The Undefeated and the Winless

[Hugenerd]

Mississippi College loses tonight.

For what its worth (nothing), MIT did end up with the best start of any of the survivor pool teams (11-0), although they did not "survive" the longest.

If it is any comfort, I believe MIT is the only selected team who is still unbeaten against a d3 opponent.

That makes me feel even better.  I won my own consolation pool also.

[magicman]

The Eastern Nazarene Crusaders find the Holy Grail and fall off the winless list as they defeat Daniel Webster 62-55. The Crusaders score the game's first basket and are never headed the entire 1st half outscoring the Eagles 13 to 3 over the final 4 minutes to go into the break up 34-21. They stretch their lead to 17 early in the 2nd half but Daniel Webster goes on a 25-2 run over the next 7 minutes to take a 46-40 lead. Still down by 6 at 50-44 with 10 minutes left to play the Crusaders end the game on an 18-5 run to claim the victory.

[magicman]

Looks like the real thrills for the ongoing season will reside in the Undefeated and winless room where the winless survivor pool is still going hot and heavy with 4 competitors  

Caltech  (Magicman)
Bard  (hopefan)
Eastern Nazarene (Hoops Fan) 1/07
UMPI (Mr.Ypsi)

And then there were 3.  Eastern Nazarene beats Daniel Webster 62-55.

[magicman]

And the Bard Raptors must have been feeling it tonight as they storm out of the gate and present their head coach Adam Turner with the 1st win of his coaching career with a 73-53 win over NYU-Polytechnic to drop off the winless list. Raptors grab the early lead and were up 40-21 at the break. Polytechnic closed to within 9 at one point in the 2nd half but Bard would not be denied and coasted home.     

[magicman]

Looks like the real thrills for the ongoing season will reside in the Undefeated and winless room where the winless survivor pool is still going hot and heavy with 4 competitors   

Caltech  (Magicman)
Bard  (hopefan) 1/07
Eastern Nazarene (Hoops Fan) 1/07
UMPI (Mr.Ypsi)

And then there were 3.

Sorry hopefan make that 2 as Bard tops NYU-Polytechnic 73-53.

[hopefan]

aaah   it was a great run while it lasted   

[hopefan]

Through Jan 7

UNDEFEATED (2)   was at (4)

Medaille   AMCC   EAST
Randolph-Macon   ODAC   SOUTH
out are Mississippi (lose to Concordia Austin), Middlebury (lose to Colby-Sawyer)

WINLESS  (9)   (UMPI Grandfathered in)   (down from 12)
New York City Tech   CUNYAC   ATL
Cazenovia   NEAC   EAST
FDU-Florham   MACF   MA
Bluffton   HCAC   MW
Maine-Farmington   NAC   NE
Methodist   USAC   SOUTH
Caltech   SCIAC   WEST
Bethany Lutheran   UMAC   WEST
Maine-Presque Isle   NAIA-D2  

Out are Bard (beat Polytechnic), Eastern Nazarene (Beat Daniel Webster), and Schreiner (beat Texas Lutheran)

Undefeated vs D3 Only   (lost to a non-D3) (4)    No change
MIT  NEWMAC   NE
Eastern Mennonite   ODAC   SOUTH
Linfield   NWC   WEST
Occidental   SCIAC   WEST



Winless vs D3 only  (they've beat a non D3)  (12)   was at (16)

Morrisville State   NEAC   EAST
Potsdam State   SUNYAC   EAST
Alma   MIAA   GL
Waynesburg   PrAC   GL
Dickinson   CC   MA
Marywood   CSAC   MA
Philadelphia Bible   CSAC   MA
Penn State Abington   NEAC   MA
Maranatha Baptist   NATHC   MW
Blackburn   SLIAC   MW
Maine Maritime   NAC   NE
Texas Lutheran   ASC   SOUTH

Out are D'Youville (Beat Hilbert), Baptist Bible (Beat winless Cazenovia), Grinnell (Beat Lake Forest), and Greenville (Beat Dominican)

NOTE - BIG Game TONITE   UMPI at Maine Maritime

[Mr. Ypsi]

This has GOT to be a record - going from five to one in TWO days!

And thanks for keeping me in the other pool after UMPI was declared ineligible midseason.   Innocent 'dupes' should not have to suffer!   They're still my favorite d3 sadsacks, d3 or not.  I'm tempted to send them the money to fly out to Caltech!

It would be much cheaper just to bus them down to Bard.

NOW do you understand why I picked Caltech?!

[magicman]

And the real reason you're tempted to fly UMPI to out to play Caltech is you know Caltech would win and I'd be out of the running before you lose by beating Paul Smith's.

I think my earlier post said it all. Now that it's down to just the two of us I like my chances. As Oxy Bob was so kind to point out, Caltech only has SCIAC games left where they are working on a 287 game winless streak. You, on the other hand, have a very winable game tonight against Maine Maritme and should the Owls stay alive by losing that game, a victory is all but guaranteed when you host SUNY Canton and Paul Smith's on back to back nights, Jan 22nd & 23rd.

[Mr. Ypsi]

And the real reason you're tempted to fly UMPI to out to play Caltech is you know Caltech would win and I'd be out of the running before you lose by beating Paul Smith's.

I think my earlier post said it all. Now that it's down to just the two of us I like my chances. As Oxy Bob was so kind to point out, Caltech only has SCIAC games left where they are working on a 287 game winless streak. You, on the other hand, have a very winable game tonight against Maine Maritme and should the Owls stay alive by losing that game, a victory is all but guaranteed when you host SUNY Canton and Paul Smith's on back to back nights, Jan 22nd & 23rd.

Exactly.  I will just about concede the title to you, but if they actually played each other directly, I'd like my chances!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Eastern Nazarene Crusaders find the Holy Grail and fall off the winless list as they defeat Daniel Webster 62-55. The Crusaders score the game's first basket and are never headed the entire 1st half outscoring the Eagles 13 to 3 over the final 4 minutes to go into the break up 34-21. They stretch their lead to 17 early in the 2nd half but Daniel Webster goes on a 25-2 run over the next 7 minutes to take a 46-40 lead. Still down by 6 at 50-44 with 10 minutes left to play the Crusaders end the game on an 18-5 run to claim the victory.

They're not the Crusaders anymore; they've unveiled a new mascot this year, which I refuse to acknowledge.  I'm not too upset about losing the old one, but my impassioned plea to just go without a mascot like McMurry does was vetoed by the current crop of varsity athletes.

So my winless pick is gone, but my alma mater has won a game.  Not too bad a night.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

As news of my early exit from the winless pool comes out, I'll both antagonize and console myself with the fact that the team I didn't choose in the survivor pool (RMC) is #1 in the nation and one of only two teams still undefeated.

[Hugenerd]

Whats wrong with the Lions?

[magicman]

The Eastern Nazarene Crusaders find the Holy Grail and fall off the winless list as they defeat Daniel Webster 62-55. The Crusaders score the game's first basket and are never headed the entire 1st half outscoring the Eagles 13 to 3 over the final 4 minutes to go into the break up 34-21. They stretch their lead to 17 early in the 2nd half but Daniel Webster goes on a 25-2 run over the next 7 minutes to take a 46-40 lead. Still down by 6 at 50-44 with 10 minutes left to play the Crusaders end the game on an 18-5 run to claim the victory.

They're not the Crusaders anymore; they've unveiled a new mascot this year, which I refuse to acknowledge.  I'm not too upset about losing the old one, but my impassioned plea to just go without a mascot like McMurry does was vetoed by the current crop of varsity athletes.

So my winless pick is gone, but my alma mater has won a game.  Not too bad a night.

What was wrong with the Crusaders nickname that made the powers that be decide to change it? D3hoops regional page is still showing their nickname as the Crusaders, instead of the Lions.

[Gregory Sager]

The Eastern Nazarene Crusaders find the Holy Grail and fall off the winless list as they defeat Daniel Webster 62-55. The Crusaders score the game's first basket and are never headed the entire 1st half outscoring the Eagles 13 to 3 over the final 4 minutes to go into the break up 34-21. They stretch their lead to 17 early in the 2nd half but Daniel Webster goes on a 25-2 run over the next 7 minutes to take a 46-40 lead. Still down by 6 at 50-44 with 10 minutes left to play the Crusaders end the game on an 18-5 run to claim the victory.

They're not the Crusaders anymore; they've unveiled a new mascot this year, which I refuse to acknowledge.  I'm not too upset about losing the old one, but my impassioned plea to just go without a mascot like McMurry does was vetoed by the current crop of varsity athletes.

So my winless pick is gone, but my alma mater has won a game.  Not too bad a night.

What was wrong with the Crusaders nickname that made the powers that be decide to change it? D3hoops regional page is still showing their nickname as the Crusaders, instead of the Lions.

Pat needs to do an update.

The Crusaders did a lot of unsavory things in the Middle Ages, things that in retrospect Christian colleges would be better off condemning rather than celebrating by using the Crusader nickname and mascot. (The nickname actually tends to be derived more from the tendency to refer to revivalist and/or evangelistic meetings as "Crusades," a la Billy Graham, than from the military invasions of the Middle East that took place in the eleventh thru the thirteenth centuries A.D., but since a knight on horseback is a more potent mascot than a pompadoured preacher wildly waving a King James Version of the Bible, the connection to the medieval Crusades was thus made tangible.) Numerous schools have changed from "Crusaders" to something else over the past few years, most notably Wheaton (IL) and ENC. Other schools, such as Maranatha Baptist, continue to maintain their status as the Crusaders.

Personally, I'm with Hoops Fan on this one. "Lions" is a boring and commonplace nickname. Why be just another one of the thousands of sports teams in America that take their moniker from Panthera leo? There's no pride in that pride, so to speak. At least "Thunder" is somewhat unusual; Trine is the only other D3 school besides Wheaton to use that nickname, although it doesn't lend itself well to mascot possibilities.

I think that ENC should've re-dubbed itself the Nazz.