The Undefeated and the Winless

[hopefan]

ok Magic... here's the game plan... we get a Dickinson win over Swarthmore, and a Whitworth win over Whitman on 12/6... and it's the 2 seniors vying for the undefeated championship on 12/8  hopefan (Babson) vs magicman (Amherst)   ...woohoo!!!! 

hopefan,
I like that idea. It has all the makings of a well thought out plan that has real possibilities. I certainly hope we can get a little magic and have it fall into place. Of course, we know all about the best laid plans stuff and how that usually works out. 

Amherst has games against Emerson this Saturday, then plays Brandeis next Tuesday, December 6th, and on paper, should win those games. Babson, however, could run into a stumbling block along the way. They play in a 4 team tournament at Brandeis tomorrow and Saturday. They meet Salem State on Friday while the host team, Brandeis, takes on Tufts. If things go as I think they will, Tufts and Babson will square off on Saturday for the title game of the Big Four Challenge. Tufts may be better than either Babson or Amherst.

The Jumbos now have the services of last year's leading scorer, Vinny Pace back. Pace didn't see any action the first 2 games of the season, as he was recovering from a knee injury that took him out of last year's NCAA tournament about 20 seconds after it started. He played 20 minutes off the bench for his first action of the year back on Nov. 22nd and led the Jumbos with 15 points and 6 boards as they beat MIT 74-66. He had a team high 23 pts and 5 boards against WPI a couple of days ago in a Tufts' 75-71 victory.

A #3 vs #2 matchup, should be a good game to watch. I think my Cardinals will just be finishing their game on Saturday when the Tufts-Babson game (should that occur) will be starting at 4 PM.

If we are fortunate enough to be undefeated when we go head to head next Thursday night, you need to PM me your phone number. A matchup that grand demands actual back and forth conversation as it plays out. I'll definitely have to root for Babson if they play Tufts on Saturday.      

I figured we'd both drive a distance equidistant from Plattsburgh, NY and Eureka Mo.... Cleveland Ohio fits the bill nicely, and watch a stream of it together!!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ok Magic... here's the game plan... we get a Dickinson win over Swarthmore, and a Whitworth win over Whitman on 12/6... and it's the 2 seniors vying for the undefeated championship on 12/8  hopefan (Babson) vs magicman (Amherst)   ...woohoo!!!! 

hopefan,
I like that idea. It has all the makings of a well thought out plan that has real possibilities. I certainly hope we can get a little magic and have it fall into place. Of course, we know all about the best laid plans stuff and how that usually works out. 

Amherst has games against Emerson this Saturday, then plays Brandeis next Tuesday, December 6th, and on paper, should win those games. Babson, however, could run into a stumbling block along the way. They play in a 4 team tournament at Brandeis tomorrow and Saturday. They meet Salem State on Friday while the host team, Brandeis, takes on Tufts. If things go as I think they will, Tufts and Babson will square off on Saturday for the title game of the Big Four Challenge. Tufts may be better than either Babson or Amherst.

The Jumbos now have the services of last year's leading scorer, Vinny Pace back. Pace didn't see any action the first 2 games of the season, as he was recovering from a knee injury that took him out of last year's NCAA tournament about 20 seconds after it started. He played 20 minutes off the bench for his first action of the year back on Nov. 22nd and led the Jumbos with 15 points and 6 boards as they beat MIT 74-66. He had a team high 23 pts and 5 boards against WPI a couple of days ago in a Tufts' 75-71 victory.

A #3 vs #2 matchup, should be a good game to watch. I think my Cardinals will just be finishing their game on Saturday when the Tufts-Babson game (should that occur) will be starting at 4 PM.

If we are fortunate enough to be undefeated when we go head to head next Thursday night, you need to PM me your phone number. A matchup that grand demands actual back and forth conversation as it plays out. I'll definitely have to root for Babson if they play Tufts on Saturday.      

I figured we'd both drive a distance equidistant from Plattsburgh, NY and Eureka Mo.... Cleveland Ohio fits the bill nicely, and watch a stream of it together!!

Is this really true?  Upstate New York is too big.  Sheesh.

[magicman]

ok Magic... here's the game plan... we get a Dickinson win over Swarthmore, and a Whitworth win over Whitman on 12/6... and it's the 2 seniors vying for the undefeated championship on 12/8  hopefan (Babson) vs magicman (Amherst)   ...woohoo!!!! 

hopefan,
I like that idea. It has all the makings of a well thought out plan that has real possibilities. I certainly hope we can get a little magic and have it fall into place. Of course, we know all about the best laid plans stuff and how that usually works out. 

Amherst has games against Emerson this Saturday, then plays Brandeis next Tuesday, December 6th, and on paper, should win those games. Babson, however, could run into a stumbling block along the way. They play in a 4 team tournament at Brandeis tomorrow and Saturday. They meet Salem State on Friday while the host team, Brandeis, takes on Tufts. If things go as I think they will, Tufts and Babson will square off on Saturday for the title game of the Big Four Challenge. Tufts may be better than either Babson or Amherst.

The Jumbos now have the services of last year's leading scorer, Vinny Pace back. Pace didn't see any action the first 2 games of the season, as he was recovering from a knee injury that took him out of last year's NCAA tournament about 20 seconds after it started. He played 20 minutes off the bench for his first action of the year back on Nov. 22nd and led the Jumbos with 15 points and 6 boards as they beat MIT 74-66. He had a team high 23 pts and 5 boards against WPI a couple of days ago in a Tufts' 75-71 victory.

A #3 vs #2 matchup, should be a good game to watch. I think my Cardinals will just be finishing their game on Saturday when the Tufts-Babson game (should that occur) will be starting at 4 PM.

If we are fortunate enough to be undefeated when we go head to head next Thursday night, you need to PM me your phone number. A matchup that grand demands actual back and forth conversation as it plays out. I'll definitely have to root for Babson if they play Tufts on Saturday.      

I figured we'd both drive a distance equidistant from Plattsburgh, NY and Eureka Mo.... Cleveland Ohio fits the bill nicely, and watch a stream of it together!!

My younger sister just happens to live near Cleveland,  in Vermilion just 35 miles from the big metropolis. So yeah I could do that. 

[hopefan]

Yep... Cleveland would be virtually equidistant according to Google maps....

Well actually if Magic drove down to Parma Heights, it'd be a little more even, but I won't quibble over 10 miles... He'll get a lot more snow than I will....

[Mr. Ypsi]

hopefan, magicman, why don't you compromise on Vermillion?  I'm sure Magic's baby sis would be delighted to put you both up - probably even provide popcorn and adult beverages!

[magicman]

Undefeated Pool

Last Night:

#5 Whitman defeated Willamette 80-65. Next hosting Whitworth on 12-6.


#2 Babson defeated Salem State 82-73 on Friday night.     #3 Tufts defeated Brandeis 74-72 at the same tournament.


Today

#2 Babson (hopefan) and #3 Tufts will meet on Brandeis' court in a battle of unbeatens today at 4:00 PM.

#1 Amherst (magicman) in action hosting Emerson at 3:00 PM

Swarthmore (Hoops Fan) hosting Dickinson at 3:00 PM

#5 Whitman (augie77) off until 12-6 when they host #8 Whitworth


Winless

Last Night

No games


Today

Franciscan (magicman)hosting Penn State-Behrend at 4:00 PM

Washington and Jeffers on (Greek Tragedy) at St. Vincent  3:00 PM

Fontbonne (augie 77) hosting MacMurray at 4:00 PM

Curry (sac) at Roger Williams  3:00 PM

Wilson (ronk)    at Lancaster Bible  3:00 PM

[augie77]

UP GOES FONTBONNE!!  (Down goes augie77).  The Griffins beat fellow winless MacMurray 76-67 in OT.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Wilson knocks off Lancaster Bible (who have won as many games as they lost last year) 74-71 which eliminates ronk from the winless pool

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

So I went to Swarthmore today.  As I said, I'm almost always bad luck for the home team.  The score went back and forth a little in the first half, but Dickinson got a small lead and held it most of the game.  Swarthmore is definitely the better team, but Dickinson was playing a lot better today (although their coach said he thought they played terrible after the game, as coaches are prone to do).

Anyway, Swarthmore wears the lead down in the final few minutes, but Dickinson got some fortunate bounces and finds themselves up 4 with 8 seconds to play.  Swarthmore brings the ball up the floor - I'm unsure of exactly what happened since it was on the other side of the court from me - I think a Dickinson player tried to steal the ball and committed a foul, but the Swarthmore player got a shot attempt off and refs awarded three FTs with 3.7 seconds left on the clock.

He hit the first and missed the second.  The intentional miss looked like it was going to deaden on the back of the rim and flop off in the wrong direction, but they got a lucky bounce and a tap and a corner three with three defenders jumping at the shooter.  Tie game.

Swarthmore played excellent in the extra time and won the game.  I'm still alive.

Pretty fun afternoon.

[magicman]

So I went to Swarthmore today.  As I said, I'm almost always bad luck for the home team.  The score went back and forth a little in the first half, but Dickinson got a small lead and held it most of the game.  Swarthmore is definitely the better team, but Dickinson was playing a lot better today (although their coach said he thought they played terrible after the game, as coaches are prone to do).

Anyway, Swarthmore wears the lead down in the final few minutes, but Dickinson got some fortunate bounces and finds themselves up 4 with 8 seconds to play.  Swarthmore brings the ball up the floor - I'm unsure of exactly what happened since it was on the other side of the court from me - I think a Dickinson player tried to steal the ball and committed a foul, but the Swarthmore player got a shot attempt off and refs awarded three FTs with 3.7 seconds left on the clock.

He hit the first and missed the second.  The intentional miss looked like it was going to deaden on the back of the rim and flop off in the wrong direction, but they got a lucky bounce and a tap and a corner three with three defenders jumping at the shooter.  Tie game.

Swarthmore played excellent in the extra time and won the game.  I'm still alive.

Pretty fun afternoon.

Quite a miraculous comeback for your team. I saw the play by play and how they hit the 3 pointer with their final shot in regulation to send it to overtime.

You should buy a lottery ticket this week. 

For the most miraculous comeback in all of DIII this season, so far, take a look at the final 1:55 in regulation of the Brockport State-Old Westbury game from Nov.23rd. Brockport was down by 13 points with 1:55 left and somehow tied the game and won it in overtime. Most amazing is they had to score twice in the final 5 seconds to tie the game. Here's a link to the play by play:   http://www.d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2016-17/boxscores/20161123_3m4e.xml?view=plays

The Brockport coach told me how poorly they played for most of the game but had the ability to turn it on when they needed to. It was quite a comeback.

[hopefan]

So I went to Swarthmore today.  As I said, I'm almost always bad luck for the home team.  The score went back and forth a little in the first half, but Dickinson got a small lead and held it most of the game.  Swarthmore is definitely the better team, but Dickinson was playing a lot better today (although their coach said he thought they played terrible after the game, as coaches are prone to do).

Anyway, Swarthmore wears the lead down in the final few minutes, but Dickinson got some fortunate bounces and finds themselves up 4 with 8 seconds to play.  Swarthmore brings the ball up the floor - I'm unsure of exactly what happened since it was on the other side of the court from me - I think a Dickinson player tried to steal the ball and committed a foul, but the Swarthmore player got a shot attempt off and refs awarded three FTs with 3.7 seconds left on the clock.

He hit the first and missed the second.  The intentional miss looked like it was going to deaden on the back of the rim and flop off in the wrong direction, but they got a lucky bounce and a tap and a corner three with three defenders jumping at the shooter.  Tie game.

Swarthmore played excellent in the extra time and won the game.  I'm still alive.

Pretty fun afternoon.

Quite a miraculous comeback for your team. I saw the play by play and how they hit the 3 pointer with their final shot in regulation to send it to overtime.

You should buy a lottery ticket this week. 

For the most miraculous comeback in all of DIII this season, so far, take a look at the final 1:55 in regulation of the Brockport State-Old Westbury game from Nov.23rd. Brockport was down by 13 points with 1:55 left and somehow tied the game and won it in overtime. Most amazing is they had to score twice in the final 5 seconds to tie the game. Here's a link to the play by play:   http://www.d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2016-17/boxscores/20161123_3m4e.xml?view=plays

The Brockport coach told me how poorly they played for most of the game but had the ability to turn it on when they needed to. It was quite a comeback.

See also my writeup of the Eureka at Spalding game on the SLIAC board... Eureka down 9 with 1:08, outscores Spalding 14-2  to win by 3... even more amazing, Eureka's Kendall Davis has 2 3's, 2 2's and 2 fts in that time span.   Spalding missed 6 of 8 fts to help Eureka...

[smedindy]

Spalding gets nothing and likes it, again.

[hopefan]

It's about time to track.... and note, this is generated by a lot of downloading of scores, and date generated from macros and formulas... see something wrong?  let me know...

as of 12/4/16

Undefeated (22)
Babson
Rochester
Wesleyan
Salisbury
Swarthmore
Neumann
Denison
Ramapo
Marietta
Brockport
UW-Eau Claire
North Park
Amherst
Muskingum
Cal Lutheran
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Catholic
Ripon
Whitman
Whitworth
Occidental
UW-Whitewater

Winless (25)
SUNY-Cobleskill
MacMurray
Franciscan (Ohio)
Marywood
Marian
Washington and Jefferson
Mount Aloysius
Curry
Millikin
John Jay
York (N.Y.)
Utica
Alfred State
Massachusetts College
Worcester State
Rockford
Cazenovia
Newbury
Kean
Pitt-Greensburg
Knox
Huntingdon
Mitchell
Rutgers-Camden
Caltech


Undefeated against D3 only  (they have a loss non-D3)  (5)
Hope
St. John's
Concordia (Wis.)
Lesley
Williams

Winless against D3 only (they have a win non-D3)  (10)
Haverford
Clarks Summit
Rivier
Maine-Presque Isle
Maranatha Baptist
DePauw
Whittier
Merchant Marine
Mount St. Vincent
Piedmont

[magicman]

It's about time to track.... and note, this is generated by a lot of downloading of scores, and date generated from macros and formulas... see something wrong?  let me know...

as of 12/4/16

Undefeated (22)
Babson
Rochester
Wesleyan
Salisbury
Swarthmore
Neumann
Denison
Ramapo
Marietta
Brockport
UW-Eau Claire
North Park
Amherst
Muskingum
Cal Lutheran
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Catholic
Ripon
Whitman
Whitworth
Occidental
UW-Whitewater

Winless (25)
SUNY-Cobleskill
MacMurray
Franciscan (Ohio)
Marywood
Marian
Washington and Jefferson
Mount Aloysius
Curry
Millikin
John Jay
York (N.Y.)
Utica
Alfred State
Massachusetts College
Worcester State
Rockford
Cazenovia
Newbury
Kean
Pitt-Greensburg
Knox
Huntingdon
Mitchell
Rutgers-Camden
Caltech


Undefeated against D3 only  (they have a loss non-D3)  (5)
Hope
St. John's
Concordia (Wis.)
Lesley
Williams 

Winless against D3 only (they have a win non-D3)  (10)
Haverford
Clarks Summit
Rivier
Maine-Presque Isle
Maranatha Baptist
DePauw
Whittier
Merchant Marine
Mount St. Vincent
Piedmont

hopefan,
Per your request for corrections...Williams has a loss to a DIII team (as you should know because you correctly picked that DIII team, Wesleyan,  to beat them in the National Pick Em League this past Saturday. ) The Ephs were on the short end of a 72-62 final score.  http://ephsports.williams.edu/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20161203w9mcko

Incidentally Williams has only that 1 loss. They do not have a loss to a non-DIII team.

I thought your date generated macro download???....picked up the Williams' Women's record which is identical to the Men's team at 6-1, but the women also lost to a DIII school, Montclair State. 

[hopefan]

Thanks Magic... and why that error.... my program got confused because it correctly didn't include the Wesleyan-Williams matchup as a conference matchup (it was their nonconference game)...and didn't put it anywhere... corrections will be made  .. it did the same for Occidental, who had a nonconference game with Caltech, but I caught it...