MBB: University Athletic Association

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From Horsburgh Gym in Cleveland--

Case 71, Carnegie Mellon 54

This concludes UAA conference play for the 2010-2011 season.

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It is Selection Monday

The NCAA makes its announcement later today as to where/who Rochester will play in the first/second rounds.

The final fate of Emory gets officially announced later today by the NCAA.

Also, Brandeis and NYU declared that they want to be considered for selection to the ECAC tournaments in the New England and Metro Regions.   I expect both to be picked for those tournaments later today, with Brandeis getting a top seed.   (Depending on the fate of Eastern Connecticut's Pool C chances, Brandeis could either be a #1 or #2 seed in the ECACs, IMO.)

(I'll take anybody-- but a potential Brandeis vs Albertus Magnus matchup on the weekend seems intriguing to me-- just my humble opinion.)

ECAC play starts Wednesday night, March 2-- with the semis and title game on March 5th/6th.

(Note:  Since Brandeis ended up as a #6 seed, there was no ECAC game at Auerbach Arena this season.)

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 Rochester is heading to Ithaca, NY for first and second round games

 Rochester will play Elms in first round Friday in NCAAs

 Winner of Rochester v Elms will play the winner of Ithaca v MIT on Saturday

 Emory's season officially over-- Eagles did not get a Pool C bid

Update:  Emory's final resume numbers

Emory finished with an in-region record of 19-5 (.792)

Emory's final SOS was .461  (.447 OWP, .489 OOWP)

SOS number was too low given in-region winning pct to get a Pool C bid.

Emory finished 2-2 vs regionally ranked opponents  (1-1 vs Rochester, 1-1 vs Brandeis)

I will now await the ECAC selections later today--  In the ECAC New England tournament, Brandeis and E. Connecticut should be the top 2 seeds-- the ECAC will reveal who is top seed between Brandeis and E. Connecticut later today.

Also awaiting their ECAC fate-- the NYU men for the ECAC Metro Tournament.

My prediction for the seeds for the ECAC New England Tournament:

Eastern Connecticut will get the #1 seed. and Brandeis will have the #2 seed. (My prediction only)

I won't be surprised if Brandeis will have to travel to Geissler Gym in Willimantic CT this weekend should they win on Wednesday.

Now awaiting ECAC selections later today....

Update-- Final regional rankings for the men were just released....

Rochester finished at #3 in the East

Emory dropped out of the top 8 in the South.

Brandeis dropped out of the top 11 in the Northeast.

Regional rankings seem to suggest Brandeis as a #2 seed in the ECAC New England Tournament behind Eastern Connecticut-- we will see later today.....

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Brandeis men are #6 seed in ECAC New England Tournament-- will play at #3 Keene State on Wednesday:

http://www.brandeisjudges.com/sports/mbkb/2010-11/releases/20110228n9sk90

NYU men are #8 seed in ECAC Metro Tournament-- will play at #1 St. Joseph (LI) on Wednesday:

http://www.gonyuathletics.com/news/2011/2/28/MBB_0228113803.aspx

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Game reset in ECAC New England action

Brandeis 50, Keene State 50  11:15 left in 2nd half.

Keene State led 39-30 at the half.

Update:  Keene State 52, Brandeis 50  9:23 left in regulation

Update:  Keene State 75, Brandeis 70  2:24 left in regulation-- Bartoldus and Yemga have fouled out of the game.

Update:  Keene State 77, Brandeis 76 1:51 left in regulation

(Good sized crowd up in Keene, NH with the cheerleaders-- I expected the crowd to be a little bit rowdier, but they are attentive to the game.)

 Final:  Brandeis 84, Keene State 77--  Brandeis advances to ECAC semifinals

Brandeis placed 3 players in double figures tonight in the scoring department (Youri Dascy had 24 pts, Vytas Kriskus had 23 pts, and Tyrone Hughes had 13 pts for the Judges), while Keene State placed 2 players in double figures (Derek D'Amours had 37 pts and Ryan Martin had 12 pts to lead the Owls in the scoring department.)

The quickness of Brandeis plus the smarter team play by the Judges in the final 2 minutes led Brandeis to victory over a Keene State team that brought a good sized crowd to the game, but not as rowdy of a crowd as I would have expected at Spaulding Gym in Keene, NH.   Surprisingly, this game in terms of crowd intensity looked a lot like the game would have been at Brandeis this year-- except that there were cheerleaders at Spaulding in this game while there would have been no cheerleading squad in attendance this year at the Auerbach Arena in Waltham, MA.

Glad to see Brandeis survive and advance-- Judges probably headed for Geissler Gym in Willimantic, Connecticut for the weekend.

Update:  Brandeis will play #7 seed Mass College of Liberal Arts on Saturday-- MCLA defeated Anna Maria, 80-76, @ Anna Maria in Paxton, MA to advance to Saturday's semifinal.

Top seed Eastern Connecticut won their first round game tonight over Regis.-- I hope that Albertus Magnus can advance-- Albertus does not do live stats, so I am awaiting a final boxscore from "the Nest" in New Haven, CT.

Update:  Albertus 87, Wentworth 87  End of 1st OT-- Going to double overtime in New Haven, CT.  Albertus is providing an updated score on the front page tonight-- still no live stats, unfortunately.

Final:  Albertus Magnus 96, Wentworth 95  (2 OT).

Update:  Brandeis scored the final 14 points of the game tonight in the win at Keene, NH.

Here is Brandeis's game recap:

 http://www.brandeisjudges.com/sports/mbkb/2010-11/releases/2011030207saln

(10:31 PM Eastern update-- Here is Keene State's game recap, with comments from Keene State coach Rob Colbert):

 Brandeis upsets Owls in ECAC Tournament:

 http://keeneowls.com/sports/mbkb/2010-11/releases/20110302b1qrh6

ECAC New England semifinals at Geissler Gym in Willimantic, CT on Saturday, March 5, 2011

(1)  Eastern Connecticut vs Albertus Magnus-- 5 PM Eastern
(2)  Brandeis vs MCLA-- approx. 7 PM Eastern

Title game at Geissler Gym in Willimantic, CT on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 1 PM Eastern.

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ECAC Metro action this evening:

 #8 seed NYU defeated top seed St. Joseph's (LI), 107-93, to play Rutgers-Newark on Saturday in an ECAC semifinal game:

Box score:

 http://eagles.sjcny.edu/stats/2010-2011/Mens-Basketball/m-030211.htm

Other ECAC Metro scores tonight:

#2 seed Stevens 91, #7 seed Baruch 76
#3 seed Mount St. Mary 85, #6 seed Richard Stockton 80
#4 seed Rutgers-Newark 75, #5 seed Staten Island 68

ECAC Metro semifinals-- Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 7 PM Eastern

(1)  NYU @ Rutgers-Newark-- Game to be played in Newark, NJ
(2)  Mt. St. Mary @ Stevens-- Game to be played in Hoboken, NJ

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 2010-2011 UAA All Association Men's Basketball Honors Announced:

http://www.uaa.rochester.edu/2010-11%20MBKB_All-Assoc.pdf

Player of the Year:  John DiBartolomeo, Rochester
Rookie of the Year:  Jake Davis, Emory
Coaching Staff of the Year: Rochester  (Head Coach Luke Flockerzi, Assistant Coaches Ryan Mee, Jeff Juron, Adrian Smalls)

Congratulations to all who made the All Association honors list!

[uaabballfan]

So how far does Rochester go in the NCAA?  Any predictions?  I still don't have a good answer from folks on why they turned it around this year....

[Ethelred the Unready]

So how far does Rochester go in the NCAA?  Any predictions?  I still don't have a good answer from folks on why they turned it around this year....

Well it's not like they were terrible in the past.  22, 16 and 15 wins the last 3 years.  But I think if you saw them play during that time, you saw a "walk the ball up the floor" offense where the PG's only job was to distribute the ball to the bigs.  This year they seem to be utilizing the talent they have, and they have back to back UAA ROY's, instead of trying to make them fit a system.

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So how far does Rochester go in the NCAA?  Any predictions?  I still don't have a good answer from folks on why they turned it around this year....

This year, I have Rochester going to the Sweet 16 on my bracket in the D3Photography.com Bracket Challenge, for what it is worth.

There was a period of a few years (the most recent period being the NCAA DIII Men's Basketball Tournaments for March 2004, 2005, and 2006) where the UAA only sent the automatic qualifier to the NCAA on the men's side.  It happened as recently as the 2005-06 season.

In the 2004-05 season, Rochester was the only team from the UAA in the DIII Men's Basketball Tournament.  Led by Seth Hauben, that team made it all the way to the national title game before losing to UW-Stevens Point.

In the 2005-06 season, Carnegie Mellon won the UAA with a 10-4 mark in UAA play to appear in the NCAAs that year as the only team from the UAA on the men's side.   That team lost in the first round to Baldwin-Wallace to finish 20-6 overall.

I think that this year's Rochester team will win the Ithaca pod this weekend and advance to sectionals before bowing out.

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ECAC New England Semifinal Game #2 is about to tip from Geissler Gym in Willimantic, CT

Brandeis is playing Mass College of Liberal Arts in this semifinal-- Winner will play tomorrow vs #1 seed Eastern Connecticut in the title game.   E. Connecticut defeated Albertus Magnus, 66-61, in the earlier semifinal.

Game action-- first half

Brandeis 10, Mass College 4  16:33 left in first half.

Brandeis 19, Mass College 16  9:18 left in first half.

Brandeis 37, Mass College 27  2:23 left in first half.

Halftime:  Brandeis 40, Mass College 31

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ECAC New England semifinal action--Game reset-- 2nd half

MCLA 46, Brandeis 45  15:49 left in regulation

MCLA went on a 12-0 run to start the second half.

Mass College 55, Brandeis 54  10:18 left in regulation.

Brandeis 69, Mass College 66  2:53 left in regulation.

Brandeis 71, Mass College 66  56.8 seconds left in regulation.

  Final-- Brandeis 76, Mass College of Liberal Arts 66--  Brandeis advances to play Eastern Connecticut in the ECAC New England Championship game tomorrow (March 6) at 1 PM Eastern.

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ECAC Metro Semifinal Action tonight--

Rutgers-Newark 69, NYU 54

NYU ends their season at 16-11.

Rutgers-Newark will play Stevens in tomorrow's ECAC Metro Championship game-- Stevens defeated Mt. St. Mary, 85-80 in the other semifinal.

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Congratulations to Rochester on moving on to the Sweet 16 tonight with a 60-52 win over MIT in NCAA second round action from Ithaca, NY.

Best of luck to the Yellowjackets in next Friday's sectional game vs Middlebury.

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The ECAC New England Championship game between Brandeis and Eastern Connecticut will be underway shortly from Geissler Gym in Willimantic, CT

Tip scheduled for 1 PM Eastern.

First half game updates

Brandeis 6, Eastern Connecticut 2  17:54 left in first half.

Brandeis 13, Eastern Connecticut 11  9:47 left in first half.

Brandeis 22, Eastern Connecticut 14  6:06 left in first half.

Halftime from Geissler Gym-- Brandeis 32,  Eastern Connecticut 22