Bob, I was at the Oglethorpe/Sewanee game. You gave a good pretty good account of how it went down. I was impressed(though frusterated)by the 'thorpe students. They were lively, loud & legal (by that I mean they were well behaved & everything was in good taste). I wonder if you happened to notice that the Sewanee cheering section is not allowed to sit on the bottom row. No need for the opponent to make an NBA trey or dunk to take our crowd out of the game when the administraton does it for them, but you must admit that we were well behaved also. In some games Sewanee looks like a solid 3rd/4th place team to me. Then there are games like last nigh.......oh well, I'm sure Ogelthorpe's defensive intensity had a lot to do with that. One more thing...as far as Sewanee being tough to beat on The Mountain...I talked to the owner of the Smoke House & he invited all visiting teams to drop by about an hour before each game.

Chris Eddy came back abot 4 game ago...played really well for 10 minutes & reinjured his leg. Don't know if/when he'll play again. Also, our "blue collar/workhorse"(Ben Farmer w/ best baby hook in SCAC) is out indefinately. Maybe it'll all come togather in Memphis. Anyway, Sewanee really needed a win & Maryville must have surely been overlooking them. I thought they looked & played a lot like Trinity who Sewanee played within three points.

I saw that Sewanee lost to Emory tonight 112-94. The 94 pts will hurt Sewanee's 96 pt game averge some, but the loss drops them to 3-2. They can't ever seen to beat Emory. I thought this might be the year. Sewanee has some offense this year, but I think they are team still looking for their personality. They are playing a lot of players right now( freshmen are getting quality time & one will continue to start )looking to find who can contribute. By Feb. I think they will be a solid nine deep.

Let's recap the SCAC...we will start at the top:  SOUTHWESTERN- The Pirates have a lot of people back...so far they are 3-2. An interesting stat, their five opponents have combined for 5 wins so far as per d3hoops.  TRINITY-The Tigers are 4-1 & will be facing SW Pirates early on.  CENTRE-The Colonels have 3 wins and one quality loss.  DEPAUW-2 wins With 2 quality losses...the big surprise Who would have thought that the famous actor/producer Michael Moore could find happiness in th SCAC? But that freshman rotund wonder has turning in some impressine #'s. I'm talking box scores not box office...averagingover 15 pts & 7 assist the last three games.  OGLETHORPE- 2 wins/2 quality losses.  ROSE-HULMAN- two & two   HENDRIX-After going 5-19 last year they started out 3-0, but bumped into Otterbien tonight to pickup 1st loss. Otterbein isn't bad.  RHODES plays Rust tonight, they will lose I predict to get their 1st loss. They started out 5-0 (do not adjust your set/that is correct Rhodes 5-0) before my predicted loss tonight.  MILLSAP-The Majors have 4 wins (not a Principa or Messenger in the lot) and one quality loss.  SEWANEE- 3-1...the good news is that they are averging 96 pts per game...the bad news is their opponents are averaging 97 ppg. Sewanee has been absent 3rd year starter jr pg Chris Eddy who pulled a muscle before the season began.  O.K., so I took a few cheap shots. Pay me back in spades if you like, but fill in the missing spots. A smiley face for the 1st one to correctly guess which school I support.

I was at the Sewanee game...really excited about the victory. I stuck my head in the USAC to see if ther was any buzz. Methodist got a lot of layups off the Sewanee press(thus the high % shooting). I was really surprised by the rebound margin...it didn't seen that lopsided. Methodist seemed flat the 1st half, but shot trey real well in the 2nd half. Refs seemed to let Sewanee get away with alot of hand checking & hacking early on, but tightened up later. Overall the way the game was "called" seemed to help Sewanee.In conclusion Sewanee is due a good year...they have 5 guys back that started some games last year(3 jrs that started as freshman). They came on strong late last year & made a good showing in the tournament. Also they were missing the starting point guard against Methodist.   P.S. I'm new to D3Hoops..ain't it great?