MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Pomona heading out to Atlanta and playing Centre College in the first round - looking forward to seeing the Sagehens represent the SCIAC well.

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

An expected and welcome respite from the SCIAC being sent up to to Washington, with Whitman and Whitworth a notch below where they've been the last few years. An unfortunate consequence being that all three teams in the pacific time zone will be playing at least 2 time zones ahead, with Pomona three time zones away. Seems unusual for a first round pod, but such are the realities of putting together a tournament with the D3 map the way it is.

Pomona will play Friday at 2:00pm EST/11:00am PST. On one hand, it avoids having to play at 7:30pm EST/10:30pm PST and end well past midnight on the west coast. But what is, essentially, an 11:00 am start time would still have to be odd for a team whose game day preparation all season has been in expectation of an evening game. Curious how early they'll land in Georgia to start practicing and adjusting.

Either way, this team is the first Pomona team in recent memory with a core group who've experienced an NCAA tournament win. I expect them to be ready, and their first round matchup with Centre should be a good one. Centre is 24-4 and receiving the most votes of any team outside the top 25 in D3hoops.com rankings. They'll be busing about 350 miles down from Kentcuky, so their journey to Atlanta may take nearly as long as Pomona's.

Side note: a belated congratulations to the Hens' Micah Elan who, with his 1752nd career point in PP's semifinal game against Oxy, set the program record for points scored in a career (he now sits at 1782). Daniel Rosenbaum finished his career last year just 7 points shy of the record. Pretty incredible that they spent three years on the court together and were still able to amass such totals. 

Not surprisingly, Elan was named the SCIAC Player of the Year last month.

I think the times you read were PST ... Pomona plays at 5:00 PM ET - 2:00 PM PT. The only game "early" on Friday is Yeshiva-WPI which will be at 1:00 PM ET due to the religious restrictions for Yeshiva (they must be to their hotel/rooms by sundown Friday night). The next game on the bracket will start at 3:30 PM ET.

Anyway ... 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT start for Pomona-Pitzer.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks Dave!

No excuses then

[OxyBob]

Pomona heading out to Atlanta and playing Centre College in the first round - looking forward to seeing the Sagehens represent the SCIAC well.

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

Pomona 84 Centre 64 Final

Pomona: Micah Elan 23, Adam Rees 16, Alex Preston 12, Jack Boyle 12
Centre: Perry Ayers 19, Jakob Spitzer 15, Jacob Bates 12

Pomona shot 57% FG. The Sagehens were 11-for-18 on 3s, and 15-for-16 FTs. They led by 14 at halftime, and by 23 with 12 minutes left.

The Sagehens will face the winner of No. 10 Emory vs. Methodist in the second round.

Hooray for the SCIAC!

OxyBob

[Teddy_Ballgame]

For the second year in a row, the Hens start the NCAA Tournament with a win! They played a great all-around game and won easily, 84-64.

OxyBob beat me to the game recap, but Pomona got off to a hot start and were in control for pretty much the whole game. After a Centre 3 pulled them within 7 with 3:54 to go in the first half, the Sagehens scored 7 straight points and the game never got back within single digits. Lots of open looks for the Hens from great ball movement, and Centre struggled to convert the few open opportunities they got on the offensive end (only 5 of 26 from 3).

Looking forward to what I'm sure will be a closer game tomorrow.

Chirp chirp!

[D O.C.]

OxyBob beat me to the game recap

You DO understand he's a Cyborg, right?

[OxyBob]

OxyBob beat me to the game recap

You DO understand he's a Cyborg, right?

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IllBeBackBob

[Jack Parkman]

Oh my goodness that was an amazing finish.  I watched a total of 24 seconds of the game and glad I tuned in when I did!

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Oh my goodness that was an amazing finish.  I watched a total of 24 seconds of the game and glad I tuned in when I did!

LETS GO!!! What an ending!!! Smart basketball advancing the inbounds with only 2 seconds left, and then somehow the prayer with a hand in his face drops!

[pbrooks3]

Congratulations from a Centre supporter to Pomona-Pitzer and the SCIAC on getting through to the round of 16.  One very well executed play to pull out the victory!

[OxyBob]

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

Way to go, Pomona!

Game of the Night: Pomona-Pitzer at the buzzer
https://d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2020/game-of-the-night-pomona-pitzer

The Sagehens are the first SCIAC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Oxy made it to the Elite 8 in 2002-2003.

Next up for Pomona is Elmhurst.

Note to d3hoops: Fix your bracket.

OxyBob

[Pat Coleman]

The host sites for the men's Sweet 16 have been released: https://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2020/bracket and game times: https://www.d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2019-20/ncaa-tournament?date=2020-03-13 and https://www.d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2019-20/ncaa-tournament?date=2020-03-14

Bob -- email me next time. Already fixed.

[Teddy_Ballgame]

It's a tough pod, but it's not crazy to see them coming out into the sweet 16 if they play well

The Sagehens are the first SCIAC team to reach the Sweet 16 since Oxy made it to the Elite 8 in 2002-2003.

OxyBob

Thanks Bob, I was actually wondering about this yesterday and was planning on asking the board. This is also the program's first ever Sweet 16 appearance.

[greg21grimm]

When I said local recruiting I was more referring to the players from immediately around CLU that they never even recruited. When is the last time Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Oaks Christian, Westlake, Agoura, Calabasas had their players go to CLU. They have had guys that could make an impact in the SCIAC. The coaches I have come across in the area say it was rare to have CLU recruit their guys.

We do differ on if keeping Rider's staff intact was the answer. We agree that they made the wrong hire once the job was open.

Well Kingsmen99, I did a little research, and I cant find a single Ventura county player during Dunlap's tenure on CLUs rosters/stat sheets. So evidently that wasnt the magic potion to his success. You decided to leave so please enlighten me how Ventura county basketball puts CLU on the national scene.

1 NCAA Tournament in 20 years of Rider.

And I saw that Coach White won only one (1) league title in 14 years at Crespi. Now I know he did win 2 state titles, and that is impressive. However, 2nd, 3rd or 4th place in the SCIAC wont get him in the NCAA tournament. This isnt high school where you can schedule 15 wins a year, and then continue on without winning the conference.

I am hoping White is more in line with his coach, Mike Dunlap.

Be careful what you wish for: https://lmulions.com/news/2020/3/8/lmu-parts-ways-with-dunlap-begins-search-for-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx

[OxyBob]

From the NCAA:

"Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men's and women's 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities."

On behalf of the SCIAC, I declare Pomona to be the D-III NCAA men's champion by default. Congratulations to the Sagehens! Hooray for the SCIAC!

OxyBob

[Mr. Ypsi]

From the NCAA:

"Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men's and women's 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships. This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities."

On behalf of the SCIAC, I declare Pomona to be the D-III NCAA men's champion by default. Congratulations to the Sagehens! Hooray for the SCIAC!

OxyBob

In the same spirit as declaring Pomona the national champ: most years only one team (per sport) finishes the season with a win - this year scads of them did!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

And with that, the 2019-20 seasons have come to a sudden end.

What a week it has been in college basketball. Exactly a week ago, as we hit the air, the first signs that COVID-19 was going to impact the NCAA Tournaments was seen. Since then, it has been a whirlwind.  

Tonight on Hoopsville, we try and make sense of one of the stranger finishes in history for NCAA events. What started with isolated closings of gyms for games ends a week later in all games being called off through the rest of the academic year.

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