MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[WoostAr]

Caltech looked very young tonight in a lopsided loss. The effort was there but they couldn't get through the high double screen for the entire first half. Also struggled against a zone.

On to Santa Cruz tourney next.

[Hemingway13]

Redlands' loss tonight to New Paltz by 82 - 60 showed how tough it's going to be this season without a good shooting guard. Plenty of hard work and hustle in evidence, however.

[Gregory Sager]

(509),


You're spot on about the NWC domination of West Coast D3 footy, as many preseason games have made abundantly clear. In 2014, Redlands is taking a break from NWC and opening at Mary Harden Baylor, but extremely difficult to see things going more positively than this years preseason.


Cheers!
Hem

Hem,

You mean "non-conference", not "preseason".

Cheers!
GS

[Hemingway13]

Gregory,
Any coaching from a D3.com Hall of Fame All-American is greatly appreciated!


Cheers!
Hem

[Gregory Sager]

Wow, respect! Usually, a reference from somebody to my HOF status results in me tugging my tie and quoting Rodney Dangerfield.

[Hemingway13]

Wow, respect! Usually, a reference from somebody to my HOF status results in me tugging my tie and quoting Rodney Dangerfield.

Hey, in my book, writing over 15,000 posts rates heaps of respect from a guy who just became a "Starter" today.   

[Hoops_lover]

Chapman with a 21 point win over La Sierra last night.  Panther defense made it tough on La Sierra to get wide open looks.  Got it up to 16 in the first half.  La Sierra whittled the lead down to single digits in the second half.  Last season Chapman choked away the lead, but this season the guys stepped up and expanded the lead to finish out the game.  The enforcement of allowing a "free flow" of the game by the officials could help a team like Chapman because the La Sierra guards were whistled for fouls.
John Joyce is a BIG IMPROVEMENT over last year's starting bigs.  Last season, one of the post players held the ball too long then took a BAD SHOT, the other post player was a perimeter player who was moved inside.  Justin Young and Nick Dragovich also played well inside. Colin Zavrsnick, Jordan Young, Brendon Rider and Garrett James are a nice set of guards.  The X factor is Taylor Hamasaki.  Probably the most talented player on the team because of his athleticism and basketball saavy.  If he raises his game, this team will do very well.  Bokosky has loosened reigns and if he allows the team (and Hamasaki) a little more freedom, something special could happen.  Good test Tuesday at Vanguard.

[Hemingway13]

Hoops_lover,


Thanks for your cogent report, as I'm predicting Chapman to be one of prime contenders for the conference title. It wasn't very long-ago that CU was the place where SCIAC champions went to, invariably, be "egressed" in the 1st round of D3 playoffs.


Cheers!


Hem

[OxyBob]

D3hoops.com Top 25 No. 15 St. Thomas came to SoCal.

Pomona beat the Tommies 80-77 on Friday night. Xavyr Moss scored 24 John Weiss had 18 for the victorious Sagehens. Pomona is at Biola tomorrow night.

On Saturday night, UST beat Oxy 82-65. The Tommies led 40-29 at the half, and were up by as many as 20 in the second half. For Oxy, Kris Montoya scored 23 and Spencer Levy had 20. The Tigers play the St. Katherine College Fightin' Firebirds on the 23rd.

OxyBob

[WoostAr]

Definitely some quality wins for the SCIAC this year against regional opponents...exciting to see!

Caltech next plays St. Vincent followed by either Linfield or UC Santa Cruz.  Will be interesting to see how this Caltech team does on the road...they have had lots of support and encouragement at home playing in front of a loud gym.  It will be important for Caltech to get out of the gate strong in these games to gain some confidence...if they get down early, I worry a blowout may ensue.

[Hemingway13]

Definitely some quality wins for the SCIAC this year against regional opponents...exciting to see!

Caltech next plays St. Vincent followed by either Linfield or UC Santa Cruz.  Will be interesting to see how this Caltech team does on the road...they have had lots of support and encouragement at home playing in front of a loud gym.  It will be important for Caltech to get out of the gate strong in these games to gain some confidence...if they get down early, I worry a blowout may ensue.

WoostAr,

Good luck at the UCSC Tourney.  Your concern about CIT maintaining confidence on the road is same as mine about Redlands. Would you believe, our first 11 games are all at home including 2 SCIAC (Whit. and Chap.)? Jeepers!

[OxyBob]

Pomona is at Biola tomorrow night.

Biola 73 Pomona 70 Final

Pomona led 62-55 with 6:30 to go. Biola came back and took the lead 66-65 at 3:55. Michael Cohen's layup gave the Sagehens the lead 70-69 at 2:13, but Biola's Dakari Archer hit a 3-ball with 1:48 to put the Eagles up by 2, and BU went on to win.

For Pomona, Jake Klewer had 18, Michael Cohen 17, Nick Nordale 11, and Xavyr Moss had 10. The Sagehens (1-1) have another battle with the GSAC @ Westmont this Saturday.

OxyBob

[WoostAr]

Interested in the match-up La Verne has tomorrow against Ohio Wesleyan.  Ohio Wesleyan has been a great team the past two years playing in the NCAC.  They took two games a piece off perennial power houses Wittenberg and Wooster last year en route to a NCAC tournament championship and an NCAA tournament berth.

While OWU graduated 8 players from last year's squad, I would expect that they will remain in the top tier of the NCAC which gets multiple NCAA tourney bids each year.

La Verne gets a fair shake at this playing on a neutral court...would be a big win for the SCIAC...hopefully they're streaming it somewhere.

[Hoops_lover]

Good luck to La Verne vs. Westmont and congrats to PP in beating St. Thomas last week.
Chapman blown out by Vanguard this past Tuesday 90-71.  Vanguard's size and athleticism too much for Chapman.  Hamasaki (17 points) and Nick Dragovich (to an extent) were the only players Vanguard had trouble guarding.  Joyce and Justin Young had problems handling their bigs.  Vanguard scored 24 points off of 18 Chapman turnovers and hit 10 threes compared to Chapman's four.  Panthers play Menlo tonight, then last year's GSAC conference playoff runner up Arizona Christian, ranked #16 in NAIA D-1 next Tuesday.  Both are home games for Chapman.

[WoostAr]

Congrats to La Verne on beating OWU 66-63...as I mentioned in my post yesterday, this was no slouch team last year and a big game for the SCIAC to win.  It will be interesting to see how each of these teams' seasons progress from here.

La Verne with a slight advantage in rebounding and hit a few more threes en route to winning a tight game.  La Verne looks to be awfully deep this year as they played 11 guys 12+ minutes. Ron See and Kendall McClain the high scorers for La Verne.