listed for F&M on the site are not correct. The one player couldn't swing the cost, so he's going else where. I guess that's why coaches don't say much.

Gabriel · June 17, 2013, 12:55:30 PM

Reserved,

Glad you are alive and well. Hopefully we will meet in person this year. I think my Bears will be more competitive going forward. Coach Small wants to return to a more guard oriented offense. Hopefully they can play like 2005, 2006 and 2008---fast paced and lots of threes. Key will be improved defense, rebounding and much better shooting. We will have two juniors returning who did not play last year----Jermaine Kamara and Trey Harry. Sounds like we will have five freshmen---if they all materialize. Bears played short handed last year playing with only ten players after they lost Kamara & Harry. This year it looks like we will have fourteen, a big squad for Coach Small.

Reserved Seat · June 17, 2013, 06:41:10 PM

No one will say F&M has a soft schedule after the new schedule is released. It should be an interesting year, as F&M still is looking for a point guard.
Brewer did a great job of ball handling, but he wasn't an offense threat. F&M, also, has two players back who didn't play last year--Joe Krong and Xavier Braham. Both sat out last year with ACL damage. Hopefully, both will be healthy this year.

Gabriel · July 10, 2013, 08:26:06 AM

Nice to see Jon Ward win yet another award for being a terrific student athlete

http://www.ursinusathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/releases/20130709d0zor6

Reserved Seat · July 11, 2013, 09:53:38 PM

Congratulations to Jon.

Gabriel · July 17, 2013, 10:58:23 AM

Reserved,

You said the F&M schedule for next season looks to be more difficult than recent years. How so? The Ursinus schedule is posted. The seven non conference games are against Marymount, Eastern, Colgate, two TBDs at the Messiah tip off tournament and two TBDs at the New Years Roanoke tournament. We don't know who the other two teams are in either of the tournaments.

D1 Colgate will probably be challenge to say the least but we should be competitive with Eastern and Marymount. The two tournaments are unknowns except for Ursinus and the host teams. Seems to be an easier schedule than the last two years.