{"id":43,"date":"2016-03-02T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/2016-maac-tournament-preview\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:25:19","slug":"2016-maac-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2016-maac-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 MAAC tournament preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference<br \/>\nMarch 3-7. All games at Siena.<br \/>\nkPOY: Justin Robinson, Monmouth.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MAAC tips off with three games in Albany on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Monmouth has won 25 games, four more than any previous Monmouth season. But the Hawks are far from a lock to win the MAAC tournament. Part of that is the untold story of the MAAC this season. While Monmouth earned Trump-style media coverage most of the season, Iona and Siena put together strong teams as well. And Siena gets to play the tournament in its own building. <\/p>\n<p>For the record, I\u2019ve watered down home-court advantage in events like these and the Big South tournament where all games are played at one site. However, even without an arena completely full of Saints\u2019 fans and having to potentially use the visitor\u2019s locker room for the last two games, Siena will enjoy some advantage here. It\u2019s basically enough to close the gap between them and Monmouth in terms of their respective chances of winning. <\/p>\n<p>Iona is lurking as well and it\u2019s the last go-around for AJ English. He\u2019s one of four players that scored 46 points in a game this season, the most in the land. The Gaels also have 6-8 Jordan Washington, who leads the country in usage, and draws and commits fouls at an epic rate. He\u2019s also been known to get feisty in the handshake line.<\/p>\n<pre>                  Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 1 Monmouth        100  83.5  66.0  34.9\n 3 Siena           100  88.1  54.8  33.9\n 2 Iona            100  82.9  39.4  21.8\n 5 Fairfield       100  53.6  14.9   3.8\n 4 Saint Peter's   100  46.4  11.8   2.6\n 8 Rider          70.0  13.7   6.6   1.5\n 7 Canisius       73.1  14.8   3.1   0.8\n 6 Manhattan      61.1   8.3   2.0   0.4\n11 Marist         38.9   3.5   0.6   0.1\n 9 Quinnipiac     30.0   2.9   0.8   0.09\n10 Niagara        26.9   2.3   0.2   0.03\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><u><strong>MAAC tourney records (since 1999)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>Siena         28-12\nIona          23-13\nNiagara       19-15\nManhattan     15-13\nSaint Peter\u2019s 13-16\nCanisius      13-17\nFairfield     13-17\nRider         12-17\nMarist        10-17\nMonmouth       1- 2\nQuinnipiac     1- 2 \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference March 3-7. All games at Siena. kPOY: Justin Robinson, Monmouth. The MAAC tips off with three games in Albany on Thursday. Monmouth has won 25 games, four more than any previous Monmouth season. But the Hawks are far from a lock to win the MAAC tournament. Part of that is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}