MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[dawg gone it]

Bob,

You should of let me know....we could have had a beer.

[fosheezie]

Wow, weird to see McCoy leave PP midway through the year.  Maybe he couldn't handle Kats coaching.  Hey, not many can, thats what makes his teams deadly.  You gotta have mentally strong players to compete, bet Kats cant be too happy about that.  But the young guys performed well vs. an always strong Biola squad.  As usual Knowles went off, and it looks like the Kristof and Chaimowitz kids played well for freshman.  Good recruiting might have Kats thinking of future titles, but dont count him out this year, the Wizard of Claremont is always dangerous

[Hoopsallthetime]

The stags head up to Irvine, CA to play the always tough Concordia University. After a tough loss to Westmont, the stags had an easy time with  La Sierra University to go to 7-1 on the season. I believe if the stags play as well as they did against the Warriors of Westmont, they should have a great win against Concordia. Look for the score to be low, and defense at an all-time high. Good luck stags, and we can't wait to get our horse in Craig Borengasser back for conference play. Go stags!!!

[scandihoovian]

Bob-

Be careful when talking junk about GSBC.  I am confident that their players come out fired up and ready to play after scheduled hours in the dating parlor.

[scandihoovian]

scandihoovian:

>>I am confident that their players come out fired up and ready to play after scheduled hours in the dating parlor.<<

That's hilarious.

Oh, look, I was able to find detailed rules for use of the Dating Parlor.

OxyBob

ROTFLMAO 

I thought about making a U of Miami crack but then thought better, that's gotten to the place where it's just plain tragic.

I guess it must be finals week Bob, do you hear the crickets in here too?

I am looking forward to seeing what happens around the conference this weekend.  I wish the CLU Pacific game was up here instead of in Pasadena.  Like cmsstag I think the CMS - Concordia game could be a telling matchup...

[pomonaalum]

scandihoovian:

>>I am confident that their players come out fired up and ready to play after scheduled hours in the dating parlor.<<

That's hilarious.

Oh, look, I was able to find detailed rules for use of the Dating Parlor.

OxyBob

We were playing at one of the GSAC schools once, maybe Cal Baptist or Azusa Pacific, and had some kind of heavy metal music playing in the team van - maybe Metallica or something - we were
"spoken to" by one of the school admins about the music...

[DIIIghetto]

Hen fans, PP is in trouble minus ACC flunky.  I'll never understand why a kid would elect to leave Pomona to finish his degree at NC State.  Especially a kid who could ball and was allowed to jack up as many shots as he could find.  Kats brought in some good recruits and still has the best guard in Knowles, but losing that kid to me moves them below CMS.  With the Stags D, the almost inconceivable scenario in that rivalry of back to back sweeps is a real possibility.

I hate to say it but I think the Wooster game is about as big as any Kats has coached.  PP fans always point out to the one and done playoff performances as being heavily influenced by having to get on the road and play such good teams.  Here one comes to his backyard.  Hard to argue that if you look at some of those teams they have run up against.  For too many years Kats and PP have not been able to get national respect.  Here is to hoping that they can send a shocker to the D3 nation next week.  Wooster is a hell of a team, so it may be wishful thinking.  But many folks would have said the same thing about Oxy last year when Amherst rolled into the place formerly known as the Rock (now Hersey PA West).   Kats should shamelessly try to find ways to pack the gym, even if he has to give 1000 tickets to local teams from the Claremont YMCA.

CMS is having a heck of a year, but won't get any respect for it outside of the southland because they made some weak scheduling decisions.  Think national Stags.  NAIA performances, while impressive to folks in the southland, aren't getting you very far in the D3 nation. 

[pomonaalum]

Pomona tickets, except for NCAA home games, are free.  Sadly, if Kats brought in 1000 kids from local teams, that would mean about 1200 fans there for the game, maybe less because it's probably finals week.  Rains only gets packed for CMS games...

[Gray Fox]

Bob-

Be careful when talking junk about GSBC.  I am confident that their players come out fired up and ready to play after scheduled hours in the dating parlor.

How do the students earn extra credit in their philosophy classes for answering the age old question, "your place, or mine?"? 

[Hoopsallthetime]

I hate to say it, but i think D111ghetto is right when it comes to the stags and their schedule. Division 3 basketball doesnt take to account wins against the GSAC and teams like Concordia, Westmont, Point Loma, and Asuza Pacific. The stags could beat all of them, and still not get the votes that they need to be noticed. I believe Coach Scalmanini does it right, playing tough GSAC teams in the preseason only makes his team tougher when it comes to conference play. Sure he could go play La Sierra twice a year, but will that make his team tougher come conference play. That is why I beleive the stags are at the top of the conference year in and year out. They play tough teams in the preseason to get them ready for confernce play in the spring. A win tomorrow night I beleive will help the stags get noticed, and believe me if you haven't seen this team play, you better start watching. This team punishes you with their tough defense, and the offense will make you play defense for 25 to 35 seconds. Be ready to play these guys, because if you are not, they will come at you.
Good luck to Pomona on Monday, I hope you can beat Wooster. Also good luck to Oxy, as they play a very tough team in Chapman on Saturday.

Good luck tomorrow night stags!!!!!

[Gregory Sager]

I hate to say it, but i think D111ghetto is right when it comes to the stags and their schedule. Division 3 basketball doesnt take to account wins against the GSAC and teams like Concordia, Westmont, Point Loma, and Asuza Pacific.

I think that you're selling Pat and his pollsters short. I'd be willing to wager that most of them, if not all of them, are very aware of the prowess of the GSAC on the NAIA-1 level. Part of being a knowledgeable follower of D3 is being a knowledgeable follower of small-college ball in general, because there's so much crossover in terms of non-conference games played.

[UPSoundLogs]

Hey there SCIAC fans, I'm just popping in from the NWC.  Things have gotten a little slow over on our board so I figured I'd come check out how Cali is looking so far this year.

I've noticed a lot of talk about your teams playing too many GSAC opponents and not enough D3 competition before league play starts up.  I'm fairly knowledgeable about the GSAC and know how tough their league is most years, especially a teams like Azusa Pacific and Biola.  I was just wondering how you guys feel the SCIAC stacks up to the GSAC? Since the two conferences play a lot of games every year i figured you guys would be a pretty good judge of the competition between the two.  Are the players and teams pretty comparable or is there a large gap one way or the other? Just curious? 

I wish all of your teams good luck this season I'm hoping that between the SCIAC and NWC we can send a couple teams deep into the tourney and start to get some more respect for the West Coast!!! 

[Gray Fox]

"I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."

UPSoundLogs,

Are you sure you aren't a SCIAC guy?

[wooscotsfan]

I wonder who Wooster President Stan Hales will be rooting for.

OxyBob

Even as a Pomona grad, Hales will be rooting for the #1 team in the nation!

GO SCOTS!

[wooscotsfan]

Here is a brief preview of #1 Wooster:

As a team, the 8-0 Scots are:
-Shooting 51% from the Floor
-Shooting 41% on three pointers (86 of 209)
-Shooting 81% from the charity stripe
-Outrebounding opponents 36.9 to 32.0

Wooster has two Street & Smith preseason All Americans in guard James Cooper 6'0" and wing Tom Port 6'5".  Both can break down a defense and create good shots.  Port is especially versatile because he shoots three pointers, scores in the paint and is Wooster's #2 rebounder.

Center Tim Vandervaart 6'6" is a crafty inside player and he is actually leading Wooster in scoring ~17 ppg and in rebounding at 8 per game.  He shoots 65% from the floor.

Wooster has several players that shoot three pointers well including Cooper, Port, point guard Brandon Johnson and sixth man Devin Fulk.  Wooster also brings two other athletic players in Evan Will 6'6" and Marty Bidwell 6'4" off the bench.

Wooster played an up tempo nationally ranked NAIA team Cedarville last night in a 104-95 win and the Scots are obviously traveling to the west coast today.  Let's hope that they get enough rest to play their best ball against Pomona-Pitzer tomorrow night.  Should be a great game.

GO SCOTS!