The Undefeated and the Winless

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Green Mountain College is a small liberal arts college focused on environmental issues.  They've got about 800 students and, actually, seems like a really cool place.

From their website:

Green Mountain College is situated in southern Vermont's beautiful lakes region, with the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. The 155-acre campus features athletic fields, a farm with a garden and livestock, a ropes course, hiking trails, and a great swimming hole on the Poultney River. 

Students are encouraged to gain hands-on experience through internships, service-learning opportunities and study abroad programs. Interdisciplinary block courses allow students to spend an entire semester working with professors from multiple disciplines on a single area of focus, often through field research, overnight outings, discussions with experts and a culminating project. Adventure programming and the Farm and Food Project provide additional hands-on learning opportunities.

They've got six players listed on the basketball roster; none over 6'2".  Two Seniors, two Sophomores, and two Freshmen.  Sophomore guard Kenneth Williams must be injured or otherwise predisposed. 

They lost all five starters from last year's squad.  One of the players listed in their pre-season summary is not on the roster - he's evidently been replaced by a local kid.

This could be a long year for Green Mountain.

[hopefan]

RPI guys who were too gross to get Russel Sage or Skidmore girls for dates would sometimes hitch up route 7 to try Green Mountain college... if you struck out, you still could go over to the Green Mountain
track and bet the ponies or dogs.....   

But enough reminicing... no one noticed that one of my SLIAC teams took Sager's Rockford team out of the winless competition   Rockford beats Eureka!!!!

My Carthage team falls, but my Principia boys lose to Sewanee, staying alive in the highly prestigious winless competition....

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I think there should also be a special recognition for the last person still alive in both pools.

[magicman]

Results after Saturday's games. The Undefeated Survivor Pool has been reduced by 4 players over the past 2 days. 14 contenders remain

hugenerd         MIT                                  Lost to Framingham St  73-70
Hoops Fan               Wooster                    Beat Cincinnati Christian 103-78
Ralph Turner    UT-Dallas                         Lost to Schreiner 75-65
Mr Ypsi                    IWU                         Beat Ripon  82-74
KnightSlappy            Depauw                     Beat Earlham 67-51
Ethelred           Plattsburgh State             Lost 11-19 to Western Ct. St. 86-80
Flying Dutch Fan       Hope                        1st game 11-23
hopefan           Carthage                          Lost to John Carroll 70-69
magicman                 Middlebury                 Beat Mass-Dartmouth 86-62
nescac1                   Williams                      Beat Regis  58-48
PointSpecial              Amherst                     Beat Castleton St 56-34          
Old School                St. Norbert                  DNP Next 11-23
scout                       Eastern Mennonite      Beat Southern Va 75-72
smedindy                  St. Thomas                 Beat Puget Sound 69-49
Greg Sager               Whitworth                  Beat Loras 74-50
augie 77                   UW-Stevens Point      Beat St. Johns (Minn) 78-51
sac                          Depauw                    Beat Earlham 67-51
hope 1                     Wooster                    Beat Cincinnati Christrian 103-78

[magicman]

Winless Survivor's Pool after Saturday's games

hopefan              Principia
Mr. Ypsi              Crown
KnightSlappy        Macalester
magicman            Caltech
Ethelred              Cazenovia    
Flying Dutch Fan   Alma      won on 11-15 over Indiana-Northwest 77-73
smedindy            John Jay  won on 11-16 over Vaughn  66-53
Greg Sager          Rockford  won on 11-20 over Eureka 76-73
Hoops Fan          Hilbert
Zander                Earlham
sac                     Alma  won on 11-15 over Indiana-Northwest 77-73
augie 77                Blackburn

[Ralph Turner]

My double-whammy super secret hex worked on UT-Dallas.

Schreiner beat Trinity earlier in the week, so they have something building with their "new" (3rd-year) coach, 1995 Kenyon grad, Drew Miller.

[smedindy]

We all missed out.  Green Mountain will be taking the winless crown this year.

http://athletics.greenmtn.edu/sports/mbkb/2010-11/files/mcm1118.htm

I've never seen a boxscore without subs.  Incredible.

They also have only 20 games on their schedule.

I have for some obscure obscure teams from the nether regions of Christian athletics.

But yikes!!!

BTW - they have a Cleopass Nakoma on their team. Name of the year, obscure NE region tomato can division?

[Hugenerd]

Caltech lost by just 8 points to ORV Merchant Marine.  Could be the year they break through for some wins.

[smedindy]

By 8? Progress!

BTW, UMPI is gone from D-3, right? Officially?

[hopefan]

I think I'm in touble on the winless... Principia plays St Louis Pharma this week... Come on Eutectics,,, The Eutecs cancelled there game with Greenville the other day.... maybe I still have hope if they can't play Prin either!!!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

BTW - they have a Cleopass Nakoma on their team. Name of the year, obscure NE region tomato can division?

And he's NOT the guy from Tanzania.

[smedindy]

Maybe Green Mountain can get a game with Unity??

BTW - from the Unity Web Site:

"Or you can put your energy into club sports like baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee, and Woodsmen."

What the heck is Woodsmen?

(I bet Unity's Ultimate Frisbee team is world-class!)

[hopefan]

smed  -  you don't remember the old wide world of sports competition... the lumberjack competition with handling a saw or ax or climbing a tree or log rolling....

[KnightSlappy]

Maybe Green Mountain can get a game with Unity??

BTW - from the Unity Web Site:

"Or you can put your energy into club sports like baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee, and Woodsmen."

What the heck is Woodsmen?

(I bet Unity's Ultimate Frisbee team is world-class!)

I hear they're also excellent at "the floor is lava".

[John Gleich]

smed  -  you don't remember the old wide world of sports competition... the lumberjack competition with handling a saw or ax or climbing a tree or log rolling....

There was actually a UWSP student who competed in the newer ESPN version recently (last couple of years).