WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[valleybballfan]

That is now three double-doubles for Katy Herr Lovell so far on the season....and two other games she just barely missed hitting a double-double (vs. W&L 19 pnts and 9 assists, and then vs. EMU 11 pnts. 9 rebounds)

Pretty good start to the season I'd say


And Erin Hanson is having a tremendous start also for Roanoke....too bad the Maroons are struggling thus far

[Llamaguy]

Bridgewater falls to George Fox 57-41 for their first loss of the season in Hawaii.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Bridgewater falls to George Fox 57-41 for their first loss of the season in Hawaii.

Bound to happen at some point.  Better out of conference than in.

I'm sure Coach Willi, Justice and Wade will have these girls learn from this loss and be ready to roll come January 3.

I give local teams like VWC, CNU and BC a lot of credit for traveling so far for games on back-to-back nights.  I'm sure it's tough to get your body ready only a day after being there.

[swiss]

Bridgewater falls to George Fox 57-41 for their first loss of the season in Hawaii.

I'm sure it's tough to get your body ready only a day after being there.

Do you suppose that was the difference?  GFU played the day before and lost to UW-Whitewater, but GFU dominated the boards against BC 42 to 27.  Is that BC's weakness?

[fairmont1113]

Do you suppose that was the difference?  GFU played the day before and lost to UW-Whitewater, but GFU dominated the boards against BC 42 to 27.  Is that BC's weakness?

Bridgewater has done a decent job on the boards, but yes, if you want to point out a weakness that might be one of their few.

In their 7 games this season they have outrebounded four of the teams they played, and have been outrebounded in three of the games. This most recent game against George Fox they were outrebounded badly, but also badly undersized. George Fox has 6 girls on their roster that are 6'0 or taller. Also, Bridgewater has been without their only six-footer, Becca Henderson, until this tournament where she has only seen limited minutes.

Bridgewater played awful it sounds like against George Fox, but Matt is right, hopefully they will use this positively and be ready to get back at it starting in January.

Great start to the season ladies!

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Bridgewater falls to George Fox 57-41 for their first loss of the season in Hawaii.

I'm sure it's tough to get your body ready only a day after being there.

Do you suppose that was the difference?  GFU played the day before and lost to UW-Whitewater, but GFU dominated the boards against BC 42 to 27.  Is that BC's weakness?

Our starting center has only played in the last two games ... three minutes against Siena and eight against George.  Having her back and healthy come the stretch run will certainly help.

Seeing that George Fox is in Oregon, and VWC, BC and CNU are in Virginia, they have a lot shorter trip to Hawai'i than the VA schools did.  Not saying that's the only reason we lost ... but I'm sure it played a part.  We only turned the ball over 12 times (to George Fox's 23) ... we just couldn't shoot (which is uncharacteristic).  So I'd definitely say we just didn't have any legs.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

BTW, the story and box score are posted on BC's site:

http://www.bridgewater.edu/index.php?id=856

[Hampton U SID]

There were four Va teams there Matt   

[hoopstermom]

RMC wins today out in CA in the Surf City Classic 70-68 against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  They play Vanguard University of CA next on Saturday (currently ranked #1 in the NAIA DI with 7-0 record).  Live stats from game only available until next game starts at 10:30 tonight.

http://www.vanguard.edu/athletics/wbasketball/detail.aspx?doc_id=11890

[GAVA]

RMC beat bad by Vanguard 94-62.   Hard to make a comparison here. Vanguard is 8-0, rated #1 in NAIA Division I ( schloarship program). Comparable to NCAA Div I or II ? Lot of 6 footers on team.

[y_jack_lok]

GAVA, here is an excerpt from a post today by Pat Coleman on the Midwest SLIAC men's board regarding the relationship between NAIA D1 and NCAA D3. I would imagine the same applies to women's teams.

"The thing about the NAIA divisions is that they are not very large. There are fewer than 100 teams total in NAIA Division I -- 88 listed on the NAIA site, in fact. A top 25 of NAIA Division I would be like if we ranked a Top 80 or so of D-III.

The top 5 or so in NAIA Division I are normally considered unwinnable games for D-IIIs. But the rest, ehh, not so much."

[GAVA]

 

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   Re: D3 vs. D1/D2/NAIA/NCCAA
« Reply #522 on: December 22, 2006, 12:32:12 pm » 

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D3 vs.

D1....0-31
D2....6-54
NAIA 1....18-31
NAIA 2....64-49
NCCAA 1....5-5
NCCAA 2....27-4
USCAA....34-17
Other....38-4

(Totals through 12/21)

From the men's boards. While the NAIA are small ( about 100 school ) divisions, the DI offers athletic scholarships and the players tend to be bigger and better than NCAA D3.

[Pat Coleman]

Both levels of the NAIA offer scholarships.

[roaring0506]

NAIA D-1 offer 10 scholarships... NAIA D-2 offers 6 scholarships.

[y_jack_lok]

Full scholarships or partial scholarships?