I never thought I’d be able to say this, but I’ve finally found a league where the refereeing is worse than the MAC. Unfortunately for me, it just happens to be the other league that I try to follow, the Northeast Conference. I doubt Ed Gein could’ve butchered something as gruesomely as the [...]
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On The NEC: Five Things We Learned Thursday Night
With 10 NEC sides squaring off in conference battle tonight, it was the kind of evening when one would think things might continue to sort themselves out. After all, it was just this past Monday when we thought that Long Island University cemented it’s status as a contender and Monmouth it’s place on the [...]
On The NEC: Rivalry Monday
It was rivalry night in the NEC, with round one of the Battle of Brooklyn between Long Island University and St. Francis and the final round in the Garden State Rivalry — Fairleigh Dickinson versus Monmouth — taking place. Fortunately for me, MSG televised both scraps so I got to take in both contests [...]
On The MAC: Getting Pushed and Shoved Around
Based on today’s losses, the MAC could find itself sitting 16th or 17th one the rankings are updated. That isn’t the stuff multiple Big Dance bids are made of.
In fact, at this point in the season, we can look at the field of 65, and, with almost absolute certainty, say that only the MAC tournament champion will be repping the conference in that field.
It’s not that every team is scheduling like Charlie Coles and, predictably, losing to teams they should lose to. MAC teams are losing games they can and should probably win.
On The NEC: March Madness Strikes
Should Sacred Heart’s lead hold, and the top seeds in other low-major leagues continue to win their conference tourneys, then either the Mountaineers or Pioneers would be a shoo-in for the play-in game.
When people think March Madness they usually think of only the Big Dance but the some of the biggest surprises and upsets actually come in the non-BCS league conference tourneys. While it’s too bad that a very good RoMo squad was the victim of such an upset today the simple fact is The Mount flat-out was the better team today so congrats to their coach Milan Brown and his team. They earned the right to play for a trip the Big Dance.
On The NEC: The Higher Seeds Hold Serve
And that’s good news for the Northeast Conference. When you’re a league like the NEC that would like to raise both it’s national and local profile — the NEC paid for a March Madness insert in the Play magazine that came with last Sunday’s New York Times — you want your best teams to [...]
On The NEC: That’s Why They Call It Low-Major
Still in the mood for hoops after watching the Knicks comeback to beat the Nets, I popped open a Dogfish 90-Minute IPA that my local grocery store here in Sunset Park sells for the absurdly low price of $5.99 a four-pack and flipped on MASN to catch the last half of the Mount St. Mary’s-St. [...]
Daily Fix: The NEC Ain’t Nothing To Fuck With
Robert Morris Celebrates Good Times
And I’m not just talking about the Robert Morris Colonials, who played road warrior tonight, going into Chestnut Hill and beating Boston College 57-51 but while we’re on the topic, let’s stick with Robert Morris and their mammoth win tonight, by far the best non-league dubbya for the Northeast Conference.
Sparked [...]
