MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[GBMAN]

http://www.uww.edu/campus-info/map-and-directions

[summers]

Welcome to the board, summers. You know, I think that photo, combined with the others, actually makes it even more cut and dried that Pinson didn't touch him.

We'll have to disgree on that. Bear in mind the two guards were double-teaming Cohen outside the arc when Cohen passed the ball to McAndrews wide open. Pinson wasn't guarding him on the catch - he flew at him with a late contest with his momentum taking him towards the corner. And the referee was standing along the sideline, so even at that exact instant of the picture, there's no way he could see any space between Pinson's hand and McAndrews' elbow. Even if you think there was no contact (and this point is less aimed at you -- and more for the earlier ranters and the Got Foul? people), Pinson put the official in a situation where he could make that call by getting his hand in the cookie jar right at his elbow at the moment the shot was being released. The shot going behind the backboard would also lead the official to feel pretty confident he got it right.

But no worries - CMS is on to bigger and better things, deservedly so, and the call is really just a footnote at this point. I'm more just sharing the photo at 2.0, so people don't only see the shots at 2.1 and 1.9 and think the ref was blind and that there was some sort of great officiating travesty that took place.  It might have been the wrong call, but if so, it was so dang close you can't fault the official for making it.

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[DoubleDomer]

Welcome to Wisconsin, Stags fans!  Sorry to hear that you have to travel halfway across the country to play at a dump like Whitewater. As the parents of a !

Dump?

Did I say that out loud?  I'm sorry--I meant "functionally, aesthetically, academically, and climatologically challenged." My apologies.

[GBMAN]

Welcome to Wisconsin, Stags fans!  Sorry to hear that you have to travel halfway across the country to play at a dump like Whitewater. As the parents of a !

Dump?

Did I say that out loud?  I'm sorry--I meant "functionally, aesthetically, academically, and climatologically challenged." My apologies.

Accepted...

[BBallJunkie81]

All-SCIAC Team

http://www.thesciac.org/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/All-SCIAC

CMS:3, Whittier:3, Redlands:2 - PP only one mention? 

[cmsme]

DoubleDomer--as a member of the CMS community, you have GOT to be more positive!
Hog wrestling, getting my west coast ass beat--this could all be entertaining.
I have never been to Wisconsin. What are their food specialties? Beer? Cheese?
We are going to watch a bunch of basketball, eat and drink. It is going to be great.

[CMSfan]

All-SCIAC Team

http://www.thesciac.org/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/All-SCIAC

PP only one mention? 

A little surprised Cohen didn't make it.  But I'm guessing he, McAndrews, and Klukas will earn PP plenty of All-SCIAC love in the next three years.

I'm also disappointed Joey Anderson didn't make the list this year, but I realize that the Stags weren't likely to get 4.  And at least he got second team the past couple years.

[Mr. Ypsi]

DoubleDomer--as a member of the CMS community, you have GOT to be more positive!
Hog wrestling, getting my west coast ass beat--this could all be entertaining.
I have never been to Wisconsin. What are their food specialties? Beer? Cheese?
We are going to watch a bunch of basketball, eat and drink. It is going to be great.

I grew up in Illinois, have been in Michigan for 40+ years, but have spent a lot of time in Wisconsin.  Think German.  Bratwurst, Knackwurst, etc. (And a proper Rouladen is fantastic.)  And you have got to have cheese curds!  And, obviously, beer - not the mass-produced sh!t, but REAL Wisconsin craft bier.

[badgerwarhawk]

You've forgotten to mention our Friday night fish fry, Ypsi.  You can't come to Wisconsin and skip a Friday night fish fry.   

[DoubleDomer]

CMSme--good advice.  In my defense, endless winter and Nordic blood both tend to make one cynical. (I'm thinking, you know, Ibsen-type cynical.)  Further in my defense is the better part of 5 decades spent listening to the legion of social studies teachers, high school guidance counselors, P.E. majors, and interior decorators that populate the WIAC--most of whom consider it a mind-expanding, cross-cultural experience to venture off to the Tractor Supply store in Stoughton rather than their usual trip to Fleet Farm in Edgerton--go on and on about how Whitewater is the very apotheosis of baccalaureate training in the Western World (defined, as I'm sure you know, by the boundaries of Walworth County).

BUT, putting that aside: You'll have a great time among us cheeseheads.  Get yourself a hotel room up in Madison; enjoy the Friday game; adjourn directly from the game to the Wayside Inn in Jefferson to celebrate the Stags win with cheese curds and a fish fry (washed down with a 10-oz draws of Leinenkugel's); and then trundle back to Madison, where I recommend you designate the Great Dane on the Square (www.greatdanepub.com) as official Stag Love Brewpub.  On Saturday, roll out of bed and into the arms of a fresh cinnamon roll at the Market Street Diner in Sun Prairie (www.marketstreetdiner.com).  (Myself, I recommend the cinnamon roll as an appetizer, the cranberry & cream pie as an entree, and a big piece of red velvet cake for dessert.)  Then, since you'll have an entire afternoon to kill before the final, head for New Glarus and a tasting tour at the New Glarus Brewing Company (www.newglarusbrewing.com).  After a few Spotted Cows and an Uff Da Bock or two, you'll be ready to shout down the UWW horde (or the 800 or so of them who will show up, anyway, since the suitcase campus will have emptied out on Thursday so all the Warhawks and Warhawk-ettes can get back to Cudahy and Boscobel and Plover to spend the weekend with their high school buddies) as the forces of good triumph once more.

GO STAGS!

[summers]

A little surprised Cohen didn't make it.  But I'm guessing he, McAndrews, and Klukas will earn PP plenty of All-SCIAC love in the next three years.

In fairness, PP was just balanced this year, with no real individual standouts. Klukas on the first team at <10 ppg was probably even a reach.  If CMS didn't have such a great year start to finish (and make inroads nationally), Coach Kat would have been an easy COY choice.

[badgerwarhawk]

CMSme--good advice.  In my defense, endless winter and Nordic blood both tend to make one cynical. (I'm thinking, you know, Ibsen-type cynical.)  Further in my defense is the better part of 5 decades spent listening to the legion of social studies teachers, high school guidance counselors, P.E. majors, and interior decorators that populate the WIAC--most of whom consider it a mind-expanding, cross-cultural experience to venture off to the Tractor Supply store in Stoughton rather than their usual trip to Fleet Farm in Edgerton--go on and on about how Whitewater is the very apotheosis of baccalaureate training in the Western World (defined, as I'm sure you know, by the boundaries of Walworth County).

BUT, putting that aside: You'll have a great time among us cheeseheads.  Get yourself a hotel room up in Madison; enjoy the Friday game; adjourn directly from the game to the Wayside Inn in Jefferson to celebrate the Stags win with cheese curds and a fish fry (washed down with a 10-oz draws of Leinenkugel's); and then trundle back to Madison, where I recommend you designate the Great Dane on the Square (www.greatdanepub.com) as official Stag Love Brewpub.  On Saturday, roll out of bed and into the arms of a fresh cinnamon roll at the Market Street Diner in Sun Prairie (www.marketstreetdiner.com).  (Myself, I recommend the cinnamon roll as an appetizer, the cranberry & cream pie as an entree, and a big piece of red velvet cake for dessert.)  Then, since you'll have an entire afternoon to kill before the final, head for New Glarus and a tasting tour at the New Glarus Brewing Company (www.newglarusbrewing.com).  After a few Spotted Cows and an Uff Da Bock or two, you'll be ready to shout down the UWW horde (or the 800 or so of them who will show up, anyway, since the suitcase campus will have emptied out on Thursday so all the Warhawks and Warhawk-ettes can get back to Cudahy and Boscobel and Plover to spend the weekend with their high school buddies) as the forces of good triumph once more.

GO STAGS!

All of that must make you feel vastly superior, DD. 

[cmsme]

Thanks for the advise. I like to eat. This all sounds good.
I guess all those dairy cows don't translate into a big steak place.

[GBMAN]

CMSme--good advice.  In my defense, endless winter and Nordic blood both tend to make one cynical. (I'm thinking, you know, Ibsen-type cynical.)  Further in my defense is the better part of 5 decades spent listening to the legion of social studies teachers, high school guidance counselors, P.E. majors, and interior decorators that populate the WIAC--most of whom consider it a mind-expanding, cross-cultural experience to venture off to the Tractor Supply store in Stoughton rather than their usual trip to Fleet Farm in Edgerton--go on and on about how Whitewater is the very apotheosis of baccalaureate training in the Western World (defined, as I'm sure you know, by the boundaries of Walworth County).

BUT, putting that aside: You'll have a great time among us cheeseheads.  Get yourself a hotel room up in Madison; enjoy the Friday game; adjourn directly from the game to the Wayside Inn in Jefferson to celebrate the Stags win with cheese curds and a fish fry (washed down with a 10-oz draws of Leinenkugel's); and then trundle back to Madison, where I recommend you designate the Great Dane on the Square (www.greatdanepub.com) as official Stag Love Brewpub.  On Saturday, roll out of bed and into the arms of a fresh cinnamon roll at the Market Street Diner in Sun Prairie (www.marketstreetdiner.com).  (Myself, I recommend the cinnamon roll as an appetizer, the cranberry & cream pie as an entree, and a big piece of red velvet cake for dessert.)  Then, since you'll have an entire afternoon to kill before the final, head for New Glarus and a tasting tour at the New Glarus Brewing Company (www.newglarusbrewing.com).  After a few Spotted Cows and an Uff Da Bock or two, you'll be ready to shout down the UWW horde (or the 800 or so of them who will show up, anyway, since the suitcase campus will have emptied out on Thursday so all the Warhawks and Warhawk-ettes can get back to Cudahy and Boscobel and Plover to spend the weekend with their high school buddies) as the forces of good triumph once more.

GO STAGS!

And to think your going to play at Kachel gymnasium.... I mean D U M P...MY BAD..

[badgerwarhawk]

Thanks for the advise. I like to eat. This all sounds good.
I guess all those dairy cows don't translate into a big steak place.

Not so.  You can get excellent steaks in many places.  In Whitewater I'd suggest Randys.  If you're in Madison or Janesville try the Prime Quarter.  Or in Janesville the Texas Roadhouse, in Madison the Capitol Chophouse.