MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Gray Fox]

Pomona has moved up a notch to 15th on the D3 poll with 288 points.
Oxy moved from one voting point to 3.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[Teddy_Ballgame]

Do you really think Pomona will need to win the tournament to get a bid? With only one loss overall, and a win over Whitman, I think they're set up well. They have 7 conference games left, and they won't have to play CMS again. Of course, they still have Redlands and Oxy on the road. But even if they drop those they realistically could enter the tournament at around 22-3. There weren't very many four loss teams left at home last year (from what I can tell), but then again I have very little perspective on how the SCIAC is viewed nationally in hoops. Have we had 2 bids since Oxy and Pomona my freshman year (2008)?

Edit: Looks like Chapman got in in 2010 as a 2-loss team and 2011 as a 3-loss team despite losing in the conference tournament both years.

The best place to track the potential for Pomona-Pitzer (or anybody else) to get into the tourney without winning the league's automatic bid is the Pool C board under the Multi-Regional Topics header. The resident numbers-crunchers on this site do a good job of tracking the possibilities. One of them is a math prof at the College of Wooster. He published a hypothetical ranking for each region nine days ago, and he had Pomona-Pitzer eighth in the West Region, largely because the Sagehens had a poor strength of schedule. Since P-P's SOS has improved since then with the wins over Oxy and CMS, the Sagehens might move up in his next hypothetical ranking.

Anyway, if you're really interested in seeing how P-P measures up to everybody else in terms of the selection criteria, that's the board to read.

Thanks a ton for this! Checking it out now.

[OxyBob]

Wednesday's schedule, all games 7:00 p.m.:

Whittier (7-12, 4-6 SCIAC) @ La Verne (1-17, 0-10)
No. 16 No. 15 Pomona (18-1, 10-0) @ Redlands (11-8, 6-4)
Cal Lutheran (5-13, 3-6) @ Caltech (8-10, 2-7)
Oxy (16-3, 7-3) @ Chapman (8-11, 4-6)

Claremont (14-5, 8-2) is idle.

Scores:

Whittier 88 La Verne 76
No. 15 Pomona-Pitzer 81 Redlands 68
Cal Lutheran 95 Caltech 74
Oxy 59 Chapman 46

Saturday's schedule:

No. 15 Pomona (19-1, 11-0 SCIAC) @ Chapman (8-12, 4-7) 4:00 PM    
Whittier (8-12, 5-6) @ Caltech (8-11, 2-8) 4:30 PM    
La Verne (1-18, 0-11) @ Claremont (14-5, 8-2) 7:00 PM    
Oxy (17-3, 8-3) @ Cal Lutheran (6-13, 4-6) 7:00 PM

Redlands (11-9, 6-5) is idle.

OxyBob

[OxyBob]

Saturday's schedule:

No. 15 Pomona (19-1, 11-0 SCIAC) @ Chapman (8-12, 4-7) 4:00 PM    
Whittier (8-12, 5-6) @ Caltech (8-11, 2-8) 4:30 PM    
La Verne (1-18, 0-11) @ Claremont (14-5, 8-2) 7:00 PM    
Oxy (17-3, 8-3) @ Cal Lutheran (6-13, 4-6) 7:00 PM

Redlands (11-9, 6-5) is idle.

Scores:

No. 15 Pomona 89 Chapman 69 -- CU's 14-point first half lead erased, Pomona wins easily.
Caltech 92 Whittier 87 -- CIT looks for conference sweep of Chapman on Tuesday.
Oxy 70 Cal Lutheran 67 -- Jacob Adler's 3-pointer with 4 seconds left gives Oxy the win.
La Verne @ Claremont  Postponed -- "The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's and men's basketball doubleheader with La Verne on Saturday, Feb. 2 has been postponed due to facility conditions. The games will be rescheduled at a mutually agreed upon date to be determined."

Tuesday's schedule:

Chapman (8-13, 4-8 SCIAC) @ Caltech (9-11, 3-8) 7:00 PM

Wednesday's schedule:

Redlands (11-9, 6-5) @ Oxy (18-3, 9-3) 7:00 PM   
La Verne (1-18, 0-11) @ Cal Lutheran (6-14, 4-7) 7:00 PM   
Claremont (14-5, 8-2) @ Whittier (8-13, 5-7) 7:00 PM   

No. 15 Pomona No. 12 Pomona (20-1, 12-0) is idle.

OxyBob

[Gray Fox]

YTD stats. 

https://www.thesciac.org/sports/mbkb/2018-19/teams?sort=&r=1&pos=off

[OxyBob]

Pomona has moved up a notch to 15th on the D3 poll with 288 points.
Oxy moved from one voting point to 3.

Latest poll through games of February 3:

Pomona is ranked No. 12.
Oxy has 9 "Other Receiving Votes."

OxyBob

[Gray Fox]

Pomona has moved up a notch to 15th on the D3 poll with 288 points.
Oxy moved from one voting point to 3.

Latest poll through games of February 3:

Pomona is ranked No. 12.
Oxy has 9 "Other Receiving Votes."

OxyBob

Pomona leads SCIAC in all categories.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Here are the first rankings for the men this season: https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2019/02/men-regional-rankings-first

[OxyBob]

Tuesday's schedule:

Chapman (8-13, 4-8 SCIAC) @ Caltech (9-11, 3-8) 7:00 PM

Wednesday's schedule:

Redlands (11-9, 6-5) @ Oxy (18-3, 9-3) 7:00 PM   
La Verne (1-18, 0-11) @ Cal Lutheran (6-14, 4-7) 7:00 PM   
Claremont (14-5, 8-2) @ Whittier (8-13, 5-7) 7:00 PM   

No. 15 Pomona No. 12 Pomona (20-1, 12-0) is idle.

Scores:

Chapman 53 Caltech 48
Oxy 71 Redlands 64
Cal Lutheran 89 La Verne 53
Whittier 76 Claremont 73

Saturday's schedule:

UC Santa Cruz (13-11) @ La Verne (1-19, 0-12 SCIAC) 3:00 PM    
Oxy (19-3, 10-3) @ Whittier (9-13, 6-7) 7:00 PM    
Cal Lutheran (7-14, 5-7) @ No. 12 Pomona (20-1, 12-0) 7:00 PM
Chapman (9-13, 5-8) @ Redlands (11-10, 6-6) 7:00 PM    
Caltech (9-12, 3-9) @ Claremont (14-6, 8-3)

OxyBob

[stag44]

Coming into the home stretch it's time to focus in on what the playoff is going to look like.

Pomona is in for sure and almost surely the 1 seed
Oxy is also almost a lock to be in and either going to be a 2 or 3 seed
CMS is likely in as well and a 2 or 3 seed, though they do have 5 games in 11 days to close out the season

La Verne is out and Cal Tech is likely out.

That leaves Redlands, Whittier, Chapman and CLU fighting for the 4th playoff spot with Redlands in the driver's seat right now, but it's wide open.

Pomona is clearly the best team in conference this year, but if they were to lose in the conference tourney it will be very interesting to see how the committee handles the in the at-large pool - right now from all the data it looks like they would likely get in - then, if one the SCIAC teams puts in to host, it will be interesting to see how the potential flight situation plays out - it would be contingent on how Whitworth plays out the rest of their year and if there was 2 NWC and 2 SCIAC teams in how they would handle potential flights.

This is still all very hypothetical though and would require alot of things to happen including a pretty large upset in the SCIAC

[OxyBob]

Oxy is also almost a lock to be in and either going to be a 2 or 3 seed

Oxy clinched a playoff spot and is playing for seeding. The Tigers have an important game this Saturday against Whittier. A win for Oxy may give them a leg up on Claremont in the final seeding.

Oxy still has a lot of work to do. In addition to Whittier, Oxy has to play at Claremont in Roberts Pavillion aka the Taj Mahal of Doom (Claremont's former home court, Ducey Gym aka the Temple of Doom, is no more), and then finish at home with Pomona.

OxyBob

[greg21grimm]

Coming into the home stretch it's time to focus in on what the playoff is going to look like.

Pomona is in for sure and almost surely the 1 seed
Oxy is also almost a lock to be in and either going to be a 2 or 3 seed
CMS is likely in as well and a 2 or 3 seed, though they do have 5 games in 11 days to close out the season

That leaves Redlands, Whittier, Chapman and CLU fighting for the 4th playoff spot with Redlands in the driver's seat right now, but it's wide open.

This is still all very hypothetical though and would require a lot of things to happen including a pretty large upset in the SCIAC

CLU has their hands full. They still need to play their 4 remaining games @Redlands, @Pomona, home vs. CMS and @Whittier.  Where Redlands has 3 of 4 games at home against the bottom teams. Interesting to say the least. Let's see what CLU is made of.

[OxyBob]

Saturday's schedule:

UC Santa Cruz (13-11) @ La Verne (1-19, 0-12 SCIAC) 3:00 PM    
Oxy (19-3, 10-3) @ Whittier (9-13, 6-7) 7:00 PM    
Cal Lutheran (7-14, 5-7) @ No. 12 Pomona (20-1, 12-0) 7:00 PM
Chapman (9-13, 5-8) @ Redlands (11-10, 6-6) 7:00 PM    
Caltech (9-12, 3-9) @ Claremont (14-6, 8-3)

Scores:

UC Santa Cruz 73 La Verne 63 --  1-point game with 10 minutes to go, but UCSC pulled away for win.
Oxy 86 Whittier 68 -- 15 points and 21 rebounds for Austin DeWitz, all 5 Oxy starters in double figures.
Pomona 78 Cal Lutheran 61 -- Pomona on cruise control in easy win, 17 straight wins for Sagehens.
Redlands 97 Chapman 96 3OT -- David Menary's jumper with 4 seconds to go in 3rd OT wins it.
Claremont 85 Caltech 69 -- Claremont turns on its defense in 2nd half and wins going away.

Monday's game:

La Verne (1-20, 0-12 SCIAC) @ Claremont (15-6, 9-3) 8:00 pm -- Rescheduled from 2/2

Wednesday's schedule, all games 7:00 pm:

Cal Lutheran (7-15, 5-8) @ Redlands (12-10, 7-6)
Caltech (9-13, 3-10) @ La Verne
Oxy (20-3, 11-3) @ Claremont   
Whittier (9-14, 6-8) @ Pomona (21-1, 13-0)

Chapman (9-14, 5-9) is idle.

Coming into the home stretch it's time to focus in on what the playoff is going to look like.

Pomona is in for sure and almost surely the 1 seed
Oxy is also almost a lock to be in and either going to be a 2 or 3 seed
CMS is likely in as well and a 2 or 3 seed, though they do have 5 games in 11 days to close out the season

That leaves Redlands, Whittier, Chapman and CLU fighting for the 4th playoff spot with Redlands in the driver's seat right now, but it's wide open.

Pomona clinched No. 1 seed.
Winner of Oxy-Claremont game likely will be No. 2 seed, loser No. 3.
Assuming Pomona beats Whittier, Redlands win over CLU will clinch No. 4 seed.

Let's see what CLU is made of.

Talc?

OxyBob

[greg21grimm]

Let's see what CLU is made of.

Talc?

OxyBob

Talc maybe correct. Had a chance to watch the 1st half of the PP/CLU game and I have never seen CLU so overmatched in size and skill within the SCIAC. PP is just long at all spots. The only players that CLU could use to match, on both ends, were Cole and Ferreria.  The two freshmen starters just cant handle a seasoned PP team like that.  @Redlands is always a tough game, and the Bulldogs are always a physical team, especially in the post. The guards better be ready as they will get posted up as well.