MBB: University Athletic Association

[kiltieband]

CMU loses a heartbreaker to John Carroll, 76-74.  Down 10 halfway through the 2nd half, CMU fought back to tie with 18 seconds left, but Chris Zajac for John Carroll hit a falling-down jumper with 0.3 seconds left on the clock to win.

Great season Tartans.  And congrats to the Seniors, who earn 2 NCAA Tournament berths, with the first win in school history, as well as an ECAC South championship.


Brandeis also loses by 2, leaving Wash U (up 11 at half) as the only remaining UAA representative.

[BUBeaverFan]

Congrats to the Bears!  Games probably at Wheaton next weekend.  AT had a great weekend.  Everyone really picked it up nicely against UW-Whitewater. 

[Marty Peretz]

Great teams find a way to win...and often get a little help/luck in the process. Survive and advance for the Bears. I don't want to be overly presumptuous, but a part of me believes that whomever wins the WU Wheaton game will win the national title. This is as big a sweet 16 game as I've ever heard of with respect to Division 3 basketball. Hard to be hyperbolic when it comes to stating how huge this one will be.

[deiscanton]

I'll probably be talking to Zach Aranow of WBRS around midnight tonight about the past weekend, but if CMU's loss in the second round was heartbreaking, then I believe that Brandeis's loss at Franklin & Marshall was even more heartbreaking.  F & M was putting up big leads over the Judges, and Brandeis tried to counter, but every time Brandeis got close, F & M would expand the lead again.  The biggest heartbreaker was that Brandeis was down by 20 in the second half, and then the Judges were able to rally.  Brandeis got the deficit down to 1 point and had the ball with a chance to either send it to overtime or get the win outright, but Brandeis could not get that last shot to fall in-- the deficit was just too deep.

I saw a little bit of the video from F & M-- it was a nice touch calling their die-hard fan base section the "Dip Zone."   

Great job, Brandeis-- I did not think that even getting to the NCAAs would be possible when the Judges started 0-3, but this was the best season out of an 0-3 start that I could ever have imagined.  Best of luck in the future to Steve DeLuca and Kevin Olson-- I hope that the Brandeis men can go to Amherst and support our women this weekend-- to return the favor from last season when the Brandeis women's team went to Plattsburgh, NY to support the men.

[Hugenerd]

CMU loses a heartbreaker to John Carroll, 76-74.  Down 10 halfway through the 2nd half, CMU fought back to tie with 18 seconds left, but Chris Zajac for John Carroll hit a falling-down jumper with 0.3 seconds left on the clock to win.

Great season Tartans.  And congrats to the Seniors, who earn 2 NCAA Tournament berths, with the first win in school history, as well as an ECAC South championship.


Brandeis also loses by 2, leaving Wash U (up 11 at half) as the only remaining UAA representative.

Tough way to end the season.  It looks like CMU got really good play out of Einwag, TBJ, Rife and the entire bench.  I was following the live stats and it was a bit painful watching Jack Anderson miss shot after shot, 1-11 shooting is a tough way to go out.  He and O'Rourke were a combined 2-16 (12.5%) from the field, while everyone else was 27-40 (67.5%).  CMU also shot only 14-21 from the FT line, with 3 of those misses being front ends of 1 and 1's. Despite all that CMU had a great chance to win, but I guess it wasnt meant to be.

A few other things I found to be odd were:  TBJ only played 19 minutes, despite shooting 5-5 from the field, grabbing 6 boards and getting 3 blocks (in essentially half the game)  and John Duhring, Anderson's backup, was 4-4 from the field in 11 minutes of play.

[deiscanton]

I just wanted to post here today to say that my friend Mr. Robert C. Paul of Sharon, MA passed away as of Monday, March 9, 2009.  I have put some details on the UAA women's basketball page, but I just wanted to say that Mr. Paul was known to me as the one who frequently drove me to the Brandeis basketball home games and provided me with Fig Newtons as my snack to fuel me up just before the big games.  Mr. Paul was a college classmate of former Brandeis athletic director Nick Rodis, as the two of them attended Harvard in the 1940's.  Mr. Paul is also known by many as Brandeis's #1 women's soccer fan, just as I am known by many as Brandeis's #1 basketball fan.  I will deeply miss Mr. Paul and his companionship.

His obituary is printed in today's Boston Globe for March 11, 2009.  Donations in his memory can be made to Project Bread in Boston.

[Pat Coleman]

Any readers here who are even thinking they might want to attend the Final Four should enter the City of Salem's contest: Free lodging, free tickets, admission to team banquet and VIP passes:

http://www.d3hoops.com/salemgiveaway/

[Mugsy]

This was posted over on the CCIW board.  Very nice homemade promo for the games this weekend.  Should be an outstanding weekend of D3 college basketball.

I just picked up another link from the Facebook group for the Wheaton team.  Let's get ready for some big time basketball games!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpibLR667I

[BUBeaverFan]

Wash U in a squeaker over Wheaton 55-52  Sean Wallis big night, AT with a solid night.  Alex Toth and Zach Kelly had big shots for the Bears. Cam Smith with a stellar defensive effort.

#1 St. Thomas vs. #2 Wash U for a trip to the final four!

[Scrub023]

Washington deserved to win this one. They really played a great game. Hats off to Smith for making this one tough night for Raymond.

[Marty Peretz]

Awesome win for the Bears. Must have gotten 50 text messages from WU people all over the country throughout the contest. Bear nation rejoices! Cam Smith with an epic defensive performance. One more win and I'll see you in Salem...WashU33, why weren't you at the game? Hopefully you get there tomorrow.

Pat Coleman on the post game: "Cam Smith had the best 36 minute scoreless stat line you can have." Truer words have never been spoken.

[BUBeaverFan]

Awesome win for the Bears. Must have gotten 50 text messages from WU people all over the country throughout the contest. Bear nation rejoices! Cam Smith with an epic defensive performance. One more win and I'll see you in Salem...WashU33, why weren't you at the game? Hopefully you get there tomorrow.

Pat Coleman on the post game: "Cam Smith had the best 36 minute scoreless stat line you can have." Truer words have never been spoken.

I will be there tomorrow.  I have AT's Dad's District Championship game to attend tomorrow (early afternoon) and then we will fly down the turnpike to catch the game tomorrow night.

[WahooThunder]

Congrats to Wash U on a great win tonight and good luck tomorrow.

[Marty Peretz]

WashU33...it's 300 bucks for me to fly to chicago on this short notice...some part of me is considering it...

[Wydown Blvd.]

save it. hopefully you'll be traveling to salem next week...