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#16
Quote from: Caz Bombers on October 06, 2020, 04:02:30 PM
https://sunyacsports.com/general/2020-21/releases/20201006elhb0i

Feb 1 start to league play, division only double round robin. Not sure if they're doing any OOC games.


I realize they are splitting into two divisions to cut down on travel, which will limit the regular season schedule to just 8 games. The SUNYAC office also wanted to preserve the eligibility of the student-athletes by playing less than 50 percent of the allowable contests. I assume the allowable contest number is less than 50% of 25 which is the regular season max. So that should mean the SUNYAC schools could play 4 OOC games and still be safely within the NCAA rules.

In the case of Plattsburgh we have Clarkson, Canton, St. Lawrence, and Middlebury all within a short distance and all 4 teams have been on our schedule in the past. I'm hopeful something can be worked out so that we can play those schools.

Other schools in the YAC also have regular OOC schools that they play every year that are close to them. A 12 game regular season schedule should be easy to assemble and give the players, especially the seniors that are graduating, a little more of a season.

I hope that the reduced schedule becomes a reality. This pandemic seems to be gaining strength again as the number of new cases in the US has been increasing recently. We don't know what will happen in the next few months.         
#17
Region 1 men's basketball / Re: MBB: NESCAC
August 10, 2020, 11:17:56 PM
Quote from: SpringSt7 on August 09, 2020, 05:19:28 PM
Duncan is also not an upcoming free agent, so much of this will depend on his performance next season, although he has certainly proven himself worthy of a big extension. Furthermore, he will be a restricted free agent so much of it will depend on the Heat's salary cap situation and their priorities.

Speaking of Duncan and the bubble, he has also been joined by his former teammate and classmate, Mike Greenman:

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/linwood-resident-and-st-augustine-grad-enjoying-life-in-the-nba-bubble/article_8c363fc9-9422-5dcf-8096-aac4d319fa1b.html

Nice article...thanks for posting. Plus K.
#18
When the Ivy League canceled their fall sports back on July 8th I figured it wouldn't be long before many more colleges followed suit. If the SUNYAC is canceling their sports program and New York is now one of the best states in the country with covid -19 on the decline here, what are other conferences going to do in the 40 states (at last count) that are currently showing big increases in new cases of the virus? I can see another year without college sports.

On another front, the NBC nightly news, tonight, said a vaccine in Britain looked very promising and could be out by the end of the year or early 2021. Supposedly the US has ordered 300 million doses. Possibly a light at the end of the tunnel.

I hope all my D3 friends are safe and in good health. Keep wearing the mask and doing the social distancing thing.       
#19
Region 3 men's basketball / Re: Liberty League
April 15, 2020, 07:17:47 AM
Quote from: hopefan on April 14, 2020, 11:59:10 AM
Quote from: Smitty Oom on April 14, 2020, 09:51:49 AM

the east looks like it will be pretty strong, which is fun to see.

Just like the old days... eh Magic, Bear? ;) ;) ;)

It would be, hopefan. Both the Liberty League and the SUNYAC could have multiple teams go dancing next year. I just hope there is a next year in college basketball. :(
#20
Quote from: Smitty Oom on April 11, 2020, 11:26:26 AM
Yes it is fun to watch, great idea for a segment. I know I saw Whitman women's basketball team being featured about two weeks ago. I think there was a mens team too, but I cannot remember off the top of my head.


Yes Smitty, there's been a number of teams from Division III in various sports. I don't understand why they are stopping this segment. They should keep doing this for as long as all the pro sports leagues are shut down. I'd rather see that content than some of the junk they are throwing out there as filler time.

Last night (Friday the 10th) was the last night they planned to do Senior Night. I watched it and they did a fast talking segment, mentioning a bunch of high schools from different parts of the country. Crammed in more than usual because it was the last night but there's no reason they can't extend it and mention many more schools.

#21
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on April 10, 2020, 02:52:03 PM
Quote from: magicman on April 10, 2020, 06:55:20 AM
ESPN's Scott Van Pelt has been honoring seniors the past few weeks and tonight, April 9th, he had on Sports Center the Brockport State Golden Eagles.

ESPN started with the video of Tyler Collins making the half court shot at the buzzer, to end the first half of the NCAA 1st round game against Coast Guard, that Brockport won 92-86.

Then they showed a video of the Golden Eagles celebrating in the locker room but I'm not sure if that celebration they were showing, took place after the win over Coast Guard or if it was the next day after the Golden Eagles defeated Middlebury. It was funny to see Coach Dunne and the other coaches jumping up and down, right in the middle of the team, as they were getting doused by all of the players with their Gatorade bottles. It was such a celebration I'm thinking it was after the 2nd round win over Middlebury that put Brockport into the Sweet 16.

I sure wish the team had the chance to play on.

It was nice to see them get some love by ESPN and the seniors get a mention.



Two days ago ESPN featured the Plattsburgh State Women's Hockey Team who were ranked #1 all year long and were favored to win the National Championship. It would have been the Cardinals 2nd straight title and 6th one in the last 7 years. They also set a record back on November 30th, 2019, of 26 consecutive wins. It's the longest winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey history. They are currently on an 18 game winning streak which is the longest active winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey.

Plattsburgh State also set the record for the longest home winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey as the Cardinals defeated Oswego State, 3-0, on Saturday, Nov. 9, for their 29th consecutive home win. The Cardinals' home winning streak now stands at 40 games and counting, after they went undefeated at home (14-0-0) on the season.

Nice to see the SUNYAC get mentioned on ESPN twice within a few days.

Nice to see that you were able to catch that. Was it listed in the programming? Too bad everyone else probably missed it!


Greek,
No it wasn't listed. For the past several weeks Scott Van Pelt has been doing a feature each night on Sports Center called Senior Night. He's usually been featuring anywhere from 4 to 6 teams each night and talking about their accomplishments this year annd how they were deprived of a possible State championship in a high school sport or  NCAA bid in a college sport. He always mentions the graduating seniors, sometimes first and last names if there is only a couple or just the first names if there are 4 or more.  He's featured a number of D3 schools as well as high schools, D2 schools and of course D1 schools. I know he featured both Clarkson hockey teams..men's and women's as I caught the show that night. Had the MIT baseball team on a few nights ago also. Friday night was he last night they were going to do that. Not sure why..they should do it until this entire covid-19 is over. it's not like they have all this content they have to get on the air.     
#22
ESPN's Scott Van Pelt has been honoring seniors the past few weeks and tonight, April 9th, he had on Sports Center the Brockport State Golden Eagles.

ESPN started with the video of Tyler Collins making the half court shot at the buzzer, to end the first half of the NCAA 1st round game against Coast Guard, that Brockport won 92-86.

Then they showed a video of the Golden Eagles celebrating in the locker room but I'm not sure if that celebration they were showing, took place after the win over Coast Guard or if it was the next day after the Golden Eagles defeated Middlebury. It was funny to see Coach Dunne and the other coaches jumping up and down, right in the middle of the team, as they were getting doused by all of the players with their Gatorade bottles. It was such a celebration I'm thinking it was after the 2nd round win over Middlebury that put Brockport into the Sweet 16.

I sure wish the team had the chance to play on.

It was nice to see them get some love by ESPN and the seniors get a mention.



Two days ago ESPN featured the Plattsburgh State Women's Hockey Team who were ranked #1 all year long and were favored to win the National Championship. It would have been the Cardinals 2nd straight title and 6th one in the last 7 years. They also set a record back on November 30th, 2019, of 26 consecutive wins. It's the longest winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey history. They are currently on an 18 game winning streak which is the longest active winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey.

Plattsburgh State also set the record for the longest home winning streak in NCAA Division III women's ice hockey as the Cardinals defeated Oswego State, 3-0, on Saturday, Nov. 9, for their 29th consecutive home win. The Cardinals' home winning streak now stands at 40 games and counting, after they went undefeated at home (14-0-0) on the season.

Nice to see the SUNYAC get mentioned on ESPN twice within a few days.
#23
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: All Americans
March 26, 2020, 03:05:11 AM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 25, 2020, 10:25:15 PM
Well, the experts actually did a pretty good job this year in predicting the 25 AAs. Of the 25 preseason AAs, 12 made the post-season AA list. Underwood and Carius were both hurt, either the whole year or most of it. So, that's two more that the experts could have gotten right (and probably would have). ***golf clap***




   1st      Team      Pre- Season   
   Schimonitz      NWU         
   West      LeTourneau      3rd   
   Ross      Springfield      1st   
   Turell      Yeshiva         
   Raridon      NCC      1st   
                  
   2nd      Team         
   Cameron      Wesley      HM   
   Bower-Malone      Mt Union         
   Anthony      RMC      4th   
   Fravert      Oshkosh      HM   
   Flynn      Oshkosh      1st   
                  
   3rd      Team         
   Nolan      Wash U         
   Voelker      Platteville         
   Delaney      JHU         
   Brown      SUNY Potsdam         
   Rogers      Tufts         
                  
   4th      Team         
   Rhode      Elmhurst      3rd   
   College      Whitworth      2nd   
   Bruton      Nichols         
   Shafer      Swarthmore      HM   
   Leifer      Yeshiva      4th   
                  
   HM      Team         
   Demers      Gordon         
   Coplin      Augsburg      1st   
   Jefferson      Colby         
   DeVries      Calvin         
   Hanson      Carleton         
                  
               O'Dell-Swarthmore-1st   
                  
               Toney-NJCU-2nd   
               Seipel-Wittenberg-2nd   
               Carius-Monmouth-2nd   
               Gilmour-Hamilton-2nd   
                  
               Underwod-Texas-Dallas-3rd   
               Summers-Brockport-3rd   
               Dennis-Morrisville St-3rd   
                  
               Robinson-Amherst-4th   
               Davidson-Wabash-4th   
               Crumly-Covenant-4th   
                   
               Williams-Emory-HM   
               Bublitz-Stevens Point-HM   

Justin Summers from Brockport was another preseason All-American that would probably have made the post-season AA team if he hadn't been injured. He missed 9 games and saw limited action in 8 other games.
#24
The D3hoops All-America Team has been released and Isaiah Brown, a 6'6" Sophomore forward,
from SUNY-Potsdam, has been named to the Third Team.

Congratulations to Isaiah on this latest award. He was the only player from the East region to receive this honor.

Here is the link to the complete list of All-Americans:

https://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-americans/men/2020
#25
Brockport finishes the season as #11 in the final D3hoops Top 25 poll. They moved up from #18 with 184 points to the #11 spot with 331 points.

I'm convinced they would have been higher had the season played out. I'm pretty sure they would have won their game against Tufts which would have put them into the Elite Eight, with most likely a matchup against Swarthmore to get to the semis. That would have been an interesting game. Massey had Swarthmore listed as a 3 point favorite which means either team could have won that game.

At any rate they did pretty good for a team that only received 2 points in the Top 25 preseason poll.

Other teams from the East Region to receive votes in the final poll were:

Hobart....The Statesmen finished in the #20 spot with a total of 172 points. They weren't mentioned in the previous poll and also had no votes in the preseason poll.  They might have finished higher as well, if the season played out. Their matchup against Christopher Newport was a game they might have won if contested.

RPI...They got 11 points in the Others Receiving Votes and finished in the #31st spot. They were 29th with 28 points in the previous poll. Won a first round game and lost to Tufts to slide a bit. Also not mentioned in the preseason poll.

Ithaca...The Bombers should have finished ahead of RPI in my opinion. but only got 8 points in the final poll to come in the #33 spot. Ithaca beat RPI 2 out of 3 games in the regular season, most importantly for the Liberty League Crown and automatic bid. They also beat Babson in the first round which I think was a stronger team than New England College the team that RPI beat in the first round. Babson defeated Tufts by 14 points when those teams played. Tufts defeated RPI by 9 points. Ithaca beat Babson by 6 points. Ithaca was the recipient of 2 points in the previous poll and received no points in the preseason poll.

Penn State-Harrisburg....The Lions got 7 points in the final poll to finish in the #34th spot and their upset of host Johns Hopkins in double overtime was regarded as one of the bigger upsets in the tournament. Coming out of the lightly regarded NEAC Conference the Lions final ranking was well deserved. Like Ithaca, the Lions received no previous mention in the D3 polls.

Oswego 83 points, Oneonta 5 points, Rochester 5 points and Brockport 2 points were the only East Region teams mentioned in the preseason poll. Brockport, the team with the least amount of preseason support, on that list, is the only one that was in the final poll.

Congratulations to the 5 East Regions teams that were mentioned in the final poll.

Here's the link to the complete final poll:  https://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2019-20/final       
#26
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 15, 2020, 12:13:59 PM
I only did the top 5, partially because I'm lazy and also because there seemed to be a HUGE drop-off after Cortland. Could someone really make that much of a significant jump from 6-12 Geneseo to 11-7 Cortland?

That's probaly all you needed to do. Maybe some of the bottom teams will get some transfers and/or recruits to help them make a big jump up the standings but that's something to be determined.
#27
I was reading some posts from the SLIAC board earlier today and then went into town around 9 PM to get groceries. (less people around and much easier to shop) Just now got back on the computer and pulled up the  D3 boards and since I was on the SLIAC board when I left, I was still there when I came back. I refreshed the page and spotted a new post...it was from you and it was a breakdown of all the SLIAC teams and who lost players to graduation and who was coming back. I looked it over and said to myself....I should send the Greek a PM and tell him to do the same thing for the SUNYAC. He must really have a lot of time on his hands.

Decided to check out the SUNYAC board and didn't think there would be any new posts since the season is over but wait....there's a post from the Greek and it's a breakdown of the top teams in the YAC. Talk about reading a person's mind.  You must be gaining some magical powers or did you consult with that famous Oracle?

And you certainly didn't steal my thunder, but you're always welcome to do so. 8-) 
#28
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 13, 2020, 04:42:27 PM

I'd lose the "co" for everyone.  Every one of these schools should make up National Champion T-shirts.

I agree with that, Ryan. 8-)
#29
Brockport needs to get the T-shirts printed up:

Brockport Co-National Champions
#30
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: 2020 NCAA Tournament
March 13, 2020, 02:20:19 AM
Massey didn't take into consideration that Brockport's pre-season All American, Justin Summers, was back from an injury that sidelined him for about a dozen games. He scored 22 points in the game against Middlebury last Saturday.  With him in the lineup Brockport wins it all. ;D