Top 25 talk

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

[Ralph Turner]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

How many shots on goal have been taken?

Final PP 47 CMS 36.

Well, so much for CMS breaking strongly into the Top 25 this week.

Parity in the SCIAC strikes again.

[sac]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

4 TD's and 2 FG's that's an exciting football game.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

How many shots on goal have been taken?

Final score is 47-36, PP.  They lost a game this year in which they scored twice as much.  There's no boxscore yet (and hopefully never, eww).

[magicman]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

How many shots on goal have been taken?

Final PP 47 CMS 36.

Well, so much for CMS breaking strongly into the Top 25 this week.

Parity in the SCIAC strikes again.

Ralph,
I told you the other day I was going to jinx them by putting them in my Poster's Poll.

[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared -- Midweek Report

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	625	UW-Stevens Point	17-2	LOST to #5 UW-Whitewater, 58-61; 01/30 vs. UW-Superior
#2	598	Guilford	17-1	def. Roanoke, 86-70; 01/30 at #9 Randolph-Macon
#3	547	Washington U.	14-2	01/29 at Rochester; 01/31 at #32 Emory
#4	532	Williams	18-1	def. Hamilton, 96-61; 01/30 at #8 Middlebury
#5	516	UW-Whitewater	16-2	def. #1 UW-Stevens Point, 61-58; 01/30 vs. UW-Stout
#6	473	St. Thomas	16-2	def. Augsburg, 77-66; 01/30 vs. Macalester
#7	441	Virginia Wesleyan	17-2	def. Lynchburg, 88-78; 01/30 vs. Emory and Henry
#8	432	Middlebury	17-1	def. Southern Vermont, 94-68; 01/30 vs. #4 Williams
#9	425	Randolph-Macon	15-3	LOST to Washington and Lee, 57-65; 01/30 vs. #2 Guilford
#10	394	Anderson	17-2	LOST at Defiance, 75-91
#11	353	Eastern Mennonite	14-2	01/28 vs. Southern Va.; 01/30 at Hampden-Sydney
#12	346	St. Norbert	15-1	def. Carroll, 76-58; 01/30 at Beloit
#13	311	Chapman	17-2	01/28 at S'western (Ariz.)
#14	303	MIT	17-2	def. Coast Guard, 78-58; 01/30 at T#33 Worcester Polytech
#15	275	Whitworth	15-2	01/29 vs. Willamette; 01/30 vs. Lewis and Clark
#16	214	William Paterson	19-1	def. New Jersey City, 58-39; 01/30 at Rowan
#17	208	Franklin and Marshall	15-3	def. Johns Hopkins, 53-50; 01/30 vs. Swarthmore
#18	183	Amherst	13-3	def. Vassar, 88-55; 01/29 at Bowdoin; 01/30 at Colby
#19	150	Texas-Dallas	14-3	01/28 vs. Louisiana College; 01/30 vs. #22 Mississippi College
#20	141	Brandeis	12-3	01/29 vs. Case Western Reserve; 01/31 vs. Carnegie Mellon
#21	132	Illinois Wesleyan	15-3	def. Augustana, 71-64; 01/30 at #27 Carthage
#22	120	Mississippi College	14-2	01/28 at University of the Ozarks; 01/30 at #19 Texas-Dallas
#23	114	St. Mary's (Md.)	15-3	def. Marymount, 84-61; 01/30 at Stevenson
#24	85	Wooster	14-4	def. Hiram, 67-43; 01/30 vs. Denison
#25	82	Medaille	18-1	def. Hilbert, 89-62; 01/30 vs. Franciscan (Ohio)

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#26	38	Cabrini	16-1	def. Philadelphia Bible, 73-53; def. Eastern, 80-71; 01/30 at Centenary
#27	25	Carthage	14-4	def. North Park, 76-61; 01/30 vs. #21 Illinois Wesleyan
#28	16	Lycoming	16-2	def. Penn College, 113-89; 01/30 vs. T#35 Albright
#29	13	Maryville (Tenn.)	16-3	LOST at Milligan, 74-76; 01/30 at Piedmont
#30	11	Wheaton (Ill.)	13-5	def. Millikin, 50-45; 01/30 at North Central (Ill.)
#31	9	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	13-4	LOST at Pomona-Pitzer, 36-47; 01/30 vs. Cal Lutheran
#32	6	Emory	12-4	01/29 vs. Chicago; 01/31 vs. #3 Washington U.
T#33	2	St. John Fisher	16-3	def. Nazareth, 80-75; 01/29 vs. Stevens
T#33	2	Worcester Polytech	14-4	LOST at Babson, 58-72; 01/30 vs. #14 MIT
T#35	1	Albright	15-2	01/30 at #28 Lycoming
T#35	1	Brockport State	12-4	def. Buffalo State, 74-68; 01/29 vs. Cortland State; 01/30 vs. Oswego State
T#35	1	DeSales	14-4	def. Muhlenberg, 67-59; 01/30 at Eastern

[Ralph Turner]

PP leads CMS 21-13 at the half.  I bet that game has been fabulously enjoyable to watch.

How many shots on goal have been taken?

Final PP 47 CMS 36.

Well, so much for CMS breaking strongly into the Top 25 this week.

Parity in the SCIAC strikes again.

Ralph,
I told you the other day I was going to jinx them by putting them in my Poster's Poll.

Magicman has spoken ... from the heights of Mount Olympus!  

[Mr. Ypsi]

EMU avenged one of their losses tonite, stomping S. Va. by 21 (in a game that was MORE lopsided than that!).  Bridgewater had better bring their A+++++ game on Feb. 17th.

[pbrooks3]

Topic:  Win Streak

Whitworth and Anderson both on 14 game roll.  For Whitworth that's a school record.  Anyway, are these the longest amongst D3's this year (oh lookie there, William Paterson on a 16 gamer)?  Does a win streak have a bearing in voters minds?  Go Pirates!!

Two years ago, my team of choice - Centre (SCAC) catapulted from relative obscurity to win 25 straight and move as high as #2 in the rankings. They would eventually bow out in the 2nd round of the D3 tournament to a very balanced, hot Ohio Wesleyan team. Centre was a great shooting team that relied on the 3-ball.  Not having a good balance between low block scoring and downtown shooting was Centre's undoing in the end. Centre was a fine team that season, but never deserved to be ranked as high they got. 

[Hugenerd]

If this boxscore for the Chapman game is correct: wow.

http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/BoxScores/BoxScores.aspx?association=10&sg=MBB&sea=NAIMBB_2009&team=14969&compID=100013

The outrebounded their NAIA opponent 40-10.  How do you only get 10 rebounds as a team?  That doesnt even make any sense.  And the game wasnt a blowout, it was just about a 10 point game.

[Pat Coleman]

Don't know, but it's clearly fudged. Would be difficult for Southwestern to get so many dead ball rebounds with no missed free throws.

[oldchap]

If this boxscore for the Chapman game is correct: wow.

http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/BoxScores/BoxScores.aspx?association=10&sg=MBB&sea=NAIMBB_2009&team=14969&compID=100013

The outrebounded their NAIA opponent 40-10.  How do you only get 10 rebounds as a team?  That doesnt even make any sense.  And the game wasnt a blowout, it was just about a 10 point game.

It wasn't a blowout because the bench played more than half of the game. It was a blowout when the starters were on the court. Chapman is a very good rebounding team, with their star player, Justin Riley averaging close to 10 rebounds per game. In one of their best games of the season, they outrebounded a much taller and more athletic BYU Hawaii, a Division II team to win in overtime 76-70.

In the game against Southwestern, notice that they didn't take care of the ball because they had 22 turnovers despite shooting over 60% from the field. With less turnovers it would have really been a blowout.

[OC_SID]

If this boxscore for the Chapman game is correct: wow.

http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/BoxScores/BoxScores.aspx?association=10&sg=MBB&sea=NAIMBB_2009&team=14969&compID=100013

The outrebounded their NAIA opponent 40-10.  How do you only get 10 rebounds as a team?  That doesnt even make any sense.  And the game wasnt a blowout, it was just about a 10 point game.

It's not even a balanced box score ... 56 missed shots and 57 rebounds ... with no team rebounds for Southwestern 

[frodotwo]

Wow. In a game eerily similar to UWSP-UWWW from Wednesday, E. Mennonite led HSC by 12 points 6 minutes into the game (16-4) and at the end of the 1st half now trail by 12, 38-26, a 34-10 run by HSC. Second half to come.


And it ends with the same 12 point margin, 80-68 win for Hampden-Sydney.

[nescac1]

Seems like Guilford will be unanimous number one in the next poll, and deservedly so ... but I think Williams has made a credible case for number two, after a signature road win over Midd: 19-1 from a power conference, no bad losses, leading or close to leading the nation in FG percentage, 3 pt. FG percentage, and scoring differential, with three of the top offensive guys, statistically, in the country in Wang, Schultz, and Whittington.   They just finished a 5-0 road trip, including three conference games, with 4/5 wins by double digits.  With each of the WIAC teams and Wash U with two losses, and Wash U looking not-terribly-impressive in most of the their recent wins, I'd say the Ephs have made their case for number two ... I would think a top five of Guildford, Williams, Whitewater, Stevens Point, Wash U would be about right ...