WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hoopstermom]

Nice season for W&L but they go down 51-68

CNU  just too much to handle tonight, not just carried by Schweers either.

Hopefully Roanoke matches up better tomorrow.

[whitecaylxx]

Yes, for all the game plans to contain Schweers, it really was a team effort by CNU that was Washington and Lee's undoing.  CNU seems to have progressed so much since the beginning of the year.  I was surprised that CNU had such a rebound advantage.  It was a great run for the ODAC tournament winners, though.  Hopefully Roanoke will have the services of Nicci Moats back today.  Does anyone know her status or extent of her injury?  I thought it was impressive that Roanoke was able to advance without her.

[whitecaylxx]

Where is Nicci Moats?  Does this happen everywhere she goes??  CNU is on a 21 - 0 run.  Where is the defense??  I give up!

[Swish3]

CNU Captains = USA South & ODAC champs!

GO CAPS!

[dukeofargyle]

There is a great reason the CNU team is undefeated. Against both of the ODAC teams (despite Roanoke's two D-1 transfers,) CNU just had too many weapons.

Captains went a legit 12 out of 14 deep – plus great coaching by Carolyn Hunter. She ran a full court press every minute of the game against the Gennies, who put only 7 players on the court for the first 38 minutes. Hunter sent in fresh legs from the CNU bench every 3-4 minutes.  Captains were up by 16 at the half and won over W&L by 17 points; 51-68. Still, the Gennies held Schweers to 16 points and the Captain's biggest scorer in the game was Alysa Kerr with 17.  Unsurprisingly, the Gennies, exhausted after the relentless pressure, ran out of legs but still played better in the second half than in the first half. The Gennies held CNU to pretty close to the same scoring margin as they had in November: 17 points.  Allie Long played an amazing 38 minutes with full court pressure.

Unfortunately; the #1 ODAC team, Roanoke, fared even worse than the Generals against CNU tonight.  

Although senior Caitlyn Long scored 28 points, no other RC players put up double digits.  Caitlyn will be sorely missed next year for the Maroons. For CNU, Kerr (not Schweers) put up 24 points in the game and Schweers had a double-double against RC (the only one for any team in the NCAA first round weekend) with 18 points and 11 RBs.

Roanoke's only leads of the game were a few 2 point leads early. By half, CNU was up by 17 points: 42-25, and they finished out by downing the Maroons by 24 points: 72 to 48.

Best of luck to the CNU Captains for the rest of the way. Sure would be good to have a Virginia team win it all this year!

[Brookland]

I guess CNU answered our questions: yes, they are more than C. Schweers, yes they can rebound, yes they can play defense.
They look VERY legit to me. And the bad news for everyone else - they're graduating exactly one player (12.1 minutes and 1.2 ppg).
OK, we're down to two Virginia teams, CNU and Marymount, both of whom have not been challenged in their games so far. And if they keep winning they won't play each other until the Final 4. Two VA teams in the Final 4 would be very good for Virginia basketball credibilty. I will be rooting for both of them from here out!
Also, I'd like to thank all of you who made this board one of the most active and interesting on D3boards. (If you don't believe that, just peruse the scarcity of  postings for the USASouth, CAC, Centennial, etc.)
Keep up the good work, folks!

[Bammer]

Congratulations to Becca Bolton from W&L for being named a finalist for the 2010 Women's Basketball State Farm Division 3 All-American Team.  Molly Ariail and Tonia Jones are also finalists.  The ODAC is well represented. 

[dukeofargyle]

CNU is no longer undefeated. Both CNU and Marymount were downed in the Sweet 16:
CNU by Rochester and Marymount by Hope.

For Virginia on the brighter side, ODAC Men's teams RMC and Guilford are still smokin': they're both in the final four on opposite sides of the bracket, though EMU fell in the elite eight:
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables

Shows real well for the ODAC!

[hoopstermom]

CNU is no longer undefeated. Both CNU and Marymount were downed in the Sweet 16:
CNU by Rochester and Marymount by Hope.

For Virginia (emphasis added by hoopstermom) on the brighter side, ODAC Men's teams RMC and Guilford are still smokin': they're both in the final four on opposite sides of the bracket, though EMU fell in the elite eight:
http://www.d3hoops.com/notables

Shows real well for the ODAC!

Agree, great showing for the ODAC, and I'm definitely rooting for an all ODAC men's final, but Guilford is in North Carolina.

As for the women.  I'm sorry that Marymount lost and CNU went down to Rochester.  I was actually surprised by the CNU loss in particular.  Would have been great for them to run the table.  I don't think they got the attention they deserved most of the year and some may continue to argue that they were still too highly rated having gone down to an unranked team, but I say congrats to them.  They had a heck of a season and certainly represented Virginia, the USA South conference, and the South Region well.

[dukeofargyle]

Agree, great showing for the ODAC, and I'm definitely rooting for an all ODAC men's final, but Guilford is in North Carolina.

Good catch hoostermom, Guilford is in North Carolina.

I realize I'm splitting hairs here, but The Old Dominion Athletic Conference does refer to the Old Dominion, which is NOT North Carolina! Never a bad thing to draw attention to the talent here in the South.

So, here's hoping that one or both ODAC teams play in the men's final.  I maintain it's one of the strongest conferences in the country...

[hoopstermom]

All region teams announced!!

http://www.d3hoops.com/all-region/10/southwom.htm

ODAC well represented -
Congrats to Molly Arail of Randolph-Macon - First Team selection. Great career for Molly.  She will be missed.

Way to go Jasmine Greene of Holins for 2nd team recognition and
Kaitlyn Long of Roanoke and Becca Bolton of Washington Lee both for 3rd team recognition. 

Other Virginia player selections
Chelsea Schweers of CNU was Player of the Year and another 1st team selection
Kristen Keith of Ferrum 1st team selection
Ashley Washington of Averett 3rd team selection

[ronk]

  As a matter of process, how does the highest ranked freshman regional player(Jasmine Greene) not get chosen as ROY?

[hoopstermom]

More congratulations to Molly Ariail for her selection to the WBCA and State Farm® NCAA Division III State Farm Coaches' All-America Team.

In addition Becca Bolton of Washington and Lee and Tonia Jones of Virginia Weslyan received Honorable Metion selections. 

http://www.wbca.org/releases/2010DIIISFCAATPR.html

[2RMCFans]

^Congrats to Molly and Becca Bolton and Tonia Jones.

Hoopstermom, we missed seeing you in Salem!

Lots of our women's team members & coaches were in Salem last night for R-MC's mens Final 4 loss, and many of their parents were there as well.  

That kind of support is what makes R-MC such a great place!!!  We alums appreciate your commitment.

We can't wait til Nov. gets here.  GO JACKETS!!!

[2RMCFans]

Molly Ariail named DIII News POY!  Way to go, Molly!

GO JACKETS!!!