MBB: MAC Freedom League

[Warren Thompson]

cold_case -

I can't say I get it.

C

For that matter, neither do I.

[Coach C]

Ok.  Just so it isn't me.  The oldhead doesn't get it either.

C

[Pat Coleman]

Let me get this off my chest.  Who's running this site?  Why can't users start a new thread so we don't have to dig through 16 pages of posts?

You can click on the NEW icon to go directly to the first post you have not read. You can click on the numbers next to the MAC Freedom League on the Mid-Atlantic Region list of topics to jump directly to a specific page. Those are two excellent tools I'd suggest you become familiar with.

[cold_case]

I tossed in LV to get a jolt out of Warren "Beatty" Thompson.
However, there is always some shananigans involving Catholic come selection Sunday.

GO COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pat Coleman]

Such as 1998, when Wilkes supplanted Catholic at the last moment to get the top seed in the region and eventually hosted the sectional? Such as 2001, when they weren't "good enough" to get a first-round bye but won the national title anyway? Do tell.

Sounds like cold case is clinging to some really long-ago-dead issues.

[Section J Guy]

Such as 1998, when Wilkes supplanted Catholic at the last moment to get the top seed in the region and eventually hosted the sectional? Such as 2001, when they weren't "good enough" to get a first-round bye but won the national title anyway? Do tell.

Sounds like cold case is clinging to some really long-ago-dead issues.

I would love to know why Catholic is still recieving votes in the poll.....no bias right?

[Pat Coleman]

They are not coming from me or any other regional voter.

I am sure if Street & Smith's were still putting out a poll they would have found a way to keep "No. 10 Wilkes" in there for far too long as well.

[Coach C]

This is WAY ancient history.  There is no CUA bias on the poll.  There is no CUA bias on the site.  You guys who say this are complete and utter fools. 

That's it!  I've had it.  I am going to get a drink!

C

[cold_case]

Ummm, can you explain to me (and I can't wait to hear the justification on this one) what happened to Mary Washington a couple years back? Unless of course that's ancient history?

[Pat Coleman]

Only thing I can think of that you mean here is that MWC was sent on the road in the first round, as a higher seed, to play at Alvernia. This is because Mary Washington didn't file to host a game.

Catholic has never had a coach or AD on the men's basketball committee, regional or national, since I first became aware of the process in 1995.

[cold_case]

Catholic has never had a coach or AD on the men's basketball committee, regional or national, since I first became aware of the process in 1995.

Pat "Choo Choo" Coleman, I never once said Catholic had a coach or AD on any committee. I was asking a simple question regarding Mary Washington.
As for Wilkes "supplanting" Catholic at the last moment in 1998, perhaps that was justified? I mean, Wilkes had nobody watching their backs that year but much has changed since then. 

[Pat Coleman]

I didn't say you said Catholic did. Seeing where your line of questioning was going, I figured I had better answer the next question as well.

Was that your so-called shenanigan? Pretty weak. You should try reheating your cases before posting them.

[Coach C]

I came back from my drink and things have not improved.

You actually have to apply to host a game.  If you don't then you get sent on the road.

Wilkes?  This is the wrong yea to be saying folks have got their back.

C

[ColonelJohn4Life]

I apply the same logic to Wilkes hosting Catholic in 1998, as those have used in the past to defend F&M hosting Wilkes in '96.  Doesn't having won the Regional, in retrospect, warrant hosting it?  It's one thing to host it, and get smoked by 30 in the Sweet 16, but both Wilkes '98 and F&M '96 went to the Final Four.  Can't take anything away from them.

Just getting back in from the roadie to see Wilkes / Scranton, and it didn't disappoint.  Put those two teams on a court, and it'll be fun.

Getting Scranton post-injuries (at home) and Kings pre-winning streak (also at home) definitely helped.  However, had you told me pre-season that Wilkes would be 3-0, alone in first place, with wins over Scranton, Kings, and DeSales... I'd take it.  Amazing how after the 3 inexcusbale losses, a single-digit win over a shell of Scranton's team, ehh, all is forgiven. 

Heh, but seriously, TWO winters.  That has to suck. (You had to be there, I guess...)

[Pat Coleman]

Yeah, winning an overtime game and a nailbiter championship definitely justifies hosting it.

Winning a neutral-site sectional is a far better indicator of having deserved to host it. Wilkes didn't win either game in the sectional by more than the homecourt advantage margin.