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Women’s Basketball | NCAA Tournament Preview (NESCAC style)

Posted on March 2, 2012 by nescacinsider| Leave a comment

Amherst

Pod: vs. St. Joseph’s, Babson vs. Bridgewater State

Prognosis: The undefeated and defending national champion Lord Jeffs enter the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year as the favorites. Their path will likely be one of the easiest of any top seed, as they probably will not have to leave Amherst for the first four rounds of play, and the other high seeds in their region of the bracket are a group with gaudy records but lean resumes. Their potential second-round opponent, No. 13 Babson, is 25-2, but outside of an early season win against a Tufts side still getting its feet on the ground, they have looked poor against top teams, including a 61-39 drubbing at the hands of Williams. No. 15 Juniata similarly played a weak schedule, and is reeling after losing their conference championship game to Catholic, while No. 8 William Patterson could only split a season series with Kean, a team the Lord Jeffs dispatched by 23. Continue reading →

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Women’s Basketball | Amherst, Tufts, Bowdoin to NCAA Tourney

Posted on February 28, 2012 by nescacinsider| Leave a comment

(via NESCAC.com)

HADLEY, Mass. – Defending national champion Amherst College will have the opportunity to defend its title when the Lord Jeffs open play in the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament on Friday evening at home.

The Lord Jeffs (27-0), who won their third NESCAC title this past weekend, were announced as one of the 64 participating teams in this year’s tournament on Monday afternoon. Also joining Amherst from the conference are Tufts (21-6) and Bowdoin (19-7). The Jumbos will host a first and second round set for the first time ever at Cousens Gymnasium this weekend, while the Polar Bears will travel to Ithaca, N.Y.

All first round games are Friday with second round contests taking place on Saturday. Continue reading →

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Linking Around the NESCAC | February 2

Posted on February 2, 2012 by nescacinsider| Leave a comment

Welcome to Linking Around the NESCAC on a cloudy New England Thursday after an uneventful Wednesday. But that won’t stop us. And now, the links:

Football | A phone call before all the offensive calls (via Press Herald)

BRUNSWICK – Sometime Sunday, before his real work begins, New York Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride will place a phone call to Maine.

Gilbride won’t be talking about how Eli Manning can avoid the pass rush of New England Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork, or how his receivers can get open for another Super Bowl-winning catch. Gilbride will want to know how the Bowdoin men’s basketball team did.

“The last two weekends, in the afternoon the phone is ringing and it’s Kevin,” said Tim Gilbride. “He’s asking ‘How’d it go this weekend?’ Both times it’s a couple of hours before his game.”

Men’s Basketball | Jumbos ride the Ferris wheel to wild victory (via Tufts Daily)

Freshman guard Ben Ferris was almost the goat on Tuesday. With 0.2 seconds left in regulation and Tufts leading 74−73, he was called for a loose−ball foul. But UMass Dartmouth made just one of two at the line, giving Ferris another chance and sending the game to overtime.

By the end of the extra period, Ferris was the hero. He stole two passes and sank four free throws in the final 10 seconds, leading the Jumbos to their most thrilling win of the season, 84−82. In the extra session, the Corsairs took an 82−78 lead with just two minutes left. But after sophomore guard Kwame Firempong sank a jumper to decrease the margin to two, Ferris pushed his game to a completely different level.

Ice Hockey | Surging Bowdoin coming of age (via Maine Hockey Journal)

In its second game of its season, back in November, Bowdoin traveled to Middlebury and got embarrassed, 7-1.

There was nothing nebulous about it. The Polar Bears gave up three goals in each of the first two periods, got outshot by a 2-to-1 margin and were forced to make peace with a very unfulfilling opening weekend.

Flash forward two months, practically to the day. In the rematch, it was Bowdoin scoring twice in each of the first two periods against Middlebury and holding a big edge in shots in a 5-0 home win.

What can we glean from that? Plenty.

Women’s Lacrosse | Preseason IWLCA poll released, 8 NESCAC teams in top 20 (via IWLCA)

Tweet of the Day (Not the NESCAC Edition):

https://twitter.com/#!/Jarred_Diorio/status/164801777676468224

Twitter / @Jarred_Diorio: This douche in my English … via kwout

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Linking Around the NESCAC | January 27

Posted on January 27, 2012 by nescacinsider| Leave a comment

Welcoming to Linking Around the NESCAC, your hub for information throughout the conference, where we started putting stuff in the Tufts Daily print edition, but it’s not available yet because of slow upload.

Here we go with the daily links:

Women’s Basketball | Conn.’s Aly Boyle has media in her blood (via Mike DiMauro, The Day)

It makes more sense if you know Boyle’s family tree. In the same spirit that coaches’ kids always make free throws, media members’ kids always know what to say and how to say it.

Aly Boyle’s mom is Jackie MacMullan, formerly of the Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated and now of ESPN.com and “Around the Horn.”

Clearly, however, Boyle shares more than a comfort with words and people with her mom. Jackie MacMullan is one of the greats in this profession and – unlike many others in this business who have accomplished far less – remains singularly unimpressed with herself. If you don’t know MacMullan once received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for her contribution to basketball, she’ll be the last one to remind you.

Same concept with young Aly.

Women’s Ice Hockey | After walking on to Williams Vukasin emerges as standout (via Bill Alden, Town Topics)

Her success had Vukasin looking to join a college hockey program. “I started thinking about playing in college when I was 16 and everyone was talking about recruiting,” said Vukasin, a 2010 PHS grad who was also a star goalie for the Little Tigers girls’ soccer team.

But no schools ended up seriously recruiting Vukasin and Williams College (Mass.) emerged as her first choice.

Men’s Ice Hockey | ECAC East/NESCAC picks (via Tim Costello, USCHO.com)

Men’s Basketball | After strong winter break, Bowdoin men’s basketball looks good (via Peter Davis, Bowdoin Orient)

Tweet of the Day (Stereotype Edition):

http://twitter.com/#!/furrybush33/status/162905699096072193

Twitter / @furrybush33: Game up at Williams colleg … via kwout

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Linking Around the NESCAC | December 14

Posted on December 14, 2011 by nescacinsider| Leave a comment

For those engaged in exam period, good luck with finals. For those at another day of work, Happy Wednesday. And for those NESCAC fans, here’s another batch of the top links from throughout the conference:

The Institute for International Sport, administrator of National Sportsmanship Day, has selected Middlebury College as the inaugural 2012 National Sportsmanship Day “Model Sportsmanship School.” National Sportsmanship Day, in its 21st year, will be celebrated on March 6, 2012. (via Wire)

In the case of Middlebury College, the focus will be on crowd behavior at men’s basketball games. Following National Sportsmanship Day, Middlebury College and the Institute for International Sport will produce a report on its joint efforts to improve crowd behavior at men’s basketball games. The report will be published in the spring and shared with schools at all levels throughout the United States.

Sixth-ranked Amherst rebounded from a loss to Brandeis with a decisive 76-57 win over visiting Anna Maria College. Here are the video highlights

Bowdoin field hockey coach Nicky Pearson was named the NFCHA Regional Coach of the Year

Sticking with Bowdoin, senior Jill Henrikson was named to the D3Hoops.com Team of the Week after averaging 22.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game as the Polar Bears closed out the fall semester with three wins (via D3Hoops.com)

Tim Costello has his weekly ECAC East/NESCAC wrapup for December 12 (via USCHO.com)

The Amherst/Hamilton and Williams/Middlebury round robin lived up to billing with some great hockey over the weekend. While Amherst was the big winner, going 2-0, Williams and Hamilton split their two games to gain points. Middlebury suffered two key league losses and dropped to third in the league standings following a difficult overtime loss at Amherst on Saturday.

Tweet of the Day (Productive Finals Edition):

http://twitter.com/#!/PeterAwad615/status/146779299100364800

Twitter / @PeterAwad615: People just ran through th … via kwout

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