MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

Centre over Southwestern 30-24 at the half.

Trinity over DePauw by 7 at the half, I think it is 38-31.

[pbrooks3]

30-24 half with Centre leading. Southwestern got 5 stops in a row before half with 2 baskets to climb closer. Coach Raleigh is playing 5 minute shifts with two sets of five players. He started a young five and subbed the experienced five. Looks to me the young five are playing the Colonels tougher than the veteran five. Thomas Britt sat much of the first half with 2 fouls. Colonels are shooting 10-27 so it's pretty ugly so far. Boys will need a big effort in the final 20 minutes to win this one.

[pbrooks3]

35-24 starting the half for Centre.

[pbrooks3]

Southwestern has answered the bell scoring 7 straight. At 17:17 mark, Centre up 35-31.

[frank_ezelle]

Trinity jumped to a 11 point lead early in the 2nd half, but DePauw lead 53-50 with about 8 to play.  I would think it would be to Millsaps advantage for DePauw to win.

Now tied.  It sounds like it will be a wild finish.  Trinity apparently has close to a full house tonight--they had a ceremony presenting the $100,000 Pontiac check at halfitme.

[pbrooks3]

10:22 left; Centre up 9

[frank_ezelle]

TU got up by 5, DePauw came back to tie at 60.

Trinity now up by 2 with 4:04 to play.  DePauw calls timeout.

[pbrooks3]

It's tight at Georgetown with Centre up 49-44 at 6:23 mark.

[pbrooks3]

56-49 Centre with 1:03 remaining.

[pbrooks3]

With 29 seconds to play Centre leads 59-49

[frank_ezelle]

DePauw wins by 2, Trinity had the last shot and it didn't go in.  A great road trip by both teams from the North.  A very tough weekend for Trinity, a weekend where they could have just as easily gone 2-0 but ended up 0-2.

[pbrooks3]

Final 59-49. Wasn't pretty but it's a W! 

[pbrooks3]

Having made the 2 hour drive from Georgetown back to my San Antonio hotel tonight following the Centre-Southwestern game, I am gaining appreciation as to what many of the SCAC teams must experience when doing the Texas leg. Can only imagine the logistics for DePauw which actually comes a greater distance than Centre. I assume DPU gets flights originating from Indianapolis which represents a reasonable bus journey from Greencastle.

The trip for Centre this weekend I believe is worth noting. Centre teams got underway early Thursday morning (5:30 ET) on a bus that took them on a 4-hour trip to Nashville to get a flight to San Antonio. They arrived late afteroon in San Antonio. Game was played Friday night at Trinity and immediately following the game, they bused to Georgetown for the night in preparation for Saturday's game with Southwestern. Sunday morning they'll leave the hotel about 5:30 to fly from Austin to Nashville. They'll then bus back to Danville. Compounding the return trip home is the fact that Sunday travel arrangements had originally been made preparing for Sunday afternoon games. So the early morning departure is designed to get stand-by flights earlier in the day in an effort to get the players back on campus Sunday rather than early Monday AM. These D3 student athletes also happened to miss their opening 2 days of classes for the spring semester. My point is SCAC schools jump through lots of hoops (bad pun sorry) to handle the regular season travel through this conference.

The fact that both DePauw and Centre came away this weekend 4-0 combined on the Texas road makes this is even more remarkable to me.
Guess I'm just getting old.

[irion]

Anybody going to AC/Sewanee game that can post updates?

[jekelish]

I'll be at the AC/Sewanee game and post updates as often as I can...