MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

buck14:

>>Robert Morris and OXY was a very competitive game<<

Here's the game write-up from the Pasadena Star-News:

Whitman's 27 Lift Occidental

Also, here's the game write-up about Caltech's win over Bard, courtesy of CSTV:


OxyBob

Sheesh -- what was wrong with the writeup on the front page of D3hoops.com that you had to send people to the AP rehash at CSTV??

If you're going to send someone to a story, at least use the NBCSports.com story -- they bothered to get some quotes of their own rather than paste AP.

http://www.nbcsports.com/sports/799987/detail.html

[David Collinge]

If you're going to send someone to a story, at least use the NBCSports.com story -- they bothered to get some quotes of their own rather than paste AP.

http://www.nbcsports.com/sports/799987/detail.html

Who's this "Patrick Coleman" guy, some relative of yours? 

[Pat Coleman]

Hence the smiley on the bothering-to-get-their-own-quotes line.

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to Cal Tech in their first win in such a long time. I am sure the were partying hard down on California Street.

Great to hear that Oxy did a fine job against a good and strong Rob. morris team at the rock. I suspect that the strange weather that we are getting out here in So.Cal is affecting the play of these out state teams.

Sorry to hear that the stags lost  to Chapman over the weekend. Look for them to rebound and get ready for SCIAC play.

[Hoopsallthetime]

Congrats to Cal Tech in their first win in such a long time. I am sure the were partying hard down on California Street.

Great to hear that Oxy did a fine job against a good and strong Rob. morris team at the rock. I suspect that the strange weather that we are getting out here in So.Cal is affecting the play of these out state teams.

Sorry to hear that the stags lost  to Chapman over the weekend. Look for them to rebound and get ready for SCIAC play.

Your information about the stags last night was wrong. The stags won impressively against Chapman 54-43. The stags played tremendous defense, showing why everyone's shot at the SCIAC title will go through Claremont. Josh Flynn Brown was held to less then 10 points, and the Chapman offense had no offense. It was a great game to watch with the stags diving for loose balls, and picking apart the Chapman defense for layups on the offensive end. The Stags start conference play against Laverne on Wednesday and then travel to Occidental on Saturday.

Congratulations to Cal Tech. What a great win, and good luck on Wednesday!

[DIIIghetto]

Bravo for the Beavers.  I predicted a few months ago that this would be the year that CT ended their SCIAC losing streak.  This W gives them some mo' but it also may hurt my prediction because nobody is going to sleep on them in conference.  They'll have to earn it.  I'm still sticking with my call.  I think they have enough talent and someone is going to get just tight enough cheeks to help them get over that conference hurdle.  

Good win for CMS.  I was worried about us hurting our cause for potentially getting two in the tourney again this year.    

Kats has his boys playing.  With that close game to Chapman, I'm putting Oxy, CMS & PP back in a dog fight for the conference.  Kats is smelling blood.  No way CMS beats them twice again.

[Gray Fox]

Gray Fox:

>>We need to get everyone involved to get a woman on Mars.<<

According to the book by Dr. John Gray, women already have Venus. I have no problem if women come to Mars, as long as they're tall, blonde, in bikinis, and bring along ice-cold six-packs and tasty submarine sandwiches.

OxyBob

I believe women are FROM Venus. You'll have to trick them into bringing the beer.

[diehardfan]

I just want to add my voice to those congratulating Cal Tech on breaking the streak!!!

Cal Tech is 100% a perfect example of why I love DIII so much, and I've always had a huge soft spot for them. I've watch a few of Cal Tech's close calls since I moved to Cali, so I'm so excited for them for getting this win. These players obviously take the court for the pure, unadulterated love of the game more than anyone else in basketball... how else could you stand walking onto the court knowing that everyone expects you to fail every night. I love that they proved many doubters wrong... here's hoping the conference streak goes down this season too!

I was going to be at the game, but I got dragged off to a celebration of the one year anniversary of my coworker's freedom from her ex.... who dumped her for another woman after 33 years of marriage... typical california male. I will be kicking myself for not being there for a long time... but hey... I guess it's not a bad thing to be a supportive friend.

Anyhow, thank you to CalTech for creating some great fodder for me against my archrival, Howard, creator of the Bard fansite www.raptormania.com .... this is going to be fun.

[Gregory Sager]

It would be great to see one of the schools with the great facility to have its own preseason invitational

... or, even better yet, how about a regular-season non-conference invitational?

Congrats to Roy Dow and Caltech! Way to go, Beavers!

[Gray Fox]

The Cal Tech story was on NPR this morning during one of the "light news" spots they put on at the half hour.  It said a conference win is their next goal.

dhf,
Welcome back.

[scandihoovian]

Like Gray Fox, I am happy to see DHF back in the room.

Nice article on CalTech in this morning's LA Times.  It's kind of the usual stuff, but always good to get the SCIAC some ink.

[diehardfan]

 Thanks guys.

Congrats to Oxy for breaking into the Top 25... I went to the Oxy-St. Thomas game, and thought Oxy definitely looked improved. As Oxy's only DIII loss was to St. Thomas in a game that was close the whole way, it seemed logical to me that Oxy deserves some Top 25 recognition early on. Here's hoping that they keep winning and keep me from looking like a dummy. If the reports here are accurate, I'm expecting CMS to provide some pretty interesting competition though... should be a fun conference season!

[Mr. Ypsi]

The first Posters' Poll of 2007 is out (multi-region topics).  We have 'fairly' good geographical representation, except we can't get anyone from the 'left coast'.

If you follow d3 on a NATIONAL level (or wish to nominate anyone who does), you're invited.  It is a bit of work if you try to do a good job (and we do!), but it is also fun and quite educational.

We are NOT in competition with the d3hoops.com poll (we all consider it the 'gold standard' for d3), but discrepancies between the polls can make for fascinating conversations.  Selections cover games through Sunday, with ballots due by 8pm (EST) Monday (though I often hold the voting booth open late hoping for more ballots).

I'm especially calling out you, OxyBob, but if I've overlooked anyone else with a national interest, I apologize and invite you as well.  For more info or to submit a ballot, send a PM to 'Mr. Ypsi'.  There were only 9 ballots this past week, but I'd really hope to reach 12-15 (at least!).

[Pat Coleman]

Caltech players react to their historic win in this news video clip.

http://video.nbcsports.com/player/?id=55036

[Pat Coleman]

Caltech on Cold Pizza on ESPN2 right now.