MBB: Great Northeast Athletic Conference

broke_ya_ankles · January 09, 2008, 06:43:06 PM

that explains a lot, i was wondering why the game was so close if Emerson truly is as good as their record states. Their road to the NCAA tournament won't be an easy one though as they are yet to play either Lasell or St. Joes who I think are clearly Emersons biggest competition within the GNAC.

I urge people not to be fooled by Lasell or St. Joseph's record.
Lasell although only 4-4 has a very impressive victory against WPI and a respectable effort falling up short 73-66 to national powerhouse Amherst. This is a talented team not to be overlooked.
St. Josephs is still yet to find their stride although they are currently riding a 3 game winning streak. According to box scores they were without their top player (Murphy) for the farmington game and he played only 10 meaningless minutes off the bench vs bowdoin before returning to regular minutes in their 3rd game.

side note: Ray Eatmon appears to be the best kept secret of the GNAC right now averaging a very impressive 14 points and 11 rebounds a game through 8 games while shooting a respectable 57% from the field.

NortheastHoopsGuru · January 09, 2008, 07:01:22 PM

Quote from: broke_ya_ankles on January 09, 2008, 06:43:06 PM
that explains a lot, i was wondering why the game was so close if Emerson truly is as good as their record states. Their road to the NCAA tournament won't be an easy one though as they are yet to play either Lasell or St. Joes who I think are clearly Emersons biggest competition within the GNAC.

I urge people not to be fooled by Lasell or St. Joseph's record.
Lasell although only 4-4 has a very impressive victory against WPI and a respectable effort falling up short 73-66 to national powerhouse Amherst. This is a talented team not to be overlooked.
St. Josephs is still yet to find their stride although they are currently riding a 3 game winning streak. According to box scores they were without their top player (Murphy) for the farmington game and he played only 10 meaningless minutes off the bench vs bowdoin before returning to regular minutes in their 3rd game.

side note: Ray Eatmon appears to be the best kept secret of the GNAC right now averaging a very impressive 14 points and 11 rebounds a game through 8 games while shooting a respectable 57% from the field.

I completely agree. I have seen Lasell a couple times, the Amherst game being one of them, and have been impressed with them. They have a good combination of outside shooters as well as slashers, all with size. They resemble more of a NESCAC team than a GNAC team. If anyone in the GNAC is going to beat Emerson this season, their best shot is to do it while Messinger and Rouse are still out, in the middle of a week of games. This week poses the biggest threat for Emerson, and given the circumstances, i'm actually picking LaSell to win this game. We'll see how long those 7 remaining Emerson players can last against LaSell, and i look forward to seeing it in person. I'll give my two cents recap afterwards as well. I know you'll all be waiting anxiously

Peddler · January 10, 2008, 09:51:30 PM

Emerson by four over Lasell 83-79.

Next.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · January 11, 2008, 06:04:13 PM

Good win for Emerson.

Marty Peretz · January 12, 2008, 02:00:20 AM

At this point, if i'm a voter, I'm voting for Emerson. I was skeptical for a while, but with wins over MIT and Lasell, plus the 9-0 record, I think they deserve a crack at it.

broke_ya_ankles · January 12, 2008, 06:44:21 PM

dont know if i saw this correctly but i think i did....

norwich knocks off emerson 90-77

emerson was absolutely killed on the boards 47-16

wow this is gonna hurt their standing on next weeks poll...

UnsungHero11 · January 12, 2008, 08:43:19 PM

looks like conference play is starting to pick up again as the second semester starts up. Saw Emerson's loss to Norwich. That will hurt them in the standings or polls or whatever, but they seem to be a solid team, not to mention they're missing two key players. It's still early, and it looks like Emmanuel is leading the way with a 5-0 conference record, St. Joes of Maine is looking good, as is JWU, I am excited to see how everything ends up. Also, I saw that Rivier beat Lasell today by just two points, anyone know what happened in that game? sounds like it coulda been a good one.

broke_ya_ankles · January 12, 2008, 09:02:19 PM

I think the conference will come down to a truly tight race between Emerson, Emmanuel, Lasell, St. Joe's, Johnson and Wales, and Rivier. From the remaining schedules it looks as though Emerson and Lasell have it the easiest in terms of conference play I'd expect at least 10 wins out of Lasell and likely the same from Emerson with the other 4 teams mentioned basically beating up on each other. Rivier seems to be the team flying under the radar here with a strong performance against Emerson @ Emerson and a nice win today vs Lasell. Emmanuel seems like they might be more of a pretender with their 5-0 conference start, we'll see what they are truly made of with 9 of their final 13 conference games being against the other 5 teams mentioned above.

goldenpipes · January 15, 2008, 10:41:21 PM

Emerson 101, Albertus 51 from the Lions Den in Boston. I didn't get a lot of details, but Emerson shot 65% and held the Falcons to 29% shooting as the Lions rolled in Boston.

broke_ya_ankles · January 15, 2008, 11:20:13 PM

some other scores from GNAC play tonite....

Johnson & Wales 79 Mount Ida 57
Rivier 90 Daniel Webster 76
Norwich 66 Emmanuel 63
St. Joes (Maine) 93 Suffolk 73

Williams 75 Lasell 65

Looks like Lasell gave williams a game and Norwich handed Emmanuel their first conference loss other than that they look like pretty lopsided contests

goldenpipes · January 17, 2008, 09:15:19 PM

Emerson 85 Endicott 53

Ben Chase continued his hot shooting (11-17 from the field) leading the Lions with 27 points. Will Dawkins scored 26 on 9-12 from the field and added 7 rebounds. Jeremy Shannon added 15 and 6 assists as the Lions led by 20 at the break and cruised tonight in Beverly.

Box Score - http://ecgulls.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2007-2008/ec13.html

broke_ya_ankles · January 17, 2008, 09:32:39 PM

other GNAC results...

Mount Ida 100 Suffolk 90
Johnson and Wales 84 Albertus Magnus 66
Rivier 72 Norwich 71
Lasell 82 St. Joes 73

Emmanuel 90 Salem State 89 2OT

looks like Emmanuel pulled off a very impressive road win at Salem tonite in double overtime, box score/recap isnt up yet but a very impressive non-conference win for Emmanuel

broke_ya_ankles · January 17, 2008, 11:01:48 PM

not sure why but checking out the last couple of box scores the teams 2nd leading scorer and leading rebounder (also 4th in the conference) Raymond Eatmon has not played in either of the past two games for Saint Joe's of Maine. depending on the reason for his absence st joes could continue to struggle as they did tonite in getting that production, particularly on the boards, from elsewhere...

broke_ya_ankles · January 19, 2008, 05:23:25 PM

saturdays scores...
Norwich 73 Albertus Magnus 63
Emmanuel 76 Johnson and Wales 69
Lasell 81 Rivier 65
St. Joseph's 103 Mount Ida 50

still waiting for a Emerson/Daniel Webster score, I'm assuming Emerson won its just a matter of by how many

goldenpipes · January 19, 2008, 07:24:55 PM

Emerson 90, Daniel Webster 79 from Nashua.

Will Dawkins led the Lions with 30 on 11 of 15 from the floor, Ben Chase added 29 and Jeremy Shannon scored 17 to lead the Lions to victory.

Brian Inge scored 27 for DW on 9 of 10 shooting and Chris Hanson chipped in 12 on four 3-pointers.

The Lions led throughout and led by as many as 23 (41-18) in the first half and by 20 (75-55) in the second. Emerson played a sloppy 2nd half and the Eagles kept fighting until the buzzer.