MBB: University Athletic Association

[mck99]

WashU Men's Basketball Alumni Profile on Sean Wallis ('09) and Kent Lacob ('15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhHevrSkto&t=39s

[WUPHF]

WashU Men's Basketball Alumni Profile on Sean Wallis ('09) and Kent Lacob ('15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhHevrSkto&t=39s

Very cool.  Hope to see the weekly sit-downs with Coach Edwards back again.

[mck99]

Some of the D3hoops.com fans might remember a guy named Sean Wallis, 2008 and 2009 national champion at WashU. They announced today he is headed to the WashU Sports Hall of Fame. He is on the top D3 point guards all-time.

http://washubears.com/general/2017-18/releases/20171101fnk0lg

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

For you UAA and Emory fans, the third podcast in the Hoopsville Preseason Podcasts series dropped today and features a conversation with Chris McHugh. We talk to McHugh who has taken over his alma mater's, W&L, program over the summer after a very successful assistant (then briefly as associate) coaching job at Emory.

McHugh is the first interview in the show which you can find here: http://www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2017-18/preseason-podcasts

You can also listen to the other podcasts in the series.

Enjoy!

[WUPHF]

I am not sure if we have any Emory fans around here, but the podcast was nice.

Emory does kick-off their season tonight (or kick-off for the second time) with a game against Division I Lipscomb at 6:30 CST.  This game is on ESPN3.  Lipscomb was picked to finished second in the Atlantic Sun after finishing 20-13 last season.

http://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/schedule

[WUPHF]

Emory and Lipscomb are tied at the half, 43-43.

The starting line-up was set in Italy, but for the reserves, the first four off the bench were all freshmen.  Three scored on their first collegiate basket (I think).

The Emory defense is particular impressive.  Emory is +4 on rebounds as well.

[WUPHF]

Remember this name: Romin Williams.

16 points on 6-7 shooting in 8 minutes in his first collegiate game.

[WUPHF]

Lipscomb leads Emory, 96-81 with one minute left.

I may have to walk back some comments I made about Emory, but how was I to know that two freshmen would lead the way as Williams now has 21 and Lawrence Rowley has 12.  Emory was in this game through the first 33 minutes.

[ADL70]

CWRU preview.  Roster has two seniors and zero juniors  Now that's young!

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20171114npxrjd

[WUPHF]

Brandeis looks slightly younger with two seniors, one junior and two sophomores: http://athletics.case.edu/sports/mbkb/2017-18/roster

The Judges were one of two UAA teams to play last night falling 75-67 to Suffolk on the road.  Eric D'Aguanno finished with 18 points and 9 rebounds.

Emory also played last night.  The Eagles defeated Piedmont 83-64 at home.  Adam Gigax led the team with 15 points.  Romin Williams finished with 14

[deiscanton]

WUH accidentally posted the Case men's roster.

Here is the actual Brandeis men's roster:

http://brandeisjudges.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/roster

The junior, Corey Sherman, is a transfer from Dickinson, where he played the previous 2 seasons.  None of the seniors on the roster started last season.  Eric D'Aguanno also came off the bench last season as well.

Note that Jordan Cooper is not playing this season for Brandeis.  My probable guess is that he sustained a preseason injury, but that is just speculation on my part, and I have not been able to talk with the men's basketball team to confirm.  Suffolk wrote in their pre-game preview that Jordan Cooper graduated, but I think that was just an assumption by the Rams, as he has not used up his 4 seasons of basketball eligibility.

Naturally, the coaches picked Brandeis to finish last in the UAA this season.

[WUPHF]

Thanks for catching the roster error.

I had a much longer post until my browser crashed and then did a quick rewrite and got careless.

[PeterEscobar]

Brandeis losing to Suffolk is not good for the Judges, as Suffolk is a middling GNAC squad. At what point does the seat at Brandeis start to heat up for Meehan, who had massive success at Salem State but has not translated it to the UAA.

[deiscanton]

Brandeis losing to Suffolk is not good for the Judges, as Suffolk is a middling GNAC squad. At what point does the seat at Brandeis start to heat up for Meehan, who had massive success at Salem State but has not translated it to the UAA.

Update-- Wait a minute, easy for a Babson assistant coach/supporter to throw shade at Deis when Babson is playing Deis in the first round of the New England Big 4 Classic this year.  Just for that, I am rooting for Tufts to win the Big 4 this year...

Meehan has not been quite as successful since 2011, but from 2007 to 2011, he did deliver 4 NCAA appearances, including 2 trips to the Elite Eight, as well as an ECAC New England title.  He has not delivered a national championship, but Brandeis has only won 2 national titles in school history-- 1976 men's soccer and 1983 men's cross country.  Back in the 2000-01 season, I felt at times that the Brandeis women's basketball coach, Carol Simon, should have been replaced with another coach who could take the women's basketball team to NCAAs, but back in 2000-01, there were only 8 Pool C bids to the women's tournament, so you could not get in to NCAAs unless you won the UAA.  Of course, Wash U usually wins those AQs in both men's and women's hoop most of the time.

From the perspective of a top NESCAC school or Wash U (or a national champion like Babson), it seems very easy to criticize an athletic program for not making sure that all of its teams make NCAAs every year, but as an old-time Brandeis alum who went to the school in the late 1980's, I understand how hard it is for a team to make it to the national postseason every year.  In the 1990s, the NCAA selection process was rigged in favor of an old boys network, so in contrast, even though 20 Pool C bids to a national tourney is small, it is much better now than it was then.

I guess that I am grateful that the Brandeis soccer teams are competitive on the national stage, otherwise, I would be as mad now as I was in the 2000-01 season. (Now, get your Babson men's soccer team back into the national picture, PeterEscobar.) 

Another note.  The Brandeis athletic director decides on personnel matters relating to athletics.  I certainly do not want another Mary Sullivan-type softball situation like what happened in 2006 when Brandeis decided to change softball coaches after 30 years and got hit with an age discrimination lawsuit.

[deiscanton]

BTW, PeterEscobar is right that the Brandeis men's basketball team should be held accountable for the loss to Suffolk last night-- notwithstanding the fact that Rochester alum Jeff Juron coaches the Rams, but it should also be in the same vein that the young Brandeis women's basketball team should also be held accountable for a poor free throw shooting performance against Roger Williams.  The Brandeis women only lost by 1 point, but it should have been by more than that.  The amazing thing is that I am not shocked that both Brandeis basketball teams lost last night given the rosters.