MBB: Skyline Conference

[d3hero]

St. Joe's beats Purchase 72-71 with JJ Walsh playing.  Marvin Billups has super game for Purchase, Acree breaks scoring record for St. Joes.

Let me also add that in my opinion, St. Joseph's isn't as good as we all thought they were, even with Walsh.  They're not overly big and they do play together well but, they're not a dominating team.

Farmingdale, though suffering two losses early in the season, one by ten in their first game and another to a possible fluke game against Maritime, is looking ridiculously strong with an entire lineup featuring 6'6" players that have versatile games.  Santana is scoring better than last year and nobody is playing more than 25 minutes.  They're my pick right now.

Still, Purchase lost their best big man in Corey Orgias to injury and they almost took out St. Joe's tonight, even with their guy Walsh.  We'll see...

[zonescantstopme]

anyone know why mt st marys had to forfeit its two wins???

[d3hero]

i'm going to assume that MSM had to forfeit their only wins (thus giving Polytech possibly their only win of the year) because they were using a player who was ineligible.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Who would have thought that Mt. Saint Vincent would be tied for first place this far into the season? The Dolphins are 5-1 in conference play and are atop the Skyline standings with St. Joe's and Farmingdale. But there is a catch. So far MSV has played a weak conference schedule. They have wins over Bard, MSM, Yeshiva, Poly and Maritime, and a loss to St. Joe's. That's four wins against the weakest four teams in the Skyline, along with a better win over Maritime. In their next three games, the Dolphins face Purchase and Farmingdale on the road, and then host Old Westbury. This is going to be a much tougher stretch for MSV. 

[MMTPdthree]

I think its a matter of what Dolphin Defence shows up to play.  No doubt they are going to score a lot of points with kids like Cooke and DiMaggio shotting all day.  They also got some good shooters off the bench too.  But yet again - they lack a big man.  And they lost Battle due to grades.

But, I cant wait to see the matchup between DiMaggio and Santana on the 17th.  Both are fenominal shooters, and can both play defence.

[raptor31]

Just want to throw some props to my boy Justin White who hit his 1,000 career point not even midway through junior year. In a pretty dark season for the Raptors he continues to stand out and impress. Don't know how the next 2 yrs will shape up for the Raptors but J has a serious shot at 2,000. Congrats to him!

[CunyPlayer03]

I had seen the boxscore for the MSV vs Purchase game and Marvin Billups had 46 and 13 and they did not have the d1 transfer Lewis

Thats a pretty good game i might say

[Rhodes Scholar]

Bard blew perhaps their best chance at a victory this season when they were beaten at home last night by Poly 87-68. That certainly was a winnable game--at least on paper--for the Raptors.

[MMTPdthree]

St. Joes and Farmingdale starting to run away with it now???

[d3hero]

it's farmingdale's conference to lose.  St. Joe's isn't that dominant.  Purchase lost to them by one without their big man Orgias and Lewis played perhaps his worst game of the season.

Farmingdale had a freak loss to Maritime and one more out of league loss in their first game.  It's a one team race for first with everyone else but Poly, Bard & MSM vying for 2-6.

[Rhodes Scholar]

I saw Purchase beat Poly on Saturday. It was a good game with several lead changes. Needless to say Purchase is much better than last year, but probably not as good as some have argued. Last year they had three guys who could play and this year they have about seven. Marvin Billups is the team's best player and is quite versatile. Justin Walters threw a couple of nice passes and played well down the stretch. Jerrel Lewis didn't play and I don't know if he's on the roster or not.

Arjun Ohri and Anthony Mottola played very well for Poly. The Fighting Blue Jays gave it 100% but were a bit overmatched against the Panthers.

[Henri Papillon Charriere]

You guys were right about MSV hitting the tough stretch of their schedule. I was at the MSV Farmingdale game on Saturday and have a couple of observations. First, Farmingdale is a very powerful team both inside and outside. It goes without saying that Santana is a great player. Second, coming into the game I thought MSV would put up a better fight. They seemed disorganized. Players are in and out like hockey line changes. They have two shooters in Cook and Dimaggio, but from what I saw on Saturday they weren't the ones taking the shots. At any rate, it looks like Farmingdale is on their way to another championship. I'm going to try and catch the Rams back in action at Yeshiva tomorrow night.

[d3gift]

I first must start off and say that the skyline has become more competitive every yr. Farmingdale is very good and has always been good but i must admit that st joes will give them a run for their money. J.J Walsh is the best player in the skyline. he is a 6'5 beast that can play any position and in reality he should be playing pro ball somewhere. If purchase had a dominate big man they would be a top ranked team as well. That Marvin guy from purchase has skills tooo, but 1 man cant do it all.

[d3hero]

Lewis is out with a foot injury for Purchase. 

[d3gift]

Rams vs Eagles for the skyline once again.......