MBB: NESCAC

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Quote from: nescac1 on Yesterday at 11:22:08 AMAgree that the Trinity senior class of Vetter, Okorougo, Lazarre, McDonald and Jordan is in contention for best NESCAC class of all time and if they win another national title I think I'd give them GOAT status. It's hard to pick one guy from that group as definitively the best - if forced to I go with Okorougo, but really it's how they play as a group that makes them truly special. 

Other contenders for greatest NESCAC class of all time:

1998 Williams: Mike Nogelo, Grant Farmer, Brendan McGuire (injury to Farmer limiting his impact as an upperclassman knocks them out, but that core did get to two Final Fours and Nogelo has the best individual resume)
2004 Williams: Ben Coffin, Mike Crotty, Chuck Abba - and Blake Morgan was supposed to be up there with them before a severe injury
2008 Amherst: Andrew Olson, Fletcher Walters, Matt Goldsmith, Kevin Hopkins, Brandon Jones, Adolphe Coulibaly
2010 Williams: Blake Schultz, Joe Geoghegan, Alex Rubin, Ethan Timmins-Schiffman, Charlie Cates, Will Hardy (do you get extra points for being the best hoops coach NESCAC has ever produced?). 
2013 Amherst: Willy Workman, Allen Williamson, Peter Kaasila (yeah Toomey was the best guy on that squad but still an insanely good trio by the time they graduated)
HM to 2019 Williams: Bobby Casey, James Heskett, Kyle Scadlock, Michael Kempton, Marcos Soto, Jake Porath (not really a contender but the biggest what if - if Scadlock hadn't gotten injured I think they'd be right up there, but as is, just didn't win enough). 

My current rankings: 2008 Amherst, 2026 Trinity, 2004 Williams.  I think the Trinity group has to win another title to eclipse that crazy 2008 Amherst class.  Olson is better than any current Trinity player, Trinity's next two are clearly better than Amherst's next two, but Amherst had a bigger class with more quality depth and a similar level of overall success - it's close. 

Midd's Jake Wolfin, Nolan Thompson, and Peter Lynch wasn't shabby, either.