Quote from: David Collinge on December 19, 2006, 11:22:31 AMDebutantes:
To the delight of "Rose Basketball," the Engineers of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology received two votes, the first time they have been nominated for the top 25 poll.  Also worthy of mention is UW-Whitewater, who received votes this week for the first time since the very first D3Hoops.com women's top 25 poll, way back in 1999.  Congratulations to both!

Good stuff, David!

Quote from: fanofbeavers on December 20, 2006, 07:19:40 AM
Dec. 20  Tri-State at Rose-Hulman  7:30 PM 
              Bluffton at Carnegie Mellon  7:00 PM 
              Transylvania at Centre  7:30 PM 
              Manchester at Washington & Jefferson (W&J Tourny)  8:00 PM

Because I am not familiar with Tri-State this season, I cannot accurately predict what will happen in tonight's contest.

I do know that Rose-Hulman is still a team trying to find itself. But, wednesday's contest did show signs of going in the right direction. Defensively, they are solid. As I have said before, if the Engineers can ever get some consistency on the offensive end, they will be a solid ballclub.Head Coach Jim Shaw has tinkered with the starting lineup a bit, in an attempt to find a combination that works.

With two more non-conference games on the slate before going to Defiance after Christmas, it is my hope that Rose uses those games to find the problems (turnovers, offensive production) that are bugging them thusfar. This team has the potential to do good things in the HCAC, but it's left to be determined if they can put it all together and make a run. It certainly won't be easy.

Rose-Hulman 70, Cincinnati-Clermont 60.

QuoteTERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology improved to 5-5 on the men's basketball season with a 70-60 victory over Cincinnati-Clermont on Monday night at Hulbert Arena.

Senior Brian Bibb (Hoopeston, Ill.) led a pair of Engineers in double figures with 17 points and nine rebounds.  Junior Jared Moore (Indianapolis/Perry Meridian) added 11 points, six rebounds and five assists.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/mbasket/07msum10.htm

Rose-Hulman improved to 10-1 overall this afternoon, after knocking off Marian 84-70.

Rebekah Forsyth scored a school record 38 points for RHIT.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology got a school record 38 points from Rebekah Forsyth, as they defeated Marian, 84-70.

RHIT is now 10-1 overall.

Earlham 70, Rose-Hulman 62

Rose: (4-5) Bednarko 16, Bibb 12, Yarachefski 12.

Earlham: (2-5) Henry 15, Welsh 14, Gregory 14, Collins 11

Quote from: Pat Coleman on December 12, 2006, 03:21:07 AM
I would too, if Denison gets votes and RHIT beats someone worthy. I do recognize this is a high point for the RHIT WBB program but now that they're not in the SCAC they may not have a single game left on their schedule that could give them Top 25-type credibility.

Fair enough. Well said, and great points.

Not saying they are a Top 25 team right now, just simply throwing Jon Prevo's club out there as "One to Watch".

I would keep an eye on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

8-1.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/wbasket/0607wbb.htm

Quote from: Darryl Nester on December 11, 2006, 09:46:39 PM

Quote from: Rose Basketball on December 11, 2006, 09:19:48 PM
Rose-Hulman 80, Fontbonne 78.

Congrats on the Engineers for putting up a season-high 80 points.  Looks like Bibb and Bednarko had the range from outside tonight.

Obviously, a victory is always nice. Especially, for an Engineer club that had dropped three straight.

However, the way the 2nd half played out was less than inspiring. After a Brian Bibb basket to start the 2nd half, Rose-Hulman led 46-27, after leading by as many as 21 in the 1st half. They allowed WAY to many three's this evening, and allowed Fontbonne to get back in the game.

They were surprisingly below-average defensively this evening. Fontbonne had 14 3-pt. FG.

Rose-Hulman 80, Fontbonne 78.

Brian Bibb (RHIT) 31 points, 16 rebounds, 4-5 3-pt. FG
Jason Bednarko (RHIT) 16 pts., 3-5 3-pt. FG

Brian Fogerty (FC) 21 pts.
Trevor White (FC) 15 pts.
Joshua Branch (FC) 15 pts.
Cartez Parker (FC) 14 pts.

Rose-Hulman (4-4)
Fontbonne (2-5)

Quote from: Darryl Nester on December 11, 2006, 03:57:54 PM
Rose BB: I thought perhaps you were watching the game, and so might have been able to shed some light on those FT numbers.  Thanks for the halftime update; sounds like it was an interesting game.  I look forward to seeing the Engineers in Bluffton.

Unfortunately, I was not able to make this game. I was there last Wednesday night when Rose fell to Franklin. That contest was the most frustrated I have been in quite some time from watching Rose-Hulman the past 4 years. They absolutely shot themselves in the foot.

What's so disappointing about this Engineer team, is that they are better than they have shown so far. I know people say this all the time about their teams, but I truly believe Rose could very well be 4-0 in the conference. At the very least, 3-1. They lost to Hanover 72-71, in a game where they led 71-70 with 7 seconds left. Against Franklin, they committed 20 turnovers and gave up 20 offensive rebounds and still only lost 58-50. Against Bluffton, they basically ran into a better club. However, both of Rose's leading scorers (Brian Bibb and Jason Bednarko) were held to a combined 11 points. That had a lot to do with Bluffton's defense, of course.

The bottom line is, this Rose-Hulman team is much better than the 8th place prediction that was placed upon them in the pre-season, and will be competitive all the way through the conference season. It's just very hard to watch them lose games and not go down playing their best ballgames.

Quote from: Darryl Nester on December 09, 2006, 07:34:19 PM
Rose Basketball might not be in the mood to post the final for the BU-RHIT contest, which went to the Beavers, 54-49.

Elsewhere, MSJ beat AU by 3, DC beat Hanover by 9, and TU outscored MC by 12 in the second OT period.

Rose -- any comment on the lopsided free throw stats?  (The fouls were pretty even -- 16 for the Beavers, 19 for RHIT, but Bluffton was 20 of 24, RHIT was 6 of 8.)

Thanks for posting the final, Darryl. I had to leave home for a bit, and wasn't around last night to post.

Rose, for the second consecutive game, did not play that well. Though, they just ran into a better team. I knew it would be a low-scoring affair. The Engineers are going to keep teams to low point totals. They are very good defensively, for the most part, but offensively, they are STRUGGLING mightily right now. Until they learn to put the ball in the basket, they are going to have problems.

Halftime

Bluffton 28, Rose-Hulman 25.

*Mike Anthony, Eric Schwieterman, and Colt Cunningham with 6 points each for BU.

*Rose-Hulman is lead by Jared Moore's 8 points.

Quote from: RO_24 on December 08, 2006, 11:32:08 AM
It will be interesting to see how those two battle tomorrow.  Bluffton can get it and go, but the thing that worries me with their offense, is that they have possessions where they just completely bog down, and will not get a shot off or a horrible one...I'm hoping they can jump out to a quick lead and take RHIT out of their slowdown kind of game.  Be a good game, Rose has an internet broadcast correct?  I will not be making the 4 hour trip from Columbus  for this one....

Yes, they do. However, you will need WinAmp to listen.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/radiopage.html

For the second game in a row, the HCAC's top ranked scoring offense will go up against the league's top ranked scoring defense.

Bluffton comes in averaging an incredible 92.5 points per game, while Rose-Hulman is holding opponents to only 60.0 ppg in 3 contests.