MBB: Skyline Conference

[BklynBasketball]

farmingdale beats sjc LI last night. JJ Walsh finished with 5 points. Five.

Maritime rebiounds to beat Poly.

Purchase over Westbury and MSV downed by Yeshiva.

Parity in this league from 3-8 is crazy.

[ball1003]

walsh fouled out of the game if you look at the boxscore brooklyn....  where did everybody go?   Did they realize that farmingdale and st. joes were too good for everybody else???/

[Queens]

Farmingdale is too good for everybody else, please do not put St Joes in the same class as farmingdale...

[skylinestar]

I agree with you queens, right now you cant put st joes in the same category as farmingdale only because they have yet to prove themselves and beat them, but they are so much better than they other teams in the conference its not even funny.

what happened to old westbury being picked to finish second? Mt St Vincent is a joke, has no inside presence and cant compete with any of the upper tier teams...purchase is extremely overrated, maritime is a tough out but cant compete with st joes or fdale....

Expect to see joes and farmingdale in the finals, and i wouldnt bank on walsh scoring only 5 points, so dont be surprised if st joes wins the conference.

[skylinestar]

Also is it really true that billups had to leave the game against st joes to get stitches after walsh dunked on him?? 

i would like to see some footage of that!

[ball1003]

yes skylinestar that is correct... footage would be nice

[HoopzFanatic]

why is it that farmingdale state doesn't get any national recognition. I see they have won 17 games in a row and havn't lost a game since dec. 6th. With teams like montclair state and william patterson getting some consideration in the other votes category in the top 25 you just got to wonder because they are both ranked lower than farmingdale in the region. I believe farmingdale might have even beat montclair this season. But congrats to farmingdale on a great season i have watched them a couple times and think they can be a real tournament sleeper.

[mid-range j]

farmingdale is going to take the conference, i would be surprised if st joes beat them because they havent proved they can win in the big games in the last 5-6 years maybe even longer

farmingdale is just too strong for the skyline and if they want to get national recognition they should move out of the skyline...they are just way to good year after year..no offense to the teams like polytech, bard, purchase, mt st vincent, maritime, but they are just not good and never really are, these are easy 20+ point blowouts for farmingdale..

stevens, mville, and kings point shipped out and now its time for farmingdale to head out too..

[Rhodes Scholar]

why is it that farmingdale state doesn't get any national recognition. I see they have won 17 games in a row and havn't lost a game since dec. 6th. With teams like montclair state and william patterson getting some consideration in the other votes category in the top 25 you just got to wonder because they are both ranked lower than farmingdale in the region. I believe farmingdale might have even beat montclair this season. But congrats to farmingdale on a great season i have watched them a couple times and think they can be a real tournament sleeper.

I believe the reason that Farmingdale isn't getting any votes in the Top 25 is because of their weak schedule. They have four good wins all year: Montclair State, Baruch, and St. Joe's (twice). They have two bad losses: Ramapo and SUNY-Martitime. All their other wins are against  average to horrible competition. I'm not knocking Farmingdale--they are a solid team and may very well be the second best team in the Atlantic. But even so, that does not necessarily translate into a Top 25 team because the Atlantic region is one of the weakest in the country.

[Pat Coleman]

And what is four wins for Rhodes Scholar is one win in the eyes of many voters, perhaps zero in the eyes of others.

[HoopzFanatic]

I can see where your coming from pat and rhodes, but if thats the case what quality wins do montclair and william pat have that make them more qualified than farmingdale?........Also if the atlantic is that weak why is richard stockton ranked so highly, why wouldn't they be hurt by the region. I dont think the NJAC is as strong as its been the last couple years.

[Knightstalker]

The NJAC is still the strongest conference in the region by far.  Even the below .500 teams will beat most of the CUNY and Skyline teams most nights.  Stockton had a nice showing in the NCAA's last year and returned most of the team and have picked up right where they left off. 

I can also be pretty sure that most coaches and teams would not want to face Willy P in the post-season, they are always ready to play and will play that smothering D against anyone with no fear.

[Pat Coleman]

I can see where your coming from pat and rhodes, but if thats the case what quality wins do montclair and william pat have that make them more qualified than farmingdale?

Playing 12 games against the NJAC means a lot more than playing 16 games against the Skyline.

[HoopzFanatic]

Thats why i thought a a head to head win against montclair would mean more in a addition to the skyline wins. But anyway all of these teams are having great years hopefully we will see them all in the ncaa tourney......I think the atlantic region is much under rated and the top teams in the region can go out and compete with any one in the country

[Pat Coleman]

At some point games in mid-November take on a lot less importance compared to 'what have you done lately.'