MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

How about you wait for the poll to come out before you complain about it? I would say it's likely Occidental will be in the Top 25, which is pretty good for a team that basically only played Pacific Union (twice), La Sierra (twice) and West Coast Baptist up until the day after the last vote.

You really think that Oxy is going to crack the Top 25, Pat? That means leapfrogging a lot of teams. More importantly, it means that there has to be a certain number of spaces opening up at the bottom of the Top 25, and it's hard to see many possibilities for that. First of all, North Central gets first dibs on a Top 25 space ahead of Oxy, because the Cards are undefeated and just beat #1 Illinois Wesleyan on the Titans' home floor (this assumes that the Cards win at Aurora tonight, of course). Second, what teams are going to fall out of the Top 25? Ohio Northern and tonight's Hanover/Bluffton loser are the only two certainties that I can see, with St. John Fisher the only team in the bottom five playing tonight that has a real chance at an upset loss (@ Hartwick), although I can see Elmhurst plummeting out of the Top 25 from the #16 spot if they lose their second game this week at Augie tonight.

Oxy does in fact crack the top 25, at #24.  (No love for Pomona-Pitzer or CMS, however.  )  Debutantes #12 North Central, #17 Wilmington, and #23 UW-Whitewater (not really a deb, as the Warhawks were in the preseason and Week 1 polls) came in ahead of Oxy, but there were five teams that dropped out to make room: Ohio Northern, Hanover, and Elmhurst, as mentioned above, as well as Lincoln and Rochester. 

Congratulations to the Oxy Tigers!

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Way to go Tigers!!

Let's hope we keep it up with the league opener against LaVerne this Wed (at Claremont) and against Cal Lu at home on Saturday.

Io Triumphe!

[David Collinge]

Let's hope we keep it up with the league opener against LaVerne this Wed (at Claremont) and against Cal Lu at home on Saturday.

  Why is this; does LaVerne not have a home court? 

[pomonaalum]

http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmwin05/FSpopovich.shtml

See link for interesting article on Poppovich by Bill Plaschke, with a lot of references to his Pomona days, from the Pomona Magazine.  Good read.

[OXY Oswald]

Let's hope we keep it up with the league opener against LaVerne this Wed (at Claremont) and against Cal Lu at home on Saturday.

  Why is this; does LaVerne not have a home court? 

Not sure, I'm going to the game and I was actually surprised to hear it was at CMS.  Any Leopards on the board that might have an answer?

And congrats to the #24 Occidental Tigers, let's keep it up guys! 

Go Tigers!

[samiam]

does LaVerne not have a home court?

The Super Tents structure is still under renovation, I think.

[OXY Oswald]

Anyone going to the Oxy / La Verne game tonight??

Be there or be square, me and some compadres should be at a bar near the campus to pregame.

Go Tigers!

[castle]

Opening night of SCIAC play; this season looks to be a two-team race between PP and OXY, with CMS being the dark-horse...

Game of the Night:

Whittier at PP.  PP has won the last four meetings; but the Poets have won three in a row and they play tough at PP(losing by a combined 8 points last two years).  Prediction PP by 5.

CMS by 6 @Redlands (CMS won by 21 @Redlands on Dec.3)
OXY by 11 vs. LV @CMS (LV's website shows that the supertent won't be ready until middle of Feb.)

[tigersports]

The tent is in fact being renovated.  We were going to broadcast but when we found out it was at CMS, we said no -- logistical nightmare doing a game there (Unless someone can tell me that the gym is wi-fi'd now).

[dj_hyphen]

We were going to broadcast but when we found out it was at CMS, we said no -- logistical nightmare doing a game there (Unless someone can tell me that the gym is wi-fi'd now).

that gym is just awful in every aspect

[samiam]

Does anyone know if LV will broadcast tonight's game against Oxy? I know they do some games. (No offense, tigersports; you know I'd be listening to you if you were broadcasting tonight.)

[Mr. Ypsi]

If there are any posters here who follow NATIONAL d3 bb, I appeal to you to check out Posters' Poll on the Multi-Region board.  We have started a poll (NOT intended to compete with the official d3hoops.com poll!); I think discrepancies between the 'real' poll and our poll could generate some lively conversations.

In the first poll (Tuesday) there were no voters west of Texas, and a heavy midwestern (geographical, not Midwest Region) bias.  I've appealed to both DC and diehardfan to reconsider their decisions not to participate, but in case that doesn't work, anyone else?!

As stated on the thread, I DO reserve the right to disallow overly 'homerish' ballots (5 teams from the SCIAC in the top 20 ain't gonna cut it!), but I intend to invoke that right only in EXTREME cases.  Oxy ended up the equivalent of 27th - think they should have been higher?  Vote!  (But, PLEASE, only those who DO follow d3 nationally.)

[samiam]

Oxy beats La Verne tonight, 68-56, moves to 10-1.

[Tom Brady]

Hey guys and gals.  Check out the newest issue of Sports Illustrated and read rick Rileys column in the very back.  SCIAC and Cal tech gettin some love.

[OXY Oswald]

Pretty good game by the Tigers last night against a decent La Verne squad.  Oxy was in complete control in the first half going into the break with a comfortable lead.  The Leopards made a valient effort in the second half but fell short.

The Tigers advance to 10-1.

Good luck to Oxy on Saturday against the Kingsmen, I guarantee they'll be markedly better than La Verne.

Go Tigers!