MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Final public men's basketball regional rankings are out: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2015/02/25/final-public-ncaa-regional-rankings-released/

[WoostAr]

No SCIAC teams left -- looks like the SCIAC will likely be relegated to one team no matter what happens in the tourney -- again.

[cmsme]

Good luck to the Stags.  Great game tonight. Very exciting.  I really hope there is no way CMs will be playing Chapman for the first game in the tournament.

[SJSUPhil]

Caltech made an easy win look hard tonight against la verne. They were up big through 35 minutes and has to hold on to win by 1.

Redlands over chapman!!  Did not see that coming.

It was a tough year for my Bulldogs, but that upset over Chapman eased the pain a bit.

[(509)Rat]

I really hope there is no way CMs will be playing Chapman for the first game in the tournament.

Oh I really don't think you have to worry about that...

[WoostAr]

I really hope there is no way CMs will be playing Chapman for the first game in the tournament.

Oh I really don't think you have to worry about that...

Agreed...no way Chapman gets in.

[WoostAr]

http://static.psbin.com/f/r/wy91z3smmqd88e/mens-basketball-bracket-2015.pdf

draw is out -- About as good a draw as CMS could ask for -- first time in a long time I thought there was a possiblity for a sciac team to make it out of the first weekend.  Hell of a sweet 16 draw if they make it that far though.

[stag44]

Just finished up putting together PER metrics and published the top 100 players in the nation this year. I'll narrow this to include just the NCAA eligible players later this week.

It does seem that the figures skew slightly higher than I would have expected but that could be attributed to the larger variance between players in D3 vs the NBA.

I love seeing Tyler Gaffaney at #3 - he should be a 1st Team All American this year!

http://stag44.blogspot.com/2015/03/ncaa-division-3-per-rankings-march-2.html

[WoostAr]

Just finished up putting together PER metrics and published the top 100 players in the nation this year. I'll narrow this to include just the NCAA eligible players later this week.

It does seem that the figures skew slightly higher than I would have expected but that could be attributed to the larger variance between players in D3 vs the NBA.

I love seeing Tyler Gaffaney at #3 - he should be a 1st Team All American this year!

http://stag44.blogspot.com/2015/03/ncaa-division-3-per-rankings-march-2.html

Check out the minutes column -- he has to be top ten in the nation in minutes per game.  I'm interested to see (assuming CMS wins their first game - big assumption) how he does in the second game.

Do you think the strength (or lack there-of) of the SCIAC factors in to his numbers at all? -- it will be a true test playing against these tourney teams.

[stag44]

Check out the minutes column -- he has to be top ten in the nation in minutes per game.  I'm interested to see (assuming CMS wins their first game - big assumption) how he does in the second game.

Do you think the strength (or lack there-of) of the SCIAC factors in to his numbers at all? -- it will be a true test playing against these tourney teams.

I don't think that the SCIAC factors too much into it because every team is trying to stop him and if you look at his numbers against non SCIAC teams they are equally impressive - his stats against UWSP were very good as they were against NWC and NAIA schools.

I do think that tourney teams will test Tyler, but they also wont have the same time, film and familiarity to scout the Stags. SCIAC coaches often see 5-7 games live of the Stags which gives them opportunity to scout and understand Tyler much better than teams in the NCAAs.

I'll put together a TLU preview hopefully in the next day or two!

[stag44]

Stags are in Texas! Should be a great game!

TLU is athletic, fast and scrappy. They remind me of a Whittier with their frenetic pace on missed baskets but also have the execution in the halfcourt of a Chapman this year with very capable guards who can shoot well and create opportunities with the dribble.

It will be a great game. I'm very curious to see how TLU ends up defending us. I have a feeling they will try to be physical and pressure us even though that is not their style of defense. They may throw a decent amount of 1-3-1 so they don't have to guard us as well.

[stag44]

Congrats to the All SCIAC Team!! Deserved POY for Tyler!

POY: Tyler Gaffaney, CMS

1st Team

First Team               
Michael Cohen, PP
Nick Demusis, Whittier       
Taylor Hamasaki   , Chapman
Coltrane Powdrill, Cal Lu
Arik Smith, Cal Lu
Colin Zavrsnick, Chapman    
               
Second Team               
Aljosa Bjekovic, Redlands
Kc Emezie, Caltech
Eric Jennings, Whittier
Andrew Johnson, Oxy
Shelby Lane, CMS
Kyle McAndrews, Pomona

Newcomer of the Year: Andrew Torres, Whittier
Ted Ducey Award: Garrett James (Chapman), Bryan Joel (Caltech)
Coach of the Year: Ken Scalmanini, CMS

[WoostAr]

Great win for CMS but (again -- I'm probably getting annoying here) I don't see the reasoning for leaving Gaffney in for 38+ minutes in a blowout when there is a game against a high-caliber team 2 days away.  Most coaches are praying they can rest their starters for as many minutes as possible in the first of two games in a weekend -- when you're up 30 it seems like an appropriate time.

[John Gleich]

Great win for CMS but (again -- I'm probably getting annoying here) I don't see the reasoning for leaving Gaffney in for 38+ minutes in a blowout when there is a game against a high-caliber team 2 days away.  Most coaches are praying they can rest their starters for as many minutes as possible in the first of two games in a weekend -- when you're up 30 it seems like an appropriate time.

It's even worse... They play TOMORROW.

[dahlby]

Check out the box score  play by play. There may e a mistake as it shows him leaving and entering the game at the 12:57 mark.
Other than that, maybe he wanted to play. He did book a lot of minutes all season.
Congrads on the win and good luck the rest of the way.