Disastrous loss for middlebury to williams. really needed that one. this is a year of mediocrity for NESCAC, and midd needed to capitalize on that to make the playoffs but we're coming up way short. it's too bad.

Middlebury lost to Hamilton 92-84 today in front of, for perhaps the first time in years, a packed house at the Midd gym. Even though we loss, I can't tell you how exciting it is to actually go to a game with a ton of fans to watch two undefeated teams face off. Hamilton broke away early scoring nearly every basket off uncontested layups right under the basket. Midd simply had no answer to any of their athletic big mean. The second half was fairly even but with every big bucket midd hit, hamilton came right back and hit huge shot after huge shot. Tim Welchons of Hamilton was absolutely ice from the field, hitting nearly every free throw and big shot down the stretch. Midd's weaknesses were clearly exposed in this game. We're going to have a tough time matching up to a more athletic bigger team. We have some 6'5 guys, but Hamilton played full court defense nearly the whole game which never allowed us to get in a rhythm.
Nevertheless, seeing the school excited about basketball again is worth more than a victory and hopefully Midd can still attract fans for rest of the season.

With williams loss to Union, hopefully Middlebury will get a little more respect. Based on the article on the williams website, it sounds like a bit of a collapse in the second half. However, the scoreboard is the final end result. Midd is 6-0 for the first time since 1912. Wow.

Middlebury beat Union 68-64 today at Pepin Gymnasium. Got a chance to watch the game and have a few things to say about this year's middlebury team. At first I thought they would be truly horrific, with only one senior, not much height, and no pure shooters. However, the freshmen and sophomore class is not all that bad, led by the starting point guard Ben Rudin. If anyone watched the tornado that was Simon Behan who ran point for Midd the past 4 years, you'd undestand how many times he absolutely blew games for us. However, with a legit point guard, Midd is now 5-0 and has some momentum going into break. Another freshmen hit a 3 with 8 seconds to go to put us up 4 and seal the game. Though we don't have much height, we do have a number of 6'5 guys who can play down low and evan thompson's has some hops and had two unbelievable blocks in today's game.
Our biggest weakness is we lack a player who can take it from the perimeter and drive to the hoop and i think we'll run into some trouble against some good defenses, but so far i'm just impressed to see we're 5-0. Last year, we would have lost the union game, because we could never win a close game. But maybe this year is diff. Interested to see how Williams does against union. To stop them all you gotta do is stop John Caginello. The guy is absolutely lights out. Averaging 29 points a game for union and is clutch out of his mind from the free throw line.

looked like a solid opening night for nescac teams. williams dominated, trinity squeaked one out, amherst won big, and wesleyan won. shalvoy didn't exactly light it up for us, but he'll have his ups and downs. look forward to a great season.