The #2 ranking is quite an honor, but we better play up to it...and I think we can. Should be fun with some great DePauw and OU battles this year, maybe those will go our way this year.

Very excited to see what coach Liz Campbell can do out at Colorado College. Should be fun. But I'm gonna miss my starting second baseman for coed softball.

My first post of the year. It's good to be back posting. Spent a lil time the last couple of days taking some heat from the GA State fans over on the CAAZone board. It's good to be back where people can understand the value of hardwork and playing the game the right way. So anyway Oglethorpe put one hell of a scare into the GA State faithful last night. I'm not sure what the other teams in the SCAC are bringing back, but OU looks primed for a run...especially with the "let it fly from deep" advice that may be coming from the bench with the two new assistant coaches (Burr and Tulo). Haha.  

Fun game though last night. I'm ready for the real season.

Has anyone ever thought about how fun it would be to take the All region teams and play a tournament with those teams. I've always thought about this with DI college basketball with the all conference teams battling it out. It would really be great for regional bragging rights and a good show case of DIII talent. Probably won't happen, but would be interesting. I don't know too much about the other regions, but could you imagine all of those guys listed on the South region team playing together. All 15 of those guys can play. Imagine Jake Baldwin and Edrick Montogemery not having to play Center as they would have the 6-10 Ben Strong down low. Then give them Mike Moore running the point...and a loaded bench. It would be awesome.

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Forgot the West Region- Melanie Auguste a Jr. from Colorado College. 

Too many regions to sift through, Thanks for the update Fllight.

The all region teams have been announced, the SCAC has some players in the Great Lakes Region and South Region on those teams. Congrats to all of the ladies. Just off of the top of my head I think he SCAC has 7 players on one of the All Region Teams.

DePauw come join us in Holland. Way to go Lady Petrels.

No matter the outcome of the OU game tonight, the Lady Petrels have had a tremendous season. This post seaosn run has been awesome. I think playing DePauw 3 times has really helped them prepare for this post season. The SCAC schedule in general this year really was tough when you consider the players and talent that Birmingham Southern brought to the conference. Playing against players of that caliber really had to help OU and DePauw prepare for the talent they've seen in the tournament.

Congrats to OU and DePauw on advancing to the elite 8...or sectional finals.

Good Luck to DePauw tonight and hopefully OU can take care of business as well.

In all fairness it has to be incredibly difficult to come up with the All American finalist for DIII hoops....so many teams, so many players with similar stats, and very little National exposure for most players. You've got rely on stat lines and prior year performance...are the stats a fluke, or has this player done this before? I personally feel that the All American nominees should be limited to only Seniors, there would still be a large talent pool to choose from if this was the case, but would automatically cut out  a large portion of nominees. DOn't blast me too much for that comment.

There are different lists. Kulavic was a D3hoops.com pre-season All American.

I do believe that it was the WBCA that selected Farrell as the SCAC pre-season player of the year and pre-season All American. Different organizations have their eyes on different players. In MLB it seems that once you've won one Rawlings Gold Glove Award, the only way to not keep winning one is to completely have a disastrous season in the field. That being said, Farrell still had a good season and was on this group's radar from the beginning.

The SCAC has been getting some ESPN press; Austin Brown's 50 ft Buzzer Beater to lift DePauw over Centre, the Millsaps and Trinity 15 lateral play to win the game and now Songy's 3.

SPFan22 ,

Pretty sure I heard you and Flight yelling at the officials during the game through OU's webcast. I heard OU had a good fan base at Thomas More; I'm glad the ladies got some familiar support on the road.

QuoteThe AJC article this morning on the Petrels (after no mention of the games in either the Saturday or Sunday papers) classified them as playing with 5 guards.

The AJC also said they start 5 juniors. Corbett is a 5th yr senior.

Bubba - Since you brought up the lack of AJC coverage I figure I'll put in my two cents. The AJC does a terrible job covering any college in this state that is not Georgia Tech or the University of Georgia. The AJC seems to overlook the smaller schools. I don't know why. It's not as if they are a major news publication, they may want to be but they're not. High School athletics, especially football, gets more coverage than the smaller colleges in Georgia. It's a shame.