Top 25 talk

[Greek Tragedy]

Matt Johnson's shot for Chicago to beat Emory made Sportscenter's top plays this morning.

Is that on the d3 buzzer beater site?

[Greek Tragedy]

U. of Chicago 103
#4 Emory 102

Chicago led 96-89 with 2:45 to play, but kind of fell apart - Emory went on a 12-1 run to go up 101-97 with :27 to go.  But Matt Johnson hit a 25-foot bomb at the buzzer to win the game.

Chicago's Matt Johnson has scored 93 points in his last two games (44 vs Brandeis, 49 tonight)!  I have to wonder where that ranks in D3 history in terms of back-to-back games...93 is just crazy!!

If you remember or care to acknowledge the feat, Griffin Lentsch scored 89 in one game and then a paltry 25 the next, for Grinnell.

[smedindy]

Scoring 89 in Grinnell's offense against a Principia team that was short-handed isn't as impressive as scoring that many points in the heat of the UAA battle.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Those 89 points was also playing 36 minutes in the system.

[smedindy]

Against Principia...no disrespect to them...and I'm not saying that it wasn't an accomplishment, but it probably was more like practice than anything.

[Mr. Ypsi]

And if one player goes 36 minutes, is it still 'the system', or just a stunt to get a player a scoring record against a hopelessly over-matched team?

[Titan Q]

Live video for #21 IWU @ #22 Wheaton...

http://www2.wheaton.edu/learnres/mediares/WETN/wetn_livewindow/WETN-TV.html


Getting ready to tip.

[Greek Tragedy]

I'm just pointing out what he scored.  I don't think there's going to be an * next to his scoring feat because it was Principia or a ** next to Matt Johnson's two-game scoring binge because it was against two UAA teams.  It is what it is.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Live video for #21 IWU @ #22 Wheaton...

http://www2.wheaton.edu/learnres/mediares/WETN/wetn_livewindow/WETN-TV.html


Getting ready to tip.

Wheaton defends home-court, 60-53. 

Meanwhile, #20 Augustana (who beat Wheaton in Rock Island on Tuesday) 'squeaks by' Millikin, 98-28!  (While Millikin shows occasional signs of rising from the 'rock-bottom they hit last year, over the last 3-4 years they have been the worst CCIW team I can ever recall.  And this was NOT a case of 'running up the score'; Vikings' starters never saw the court the second half, while 4 Big Blue starters played the final minute.)

[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared (Complete)

Correct results posted below.

[scottiedawg]

Oswego St. will likely rise, but they have just played such a cupcake schedule. Most of the OWV teams below them deserve to be higher.

[scottiedawg]

Darryl, does your week start on Sunday or Monday?  i.e. will you include the games from today in the current "How They Fared"?

[Titan Q]

Darryl, does your week start on Sunday or Monday?  i.e. will you include the games from today in the current "How They Fared"?

By just looking at the UAA teams above, it looks like Darryl goes Sunday through Saturday.

Darryl, any way to go Monday through Sunday to align with the D3hoops.com Top 25 voting period?  No biggie if that would take a lot of work!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Tonight was the first time I saw Sunday games not part of the report... tripped me up a bit on Hoopsville!

[Darryl Nester]

Darryl, does your week start on Sunday or Monday?  i.e. will you include the games from today in the current "How They Fared"?

By just looking at the UAA teams above, it looks like Darryl goes Sunday through Saturday.

Darryl, any way to go Monday through Sunday to align with the D3hoops.com Top 25 voting period?  No biggie if that would take a lot of work!

Whoops.  My program should have reported games through today (and always has before) -- sorry about that.  I'll have to look into the problem and post the corrected results.

(edit) Found the problem -- the d3hoops.com Top 25 page mistakenly says "Through games of Sunday, Jan. 21" (should be Jan. 22) -- and my program foolishly took that date as correct, and checked for all games over the next 7 days.