MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[snoop dawg]

Congrats to Coach Smith on a great career and to Amir Mazarei on his outstanding accomplishments.

I guess they have now earned the title of ..."Super Freaks"!

[snoop dawg]

I erred greatly in not also extending congrats to Sam Betty.  He should be applauded for his outstanding 4 years of dedication and achievement. 

[TeeDub]

Congratulations to Amir Mazarei and Gary Smith. I am really going to miss watching Mazarei go off for 50 a night against Oxy. Also, if Coach Smith had received this honor 10 years ago, then maybe he'd have retired then and spared us the TFS altogether. We'll never know.

Way to go, Sam Betty! In the same year Oxy loses to graduation Betty and Andy Collins, two of the school's all-time greats. Io Triumphe!

OxyBob

Bob,

Maybe the TFS was a result of him actually winning the West Region Coach of the Year in 1985...just a thought.

[diehardfan]

Sorry, I can't remember anything that long ago. I can't even remember what I had for lunch yesterday. Besides, I was only, oh, 9 or 10 years old in 1985.

I was four in 1985.... I didn't know you were only 5-6 years older than me?!!?!?

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Besides, I was only, oh, 9 or 10 years old in 1985.

OxyBob

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you are so full of **** . . .  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[snoop dawg]

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Are you saying that OB if fudging about his age?   I thought he was a recent grad of Oxy!  Sure had me fooled.

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to Betty on an outstanding basketball and football career.

Naw Snoop,

I saw O.B at Oxy's homecoming football game when the 1955 SCIAC champ team. this year. No 9 year old would need to carry around an oxygen tank with them, would they?

[Sabretooth Tiger]

My recollection is that OB's baby brother played for the Tiger football team of '55 . . . 

Nah . . . but OB does make me look young . . . and that's getting harder to do each year.

[diehardfan]

Congrats to Amir Mazarei, second team All American! It was fun watching you this year!

Saw Gary Smith in Salem and and said hi... have a pic of him standing on the center court line as he was honored during halftime too..... Remind me to post it if I forget.

[diehardfan]

This season I saw Isaac Rosefelt of St. Thomas and James Cooper and Tom Port of Wooster play

You didn't see St. Thomas's Bryan Schnettler play too?

I know how people hate the "we beat you who beat them who beat them" analysis, but Oxy did pound on Williams, which beat Amherst and Trinity, which also beat Amherst.

And to be fair, the other way: Amherst beat Va Wes solidly, who pounded Mississippi College, who pounded a Bettyless Occidental.

I think all the claims that DIII had extra parity this year in the top 50 teams or so is definitely evidenced by things like this.

[Pat Coleman]

Schnettler was selected as an All-American.

[TeeDub]

PC:

>>Schnettler was selected as an All-American<<

I guess I should learn how to better use the Page Down function.

OxyBob

Better yet, forget how to use the 'reply' button...   You know I'm only kidding, Bob.  You make it fun, plus your comments always get people distracted away from my bonehead comments...see you in the stands next year.

[old_hooper]

Oxy bob, the Williams team that played in CA in early Jan was not the same Williams team in Feb.  The games that they won against Trinity and Amherst in the conference tournament they shot the ball just about as good as they possibly could in those games.  their PG was 7/9 from downtown in the championship game against the same Amherst defense that won the title this week in Salem.  they needed every bit of it to pull out the win at Amherst.  No matter how good they were that weekend going into the tournament they would have had to play at that same level to advance in the tournament and it would have been nothing short of remarkable if they had.  Williams really stepped it up in Feb and made a nice run in the conference after their weekend of defeats to Trinity and Amherst late Jan.  Trinity was a very good team this year but just couldn't put it all together and really should have been back in Amherst in the elite 8, but let it slip away in OT against Brandeis in the first round.  Trinity matched up well with Amherst.  My point is that Oxy would have seen a much different Williams team that was able to pull off the big wins in the NESCAC tournament.

[TeeDub]

Jordis Rocks:

Did you see Long Beach State's NCAA first-round game against Tennessee this past Friday? The 49ers tried to play just like Redlands, and I thought they were quite successful. They held the Vols to 121.

OxyBob

No, but I did see Weber State's opening round 42 that was very Oxy-esque.  I think this is a much more fair comparison given how outmatched Weber State was in their opener.  (All in fun!)

[diehardfan]

Redlands Coach honored at halftime of the NCAA championship game: