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Thursday, March 5, 2009

MAAC awards


The coaches agreed with me on the men's Player of the Year (Kenny Hasbrouck) but opted instead for my second choice for Rookie of the Year (they picked Scott Machado over Novar Gadson), Defensive Player of the Year (they went with Tyrone Lewis; I picked Bilal Benn) and Coach of the Year (they went with Fran McCaffery over Joe Mihalich, who was my choice).

I completely forgot to pick a winner for Sixth Man of the Year, but the coaches voted in Siena's Clarence Jackson, adding to the hardware that the Saints had already compiled.

You could have also made a case for Gadson for Sixth Man of the Year, but it's hard to argue with Jackson, who gave Siena a valuable spark off the bench, fitting the role that Loyola's Marquis Sullivan rode to the award last year.

On the women's side, Rachele Fitz -- surprise, surprise -- was voted Player of the Year for the second time; Canisius' Terry Zeh -- a shoo-in -- took Coach of the Year honors after his team posted a seven-win improvement; Iona's Kristina Ford was named Rookie of the Year; Canisius' Brittane Russell was named Defensive Player of the Year; and the Golden Griffs' Ellie Radke was named Sixth Player of the Year.

That's all I've got for today. Tomorrow's Trentonian has a story on the Rider women's loss and a story on the awards banquet. The blogathon will continue bright and early at 9:30 tomorrow, with the 10th-seeded Niagara women playing their cross-town rivals from Canisius, the No. 2 seed.

The rest of tomorrow's schedule is as follows:
11:30 a.m.: No. 3 Fairfield women vs. No. 6 Siena
1:30 p.m.: No. 1 Marist women vs. No. 9 Loyola
3:30 p.m.: No. 4 Saint Peter's women vs. Iona
7:30 p.m.: No. 8 Loyola men vs. No. 9 Canisius
9:30 p.m.: No. 7 Iona men vs. No. 10 Marist

Remember to send your bracket picks to bdoody@trentonian.com by 7 p.m.tomorrow.

With that, thanks to everyone who's visited the Blog today. Until tomorrow, so long from Albany.

12 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tommy Boy can't be happy. Don't try to pass off Gadson as a 6th man. A 6th Man doesn't play 30 minutes a night. I take it that no mention of Dempsey in the story means he either refused to talk about his players not getting recognized and will use that as a mantra Saturday or you didn't ask his opinion.

Any word on if he's going to correct his career win-loss record?

March 5, 2009 7:48 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gadson deserved ROY, Clerence Jackson 8, pts, 1.5 Rbs and .5 assists is a joke as 6th man. Hasbrouck has the worst stat line in the history of the MAAC POY. Congratulations to Fran on an overdue COY

March 5, 2009 8:05 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

MAAC rule on 6th man is a player has to be 10 starts or under, has nothing to do with minutes...with that said, the MAAC made the right selection...Dempsey wasn't asked for a comment but was available for press requests.

March 5, 2009 8:05 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gadson started 9 games this year, he deserved RoY

March 5, 2009 8:25 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those who want the record changed should meet the rider contingent in Albany and we will change the record for you.

Then you can shut up about the stupid record.

March 5, 2009 8:47 PM 
Blogger Ben Doody said...

I did ask Dempsey for his take, and his quotes will be in my story tomorrow. He approached it differently than the all-MAAC teams. He simply said that individual awards aren't the reason Rider is at the tournament. ... To me, that's a reasonable way to approach it.

March 5, 2009 8:48 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rider did get the majority of the awards last year, this year was Siena's turn

March 5, 2009 9:59 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am still looking for an answer to the following question:

WHY ARE THE SIENA FANS OBSESSED WITH A CAREER COACHING RECORD?

March 5, 2009 10:12 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

because they don't enjoy rooting for their team

March 5, 2009 10:28 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ben, ant comments on the announced attendance of 3109 for yesterdays opening round games?

March 6, 2009 8:23 AM 
Blogger Beagle said...

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March 6, 2009 8:27 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attendance figures for MAAC Tournament games are based on tickets sold for that session, including all of the all-session passes. You won't see a session with less than 3,000 - even though they'll be 83 people in the stands for the women's play-in games.

March 6, 2009 9:36 AM 

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