MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[stag44]

Hats off to CMS this year - took me a little bit to get over the Loss in Wisconsin.

Being at the game and seeing them play, I really thought they were going to win it, but give credit to St. Thomas. They wore down the Stags and made big shots at the end of the game.

Congrats to Blees, Maciera and Anderson on finishing off stellar careers. Between the 3 of them, there are 3 SCIAC POYs, 3 1st team nods, and 2 2nd team nods as well as a Ducey award winner. Very impressive graduating class. Most importantly they have great jobs coming out of the school as well!

Stags are bringing back some interesting pieces, but will need to reload their front court. With Gaffeney, Pinson, Grodahl, Mivshek and Sullivan returning, they will have scoring from the perimeter, but will need muscle and defense from their 4 and 5 man next year.

Stay tuned... GO STAGS

[OxyBob]

The 2011-12 D3hoops.com West All-Region teams were announced. Congratulations to Claremont's Chris Blees for being named to the first team all-region, and to Cal Lutheran's Aaron Van Klaveren for being named to the second team.

http://www.d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2011-12/west-men

OxyBob

[BBallJunkie81]

BBallJunkie81's 2011-12 SCIAC Awards - By the Numbers

I am a big believer in basketball being a team sport.  Individual stats are great, but I am far more interested on how the team stats are affected with players in and out of the lineup.  What I mean is that even though a player may average 30pts per game, it is far more relevant to winning a game when looking how the team scores, not the individual.  Stats like these are not straight forward to calculate because you have to know which players are in when a stat occurs.  But, with the magic of computers, we can analyze the game data to calculate how team stats are affected by individual players being in and out of the lineup.  Furthermore, you can normalize this data by calculating the rate of these stats when a particular player is in and out.  The difference between the rate of the stats when a player is in and out is a good determinant of the impact a player makes on the team .  Before naming the players who may not have received recognition for the positive impact they had on the team, let me congratulate the SCIAC All-Conference Award winners:

Player of the Year: Chris Blees, CMS
Newcomer of the Year:  Jack Klukas, Pomona
Ted Ducey Award: Joey Anderson, CMS

First Team
•   Aaron Van Klaveren, Cal Lutheran
•   Jack Klukas, Pomona
•   Nathan Easterman, Whittier
•   Jack Colston, Redlands
•   Tyler Gaffaney, CMS
•   Mani Maceira, CMS

Second Team
•   Trevor Woodland, LaVerne
•   Greg Preer, Whittier
•   Tristan Kirk, Redlands
•   Michael Edwards, Cal Tech
•   Deshun McCoy, Occidental
•   Drew Menez, Whittier

Also, just looking at individual stats, we find the following players led their respective team in scoring:
•   Trevor Woodland, LaVerne
•   Drew Menez, Whittier
•   Chris Blees, CMS
•   Deshun McCoy, Occidental
•   Aaron Van Klaveren, Cal Lutheran
•   Michael Edwards, Cal Tech
•   Jack Colston, Redlands
•   Michael Cohen, Pomona

All, but one, recognized in the all-conference awards.

Now, for the interesting stats, which players had the biggest impact on team stats while on the floor? Is there a player who, when on the floor, the team increased its lead the most?  Is there a player who, when in the game, improved the offensive output of the team the most?  Kept the other team from scoring?  Crunching SCIAC game data allows us to identify the players who made the biggest team difference when they were on the floor (team rather than individual stats).

Scoring (team scores at highest rate when this player is on the floor)
•   Jeremy Lay, La Verne
•   Drew Menez, Whittier
•   Josiah Brensdal, Redlands
•   Jayvaughn Nettles, Cal Lutheran
•   Michael Cohen, Pomona
•   Remy Pinson, CMS
•   Jake Copithorne, Occidental
•   Joel Bryan, Caltech

Defense (opponent scores at lowest rate when this player is on the floor)
•   Kirk Tristan, Redlands
•   Aaron Van Klaveren, Cal Lutheran
•   Deshun McCoy, Occidental
•   Mani Maceira, CMS
•   Austin Napolitano, La Verne
•   Jake Klewer, Pomona
•   Jordan Ramos, Whittier
•   Ethan Boroson, CalTech

Interesting how, other than Drew Menez (Whittier) and Michael Cohen (Pomona), the court presence of a non-leading scorer was responsible for the team scoring at its highest rate!  Congratulations to these players for doing little things which don't show up on the individual stat sheet but give their teams the best chance to win.

Following are miscellaneous awards for players who topped the SCIAC in the difference between them in the lineup vs on the bench.  The players were not necessarily responsible for the stats, but the team's stat rate improved most when they were on the floor:
•   Jeremy Lay, La Verne: Field goals made
•   Mychal Estrada, Redlands: 3's made
•   Michael Cohen, Pomona: FTs made
•   Michael Cohen, Pomona:  getting to the free-throw line
•   Greg Preer, Whittier: Rebounds
•   Deshun McCoy, Occidental: Blocks
•   Kirk Tristan, Redlands: Steals
•   Kirk Tristan, Redlands: Assists
•   Chris Blees, CMS: Turnovers (least)
•   Greg Preer, Whittier: Field goals attempted
•   Josiah Brensdal, Redlands: Field goal percentage improved
•   Jordan Ramos, Whittier: Forcing turnovers

[etule]

What a great post! There is no doubt that All Conference/All Region teams are all about points. The rest of the stats for the most part are not taken into consideration! I think that leagues should have All Defense teams!

I'm a computer dinosaur but the D3 folks could sure do what you just did! And the leagues could sure do what you just did then the players who contribute would get recognised for things other that just points!

Big Karma to you great job!

[cmsme]

Just got back from end of season Basketball banquet. It was a nice feeling.

SCIAC article 

March 29, 2012
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Scalmanini A Finalist For National Coach Of The Year

Men's basketball coach Ken Scalmanini is one of the 10 finalists for the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year Award.  Scalmanini led the Stags this season to a team record 25 wins (versus a team record low of three losses) and their fourth consecutive SCIAC title.  CMS also won the SCIAC Tournament title for the third time in four years.  The Stags, who opened the season with a team record 15 consecutive wins, lost in overtime to the defending national champions in the NCAA Championships.

Scalmanini, who just completed his 14th year as head coach, is 240-120 (.667) overall in his career.  He is 145-51 (.740) in SCIAC play and his teams have won six SCIAC titles.

The Glenn Robinson Award, which is presented annually to the top Division III basketball coach, is named in honor of the Franklin & Marshall head coach. With 805 wins, Robinson is currently twelfth on the all-time wins list. He has taken F&M to NCAA Division III tournament 22 times. Robinson guided the Diplomats to the Division III Final Four in 1979, 1991, 1996, 2000 and 2009. This season, he picked up his 23rd 21-plus win season.

The winner will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com awards banquet on March 30 in New Orleans, the site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.

2012 GLENN ROBINSON AWARD FINALISTS




Larry Anderson


Massachusetts Institute of Technology




Jeff Brown


Middlebury College




Ken DeWeese


University of Mary Hardin Baylor




David Hixon


Amherst College




Marcus Kahn


Cabrini College




Brian Lane


Transylvania University




Pat Miller


University of Wisconsin-Whitewater




Mitch Oliver


Albertus Magnus College




Matt Neil


Hope College




Ken Scalmanini


Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

[Gregory Sager]

Sorry, but the SCIAC office was way behind on that one. Matt Neil of Hope has already won the Glenn Robinson Award. It was announced in the MIAA room last week.

[cmsme]

How about Trevor Woodlands being on the D3hoops.com All Star Team?!
It may be old news, but Congratulations.
I thought he was very good but there didn't seem to be a lot of talk about him so I am surprised.
Good Luck. 

[DoubleDomer]

With what appear to be all the numbers on the board, it looks like CMS has captured its 4th straight SCIAC combined all-sports trophy, outpacing Redlands by a commanding 21 points.*

Go Stags.



*Given CMC's involvement, reported numbers may be inflated.

[dahlby]

I found the standings for the all sports trophy on the SCIAC web site, but can't find the point value ...can someone assist me with the balance of the info? Thanks.

[CMSfan]

*Given CMC's involvement, reported numbers may be inflated.

Yet, still a cut above the rest, no?   

I found the standings for the all sports trophy on the SCIAC web site, but can't find the point value ...can someone assist me with the balance of the info? Thanks.

Is this what you're looking for? http://www.thesciac.org/information/allsports/2011-12/index

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Hope you don't mind a break in the action, as it were, but I want to share a story the D3 community should know about. You actually may have seen the story on the front page of D3hoops.com, but just in case:

A Goucher basketball player has been paralyzed in a freak accident. He was wrestling around with a friend one morning in his dorm building when he landed on his neck. The entire story is here.

He was released from the hospital to the Kennedy Krieger Institute for rehab shortly after that article was posted last week. However, over the weekend he was sent back to the hospital when he apparently had trouble breathing. Now he awaits a return to the rehab facility, probably any day if he hasn't been released already.

Please keep Damone Brooks, his family, the Goucher basketball team(s), and Goucher community in your thoughts, hearts, and prayers. The family certainly needs help with medical bills as well, so if you feel inclined, please consider them as well.

To follow his progress online, click here.
And to consider a donation, click here.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

[Just Bill]

Mark Miller reports the finalists for the UW-Oshkosh job are..

https://twitter.com/WisBBYearbook/status/213662974437629952

Tim Gaubatz (assistant UW-Oshkosh)
Aaron Aanonsen (head coach Lakeland College)
Pat Juckem (head coach Coe College)
Richard Reed (head coach LaVerne University)

[madzillagd]

Former CLU coach Mike Dunlap is reported by multiple sources to be the new coach of the Charlotte Bobcats.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8070083/charlotte-bobcats-hire-st-john-red-storms-assistant-mike-dunlap-coach-school-confirms

[Gray Fox]

Former CLU coach Mike Dunlap is reported by multiple sources to be the new coach of the Charlotte Bobcats.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8070083/charlotte-bobcats-hire-st-john-red-storms-assistant-mike-dunlap-coach-school-confirms

I remember watching his teams.  They didn't even mention this in the article.  He also coached in Australia as I recall.

[WoostAr]

WHOA!

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest+News/2012/June/California+Institute+of+Technology+cited+for+lack+of+institutional+control