2017 NCAA Tournament

[Gregory Sager]

CNU will still be good.  Ramapo returns almost everybody.  Of course, Whitman doesn't have a senior on the team, so I suspect they'll be pre-season #1 no matter what happens this weekend.

And Ramapo will disappoint again next year, just like every other year for the NJAC. I listened to the interview on Hoopsville prior to the tourney with the Ramapo coach and it was a good one. He really felt they had a shot at something special and they were hosting too. But, NJCU goes out in the 1st round and Ramapo loses at home on Saturday. Not sure if I can ever trust a NJAC team in the NCAAs.

For decades the NJAC was a real force in d3 men's basketball. While the league only won one title (the infamous Prop 48 Rowan team of '96), it reached the national championship game four other times, losing it in '75 (Rowan), '89 (TCNJ), '01 (William Paterson), and '09 (Stockton), and NJAC teams reached the Final Four an impressive total of ten times in the tourney's first 27 years. But after that '09 Stockton outfit, it's like the whole circuit fell off of a cliff. The only NJAC team that's managed to get out of the first weekend of the tourney since then was the Stockton team of three years ago that was eliminated by Morrisville State in the sectional semifinals.

[Pat Coleman]

So what are the rosters for the all-star game? I would hope Sabin is in it.

The rosters are on the front page.

OK. That must have been recent. I had checked earlier and I didn't think I saw them. Maybe I just missed it too.

Was up for 24 hours but we have a ton of feature content coming in, plus a couple of key coaching changes, so it got bumped.

[nescac1]

I'm surprised NJAC has not performed better in light of the huge amount of New Jersey hoops talent, much of which is spread across D3.  Susquehannah's Steven Weidlich was just named POY in his region.  Tufts had huge tourney back-to-back games from Vinny Pace and Eric Savage.  Williams' starting point guard is Mike Greenman.  Catholic's star the past few years has been Jay Howard.  All are Jersey hoops guys who left the state ... if NJAC can keep a few more guys like that home, it could easily return to prominence.   

[Greek Tragedy]

So what are the rosters for the all-star game? I would hope Sabin is in it.

The rosters are on the front page.

OK. That must have been recent. I had checked earlier and I didn't think I saw them. Maybe I just missed it too.

Was up for 24 hours but we have a ton of feature content coming in, plus a couple of key coaching changes, so it got bumped.

I did find it. I usually just check the "top stories" and didn't scroll down on my phone.

[Greek Tragedy]

CNU will still be good.  Ramapo returns almost everybody.  Of course, Whitman doesn't have a senior on the team, so I suspect they'll be pre-season #1 no matter what happens this weekend.

And Ramapo will disappoint again next year, just like every other year for the NJAC. I listened to the interview on Hoopsville prior to the tourney with the Ramapo coach and it was a good one. He really felt they had a shot at something special and they were hosting too. But, NJCU goes out in the 1st round and Ramapo loses at home on Saturday. Not sure if I can ever trust a NJAC team in the NCAAs.

For decades the NJAC was a real force in d3 men's basketball. While the league only won one title (the infamous Prop 48 Rowan team of '96), it reached the national championship game four other times, losing it in '75 (Rowan), '89 (TCNJ), '01 (William Paterson), and '09 (Stockton), and NJAC teams reached the Final Four an impressive total of ten times in the tourney's first 27 years. But after that '09 Stockton outfit, it's like the whole circuit fell off of a cliff. The only NJAC team that's managed to get out of the first weekend of the tourney since then was the Stockton team of three years ago that was eliminated by Morrisville State in the sectional semifinals.

I do recall past conversations about the conference's historical success, but as you pointed out and reminded us, their more recent exploits in the NCAAs have been short.

[kiko]

CNU will still be good.  Ramapo returns almost everybody.  Of course, Whitman doesn't have a senior on the team, so I suspect they'll be pre-season #1 no matter what happens this weekend.

And Ramapo will disappoint again next year, just like every other year for the NJAC. I listened to the interview on Hoopsville prior to the tourney with the Ramapo coach and it was a good one. He really felt they had a shot at something special and they were hosting too. But, NJCU goes out in the 1st round and Ramapo loses at home on Saturday. Not sure if I can ever trust a NJAC team in the NCAAs.

For decades the NJAC was a real force in d3 men's basketball. While the league only won one title (the infamous Prop 48 Rowan team of '96), it reached the national championship game four other times, losing it in '75 (Rowan), '89 (TCNJ), '01 (William Paterson), and '09 (Stockton), and NJAC teams reached the Final Four an impressive total of ten times in the tourney's first 27 years. But after that '09 Stockton outfit, it's like the whole circuit fell off of a cliff. The only NJAC team that's managed to get out of the first weekend of the tourney since then was the Stockton team of three years ago that was eliminated by Morrisville State in the sectional semifinals.

Dumb and random question, but what conference was Upsala affiliated with?

[Gregory Sager]

Upsala was in the MAC. The Vikings were in the MAC Northern Division for over three decades, and, after the MAC was reconfigured, for the last two years of Upsala's existence the Vikings were in the MAC Freedom before the school closed its doors following the 1994-95 school year.

[ronk]

CNU will still be good.  Ramapo returns almost everybody.  Of course, Whitman doesn't have a senior on the team, so I suspect they'll be pre-season #1 no matter what happens this weekend.

And Ramapo will disappoint again next year, just like every other year for the NJAC. I listened to the interview on Hoopsville prior to the tourney with the Ramapo coach and it was a good one. He really felt they had a shot at something special and they were hosting too. But, NJCU goes out in the 1st round and Ramapo loses at home on Saturday. Not sure if I can ever trust a NJAC team in the NCAAs.

For decades the NJAC was a real force in d3 men's basketball. While the league only won one title (the infamous Prop 48 Rowan team of '96), it reached the national championship game four other times, losing it in '75 (Rowan), '89 (TCNJ), '01 (William Paterson), and '09 (Stockton), and NJAC teams reached the Final Four an impressive total of ten times in the tourney's first 27 years. But after that '09 Stockton outfit, it's like the whole circuit fell off of a cliff. The only NJAC team that's managed to get out of the first weekend of the tourney since then was the Stockton team of three years ago that was eliminated by Morrisville State in the sectional semifinals.

Dumb and random question, but what conference was Upsala affiliated with?

  Although a NJ school, Upsala was not an NJAC school but instead, for most of its existence they were in the Middle-Atlantic(MAC)-'53-'77 and MAC-F in '93-95; in between, there were four divisions of the MAC and they weren't in either of the 2 that Scranton played during that period.
  I actually encountered a former Upsala player wearing their T shirt this summer during a girls' AAU tourney.

[Gregory Sager]

Current Massey:

1. Whitman
3. Babson
5. Augustana
7. Williams

Massey sez:

Whitman 84, Babson 81 (WC 61%, BC 39%)
Augustana 72, Williams 71 (AC 53%, WC 47%)

[Gregory Sager]

Thus far this early semi is being played at Whitman's pace, in Whitman's style.

[Greek Tragedy]

Wow. 45-20

Now 45-24

[Smitty Oom]

The Babson student that made the trip and is wearing a Beaver costume is pure brilliance.

[Greek Tragedy]

It's 51-47 Whitman at the half.

Where's the video link?

Edit: Duh, found it at the top of the live stats.

[Gregory Sager]

Holy cow. Babson was down by 25 points, 45-20, with seven and a half minutes to go in the first half -- and went on a supersonic run to cut it to a 51-47 deficit at the half.

[Greek Tragedy]

You know, Babson has turned the ball over 18 times. Whitman has caused some of these, but Babson is just careless. I missed watching the 1st half, so I don't know how Babson got back in it, but they don't look good here, down 10.