MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pio20]

Interesting night in the SCIAC, as #21 Oxy lost to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 55-42 AND #24 Cal Lutheran lost to Whittier 69-58. Whittier was up 40-25 at the half after shooting an astounding 68% from the field and 57% from three. Add 26 Cal Lutheran turnovers to that and the result is a Whittier victory.

[David Collinge]

Until OB shows up with an eyewitness report, you'll have to settle for my nitwitness ones:
Whittier 69, Cal Lu 58
CMS 55, Oxy 42
P-P 76, LaVerne 58
Redlands 97, Caltech 36
Looks like the SCIAC will move quickly from two teams in the poll to none.

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to both CMS and the Poets for their recent wins against two good teams. From the sounds of it, the Temple of Doom really does seems to be Oxy's kryptonite. I Guess we will have to wait until Feb. 6 when the Stags come to the rock and lose to the men in orange and black. 

[Fear the Poet]

never a doubt

[Gray Fox]

There was a very favorable mention of Oxy tuba players in this morning's LA Times sports section.

Another thing. If Wooden had the time, health and youth to do so, he would spend just as much time imparting his wisdom to a tuba player from Occidental as he would to a 6-foot-10 center. If Wooden talked to Love and didn't think UCLA would be a good fit, he would have told him not to come, to go somewhere else, to join a rock band. Whatever.

[Browneagle64]

I would have have never expected a reporter from the times to screw up on his/her research (maybe from the Redlands newspaper), but, where exactly are these Tuba players from Oxy??
The Last time I checked, Oxy has no marching band nor does the music department have any musical group that uses the tuba. Shame on this reporter, shame on him. (by the way, yes, i know that he was trying to be funny, but he could have asked Mr. T.J. Simers for some help on this one.) 

[Browneagle64]

Ahhh, thanks for the insight. I never knew Dwyre was the editor at some time. As hard is it may be to believe, I only used to read plaschke's and Simers columns during my time in high school and undergrad years. (that's what i get for being so young)

[Pat Coleman]

I don't think the school makes a big deal of the Wooden connection, which I understood to be at Wooden's request, and the kid isn't named Wooden, so I am not surprised that the writer didn't know.

Nor does it make the writer's statement inaccurate at all. OB is picking at nits that aren't even here.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

I'm going to go out on a limb and give Dwyre more credit.  I'd bet he is aware of the connection and that knowledge informed his otherwise "random" framing?

fwiw

tooth

[Gray Fox]

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[scandihoovian]

Ahhh, thanks for the insight. I never knew Dwyre was the editor at some time. As hard is it may be to believe, I only used to read plaschke's and Simers columns during my time in high school and undergrad years. (that's what i get for being so young)

BE-
Go to the library, ASAP, and check out Jim Murray's collection The Great Ones.  You, Oswald and the other young bucks on this board can all claim a deprived childhood as far as I am concerned - you missed the chance to read Murray in his prime.

In reading some of Dwyre's recent columns I have at times wondered if his 25 year stint as editor was an example of the Dilbert Principle.

[Fear the Poet]

Tonight's conference schedule:

Caltech (1-11, 0-1) @ Oxy (10-2, 0-1)
Redlands (6-6, 1-0) @ Pomona (6-5, 1-0)
La Verne (6-6, 0-1) @ Cal Lutheran (10-2, 0-1)
Claremont (7-5, 1-0) @ Whittier (8-4, 1-0)

Saturday's games:

Whittier @ La Verne
Redlands @ Oxy
Cal Lutheran @ Caltech
Pomona @ Claremont

OxyBob

"Purple and Gold night" at the Don tonight.

Go Poets!!

[scandihoovian]

Got to see the Kingsmen play for the first time this season.  It wasn't pretty, as David Lassen pointed out in the VC Star, but was what Cal Lu needed after the Debacle in "the Don" as FTP likes to call it.

I did not see LaVerne play last year, so I don't have a basis for comparison for Duran's last year to Reid's first.  For the most part the Leo's played hard, and seem to be buying into what their new coach wants to do.

Looks like CMS had a relatively easy time of it last night in Whittier.  It'll be very interesting to see the outcome of their meeting with the Hens on Saturday.

[David Collinge]

Claremont 69, Whittier 54
[Box score classified for national security reasons]

Did Nixon play?  I thought his eligibility was all used up.

[Gray Fox]

Claremont 69, Whittier 54
[Box score classified for national security reasons]

Did Nixon play?  I thought his eligibility was all used up.

The records were lost.