WBB: NESCAC

[papabear]

Based on what matchups?? Bowdoin is a much more complete team and I do not see anything that would stop Flaherty from having a big game in the post and Loonin has been shooting the ball at a clip above 50%, couple that with Cummings and Anelauskus and Rubega a freshmen off the bench and I think Fesces must be a Bates fan.. Polarbears by 13.Count on it.

[feces monkey]

Based on what matchups?? Bowdoin is a much more complete team and I do not see anything that would stop Flaherty from having a big game in the post and Loonin has been shooting the ball at a clip above 50%, couple that with Cummings and Anelauskus and Rubega a freshmen off the bench and I think Fesces must be a Bates fan.. Polarbears by 13.Count on it.

Glad to see you are a little more coherent this morning. Although no need for the character assasination by aligning me with the Lewiston rehab center.

The matchups I was referring to had to do with Rochester having two decent post players along with good three-point shooters, meaning Flaherty and Anelauskas will likely not get any help. This makes them (especially Flaherty) susceptible to foul trouble. Both will cause their share of problems on the other, but they have to be in the game. I don't put much stock in freshman, unless their last name is Trenkle. Loonin needs to take care of the ball better.

And if we must resort to name-calling, your guarantee of a 13-point victory in the Sweet 16 against a ranked opponent makes me think you're also an Amherst men's fan.

[feces monkey]

http://sports.mainetoday.com/college/basketball-women/070309bowdoin.html

No love for Mary Wash at the end...

[pureshooter]

  monkey,
 
     you got a prediction wrong. can't believe it

[Balder Eagle]

  monkey,
 
     you got a prediction wrong. can't believe it

monkey you are missed and should be here. Any predictions for tonights matchup?

[tothehole]

Williams is in
Bowdoin will advance no further than the elite 8 but will be ranked in the final poll in the top 4
Tufts should go but.....thats another story.

mmmmmmmmmm

whats left, the final poll
Bowdoin should not be ranked any higher than 5
but what does the tourney play have to do with it?

[pureshooter]

  have to disagree w/ tufts.
they didn't and shouldn't have gone.

[Pat Coleman]

I don't expect Bowdoin to be in the top four in the final poll.

[tothehole]

Why would it be different from last year?

[feces monkey]

Another solid campaign for the Polar Bears and a nice run for this year's seniors.

A couple of thoughts before signing off for the summer.

- If there are any Ivy openings this offseason, those institutions would be foolish not to have Pemper on the short list.

- NESCAC should be fun next year. I predict more of a pack than a one-horse race.

- I'll take DePauw to win it all.

- Coffin's return should flush all of the Bates frontrunners back out.

- Now that Bowdoin is ponying up $20M for a new hockey rink, Papabear won't have to show up two hours before gametime in 2008...

Until September.

[bbald eagle]

Coach Pemper did a great job and showed a lot of class last year when Bowdoin beat Mary Washington in the tournament and again this weekend when it lost to UMW in the tournament.

[Pat Coleman]

Why would it be different from last year?

Because last year they lost on the opponent's home floor and a cinderella-type team made the Final Four from another bracket who could be reasonably considered to not be in the top four.

This year Bowdoin lost on a neutral floor and everyone who made the Final Four was in the Top 11.

[tothehole]

Did the cinderella-type team make the final 4?
Then they beat the people in front of them.
Sounds like an AD's excuse to me.
We'll see what happens but I stand with the prediction.
Bears at 4

[Pat Coleman]

Never having been an AD I don't know what that would sound like.

They beat the teams in front of them. But in Division III, as you know, the teams are not distributed evenly throughout the bracket. This is not Division I.

[pureshooter]

  FM,
 
    I'd have to agree with you. Having not seen DePauw live, they look good on paper( i know,you have to play the game and all the other cliches).
May have to venture to Blake Arena to catch their act.