We’re thick into conference season by February and during a lot of weekends most of the teams around the city are on the road. There are still interesting games on the schedule though before the conference tournaments heat up in March. Here are five games worth attending.
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Five nights – November
This week, as part of my preseason coverage, I’m going to take a look at some key games coming up in 2011-12. It just so happens that there are five months in the college basketball calendar, so this works out perfectly. While there are plenty awesome games in November at Madison Square Garden – the Champions Classic Nov. 15 and the 2K Sports Coaches vs. Cancer on Nov. 17, here are some local mid-major games worth checking out.
New York Power Rankings – Preseason Edition
There are a bunch of teams in and around the New York City area. What better way to get a handle on them by putting them into your classic power ranking? Note: In order to be included in the power rankings a team’s campus has to be within a 65 mile radius of Manhattan according to Google Maps. That means that every team that plays Division I basketball in New Jersey is also included along with a few Connecticut teams. Let me know if you think I’ve missed anyone. From now on these will get updated every Wednesday and contain a little feature at the top instead of this boring explanatory blurb. Away we go…
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Coming & Going St. Francis – Replacing stars
St. Francis (NY) and Glenn Braica have one of the toughest challenges in college basketball this season – to replace two senior stars. The loss of Ricky Cadell and Akeem Bennett off a team that went 15-15 a season ago leaves a big hole in the roster. While Dre Calloway and Akeem Johnson should get the first cracks at replacing the two stars, there is a big recruiting class coming in to help as well.
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Terriers preparing for a long journey
St. Francis (NY) announced its non-conference schedule today and the Terriers and head coach Glenn Braica are prepping for a long month of November on the road.
Showing the difficulty of getting a non-conference home game for a team in the NEC the Terriers will be on the road until December 19, when they play Albany. A month and a half of challenging games lay in wait in the interim.
Wishful thinking thanks to Schedulematic
Noted basketball stats maven Ken Pomeroy tried to solve the NCAA’s poor first week of the season by scheduling interesting, local match ups using a system he created and dubbed Schedulematic. Some of the results are really feasible, but when there’s a top mid-major team in a local area the results get a bit harder to fathom.
Coaching Resumes on KenPom
Have you always wondered what makes a coach tick? How his scheme translates into tempo-free numbers? Well, now you can figure it out with one click of the mouse. Ken Pomeroy’s coaching resumes are the hot new thing in tempo-free college basketball.
Click on a profile and learn a lot about a coach. (Well at least the past 10 seasons of their career when they were a head coach.) Observations about each school’s head men coming up.
NYC Buckets Archive 