Army

 

2008-09 Army Basketball Preview

Life after Jarell Brown for the Black Knights

 

Schedule (key games in bold)

 

November 15^th Dartmouth

17^th @ Quinnipiac 

20^th @ LIU (Blackbirds won at West Point by ten last year) 

23^rd Princeton  

26^th @ Brown 

29^th @ Harvard 

December 1^st Presbyterian (Army scored just thirty-five points in last season's meeting)

8^th @ Bryant 

10^th @ Penn State 

American

Army

Bucknell

Colgate

Holy Cross

Lafayette

Lehigh

Navy

 

Conference Rank: 20th

Teams ranked in the 12-17 area of the final rankings are clearly in a position to either move up or down next season. The team with the best chance to make a significant move up the standings in their league would have to be Manhattan (12-19), who return all key contributors next season. Guard Antoine Pearson was a Third Team All-MAAC selection this season, and swingman Devon Austin went a long way in establishing himself as this team’s leader in the MAAC Tournament.

10. Army (2006-07 Record: 15-16, 4-10 Patriot)

Head coach: Jim Crews

Returning Starters: 3- G Marcus Nelson (sophomore): 5-10, 190; F Chris Walker (sophomore): 6-8, 210; F Kenny Brewer (junior): 6-5, 210.

 

Another season of college basketball in the New York City area is complete, and it’s another year of teams from leagues other than the Big East carrying the flag. Marist, who won the MAAC regular season crown outright for the first time in school history, got over the disappointment of not winning their conference tournament by winning at Oklahoma State in the MasterCard NIT. Hofstra, predicted by many as a team with a chance to be “this year’s George Mason”, wasn’t able to make the NCAA Tournament but