Exhibitionists: Pre-Season Recap

Here’s a slightly late round-up of the exhibition games that have happened so far for New England’s college hoops teams in the last couple weeks as we lead up to the exciting start of a new season.

Big East
UConn: 11/2 vs. Amer. International (W 78-35), 11/6 vs. C.W. Post (W 91-61)
Providence: 10/25 vs. Assumption (W 64-51), 11/5 vs. UMass-Lowell (W 76-75)

ACC
Boston College: 11/5 vs. Amer. International (W 70-66)

America East
Vermont: 10/25 vs. St. Michael’s (W 64-31), 11/5 vs. Concordia (W 69-56)
Maine: 10/25 vs. Fisher (W 91-45), 11/5 vs. Ottawa (W 79-56)

Atlantic-10
Rhode Island: 11/4 vs. RI College (W 79-63), 11/7 vs. Ryerson (W 97-66)

MAAC
Fairfield: 11/4 vs. Bridgeport (W 97-70)

Patriot
Holy Cross: 11/5 vs. Assumption (W 84-52)

Who knows how much these games really will tell us about the quality of each team moving forward but in any case, they’re a fun way to kick of the season, see new freshmen in action and get warmed up for when the real season begins.  If I’m UConn, I’m feeling good, especially if Ryan Boatright’s gonna be suiting up sooner rather than later while BC should be feeling a little nervous after barely escaping AIC.  Same goes for PC after the scare against Lowell.  Holy Cross looks good too especially if you compare their game against Assumption to Providence’s.

A-10 Tourney Heading To Brooklyn

As rumors swirl about the ACC perhaps taking over MSG as a potential tournament site from the Big East another conference is making a great move to NYC. The Atlantic-10 Conference tournament, according to reports, will be moving in 2013 from Atlantic City to the soon-to-be home of Jay-Z's Brooklyn Nets, the Barclays Center. This will hopefully give the conference a great presence in the huge media market, as well as improving attendance that had been low at its previous site. Although more western programs like Dayton and Xavier may not be happy to have the tournament staying so far away, it places the tournament right in the middle of many of the A-10's northeastern programs. As far as the conference's New England schools, this makes the tournament an easy trip for URI and UMass fans as those programs fight their way back to the top of the conference that they occupied in the 1990s.