WBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hasanova]

The women's bracket is out and the Guilford Quakers are the only ODAC team to make the field.  Guilford and the USASAC's Ferrum travel to Centre (Danville, KY) to face the Colonels and the Washington University Bears, respectively, on March 2.  Go Quakers!

I'm truly sorry the Marlins and the Royals were left off, but the Pool C field must have been packed.

[hoopstermom]

Good luck to Guilford!!! 

[hasanova]

Good luck to Guilford!!!

Ditto!!!

[pbrooks3]

The Guilford / Centre game will begin at 9:30 pm ET tonight; 2 hours late because of inclement weather.

[hoopstermom]

The Guilford / Centre game will begin at 9:30 pm ET tonight; 2 hours late because of inclement weather.

Good, now I can watch on video.  Was going to miss if they started on time due to other commitment.
I hope Guilford is on their game tonight.  I hope Oglesby and Gibbs are on fire. If so, I think they got a good chance to win this one.

[hasanova]

The Guilford / Centre game will begin at 9:30 pm ET tonight; 2 hours late because of inclement weather.

Good, now I can watch on video.  Was going to miss if they started on time due to other commitment.
I hope Guilford is on their game tonight.  I hope Oglesby and Gibbs are on fire. If so, I think they got a good chance to win this one.

Guilford's up by five at the half, 30-25.  Keep it up ladies!  Go Quakers!  Ferrum lost the opener to Washington U, 79-64, so the winner will face the Bears tomorrow night.

[hasanova]

The Guilford / Centre game will begin at 9:30 pm ET tonight; 2 hours late because of inclement weather.

Good, now I can watch on video.  Was going to miss if they started on time due to other commitment.
I hope Guilford is on their game tonight.  I hope Oglesby and Gibbs are on fire. If so, I think they got a good chance to win this one.

Guilford's up by five at the half, 30-25.  Keep it up ladies!  Go Quakers!  Ferrum lost the opener to Washington U, 79-64, so the winner will face the Bears tomorrow night.

Guilford played their worst half of the season, including a disastrous 18-2 run and fell 59-47.  Quakers led 35-31 and then could not do anything right.  Sigh.  Great season, though.

[hoopstermom]

Rats, rats and rats.  I really thought Guilford was going to win this one.  Oh well, great season for them.  Expect they will be a leader in the ODAC again next year. 

Still have VWC to root for on the men's side.

[wmjofva]

Snow day thoughts!

Of the top 6 scorers in the ODAC this year, 3 played for RMC..yet they had worst conference record since 2000-2001 team.  Maybe you need to do more than score to play winning basketball. 

Virginia Wesleyan has been in the ODAC championship game of the tournament 3 times in the last 6 years and not won.  Maybe they need to get some Norfolk refs up to Roanoke for that game. 

With no Mullen, Bridgewater lost 4 of their last 6 games, beating only teams that didn't make the tournament.  Good news...one more Burkholder...Cassidy,little sister of Kirby (playing at JMU) and Jordan (all time scorer at Bridgewater) will play at Bridgewater next year.  Cassidy like her sisters was a 1,000 pt scorer for TA (high school) in Bridgewater.

[2RMCFans]

Congratulations to R-MC Coach Carroll LaHaye for being named to Virginia Lawyers Media's Class of 2012 "Influential Women of Virginia"!  She surely has left a positive mark on a lot of R-MC students, parents, alums & fans over the past few decades.

Well done Coach LaHaye.... GO JACKETS!!!

[hoopstermom]

Women's All-South Region Team Awards announced!!

Congratulations to:

Sarah Seipp, G, Virginia Wesleyan - Rookie of the Year

Third Team:
Jasmine Green, G, Jr. Hollins
Bianca Ygarza, F, So. Eastern Mennonite

Personally I think Gabby Oglesby of Guilford was deserving of some placement as well, but great to see the recognition the ODAC did get.

[jknezek]

W&L loses head coach Mandy King, winningest coach in the program's history, to Kean in NJ. Kind of a bummer as Coach King had really transformed the W&L program. However, the recruiting has been a problem the last few years and the team struggled to put enough bodies on the bench this year to be competitive. With a very strong graduating class, I can't help but think if she had gotten a just 1 or 2 role players in each of the last 2 classes the Generals would have been a force this past year.

At this point, I fear a return to the program's dark ages as W&L has lost some assistants in the previous couple years, the head coach, and had some poor recruiting 2 years running. If Coach King was out looking for a new job, instead of recruiting this year, this could mark the 3rd tough year in a row. That makes for a very empty cupboard for whoever is coming in.

Time will tell. The Generals will certainly miss Coach King as she made huge strides in the program and I can only hope the next coach will be able to build on what she had done with the program, regardless of what is left on the shelf.

[whitecaylxx]

I think after last season, a change was due.  The turnover in assistants and the lack of recruiting really began to strain the program.  Though academic standards at Washington and Lee are very high, there really is no excuse for not getting a least a few new players.  Best wishes to Coach King and the new W & L coach.

[jknezek]

W&L promotes from within: http://www.generalssports.com/sports/wbkb/2011-12/Releases/201206153yqwqa

I don't know much about Coach Clancy as she is only entering her second season in Lexington, but I sure hope she can recruit. The Generals' cupboard is starting to look real empty, and it's too late to do much about it this year (you can usually count W&L's total transfer students on your fingers and toes and you can count those coming mid-year on one hand).

I am curious about what happened at Colby as she went 22-6 as an interim coach in 2010/11 before landing an assistant position at W&L for 2011/12. I wonder why Colby let her go after an obviously very successful season. Hopefully she can replicate that success at W&L.

[BH2OFan]

Hoping everyone had a great Summer. Anyone posted a schedule yet? Bridgewater's men's went up last week, with school starting it won't be long. Invite a fellow fan, let's get the chatter going early and often!