On Linton, I don't think he is close to COY in the league or in D3 basketball, at least to date this year. He has either the 1 or 1A most talented team in the NESCAC this year and certainly a top 15 talented team in the country. I think Tufts top 10 is better than anyone in the league, top 7 I will still give to Trinity. They were picked by pretty much everyone to give Trinity a run for the title this year. Didn't win the regular season or get to the finals. Don't know the situation on Morakis, but you have the fall and preseason to fix the situation, and for whatever reason it didn't happen. I think this falls on both the coach and the player. Bernstein, it has taken almost 4 years to get him to play at a consistent high level against talented teams. Again, this is on the coach as much as the player. Tufts did not lose much talent from last year to this year compared to most teams, so not sure he is COY in the league or in D3. He has a huge chance on Thursday, if they win that game, I think everyone will look at him differently. Over his tenure, I think he has done a great job in recruiting, but I do question his X's and O's and substitutions in games.

Reilly lost his 2 best players and then got 2 players who I don't think anyone had on their first team (or most even on 2nd team) ballot preseason in Wolinski and Pohlman, to both play lights out. No one had Wesleyan top 2 in the league. Then he out coached both Linton and Cosgrove against those teams in the regular season and the Tufts game was on the road for Wesleyan. Linton should have played Nieves more against Wesleyan, might have won that game.

If the FOY award was picked thru last weekend, Neives would probably have won it, would have been my pick at that point. He might just be the 2nd best player on Tufts. Jumbo has been talking about him for a while, and it wasn't until 4 games left in the regular season that Linton started playing him more than 20 minutes per game.

Linton is getting better, will be interesting to see how Tufts plays next year without this senior class.
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What I will note is that unlike Cosgrove and Reilly, who have been at their schools forever, this is the first team fully recruited by Linton, so I am very interested to see what happens as he continues to develop players that he recruited who are developed in his system the whole time.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 08, 2026, 06:24:39 AMOutside of Montclair St being upset in the 1st round and Yeshiva advancing to the Sweet 16, it was chalk. Great job by the committee.

1 Trinity CT v 17 Hood (hosted over #16 Redlands)

8 Wesleyan v 9 Tufts

4 Mary Wash v 13 La Crosse

5 Chicago v 12 Gustavus Adolphus

2 Emory v Yeshiva

7 Endicott v 10 IWU

3 St. Thomas v 14 Wash U

6 RMC v 11 CNU

This should be used as the counter to everyone complaining about the NPI not being an accurate measure of team's ability. If your system can produce 14 of the Top 16 making the Top 16, with another of the last 16 #17, I think it has shown its about as good as one can hope for predictive validity.

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Quote from: ImTold on March 03, 2026, 04:44:17 PMI'm Told Scott Gyemesi has a broken ankle

I'm told this is incorrect.

So is he playing on Friday??

Unclear at this point. Though the expectation is that he will be available at some point in the tournament

I do have a problem with the bracket, specifically in the Trinity region. The NESCAC has 3 of the top 10 teams in the country, and the way it is set up, a maximum of one of them can make the final four, with only two even getting to Fort Wayne. I think they should have given Tufts Endicott instead of Wesleyan, and moved both of them to a region with one of the UAA teams.

The question of whether the last top-8 spot goes to Tufts or Endicott is going to be a function of the NESCAC title game. If Wesleyan wins, Endicott snags it(assuming they beat WNE today). If Trinity wins, it is going to come down to the thousandth place between the two of them, with the real potential that Tufts gets it solely based on the fact that their head to head loss occurred on the road rather than at home.

Quote from: NEhoops on February 02, 2026, 12:31:16 PMI agree with the coaching praise for Reilly. If I need to win one game (whatever the talent level is), I'm taking him.

I thought they let the game at Conn slip away - not necessarily related to coaching - but it was somewhat of a letdown after their huge win at Tufts.

I agree with that. What's interesting about the losses from each of the top 3 this weekend is that each of them was probably the better team in the game they lost but the other team simply outworked them down the stretch.

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Quote from: redbirds on January 27, 2026, 05:42:18 PMIs it safe to say that Wesleyan has the best crowd in the Nescac, if not the entire country?

Not sure if it is the best crowd, but it certainly is by far the best atmosphere, certainly in the NESCAC!

It's very interesting, because Wesleyan absolutely has the most packed gym, which is the opposite of outdoor sports, when the crowd at Bello is the best in the nation

While Rookie of the Year is normally given to first years in the NESCACn, does anyone know if transfers are eligible? The two Conn players (LaFrance and Cantwell) would probably be the favorites if that's the case.
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Transfers who did not exhaust a year of NCAA eligibility elsewhere are eligible, but those who have already used eligibility are not considered rookies.

To me, Gyimesi should be the POTY. Averaging 16.9 PPG and 9.6 boards with a real chance to finish the season averaging a double-double. If Tufts can run the table(which I think is a real possibility), he would be the favorite.

Also Gunn and Flagg have a redshirt year due to injury, so the champs are only guaranteed to lose Feinberg, Yanez, Perkins and Shultz

Quote from: Newenglander on December 08, 2025, 02:51:46 PMGreat run and resolve from Tufts on the way to the Championship.....

Made me look at the success of the NESCACS since COVID - pretty impressive:


Amherst
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Quarters/Finals
22 Champ/Sweet 16
23 Champ/Finals
24 Quarters/Natty
25 Quarters/Rd of 64

Bowdoin
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Quarters/NA
22 Quarters/Elite 8
23 Quarters/NA
24 Semi/Rd of 32
25 Quarters/Elite 8

Conn
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Finals/Natty
22 Finals/NA
23 Semi/Elite 8
24 Champ/Finals
25 Final/Sweet 16

Middlebury
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Semi/Elite 8
22 Semi/ Rd of 64
23 Semi/ Elite 8
24 Finals/Final Four
25 Semi/Rd of 32

Tufts
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Champ/Elite 8
22 Quarters/Rd of 32
23 Finals/ Sweet 16
24 Quarters/Rd of 32
25 Champ/Natty

Williams
   NESCAC/NCAA
21 Quarters/NA
22 Semi/Finals
23 Quarters/NA
24 Semi/Sweet 16
25 Quarters/Sweet 16

It actually lasts further. The last title game without a NESCAC team in it was 2017. And in the last 11 seasons, there have been 3 title games with 2 NESCAC teams and only 1 without one.

Quote from: d3_fanatic on December 08, 2025, 07:06:10 AMHas Tufts just completed the greatest season in program history?

2014:
- 16-2-4
- National champs
- NESCAC regular season champs (1 seed)

2016:
- 15-5-2
- National champs
- 2nd place NESCAC regular season finish

2018:
- 18-0-3
- National champs
- NESCAC regular season champs (1 seed)

2019:
- 20-2-2
- National champs
- NESCAC champs
- 2nd place NESCAC regular season finish

2025:
- 20-1-3
- National champs
- NESCAC champs
- NESCAC regular season champs (1 seed)

Not only that, but the most dominant two year stretch. Their only loss in two years was their NESCAC opener against Williams where they were dominant until the game got stopped for two hours for lightning.

Quote from: D3Reporter on December 07, 2025, 07:04:46 PMPlease do yourself a favor and watch this incredibly special interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwF57K2N04

I promise you won't regret it, no matter your affiliations.

As someone who knows this team very well, it actually shows things that almost no one knows

Quote from: CarefreeTX on December 07, 2025, 01:06:52 PMNot really sure how this Tufts team is in the final, the level of play couldn't be farther apart

This did not age well

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Quote from: Sandon Mibut on December 05, 2025, 04:29:47 PMRef very heavy-handed against Tufts

Ref has been fine.

I didn't watch the entire game, so I can't reasonably comment on overall quality, but this astounds me:

7 cards on Tufts? They had 21 all season.

St Olaf's had 3 cards, so it's not like the official was card happy with all. Seems like Tufts partisans have a point.

As a Tufts partisan here's what I'll say. 5-6 of the cards were merited with one blatantly bad call. I think the bigger problem the jumbos had with the referee was a lack of consistency in what constituted a card. If both teams were held to the same standard, it probably would have finished with 5-6 cards each.

Inconsistency was the problem which I'm sure is why Dezotell got carded.

No. Dezotell did that as a matter of principle. He can't tell the team they haven't given their all if he isn't booked