Bumblin' B's

[David Collinge]

Don't sleep on Rust who have 6'6 Larry Veasley and 6'4 Markeith Wilson, or so I have heard!

[ziggy]

Don't sleep on Rust who have 6'6 Larry Veasley and 6'4 Markeith Wilson, or so I have heard!

I'm sorry, Mr. Wilson's first name makes me want to retype your sentence as follows:

Don't thleep on Rutht who have thick-thick Larry Veathley and thick-four Marketih Wilthon, or tho I have heard!

[bballlover]

I would be the first to agree that Rust will have a good team this year.I have seen these guys play.From what I can remember though the schedule is mighty tough.

[scottiedoug]

Maybe that is why Rust is not playing Maryville this year. 

[sac]

[David Collinge]

I was trying to induce the one where Homer aims the pistol, but this one's better. 

[Gregory Sager]

I was trying to induce the one where Homer aims the pistol, but this one's better. 

I agree. Actually, the first thing that went through my head when I read scottiedoug's post was, "D'oh!"

[David Collinge]

Don't sleep on Rust who have 6'6 Larry "Neil Young" Veasley and 6'4 Markeith "Crazy Horse" Wilson, or so I have heard!

[bballlover]

Rust lost this past weekend to Mount Union & Rhodes. Mr. Veasley was not on the roster.

[Ralph Turner]

Knightslappy found the handbook and has posted the link.  He gives an excellent analysis of the inaccuracies/inconsistencies in the first version.

The handbook is out: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/basketball/2011/11_3_mbasketball.pdf

61 bids. 42 Pool A's, 2 Pool B's, and only 17 Pool C's  

Looks like no Pool A status for the NECC?... Nope... The handbook looks wrong. Lists NECC as an AQ conference, but also lists all the teams as Pool B. Looks like maybe it should actually be 18 C's and 1 B?

Here's the OWP/OOWP adjustment:
Home/Away Multiplier. A multiplier of 1.4 shall be added to the OWP for those
games played away from home. In addition, the same multiplier (1.4) shall be included
for those games played on the road for the OOWP. A multiplier of 1/0 (no positive
or negative effect) will be included in the OWP and OOWP for all neutral games. A
multiplier of 0.6 shall be included in the OWP and OOWP for all home games.

The NECC has been given Pool A status, but its 8 teams have not been withdrawn from the Pool B designation.

Here are the Pool 13 B teams that I find.

Lancaster Bible

U Maine - Presque Isle (Are they declaring for the NAIA this season?)

GSAC-4 (Huntingdon, LaGrange, Maryville, Piedmont)

Rust

UDallas (going to the SCAC in 2011-12)

Nebraska Wesleyan
Finlandia
Chapman
UC Santa Cruz
North Central University (MN)  

[RustCollege]

Rust lost this past weekend to Mount Union & Rhodes. Mr. Veasley was not on the roster.

yea u right he didnt play but he played his 1st full game against Hendrix 10pts on 4-7 shooting with 6 rebs in 17mins so his is back from his foot problem

[KnightSlappy]

Knightslappy found the handbook and has posted the link.  He gives an excellent analysis of the inaccuracies/inconsistencies in the first version.

The handbook is out: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/basketball/2011/11_3_mbasketball.pdf

61 bids. 42 Pool A's, 2 Pool B's, and only 17 Pool C's  

Looks like no Pool A status for the NECC?... Nope... The handbook looks wrong. Lists NECC as an AQ conference, but also lists all the teams as Pool B. Looks like maybe it should actually be 18 C's and 1 B?

Here's the OWP/OOWP adjustment:
Home/Away Multiplier. A multiplier of 1.4 shall be added to the OWP for those
games played away from home. In addition, the same multiplier (1.4) shall be included
for those games played on the road for the OOWP. A multiplier of 1/0 (no positive
or negative effect) will be included in the OWP and OOWP for all neutral games. A
multiplier of 0.6 shall be included in the OWP and OOWP for all home games.

The NECC has been given Pool A status, but its 8 teams have not been withdrawn from the Pool B designation.

Here are the Pool 13 B teams that I find.

Lancaster Bible

U Maine - Presque Isle (Are they declaring for the NAIA this season?)

GSAC-4 (Huntingdon, LaGrange, Maryville, Piedmont)

Rust

UDallas (going to the SCAC in 2011-12)

Nebraska Wesleyan
Finlandia
Chapman
UC Santa Cruz
North Central University (MN)  

It also doesn't list Birmingham-Southern as reclassifying, but unless I'm mistaken, they're in year four of that process, so they shouldn't be eligible this year.

[magicman]

Knightslappy found the handbook and has posted the link.  He gives an excellent analysis of the inaccuracies/inconsistencies in the first version.

The handbook is out: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/basketball/2011/11_3_mbasketball.pdf

61 bids. 42 Pool A's, 2 Pool B's, and only 17 Pool C's  

Looks like no Pool A status for the NECC?... Nope... The handbook looks wrong. Lists NECC as an AQ conference, but also lists all the teams as Pool B. Looks like maybe it should actually be 18 C's and 1 B?

Here's the OWP/OOWP adjustment:
Home/Away Multiplier. A multiplier of 1.4 shall be added to the OWP for those
games played away from home. In addition, the same multiplier (1.4) shall be included
for those games played on the road for the OOWP. A multiplier of 1/0 (no positive
or negative effect) will be included in the OWP and OOWP for all neutral games. A
multiplier of 0.6 shall be included in the OWP and OOWP for all home games.

The NECC has been given Pool A status, but its 8 teams have not been withdrawn from the Pool B designation.

Here are the Pool 13 B teams that I find.

Lancaster Bible

U Maine - Presque Isle (Are they declaring for the NAIA this season?)

GSAC-4 (Huntingdon, LaGrange, Maryville, Piedmont)

Rust

UDallas (going to the SCAC in 2011-12)

Nebraska Wesleyan
Finlandia
Chapman
UC Santa Cruz
North Central University (MN)  

Ralph,
So basically what you're saying is once again you'll have to straighten out the NCAA numbers, regarding the correct number of Pool A, B, and C bids. How many years in a row now, has this happened? I'm pretty sure last year I heard a big, YES!!!,  from you when they admitted an error and also the year before. I know I made a comment that the best thing for them to do would be to check with you first, as you could probably save them time and effort.   And now you have an ally in KnightSlappy.

[CrashDavisD3]

Knightslappy found the handbook and has posted the link.  He gives an excellent analysis of the inaccuracies/inconsistencies in the first version.

The handbook is out: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/basketball/2011/11_3_mbasketball.pdf

61 bids. 42 Pool A's, 2 Pool B's, and only 17 Pool C's 

Looks like no Pool A status for the NECC?... Nope... The handbook looks wrong. Lists NECC as an AQ conference, but also lists all the teams as Pool B. Looks like maybe it should actually be 18 C's and 1 B?

Here's the OWP/OOWP adjustment:
Home/Away Multiplier. A multiplier of 1.4 shall be added to the OWP for those
games played away from home. In addition, the same multiplier (1.4) shall be included
for those games played on the road for the OOWP. A multiplier of 1/0 (no positive
or negative effect) will be included in the OWP and OOWP for all neutral games. A
multiplier of 0.6 shall be included in the OWP and OOWP for all home games.

The NECC has been given Pool A status, but its 8 teams have not been withdrawn from the Pool B designation.

Here are the Pool 13 B teams that I find.

Lancaster Bible

U Maine - Presque Isle (Are they declaring for the NAIA this season?)

GSAC-4 (Huntingdon, LaGrange, Maryville, Piedmont)

Rust

UDallas (going to the SCAC in 2011-12)

Nebraska Wesleyan
Finlandia
Chapman
UC Santa Cruz
North Central University (MN) 

Ralph,
So basically what you're saying is once again you'll have to straighten out the NCAA numbers, regarding the correct number of Pool A, B, and C bids. How many years in a row now, has this happened? I'm pretty sure last year I heard a big, YES!!!,  from you when they admitted an error and also the year before. I know I made a comment that the best thing for them to do would be to check with you first, as you could probably save them time and effort.   And now you have an ally in KnightSlappy.

I vote putting Ralph in charge of the NCAA...The NCAA every year makes very blatant errors in their publications only to be pointed out by others in more than 1 sport. Not sure why there are so many NCAA officials pulling down 6 figure salaries in Indianapolis, Indiana and with the billions in revenues they have they should be able to do some simple math and also publish accurate documents... Does anyone at the NCAA actually review their stuff before it gets published.

+K to Ralph again...

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks for the kind words.

The 12/02/2010 version of the Men's Handbook has been released.

It seems to be the cleanest version to be released in December that I can remember.

13 Pool B teams give us one Pool B bid.