MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[castle]

all I can find for this week is :  OXY @ Utah State on Friday (ex.) and Redlands @ UC-Riverside on Saturday (ex.).
                                               

[scandihoovian]

DieHard-

That Redlands - Riverside one is in your neck of the woods.  It would provide you with some early exposure to "the system" which is way more entertaining to watch against a non-SCIAC opponent.  Most of the conference schools have figured out how to deal with it.

[digs]

diehard,

Since you may never get to see an actual Grinnell game you should definately go to the Redlands/UC Riverside game.  The first meeting of 2 system teams!!!  JeffP would be so jealous.   (Scones and coffee are not provided however.)

[scandihoovian]

digs-

Riverside runs the system?

I did not know that.  What happens when two system teams play each other?  It seems like it might negate many of the perceived strategic advantages.

[TeeDub]

I don't think UCR runs the system....I suspect it will be more LMU style.

[diehardfan]

Thanks guys! 

I saw that Redlands game in their sched... just wondering if anyone knew about any scrimmages or anything, which would obviously not be published.

Anyhow, the season is almost here! 

[samiam]

Utah State beat Oxy 55-36. Oxy played a great first half. They were ahead most of the half, and with 1 second left went up by one. Then a great pass and a great shot left Oxy going to the locker down by one. Not bad at all.

Then the dreaded second half . . . the ugly, ugly second half. Oh well.

Any report from Redlands? Did they put up 150 and lose by 30 again?

[samiam]

Yeah, sorry about that score I posted. I was looking at the wrong score from the stats page.

[dj_hyphen]

Oxy always impresses me with their non-conference play...yeah, so they got drilled in the 2nd half...at least they hung with em for half of it.  Utah State won't be as good as last year's NCAA team, but they're still solid. 

The strange part to me is that Oxy has played D1 and NAIA opponents tight for the past 5 years or so, but they never seem to really build on that and carry it over to SCIAC (save for their undefeated year of course)

anyway, PP played Chapman on Friday...no word on how they looked though.  [white guy in horror movie] i'll have to investigate [/white guy in horror movie]

[WestCoastWhiner]

Claremont, PP & Oxy can further our cause here in the pre-season with victories against Wash U, Augsburg & Amherst.  Step up boys. 

Looks like the league gets a little better this year top to bottom. 

Oxy hanging by one in the first half and losing by under 30 at Utah State is legit.   Fair question about their historical inability to build on early season momentum. 

Preseason predicted order of finish:

1.  PP - Kats
2.  CMS - slightly better than PP but will lose 2 road games that Kats will win;  transfer factor will make the rivalry game even more significant, if he can get past nerves CMS could sweep PP
3.  CLU - could surprise folks with stacked freshmen
4.  Oxy/LV tie - Greenlee will put up #s, Oxy too good to get swept by anyone but need to show that they can win on the road
5. Redlands - system will continue to punish non-conference opponents
6.  Whittier - better talent than this spot but have to show an ability to be the Big 3

[The Roop]

With all the exhibitions and out of region contests, Oxy only has a 16 game schedule this year. Kind of makes a Pool C bid unlikely.

[scandihoovian]

Roop-

I think we've got bigger fish to fry as a conference before we start getting a pool C bid.  This year's champ getting a couple of victories to start the tourney would go a long way.

[Gregory Sager]

Claremont, PP & Oxy can further our cause here in the pre-season with victories against Wash U, Augsburg & Amherst.  Step up boys.

Those are regular-season games, not pre-season games. The regular season starts on November 18, not whenever the conference portion of the slate begins.

Also, Augsburg doesn't belong in the category of potential SCIAC prestige wins that includes Wash U and Amherst. The Auggies went 9-16 last season, and 9-16, 11-14, 10-15, and 12-13 before then, going back from 2003-04 to the 2000-01 season. And they have a brand-new coach this year who will no doubt be instituting a new system and feeling his way through the first few games of the season.

Beating the Auggies is important for Pomona-Pitzer and CMS, because Augsburg is a fellow West Region team, but it would hardly be a reason to break out the champagne and fine china.

[diehardfan]

lol! And the 783 times that Greg will lay down the smack for violators of -the whole "pre-season-vs-pre-conference" issue starts already! 

[Mr. Ypsi]

April,

You must have miss-counted - it was 864 last season!