MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Redlands is another SCIAC school.

46-26 MC

[TeeDub]

ok, now I have to know what the Redlands reference is...

Grinnell West

[Sabretooth Tiger]

AKA TFS

[Sabretooth Tiger]

52-29 MC

The announcers are pretty damn good.

Oxy cold as ice, shooting 27% per the crew

[TeeDub]

I figured if anyone could appreciate that joke it would be you...

It's interesting that you reference Redlands in your post...almost ironic since it was the Redlands game that Betty got hurt...

[Sabretooth Tiger]

UMHB fell to Maryville right?

[TeeDub]

I figured if anyone could appreciate that joke it would be you...

It's interesting that you reference Redlands in your post...almost ironic since it was the Redlands game that Betty got hurt...

It appears as that game took both of us out of the tournament...

[NCChoctaw]

Now, now...do you really think that game took you out of the tournament?  Doesn't credit Mississippi College with much, does it?  I'm sympathetic to your injury, but it is a team sport.  Good luck next year, and safe travels back.

[Howlinwolf]

Caught the game on the high-quality interner feed.

Let me first commend the MC broadcasting team for their professionalism, considerateness, and good humor. They defined Southern hospitality. Great job.

Oxy is a very different team without Betty, and it showed. Tough to run an outside game with no real inside threat, hence the lack of production from Whitman. The Oxy bench got some playing time, with Bremond making the best of his opportunity.

Hats off to MC - they're talented and disciplined. Although it would have been a much more competitive and intriguing game with Betty, MC has the horses to go far in the playoffs. Good luck the rest of the way to the Choctaws.

Ditto OB -  to the Oxy seniors, thanks for the memories.   

[snoop dawg]

I had to come out of the lurking shadows to give congrats to Oxy on a great season.  It is a shame about Betty, I feel very sorry for him to have to go out like that.  The Oxy seniors deserve a round of applause for their effort and dedication.

[Gray Fox]

Clinton, Mississippi is only five miles west of Jackson.  On my drive there I was wishing I had a CD of Johnny Cash so I could play his song "Jackson."   I had to sing it to the best of my knowledge.  Now that I'm home  I've pulled up all of the lyrics.  Many are quite appropriate to the situation.

"We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout,
We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out."
The brackets were set up in a fever.  Then when the NCAA found out what had been done, a shotgun wedding was the answer they came up with.  So Oxy played one of the best teams around rather than one of the other two.  I guess the rationale was that Maryville had played MC in the playoffs for the last two years, so they wanted fresh blood.  It certainly has given us something to talk about.

"I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around,
Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson,
Look out Jackson town."
My trip to Clinton was uneventful.  The only memorable thing was in Louisiana when I misread which exit I needed in order to get some gas.  There was no gas station, and I couldn't find a good turning place for a mile or two.  I eventually turned around at the place that had a Confederate flag flying from the flagpole and another in the window.    

"When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. (Hah!)"
Well,  not exactly.  I to give several people a geography lesson that Oxy is in LA near the Rose Bowl.  Two or three asked me what "Occidental" meant.  Is there an equivalent word for "south"?  There was one guy who had done his research on d3hoops, and knew who was in the SCIAC, etc.  He had been in LA when he was in the Navy.

The program put out by the NCAA has all fifty-nine schools listed alphabetically. (another reason MC and Oxy played - they were next to each other on the same page, as were  UMHB and Maryville).  The program only gives the won/loss record along with a roster of players and coaches.  No mention is made of the city, school size,  conference  name,  etc.  There was enough room for it.

During the game I sat behind the Oxy bench with the Oxy parents and family.  Just before the game, Jake Halveston came over to speak to us in order hear some California accents.  Jake is a former Redlands football player whose last season was 2003.  He is currently a graduate assistant for the MC football team, coaching the defensive line.  He expressed his displeasure with the fact that Redlands football hasn't been winning the SCIAC.  He was not a fan of the "TFS", so was happy when I told him that things may change next year.  He has only been at MC for a couple of years, but the y'alls were rolling off his tongue like a native.

"They'll lead you 'round town like a scalded hound,"
Having seen MC,  I knew they were good and was not surprised at the result.  I did not realize just how quick they were with their hands on defense, or how fast they were.  I saw several Oxy shots that I know would be made against a normal team, get changed to some awkward move at the last second because of this.

TFS influence - In the second half Coach Newhall  used some mass substitutions.  These probably had been perfected during league play against Redlands.  They did help some, but the damage had been done.

Oxy was better than either of the two teams that played in the first game. I watched the video of the MC/Maryville game tonight and the announcers said just that.  I would have liked to see them play at full strength.  Regardless, I think their d3hoops rankings are probably accurate based on what I saw.

"'Goodbye,' that's all she wrote."

[D O.C.]

That was a wonderful post Gray Fox.
Now suggest you listen again to the Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra top 40 version of Jackson now.

[Gregory Sager]

Two or three asked me what "Occidental" meant.  Is there an equivalent word for "south"?

Yes, "Austral".

Latin terms for compass points:

boreal = north
austral = south
occidental = west
oriental = east

[Ralph Turner]

Gray Fox has kept his gentle Southern California accent.  In the conversations that I have had with him, he has not acquired the "y'all".

Y'all" is properly used as the second person plural pronoun as opposed to "you'uns"  "yooz-guys"  and other dialectical attempts to clarify the ambiguity of the English "you".

[Gregory Sager]

In certain precincts of the northern tier of states, "allayou" is a quite popular form of the second person plural pronoun.

And I have noticed that in Black American Standard Dialect (aka "ebonics"), "y'all" is perfectly acceptable as a first person plural pronoun; in fact, it seems to convey a more informal and more intimate connotation than "you" in context.