MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[OXY Oswald]

Oxy re-enters the poll (at #20!), and OB is still bitchin'!

Yeah, and Oxy only had to win 15 out of 16 to do it.

OxyBob

Also known as six out of seven.

Carry the 2.... yeah that sounds about right. I was never very good at reducing my fractions.

[TeeDub]

The pollsters were obviously waiting to place Oxy back into the top 25 right before the rematch game against CMS.  Can CMS bump Oxy out of the poll twice in one year?

[DIIIghetto]

Congrats to the Tigers for getting back to where they belong.  Great to see the SCIAC rising up from the DIII ghetto.  An Oxy friend at the gym told me the other day that he heard his alma mater gives the Men's program an annual budget of about $12k and that number includes what has to be paid out to the assistants.  If my friend is even remotely close, all I can say is double congrats to the Tiger staff for getting so much done with so little.   I wonder how that figure compares to Ill. Wesleyan, UWSP and for that matter, other teams in the top 20.  Hard for me to imagine that there is another team accomplishing so much with so little financial support from the school. 

[DIIIghetto]

OB, your compass comment still has me chuckling.  I was happy to see Oxy at #20 this week.  Nice to know you have to go 17-2 to get that kind of recognition for the SCIAC.  Nice for Cal Lu to go 15-3, with a defining W against Wisc SP, only to get as many votes as a team tied for 4th in the mighty, mighty NESCAC.   

[tigersports]

We'll be there for the game tonight.  You may even get to hear OxyBob again!  www.oxybroadcast.com.

[Pat Coleman]

Go win a game in March sometime, I guess. Been a while since your Salem pavers team played.

[DIIIghetto]

PC, true dat.   Ain't nothing like March wins. 

Please refresh my recollection of when Middlebury last won a game in March.   Was it earlier than Cal Lu's last March win? 

[Pat Coleman]

They have fewer votes than Oxy and the same number of postseason wins in the past five seasons as Cal Lu. Not sure what you're getting at there.

Go get it done. Quit yapping about your poor underappreciated selves and force us to appreciate you! I'm tired of the yapping! Go win games! Beat Whittier, beat Chapman. Win the games you're supposed to win and an occasional game you're not supposed to win and you will get into the Top 25 eventually. But losing games you're supposed to win is a death knell, folks.

When you go and lose games you are supposed to win, that makes the wins in games you were supposed to lose look like flukes rather than reality. And in a 25-game season, there are going to be some flukes. But you have to take care of business against everyone you're supposed to. And if you don't, then you better have more than one home win against a Top 25 team to balance it out.

[scandihoovian]

Go win a game in March sometime, I guess. Been a while since your Salem pavers team played.

I thought we got a free pass on that due to the excessive travel involved...

FWIW - CLU beat the Poets tonight by ten or so.  Close game until the final 3-4 minutes.

[Browneagle64]

Congratulations to the men in orange and black for winning against a very good stag team at the Rock last night.

From the Oxy website
http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2007-08/news/020608mbbCMS 

[scandihoovian]

Here's the game write up from the CLU website.

Whittier struck me as an improved team over last year.  Much quicker & tougher on the defensive end then in recent years.  They also seemed to have more offensive options at their disposal.  As I said earlier, it was a close game until right around 3:30 left when the Kingsmen made several key stops and pulled away.  It got a little chippy down the stretch when Poet frustrations started to boil over a bit.  It will be interesting to see if they can rally down the stretch.  This is where the four team tournament really changes things, especially as teams like Whittier and ULV try to put together a run to make the tournament.

[OXY Oswald]

Congratulations to the Tigers, that's a big win.  Glad to hear they played well and came out hot after the break.  I unfortunately couldn't make it -- I was detained by the Lakers, who can't hold a fourth quarter lead  , and the Duke/UNC matchup last night.

[OXY Oswald]

I was detained by the Lakers, who can't hold a fourth quarter lead

That's what happens when you have a team running on Gasol-hol rather than 91 octane premium.

OxyBob

Well at least we didn't buy the Diesel they were selling in Miami.  I knew there was a fuel crisis, but $40 mil for two years?!   

[LogShow]

CIT: Travis Haussler 35 pts (11-for-18, 5-for 5 3s, 8-for-9 FTs) plus 13 rebounds and 3 assists

First ever conference player of the week from cal tech!?  What a preformance.

[Gregory Sager]

Redlands 97, Caltech 88 OT
The Beavers came close to ending their streak of 266 consecutive SCIAC losses going back to 1985, but the Bulldogs prevailed in overtime.

Wow. And this matchup was a 61-point win (97-36) for the Bulldogs less than a month ago out in the Inland Empire. That's gotta be the biggest turnaround in scoring margin within a single season's home-and-home series in college basketball history.

Seems to me that the Techsters are getting closer and closer to breaking through. In their last game they only lost at Whittier by 13, and now they lose in overtime. Sooner or later, one of the other seven teams in your league is going to find itself on SportsCenter ... and it won't be enjoying the exposure.