MBB: State University of New York Athletic Conference

[jdex]

Utica Tech 93, Cortland 88 OT

Tech withstands big upset bid by home debuting Dragons who hold 49-33 first half lead. Tech gets rolling in second half and trails 63-57 at 11:45 on LaBoard hoop. His basket at 5:30 knots it at 73 but Corts regain edge. It's 81-78 at 1:48 as C. Reaves hits driving layup, and 81-80 on Reaves steal. A. Gilkes free throw on reb foul knots it at 81 in reg. Tech shows veteran savvy after going down 84-83 on D. Jutton trey. Reversal on E. Belone hoop. Reaves ft at 1:26 hike lead. Cortland shaky at the finish; misses some easy touches inside. Reaves goes with small bandage over right eye; comes alive in second half.  Gilkes sits much of second half with 4 pf

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C. Laboard 28 pts(9x17fg), 10 rebs; C. Reaves 25 pts(10-21fg), 10 rebs, 4 assts, 3 stls in 45'; A. Gilkes 9 pts, 13 rebs in 24'; E. Belone 17 pts(6x17fg) in 41'; P. Whalen 11 pts, 9 rebs in 36'. Tech trails 49-33 at the half when Cortland shoots 18x36fg and 6x10 3 with big bench lifts from M. Lewis and J. Miolan. Corts finish 31x80fg(13x31 3s) to Tech's 32x75fg.
D. Jutton 20 pts(6x16fg, 4x9 3s), 6 rebs in 40' for CState; D. Maggiacomo 16 pts(5x16fg, 3x8 3s); M. Jankiewicz 13 pts, 6 rebs; J. Miolan 12 pts(5x10fg) in 19'. Tech 54-44 board edge

New Paltz 61, Fredonia 56
Geneseo 67, Potsdam 64

[jdex]

Brockport tips host Plattsburgh 74-72 on M. Wilkes' 2 free throws at 0.4. B. Williams 23 pts

Oneonta shakes 32-32 halftime knot with Buffalo St. and takes 11 pt. lead with 14' left. BS within 3 at 3' when W. Heslin, E. Bratt, K. Reed foul shooting the finishing touch. OState 21x27ft and 28x53fg. K. Reed 24 pts(9x14fg, 6x6ft), 8 reb, 4 stls, 3 assts; foul-troubled Heslin 21 pts (7x9fg, 7x8ft), 6 reb in 21'; E. Bratt 10 pts, 4 assts. OState 23 assts (R. Fitzgerald 5, M. Reardon 4). BS 29x70fg. B. Wood 14 pts(4x11fg, 3x5 3s), 4 assts, 3 stls; S. Lamar 12 pts(5x10fg) in 14'; D. Griggs 11 pts(5x8fg), 5 reb in 34'

New Paltz' A. Foluke-Henderson 13 pts, 13 rebs, 4 stls; T. Cannon 16 pts, 5 rebs; J. Hauser 9 pts; M. Irwin 9 pts. Hawks build on 29-28 halftime lead and hold 12 pt. edge before Fredonia within 58-56 at 2:35.

Geneseo's J. Kling 6 free throws in final 0:53 seals deal vs. Potsdam. Knights overcome 5 pt. deficit in second half and take largest lead at 65-62. Kling 10 pts(4x7fg, 8x8ft); S. Morton 17 pts(4x8fg)

[UCgrad45]

Slickyquick,

I'm sure the two all-conference level players off Potsdam's Elite Eight squad who are in med school were given a few extra hours on their MCATs, too. 

Darn that silly NCAA for giving out those post-graduate fellowships to exemplary student-atheletes.  Same with the Chancellor's awards.

Please explain "not the brightest bulbs in the bunch" to all of us.  I'm eagerly awaiting your response.

Ever consider that the focus, drive and determination that make one a successful athlete might also be able to be transferred to academic pursuits as well?

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

-Abraham Lincoln

Was Turner one of those guys that is in med school? He was always a smart kid. We were teammates in HS but I am not sure what his degree is in.

[UCgrad45]

I've got to give props to IT on an impressive win.

[FisherDynasty]

I have to give props to me predicted sleeper (not really sleeper, but always underated) Geneseo. 

I rate Geneseo & Bport as the 2 top Sunyac teams this year.  However, the sunyac with heavy dependency on athleticism is very unpredictable and a streaky.  So just because people have predicitions on who may be at the top, it is never certain and in the past is definatly not the case. 

[bports]

Brockport is starting to look like the villanova of last year. They start four guards and a forward and will be in your face for 40 minutes. They have 7 guards that can all play and that will even get better when shawn harris brother comes in next semester. Not sure of his name but he is another very good guard. This team is making it very tough for teams to get there offense started. They have 11 players getting pretty good minutes and are forcing teams to use timeouts just to catch there breath. The game at fisher is a good example of good guard play. Fishers guards are very young and were totally in over there heads, bport had a double digit lead for over half of that game. Just for the record bport is getting very hard to get into after they became a tier 2 sunyac school. You need about a 90 average along with a good sat score to be considered( i think an 1100?). As far as that special talent goes i believe the hoops team is allowed 1 per year. The football team is allowed 2.

[slickyquick]

I do know of Potsdam's two medical students Christian Turner and Jim Connelly and I don't doubt their extremely high GPAs. I totally respect the things that they did to the program athletically and academically but....

Potsdam has not exactly been known, especially in the past, as a fine academic institution. I don't want to name names but there are some players that have been there within the past 5 or 6 years that have struggled quite a bit academically. I know there are also other players like that at other schools but I'm just saying Potsdam because it was one of the first schools that came to mind. And yes, I do know that they are one of the 3 tier II schools in the SUNYs along with Brockport and New Paltz.

Maybe, a lot of myself mentioning Potsdam has to do with the 80's era when Jerry Welsh was there. They were a straight bandit program, regardless of what anyone in the North Country believes. They had unreal players during that time, but to say they had scholars would be a total lie.  I do believe there are still players from that era who still haven't graduated. I'm sure it was the same at Buff St when they were good and possibly Brockport during the recent NCAA stretch.  I am just stating the facts that I know.

The idea of these schools from the general public is what I'm really going from.  If you ask someone if they think Buff St or SUNYIT is a good school, most people would chuckle.

[cstate19]

I have to give props to me predicted sleeper (not really sleeper, but always underated) Geneseo. 

I rate Geneseo & Bport as the 2 top Sunyac teams this year.  However, the sunyac with heavy dependency on athleticism is very unpredictable and a streaky.  So just because people have predicitions on who may be at the top, it is never certain and in the past is definatly not the case. 

no sunyit?

[jdex]

Cortland bounces back from tough Friday loss to clip Alfred 72-58 at home. Begins to take charge late in first half, leads 40-26 at half, pushes margin to near 20 and withstands Saxons' comeback bid. Corts make 13 more ft (20x28 to 7x16) as both squads 23x59fg. R. Headley 15 pts(5x11fg), 5 reb, 2 stls for 3-2 Red Dragons. C. Niehoff 14 pts(8x10ft), 8 reb in 14'; M. Lewis 7 pts, 9 rebs, 2 stls in 21' -- latter pair off bench; D. Maggiacomo 9 pts(3x5 3s). Ten Dragons score. D. Stein 13 pts in 27'; J. Patt 12 pts; R. Clemenson 11 pts; P. Smithgall 11 rebs for 2-3 Alfs, who were minus top guard R. McCarter

[jdex]

Potsdam 98, Brockport 95
Oneonta 56, Fredonia 51
Buffalo St. 76, New Paltz 71

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Potsdam scores 62 in second half to erase 51-36 Bport halftime lead. Bears 21x33fg(5x8 3s) over final 20'. T. Reinhardt 24 pts(10x12fg), 7 rebs, 4 assts in 35'; D. Brownb 21 pts(6x9fg, 8x10ft), 4 stls, 8 assts; S. Mitchell 17 pts(6x11fg, 5x8 3s), 6 assts, 2 stls; B. Siskavich 14 pts(6x8fg); A. Williams 13 pts. Bears 24 assts, make 21x31ft, 35x59fg(7x16 3s). Bport's D. Maldonado 23 pts(7x14fg, 6x10 3s) but plays just 19'. Fouls out. B. Williams 18 pts, 11 rebs; M. Wilkes 19 pts(6x10fg, 5x8 3s). Eagles 29x63fg, 12x28 3s, 25x35ft

Plattsburgh 65, Geneseo 59

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Oneonta goes to 3-0 in SUNYAC by pulling away from 25-24 halftime lead vs. guesting Fredonia; 14-2 run keyed by E. Bratt, K. Reed does the trick. Bratt 11 pts(4x6fg, 3x5 3s); Reed 10 pts, 7 rebs; R. Morin 10 pts(4x8fg) in 14'. Freds' K. Reichlmayr 21 pts(10x16fg), 8 rebs, 3 stls; K. Gordon 8 rebs (Fred 37-31 advantage); M. Moore 4 assts; A. Smith 13 pts

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Oswego outguns visiting SUNYIT 85-57. Leaps to 44-23 halftime lead, putting IT behind eight ball for second straight night. But unlike huge winning rally at Cortland, Tech can't handle multiple Laker weapons. E. Robertson 22 pts(9x13fg, 4x5 3s); M. Burridge 18 pts(6x10fg), 12 rebs; T. Franze 15 pts(6x8fg), 7 assts, 3 stls; K. Reuter 11 pts; T. Downing 5 assts. Oswego 34x64fg, 40 rebs; IT 25x63fg, 33 rebs. A. Gilkes 25 pts(11x14fg), 7 rebs in loss. C. Reaves 10 pts(4x11fg) in 32' after going OT route on Friday; C. LaBoard 6 pts, 9 rebs

Buffalo St. leads NP 39-35 at half and breaks 61-61 tie with 6:30 left. Bengals 30x65fg, 48 rebs. DJ Nubine-Mitchell 16 pts(6x7fg, 2x3 3s) in 12'; N. Wilkins 13 pts(3x8 3s) in 11'; D. Griggs 12 pts(5x6fg), 8 rebs in 32'. All three come off bench. D. Mozelle 12 pts, 8 rebs; B. wood 7 assts, 7 pts, 4 stls, 5 rebs. Big game from NP's A. Foluke-Henderson with 30 pts(13x20fg), 13 rebs, 2 assts, 2 stls. J. Hauser 14 pts, T. Cannon 14 pts. NP 28x74fg

Plattsburgh rallies. Down 27-23 at half and 41-26 at 14:16. Pull even at 46 at 8:35 and forge lead on A. Williams' 3pter at 4:56. Williams 18 pts, 8 rebs; J. Dumont 11 pts, T. Gorham 11 pts. Pburgh 35-29 reb advantage with 15 offensive grabs. Gen's T. Kitson 13 pts(6x12fg); J. Howe 11 pts(6x8fg), 7 assts; 5 rebs; B. Bennett 9 assts

[bports]

Wow bport blows a 15 pt second half lead to lose at potsdam. They almost swept the north country trip but potsdam comes out and shoots like 70% fg including around 75% behind the arc in the 2nd half. Hopefully bport learned a lesson from this, but all in all to go to the north and come out of it 1-1 is ok.