MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Hugenerd]

Caltech only lost by 8 to ORV Merchant Marine and the team they got blown out by yesterday (MSOE), also blew out Carnegie Mellon today, which are all good signs indicating that Caltech is improved over recent years.  This could be the year they break through with some wins.

[connerfaught]

Anyone know why Drew Menez is no longer on the Whittier roster?

[magicman]

UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs beats Pomona-Pitzer 75-73  and Clarmont-Mudd-Scripps 62-60 on back to back nights and there's no chatter on the SCIAC board about it. Not one mention of it happening. Especially after the Stags big win last week and the hope of a possible national ranking.  Where is everybody?

[connerfaught]

Chris Blees is hurt bro and the Sagehens are young.

[CMSfan]

Chris Blees is hurt

What's the word on how long Blees is out?

[OGStag22]

So who is connerfaught because its definitely not the real person....

[Hoopsallthetime]

Blees is out for the remainder of the season. I'm sure this will be out sooner or later due to some of the SCIAC coaches watching Friday and Saturday night in Claremont. Chris tore his ACL two weeks ago against Concordia on a fluke play. Scali and the Stags will figure out how to win without Blees, but it will be a fight to the end. They still have a lot of talent, but it will take time to figure out how to win without the 2 time SCIAC MVP.

I haven't had the chance to see the other teams play besides Pomona, but I still think CMS can win the conference without Blees this year. The stags still have a load of talent, and are running about 5 deep on the bench. Scali will find a way to win, and you won't see CMS dropping there heads and not fighting for back to back to back SCIAC championships. It should be an interesting season.

Conner...its good to see you on the board!

[CrashDavisD3]

SCIAC Schedule and Scoreboard.
http://www.thesciac.org/sports/mbkb/2010-11/schedule

[stag44]

Stags go to a very challenging Lopata Classic this week, facing Franklin and Marshall (#15) and Wash U (home team). Should be a very interesting challenge for them now without Blees.

I'll be out there watching and cheering them on, hopefully see some familiar faces there as well.

In the rest of the SCIAC, we have the wonderful Lee Fulmer Tournament, as well as some non-conference games. Any insights on the Lee Fulmer? Chapman has to be the favorite going in. Wouldn't surprise me if we saw a Chapman UCSC final give the Banana Slugs performance in Claremont last weekend.

[dahlby]

The Redlands Tourney does not have the out of area teams that it has had in the past. With Santa Cruz, Whittier, Redlands, Cal Tech and Chapman being the D3 Teams and W/C Baptist, Southwestern AZ and American Sports Institute being non-NCAA teams rounding out the competition. This line-up isn't going to help anyone's SOS.

Maybe the OXY posters could give us a scouting report on ASI, as they have already played them twice this year at OXY.  OXY has also defeated W/C Baptist at home this year. UCSC has knocked off a couple of D3's this year and I am told their program is getting stronger. They have some guys that have been with them for a while.

UCSC would meet Chapman in the semi's if they both win their first game. The Redlands web site lists the games and times for all participants.

[oldchap]

UCSC would meet Chapman in the semi's if they both win their first game. The Redlands web site lists the games and times for all participants.

Dahlby,

I guess I'm not reading the schedule the same way. I agree with stag44. The only way that Chapman and UCSC would play in the Fulmer tournament is in the finals. If Chapman wins their first game, they would play against the winner of the Whittier-West Coast Baptist game in the semis.

Disappointing to see such a week tournament this year... But assuming Chapman and UCSC do meet in the finals, it should be a good game.

[dahlby]

And I had my glasses on... And I thought it was something else that went first! Beat me up, make me write bad checks...I have it coming after this! :-)

[OxyFan21]

It's been quite a long time since I posted, but I just came back from Day 1 at the Lopata. Caught the 2nd half of the CMS game. They had an iffy call go against them with 6 seconds left and F&M got two shots to win the game. I was wondering why Blees was in street clothes, but now I know. Too bad.

Great atmoshphere for Tsinghua vs WashU. Too much size for Tsinghua to handle. They had two good players but didn't run much on offense. I'd say 2000 in attendance.

[dahlby]

Cal Tech up 40-20 against Americam Sports Inst at halftime in the Redlands Tourney.

UPDATE:
Beavers hold on and win 74-67. Congradulations!

[CrashDavisD3]

Chapman goes to 6-1 with a 70-57 win over Redlands tonight 

Chapman is now 4-0 vs SCIAC and 5-0 vs D3 Opponents.

http://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2010-11/schedule