MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Titan Q]

Thanks David!  I was never exactly sure how all of that worked.  Very helpful.

I'll suggest to IWU that they change the schedule to "Claremont-Mudd-Scripps."  Looking forward to a trip to SCIAC-land in December!

[diehardfan]

As an addition to what David said, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps plays in Ducey Gymnasium and Pomona-Pitzer plays in the Rains Center. As the colleges are all a big group (Pomona and Pitzer are actually the furthest from eachother), those gyms are within easy walking distance from eachother (significantly less than a half a mile) and can both be seen from the same street.

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They're only around 40 minutes or so away from Occidental's Rush Gymnasium. And I only know this cause I went to all three this year in the same night trying to figure out where a game was actually being played.

Claremont McKenna is the school that hosts the CMS sports sites, so that's probably where the confusion of the IWU's SID came from. Unless of course the Baby Titans 2 were so scared of the CMS squad that they felt the need to play only the students from only one of the three institutions.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

As an addition to what David said, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps plays in Ducey Gymnasium and Pomona-Pitzer plays in the Rains Center.

To confuse things further, the new men's basketball coach at Redlands is Jim Ducey.

OxyBob

Oh worthy trivia master . . . please enlighten us . . . any connection between the two?

tooth

[Pat Coleman]

Is that the first we're hearing of this hire from a month ago or did I miss something?

[diehardfan]

Is that the first we're hearing of this hire from a month ago or did I miss something?

It was definitely mentioned.... I know cause I got an email about it and was going to say something but someone had already posted.

Ahhah! Proof Pat doesn't pay attention to us.... just kidding!

Thanks OxyBob for the article link. I had stupidly assumed it was a coincidence. Interesting stuff!

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks. I know we didn't get a release on it. I don't always get to surf each message board looking for news.

[diehardfan]

Here you go....

Jim Ducey is the next Redlands men's bball coach.  Whatch out SCIAC.
http://www.redlands.edu/x31743.xml?StoryType=Athletics

And something I found on the same page...

CLU will be loaded next year.  Is a dynasty forming?

Or several of their players could get arrested for stealing stuff out of cars.... 

[Gray Fox]

Here you go....

Jim Ducey is the next Redlands men's bball coach.  Whatch out SCIAC.
http://www.redlands.edu/x31743.xml?StoryType=Athletics

And something I found on the same page...

CLU will be loaded next year.  Is a dynasty forming?

Or several of their players could get arrested for stealing stuff out of cars.... 

The key player in the dynasty was one of the players.

[diehardfan]

And something I found on the same page...

CLU will be loaded next year.  Is a dynasty forming?

Or several of their players could get arrested for stealing stuff out of cars.... 

The key player in the dynasty was one of the players.

I know, it's so sad. He was a talented player, and now his entire life is basically shot. It's just the kind of thing that's not supposed to happen in DIII.

[NWCer]

April,

It is sad, he is a talented player, but the kid made a very bad, and STUPID mistake (that seemed very poorly planned I might add) but I wouldn't go so far as saying "his entire life is basically shot".  Hopefully his family, the community, and society itself will give the kid a second chance, and he will ultimately make the most of that.  We have to have some belief in rehabilitation.

And unfortunately Division III isn't immune to these type of things.

[diehardfan]

April,

It is sad, he is a talented player, but the kid made a very bad, and STUPID mistake (that seemed very poorly planned I might add) but I wouldn't go so far as saying "his entire life is basically shot".  Hopefully his family, the community, and society itself will give the kid a second chance, and he will ultimately make the most of that.  We have to have some belief in rehabilitation.

And unfortunately Division III isn't immune to these type of things.

(that seemed very poorly planned I might add)


I don't mean completely shot, no. I am staunchly opposed to a penal judicial system, and am all about rehabilitation too. But after they serves their time or whatever they have to do, they'll always have this on their record, they'll have to write it on every job application, and I can't imagine they'll be allowed to stay in school.

Yes there will be chances for redemption, and I hope it happens. Wheaton, my college, actually has a really cool program that helps rehabilitated criminals with full scholarships.

http://www.bgcprisonministries.com/index.php?id=7

One of my dear friends at Wheaton received this scholarship, graduated, and now works with at-risk youth. He's definitely one of the best people I know. As a person of faith I believe that God is capable of transforming and redeeming everything.

It will be a long and arduous process, however. (As someone pointed out to me, this is in some sense a tribute to DIII... cause at a DI college or in the NBA, they'd just be in practice the next week). I wish them nothing but the best. But I reserve the right to be really, really sad that this happened.

[diehardfan]

And then someone steals my credit card and makes hundreds of dollars of purchases on it in just a few hours... seriously, what is wrong with the world?  I'm just going to assume that this was totally done by someone who went to a DI school.

[diehardfan]

Wheaton is playing in the Cal Tech tournament this winter!

http://www.wheaton.edu/Athletics/mbasketball/schedule07-08.html

So exciting! My two favorite schools in the same gym... 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Wheaton is playing in the Cal Tech tournament this winter!

http://www.wheaton.edu/Athletics/mbasketball/schedule07-08.html

So exciting! My two favorite schools in the same gym... 

Be careful what you wish for, April.  Cal Tech is due for the BIG ONE any time now!  (Or is that the San Andreas Fault I'm thinking of?)

[Pat Coleman]

The folks at Caltech prefer the one-word spelling.