MBB: University Athletic Association

[Hugenerd]

Brandeis regroups to win in OT over Emory.  Rochester edges NYU by 2 to take sole lead of the UAA.

[WUPHF]

Washington University over Carnegie Mellon 70-62.

Spencer Gay and Dylan Richter leads the way with 16 and 14 points each, but hats off to Rob Burnett who gets his first career start, leading to 12 points and 13 rebounds in 19 minutes.  Caleb Knepper walks away with 8 points in 25 minutes which, I believe, is the most he has played at home all season.  Tim Cooney did not play giving Max Needle a chance to come in off the bench.

[deiscanton]

Some comments from the Brandeis v Emory game on Friday:

(1) There were some Brandeis career highs from that game:

Tyrone Hughes, 22 pts  (new career best)
Jay Freeman, 9 pts (new career best)
Anthony Trapasso, 7 rebounds, 2 assists (ties career bests in both categories)
Ben Bartoldus, 2 blocks (ties career best)

(2) Brandeis's Youri Dascy picked up his second double-double of the season and career with a 14 pts, 10 rebound performance vs Emory.   His first double-double was earlier in the season at Emerson.

(3) Derek Retos's made 3 ptr in the first minute of the overtime period against Emory broke a scoring drought of 240 minutes, 44 seconds without a made "3" since the NYU game.  Retos had gone 0-12 from 3 pt land since the NYU game before his made "3" in overtime.

I'm looking forward to today's game against Rochester.  

[deiscanton]

UAA Men's Wrap-up from Sunday

(Visiting team mentioned first)

Rochester 77, Brandeis 64-- @ Waltham, MA
Emory 87, NYU 78-- @ New York
Case 65, Wash U 80-- @ St. Louis
Carnegie Mellon 76, Chicago 80-- @ Chicago

At the halfway point of the conference season--

Rochester leads the UAA at 6-1 in UAA play, Emory is 1 game back at 5-2 in the UAA, while Wash U and Chicago are tied for third at 4-3 in the UAA, 2 games back of the lead.

Next weekend has the same UAA games on Friday and Sunday as this weekend just concluded, with the locations reversed. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

First Regional Rankings: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2011/02/02/ncaas-mens-regional-rankings/

[deiscanton]

UAA Teams in regional rankings

Rochester-- #3 East
Emory-- #7 South
Brandeis-- #9 Northeast

Although 3 UAA teams are regionally ranked this week, this may be a season where only the UAA winner will get into the NCAAs. The last time that the UAA only sent 1 men's basketball team to the NCAAs was the 2005-2006 season when Carnegie Mellon won the UAA with a 10-4 UAA mark and lost in the first round.

Brandeis now has 6 of their last 8 games on the road, with the next 3 games coming vs regionally ranked opposition:  @ Emory, @ Rochester, @ Amherst.   Brandeis is 1-1 this season vs reg ranked oppostiion, with this mark coming in the home games vs Emory and Rochester from last weekend.   Brandeis's NCAA chances depend on making a big run in the next 8 games-- the next 3 games are definitely must-win for the Judges, IMO, as the non-conference SOS so far has not helped Brandeis.

Records vs regionally ranked opposition as of this first week:

(1)  Rochester is 3-1 vs reg. ranked opponents in the primary criteria:  Wins vs Hobart (#4 East), Brandeis, and Emory-- Loss vs Hobart.   Rochester also has a secondary criteria win over Wittenberg, which is ranked #5 in the Great Lakes this week.  Rochester has a home game vs Brandeis this week and a road game at Emory as their upcoming games vs regionally ranked opposition.

(2)  Brandeis is 1-1 vs regionally ranked opponents:  Win vs Emory, Loss vs Rochester.   Brandeis's next 3 games are all on the road vs regionally ranked opponents-- @ Emory, @ Rochester, @ Amherst (#3 Northeast)-- however, no other regionally ranked opponents for Brandeis on the schedule after the Amherst game.

(3)  Emory is 0-2 vs regionally ranked opponents:  Losses at Rochester and at Brandeis.   Emory will have a chance this Friday to pick up a home win vs Brandeis, but will then have to wait under the last game of the season before the Eagles host Rochester.

Of the 3 teams, Rochester has the strongest case for a Pool C this week should the Yellowjackets not win the UAA's automatic bid, while Brandeis and Emory probably need to win the UAA to get in.  All other UAA teams won't get in to the NCAAs unless they win the league's automatic bid.

[deiscanton]

As we start UAA play today on the men's side, the word from Rochester is that Rochester's Nate Novosel will not play vs NYU today due to an injury that he sustained in practice early this week.

Men's action is coming up....

Also, NYU coach Joe Nesci has checked into a local hospital in Rochester this afternoon due to illness (reportedly, a flu bug has been affecting some of the NYU players and coaches-- a flu bug sidelined NYU women's basketball player Tana Bertino this evening as well) and will not be coaching on the sidelines at the Palestra tonight.   NYU's assistant coaches will be running the show for him this evening-- ironically, should NYU win tonight, Joe Nesci will have picked up his 400th career victory, according to JC DeLass of WYSL 1040 AM.

[Hugenerd]

Two big individual performances in Pittsburgh so far...Shane Rife of CMU and DYlan Richter of WashU each have 22 points...at the half.

[deiscanton]

Halftime scores from the UAA-- Friday, Feb. 4

1.)  Rochester 38, NYU 25
2.)  Carnegie Mellon 38, Wash U 35
3.)  Case 44, Chicago 36

4.)  Emory 33, Brandeis 31-- This was the last game of the four men's UAA games to go to the half toinight.

[David Collinge]

I think we should take a moment to show appreciation for the players in the UAA who deal with the toughest travel schedule in D3 as well as some of the toughest academics, and succeed in both venues.  The following UAA men's players have achieved Academic All-District recognition, as selected by CoSIDA:

First team (eligible for selection as Academic All-Americans):
Michael Labanowski, Rochester (Dist. 1) -- GPA 3.86 in Mechanical Engineering
Alex Greven, Emory (Dist. 3) -- 3.76, Neuroscience/Behaviorial Biology
Alex Gulotta, Emory (Dist. 3) -- 3.85, Business
Eric Duerr, CWRU (Dist. 4) -- 3.93, Biology (pre-med)

Second team: none

Third team:  
Ben Hoener, Wash U. (Dist. 7) -- 3.75, Chemistry

Congratulations to these outstanding scholar-athletes!

[deiscanton]

Final scores in the UAA-- Friday, Feb. 4

1.)  Carnegie Mellon 78, Wash U 65  (CMU's Shane Rife had a career high 26 pts)
2.)  Rochester 78, NYU 70  (John DiBartolomeo led Rochester with 27 pts today.)
3.)  Case 88, Chicago 75
4.)  Emory 85, Brandeis 70

[uaabballfan]

As we start UAA play today on the men's side, the word from Rochester is that Rochester's Nate Novosel will not play vs NYU today due to an injury that he sustained in practice early this week.

Men's action is coming up....

Also, NYU coach Joe Nesci has checked into a local hospital in Rochester this afternoon due to illness (reportedly, a flu bug has been affecting some of the NYU players and coaches-- a flu bug sidelined NYU women's basketball player Tana Bertino this evening as well) and will not be coaching on the sidelines at the Palestra tonight.   NYU's assistant coaches will be running the show for him this evening-- ironically, should NYU win tonight, Joe Nesci will have picked up his 400th career victory, according to JC DeLass of WYSL 1040 AM.

Any word on how long Novosel will be out?  I notice he's not playing against Brandeis today either?  What type of injury did he sustain?

[deiscanton]

To UAAbballfan--

I believe that Novosel suffered an ankle injury in practice earlier this week-- I am currently listening to JC DeLass's audio call of the Rochester vs Brandeis game through WYSL's internet feed.  I am not certain of the exact area or the extent of the injury-- however, he will not be playing today as well.

Rochester is in first place in the UAA right now in spite of the fact that 7 of the 13 players on the Rochester roster have missed at least 1 game so far this season due to injury.  

The Brandeis @ Rochester men's game tipped off at 12:10 PM, so it is the last game of the 4 to go to the half.

Halftime scores--

Chicago 39, Carnegie Mellon 34 (For CMU-- Manoli has 10 pts and 4 rbs, For Chicago-- Matt Johnson has 13 pts and 4 rbs in the half, while Tom Williams has 12 pts and 5 rbs for the Maroons)

Wash U 37, Case 25  (For Wash U-- Knepper has 11 pts and Richter has 10 pts, Fowler leading Case with 12 pts)

Emory 46, NYU 34  (Emory's Alex Greven has 14 pts to lead the Eagles)

Rochester 35, Brandeis 33  (Mike Labanowski 12 pts for Rochester, 4-7  from 3 pt range for Labanowski, UR 6-10 from 3 pt range--  Brandeis shot 59% from the field in the half (13-22 from the field)

[David Collinge]

Great to see Case in the throwback uni's, complimented by Reid Anderson's throwback 'stache.

[NYCHOOPER]

emory's video guys are hysterically awful