WBB: Empire 8

[WICB Sports]

Radio coverage for the Bombers' women's games this weekend is as follows:

Ithaca vs. Stevens, pregame starting at 5:40 p.m. Friday on www.vicradio.org
Ithaca vs. Nazareth, pregame starting at 1:40 p.m. on www.wicb.org

Coverage of the men's games will be as follows:

Ithaca vs. Stevens, pregame starting at 7:40 p.m. on www.wicb.org
Ithaca vs. Naareth, pregame starting at 3:40 p.m. on www.vicradio.org

[wbballfan]

sorry I had to put my 2 cents in the subject of Coach Thompson/Hartwick/ now Suny Oneonta.
My daughter was actually recruited by Coach Thompson a few years ago. She decided not to go to Hartwick, though it had absolutely nothing to do with Coach Thompson, we visited the campus, its a great school We liked her coaching style and she was very nice to my daughter on her visit. She seemed like a very get in your face type of coach and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[WICB Sports]

Both the men's and women's Empire 8 tournaments will be broadcast in entirety by WICB and VIC Radio.

The schedule for the men's tournament:

Men's semifinal, Stevens vs. Nazareth, 6 p.m. Friday on 92 WICB and wicb.org (pregame at 5:40)
Men's semifinal, Ithaca vs. St. John Fisher, 8 p.m. Friday on 92 WICB and wicb.org (pregame at 7:40)
Men's final, Saturday 3 p.m. on 92 WICB and wicb.org (pregame at 2:40)

The schedule for the women's tournament:

Women's semifinal, Stevens vs. St. John Fisher, 6 p.m. Friday on vicradio.org (pregame at 5:40)
Women's semifinal, Ithaca vs Utica, 8 p.m. Friday on vicradio.org (pregame at 7:40)
Women's final, Saturday 3:30 p.m. on vicradio.org (pregame at 3:10)

[WICB Sports]

Saturday's women's final has been moved to 4 p.m., meaning VIC Radio (www.vicradio.org) will begin coverage at 3:40 p.m. on Saturday.

[UCgrad45]

Congrats to the UC Women and Coach Davis!

[lileyes]

UC women going dancin for the first time! Best of luck girls! 

[sotier]

Thank You UC women.Nothin against Stevens,but something about a new team joining a conference and taking the title first year just didnt set with me.Seemed to me that the conference bent over backwards to accomodate them.As a parent,the worst of which was moving games from friday-saturday to friday-sunday to allow for Stevens to travel.Now have to get hotel for 2 nights for a weekend home series.All the other teams being in a close proximity, travel and play that day.Stevens travels ,practices in the away gym the night before the game, and plays the next day.Alot easier,and takes away some home court advantage.My question is, why did 8 teams have to change game days to accomodate a new team??What did Stevens bring to the table for the E8 to go to such lenghts to get them??Tell me, am I seeing this wrong??

[UCgrad45]

Thank You UC women.Nothin against Stevens,but something about a new team joining a conference and taking the title first year just didnt set with me.Seemed to me that the conference bent over backwards to accomodate them.As a parent,the worst of which was moving games from friday-saturday to friday-sunday to allow for Stevens to travel.Now have to get hotel for 2 nights for a weekend home series.All the other teams being in a close proximity, travel and play that day.Stevens travels ,practices in the away gym the night before the game, and plays the next day.Alot easier,and takes away some home court advantage.My question is, why did 8 teams have to change game days to accomodate a new team??What did Stevens bring to the table for the E8 to go to such lenghts to get them??Tell me, am I seeing this wrong??

There was the possibility of another school in the area of Stevens also joining. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. They would have had a travel partner if the 10th school was in the conference.

[TheNextLevel]

Why isn't Ithaca in the ECAC?    They certainly should have qualified ahead of SJ Fischer and RIT.

[JQV]

Why isn't Ithaca in the ECAC?    They certainly should have qualified ahead of SJ Fischer and RIT.

The Men's E8 Board is having a detailed discussion about ECAC eligibility.  I presume the same applies to IC Women's team.

[TheNextLevel]

My choices for E8 womens all-star team:

1st Team:

Dani Dudeck - Stevens (MVP)
Jessica Berry - UC  (Rookie of the Year)
Allison Doehm - SJF
Erika Steele - IC
Dora Enright - Stevens

2nd Team:

DevonCroll - UC
Katherine Bixby - IC
Bridget Catenese - EC
Mary Kate Comfort - SJF
Ali Sharpe - Naz

[TheNextLevel]

Jose,
Thanks for the info, below is the the explaination from the mens board.


The NCAA Div. 3 manual states the season limit is 19 (consecutive?) weeks from the start of the first pre-season practice, excluding and NCAA tournament games/practice time.  So it would seem that if a team chooses to start practice the first allowable day (October 15th) then they're already excluding themselves from the ECAC tournament since the 19th week ended on March 2nd. 
I checked with someone knowledgeable about the rules, and the weeks don't have to be consecutive.  The problem appears to be that if you practice (or play) for 1 day during the week, the whole week counts.  If you took the whole week from 12/23 - 12/29 off, you would be OK, but if you came back on the 27th or 28th, you would indeed have to count the week.   Ithaca played in a tournament on the 28th & 29th, so they had to count the week, then came right back to Ithaca to play on the 4th of January.

There are 20 weeks inclusive between October 15 (start of practice) and March 1 (Last Saturday of Regular Season).  To be eligible for ECAC's you would have to take two weeks off, (e.g. Thanksgiving & Finals or Finals and the week between Christmas & New Years).  The schools that don't start practice until late obviously have an advantage here.

[TheNextLevel]

Below are the official E8 all-stars.  The only surprises are O'Dell (RIT) and Troutman (EC).  Neither should be there IMO. 


Date: March 4, 2008 Contact: Timothy Farrell, Asst. Commissioner
tfarrell@empire8.com
EMPIRE 8 ANNOUNCES WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM

2008 Empire 8 Women's Basketball Honors
Player of the Year: Dani Dudek, Stevens Institute of Technology
Rookie of the Year: Jessica Berry, Utica College
Coach of the Year: Jon Hochberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
Empire 8 Women's Basketball All-Conference
First Team
Name School Year Position
Jessica Berry Utica Sophomore Forward
Katherine Bixby Ithaca Sophomore Guard
Allison Boehm St. John Fisher Senior Guard/Forward
Dani Dudek Stevens Junior Guard
Dora Enright Stevens Senior Forward
Second Team
Name School Year Position
Devon Croll Utica Freshman Guard
Joanna Dobeck RIT Senior Forward
Brianna O'Dell RIT Freshman Forward
Erika Steele Ithaca Senior Center
Kourtney Troutman Elmira Senior Guard
Sportswoman of the Year
Name Yr. School
Alysha Dias So. Alfred University
Katrina Jax Sr. Elmira College
Katie Caddell Jr. Hartwick College
Kali Carnovale Sr. Ithaca College
Sally Wilcox Jr. Nazareth College
Jamie Snyder Sr. Rochester Institute of Technology
Ashley Napoleone Sr. St. John Fisher College
Jean Matusiak Sr. Stevens Institute of Technology
Karen Crisanti Sr. Utica College
Honorable Mention
Bridget Catanese, Elmira; Mallory Davis, Utica; Samantha Galm, Hartwick; Melanie
Jackson, Alfred; Ali Sharpe, Nazareth.
-Empire 8-

My choices for E8 womens all-star team:

1st Team:

Dani Dudeck - Stevens (MVP)
Jessica Berry - UC  (Rookie of the Year)
Allison Doehm - SJF
Erika Steele - IC
Dora Enright - Stevens

2nd Team:

DevonCroll - UC
Katherine Bixby - IC
Bridget Catenese - EC
Mary Kate Comfort - SJF
Ali Sharpe - Naz

[sotier]

News: Elmira coach resigns to take position at Catholic. Now the search begins for a new coach, any  suggestions??

[sotier]

Just a thought here, How about Cathy Baum, former SJF player.Playing for and assissting under Kahler,and allways a heady player. What you think??