Bumblin' B's

[Coach C]

njlincolnlion -

Something tells me there won't be another invitation to Lancaster anytime soon.  And good luck getting GRob to Oxford.

C

[njlincolnlion]

Coach C:

I think you are absolutely right about not getting F&M to come to Lincoln , and future invitations to the Rotary Tournament in Lancaster will be few, if any at all.

As you know, the dilemma for Lincoln is that when you play well and you are an independent, it's going to be very difficult to schedule opponents.  Hopefully, the Lions won't have to play all road games next season.   The life of independents are if you're bad, everyone wants to schedule you for a home game, and if you're decent to good, you'll have difficulty scheduling opponents.

I applaud, R-MC for home and home games this season.  I wish a few more programs would take the "R-MC" approach towards independents.

[njlincolnlion]

Congratulations to Kyle Myrick of Lincoln University upon being named DIII Hoops Men's player of the Month (December, 2005).  This is the first time ever a Lincoln University Basketball player has won such a honor.  The month of December witnessed Lincoln's difficult roads games including playing in four consecutive games in two tournaments in two states.  The Lion's only loss was to R-MC at Ashland, VA in their tournamant during their "Southern Road Tour".

Thank you Pat Coleman and the D3Hoops voters on your selection of Kyle Myrick.  As a proud alumnus of Lincoln University, I'm sure I speak for the Administration, Faculty, Students, and Alumni about how happy we are for Kyle, the Basketball team, and Lincoln Atlletics for this award.

[Warren Thompson]

njlincolnlion -

Something tells me there won't be another invitation to Lancaster anytime soon.  And good luck getting GRob to Oxford.

C

Good luck getting GRob to any away game outside the Centennial. 

[Coach C]

If memory serves, I think GRob went to Dover to pound the %^&$ out of Wesley as a farewell to Coach Wentworth.  Other than that ... I can't think of many non-conference road trips.

C

[Pat Coleman]

Congratulations to Kyle Myrick of Lincoln University upon being named DIII Hoops Men's player of the Month (December, 2005).  This is the first time ever a Lincoln University Basketball player has won such a honor.  The month of December witnessed Lincoln's difficult roads games including playing in four consecutive games in two tournaments in two states.  The Lion's only loss was to R-MC at Ashland, VA in their tournamant during their "Southern Road Tour".

Thank you Pat Coleman and the D3Hoops voters on your selection of Kyle Myrick.  As a proud alumnus of Lincoln University, I'm sure I speak for the Administration, Faculty, Students, and Alumni about how happy we are for Kyle, the Basketball team, and Lincoln Atlletics for this award.

Thanks, but that is not our award. We don't have a player of the month.

[fritzdis]

If memory serves, I think GRob went to Dover to pound the %^&$ out of Wesley as a farewell to Coach Wentworth.  Other than that ... I can't think of many non-conference road trips.

How about Catholic and DeSales last year?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Another tough loss for Lincoln this weekend.  Lebanon Valley appears to have focused primarily on Myrick and it worked.

[joe smith]

Bethany wins both games this week including a 50-point win from D'Youville.  They improve to 10-4 and 7-4 in the region now. 

[njlincolnlion]

Hoops Fan:

Lincoln has me so frustrated.  How do they beat Messiah, and lose to Lebanon Valley?  .  If it's true that Leb. Valley focused on Kyle, the other Lions didn't step up.  This year squad is suppose to be more vesatile with their scoring compared to last year when they only had Myrick and Kearse.

I get to see the Lions when they play in the Mabhattanville tourney, and can't wait.

[wilburt]

Congrats on Kyle Myrick, njlincolnlion. He does Lincoln proud!

[njlincolnlion]

wilburt:

Thanks so much for your comment on Kyle Myrick.  Kyle is a very talented young man, and represents Lincoln well.

I'm still a little bummed out with the Lions dropping out of the top 25, but they did it to themselves losing to Lebanon Valley, after beating a tough Messiah team.  Hopefully, they can win out and conference teams in the top 25 will start to knock each other off the list.

Good luck with FISK with their leage games, especially aganist Maryville.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I knew they would drop.  I wanted to keep them in there, but from every angle I looked at, they were not better than 26th right now.  I don't think that makes them any less dangerous, but they will have to finish strong to assure themselves a place in the tourney.

Right now there isn't a whole lot of competition for the Pool B spots.  Lincoln and Chapman are still the contenders from the independants.  St Joe's (ME) has done ok so far, but I don't think they are going to survive their late season schedule.  The one monkey wrench could be Nebraska Wesleyan.  They declared for d3, but they will only have 7 d3 games, and will have a record of 6-1 (a game with Colorado College is still on the docket, but that's a w, no problem).  Their competition hasn't been that great and I just don't know how the committee will handle it.

Maryville and Fisk are both playing really well in the GSAC.  Bethany could pose some trouble, even though their QOWI will be very low.  They play in a tough region (i'm not sure if all the really good GL teams will help or hurt them).  I think the NIIC teams are all done already.

I'd say right now we have to watch Maryville, Fisk, Lincoln, Chapman, Bethany and NebWes.  There's only three spots, however, and someone may be really hurting come selection time.

[Ralph Turner]

Hoops Fan, there are 4 Pool B slots.

http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbooks/basketball/2006/2006_d3_m_basketball_handbook.pdf

Please look at the top of page 14 in the Handbook.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yeah, yeah.  I got the number wrong; I knew three didn't sound right.  I guess I was assuming Maryville will get in leaving three spots.  i'm not sure.  Either way, it makes things a little easier.