MBB: Centennial Conference

[centfan]

WIth all that being said, i still give POY to Honig from Dickinson.  PG on the best team in the country and i think that team goes as he goes.  Team player who will be the one to take the shot when it is needed and has led team to hosting this year.  I dont see another team going into Dickinson and beating them in the playoffs with how their student section will be for those playoff games, and if someone does, it will be a well earned conference title.

I can see how you might vote for honig, but to me it must be wixted. honig is a good point guard, smart, runs the team well, shoots well, but truthfully would be far less without wixted.  he looks better because there are hardly any strong point guards in the conference. wixted is a special player and has been since he entered the conference as a freshman. To me, if honig gets it t will be because he is a senior and wixted is a junior, but in terms of impact in the conference there is no comparison.

[CCHOOPS12]

First off Swat Dad don't go anywhere.. being apart of the league for 8 years your son was a hell of a player and represented what d3 basketball is all about.

Random Thoughts:

Very impressed in wixted the other night as he AND the red devils got over the hump of playing well and winning vs the mules in the barn. FYI Killing had 17 pts shooting 50 percent from the field with 9 assists and zero TOs vs the best team in the league...so selfish...

With the way the seedings are I think it is going to be really tough for the the red devils to win the CC championship....BC fnm and mules have underachieved all season they will have to play one of them in the semi finals and the other in the championship game. Mcdaniel having a great year also didn't help the red devils. The red devils had zero problems with them all year and probably would rather play them in the semifinals.


Any arguments that Curley is the coach of the year?

First Team All CC
Killing
Honig
Hammer
Moune
Wixted

I think thats pretty set in stone...thoughts?

[Gabriel]

Curley as COY should be a slam dunk.  No coach has done more to deserve it.

My congratulations to Jesse Krasna for being player of the week.  This young man is class through and through-----and a very good player as well.  He missed the first third of the season due to a foot injury which has never healed.  He has literally played on one leg----and played very well.  His right foot is injured to the extent that he cannot lift off of it----real tough for a lefty.  Yet----he plays and he plays with heart and toughness.  I've known him for four years and must say I have never witnessed a young man more respected by his coaches, teammates, fellow students, and opponents.

He will probably not appear on any "all everything" lists this year, mainly due to his injury.  But----he is on my "All American" team this year because that is what he is ---- to me and those who know him well. Well done Kras!

[CCHoopster]

WIth all that being said, i still give POY to Honig from Dickinson.  PG on the best team in the country and i think that team goes as he goes.  Team player who will be the one to take the shot when it is needed and has led team to hosting this year.  I dont see another team going into Dickinson and beating them in the playoffs with how their student section will be for those playoff games, and if someone does, it will be a well earned conference title.

I can see how you might vote for honig, but to me it must be wixted. honig is a good point guard, smart, runs the team well, shoots well, but truthfully would be far less without wixted.  he looks better because there are hardly any strong point guards in the conference. wixted is a special player and has been since he entered the conference as a freshman. To me, if honig gets it t will be because he is a senior and wixted is a junior, but in terms of impact in the conference there is no comparison.

Couldn't agree more with this. Wixted POY

All American? Was All District/Region last year. Couldn't argue if his name is in the mix.

[centfan]

Any arguments that Curley is the coach of the year?

First Team All CC
Killing
Honig
Hammer
Moune
Wixted

I think thats pretty set in stone...thoughts?

first team:
Killing
Honig
Salandra
Cohen
Wixted

second team:
porter
hammer
stavetski
bugarinovic
hargrove

[diplomaniac1]

Here are my picks for today's games:

Haverford @ Swarthmore:   I'll take the Fords in a coin flip.

Gettysburg @ McDaniel:   McDaniel.

Ursinus @ Muhlenberg:   Mules win at the "Barn".

F&M @ Dickinson:   Should be a very good game. Since I bleed blue, I will take the Diplomats in an upset on the road. Wish I could get to the game today but other commitments intrude!

Johns Hopkins @ Washington:   Blue Jays should win.

Enjoy the games. Regards to all.

Eric

[HoopGuru]

I wouldnt have a problem w/ Wixted being POY. been some conference games where he hasnt put up the numbers but w/ it being vote on by the coaches he could certainly win it and i wouldnt have an issues.  McDaniel really surprised people this year with their performance and will win COY, well deserved if he does. I am not sure if anyone would have had them as a top 5 team in the conference at the beginning of the year, and they were in the regional rankings last i checked..pretty impressive.  Crazy to think this is the end of the season for a lot of teams.  As I know UC has had a tough season, I think Krasna was just 28 its away from 1000 for his career entering the final 2 games this week.  Looks like he hit for 17 on wednesday, so if that is right, he only needs 11 today to get that mark.  More impressive considering he has missed quite a bit of games throughout his career due to injury.  Hopefully they give him the green light to go and get it today but Muhl will be playing tough trying to host that play-in game on Wednesday

[CCD3Basketball]

My picks for the last Saturday of the season:

Haverford @ Swarthmore: Haverford

Gettysburg @ McDaniel: Give me McDaniel

Ursinus @ Muhlenberg: The Mule Barn is the advantage. Mules win.

Johns Hopkins @ Washington: Rivalry game. Anything can happen. But I'll take Hopkins.

F&M @ Dickinson: A coin flip. But Wixted shows up huge and the Red Devils win.

[Reserved Seat]

Big win for F&M at Carlisle.  F&M took the crowd out of the game early and were able to maintain a reasonably comfortable lead most of the way.  Honig kept Dickinson in the game during the first half by hitting 2 big threes during approximately the last minute of the first half.  Porter seemed unstoppable as he came up big in his last regular season game.(26 points and 9 rebounds). Salandra, also, came up big with 21 points and 8 rebounds.  Moune contributed 14 rebounds as F&M was able to control the boards despite a height disadvantage(40 to 25)  Honig was the high scorer with 27 points--8 of them down the stretch when the game was essentially over. His last few possessions were basically the Honig show as you knew he was going to shot no matter what.  Honig seems to get a lot of help from the referees when he's playing defense.  Wixted was a non-factor as he didn't score his first points until about 33 minutes into the game.  Everyone for F&M played a decent game.  Phelps helped the cause by hitting 6 of 6 from the line down the stretch.
F&M plays Hopkins on Saturday, a team that they seem to have trouble matching up against.

[Gabriel]

The schedule on the Centennial Conference home page is still screwed up---or screwed up again.  They seem to insist that F&M is going to host the championship game.  DUH!!!!!

Although Ursinus lost to Muhlenberg by two, they gave the Mules all they could handle.  Nice to see Jesse Krasna score 18 and score over 1,000 points in his career.  I would like to see his contributions recognized in the post season awards.  We will see.

[Reserved Seat]

STILL

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Don't know where you have been looking... I have not seen that... unless you were looking at last year's championship page.

[shoreman55]

When I think about all conference first team, I think of it as those guys who teams had to completely game plan around. For example, you weren't going to beat Muhlenberg unless you came up with some scheme to slow down Liddic's impact or contain Milligan. In my opinion this is why Gates wasn't all conference--Swat was unfortunately in a place where you could beat them without singling him out (although he certainly had the talent to be one of those guys!).

1) Wixted and Honig (the best guard/big combo since McNally and Milligan)
2) Killing (You had to do something special to keep him under 25)
3) Porter (He was going to shut down your best player. Offensively had to figure how to get past him)
4) Cohen (Had to double-team him down low, Haverford didn't have any help for him if he didn't get going)
5) Hammer (Hopkins was its scariest when he was raining from everywhere)

My second team of "Almost" those guys is: Bugarinovic, Salandra, Moune, Merlo (McDaniel's best player), Morgan, Stavetski

[Gabriel]

Don't know where you have been looking... I have not seen that... unless you were looking at last year's championship page.

Has been corrected.  Centennial Conference website had this years championship game scheduled for F&M.  It now says Dickinson.

[CCD3Basketball]

Muhlenberg @ McDaniel on Wednesday night at 7:30

Johns Hopkins vs. F&M Friday at 6pm

Dickinson vs. Mules/Green Terror Friday at 8

Winners on Saturday night at 7pm