Pretty cool to see that Matt Hart is joining Ryan Odom's staff at UVa as Director of Analytics.

https://virginiasports.com/sports/mbball/roster/season/2025-26/coach/matt-hart/

The former Hamilton star (who was quite successful transferring to DI George Washington) was with Odom in a similar capacity at Utah State and VCU.

Quote from: jumbomumbo on March 20, 2025, 09:05:37 AMSupposedly the hotel where the UAA teams are playing got evacuated at 3:15-3:45 am last night. Mumbo's models just skewed even further to the winner of Trin / Wes winning the natty. Bring it home boys!!!

NESCAC tomfoolery!

Quote from: stlawus on March 17, 2025, 07:21:49 PM

Quote from: toad22 on March 17, 2025, 01:31:09 PMD1 is a bad place to be a coach. It is no fun anymore and you will likely get fired no matter what you do. D3 is the place to be!

I get the sentiment, but this just is not true.  For every coach that gets fired, there are hundreds that would kill to be in their place even with very little job security.  Most of the time the really weak job security applies to the power conference programs, and the amount of money you get as a fired power conference coach in terms of buyouts or remaining contract salary will always make d1 the place to be.  Anderson will get paid the remaining 3 years on his contract which is about 10 years worth of salary at a very high end coaching position you'd see at a NESCAC or UAA.   A situation like the one at Iona is still an exception when it comes to mid majors. I love d3 as much as the next person, but d1 is most definitely not a bad place to be a coach.

Tony Bennett would like to have a word.

The D1 game has changed drastically in a very short time, and it is only going to get worse.

It's all so grotesque, and this quote from the Iona AD says it all:

"With the impact of NIL changing college basketball in ways no one could have imagined, Iona feels the need to shift the direction of our men's basketball program. This requires an overhaul of our entire business model and program structure."

Anderson had two years, with a .500 record. He took the Gaels to the MAAC championship game this year. But time to blow it up.

It's so sad.

Quote from: ItsATuftSituation on March 10, 2025, 06:32:17 PMI was at the game on Saturday at Tufts. There's so much dialog about everything, but nothing is going to change. The crowd was fine, the Redlands reaction was close to the line but I still thought it was honestly not the worst thing ever. The 4-5 guys that ran on the floor were out there for half a second, and retreated to the bench. It wasn't enough in my opinion to make that tech call. In the end, Redlands made one more play that Tufts did. That's sports. It's no one's fault, no one's to blame, that's just how it goes sometimes. People are upset understandably because they care so much, but name calling and saying Tufts has a reputation of this or that is unfair. I was there both days, and personally I thought the event was well done, administrators were everywhere and handled issues fine and it was a great experience despite the Jumbos loss.

Post of the year. Bravo.

My son just had the same thought that someone posted earlier, that Tufts should have hit one of those bench players with the inbounds pass to force a call.

Condolences, mumbo. What a (double) gut punch.

Quote from: Nescacman on February 25, 2025, 07:18:00 AMWith the NFL Combine looming and the NFL Draft rapidly approaching, we saw the attached EXCELLENT piece from The Athletic/The New York Times on NESCAC's favorite draft prospect, Pants OL Thomas Perry. Highly recommended reading.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6141640/2025/02/25/nfl-draft-2025-sleeper-prospect-thomas-perry/?source=user_shared_article

NM

This piece is the lead sports story in the Sunday print edition of the Times. So cool.

Quote from: nescac1 on March 02, 2025, 09:05:55 AMI do worry about Wesleyan coming off the really tough double OT but they have a slightly longer turnaround than Trinity and the home crowd should give an energy boost.  I like Wes in a close game.

I agree that Regan (or Morgan) are tougher to stop one-on-one than Vetter. And Josh Cameron is a secret weapon, he's been playing more and does a lot of what Dana Smith did last year for Trinity (minus the shooting) as an offensive rebounder and major disrupter on D.  If he can add any sort of outside shot he will be an a tough guy to deal with down the line.  With him and Cormier, Wes matches up as well defensively as anyone on the wing with Vetter and Jarrel. I also think Oscar Edelman will be big for Wesleyan playing bigger minutes as a stretch 5 - without a huge post presence on Trinity, Wes can afford to play him and his spacing can really help the Regan and Johnson drives, when he launches it in rhythm I always feel like it's money. 

If Trinity does win I think it means Lazarre has a big game.  He had a big game vs Wesleyan earlier in the year and he's a guy who needs to score as the Trinity wings will be hounded all game. 

Bowing down to NESCAC1

Lazarre: ONIONS.

I expect a great game tomorrow. Trinity is ascending and Wes just seems to find a way to win.

Could be an epic clash.

Big news out of Middlebury:

https://athletics.middlebury.edu/news/2025/2/24/mens-basketball-jeff-brown-to-retire-at-end-of-academic-year.aspx

Quote from: jumbomumbo on February 23, 2025, 02:43:33 PMRyan Scott's Twitter projection for the NCAA tournament has all of Wesleyan, Trinity, Tufts, and Hamilton hosting an NCAA tournament pod. By far the best conference in D3 this year. No one counter with UAA please - they couldn't compete in last years tournament.

What does last year have to do with this year?

Quote from: rdanie03 on February 09, 2025, 02:56:14 PMI think the most likely underclassman all-american in the NESCAC is probably Dylan Reilly. Elite shutdown defender and one of the best catch and shoot guys in league history

In the time it took you to write this post, Matt Saint Amour knocked down 10 triples.

Quote from: rdanie03 on February 09, 2025, 02:56:14 PMI think the most likely underclassman all-american in the NESCAC is probably Dylan Reilly. Elite shutdown defender and one of the best catch and shoot guys in league history

lol