MBB: Skyline Conference

zonescantstopme · February 28, 2009, 09:09:30 PM

Congrats to St Joe's on Beating Farmingdale!!!

skylinestar · March 01, 2009, 12:33:52 PM

st joes was the best team in the conference all year, they lost to fdale playing without their best player walsh and once at fdale by 5 when he was in foul trouble, so pretty much played without him twice....last night they proved it by winning the skyline conference championship game on Fdales floor!

skylinestar · March 02, 2009, 04:29:00 PM

guess all those farmingdale fans went away?

larry_u · March 02, 2009, 04:39:26 PM

Can someone post your NCAA team's profiles in here:

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=6299.0

raptor31 · March 05, 2009, 12:27:38 AM

Not sure ive seen one farmingdale fan here all year long. I don't think they have much of a following! Best team in the conference and no one talks about them.

St Joes will beat DeSales and lose to Ithaca most likely. Will have to play incredible to beat Ithaca, that is a tough squad!

I think Farmingdale will also beat U of New England. Well coached team in NE vs a talented bunch in Farmingdale. I think the talent wins out and two Skyline teams get NCAA victories.

Second Round is also very winnable game for Farmingdale as both MIT and RIC are beatable teams for them. I can't see them going past that, it would take a big time effort to upend Middlebury this year but it is possible. They have the talent but unfortunately they will come up against someone with just as much and a little bit of coaching to go along with it.

BklynBasketball · March 05, 2009, 09:35:21 AM

good luck to Brooklyn, Baruch, Farmingdale and SJC in the tourney!!! Lets make some noise for the region!

skylinestar · March 05, 2009, 11:05:49 AM

raptor, clearly st joes is the best team in the conference, and atleast you were right about niblock bein the x factor in that championship game

backboard · March 05, 2009, 11:35:11 AM

Don't be surprised if Farmingdale loses though

mid-range j · March 05, 2009, 03:53:44 PM

raptor,

what do you know about desales?
have you seen them play?

just wondering..

BklynBasketball · March 05, 2009, 07:50:36 PM

Live stats have DeSales up 15 at the half and killin SJC on the boards

BklynBasketball · March 05, 2009, 08:51:34 PM

Congrats to St Joseph's on a great season, unfortunately they lost to DeSales, rebounded in the second half and played well it seems on live stats.

personal fouls 26- sjc , 13 DeSales. Seemed to be the difference.

raptor31 · March 05, 2009, 11:44:27 PM

Great season for St Joe's. I hope they soak all of this in because it is a once in a lifetime experience to make the tourney at any level. Great run and I am sure they are feeling bad now but looking back in a couple weeks they will be proud of the year they had.

Late answer Mid Range. Desales is real deal. I didn't see them but heard a lot about them from coaches in the Freedom. Braswell was awesome at William Allen in HS and he has been tremendous in college. Kid is just a beast all around. Like 6'1 but plays bigger and does everything. Lipinski is 6'6 and a great d3 big. After that the PG from Emmaus is tough and runs their team well and they go 8 deep.

These are all kids from the area around our camp so I have seen a lot of them playing coming up. Scariest thing is they return Braswell and Hunter and have a kid Jamey Bersier who a lot of people thought was a d2 level talent so if he comes along and fills Lipinskis shoes they will be back again. Not a bad loss for St. Joe's at all. I thought Walsh and Acree would cancel out Lipinski and Braswell and then the role players from St. Joes would take over but it seems like Desales toughness was too much.

raptor31 · March 07, 2009, 08:23:23 PM

Farmingdale up 6 with 7 min left... Middlebury in a tight one. As of right now Farmingdale has a very legit shot of going to the Elite 8 and after seeing Stockton last night they can play with them as well. Little Skyline might be making some noise!

raptor31 · March 07, 2009, 09:48:42 PM

Farmingdale vs Bridgewater should be a great matchup and Farmingdale has more than a legit shot to win! Bridgewater has a lot of weapons, athletic bigs, one great shooter and a legit PG. Farmingdale matches their athleticism and this game will come down to which guys make big plays down the stretch.

If Farmingdale pulls it out they can also play with a Stockton team that is loaded with guards and shooters or St Lawrence. Scary as it may be this could be a Final 4 team and looking at the other side of the bracket makes me believe they could feasibly go to the title game. CRAZY!

marchmadness · March 08, 2009, 08:20:30 AM

Congrats to Farmingdale on a great job this year. I'd also like to congratulate oft-neglected SUNY Maritime and their coaching staff on a job well done. They went from a 4-21 club (the year prior to Coach King and his staff taking over) to 13 wins in 07-08 and 15 wins and an ECAC berth (their first one since 97-98) this past season. And they did it without Paul Frazier, who would have been a 20/10 player had he not been ruled academically ineligible. It should be noted that with Frazier, Maritime was the only skyline team to beat Farmingdale during the regular season. With Farmingdale losing Santana and Shannon and St. Joes losing Acree, Walsh, Niblock and others, it looks like next year should be wide open.