Quote from: division3hoops on December 18, 2006, 10:31:05 PMBy the way - I just saw that I have -2 Karma??  Since I'm brand new to this site, I don't really understand how the whole Karma thing goes - could anyone explain to me?  I'd appreciate it. 

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While Wooster is "schooling" Pomona-Pitzer (Scots up by 20 with 0:45 left in the 1st), I thought I'd put up a post about the interesting "school" that is Pomona-Pitzer.  As you may be aware, there is no college called "Pomona-Pitzer."  Pomona College and Pitzer College are separate institutions that share a campus in Claremont, CA.  Actually, they're not completely separate, and then again, they don't entirely share a campus.  See, I told you they were interesting! 

The Claremont Colleges are made up of five undergraduate institutions (and two graduate schools) that share a campus and many common facilities (including library) and offer cross-registration, but retain separate identities.  Part of the sharing is in athletics, both intramural and intercollegiate.  Hence, from the five undergraduate institutions, we have two D3 programs, Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  That other team is made up of student-athletes from Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College, which is a women's college. 

Each of the Claremont Colleges is extremely highly selective and each enjoys an outstanding academic reputation.  For more information, click here ==>http://www.claremont.edu/

At the Half:  Wooster 47  Pomona-Pitzer 27

Wooster jumped out to a 12-0 lead and has been in control of this game.   Wooster is being led by Devin Fulk with 10 points, Brandon Johnson with 8 points, James Cooper with 8 points and Tim Vandervaart also with 8 points.

GO SCOTS!

One other interesting thing about Pomona-Pitzer:  after years of infrequent discussion on various pages of this forum, I think we've decided that the men's teams representing Pomona and Pitzer are the only ones in D3 that have a feminine nickname:  the Sagehens.  There are many gender-neutral nicknames (like Scots), there are some women's teams still playing with masculine nicknames (like Amherst's Lord Jeffs and St. Joseph's Monks--can a woman be a monk?), and there are some feminine-sounding nicknames (like the NYU Violets), but I think the Sagehens are alone in their special brand of gender confusion.   

Quote from: David Collinge on December 18, 2006, 11:04:40 PMWhile Wooster is "schooling" Pomona-Pitzer (Scots up by 20 with 0:45 left in the 1st), I thought I'd put up a post about the interesting "school" that is Pomona-Pitzer.  As you may be aware, there is no college called "Pomona-Pitzer."  Pomona College and Pitzer College are separate institutions that share a campus in Claremont, CA.  Actually, they're not completely separate, and then again, they don't entirely share a campus.  See, I told you they were interesting! 

The Claremont Colleges are made up of five undergraduate institutions (and two graduate schools) that share a campus and many common facilities (including library) and offer cross-registration, but retain separate identities.  Part of the sharing is in athletics, both intramural and intercollegiate.  Hence, from the five undergraduate institutions, we have two D3 programs, Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  That other team is made up of student-athletes from Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College, which is a women's college. 

Each of the Claremont Colleges is extremely highly selective and each enjoys an outstanding academic reputation.  For more information, click here ==>http://www.claremont.edu/

The local (San Antonio) news had a deal a couple of years ago explaining this because San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich's first head coaching job was at Pomona-Pitzer.

Pop also has a Wabash connection (shamless plug, I know)

Quote from: David Collinge on December 18, 2006, 11:16:49 PM
One other interesting thing about Pomona-Pitzer:  after years of infrequent discussion on various pages of this forum, I think we've decided that the men's teams representing Pomona and Pitzer are the only ones in D3 that have a feminine nickname:  the Sagehens.  There are many gender-neutral nicknames (like Scots), there are some women's teams still playing with masculine nicknames (like Amherst's Lord Jeffs and St. Joseph's Monks--can a woman be a monk?), and there are some feminine-sounding nicknames (like the NYU Violets), but I think the Sagehens are alone in their special brand of gender confusion.   

Speaking of feminine-sounding nickmames, I'm just glad my alma mater switched from "Boy Beauties" to "Titans."

page 10:
http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/07IWUMenbbguide.pdf

"Boy Beauty Q" just doesn't have the same ring.

Quote from: Titan Q on December 18, 2006, 11:27:02 PM"Boy Beauty Q" just doesn't have the same ring.

Wow. You would win the all-time school spirit award to have a username like that.

Wooster is up 28 with 8-something left.  I hope to start hearing names of freshmen (besides Elam) pretty soon.

UPDATE:  the jayvees (i.e. frosh) did come in a few minutes later, with the margin at 23 or so.

Final:  Wooster 97  Pomona-Pitzer 77

Wooster actually led by 30 points in the 2nd half before the Sagehens cut the margin.   Wooster was led by Tom Port with 18 points, Brandon Johnson with 18 points, James Cooper with 16 points and Devin Fulk with 13 points.

Pomona-Pitzer was led by David Knowles with 22 points and Jabarri Reynolds with 21 points.

Wooster is now 9-0.   Next up is California Baptist on Wednesday.

GO SCOTS!

I managed to catch the end of the game online.  If I am not mistaken, Mike, the radio commentator, said Wooster was 6-14 from the line.  Can somebody please confirm that?  That did not sound right to me.

They were 6-14 from the line.  I could be way wrong on this one, but this seemed to me to be another game in which the Scots got a bit bored, somewhat like the Cedarville game, although in that one it didn't happen until the second half.  In this game, they jumped out of the box quickly, shooting lights out while PP couldn't buy a hoop.  With about 11 minutes to go in the first half, they had a large double digit lead and were on a pace to score well over a hundred. 

But they cooled off, and just seemed to only get motivated in spurts.  Hard to blame them, when they certainly seemed to be the much better team and were never at all threatened.  On to California Baptist where the competition will probably be stiffer.

Here is the box score from PP's site

http://www.physical-education.pomona.edu/mens/basketball/stats/2007/wcvspp.htm

Five Scots in double figures with Vandervaart posting a double-double (15 rebounds).

Each team scores 50 points in the second half. That won't sit well with coach Moore.

Thanks for the props Oxy.  It's always nice to get an outside perspective.

Looking at the stats from last night's game, it's hard to believe that Wooster shot better from beyond the arc than they did from the stripe but they did just that last night (52%-42%).  That's two sub-par performances in a row from the ft line for the Scots.  I'm going to attribute this to the lack of practice time this past week because of finals and the long trip to the left coast. 

Also of note, with his 13 points last night Devin Fulk pushed his average to 10 ppg giving the Scots 5 players averaging double figures.

Anyone interested in tuning in the Witt/ONU game tonight, here is the link to the Wittenberg Webcast.  I couldn't find any webcasts available on the ONU Basketball homepage.

I'm just glad Wooster pulled the starters - and that Isaiah Thomas wasn't coaching Pomona - Pitzer.