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#1
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY Playoffs
February 18, 2013, 08:28:07 PM
Very intense game....MEC pg jaw was broke in a loose ball scramble in 1st to I believe.
#2
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
February 16, 2013, 12:53:51 AM
Weird isn't it?  Another school had a player listed as a senior for the 3rd yr in a row and played 2nd semester.
#3
Region 2 men's basketball / Re: Little East
November 20, 2011, 09:53:09 PM
Went to WConn- MEC game @ Regis cause i was visiting cousin who goes to Boston College.  Final score may not indicate it but it was a very competitive game.  MEC pg unfortunately got hurt at about the 10 min. mark with MEC up 6 and didnt return. :-  Found out today he broke his leg on that play. WConn too much size and depth.
#4
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
November 17, 2011, 01:51:52 AM
Medgar Evers beating Rutgers Newark gets no mention.  Wheres the respect for the defending champs?
#5
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
December 01, 2010, 01:38:09 PM
Big win for Medgar last night over Bklyn.  MEC jumped out on a 12-2 run to start game and never trailed, winning 74-65.
#6
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
November 23, 2010, 02:02:43 PM
Crazy game @ Medgar last night.  Down 27 with 14 min to go against a really good jersey city team.  MEC comes back to win by 3 :o
#7
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
November 17, 2010, 07:33:45 PM
Opening game scores

Baruch 79  Stevens 75
M'hatville 64  Hunter 61
Ramapo 70  York 60
Rutgers Newark 81 Medgar Evers 72 OT
Mt St Vincent 70 Lehman 68
John Jay 66 Vaughn 53
CCNY 72 Mitchell 69
#8
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
November 17, 2010, 07:22:38 PM
Preseason coaches poll from cunyac website;
NorthDiv. 1. Baruch 50 pts 2. Hunter 40pts 3. Lehman 24pts 4. CCNY 22pts 5. John Jay 16pts

South Div. 1. York 48 pts 2. Brooklyn 38pts 3. Medgar Evers 27pts 4. Staten Island 20pts 5. City Tech 17pts

Marcel Esonwune York player of the year.

#9
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
February 19, 2010, 03:07:17 PM
#7 Lehman should beat #2 Brooklyn because they somehow got 2 players as all CUNY performers to BK's one ??? How do you have 2 of the best players in the league and come in 7th ???  Who votes for these teams? Guys with 1 and 2 wins all season on there!! What message are you sending for future players who aspire to make this team?  Just get yours even if you lose by 30 every night its ok.  What about the kid who could score 25 every night but has sacrificed for the betterment of his team?
#10
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
February 06, 2010, 10:19:06 PM
Medgars 5-6 in conference record is deceiving.  If you have followed this team like I have, you have seen a performance like this coming.  What people don't realize is that due to injuries, academic problems and the coach suspending players for not adhering to team rules, this past Wednesday vs Brooklyn was the first day his whole team was together this season.  9 of their 12 players are freshmen or transfers new to the program.  They are young and inexperienced in how to win.  They blew big leads at Lehman(18) and Hunter(14) and have played everybody tough, the brooklyn score was deceiving. MEC was up 10 w/ 4min to go in half, they got into foul trouble and BK's experience to over in the 2nd half.   There was a buzz @ MEC on wed. night that I have never seen, it was a playoff like atmosphere and finally having everyone together Coach felt his team was overhyped and BK is is an experienced team who kept their composure and whethered  the initial storm early in the game.  He feels his team needs to learn to get not to high or low.  That being said it was very impressive to see the poise and composure down the stretch last night @ york.  Sometimes a team gets that breakthrough win late in the season and makes a big run. They have been in position to finish games all year and haven't (even games they won CSI, CTECH). He is trying to teach kids that have never won and kids with no basketball experience at the college level how to win.  They are a year or two away from being a championship caliber team, ;) but after watching them last night, he may be ahead of schedule. That being said, they're probably going to be in a dogfight with John Jay on wed.. ???

  Coach has come in and instilled discipline and organization that hasn't been present @ MEC in forever. He had to change the whole losing culture and attitude at MEC and i am really impressed because I didn't think it could be done in 3 yrs. let alone 3 months. He has sacrificed some short term wins for disciplining players that weren't living up to HIS standards behavioral wise. In doing this he may have sacrified some wins but he established a new standard for the players in his  program. He made rules and stuck by them and he kicked a few talented players off the team to send a message to the others that any behavior or personal agenda not beneficial to the success of the program would not be tolerated, NO EXCEPTIONS. He inherited a program 2-48 in the last two years and has totally changed the culture and expectations for this program going forward. I really hope the athletic dept. supports coach and gives him the opportunity to build this program.

P.S.  If there was any doubt who was coach of the year, after beating St. John @ york it would be a travesty if he didn't win it >:(

Sorry for the long rant  just hasn,t been much to get excited for about MEC b-ball for a long time ;D
#11
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
February 06, 2010, 06:25:38 AM
Medgar Evers 68 @ York 56 :o
Was at game.  No fluke, MEC took over in the last 15 min of game.
#12
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
December 05, 2009, 02:50:42 AM
no need for me to justify anything, it was what it was.  I was at the game and it was a tough situation for everyone involved.  All I was saying was that MEC coach handled an awkward situation as well as it could have been handled.  I've seen other so called "well respected" coaches in college and HS handle this situation alot worse: press the whole game and run up the score.  Don't even get me started on some of these AAU coaches and how they run it up to enhance their clubs "rep" to justify that it will get them better players.

Anyway.... CUNY seems a little more balanced this yr. with 8 of the 10 teams already having at least 1 conf. win after the first 2 games.  Some of the favorites could get caught sleeping on any given night if they're not ready to play. Might not be the cakewalk for Baruch, Brooklyn and York like most people thought.
#13
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
December 04, 2009, 03:27:39 AM
Please be careful about how you characterise people with out meeting them or knowing anything about them  except  hearsay.  I have  worked  at Medgar Evers for 15+ yrs. now, following the basketball program and let me tell you, the new coach is by far the best thing that has happened to that program in a long, long time.  I have no reason to blow smoke either because I'll be the first to say that we have been an absolute joke for a while prior to this season.  He has managed to change to whole culture of this program in a very short time.  He has brought excitement, enthusiasm and school spirit for the basketball program that I have not seen in my entire time here.  I've gotten to know him a little and he's a very likeable, standup guy and his kids love to play for him.  What's impressed me the most about him is that he has come in to a tough situation with some tough kids to deal with( whom it was very hard to root for because of their poor attitudes and lack of giving a crap about anything team oriented  and lack of  respect for authority, the game, or even themselves for that matter) and have turned them in to a team that the whole MEC  community is totally in support of and rallying behind.

  Keep in mind  we were 1-24 the last two years!  Tonight we won our first Cuny game in more than 2 yrs.  We are 4-4 and could have a few more wins but Coach benched a few starters in our opener at Poly and another loss in a tourney in Conn.this past weekend for violating team rules.  We have had the Frosh of the week in the conf. for the first 2 weeks of the season.  He got the job late and didn't have time to recruit much, but the kids he has brought in are good players,students and people.  9 of the 13 kids on the roster are Frosh & Sophs.  They are young, inexperienced and small (our tallest player is 6'3"), but they play really hard and are are fun to watch.  They gave Baruch all they could handle Tues. night, but they ran out of gas, as has been the case with all their losses they are undersized and get in foul trouble and worn down as they game goes on.  If they get a big or 2 at the semester break, they will be a dangerous team. 

...and by the way, about the Pratt game, I was there.  The final score of 123 to 45 was more a testiment of how embarrassingly bad a team they were than coach running up the score.  He is not about that,( he even said after the game his team would have gotten more out of playing a tougher team and losing) the schedule was made long before he got the job by the AD.  His starters played about 12 mins and his top 6 players did not play the 2nd half.  He didn't press, the sad thing about the game is that the score could have been ALOT worse if he wanted it to be.  It is Pratt,'s coach who should be embarrassed and ashamed of putting a team on the floor that could not win against a decent PSAL JV team.  My son is on an 8th grade AAU team that I would be disappointed in if they lost to Pratt.

Sorry for such the long rant but us MEC fans haven't had anything to get excited about in a long time, and we're very happy with our new coach and the future of MEC basketball.
#14
Region 4 men's basketball / Re: CUNY
December 04, 2009, 02:18:01 AM
Quote from: cunybasketball on November 26, 2009, 04:03:49 PM
Baruch and Brooklyn will be the teams to beat this year as always....The Brooklyn/Stockton game will be a great game to watch...Looks like Hunters off to a tough start...Had some tough losses to Rutgers, Montclair, and M-Ville...
Even though their record does not show; they are a tough team and they may surprise some teams in the CUNY this year. Just realized that they have 2 d-1 transfers: Rubino from St. Francis College and DuBois  played at Penn State University before redshirting and having injuries (googled his name)...Looks like York  will be a tough team in the CUNY as well with Marcel putting up huge numberswill be on that end of the stick as soon as they start playing good teams),...Heard Medgar Evers ran the score up vs. Pratt (They should'nt bc they  there new coach should be ashamed of himself-disgrace.  CCNY has a new team-anyone see them play yet? How are their bigmen? How does CSI, Lehman and John Jay look? NYC Tech is struggling with the lost of their 2 key players from last year....Next week will be a huge first week with conference play coming up....