Guilford College, Greensboro, NC

26-2 (14-2  ODAC)

ODAC conference Champions

Starters:
34 Rhett Bonner
10 TC Anderson
11 Clay Henson
32 Martin Stevenson
15 Tyler Sanborn

Top Reserves:
40 Brad Monroe
21 Josh Pittman
5 Gabriel Lowder
45 Tobi Akinsola

Key Wins:
4-1 against Tournament teams:
Maryville
VWC (twice)
RMC

Key Losses:
EMU (by 27pts)

Season summary/tournament outlook:
Guilford College clinched its second Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Men's Basketball Tournament title in three years with an 81-65 victory over Randolph-Macon.

With the win, the Quakers (26-2) earn the league's automatic bid and will make their fourth consecutive national playoff appearance. Ranked fourth in this week's D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll, Guilford improved to 100-18 over the last four years.

CaptJ, what can you tell Quaker fans about CNU?  I looked up some stats and see that Taylor is the leading scorer and Blasingame looks to be a force averaging a double/double.  What is the story with Green?  He is the second leading scorer but only plays 10-13 minutes in the conference tourney?

With all the new coaches (EH, HS, Lynchburg, BW) this was the best hire of all for the ODAC. 

Bridgewater brought a guy in that has never played or coached a day of DIII basketball.  He has no idea how to recruit without scholarships or deal with players who pay their own way to school.  The rest of the league should be ecstatic that Bridgewater wasn't smart enough to hire PW, a guy who has given nine years of his life to the program and would have energized a very talented team this season.  Glad to see Bridgewater didn't go that route and instead hired a DI guy.   

Avg SAT scores for incoming freshman:
WL    1390
HS    1139
GC    1138
RC    1108
RMC    1102
EMU    1101
BC    1026
EH    1023
LC    1002
VWC      983

Avg SAT score for incoming freshman
W&L = 1390
Guilford = 1138
VWC = 983

I am just making a point that polls mean very little and even though I fully support the quakers, I think it is shock that HS didn't get any national attention.

Preseason polls are a joke.  There is no way HS isn't a top 25 team if Guilford and VWC are both top 10.  Also, how in the world do you not vote HS #1 in the conference?  They won the tournament last year without their best player.  Preseason means nothing.

Thanks for that list, GQ.  The roster looks plausible and good, but I regret to not see Barry Wells in there.


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Barry will be greatly missed.  Though he didn't get many minutes last season, guys like him are a main reason the Quakers had a good year in 06-07.  This years team would have been much better with him but I hear he is doing well at UNCG.  He's not playing there, just a student, but he still likes it.

Guilford has 25 players posted on the team this season, some of them are expected to be on JV though.  Adam Gilbert, Andrew Ply. Antoine Blue, Arthur Hamilton, Ben Poole, Ben Strong, Brandon Johnson, Caleb Kimbrough, Clay Henson, Darryl Scarver, David Cochrane, Eric Belkoski, George Neville, Jake Engebresten, Jeremy Harris, Jordan Coston, Kyle Riplinger, Luke Sears, Martin Stephenson, Mat Stanley, Matt Cooney, Ray Edmond, Sherrick Warren, TC Anderson, Tyler Sanborn.

Snipes and Burge graduated and Justin Strickland is at Davidson CC.

I question a list of party schools that doesn't include the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

I have seen Ben play in the summer league games played in Winston Salem this July and agree that he looked good.  He needs to improve though.  For anyone to be talking about Ben and the NBA in the same sentence better look at his ability to defend.  He has a long way to go.  Glad to hear he did well in Newell's camp even though I think sdbrum is actually Ben Strong himself