MBB: University Athletic Association

[sac]

You can listen here.....

http://www.calvin.edu/sports/

(there will be a link to real audio within the page somewhere)

and get live stats here...

http://www.calvin.edu/scoreboard/


Should be an excellent early season D3 ball game.

[martin]

Friday, Nov. 16

Calvin College Tip-Off Tournament
Washington 74, Ohio Northern University 58

Case Alumni Association Tip-Off Tournament (first round)
Case 88, Alma College 69

University of Rochester/Chuck Resler Tournament
Rochester 73, SUNY New Paltz 43

Johns Hopkins University Blue Jay Classic
First round:Johns Hopkins University 81, Carnegie Mellon 73
 
Saturday, Nov. 17

Calvin College Tip-Off Tournament
Championship: Washington vs. Calvin College

Case Alumni Association Tip-Off Tournament
Championship: Case vs. Earlham College

New York University Tip-Off Tournament (first round)
NYU vs. Framingham State College

Brandeis University Tip-Off Tournament
Brandeis vs. Kenyon College

University of Chicago/Midway Classic (first round)
Chicago vs. Lake Forest College

University of Rochester/Chuck Resler Tournament
Rochester vs. SUNY Oneonta

University of the South/Lon Varnell Classic
Emory vs. University of Texas-Tyler

Johns Hopkins University Blue Jay Classic
Consolation: Carnegie Mellon vs. New York City College of Technology

[martin]

Down go the Bears!!

Calvin 87
Wash 82

Wash trailed 40-27 at the half.  Wallis, Nading, Kelly and Ruths all fouled out.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Down go the Bears!!

Olivet  87
Wash 82

Wash trailed 40-27 at the half.  Wallis, Nading, Kelly and Ruths all fouled out.

That was Calvin (probably a legitimate top ten team) AT Calvin; if it had been Olivet, you would have serious reason for concern!

[martin]

Mr Ypsi - I spaced.  The post is now corrected.  It is easy to confuse all those dutch schools in western Michigan.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Understandable - the WashU women played Olivet (winning by 30).

[JustAFan]

Brandeis nips Kenyon 83-79 in the opening game of the Brandeis round-robin tip-off tournament. Both teams started off slowly, with Kenyon leading by one, 29-28, at the half on the heels of a 50% shooting effort. Brandeis got the hot hand in the second half, shooting 54%. The Judges had very balanced scoring from their first 9 players, with no starter scoring more than 14 points. Kenyon was led by Brian Yelvington with 21, followed by Dave Knapke and JT Knight with 13 each.

Tufts plays Bridgewater State in the second game tonight, and tomorrow Kenyon plays Tufts and Brandeis plays Bridgewater State. Brandeis and Tufts will play each other at Tufts next Saturday.

[sac]

Mr Ypsi - I spaced.  The post is now corrected.  It is easy to confuse all those dutch schools in western Michigan.

except Olivet is not dutch.

We'll let it slide.

[David Collinge]

Brandeis nips Kenyon 83-79 in the opening game of the Brandeis round-robin tip-off tournament.

Kenyon reports the score as 70-61 in favor of the Judges.

[deiscanton]

Sorry that I couldn't be at Brandeis today for the game against Bridgewater State.  I am at Emmanuel right now, but I followed the last 5 minutes of the game on-line at their library through the new live stats feature that Brandeis just got this weekend.  (Okay Mr. Premo, you can let me have it-- but my friend Mr. Paul didn't want to drive to Brandeis today, and I didn't want to get up early and take a cab to the MBTA Red Line subway station just for a non-conference game.)

Final score today:  Brandeis 84, Bridgewater State 79 (according to the live stats.)

Some thoughts:

1.)  Something seems to be ailing Steve DeLuca.  He played off the bench in both games this weekend, and he only contributed 3 rebounds today.

2.)  Big performances today from Terrell Hollins (26 pts.), Joe Coppens (24 pts.) and Kevin Olson (15 pts.)

3.)  Even though Bridgewater State lost today, I wouldn't be surprised to see them win MASCAC this year and get the MASCAC's AQ to the NCAA tournament.  Bridgewater State could be right up there with Keene State and RI College in the Northeast region.

4.)  Combined with the win over a very good Kenyon Lords team last night, I think that Brandeis is off to a good start at 2-0.

[ILive4This]

Deluca, only played 8 minutes, and I think the idea was to limit his playing time this weekend if possible to let him fully recover from a previously mentioned injury he sustained during the off-season. That being said Bridgewater St played two very strong games this weekend, making Tufts just look silly last night, and then holding an 11 pt lead at one point against a tough Brandeis squad (even without deluca).

[Rhodes Scholar]

I just got back from watching SUNY-Geneseo beat NYU, 60-57, on a 25-foot buzzer-beater by Scott Morton. These two teams are pretty evenly matched and the game could have gone either way.

Morton, the Tip-Off Tournament MVP, led the Knights with 28 points. No one else scored in double digits for Geneseo. Charlie Parker was high man for NYU with 22 points. Keith Jensen was next with 15 and Mike Magee added 10.

This is the first time I remember NYU losing their season-opening tournament. I'm sure it's happened before, but it's not something that happens very often. The Violets lost a ton of talent from last year's team, and they will struggle this year. Parker, who came on last year as a junior, is going to have to carry the load this year. He played very well today but is going to need a lot more help if the Violets are going to be competitive in the UAA this year.

In the consolation game, RPI beat Framingham State, 78-76, in overtime. Sam Zullo paced the victors with 18 points, followed by Jeremy Bull with 16 and Mike Brion with 14. Framingham was led by Bill Carey with 20.

[David Collinge]

4.)  Combined with the win over a very good Kenyon Lords team last night, I think that Brandeis is off to a good start at 2-0.

"Very good" might be a bit of a stretch.  Kenyon did return virtually the whole team, including all 5 starters, and they had a tour of Italy which helped them prepare for the season, but this is a team that was 10-16 in a weak conference (NCAC) last season.  They should be a bit better this season, but they're still projected to finish in the middle of the conference, behind the likes of Ohio Wesleyan, Wabash, and Allegheny (as well as perennial powers Wooster and Wittenberg.)  They'll play hard and be in most games, but this is a game that a squad like Brandeis should win.

[Hoop Dreams]

Trinity (TX) downs Chicago 63-58 in the Midway Classic championship game at Ratner.

Matt Corning was, perhaps surprisingly, the Maroons' leading scorer in both games this weekend (19 points vs. Lake Forest, 17 vs. Trinity).

Not a good shooting game for the UC, which was 8-for-27 from downtown.  Even after graduating all of last year's three-guard monster, Chicago may depend heavily on the 3 again this season, as 46 of their 94 Midway Classic field-goal attempts were from beyond the arc.

I see it as somewhat encouraging, though, that Nate Hainje (2-10) and Jake Pancratz (1-8) shot poorly and Trinity was 8-12 from three-point range, yet Chicago was in this game until the end against a good Tigers team.

Congratulations to Trinity coach Pat Cunningham, who I believe is 7-1 in Midway Classic contests (3-1 with Chicago and 4-0 with Trinity, winning the event in 1998, 2003 and 2007).

[ILive4This]

While I am not a huge fan of blaming officials for wins/loses, it did come up in the women's UAA thread. I just thought I would comment on the happenings of today's Brandeis/Bridgewater State game.

During the first half the Judges had a 2 man trap on a BSC player up against the sideline, right infront of the BSC bench and the scorers table. What happened next may be one of the funniest things I have seen, and the biggest example of a ref anticipating the call.

The whistle blew, not because of out of bounds or a 5 second violation, but because of a time out.

The BSC coach replied that he nor his player had called time out

In a gym that was extremely confused you could hear the ref say "MY BAD" however it was BSC ball as if a time out had been called, with out charging them with the time out

Unfortunatly the software used by live stats does not have a "MY BAD" button so I am not sure how it ultimatly went into the play by play.