MBB: Skyline Conference

[Raptormania!]

"actually, hes allowed to talk whenever he wants, if it werent for raptormania this board would be silent most times, he has kept it alive for a couple of years."

Thanks for the support, Bklyn. Obviously, I can't contribute in an eloquent way like d3hero, between his prognostications for Purchase (didn't he say Purchase would conquer Russia? I can't remember) and making fun of injured teams-which I think is an outgrowth of his stellar work at PunchKittensintheFace.com. But I'll certainly try my best to keep up.

And congrats to Tim Dougherty! Joins Justin White as 1,000 point scorers in the Skyline this year. Anyone else close to the mark?

[Rhodes Scholar]

On a more positive note...

Does anyone know when the regional rankings come out? Where do you think Farmingdale will be ranked? Any shot there the top team in the region?

The regional rankings just came out. Here's the Atlantic Region (with the overall record followed by the in-region record):

1. Richard Stockton 19-2 (16-2)
2. Farmingdale 16-2 (16-2)
3. William Paterson 15-4 (15-4)
4. Baruch 17-4 (15-3)
5. Montclair State 15-5 (12-5)

[d3hero]

Rookie of the Year would have been Randy Battle from MSV had he not left the team.

Does the ROY have to be a freshman?  B/c Brookim is a sophomore and if that's the case, Billups will get ROY. 

As for player of the year, i think it's totally depending on who wins it all.  Farmingdale's got either Santana or Campbell, St. Joe's has Walsh or Acree, Purchase has Lewis or Billups...it really, in my opinion, matters on who wins it.

Coach of the year: Jeff Charney.  I don't care how many transfers came in and how some people might say, "Anyone could coach that team and win".  The fact is Purchase was never a real program(3 wins last year, one coming against Pratt) and this year, they're going to finish several games above .500.  If that isn't Coach of the Year material, i don't know what is.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Both Lewis and Walsh are not listed among the statistical leaders in the Skyline because neither one of them has played in 75% of their team's games. Unless that stat changes, I doubt either one of them will be considered for POY honors.

[MMTPdthree]

How about coach of the year? All Confernece team? Etc.

First Year Head Coach Brian Nigro from MSV.  Mount was picked second to last in the pre-season polls, and are in sole posession of 3rd place.  Looks like he brought in a few transfers, while dealing with the loss of a dominant freshman in Randy Battle.  Who knows, maybe they can pull a few upsets in the playoffs....

[BubbaChuck3]

D3hero:
Do you ever talk about or give credit to anyone other than Purchase? Regardless of who they've brought in or what 7'5 kids they have sitting out this season, they are nothing more than a middle of the pack team. They have come nowhere near meeting the standards you set forth and haven't won a big game this season.


All that being said, Nigro of MSV is my choice for COY.

[Queens]

Thanks Rhodes Scholar for posting the regional rankings..

Farmingdale has to be hurt by a extremely weak schedule, i mean its a disgrace.  They have one good win all season and thats vs Baruch.  Thats the only way to explain a team with 2 loses not receiving votes for the top 25.  They need to start scheduling better non conference opponents because the skyline is shaping up as probably the worst conference around(not taking anything away from farmingdale because i think they have a really good team)

D3hero dont say purchase was a good win either, its pretty obvious you either went to purchase, currently play for purchase or have son on the team...

[d3hero]

i actually go to Mount St. Mary so eat it.

[Pat Coleman]

i actually go to Mount St. Mary so eat it.

Eat it? Seriously? That's your comeback?

Spare us the false identity crap. Nobody is fooled. They don't even need me to look up the IP address to tell everyone where you're posting from.

[BubbaChuck3]

D3Hero:

Let me stop you right there. Its been enough of all your insane statements on the board, your word holds no credence.

As Pat says, you're classy response of "eat it" was amazing.
   You say you attend Mt. St. Mary, now before I address that nonsense, let me humor all the others who will read this board.
   D3hero, our good friend. I've looked over your wide range of posts since you joined the board. Since your inception to our family, you have made many crazy statements; including but not limited to:

1. "Skyline will be a 3 team race. Farmingdale, Old Westbury and Purchase"
^ Interesting. What place is purchase in?

2. "I guarantee the new kid from Greece (talking about a Hunter College player) will be absolutely nasty."
^ the player to which he was referring has played 0 quality minutes this year.

3. "This is one of the worst teams Baruch has had in a longgggg time".
  ^ Baruch is ranked 4th in the region and closing in on 20 wins.

4. " I coached against Forrest Alvarez in highschool".
^ Interesting. As Alvarez played in manhattan in highschool and you claim to be attending MSM, that had to be one hectic commute.

5. "St Joes is the best team in the region"
    ^ St. Joe's is not even ranked top 5 in the region.

6. "Justin Walters will avg 5 steals per game"
     ^ one of the most ludicrous statements ever spoken.

7. ".. I went to and played for Hartwick, I should know"
^ you are certainly well traveled. From Hartwick, to Manhattan, to Mt. St. Mary's and still find time to make it to all of Purchase's games.

D3Hero: you are a clown.

Point.
Blank.
Period.

[d3hero]

1. considering that purchase was a 3 win team last year, they've made ridiculous improvements. 

2. the greeks usually produce better ball players.  what can i say?

3. Baruch's coach is amazing and gets the best from his players.

4. Of course I don't attend MSM.  Who wants to be in Newburgh, anyway? As for for the guy from Bard, he certainly wasn't a game changer.

5. St. Joe's, oh well.  Walsh wasn't as dominant as one would think he could be.

6. If he got more minutes, sure he would.  2.9 Steals per 25 minutes.  Not saying one would play the entire game, but if he did, that's about 4.2 steals per.

Let me also add that all these opinions and statements are my clown personality self and in no way represent anything other than an online message board persona created by me. 

7. I'm def. a clown.  I'm a professional clown. 

[Queens]

Great Work BubbaChuck, simply great stuff...

I remember some of those "infamous quotes" they made me chuckle at the time because they were ridiculous and now that time has passed they are even more ridiculous.  His rebuttals  dont even make sense. 

"greeks usually produce better basketball players"  Whatt???

The coach at baruch is good but good enough for 4th in the region?  Baruchs record is 18-4. How many wins do you give the coach credit for?

St Joes best team in the region? Wake me up when they beat beat some who is half way decent...( at least you admitted you were wrong on this one, which you didnt on any of the other?)

Lastly, How long have you been in College for?  I'd love to get some box scores from your playing days, if you ever played....

Until next time i will continue to "eat it"

[skylinestar]

I saw st joes play vincents the other night and it was not competitive from the start. they had nobody to match up with walsh down low as he cruised for 21 first half points and sat for almost the entire second half. Im interested to see the st joes farmingdale game on thursday the 12th, farmingdale is cruising and so are the eagles. On another side note to d3 hero, looks like you were wrong again, when walsh has played this year st joes is undefeated.....so is he really not dominant?

[ball1003]

d3hero... were you able to catch the st joes vs. purchase game yesterday?   If you weren't... can you do me a favor?  Ask Billups how his face is??  Walsh dunked it on his head and ended up giving him stitches.  It should have been the ESPN play of the night lol  For the second time this year your boy lewis was outplayed by a freshman on st joes.  Purchase must of gotten dunked on at least 5 times....  try again next year buddy.  St. Joes has now beaten msv and purchase by 40 and 30 this week....and farmingdale continues to roll as well.  Thursday night should be a great one...

[BklynBasketball]

tough out of conference loss last night for Maritime, the 4th place skyline Privateers lost to St Joe's Bklyn 77-76. This is a great resume builder for St Joes who is in provisional membership with the NCAA and has been discussed as  a possible Skyline team in the future. For Maritime though 12-8 and in 4th place in the conference, this is a game that has to shake your confidence.  Additionally, this is a team that I saw Brooklyn College blow out (sJC BKLYN). That demonstrates how the top teams in the 2 respective conferences are really head and shoulders above the field(cuny and skyline).

Looking forward there are some big games tomorrow. I would like to go catch the Farmingdale vs SJC LI game but i dont think its possible tomorrow for me. That should be one of the best games in the region all year. Mike Campbell is really coming on and now showing everyone he is living up to the hype he had pre season. My personal opinion is that Farmingdale wins the game somewhere in the range of 8-12 point margin of victory.

Maritime goes BACK to brooklyn this time to face Poly who just smashed MSV over the weekend. With Robinson, DeMarco and Mottola contributing to help Ohri, this could be a tough one for maritime.

Westbury goes to purchase...this is a game with serious playoff seeding implications. another really important one here because 3-6 are all within a game or 2 of each other. jockeying for home court is a big deal.

Yeshiva traveling to MSV to see if the 3rd place MSV can get it back on track. seems like the wheels fell off a little the last 2 games but this is the same team who rattled off 4 in a row previous to the 2 game skid.

Bard and MSMC just dont wanna lose to each other. Neither has more to play for than pride, although thats the most important thing to play for.

good luck to everyone.