MBB: University Athletic Association

[hugenerd]

Two big conference games today, Chicago at Emory and WashU at Case. Whoever wins todays games will go into a threeway tie for second place in the conference (all 4 teams playing are 1-1 in the UAA).

[Rhodes Scholar]

I saw the Brandeis @ NYU game yesterday. NYU came away with a hard-fought 79-75 victory. The Violets got solid contributions from Matt Basford, Jason Boone, Chael Clark, Mike DeCorso and Jared Kildare. They had good ball movement, nice outside shooting and solid interior play.

I was impressed with Brandeis. They have a solid team and the ability to play with anyone in the conference. Plus they are very young: except for one junior, all of the players are freshmen or sophomores. Steve DeLuca is a versatile 6-6 forward who can shoot. Joe Coppens can shoot the three-ball. Florian Rexhepi can take it to the hole or shot from long range. Kwame Graves-Flugham is quick and athletic and has pretty good court sense.

[dblock]

I saw the Brandeis @ NYU game yesterday. NYU came away with a hard-fought 79-75 victory. The Violets got solid contributions from Matt Basford, Jason Boone, Chael Clark, Mike DeCorso and Jared Kildare. They had good ball movement, nice outside shooting and solid interior play.

I was impressed with Brandeis. They have a solid team and the ability to play with anyone in the conference. Plus they are very young: except for one junior, all of the players are freshmen or sophomores. Steve DeLuca is a versatile 6-6 forward who can shoot. Joe Coppens can shoot the three-ball. Florian Rexhepi can take it to the hole or shot from long range. Kwame Graves-Flugham is quick and athletic and has pretty good court sense.

nyu played without key player Danny Falcon so it was impressive that NYU was able to play as well as they did. joe coppens did have a great game though. and brandeis made it close at the end of the game they ran the two minute game perfectly...lol sounds like im talking bout football

[Gregory Sager]

Chicago (9-5, 2-1) won at Emory (8-6, 1-2) on Sunday, 79-68, while Wash U (10-4, 2-1) won at Case Western Reserve (9-5, 1-2), 86-69.

[sandman]

Well, even though Case lost both games this weekend, I witnessed history being made.

Early in the second half of yesterday's game against Wash U, Carson Oren broke the school scoring record, which had stood for 24 years.  He now stands at 1,461 points for his career and still has 11 more games.

Later that game, Funso Lafe, a senior who red-shirted his freshman year at The George Washington University before transferring to Case, scored his 1,000th point in three years.  He also made a spectacular dunk on a tip-in late in the Chicago game.

Case falls to 9-5, 1-2 in the league with a tough four-game road trip coming up.

[hugenerd]

According to the new Wolfe Rankings, CMU is the #1 DIII team in the country.  See the top 25 chat for more.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Mellon's up to #11 in the new poll and NYU breaks in at 24.

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UAA IS DOING BIG THINGS

[OXY Oswald]

It's great to see Chicago doing good this year, they've had a rough couple seasons.  With any luck I'll get to catch a game sometime, being out in LA makes that a little tougher though.

Any suggestions for a home game I could catch in February?  I was thinking the Emory game?

[jagluski]

In case anyone is interested, this week's around the nation features an interview with former Wash U all-american Chris Jefferies.  He is now playing professionally in Luxembourg.

[cmubobcat]

Listen up!  Carnegie Mellon basketball returns to WRCT Radio this weekend.

Friday:
Tartans vs. Case Western
6:00 Women
8:00 Men

Sunday:
Tartans vs. Emory
12:00 Men
2:00 Women

All games can be heard at 88.3 FM Pittsburgh or online at www.wrct.org.

[bouttime]

CMU and Case are playing a tight game in a PACKED skibo gym. 41-39 tartans with 16 to play. CMU cant get anything goin on offense and the crowd is looking for a reason to explode.

[David Collinge]

Case ends up on top, 72-69.  Tough home loss for the Tartans.

[sandman]

Wow.  This is easily Case's biggest victory in years-- I don't recall them beating a ranked team, much less on the road, since I started following the team in 2000.

Last year, Case gave CMU a real fight late in the season and fell short, but this time, the Spartans prevailed, behind double-doubles from both Carson Oren (21 points, 10 rebounds) and Matt Cannan (14 and 10); sixth man of the year Funso Lafe also scored 18.  Marques Johnson and Nate Maurer led CMU with 13 and 12 points, respectively.

The stat of the game was field goal percentage; Case shot 50% for the game as opposed to the Tartans' 35%.  After leading by nine in the first half and trailing by seven with 8:32 to go in the second, Case went on a 16-4 run, taking the lead for good on a layup by Funso Lafe and a 3-pointer by Rich Mullen.  CMU's three-point attempt to tie the game at the end went wide left, and the Spartans walked off the court with the upset.

This raises an interesting point: if Case beat Carnegie Mellon on the road, who beat Princeton on the road, how would the Spartans fare against the Tigers?  We know that Case was able to handle the up-tempo attack of Westminster (in a 135-120 win in November), but how would they do against the slow Princeton offense?

Case improves to 10-5, 2-2 while CMU falls to 13-2, 3-1.  It doesn't get much easier for the Spartans as they've got to travel to Rochester, Brandeis, and NYU for their next three games.

[Gregory Sager]

Brandeis wins with surprising ease at Chicago, 72-60, behind 17 points apiece from guards Florian Rexhepi and Kwame Graves-Fulgham. This was in spite of the fact that two of Chicago's regulars who had missed the past several games returned to the rotation this evening, Clay Carmody and Matt Corning. Brandeis is now 1-3 in the UAA, while the Maroons fall to 2-2.