It should be Cornell’s to lose, with an improving Princeton team, a Penn team full of potential and a young Harvard team among those on their heels.
Author: Matthew Moll
MAAC Preview
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2008-09 Preview by Matthew Moll Davidson Who? The rest of the nation’s small schools have spent the off season recalling the run of a 10th-seeded team from North Carolina that was a basket away from the Final Four. MAAC teams lie awake and long to be […]
Quarterfinal Notes From Rumble In The Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx Quarterfinal Notes by Matthew Moll BRONX, N.Y. – Before the Rumble in the Bronx turned into a literal rumble, a few players from one of the quarterfinal games stood out. Playaz Brian Oliver, Oak Hill Academy – At times Oliver was the best athlete on the […]
MAAC Recap
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2007-08 Season Recap by Matthew Moll How the MAAC interrupted your Office Pool Everyone likes cheering for the little guy and the MAAC is a conference filled with little guy-esque schools. This season the Siena Saints embodied the role of David slaying two of the NCAA’s […]
Columbia’s Senior Weekend
Final Home Calls For Columbia Seniors by Matthew Moll NEW YORK – Columbia’s Joe Jones has described his fifth men’s basketball team as the “grind-it out type” and a defensively focused team, juxtaposing them with last season’s 12th-best three-point shooting team’s style. Senior weekend highlighted both the peaks and valleys […]
MAAC Notebook
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Notebook by Matthew Moll Here is a look at the MAAC conference so far this season. Rider Broncos (14-6 Overall, 7-2 MAAC) Tied for first: Six straight W’s propelled the Broncos into first place with Marist. Rider, who began the MAAC schedule with at 1-2 record, […]
MAAC Preview
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2007-08 Preview by Matthew Moll The cyclical nature of amateur sports is painstakingly pronounced in college basketball. This is particularly true in a conference like the MAAC, where small schools, their fans and coaches begrudgingly assume some peak or valley every two to four years. No […]
MAAC Season Recap
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2006-07 Season Recap by Matthew Moll Unpredictability – the sine quan non of college basketball – took a year hiatus from the sport as a whole and from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season. Marist, prognosticators’ pick for the regular season crown, dispensed all those […]
MAAC Notebook
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Notebook by Matthew Moll Six teams within striking distance Over half of the MAAC field is within one game in the loss column from the all-important number-one seed. Currently there is a three-way tie for first and a four-way tie for second heading into the final […]
MAAC Notebook
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Notebook by Matthew Moll The MAAC is now fully in its conference schedule. Here is how each team has fared up to this point. 1. Siena Saints (8-5 overall, 4-0 MAAC) Four straight: The Saints’ four-win-to-no-loss conference start has been done so convincingly. As conference play […]
