MBB: University Athletic Association

[deiscanton]

Starting the second half,  Amherst got their lead up to 21 at 49-28 with 17:49 remaining, but Brandeis went on a 17-6 run in the next 4 min 18 sec. to cut Amherst's lead to 10.

The Jeffs may be countering this now, however....

Game reset:  Amherst 62, Brandeis 49  9:56 remaining-- Not a big crowd in LeFrak Gym tonight, according to the JeffCast announcers....

Game reset:  Amherst 72,  Brandeis 63  4:06 remaining...

Game reset:  Amherst 72, Brandeis 65  3:29 remaining....

[deiscanton]

Final score from LeFrak Gym in Amherst, MA--

Amherst 79, Brandeis 65

Brandeis now 13-7 overall, 1-4 vs regionally ranked opponents.

Amherst remains undefeated.

Some signs of life in the second half from the young Brandeis squad as the game got to within 7 pts, but Brandeis was playing against a top-ranked opponent on the road...
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2 dunks from Brandeis's Ben Bartoldus-- I couldn't get a clear signal from the JeffCast video today, but I was able to see that second dunk...

Christian Yemga had 9 rebounds for Brandeis.

Amherst was led by Conor Meehan with 21 pts, Allen Williamson with 17 pts, and Aaron Toomey with 13 pts.

For Brandeis, Ben Bartoldus had 12 pts, and Alex Schmidt had 11 pts for the Judges for Brandeis's only 2 players in double figures this evening.

I'll be checking the NESCAC forum to see if anyone posts some comments on the game from there...

[deiscanton]

New regional rankings are up for the men:

http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2011/02/09/ncaas-2011-regional-rankings-week-2/

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011

Rochester-- #2 in East
Emory-- #6 in South
Brandeis-- #9 in Northeast

[WUPHF]

Washington University leads Rochester 30-19 with eight minutes to play in the first.  Unfortunately, the Rochester live feed is not working for me.  Gay and Knepper lead the way with 14 and 12 respectively.

[auwnj]

Anyone else having trouble with Brandeis video or stats feed?  I can't seem to get.  Thanks.

[WUPHF]

I have tried the Rochester video feed and the radio feed to no avail.  No luck with the Brandeis feed either.  The Emory feed is working perfectly if you want to watch Emory destroy Chicago.  The Eagles lead 19-6 early in the first.

Washington University led by as much as 15 in the first, but Rochester battled back to cut the deficit to 3.  38-35, the score in Rochester.

[auwnj]

Thanks for the info, WUH.  One of the Brandeis links says internet is down on  campus.

[lileyes]

Yea, none of the Brandies feeds are working either

[Ethelred the Unready]

I have tried the Rochester video feed and the radio feed to no avail.  No luck with the Brandeis feed either.  The Emory feed is working perfectly if you want to watch Emory destroy Chicago.  The Eagles lead 19-6 early in the first.

Washington University led by as much as 15 in the first, but Rochester battled back to cut the deficit to 3.  38-35, the score in Rochester.

Have you tried through the UofR site?  I've been watching on and off

[WUPHF]

Likely UAA Player of the Year John DiBartolomeo leads the way as Rochester fends off the upset bid with the 83-78.  The Bears will head home to prepare for their last three games of the short season while Rochester, for the moment, holds on to a one game lead in the conference.

A few random thoughts based on the live stats.  The first is that Washington University outrebounded Rochester 40-20.  The second is that the live stats show Tim Wang and Jerome Barnett playing, I believe, for the first time this season.

I need a faster computer and internet connection.
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Emory had, at one point, a 17 point lead on Chicago, but that lead has dwindled to five.  Emory in what looks more and more like a must-win.

[WUPHF]

Emory defeats Chicago in overtime, 91-87.  Chicago cannot get a last second three to go to force overtime.  Emory remains in second place, down one game to Rochester.  Emory hosts Rochester in two weeks.

[deiscanton]

In case people are wondering why there was some special interest in the Case v Brandeis game-- apart from the fact that it was Senior Day for Brandeis senior Christian Yemga-- Case's Reid Anderson came into today's contest at Brandeis with 995 career points.   Anderson scored 2 pts today to bring his career total to 997-- he needs 3 more for the 1,000 point milestone.

Reid Anderson should be able to get his 1,000th point next Friday when the Spartans host Emory.   Case will honor their seniors on Friday night.

UAA race now down to its final 2 teams-- Rochester and Emory, with all other UAA teams having been eliminated from the title hunt.  Assuming that both Rochester and Emory win their next 2 games on the road at Case and Carnegie Mellon, the Rochester at Emory game on Feb. 26 will settle the question of who gets the UAA's automatic bid.  I will talk more about it on Monday.

[deiscanton]

It is time to review the UAA tiebreaker procedures for determining the UAA's automatic bid if there is a tie for first at the end of UAA play on Feb. 26.     If Emory and Rochester win both of their away games this upcoming weekend, and if Emory defeats Rochester at the WoodPEC in Atlanta on Feb. 26, 2011, then Emory and Rochester will be UAA Co-Champions and a tiebreaker will have to determine who gets the automatic bid.

The UAA tiebreaker procedures are located in Section 2 of the UAA Basketball Code of Conduct, which can be found at: http://www.uaa.rochester.edu/Administrative/Code_Of_Conduct/Basketball.pdf

(Representative means the team who will get the Pool A automatic bid.)

To summarize: the tiebreaker procedure is

(1)  Best record in head-to-head UAA competition among the co-champions;

(2)  Best record in head-to-head UAA competition between the co-champions and the subsequent finishers until a representative is determined;

(3)  Best record in UAA road games;

(4)  If this process fails to determine a representative, the representative to NCAA post-season competition shall be determined by a coin flip administered by the Executive Secretary.

At the moment, if there was a tie right now and the season ended today, Rochester would have the tiebreaker advantage by virtue of tiebreaker #3 due to the fact that Rochester is 3-1 (.750) in UAA road games while Emory is 3-2 (.600) in UAA road games.  However, Rochester's 7th road UAA game is at Emory on Feb. 26.

The tiebreaker should become clearer at the end of next week's play when there should be an indicator if one team has sole possession of third, or if there are teams still tied for third place in the UAA.  Right now, both Rochester and Emory are 5-1 vs Wash U, Chicago, and Brandeis-- which is the group tied for thiird, and the other results vs the sixth, seventh, and eighth place teams do not break the deadlock.

Tuesday Feb. 15 updated addendum--  Should Rochester and Emory end up as UAA Co-Champions with a record of 12-2 in the UAA, tiebreaker #3 will not settle the tie as Rochester and Emory will each have a 5-2 mark in UAA road games.

Wash U cannot break the tie as both Rochester and Emory swept Wash U.

In this case, the tiebreaker would be as follows-- (Rochester and Emory would be UAA Co-Champions)

(1)  If Brandeis finishes ahead of Chicago in the standings--  Rochester gets UAA bid via Tiebreaker #2.

(2)  If Chicago finishes ahead of Brandeis in the standings--  Emory gets UAA bid via Tiebreaker #2.

(3)  If Brandeis and Chicago are still tied in the UAA standings--  UAA bid gets determined by coin flip.

[deiscanton]

NCAA tournament picture for the UAA--  February 14, 2011.

Next update will be on Wednesday, Feb. 16 when new regional rankings and new SOS data are scheduled to be released.

At the moment, I am considering the UAA as a 1 bid conference on the men's side this season, pending updates on the regional rankings on Wednesday.  In fairness, however, I must list the tourney resumes of the other teams that are listed in the regional rankings.   Only those teams not currently in the UAA lead will be listed for now.

The current leader is Rochester, who has a 1 game lead over Emory with 3 games left to play.  Rochester and Emory are the only 2 teams left in the UAA title hunt for the automatic bid-- all other UAA teams have been eliminated from Pool A consideration.

Potential Pool C candidates--

Emory-- #6 in South as of the Week 2 regional rankings-- this ranking has Emory as the third Pool C candidate to the national table from the South Region.

Emory currently has an in-region record of 17-4 (.810) through games of Feb. 13

(1) Best in-region mark that Emory can achieve is 20-4 (.833)-- however, a 20-4 mark would most likely mean a UAA Co-Championship for Emory and a potential Pool A automatic bid by virtue of a UAA tiebreaker.

(2)  Emory's in-region SOS is .465 through games of Feb. 6, 2011-- Awaiting Wednesday update on current SOS.

(3)  Emory is 1-2 in-region vs regionally ranked opponents through games of Feb. 13  (Win vs Brandeis, losses vs Brandeis and Rochester).  Emory has one more in-region game vs a regionally ranked opponent remaining-- Rochester on Feb. 26.

(4)  Remaining games:  @Case, @ Carnegie Mellon, Rochester.

Brandeis-- #9 in Northeast-- 5th (or 6th) Pool C candidate from the Northeast to the national table as of the Week 2 regional rankings.

(1)  Brandeis has an in-region mark of 15-7 (.682)   through games of Feb. 13

(2)  Best in-region record that Brandeis can achieve is 18-7  (.720).

(3)  Brandeis's in-region SOS is .482 through games of Feb. 6-- Awaiting Wednesday update on SOS.

(4)  Brandeis is 1-4 in-region vs regionally ranked opponents (Win vs Emory, Losses vs Emory, Rochester (twice), and Amherst (#3-- Northeast).    Brandeis has no more regionally ranked opponents left on the schedule.

(5)  Remaining games:  @ Chicago, @ Wash U, @ NYU.

[deiscanton]

New D3Hoops.com Top 25 poll is out:

 http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2010-2011/week11#

(Note: My computer is having trouble bringing up the link, but I believe that the link that I posted is correct.)

This link should also bring up the rankings for this week:

http://www.d3hoops.com/top25/index

(Note: My computer is bringing up the Top 25 polls for the new week with the second link.)

 UAA teams ranked:

 Rochester-- #22-- 133 pts.

Emory is also receiving votes-- 35 pts.

I agree with Rochester being in the Top 25 now-- the victory over Chicago on Friday has removed the in-region warts on Rochester's schedule, with the Yellowjackets having now gotten 1-1 splits in-region vs Nazareth, Hobart, and Chicago.  The parity situation in the UAA on the men's side has now been settled.

If the D3Hoops.com poll was used to select teams, the UAA would get two teams in.   However, it is the regional rankings that count, and I will await Wednesday's update on the regional rankings.