Top 25 talk

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

So I take it Amherst will be #1 unless Emerson pulls the upset. I think they may need Lake and Palmer...

But wouldn't that be The Nice!


Oh, TGHIJGSTO!!! (Said in a Butters voice...)

I hardly ever give + or - Ks around here, and I never keep track of who.  However, this is apparently the third time I tried to give you a +k in the last 24 hours.

[jeffjo]

I need to double check the years, but at one time, it would have been possible for a WUSTL basketball to live closer to the Fontbonne gym than any other building on the WUSTL campus.

You don't need the rental agreement for that. From Google Earth, a center-to-center measurement of Wheeler dorm (SW corner of the South 40) to:

I was referring to the fact that WUSTL students used to live on the Fontbonne campus in a dorm they rented from then Fontbonne College.

I really don't mean to sound testy, but you were referring to the possibility that "a WUSTL [student athlete could] live closer to the Fontbonne gym than any other building on the WUSTL campus." You used the possibility of these rentals as evidence, not the subject. And you don't need that evidence - it was possible entirely within the South 40.

But yes, I do know several WashU students who lived at Fontbonne. I sometimes ate dinner at Wohl Center with them, so they were under the umbrella of the South 40 but lived across the street. But they were Law students. Other kinds of students may have been possible in other years, but these are the ones I know of. And it possible, but unlikely, that they could have been on a team. But not basketball, as we had no basketball team when I attended.

[WUPHF]

I really don't mean to sound testy, but you were referring to the possibility that "a WUSTL [student athlete could] live closer to the Fontbonne gym than any other building on the WUSTL campus." You used the possibility of these rentals as evidence, not the subject. And you don't need that evidence - it was possible entirely within the South 40.

I should probably make this my last post on the matter, but my point was: if you live on the South 40, you are both living on the WUSTL campus and living next to another WUSTL building because every WUSTL dorm has a WUSTL dorm or other building practically next door.  If you lived at Fontbonne, you were not living next door to another WUSTL building.  I do not know if student athletes lived in Wash Hall, but I think Washington University students lived there through about 1999 or 2000.

In terms of the Top 25, this is definitely No. 1 in terms of the most trivial matters I have ever discussed here, which is saying something.  I apologize.

[Gregory Sager]

Perhaps it would be helpful if someone were to, say, make a list of all undefeated teams, and all 1-loss team, and all 2-loss teams, etc., and then state the case as to why Richard Stockton should be number 1.  (Which, given current circumstances, might not be hard to do.)

If only we had not banned the one person who might be able to help us through this difficult time.

I can state the case in one magical, wonderful word ... wait for it, wait for it ...

TGHIJGSTO!!!

[Gregory Sager]

I really don't mean to sound testy, but you were referring to the possibility that "a WUSTL [student athlete could] live closer to the Fontbonne gym than any other building on the WUSTL campus." You used the possibility of these rentals as evidence, not the subject. And you don't need that evidence - it was possible entirely within the South 40.

I should probably make this my last post on the matter, but my point was: if you live on the South 40, you are both living on the WUSTL campus and living next to another WUSTL building because every WUSTL dorm has a WUSTL dorm or other building practically next door.  If you lived at Fontbonne, you were not living next door to another WUSTL building.  I do not know if student athletes lived in Wash Hall, but I think Washington University students lived there through about 1999 or 2000.

In terms of the Top 25, this is definitely No. 1 in terms of the most trivial matters I have ever discussed here, which is saying something.  I apologize.

Don't apologize. This is a wonderfully wacky topic. I keep wondering how to introduce The Belt^TM into this bandying over distances with regard to Wydown Boulevard dorm geography.

So I take it Amherst will be #1 unless Emerson pulls the upset. I think they may need Lake and Palmer...

But wouldn't that be The Nice!

You gotta see the show!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Albertus Magnus won a too close game over Johnson & Wales last night.  Rumor has it 5'9" Tavon Sledge dunked over someone during the game.  Hopefully we'll see video.  Sledge had two open court dunks against Richard Stockton and they had one set play where Big Vic threw him an alley oop.  They didn't make it that time, but I assume the play is in the repertoire, so perhaps they nailed it last night.

Always fun to see a little guy dunk, even better when he posterizes someone.

[D3HoopJunkie]

Hoops Fan, I was at the game and I'm praying someone got it on video. I am an Albertus fan and I sure people think I am exaggerating a little but it honestly was the best in game dunk I have ever seen in person. Certainly I have seen better dunks on highlight reels from NBA superstars Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and King James to name a few but not in person. And he is a very generous 5'9. It was simply amazing!

[lildave678]

Forget the dunk (just kidding), the Falcons won the game on a buzzer beater 3 starting under their own hoop with I believe 2.4 seconds on the clock. Threw a Laettner-esque pass to Big Vic somewhere around the top of the key. Facing the direction the ball came from (away from the hoop) he kinda volleyball tap passed it to a wide open Wiggins who drilled the 3. Those end of game heaves always end up knocked down haha I was in shock!

[Just Bill]

Don't apologize. This is a wonderfully wacky topic. I keep wondering how to introduce The Belt^TM into this bandying over distances with regard to Wydown Boulevard dorm geography.

I'm sorry, did you page me?

Pat made me promise to only poison one thread. Sorry.

[John Gleich]

#4 OWU built a 26-point lead at Wooster, then held on as the #10 Scots closed to within 2. Final score OWU 92, Wooster 89.

Anybody know the last time Wooster lost in back to back games?

DePauw and OWU, January 2014.  The question will be, after Friday, is when they lost three in a row, that goes back beyond the d3hoops.com archives.

Wooster has an online all-time archive of season/game results... http://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/mbkb/results/index
- In November 2008, Wooster lost three of four (L vs W&J, W vs Mesiah, L at Carnegie Mellon, L neu UW-Platteville).
- In 1989-90, the Scots lost four of six at two different points in the season (including their most recent to Oberlin)
- In Steve Moore's first season, 1987-88, Wooster closed the season with a 5-7 stretch.

However, the last time Wooster lost more than two consecutive games was in 1987, in Lu Wims final season coaching the Scots, when they dropped five in a row late in an 8-18 campaign.

Thanks, I was more musing than anything else... and on my phone. The phone doesn't search databases very well...

[Gregory Sager]

Don't apologize. This is a wonderfully wacky topic. I keep wondering how to introduce The Belt^TM into this bandying over distances with regard to Wydown Boulevard dorm geography.

I'm sorry, did you page me?

Pat made me promise to only poison one thread. Sorry.

I dunno, I thought I heard Pat say on a recent football broadcast that he needs more of The Belt^TM in his life.

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 76  DePauw 63

Wooster rebounds from two losses with a solid road win in Indiana beating the #18 DePauw Tigers.  Dan Fanelly led Wooster with 17 points.

[smedindy]

Hoops Fan,

Wittenberg lost again, and are 1-6...

[sac]

Hoops Fan,

Wittenberg lost again, and are 1-6...

The Tigers are shooting 22.5% from behind the arc.

[David Collinge]

Okay, so maybe those votes in the preseason poll were unjustified.