SI's Andy Glockner Ranks MAAC 14th

[SaintMisbehavin]

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Glock picks MAAC as the 14th ranked conference, just behind Colonial. Text on the MAAC:

Manhattan look like very strong bets to battle for top honors. The Greyhounds, in their final season before an interesting move to the Patriot League, have a ton back as do Steve Masiello's Jaspers. Don't count out Siena (returning basically the whole rotation, including O.D. Anosike), Niagara (all five starters back) and even graduation-depleted Iona as a title threat, though. There are a lot of good players in this league, even on teams expected to finish in the second division. The MAAC semis and finals are typically one of the better small-conference shows during championship week. Expect more of the same this season.

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AE 29.......ouch

[MTS]

MAAC takes more heat than it deserves. Sure we've had some off years but more often than not the MAAC is a good league. I like to call it the quintessential mid-major league. Not the best mid-major conference but very competitive and good quality on the basketball court (I'm not talking about facilities or attendance etc)

I would not be surprised to see the league ranked 12-13 this season.

[$cott]

The key will really be for the bottom teams to do well in the nonconference. If you look at 2010 they were 15th in RPI with their 8th and 9th place teams doing pretty well nonconference (Loyola 7-5, Manhattan 7-6). Unfortunately they had a Marist team that went 0-12. Had you simply removed Marist from the MAAC that year they would have been 11th in the RPI jumping past the CAA, WCC, Horizon, and Conference USA. Hopefully St Peter's isn't a similar drain this year and Marist and Canisius can throw up winning records in the nonconference like Loyola and Manhattan did in 2010.