WBB: NESCAC

[Maine 1]

As I said a week ago, hard to tell how teams are during pre-season. Trinity with a surprising win over Williams, and Conn College, who was much improved last year, took Bowdoin to the end at Bowdoin. Middlebury easily beat Bates.  Wesleyan easily over Colby.  We could be in for a very competitive NESCAC season.

[gordonmann]

Congrats to the Bants. I watched parts of the game from Dulles Airport.

[amh63]

Trinity's nice win over Williams surprised us at the Amherst games.  You cannot overlook any of the teams in the conference this year.  Amherst had a competative game with Hamilton for awhile in LeFrak last night.  Everyone played last night except for J. Renner.  Her father mentioned that she needed to rest for the game tonight.  Should be a good one this afternoon.  Too much talent/size for the Contentials last night.

[NE Jeffs Fan]

Could Williams have been looking beyond the Trinity game?  Will be interesting to see how the season plays out for Trinity.  I would think Williams will be even more dangerous for today for Amherst.

[amh63]

Amherst wins the critical Williams game...the one that counts for the determination of the tournament hosting.  Williams plays Amherst well in the first half.  Even when Meg gets her 4th foul in the 2nd half....the young Amherst team pulls out a solid win against a young Williams team.  Amherst win streak at home continues.  Enough said here....Recap on the Amherst website will do a better job of the game flow and the boxscore....the particulars.

[Maine 1]

An interesting first weekend of league play.  Watched the Amherst/Williams game on video.  I thought Amherst looked very good.  Seem to have several excellent outside shooters, strong inside play, and the standard suffocating defense  The only thing that kept Williams in the game was Cook.  Amherst seems to have more depth and balance then last year.   Williams is clearly not as good as the pre-season record would indicate.  On the other hand, Trinity had an excellent opening week, as did Conn College and Bowdoin.  Conn College came within two of Bowdoin at Bowdoin, and then beat Colby. It is possible that Trinity will contend for one of the top four spots.  Tufts plays at Middlebury today, so this will be an interesting game to gauge the strength of Middlebury.  I also see Wesleyan being a tough team, particularly at their home court.  Two very big games next Friday-Amherst at Tufts, and  Bowdoin at Williams.

[amh63]

After two weekend games, Amherst travels to Farmingdale State on Long Island for a game tonight.  Seems to be an annual OCC.  Wonder what is the tie to schedule this Monday game.  Seems the game on the web via a D3hoops link.  Link not posted to date on the Amherst website.
Oops, update...Amherst website has a link too.
Big game with Tufts this weekend!

[amh63]

Amherst wins over Farmingdale State 77-50.  All LJ players had PT.  Some lazy passes that resulted in TOs.  Quick players an a zone caused problems for Amherst...they adjusted.  Amherst scored well from outside and started to score inside in the 2nd half.  Giddens and Robertson led the way.  FY Renner sat for awhile after a slow start to observe the game.  Good game to get some experience against a team with quick guards.  Peterson and Pritchard picked up 4 fouls apiece and sat.  Two tough conference games this weekend....away games.

[amh63]

Critical games this weekend...road games for Amherst.  Key game tonight at 6PM when the Tufts team meets the LJs in Melford.  Tufts's HBC has looked forward to this game out of LeFrak!

[7express]

WOW, Amherst has 8 straight road games starting with the game @ Farmingdale Monday??

[NE Jeffs Fan]

Usually Tufts is way ahead of the curve in the video area....Anyone having any luck with video or live stats from Tufts.  No luck on iphone or ipad.  Laptop just shows scoreboard with clock counting down, but no score on the scoreboard??

[d3wbbfan]

Major overload situation.....just got in for a couple of minutes, though.....Tufts leads Amherst 58-53; 2:44 to go.......

[d3wbbfan]

63-56 Tufts; :02 to go. Saw almost none of it. Jumbos video system needs a complete renovation. When even Live Stats freezes up for most of the big game, that's not good. Cup half full, though - lots of interest in the game, apparently!

[amh63]

Amherst loses to Tufts in a hard fought game 63-56.  Amherst's Meg Robertson injured only 3 minutes into the game.  Amherst in a state of disorder as Tufts goes ahead by 10 pts or more.  Lady Jeffs fights back and it is tied 25-25 at the half. Amherst ties the game around the 50 point mark as Tufts lead is no more than 4 in the second half.  Down by 4 with less than a minute to go, Amherst starts to foul to get the ball back and the lead goes to 5...almost gets it down to 3 but the 3's do not go in.  Do not know the extend of the injury to Meg.  Team needed their all-american.  Too many TOs and Tufts shot a higher %. 
Switched to live stats that was not good...in fact the whole Tufts' broadcast was lacking in many ways....overload, audio and real bad.  Hope the MBB game is better.
Do believe that Amherst was the better team and would have won with Meg playing.  Tufts center scored well.  Amherst's youth/inexperience showed in this away game.  The soph's and Juniors played well. 

[NE Jeffs Fan]

Did announcers say anything about the nature of Robertson's injury?