MBB: University Athletic Association

[deiscanton]

Case wins 88-81 over Carnegie Mellon.  I caught the last 30 seconds of the game on the CWRU video stream.

Cole Frilling tied his career high with another 27 point game today, while Antonio Ionadi made 6 3 pointers.

[WUPHF]

A few thoughts on the Washington University win over Chicago.

Fundamentally, this was a very good game.

Both teams combined for 33 assists and just 15 rebounds.

Both teams played great defense.  Chicago had a game plan for Hardy and Nolan and it mostly worked.  Hardy had just three points until scoring the final go-ahead basket. 

Nolan was held in check for much of the first half but eventually turned it up like only Nolan can do and scored 15 second half points to lead the comeback.

The Bears trailed most of the game but Nolan hit a three with 4:09 left to provide for a 59-58 lead.  The teams would trade the lead for the next few minutes before Hardy found himself one on one with Lavrie and was able to muscle his shot through an obvious Lavrie foul and score with 0:21 seconds left.  Jordan Baum was great today, leading all scorers with 27 points (including 7 three-pointers), but would miss on both a go-ahead lay-up with 0:42 seconds left and a three-pointer with 0:05 seconds left.

As much as I will continue to complain about the fact that the team is playing with two starters, as I have said too many times to count, players like Jacob and Mack and Bloedorn among others are going to be very good.  Bloedorn scored 9 points today to go along with 8 rebounds.

I'll say too, for most of the game, I thought Chicago was going to win, but the body language of both teams said otherwise.  I think Coach McGrath needs to work on that.

[deiscanton]

Washington University trails Chicago at the half, 36-25.

The Bears are again without Hunter and Nester and the latter may not be back soon.

A very good defensive game with the difference coming from perimeter shooting.

I watched an on-demand replay of the game this morning.  Jaybird44 explained on the Wash U Sports Network that Nester has a broken hand, while Hank Hunter is at least still participating in practice.

[deiscanton]

One thing to say about the Brandeis game at NYU--

I am relieved that the absence of Lawrence Sabir yesterday did not affect the team in terms of assists, as the Judges were able to.get their 18 assists for the game in other ways. 

So, is the UAA now Emory's to lose, or is it too soon to draw conclusions?

[WUPHF]

I still love my favorite team and feel guilty saying this, but I think Emory moves from slight favorite to clear favorite.  I think they lose 1-2 games and win the league.

[deiscanton]

I still love my favorite team and feel guilty saying this, but I think Emory moves from slight favorite to clear favorite.  I think they lose 1-2 games and win the league.

I love my Judges too, but they had a clear matchup problem last year with Emory, and I have to see what steps are being taken to solve this.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I still love my favorite team and feel guilty saying this, but I think Emory moves from slight favorite to clear favorite.  I think they lose 1-2 games and win the league.

I feel like WashU will be a bad matchup for Emory.  I can see Emory being the better team overall, but I suspect they'll struggle in the games against WashU.

[deiscanton]

I still love my favorite team and feel guilty saying this, but I think Emory moves from slight favorite to clear favorite.  I think they lose 1-2 games and win the league.

I feel like WashU will be a bad matchup for Emory.  I can see Emory being the better team overall, but I suspect they'll struggle in the games against WashU.

Even without Matt Nester playing due to a broken hand?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I still love my favorite team and feel guilty saying this, but I think Emory moves from slight favorite to clear favorite.  I think they lose 1-2 games and win the league.

I feel like WashU will be a bad matchup for Emory.  I can see Emory being the better team overall, but I suspect they'll struggle in the games against WashU.

Even without Matt Nester playing due to a broken hand?

I mean, they're both very good, so we'll have to see on the floor, but that's been my impression watching both teams play.

[WUPHF]

+1 for the multitasking.

I do think Washington University poses match-up problems for Emory if for no other reason than the fact that they have Jack Nolan.  If Washington University can get their three centers up to speed, they may finally expose Emory for their lack of length in the front court.

The match-ups with Chicago are always so crazy, I need to see the Bears play a few more games before I can recalibrate my expectations, but if I were to revise my preseason rankings, I would still have the Bears at No. 2 and would go with the following...

Emory
Washington University
Brandeis
Rochester
Case Western Reserve
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
NYU

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Plus, we can get some Davet on Davet, at some point, right?  Who doesn't want to see that?

[WUPHF]

Oh, man, the battle the Davet brothers!

Easily the biggest UAA story of the year after the emergence of Cole Frilling.  Or, something like that.

[WUPHF]

A quick midweek look at the UAA according to Ken Massey.

No. 4 Emory
No. 32 Rochester
No. 43 Washington University
No. 59 Brandeis
No. 101 Case Western Reserve
No. 127 Carnegie Mellon
No. 132 Chicago
No. 205 NYU

It is a little early for the return of my Fridays in the UAA post, but while I am thinking of it:

Emory at NYU
90-73 win for the Eagles

Rochester at Brandeis
61-57 win for the Yellowjackets

Washington University at Case Western Reserve
72-69 win for the Bears

Chicago at Carnegie Mellon
81-81 win for the Maroons

[Mr. Ypsi]

A quick midweek look at the UAA according to Ken Massey.

No. 4 Emory
No. 32 Rochester
No. 43 Washington University
No. 59 Brandeis
No. 101 Case Western Reserve
No. 127 Carnegie Mellon
No. 132 Chicago
No. 205 NYU

It is a little early for the return of my Fridays in the UAA post, but while I am thinking of it:

Emory at NYU
90-73 win for the Eagles

Rochester at Brandeis
61-57 win for the Yellowjackets

Washington University at Case Western Reserve
72-69 win for the Bears

Chicago at Carnegie Mellon
81-81 win for the Maroons

Is that like the famous Harvard-Yale game where the headline in the Harvard Crimson was Harvard downs Yale, 14-14?  (Or whatever the final score was.)  Yale was so heavily favored that a tie felt like a win to Harvard.   I believe that was with Brian Doyle(?) as the Yale QB, who was immortalized as BD in Doonesbury.

[deiscanton]

Obviously, it should read Massey predicts: Chicago 82, Carnegie Mellon 81-- as WUPHF was trying to post the Massey predicted scorelines for Friday.