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America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/25 19:43	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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I am starting a new thread for the post season discussion. To kick things off, take a look at what Will Brown is saying about Albany playing the AE Championship game at Albany:

Brown added he had a "funny feeling" UAlbany (19-9 overall, 12-3 America East) will play another game at SEFCU Arena after today. For that to happen, top-seeded Vermont would have to lose in the league tournament before the championship game so that second-seeded UAlbany would be able to host the final.

Albany Article - CLICK HERE

Also, take a look at what some of the Albany fans are saying over on their Big Purple message board:

UAlbany09 States:
I hope we go into Vermont for the championship game and blow those hippies out by like 20 points so Trimboli can cry again like he did last year.

http://bigpurplefans.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3808

I hope we take it to all the AE teams we meet especially the Danes at Patrick!!

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/25 21:52	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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[url]http://www.americaeast.com/fls/14000/pdf/mbb_bracket.pdf[/url

Official AE tourney bracket!

My predictions:

Hartford over Stony Brook
Vermont over Hartford
Albany over UNH
Bing over Boston
Maine over UMBC

Semi Finals:
Vermont over Maine
Albany over Bing

Finals:
Vermont over Albany

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/25 22:59	By: marcbulldog	Status: User
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Can someone post gametimes and tv coverage here when that information becomes available? Thanks! Go Cats!

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/25 23:08	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Here is what we know right now. There is a chance that the Semi Finals will also be shown on America East TV America East TV Link

http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&ATCLID=806875&DB_OEM_ID=14000

BOSTON – The nine-team field for the 2007 America East Men’s Basketball Championship is set. The conference’s premier event takes place at Boston University’s Agganis Arena on March 2-4, with the title game to be played on March 10 at the higher remaining seed.
Complete Bracket (PDF)

The league tournament gets underway on Friday, March 2 as No. 9 Stony Brook and No. 8 Hartford square off at 7 p.m. The winner of that first-round affair will then take on top-seeded Vermont on Saturday, March 3 at 12 noon in the first of four quarterfinal contests.

The day’s second quarterfinal pits No. 5 UMBC versus No. 4 Maine, while No. 7 New Hampshire and No. 2 Albany meet in the night’s first quarterfinal affair followed by No. 6 Binghamton versus No. 3 Boston University.

The semifinals take place on Sunday, March 4 at 12 noon and 2:30 p.m. and will be televised on Time Warner Cable in Albany. The title game will then be held on the campus of the higher remaining seed on March 10 at 12 noon and can be seen live on ESPN2.

With the field now set, single-session tickets are scheduled to go on sale Monday, February 26 at 10 a.m. Adult first-round tickets are $20/each with youth/student prices set at $10. Adult quarter- and semifinal tickets are $25/each with youth/student prices set at $15. Tickets can be purchased online through www.AmericaEast.com, by calling TicketMaster at 617-931-2000 or in-person at the Agganis Arena Ticket Office.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 03:40	By: JPCatamounts	Status: Admin
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Does B2 networks broadcast the AE final?

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 15:40	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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JP, B2 will broadcast the final if it is at UVM.

Also, some words from Coach Will Brown:

"Mike Trimboli's a first-team, all-America East player," Brown said. "Jamar Wilson is hands down the most valuable and best player in this league."

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 16:49	By: Turner Bachman	Status: User
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Well, Dennis Wolff feels Trimboli is equally as good, which he is. From that same article with the Brown quote.

UAlbany's Jamar Wilson might look like a sure bet to repeat as America East Conference Player of the Year, but Boston U. coach Dennis Wolff said he doesn't necessarily agree.

Wolff said he might vote for Vermont sophomore guard Mike Trimboli, who led the Catamounts to the regular-season title. The winner will be announced at the league's awards brunch Friday at Fenway Park.

"Jamar's a hell of a player, but Vermont finished first," Wolff said. "I haven't decided what I'm going to do, but Trimboli is probably as deserving as (Wilson) is. I often feel the team that wins it should get appropriate credit."

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=566549&category=SPORTS&newsdate=2/26/2007

Jamar is going to win it, but I hope some coaches vote for Trimboli and make it close.

Who wants to bet that one coach that doesn't vote Lonergan COY is Will Brown? Probably will vote for himself if he could.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 17:03	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Yeah, but what if other coaches use Wolff's logic and vote for Trimboli... I think it will be very close and don't think I can say either way. 50/50 I'd say.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 17:21	By: seadogs05	Status: User
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Although I have been lurking for awhile now, and been a fan since Tony O was there because he went to my high school as did Taylor, I havent posted. I wanted to just say hi to everyone on the site and its nice to have this site to be a part of. It was time for me to stop reading and start writing.
All this Albany trash talk annoys me. To me, Will Brown is extremely classless, but hey lets just beat them with Trimboli going for 30 to knock them out and we can just hope to see what they say after that!
My predictions are as follows:
Vermont over Hartford
Albany over UNH
BU over Bing
UMBC over Maine
Vermont over UMBC
BU over Albany(home court doesnt hurt)
Vermont over BU 58-50 at Patrick!

Also, what are people's thoughts to seeding in the NCAA's for UVM if they win the conference tourney? And if we did lose, would an at large be considered?
Thanks all and I look forward to more posts in the future...

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 17:27	By: walk on	Status: User
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"Mike Trimboli's a first-team, all-America East player," Brown said. "Jamar Wilson is hands down the most valuable and best player in this league."

Personally I'm not a big Will Brown fan, but this isn't a controversial quote. He has to support his guy and his team. I would hope that he would say this.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 17:36	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Right, but the contraversy is with what Wolff said, which I find interesting and will play a part in who is voted POY. Yeah the Senior advantage helps Wilson's cause.

walk on wrote:
"Mike Trimboli's a first-team, all-America East player," Brown said. "Jamar Wilson is hands down the most valuable and best player in this league."

Personally I'm not a big Will Brown fan, but this isn't a controversial quote. He has to support his guy and his team. I would hope that he would say this.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/26 17:48	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Hi Seadog05,

Welcome and glad to have you involved in the discussions.

I think that the Albany fans are just getting a little over-zealous and clearly channeling their frustrations of not finishing the season #1 towards Vermont and Vermont fans. At any rate, the talking will be done on the court in Boston and hopefully in Burlington!

We are looking at most likely a #14 or #13 seed in the NCAA tourney if we advance. As far as an at large bid, I don't think it will happen our RPI is a 78 (which is good, but not good enough to warrant at large). If we do not win the AE, we go NIT...

Are you going to any of the games in Boston?

seadogs05 wrote:
Although I have been lurking for awhile now, and been a fan since Tony O was there because he went to my high school as did Taylor, I havent posted. I wanted to just say hi to everyone on the site and its nice to have this site to be a part of. It was time for me to stop reading and start writing.
All this Albany trash talk annoys me. To me, Will Brown is extremely classless, but hey lets just beat them with Trimboli going for 30 to knock them out and we can just hope to see what they say after that!
My predictions are as follows:
Vermont over Hartford
Albany over UNH
BU over Bing
UMBC over Maine
Vermont over UMBC
BU over Albany(home court doesnt hurt)
Vermont over BU 58-50 at Patrick!

Also, what are people's thoughts to seeding in the NCAA's for UVM if they win the conference tourney? And if we did lose, would an at large be considered?
Thanks all and I look forward to more posts in the future...

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/27 02:45	By: seadogs05	Status: User
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I won't be there for any games this weekend because I am off on business Wed-Sat with plane coming back in town Sunday.. I wish I could be there! Will be listening though. I was hoping with our record and strength of schedule with losses to Mich St, Drexel, and Maryland it would help us as a fallback option, but in all confidence hopefully we wont need it!

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/28 10:00	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Good mention of Vermont in an article on KUSports.com:

http://www2.kusports.com/blogs/greene_room/2007/feb/27/whats_your_seed/

- How about the teams who will get seeded far too low?: Winthrop, Marist , East Tennessee State and Vermont.

Reasoning: The one snag with the tournament and its seeding process is that the NCAA can’t seem to come to terms with the fact that mid-majors are now getting closer to the same playing field as the BCS conference teams.

Quick analogy - About a month ago, I was visiting my family up in Ann Arbor, Mich. I went to the gym to play one-on-one basketball with my cousin, Jay. He’s 15 and plays JV hoops at Huron High School up there, and we’ve played one-on-one since he was 11. Safe to say he’d never beaten me. Anyways, I won the first game, he won the second game and we decided to make it best of three. I can honestly say that skill-wise, he’s evolved into a much better player than I am. The kid can shoot, he can attack the rim and he’s just got basketball smarts. But I still have one distinct advantage on him: About 30 pounds of body weight.

I basically threw my weight around in the rubber game and ultimately beat him (He might be better than me, but he’s got to at least get his driver’s license before I let him rub it in my face by beating me best two out of three. Besides, I'm sure he'll do on a regular basis in a few years when he's in a Michigan uniform).

Isn’t that kind of how the NCAA is? They can simply seed mid-majors lower than they might deserve because, frankly, they can. Most of the time, the lower seedings are legit. Sometimes the mid-majors get hosed a bit.

Winthrop is 14-0 in the Big South this year, lost by seven at North Carolina after leading by eight at halftime, and fell by three at Wisconsin. The Eagles also won a made-for-TV Bracket Buster contest over tourney-bound Missouri State, 77-66. The lone major blemish on their schedule is a 20-point loss at Texas A&M.

They have size, depth, length and six players scoring at least 7.7 points per game.

As for Marist, the Red Foxes don’t have the resumé of Winthrop, with just one win over a name-brand opponent, and even at that, the opponent was a lowly Minnesota squad.

But the Red Foxes have the talent to knock off some of the big dogs. Ryan Stilphen and James Smith are a legit 6-foot-8 and 7-foot combo, respectively, up front, and put up the numbers to go with the size. The senior backcourt of Will Whittington and Jared Jordan is boosted by Jordan’s phenomenal numbers — 17.7 ppg, 8.9 apg, 6.1 rpg.

I’d say even if they didn’t win their respective conference tournaments, Marist and Winthrop would be more than deserving of at-large bids. But that’s where the analogy comes into play. They just don’t have enough weight to throw around, even though they’re potential CBS darlings, just like George Mason was a year ago. If I’m the powers that be, I’m wanting to squeeze two or three more potential Cinderellas in there every year. After all, storylines help ratings, right? Everyone loves a miracle.

As for ETSU, I watched them once earlier this year, and their record isn’t particularly sparkling, but man, is that team athletic to another degree. They just have a swagger to them which would make for a good 2-seed vs. 15-seed matchup.

Vermont is from an underrated America East Conference, and has a whooping of Boston College on its resumé to go with a 15-1 league record. Remember, this league’s contribution to the tournament last year was Albany, who nearly upset Connecticut in the first round.

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/28 13:30	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Can Stony Brook, a perirenal favorite on the schedule of a Rick Majerus-coached team, wipe out Vermont's impressive 23-6 season in the American East tournament?

Umm. What???

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5322371

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/28 14:24	By: cgcatsfan	Status: User
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[quote]Also, take a look at what some of the Albany fans are saying over on their Big Purple message board:

UAlbany09 States:
I hope we go into Vermont for the championship game and blow those hippies out by like 20 points so Trimboli can cry again like he did last year.

http://bigpurplefans.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3808

I hope we take it to all the AE teams we meet especially the Danes at Patrick!!

And who says they're making it to Patrick???

I'd laugh really hard if Bing beat them. I'd rather it not be UNH...they make me nervous.
This Hippie thing just kills me. Yes, because after all, Albany is the height of sophistication and urban culture..

Post edited by: cgcatsfan, at: 2007/02/28 14:27

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/28 15:03	By: Preston	Status: Admin
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Let's not fool ourselves. Every team in the AE tourney we play will be gunning for us. Lonergan and his staff, I would imagine, are getting our guys ready for the battle.

We just need to muscle it through these two games in Boston and bring it back home to Burlington, the home of the "hippies!"

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Re:America East Tournament Action
Date: 2007/02/28 17:15	By: cgcatsfan	Status: User
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Oh, I agree!
That's why we can't take a single moment of court time for granted. Which, as you said I'm sure Lonergan and crew are preparing them for. There isn't anyone who wouldn't love to knock us off.
Most games in the conference haven't been blow outs this year.
And as last year showed, anything can happen.
So WE've got to be happening......
GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Home of the Hippies gotta love it. Maybe we should go with it.....

Post edited by: cgcatsfan, at: 2007/02/28 17:17

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and afterwards...?
Date: 2007/03/01 12:23	By: UVM7680	Status: User
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if UVM wins the AE tournament, we go to the NCAA tournament. if we lose, we go to the NIT as the regular-season AE champs.

I think that's right... now here's my question:
if we win and go to the NCAAs, does the AE send another representative team to the NIT? e.g. 2nd place regular-season Albany? or the 2nd-place finisher in the AE tourney? or nobody?

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Re:and afterwards...?
Date: 2007/03/01 13:14	By: cgcatsfan	Status: User
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This would be a good Turner/Preston question, but my understanding is that WHEN we win and go to the NCAA's, a spot in the NIT isn't out of the question for the second place team, but it's not guaranteed.
Turner? Preston?

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