Fun 9-3 win for Pomona-Pitzer over DI Dartmouth College on Monday. Hens were in control the entire way, and this was a day after I watched Dartmouth beat the snot out of LMU for the second day in a row. PP now has transitive property wins over USC, Arizona, Michigan, and a bunch of others 

Quote from: RFBredux on October 08, 2023, 08:51:02 AM
Redlands loss to a bad Pomona team at home was as bad as I can remember. The team was unprepared for the second week in a row with terrible play on offense and special teams.

I've seen enough of the Jim Good era. It's time for new leadership at Redlands.

The Pomona writeup indicated that this was Pomona's first ever win at Ted Runner Stadium. That's... unreal. Though, having watched PP while I was at school there, it's believable.

Chirp Chirp! Sagehens sweep the regular season Sixth Street Rivalry, as they beat CMS 75-68 at home. Brendan Mora had 20 points 14 rebounds 5 assists and 3 steals for PP. Didn't get the chance to watch, but the box score shows a pretty even matchup. Neither team shot particularly well, and the biggest difference may have been second chance points (PP had 12 offensive boards to CMS's 5).

With the win, PP also clinched the SCIAC regular season title, finishing 15-1 in conference play. This is the Sagehens' fourth consecutive regular season championship after CMS's run of at least a share of 8 of the prior 10. They'll play CLU at home on Friday in the conference semifinals. I'd think and hope that this win cements their spot in the NCAA tournament, already having been 3rd in the regional rankings released before the game, but would be best to remove any doubt.

Congrats to the Sagehens on their third consecutive SCIAC Championship! Off to Chicago to play Northwestern (Minn)

https://www.sagehens.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/releases/20220227u9hhit

And glad to see the SCIAC get some love with an at-large bid for Chapman after losing to PP in the conference 'ship yesterday.

As a reminder the Hens made it to the Sweet 16 in 2020 before the tournament was shutdown, beating Emory in the second round on an insane buzzer-beater three: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29120254?fbclid=IwAR1GaH_rGgFuD6-pCyYeOeBVpoKdUcreNNEywIRzMdQzyifkXU-XszOQkIw

A little late, but Pomona's Ryan Long was drafted in the 17th round of the 2021 MLB draft by the Orioles https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2021/all/team/orioles. Obviously, Ryan hadn't been able to pitch for the Sagehens since the season was shutdown in 2020. However, he did appear in 4 games this summer for the Cotuit Kettleers in the Cape Cod League. Ryan signed with the O's, and in so doing forewent transferring to Georgetown to play in the Big East and pursue a master's degree. Congrats to Ryan!

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Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on March 12, 2020, 04:44:11 PM
In the same spirit as declaring Pomona the national champ: most years only one team (per sport) finishes the season with a win - this year scads of them did!

You should be thrilled the D-III tournament was canceled. Now you CCIW honks won't have to concoct one of your lame excuses to explain why Elmhurst lost at home to Pomona.

OxyBob

Since you've brought up the competitiveness issue, the CCIW has six championships and 20 appearances in the Final Four.  What lame excuses do the SCIAC honks have for never getting to the Final Four dance?

Scheduling conflicts.

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Quote from: Jack Parkman on March 11, 2020, 07:09:01 PM
https://www.chapmanathletics.com/general/2019-20/releases/20200311s53ees

Chapman suspends all face-to-face classes and athletic events. I guess this means the whole season is done as they won't have one school do it and others not follow suit. Have to assume the entire d3 season is done. Such a shame.

Pomona-Pitzer spring sports officially canceled as well. Just a matter of time for the rest of the conference/country. I was skeptical at first, but the more I read the more this seems necessary. Really sucks for the kids, especially the seniors. Not a lot of 5th year guys at the D3 level, or in a conference with academics like SCIAC.

Andddd the NCAA has canceled all Spring championships. MLB Spring Training suspended, start of season will almost certainly be delayed substantially. We don't have any baseball for the foreseeable future 

Quote from: Jack Parkman on March 11, 2020, 07:09:01 PM
https://www.chapmanathletics.com/general/2019-20/releases/20200311s53ees

Chapman suspends all face-to-face classes and athletic events. I guess this means the whole season is done as they won't have one school do it and others not follow suit. Have to assume the entire d3 season is done. Such a shame.

Pomona-Pitzer spring sports officially canceled as well. Just a matter of time for the rest of the conference/country. I was skeptical at first, but the more I read the more this seems necessary. Really sucks for the kids, especially the seniors. Not a lot of 5th year guys at the D3 level, or in a conference with academics like SCIAC.

Quote from: MIFDad on March 11, 2020, 01:20:40 PM
NESCAC has canceled all spring sports.  I suspect that we are not far behind.

The Claremont Colleges (ie Pomona-Pitzer and CMS) have cancelled in person classes for the foreseeable future, telling students to stay home after spring break. https://tsl.news/coronavirus-covid-19-classes-canceled-online-claremont/?fbclid=IwAR1E2wpb4FK7UKTuzGUoTDCgOrPC0hAGCaITBcgMbkcKWan77Gil3urVIMk

Have to assume we'll get word of SCIAC suspending spring sports indefinitely in the imminent future.

Quote from: OxyBob on March 07, 2020, 11:10:52 PM

Quote from: stag44 on March 02, 2020, 01:44:50 PM
It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

The Sagehens are the first SCIAC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Oxy made it to the Elite 8 in 2002-2003.

OxyBob

Thanks Bob, I was actually wondering about this yesterday and was planning on asking the board. This is also the program's first ever Sweet 16 appearance.

Quote from: MIFDad on March 05, 2020, 01:23:46 PM
Not a huge surprise, but still very disappointing.

Two eastern schools, Pitt Bradford and Ithaca, have canceled their trips to California to play SCIAC teams beginning this weekend. I sincerely hope that's not the beginning of a trend, and I hope  that we'll be able to look back and describe their decision as overly cautious, and not as prescient.

Fortunately, Rochester managed to make the trip out West and played 4 games over 2 days against PP. Sagehens took 3 of 4, including a walk off home run (Freshman James Schmidt's first career bomb) in Game 1 and a lopsided 15-5 victory in Game 4.

However, I understand the NESCAC has cancelled all spring athletics trips. Pomona loses a matchup against Wesleyan, which has been replaced with a non-con game against CMS. Unfortunate for the conference to be missing non-con games, which are a helpful barometer for the regional and national committees to be able to evaluate teams across regions. Given the travel restrictions we're seeing across the country, though, not altogether surprising.

I just hope that the PP basketball team isn't impacted, as they travel to Illinois (@ #15 Elmhurst) in the program's first ever Sweet 16 appearance.

Quote from: Jack Parkman on March 07, 2020, 09:03:44 PM
Oh my goodness that was an amazing finish.  I watched a total of 24 seconds of the game and glad I tuned in when I did!

LETS GO!!! What an ending!!! Smart basketball advancing the inbounds with only 2 seconds left, and then somehow the prayer with a hand in his face drops!

For the second year in a row, the Hens start the NCAA Tournament with a win! They played a great all-around game and won easily, 84-64.

OxyBob beat me to the game recap, but Pomona got off to a hot start and were in control for pretty much the whole game. After a Centre 3 pulled them within 7 with 3:54 to go in the first half, the Sagehens scored 7 straight points and the game never got back within single digits. Lots of open looks for the Hens from great ball movement, and Centre struggled to convert the few open opportunities they got on the offensive end (only 5 of 26 from 3).

Looking forward to what I'm sure will be a closer game tomorrow.

Chirp chirp!

Quote from: Dave 'd-mac' McHugh on March 03, 2020, 04:19:41 PM

Quote from: Teddy_Ballgame on March 02, 2020, 06:56:18 PM

Quote from: stag44 on March 02, 2020, 01:44:50 PM
Pomona heading out to Atlanta and playing Centre College in the first round - looking forward to seeing the Sagehens represent the SCIAC well.

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

An expected and welcome respite from the SCIAC being sent up to to Washington, with Whitman and Whitworth a notch below where they've been the last few years. An unfortunate consequence being that all three teams in the pacific time zone will be playing at least 2 time zones ahead, with Pomona three time zones away. Seems unusual for a first round pod, but such are the realities of putting together a tournament with the D3 map the way it is.

Pomona will play Friday at 2:00pm EST/11:00am PST. On one hand, it avoids having to play at 7:30pm EST/10:30pm PST and end well past midnight on the west coast. But what is, essentially, an 11:00 am start time would still have to be odd for a team whose game day preparation all season has been in expectation of an evening game. Curious how early they'll land in Georgia to start practicing and adjusting.

Either way, this team is the first Pomona team in recent memory with a core group who've experienced an NCAA tournament win. I expect them to be ready, and their first round matchup with Centre should be a good one. Centre is 24-4 and receiving the most votes of any team outside the top 25 in D3hoops.com rankings. They'll be busing about 350 miles down from Kentcuky, so their journey to Atlanta may take nearly as long as Pomona's.

Side note: a belated congratulations to the Hens' Micah Elan who, with his 1752nd career point in PP's semifinal game against Oxy, set the program record for points scored in a career (he now sits at 1782). Daniel Rosenbaum finished his career last year just 7 points shy of the record. Pretty incredible that they spent three years on the court together and were still able to amass such totals. 

Not surprisingly, Elan was named the SCIAC Player of the Year last month.

I think the times you read were PST ... Pomona plays at 5:00 PM ET - 2:00 PM PT. The only game "early" on Friday is Yeshiva-WPI which will be at 1:00 PM ET due to the religious restrictions for Yeshiva (they must be to their hotel/rooms by sundown Friday night). The next game on the bracket will start at 3:30 PM ET.

Anyway ... 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT start for Pomona-Pitzer.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks Dave!

No excuses then

Quote from: stag44 on March 02, 2020, 01:44:50 PM
Pomona heading out to Atlanta and playing Centre College in the first round - looking forward to seeing the Sagehens represent the SCIAC well.

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

An expected and welcome respite from the SCIAC being sent up to to Washington, with Whitman and Whitworth a notch below where they've been the last few years. An unfortunate consequence being that all three teams in the pacific time zone will be playing at least 2 time zones ahead, with Pomona three time zones away. Seems unusual for a first round pod, but such are the realities of putting together a tournament with the D3 map the way it is.

Pomona will play Friday at 2:00pm EST/11:00am PST. On one hand, it avoids having to play at 7:30pm EST/10:30pm PST and end well past midnight on the west coast. But what is, essentially, an 11:00 am start time would still have to be odd for a team whose game day preparation all season has been in expectation of an evening game. Curious how early they'll land in Georgia to start practicing and adjusting.

Either way, this team is the first Pomona team in recent memory with a core group who've experienced an NCAA tournament win. I expect them to be ready, and their first round matchup with Centre should be a good one. Centre is 24-4 and receiving the most votes of any team outside the top 25 in D3hoops.com rankings. They'll be busing about 350 miles down from Kentcuky, so their journey to Atlanta may take nearly as long as Pomona's.

Side note: a belated congratulations to the Hens' Micah Elan who, with his 1752nd career point in PP's semifinal game against Oxy, set the program record for points scored in a career (he now sits at 1782). Daniel Rosenbaum finished his career last year just 7 points shy of the record. Pretty incredible that they spent three years on the court together and were still able to amass such totals. 

Not surprisingly, Elan was named the SCIAC Player of the Year last month.