I will make this prediction about the Maryville vs. Millsaps game.  Maryville pretty much ALWAYS wins the first round games over the past 10 consecutive years.   Maryville lost 2 games this year.  One to Averett who is in the tournament at Guilford; and one to Emory who had one of the toughest schedules of the year and who beat the #1 team Rochester.  And Maryville destroyed Rust College in our favorite state to play Mississippi by 50 points!!!!  And I know all of you know from Millsaps how tough it is to win at Rust.  While the #2 school Centre lost to them.  Mark my words.  Maryville will sweep the first two rounds in Mississippi NO Question (they beat Mary Hardin last year in the 1st round) and get in the final 16.  They will probably play Guilford and if they get this far they could go all the way.  Division 3 basketball is always the same; any given day any team can beat any other.  Good Luck to all the teams.  Go Scots!!!

I will tell you a little bit about Maryville, as I graduated from Maryville in the mid 80's.  We use to be in the ODAC and we made several LONG bus rides to Millisaps while I played football and baseball at Maryville.   I am very good friends with coach Lambert of Maryville and your comparisons about the two teams are correct on the teams.  I will say this, Maryville should be hosting a game at 24-2, but they are not.  Maryville has two full squads of equally talented 5 man teams.  You can flip a coin at which team is better within Maryvilles squad.  I have seen Maryville play this year many times.  They have many weapons.  Bowers one of their seniors played in a Division One summer basketball league (with Tennessee players) and he definitely could play in a higher division.  Maryville is very deep on the bench.  Their 12th player (Holiday is a senior) He started basically his first 3 years at Maryville and now he is not in the first two squad rotation.  He could start (no question) for most D3 schools.  Coach Lambert is one of the best coaches in the nation.  Two year's ago he was one of the final three coaches to be considered and interviewed as Bruce Pearl's assistant coach for the Number One ranked Tennessee Volunteers.  Maryville did try several times to reschedule with Centre after the tragic death of one of their football coaches.  But honestly who would take a chance of losing a game to a very good team in Maryville and hurting Centre's record?  No one.  As you can see from Maryville's game this season and common teams Milsaps, Centre and Maryville have played; Maryville will beat teams badly by 50 points like the Rust score at Rust in MISSISSIPPI or win or loss by just a few points.  I believe (being partial) Maryville will win the first round game  (like they have over a majority of the past 10 years) and this year I believe they will win the second round.  Last year they did beat Mary Hardin in the first round (In Mississippi).  I believe they will get to the sweet sixteen.  Milsaps will definitely have the home court advantage, because not many Maryville supporters will drive 500 miles to see the game. 

Good Luck

It's absolutely amazing to me how everyone thinks Maryville is no good and it's pathetic that the so called people in charge of this D3hoops snubs Maryville all the time.  Maryville could have played University of Tennessee and won and the powers to be on this board would say it was luck; UT played their practice squad; or whatever.  Let's see Maryville beat Transy, who beat Whittenberg and the comment was Whittenberg is down this year.  But a couple of weeks ago Whittenberg was on a roll and made D3hoops news.  Then Maryville splits with Emory who knocked off #1 Rochester and well Maryville got lucky.  Then Maryville beats every schlorship team and the comment is well they are nobody's.  So Carson Newman is a Nobody.  They only opened up against Georgia Tech and Virginia (and lost), but Centre can open up against Rust and lose and that was like a preseason freakin scrimmage.  Where Maryville beat the same team at Rust by 53 points!!!!!!  Do you think that was a close game?  Hum.  I can't wait till Maryville goes far in the tournament and all these doubters will look like idiots. 

It's funny how Centre College is ranked in the top ten this week and they lost to Rust College.  Whereas Maryville beat Rust at Rust by 53 points!!!!!!!!!!! And then beat Rust at Maryville by 18 points!!!!  Maryville was supposed to play Centre, but because Maryville had a coach die at that time; Maryville didn't play Centre.  Glad to see Maryville getting a little bit of respect.

It totally amazes me how Maryville College who has played and beat every schlorship school this year and split with Emory who just beat the #1 team Rochester gets ZERO respect.   They beat Transylvania (who beat Whittenburg), who now Whittenburg is praised for their new found streak.  They lost only two games and both were splits: Averett who is very highly ranked in their conference and Emory.  I have watched MC play many times this year and talked to Coach Lambert several times this year and Maryville has at least two solid equally matched teams of 5 players each.  I know Maryvilles conference is very weak; however, they play and beat EVERY division 2 and NAIA schlorship college around: Carson Newman( who opened up against Georgia Tech and Virginia); King College, Tennessee Wesleyan, and etc.  This is my prediction.  Maryville will get to at least the sweet 16 and maybe the final 4 and hopefully then they will get some respect.  Go Scots!!! Coach Lambert sorry (WE) missed the Saturday game, but (We'll) be there next home game, good talking with you last week.  Go Scots!!!!!

Maryville College year after year goes to the NCAA playoffs and yes they generally lose in the second
round.  However this year they are currently 7-1.  They just defeated Translyvania University (which I watched) by 11 points.  Who last year was an elite 8 team and they just beat Wittenberg College.  Then Maryville beat Division II Carson Newman college who Carson Newman college opened up against and lost to Division I schools Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia!!!!!!!  Maryville beat Averett College which was a top 25 school and their only loss was away to Emory University.  Yes I am a graduate of MC and I will tell you that they have 2 rotating squads of players this year.  You don't beat Transy and Carson Newman D2 and aren't something.  I believe Maryville will only get better and get past the second round of the NCAA's this year.  What do they have to do to get any respect and get ranked?