MBB: NESCAC

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ContinentalDomer

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Three more:

(1) Kyle Smith - new Head Coach - Washington State University (Hamilton '92) - former coach at Columbia University

(2) Bill Coen - Head Coach at Northeastern University (Hamilton '83) - one of his assistants is none other than
                        Tom Murphy, who coached Hamilton for 34 years.

(3) Gillian Zucker - President of Business Operations, Los Angeles Clippers (Hamilton '90) - the only female team president in the NBA

Quote from: nescac1 on April 30, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
Congrats to Brian Emerson (Williams class of 2012), the new head coach at Sewanee. 

http://www.sewaneetigers.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/releases/20190429o5wfaf

One of these days it would be interesting to see a list all the NESCAC alums currently serving as college head coaches or in other prominent basketball-related jobs.  From Williams alone, there is Emerson, Dave Paulsen (George Mason coach), Will Hardy (Spurs assistant), Mike Crotty (head of prominent AAU program), and Pat Duquette (Umass Lowell head coach), plus likely some others I'm not thinking of.  There are loads more from other schools as well (e.g. Cavs' GM Koby Altman from Midd, and a bunch of Amherst alums currently serving as D3 head coaches).

NEhoops

A few more:

Mark Gilbride – RPI (Bowdoin)
Joe Reilly – Wesleyan (Trinity)
Jon Furbush – Bates (Bates)
Damien Strahorn – Colby (Colby)
BJ Dunne – Gettysburg (Bates)
Colin Tabb – WNEC (Trinity)

Looks like Tim Sweeney, current head coach at Hobart, is headed to Conn. I saw a brief mention of this on Hoop Dirt last Friday, but clearly nothing is finalized. 

nescac1

Interesting news re: Sweeney.  Sounds like a very strong hire for Conn.  Hopefully he will get a lot of institutional support because it is going to take a major, multi-year rebuild just to become competitive in NESCAC again.  A lot of the league games vs. Conn have been really ugly over the past few years.  On the plus side, he will have no pressure to win in his first few seasons and Conn should have as much if not more recruiting flexibility than any other NESCAC program, which will certainly help. 

middhoops

Gotta agree with nescac1.
Expectations at Conn College are so low that a new coach stands nothing to lose.
Imagine how the NESCAC cumulative vRRO could improve with a resurgence at Conn.  (Sorry CCIW guys.  We're greedy.)
Fingers crossed for a good hire.

jayhawk

New commit for Amherst College 6'10' Ian Maguire athletic big man  from Northfield Mt Hermon
Played at extremely talented prep school with 3 excellent big man, one MA Gatorade player of the year going to Harvard, another 610' player to Penn and another 6'10'player to Dartmuth

jayhawk

sorry about that Isa (not Ian) Maguire committed to Amherst


jayhawk

We will have to see how the incoming frosh play out
Lots of good freshman coming next year

As as Isa Maguire here is a twitter comment from a person who runs a scouting service for new england high school players, Mike Yagmin, he also had positive comments about Grant Robinson as well when he committed

Isa Maguire (@mag_mile_) has committed to @AmherstMBball. 6'10" big man embraced & succeeded in a JaVale McGee-type role for @NMHbasketball's NEPSAC-AAA Title team. Great grab for one of the nation's best D3 programs. Aren't many high-ceiling athletes like Maguire in the NESCAC.

old_hooper

Looks like a very good "get" for Amherst.  Addressed a real need with big Joe and Bachman graduation.  Had offer from D1 North Dakota very good program and tourney team.  Will be interesting to see how quickly he adapts to college game.  Looks like he can be a big contributor sooner rather then later.

nescac1

#26649
Alex Stoddard, a wing outside shooting specialist from Wellesley, commits to Williams.  The Ephs continue to build a very strong recruiting class.  With Stoddard, stretch five Nate Karren, and PG Prowitt-Smith, they've brought in three guys who look like they will be capable (or better) deep shooters at the next level, which they really needed after losing Heskett and Casey to graduation and struggling to make a ton of threes outside of those two guys last season.  Spencer Spivy should also be ready to provide a lot more outside punch next season.   

https://twitter.com/NERRHoops/status/1125763926824771584

These rankings are always imprecise, especially the bottom half of them (some NESCAC guys have been overranked, and some severely underranked) but it is nice to see that Williams has secured commitments from both of the top-100 New England prospects (Prowitt at 80, Stoddard at 96) who have, to date, committed at the D3 level.  I imagine that there will be a few others going to other D3 schools when all is said and done:

https://newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/new-england-class-of-2019

ronk

Quote from: nescac1 on May 07, 2019, 10:19:14 AM
Alex Stoddard, a wing outside shooting specialist from Wellesley, commits to Williams.  The Ephs continue to build a very strong recruiting class.  With Stoddard, stretch five Nate Karren, and PG Prowitt-Smith, they've brought in three guys who look like they will be capable (or better) deep shooters at the next level, which they really needed after losing Heskett and Casey to graduation and struggling to make a ton of threes outside of those two guys last season.  Spencer Spivy should also be ready to provide a lot more outside punch next season.   

https://twitter.com/NERRHoops/status/1125763926824771584

These rankings are always imprecise, especially the bottom half of them (some NESCAC guys have been overranked, and some severely underranked) but it is nice to see that Williams has secured commitments from both of the top-100 New England prospects (Prowitt at 80, Stoddard at 96) who have, to date, committed at the D3 level.  I imagine that there will be a few others going to other D3 schools when all is said and done:

https://newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/new-england-class-of-2019

D3-wise, it looks like Muhlenberg, Gettysburg, and St. Lawrence have multiple commits from this list, which shows progress from recent years for those teams. Not familiar with any of these prospects since my evaluation time is predominantly spent with the girls instead of boys but thanks for the link.

D3HforLyfe

While I don't know too much about Sweeney, on the surface, I agree it looks like a good hire. It will be interesting to see who he nabs as his main assistant as that is such an important part of the equation at any school but particularly d3 level considering how much influence the #1 assistant (and sometimes only assistant) has on each staff.

A few other Wesleyan names that came to mind when regarding NESCAC alum HC's and prominent assistants: 

*Tobin Anderson -  (D2 St. Thomas Aquinas (NY) HC)
*Matt Kingsley - (Yale Associate HC who will be a d1 HC shortly)
*Greg St Jean - (St. John's lead assistant for past four seasons. Will be interesting where he lands now that they cleared house for Mike Anderson in Queens) 
*Bobbito Garcia - NYC Music and Basketball legend. 
*Bill Belichick - The NFL Coaching GOAT
*Lin-Manuel Miranda - the Musicial GOAT

Lastly, a big shoutout to Scott Foucher for landing the Assumption job! While not a NESCAC alum (went to Wheaton), his four year stint at Bowdoin as an assistant feels plenty to vet him into the CAC basketball family. He is climbing quickly, however, has quite the challenge in front of him at Assumption - https://hoopdirt.com/dii-dirt-assumption-set-to-name-faucher-as-next-head-basketball-coach/



nescac1

A slew of recruits, including many headed to NESCAC (some previously discussed here, some not, including good-looking recruits headed to Bates and Trinity) mentioned in this update:

https://newenglandrecruitingreport.com/in-the-news/5-10-commitment-catch-up

Some non-NESCAC notes on New England recruiting this year:

Endicott, which already returns a strong veteran core led by Keith Brown, should be really loaded next year after adding Jalen Echeverria (yes, Marcos's brother, who also had a storied high school career) and Ty Vitko to the mix. 

I think NEWMAC should be much stronger overall next season. 

-WPI added a solid recruiting class to an already-deep and now-veteran squad that returns everyone
- Springfield added some badly needed depth to help out Jake Ross and Heath Post, including Tyler Dion's little brother, Sam.  I'd be surprised if they miss the NCAAs again assuming the big two stay healthy for their senior years. 
- Babson should also be much improved, losing only one senior to graduation and adding Matthew Corey to the mix up front.
- MIT got decimated by graduation but every time that happens they just seem to take a year or two to reload, and they continue to bring in strong talent.

The biggest surprise on this list is Emmanuel, who added the N.H. player of the year Arie Breakfield.  He's the highest-ranked N.H. player headed to a D3 school (just edging out Wesleyan-bound Preston Maccoux).  Emmanuel's Danny Lawson was named regional coach of the year in his first year as a head coach, and now he's showing he is able to recruit at high level as well (especially for GNAC).  I'm guessing he helped recruit some of Endicott's stars when he was an assistant coach there.  With AMC doing what it always does, plus St. Joe's well-chronicled resurgence moving into year two, and now Emmanuel seemingly emerging as a program to watch, the GNAC is becoming a MUCH more interesting league. 

As we've seen in recent years (Babson national title, Springfield final four, Nichols elite eight, Eastern Conn and Keene State making some noise for LEC, consistent excellence from MIT despite tough injury luck, etc.) the New England region has gotten deeper and stronger and is no longer a NESCAC-or-bust kind of deal.  Indeed, only one NESCAC team has made a Final Four in the past three years, which is a big slump by NESCAC standards.  And I think next year the region figures to have a bunch of strong teams outside of NESCAC.


nescac1

Oh, and D3HforLyfe, I know this is a hoops board, but I have to quibble with your last post.  While I love Lin-Manuel (I've seen Hamilton twice), he's incredible, the musical GOAT went to Williams (Stephen Sondheim).  Maybe in 20 more years it will be a conversation ...

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)


The Worcester Telegram is reporting what's been rumored for a little bit - that Nichols' Scott Faucher is going to Assumption.  Despite losing their All-American, Nichols brings back a really top-notch squad for next year and that might be an interesting opening.  I bring it up here only because of the Emmanuel mention below; I suspect Lawson would be in the mix for that - if Faucher's move is indeed for real.
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