MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Now can we get back to basketball please?

Only after you got in your parting shot? Sheesh. Real mature.

[Gregory Sager]

My condolences to the Wagner and CMS families.

Both teams played tremendous defense, and scored on almost every posession.

[David Collinge]

Caltech has a 254-game SCIAC losing streak going back to '84-'85. The Beavers will not end that streak against Whittier.

Why not?  It wasn't too long ago that you were suggesting that Cal Tech had a good shot to beat La Verne, and as you point out, La Verne erased the Poets twice.  From far-off Ohio, this looks like the "last best chance" for the Beavers, so I'm curious why you dismiss it out of hand.

I hope it's not because of Whittier's last-[40 ]minute 55 point victory over CIT the first time around; in Pasadena, the Beavers should be able to narrow that tiny gap.

[Hoopsallthetime]

Early prediction for POY:

Amir Mazarei - Redlands.

It kills me to say it, but he has been the guy that has been unstoppable.  He is the #1 guy on every coach's hit list and he still puts up the numbers.

It is easy to see that Mazarei deserves to be mentioned as a POY candidate considering he puts up 30 shots a contest. I just don't believe he deserves to be POY. I believe he is the #1 guy on every coach's hit list because  he shoots the most, and usually is the most accurate out of the other 14 guys who play. Redlands is averaging 120.1 pts a game, with Mazarei avg. 29.6. If my calculations are correct, that is 1/4 of the teams scoring. That is impressive.

I bet if you ask coaches around the SCIAC who the best player in the league is, I bet Maceira is on top. He is averaging 19.7 a game with a team that just lost two First team players from last year, including the player of the year in Miles Taylor. That is a ton of offense that was lost from two graduating seniors. I guess i beleive Maceira is more of an all-around player. He can score inside and outside when he wants too, and without the 3's Mazarei is just another player.

Don't get me wrong Mazarei is a great player, but not deserving of POY. Plus, don't forget about Betty and Knowles. I bet they will be strong candidates as well.

[sciac_is_fun]

Speaking of streaks, I don't think CLU has lost to Redlands in quite some time, home or away.  They seemed to have the TFS/System figured out pretty well.  Too bad it might disappear so soon!

Quite a streak indeed...you have to go back all the way to last year to find the last time Cal Lu lost to Redlands...

my bad...as a Kingsmen fan I try to forget about last year, which I did a pretty good job of doing. 

[TeeDub]

Speaking of streaks, I don't think CLU has lost to Redlands in quite some time, home or away.  They seemed to have the TFS/System figured out pretty well.  Too bad it might disappear so soon!

Quite a streak indeed...you have to go back all the way to last year to find the last time Cal Lu lost to Redlands...

my bad...as a Kingsmen fan I try to forget about last year, which I did a pretty good job of doing. 

That's cool...I'd rather have the current bragging rights (like you) then be right about one game from last season...

[sciacguru]

cmsstag:

I agree with you 100% in regards to Maceira.  After watching him at the CLU game, he has to be the most difficult player to match up with in the SCIAC.  Like you said, he may be the most versatile player.

But we all know that the "BEST" player is not always the POY.  And the POY generally goes to a player from the SCIAC champion.  Right now the front-runner, in my humble opinion, is Mazarei...even after their 2 consecutive losses.

And if we take 3 pointers out of the equation....then Knowles is disqualified as well.  And noone can forget about Betty.

[Browneagle64]

Oxy's game against the hens will turn out to be a good game. However, most of time the men in orange and black will be dominating the hens. IMHO, after losing a game to the stags i am sure the tigers and ticked off and eager to show that they are still te best in the league. Look to for a better performance with the Oxy D and expect to see the offensive side of the ball scoring a lot more. Knowles will be stopped and the other hens will be to afraid to step up while under a lot of pressure.
Since the game will be on a saturday at Rush gym, i'll give the edge to Oxy. Maybe, i'll end up skipping some previous plans and join some of you guys down at the rock.

[sciac_is_fun]

CLU escapes Laverne 56-53   

[Howlinwolf]

Oxy is lights out in the second half and cruises by P-P.

Congrats to the Cal Tech women's team - Beavers dam the Poets!

[diehardfan]

I hit three SCIAC gyms tonight... two of which were empty. Whoops.... no more trying to look up game scheds on my cell! Fortunately for oxy, I got to Eagle Rocj just in time for the second half where Oxy outscored Pomona by, well, a lot. You're welcome Oxy.

Or it could be said that Oxy finally played like themselves finally...

[tigersports]

Hey Diehard, nice seeing you again at Rush last night (Oh, and you too, OxyBob).  Just wanted to let you know that Pat's got this little website that posts the entire league schedule for the year.  

Today's baseball game against La Sierra was rained out, sparing us an Andy Collins v. Lewis&Clark type score.

[David Collinge]

Careful, TS.  In the last twelve hours or so, I've twice reminded posters (on other boards) of the availability of information elsewhere in Pat's world, and as a result I now have two extra orifices.  Of course, I wasn't talking to diehardfan, or posting in jest...

[Pat Coleman]

Hey Diehard, nice seeing you again at Rush last night (Oh, and you too, OxyBob).  Just wanted to let you know that Pat's got this little website that posts the entire league schedule for the year.   

She used it. But the cellphone wasn't as good a web browser as she would've liked.

[Gray Fox]

Hey Diehard, nice seeing you again at Rush last night (Oh, and you too, OxyBob).  Just wanted to let you know that Pat's got this little website that posts the entire league schedule for the year.   

She used it. But the cellphone wasn't as good a web browser as she would've liked.

I hope she doesn't try to do this while driving four hours.  We don't want to lose her again.