This weekend was a weekend to start to show the contenders, who is for real and who is just getting hot at the right time? If we can establish that Siena, Niagara and Rider are the likely top three in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference let’s try to hash out that next tier of contenders. [...]
Marist Win Watch (courtesy Kenpom.com going into Tuesday) Chance of winless record: 24.68% (overall) 31.92% (in conference) Marist lost convincingly against Binghamton, shooting 29.4% from the field. The Bearcats dominated in a 70-52 rout, their 2nd win over a Division I team (their other D-I win came at home against Bucknell). With this loss [...]
It might be too early to talk about this but there is a possibility that Marist does not win a game this year. Yes Marist tied their 2nd worst start in school history by starting out 0-7. With game probabilities posted today on Kenpom.com, the Red Foxes are a 10% or less underdog in 14 of [...]
Keepin’ Track of the MAAC: Part One The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s official blogger, Steve Amedio combines his years of experience covering the MAAC with insightful opinions on his site: Keepin’ Track of the MAAC. Recently he outlined all ten teams and how they’ve fared so far, finishing with Marist. In our first part, we [...]
Conference play has started, so now it is time to look at the key storylines and see who has impressed and who has not this season. We’ll know more about where teams fit in the MAAC after today’s games. Marist Keeps Struggling & Ticket-Gate? Marist had more turnovers (9) than field goals (7) in the [...]
While the Saints were in Philadelphia playing in the Philly Hoop Group Classic, Iona was testing itself against big conference powers in the Old Spice Classic and the rest of the MAAC is picking up the pieces. Iona Wins One in Orlando Iona did not start well in Orlando, getting down as much as 11 [...]
Monday Rider opened up their home schedule with an 11-0 run to start and would not surrender the lead in a 15 point win over Lehigh. Rider shot 48.4% for the game which included an absurd 16 of 29 from three point range (55.2%). Novar Gadson led the Broncs with 20 points, Ryan Thompson (7/13, [...]
We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s start with 9 out of 10 debuts and go from there. Canisius will debut at Loyola of Illinois on Tuesday night. With a lot of non-conference games, the chances this will be a bi-weekly update are high but let’s get through the first two days of MAAC [...]
Niagara 2009: 2nd Place. 26-8 (14-4) 2010: 3rd Warning! I’m not on the Niagara bandwagon. I don’t profess to any biases but I just don’t think this team has it anymore. A team that graduated a tough inside player to replace like Benson Egemonye will find him hard to replace. A team that has traditionally [...]
Rank Team Matt Ryan Jason Kevin Tim 1 Siena 1 1 1 1 1 2 Rider 2 2 2 3 3 3 Niagara 3 3 3 2 2 4 Fairfield 6 5 4 4 4 5 Iona 5 8 6 8 5 6 Manhattan 4 6 8 10 6 7 Loyola 8 9 5 5 [...]