WBB: American Southwest Conference

[dballa]

fanstand you do it by clicking on applaud or smite under the persons comment you want to do it to. 


inthepaint not sure why someone took one away from you.  didn't look like anything negative on your part was said.  it sure looked all positive towards your cowgirls.

I guess whatever i said previously deserved losing one too...

[WLCALUM83]

You need to reach 200 posts before you can do that.

[inthepaint]

Fanstand, let me help you out, bud.  You can practice on my post here.  Just hit the applaud link under my photo!    Avoid the smite, please!

[inthepaint]

This preoccupation with karma points is, I suppose, simply a reflection of my poor self esteem, battered about, tossed here and there by the whims of those who smite without thinking of the emotional damage they inflict. 

To some it must seem like such an insignificant click of the mouse.  However, to those of us who struggle under the weight of NKS, or Negative Karma Syndrome, we sign on to D3hoops.com with sweaty palms and shortness of breath.  We find that a new page has been added to the Women's Basketball, South Region thread, a new page that may hold the posts of fellow DIII fans who see flaws in our posts.  Flaws that prompt the smite.  Oh, the humanity of it all!

I think I need professional help.

[McM93]

 ???It is strange that inthepaint doesn't receive more Karma.  He has posted nothing but positives towards his team and rival HPU. 

If I could give some Karma I would.  Come on, spread the love.

[Bench Coach]

Thank you for the Karma point inthepaint, I am glad that I can bring you back to reality.  It ain't over till you are out and don't get a bid.  I believe that the two abilene teams will come on strong when the conference tournament gets here.  LIB, you did it traveling all the way to Mississippi last year, and you can do it taking a short trip to Bwood.  I don't think that the LIB showing in bwood was the LIB we have seen early on.  Girls, you just need to bounce back and play your game, and don't play for anyone but you and your teammates that are beside and behind you everyday.  I feel sorry for the teams that play you this week....I think the LIB will turn it on.

[thundercat]

inthepaint, if I could give out Karma points I would but to give you some more credit you have definitely "grown" over the years!  I remember times not that long ago where you were trashing certain coaches and teams.  Those days seem to be gone, thankfully!  We are all much happier reading good natured debates on the board. 

I know HPU will be ready for the game tomorrow night, there really isn't much love between the two programs it seems.  I am interested to see these young post players CUAfan speaks of for myself.  Also am wondering what kind of fan turnout it will be for CUA.  They haven't had great ones in the past and there isn't any excuse for them to not be there in support of the team.  I guess we will see!

 

[sethhpu]

Oh just FYI, HPU will be broadcasting the game over the Net.

[gccfan]

I know it's already on the discussion board as a voting topic, but does anyone think that ETBU has a chance to upset the West Powers in the tourney.  Last year, they beat HSU in the first round.  I was also wondering if they have any shot at an at-large bid if they make the championship game and then lose.  They are 18-4 this year and are a very tough team to match up with their size and quickness.

[Ralph Turner]

I know it's already on the discussion board as a voting topic, but does anyone think that ETBU has a chance to upset the West Powers in the tourney.  Last year, they beat HSU in the first round.  I was also wondering if they have any shot at an at-large bid if they make the championship game and then lose.  They are 18-4 this year and are a very tough team to match up with their size and quickness.

Right now, no!  I think that they must win the conference tourney.  Not even HSU is in the regional rankings that have been posted.

What would have ETBU in contention for an at-large bid?

Wins over South Region Ranked teams #2 Oglethorpe and #5 Hendrix.

[Josh Bowerman]

Ralph et. al.--

I realize that I'm somewhat of a drive-by fan on the hoops site--most of my posts are on the football side of things, simply because there are so many fewer teams/games to try to keep up with.  But...

Can someone explain to me how a five loss Oglethorpe team checks into the regional rankings at #2?  Have I missed something that big, here?

[dballa]

Josh my only guess is their wins against Depauw and Illinois Wesleyan put them in that spot.  But you would think their 3 in-region losses would have pushed them down.

[mcmfan]

ETBU would be like UMHB last year: got all the way to the final game of the tournament, lost to McM and then got ignored while HSU and HPU, which had gotten beaten earlier, both got bids to the playoffs.  It seems to me getting in the national rankings puts you on the radar screen of the NCAA people who decide who gets bids (or at least decide the borderline cases)... and after HSU got beaten early in the tournament but then made it to the Final Four, I'd think the tendency to give bids to teams with national rankings, no matter what their tournament record looks like, would only be strengthened.

[Ralph Turner]

ETBU would be like UMHB last year: got all the way to the final game of the tournament, lost to McM and then got ignored while HSU and HPU, which had gotten beaten earlier, both got bids to the playoffs.  It seems to me getting in the national rankings puts you on the radar screen of the NCAA people who decide who gets bids (or at least decide the borderline cases)... and after HSU got beaten early in the tournament but then made it to the Final Four, I'd think the tendency to give bids to teams with national rankings, no matter what their tournament record looks like, would only be strengthened.

Most people think that HSU was the last (or next-to-last) Pool C team to make the tourney.  The Cowgirls had an in-region record of 19-5, but had wins over regional ranked teams McM and HPU.  We don't know the final regional ranking, but those 2 wins may have played a big part in the Pool C bids.

The ASC Tourney serves to select the Pool A bid for the conference.  The Presidents expanded the tourney to the top 4 teams in each division about 2 years ago. 

If a team fails to win the Pool A bid, then the NCAA considers the entire season to award one of the at-large bids.  ETBU's 2006 in-region record of 15-9 placed them out of serious consideration.  ETBU's hope for the tourney was to win the whole thing, as UT-D did for the men in 2005.

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph et. al.--

I realize that I'm somewhat of a drive-by fan on the hoops site--most of my posts are on the football side of things, simply because there are so many fewer teams/games to try to keep up with.  But...

Can someone explain to me how a five loss Oglethorpe team checks into the regional rankings at #2?  Have I missed something that big, here?

Josh, the in-region record (and I would expect the QOWI) is what gave them their consideration.  They still have to play DePauw, which may give them another loss.

The Illinois Wesleyan win and Puget Sound loss and Packific Lutheran loss should not make a difference.  (I wonder if the IWU win over a ranked Central Region team as a secondary criterion did not influence their ranking.  )