MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[samiam]

Oxy over Redlands 112-92 to move to 13-1 (4-0 SCIAC)
CMS over Caltech 59-49 (what is with the close scores this year with Caltech?)
PP over La Verne 77-66
CLU over Whittier 76-60

Oxy dukes it out with CMS on Wednesday for sole conference lead. Should be a great game.

[OXY Oswald]

Tigers really turned it on in the second half and Redlands went ice-cold from 3-point range. 

Sam Betty posted a season high 47 points, an Occidental record, he was in complete control of the game and scored at will (which has become a common theme).

[dj_hyphen]

there should be a separate record book for games with Redlands

[Tom Brady]

There should also be someone at Cal Lutheran stepping in and stop letting their fans act the way they do.  Maybe I am old school but their fans (students) showed absolutely no class last night.  I actually went to the game (which was my first in many years) and left early when the students started turning around and yelling at the Whittier fans.  Too bad a good game had to end (at least for me) the way it did.

[Kingsmen1981]

I have been going to Kingsmen games and games all over the sciac for many years and the students at the cal lu games are the loudest and most energetic fans I have ever seen.  The home court advantage these kids are giving the Kingsmen is an advantage no other team in the sciac has.  It would be a shame  to not let these kids yell and scream on the sideline.  The students even brought a young man who I know personally who is disabled and has expressed to me being with these gentlemen and cheering on the sidline has been a "Top 10 highlight of my LIFE"  I'm sure Daniel  Kuntz will make the decision to keep the "Best fans in DIII basketball" inside that gym. 
As for the chanting at the Whittier fans all I heard was a "Drive Home Safely" and a "Just Like Football" chant but my old ears may have missed something.

[dj_hyphen]

actually, the Redlands fans usually give their team the best support, although definitely not in any sort of classy way....if they actually had a decent team to root for, it'd be crazy over there

That's why it's better to have your road game at Redlands to be as late in the year as possible...cause after they beat up some unsuspecting teams and scrubs in preseason, they usually enter SCIAC with a fairly decent record.  The fans are always all into it...until the first few SCIAC games bring them back down to reality and the buzz on campus fizzles.  Then by the end, half the Redlands players think the program should revert back to normal ball, and they struggle down the stretch.  it's like clockwork

[scandihoovian]

Hyphen-

Your Redlands take is dead on - I was there in mid-February last year and the students who were there quickly lost interest when the game took over the usual pattern.  The players seemed much more frustrated than they had earlier in the season in the game at CLU - at which point I think they were 9-3 or something and still optimistic about the season.

As for the CLU students, in my two chances to observe them this year I've been glad to see such a high level of positive energy, absent of the kinds of personal attacks and disparaging remarks that have become standard issue in D1 student sections across the country.

[mr_rayburn]

Remember when Greenlee from La Verne was talking trash before going to La Verne as a transfer 3 years ago.  I just thought about that after looking over the weekends scores.  Good times.  He and La Verne are both doing a wonderful job backing up the talk.

Oxy is definitely the team to beat at this point. Can't argue with an undefeated DIII record so far.

[castle]

I was at the Whitter/CLU game and I didn't think that the CLU fans were too bad...just the usually things that you would here on the road.

Big week for OXY(who will probably move to #18); facing CMS and PP...

[scandihoovian]

Where did Greenlee transfer from?  I was intrigued to see him sit for 5-6 of the last 10 minutes of a close game at CLU on Wednesday (I think he had two fouls at the time).  It's hard to tell what's going on there...

[WestCoastWhiner]

Nobody ever came on here to detail what happened at CMS with Turner.   Big win over PP in his absence but losing that talent off the bench hurts. 

Betty is bringing it.  Other than the guy from CLU, I think it was Avedian, I think that was one of the biggest outputs against the lay-up giving Redlands system.  I listened to the last 15 minutes of that game and Betty must have had about 5 dunks in a row.  I'll give it him for showing up on the road.   If he keeps showing up like that I'm prepared to change my moniker to "Betty for All-America".

Lots of hoops left.  Expect good performances from Oxy this week.  They hold it down in the Rock pretty well.  Ask Amherst.    

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Anyone have any idea what happened to Sasich at Oxy?  He's no longer listed on the team roster.

[TeeDub]

I'll give it him for showing up on the road.   If he keeps showing up like that I'm prepared to change my moniker to "Betty for All-America".

Betty is a stud.  I think he is one of the best that I have seen come through the SCIAC.

[scandihoovian]

Betty is bringing it.  Other than the guy from CLU, I think it was Avedian, I think that was one of the biggest outputs against the lay-up giving Redlands system. 

I think it was Hodges who had something like 54 against Redlands on 24-25 shooting.  I know he had two big games against the Bulldogs last year.

[mr_rayburn]

It was Hodges from Cal Lu that took it to Redlands.  But honestly each of the top teams in the SCIAC has someone that takes it to Redlands.  With the luxury of preparing for "the system" that they run, the good SCIAC coaches are able to break it down and get layups or shots within 5 feet.  Thats why you see shooting percentages against them above 70%...often. 

What I heard about Turner at CMS was that he felt he wasn't "fitting" in with his teammates.  Whether this is his excuse this time is hard to know.  I suppose it would be difficult to transfer across 6th St. to your bitter rivals and join their team.  But again maybe the problem this whole time wasn't with the people at PP or those at CMS.  Maybe this issue is with Turner.