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Stony Brook by 10.  Receives its first NCAA MBB bid.  Book it.

I will

Unless he gets a huge offer he will finish his current contract. SB is not going to fire this guy and pay a buyout. Considering his resume and overall program results there is no way he goes anywhere, win or lose. Six 20 win seasons, two 25 win seasons with 4 regular season titles and 4 NIT bids for a north east mid major. The problem is that the NCAA tourney has made the regular season irrelevant. The mid majors play at the mercy of a gimmick conf tourney . Anytime a last place team can qualify for a national tourney, it's a gimmick. This works in creating excitement and attention for college basketball, but a gimmick none the less.I want to see them play on the first Thursday of the NCAA's, but a nice run in the NIT is not that bad either . Maybe make a run to the Garden and give Warney a ton of exposure. Either way the coach stays. If you look at it for what its worth he has done a great job with this program. Win on Saturday and this convo means nothing.

I actually agree 100% of what you you just wrote Chrissy, That's a rarity. Anyways. No AD in any conference will fire a Basketball coach for getting the team to 20+ wins but stumble in the conference Tournament.. If SB falls again on Saturday, maybe the best thing to happen is we fall hard for the next 2 years under coach P contract and find an assistant coach with bigtime league experience.  But I don't see that happening. Any decent decent head coach can win 15 or more games in one of the worst basketball conference in Div1. People need to understand that. The AE consistently ranks at the bottom of div1 year after year. This year the AE did move up a few conference points, but big deal. Play  in any of the power conferences, and we will be competing with BC for the worst place and zero wins in the conference. I thin a move to the CAA for all sports is a baby step higher and better for the program..

Quote from: Hammertime on March 08, 2016, 11:30:37 am

Quote from: ecasadoSBU on March 08, 2016, 11:24:58 am

This is what it comes down to. Lets go Seawolves.

Gotta get over the hump

Some people think just because we're not playing UA this should be a cakewalk into the NCAA. NOT!!!!.. Vermont got stronger as the season got deeper and is peaking at the right time. They are to be feared and if SB doesnt play at 110%, we're screwed.. I said this last year about Vermont. They started the 2015 season on a low note only to get better as the season progressed because of their rebuilding year. Now in 2016, they're better than ever. I am very leary of these guys. KenPom has us at 80% to win and win by 8. I say it's more of a 50/50 and a draw!!!!!!

Who are these people and why have they not been put in straitjackets? When the line comes out, we ought to be favored, but it feels more like a coin flip.

Agreed..

This is what it comes down to. Lets go Seawolves.

Gotta get over the hump

Some people think just because we're not playing UA this should be a cakewalk into the NCAA. NOT!!!!.. Vermont got stronger as the season got deeper and is peaking at the right time. They are to be feared and if SB doesnt play at 110%, we're screwed.. I said this last year about Vermont. They started the 2015 season on a low note only to get better as the season progressed because of their rebuilding year. Now in 2016, they're better than ever. I am very leary of these guys. KenPom has us at 80% to win and win by 8. I say it's more of a 50/50 and a draw!!!!!!

thanks for joining!  and thanks for sharing.  that looks like one helluva facility!

you may know, SB is working on a similar indoor facility. http://brook.land/2015/10/athletics-announces-5-million-pledge-towards-new-indoor-facility/

Malware control Chairman with that site, lol!!!!!

Quote from: steveoh on March 03, 2016, 12:43:47 pm

I'm usually Pikiell's harshest critic, but I actually thought our Seawolves played great (besides the free-throw shooting). UMBC were hitting tough contested shots at a ridiculous pace. That happens sometimes. The key was that Warney was able to keep pace with them throughout. We still had our patented horrifying spacing on offense, players running into other players, lack of feeding the post, etc, but Warney, as usual, cleaned it all up and made it look better than it really was.

Seriously, it was UMBC's night. They should have won. But we won. That's a great sign.

The thing to worry about is that Albany, Vermont and UMBC all had back-to-back-to-back good-to-great shooting nights against us recently. But it really looks like they all made contested shots rather than it being the cause of a team-wide defensive breakdown. Bad luck, if you will.

Hopefully.

You're right with the shooting, particularly with the last two - Maine, which was also in there, was terrible shooting the ball. Vermont and UMBC couldn't miss. I thought UNH shot better than it did in its narrow loss here, but the percentages were bad - it was really just early on and then Leissner late.

The spacing on offense comes and goes. Sometimes we're moving it well; other times we really stagnate and rely on helter-skelter situations or our size advantage underneath. I really feel like the O has lacked flow since the Albany game here. I'll come back to it again - that Walker took it inside and took makeable shots rather than firing up jumpers was huge. Good things happen when you get into the middle of the defense.He was never out of control in transition as we've become accustomed to seeing. I hope Thrower understand his strengths and weaknesses as well. He's shown some good things out there the last few.

A buddy calls Walker our Lance Stephenson. I call him our Swaggy P. He's more defensive minded than both but you understand where we're coming from.

Quality post. Your opinion's always welcome.

I agree with your thesis Checkmate. But we like to call Walker "The tasmanian Devil"

Quote from: laxnation on March 01, 2016, 09:37:41 pm

Vegas Odds:

Stony Brook favored by 22 against UMBC
Albany favored by 19 against Hartford
Vermont favored by 18 against Maine
New Hampshire by 9.5 against Binghamton
Predictions with the odds: 
I'll take all the underdogs.

4-0 in my predictions!

Good call.I bet you didnt think Albany would lose and SB looking  like that wanted to lose!!!!!!!!