MBB: University Athletic Association

[uaaaficionado]

Oh, and I will be tuned into Chicago @ WashU. No matter how both of these teams perform throughout the UAA season, their season finale is always an entertaining one!

[WUPHF]

Versus my preseason predictions:

1)   Emory (10-4)
2)   Rochester (9-5)
3)   WashU (8-6)
4)   Carnegie Mellon (7-7)
5)   Case Western (7-7)
6)   Chicago (6-8)
7)   NYU (6-8)
8)   Brandeis (3-11)

I thought I would add in how the coaches called it...

Emory (6)
Rochester (2)
Washington University
Chicago
NYU
Case Western
Carnegie Mellon
Brandeis

This is how I called it in April and again in November. 

This season I expected more from Case Western Reserve and NYU and less from Brandeis and got the last four picks mixed up, but I did a better job than the coaches.

1. Emory
2. Rochester
3. Washington University
4. Chicago
5. Case Western Reserve
6. Carnegie Mellon
7. NYU
8. Brandeis

[uaaaficionado]

Versus my preseason predictions:

1)   Emory (10-4)
2)   Rochester (9-5)
3)   WashU (8-6)
4)   Carnegie Mellon (7-7)
5)   Case Western (7-7)
6)   Chicago (6-8)
7)   NYU (6-8)
8)   Brandeis (3-11)

I thought I would add in how the coaches called it...

Emory (6)
Rochester (2)
Washington University
Chicago
NYU
Case Western
Carnegie Mellon
Brandeis

This is how I called it in April and again in November. 

This season I expected more from Case Western Reserve and NYU and less from Brandeis and got the last four picks mixed up, but I did a better job than the coaches.

1. Emory
2. Rochester
3. Washington University
4. Chicago
5. Case Western Reserve
6. Carnegie Mellon
7. NYU
8. Brandeis

You and the coaches nailed the top four. I think I got a little ambitious with Howarth & Henry to lead Carnegie to 4th place.

But you definitely had the most accurate picks! Well done..

[WUPHF]

Thanks but the only substantial difference between our picks was UChicago, so back at you...

Chicago did graduate two all-Association players who could take over a game and I am not sure I would say the same about the current roster so rating the Maroons was tough. 

They will finish with at least two more wins than last season and one more league win if they win on Saturday.  This against a tougher overall schedule.

I think I said this already, but they are the league enigma.  They will finish no worse than 4-2 against the three best teams and have a good record against RRO.  Emory by contrast would win the league with a 3-3 record against the best three teams.

[ADL70]

Spartans are a young team, 10 FR, 3 SO, and 5 JR - 0 SR.  Only two players started every game and only three more played in every game. They tended to start strong and then fade as the game progressed.

Ten different players lead at least one game in scoring.  Masiulionis with seven lead the most, but he only started nine games and averaged barely twenty minutes a game. Pretty clearly a team looking for an identity.

[WUPHF]

Those are fair points about Case Western Reserve.

The counter to the point about the roster is to point to both Emory and Washington University as young or inexperienced teams.  Otherwise, points well taken.  I am sure I will keep the Tartans as my No. 5 for next season.  The team has talent.

[WUPHF]

It is hard to believe but we have reached the final weekend in the UAA.

Rochester plays Emory for all the marbles.

Everyone else playing with rivalry bragging rights on the line.

By the way, Massey has the UAA as the 6th best league this season with five teams ranked in the Top 100.  Emory at 28, Rochester at 29, Washington University at 47, Chicago at 58, Brandeis at 73.

[WUPHF]

Washington University leads UChcago at the half, 41-39.  A hard fought game.

In the UAA game of the day, Emory leads Rochester 40-32.

[WUPHF]

Washington University rums past UChicago in the second, wins 81-63.

[deiscanton]

Congrats to Emory University on their 92-82 win over Rochester and their 6th UAA Men's Basketball title in program history.

Emory wins the AQ to the NCAAs and is cutting down the nets right now.  The Wash U women cut down the nets last week on their winning the UAA women's basketball title.

[WUPHF]

That is quite the win by Emory.

In the end, they finished with six players in double figures.  Five of the six finished the regular season averaging double figures.  This team should fear no one.

NYU finished the season with a win over Brandeis.

Carnegie Mellon got the overtime win over Case Western Reserve.

As for the Washington University game, Jack Nolan picked a good day to have what is arguably his best game of his career.  26 points for a career high to go along with 6 assists and 5 steals including three early on in the second which helped the Bears pull away.

The Bears had a great game defensively, forcing Chicago to take 50% of their shots from the perimeter.  Chicago shot just 38% from the field.

[deiscanton]

Up next for Brandeis is a potential ECAC bid to be awarded on Monday after the NCAA releases its field.  I will see whether Brandeis will have a home game on Wednesday or stay on the road.  I don't expect Brandeis to host an ECAC final 8 next weekend due to geographic reasons.  The previous 2 ECAC men's basketball title games were played in Pennsylvania -- I do not expect anything different this year.

[WUPHF]

By the way, those final UAA standings...

Emory 11-3, 20-5
Rochester 10-4, 20-5
Washington University 10-4, 17-8
Chicago 8-6, 15-10
Brandeis 7-7, 14-11
Carnegie Mellon 6-8, 11-15
Case Western Reserve 2-12, 9-16
New York 2-12, 8-17

[WUPHF]

Thanks Jule Brown!

https://medium.com/@Jule_Brown11/thank-you-basketball-2a70e379bcc5

[deiscanton]

We have our UAA NCAA matchups.

The Palestra in Rochester is hosting first/second round games, with Rochester playing Farmingdale St and Amherst playing Rosemont.

Emory goes to Guilford to play Wittenberg while host Guilford of the ODAC plays Sewanee in round 1.

I am not sure that either Rochester or Emory will survive this weekend.  Amherst will be tough in round 2-- while Emory v Wittenberg may be the best first round game of this tournament.