MBB: State University of New York Athletic Conference

[scooterman]

Well guys--The Eagles had an incredible run through the SUNYAC Championships. I wasn't feeling real positive with 2:30 left and the Eagles going 1-3 from the foul at that point. The Fred's mounted one last run but Wilkes put the hammer down with 6 foul shots in the last minute. Are they going to draw the Bombers? I am just absolutely ectastic that they made it. Kudos to Coach Dunne and his staff for getting the fellows to believe and pull together. Great job!!! Hopefully they have some upsets left in them for the Big Tourney!!!

[magicman]

Well guys--The Eagles had an incredible run through the SUNYAC Championships. I wasn't feeling real positive with 2:30 left and the Eagles going 1-3 from the foul at that point. The Fred's mounted one last run but Wilkes put the hammer down with 6 foul shots in the last minute. Are they going to draw the Bombers? I am just absolutely ectastic that they made it. Kudos to Coach Dunne and his staff for getting the fellows to believe and pull together. Great job!!! Hopefully they have some upsets left in them for the Big Tourney!!!

What!! Scooter you were worried. I gave you the predicted outcome. Have a little faith baby!

[magicman]

Posted this on several of the East Region boards.

It looks like the East Region will have 7 bids to the NCAA tournament and are as follows:

1   Brockport St.  Pool A  SUNYAC automatic bid
2   RPI   Pool A Liberty League  automatic bid
3   Medaille  Pool A   Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference  automatic bid
4   RIT/Nazareth winner Pool A  Empire 8 automatic bid
5   SUNYIT/Wells winner  Pool A  North Eastern Athletic Conference automatic bid
6   Ithaca  Pool C  at large bid
7   St Lawrence  Pool C  at large bid

I think Hamilton is going to lose out because of all the upsets today to teams that would have been Pool A bids but have now been relegated to Pool C.( Like Ithaca)
After all the teams that should have been Pool A bids take the Pool C bids instead
that doesn't leave enough Pool C bids left for the East Region to get 3 Pool C's. There are simply too many good teams on the bubble. With 8 regions and only 18 Pool C at large bids there is no way that the East will get 3 of them. St Lawrence could even possibly get knocked out of the picture. The 1 good thing the Saints have going for them is that they will remain #2 in the final Regional rankings that come out later today(Sunday) but will not be seen by the public. No way Hamilton can leap over the Saints as they lost in the LL semifinals and the Saints own 2 head to head wins over them.  So for sure 6 teams but I think the Saints get in to give us the 7 bids. At least it's better than the 4 we had last year.

[magicman]

It is now several hours after I posted my list of NCAA bids and D3Hoops has just come out with their NCAA projections. Here's the link:

http://www.d3hoops.com/salem/09/projected.htm

As I expected the 7 East Region teams I listed are in and Hamilton gets left on the table. D3Hoops projects a 4 team pod with host Ithaca as a #1 seed facing the winner of the SUNYIT/Wells game. The other game will pit Amherst against Brandeis.

St. Lawrence will host another 4 team pod and face Brockport St. UM-Dartmouth will take on the NAZ/RIT winner.(Which they show as RIT. Pat must have a crystal ball)

RPI is an 8 seed and will travel to #1 seed Richard Stockton.

Medaille is also a #8 seed and will travel to the Cleveland Ohio region and face the #1 seed John Carroll.

The coveted 1st round bye has went to Middlebury.

Remember these are only D3Hoops projections and not the actual selections but they will be very close to the NCAA's picks. However, the placement of the teams could differ considerably.

Middlebury losing to Amherst could have an impact on the bye, with it  possibly going to Ithaca.

[thebear]

You read it here first -

The way 'port is playing,I don't see anyone beating them. 

Interesting as well, 'port has a very winnable first round game vs. Carnegie-Mellon (UAA).  Would've thought that a 14-14 team would have been cannon fodder, but looks like location triumphs once again, as 'port is within driving (all lake effect - all the time) distance of Cleveland.

[larry_u]

Can someone post your NCAA team's profiles in here:

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=6299.0

[gPod]

hey scooter...how proud are you of our brockport guys?? probably a little bias coming from me, but no other team deserves this as much as them in my opinion.  had a rough season with a lot of key losses to starters and losing a lot of talent from last years team.  got to hand it to them tho, they really performed when it mattered.  with 6 seniors on the team its good to see a great showing of leadership all around.  they got a great draw in the NCAA tourney too, so let's hope they represent the SUNYAC well.  also, i think the SUNYAC tourney shows how tough of a league this was all year, probably a little under-rated.  any team could win on any given night.

scooter, hope everything is well with you, maybe we can hit the links with coach dunne sometime.  take care and DON'T TELL LINDA!!!!!

[magicman]

Here's the SUNYAC All Conference teams.

Congratulations to Scott Morton  Player of the Year. No surprise there.

2008-09 SUNYAC Men's Basketball All-Conference selections
First Team

Name School Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown/Previous School

Tommy Downing Oswego G/F Sr. 6'2 Staten island/Curtis
Scott Morton Geneseo G Sr. 6'6 Syracuse/Westhill
Kyle Reuter Oswego G Sr. 5'10 Mexico/Mexico
Chris Ruiz Plattsburgh G So. 6'4 Bronx/St. Agnes
Mychal Wilkes Brockport G Sr. 5'11 Newark/Newark

Second Team

Name School Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown/Previous School

Damon Brown Potsdam G Sr. 6'2 Brooklyn/Port Richmond
Jamar Gray Buffalo State G Sr. 6'3 Rochester/Bishop Kearney
Mike Grimes Oneonta F Jr. 6'4 Albany/Catholic Central
Ryan Morin Oneonta F/C Sr. 6'7 Altamont/Guilderland
Carson Niehoff Cortland G/F Sr. 6'4 West Islip/West Islip

Honorable Mention

Name School Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown/Previous School

Brad Cooper Fredonia G Jr. 6'0 Monticello/Monticello
Stanley Francois Oswego F Jr. 6'2 Valley Cottage/SUNY Cobleskill
Jeff Howe Geneseo F Sr. 6'8 Niskayuna/Niskayuna
Antonio Speed Buffalo State F So. 6'7 Buffalo/East
James Tyndal Buffalo State G Sr. 5'9 Bronx/Msgr. Scanlon

2008-09 Player of the Year: Scott Morton, Geneseo

2008-09 Rookie of the Year: Chad Burridge, Oswego

Of the 15 honored players there were 10 seniors, 3 juniors and 2 sophomores.

[jdex]

ECAC Upstate  at Fisher:

Saturday -- 1- Fredonia vs. 4- Hartwick, 6 p.m.; 2- SJF vs. 3- Oswego, 8

Sunday -- Final at 1

[scooterman]

gpod--Great to hear from you--The Eagles were scary this season with all the drama around them--losing C. Parrish and the Almeda man--Coach Dunne and his staff did an excellent job of adjusting the style and getting the kids to buy into the revamped system. Having all those seniors definitely helped hold the crew together and it all paid off---I agree they got an excellent draw with C-M-- The UAA is a tough conference with the big guy mentality. There will be some match-up situations both ways. It should be an interesting showdown in Cleveland. Gpod--come to FL and we will play some golf!!!Only Linda knows---Scooterman signing off

[magicman]

Brockport down 46-43 against Carnegie Mellon with 5:42 to play

[magicman]

Brockport with the ball down 3 55-52 with 32 secs left to play

Wilkes nails a 2 pt jumper Port fouls, CMU misses both free throws .Port with the ball 14 secs to go Port's Clarke fouled goes to the line hits both Brockport up 56-55 with 8 secs left. CMU comes down misses a jumper gets offensive rebound and Bouldin-johnson for CMU is fouled. Misses 1st FT hits 2nd tied at 56. Here we go to overtime.

[deputy dog]

Congratulations to SUNYIT and Coach Grimmer for knocking off #11 Elms! This is the first NCAA victory for the boys from Utica. Even though you left the SUNYAC you still have SUNY in your name!!!!

[deputy dog]

SUNYIT wins 85-77. Elms shot a woeful 9-32 from behind the arc.  Wildcats will face St. Lawrence who will have home court advantage. The Saints took down Brooklyn College earlier in the evening.

[deputy dog]

magicman: Why are the stats so far behind your update of SUNY-Brockport game?