MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[pbrooks3]

Timeout 9:44 to play 1st half; OU 20 Rhodes 19.

[frank_ezelle]

Rogan fouls out on the offensive end of the court with 3:37 to go.  How long before Montgomery is sent to the bench?  Millsaps up 72-65 with 3:01 to play.

[pbrooks3]

32-29 Rhodes with 5:27 in the 1st half.

[pbrooks3]

40-38 OU; 1:51 in first half

[FlightofthePetrel]

thanks for the updates Pbrooks... keep em coming!

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations, Frank!  That was a good road trip!

Final Millsaps 77, Trinity 68.

[Ron Boerger]

With 6:23 to go, Millsaps leads 64-58.  Millsaps has 3 players with 4 fouls each (Rogan, Montgomery, and Cameron Varnado) and a total of 18 fouls compared to 9 for Trinity.  That's surprising with Trinity usually being a physical team.

I don't have a good feeling about this game with Rogan and Montgomery have 4 fouls each.  Something tells me that neither will be eligible by the time the final buzzer goes off.

Final, Millsaps 77, Trinity 68 (only Rogan fouled out).   Nice, balanced scoring from the Majors with four in double figures, led by Songy's 18.  Bailey and Sanders had 15 each. 

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps wins 77-68.  Leading scorers for Millsaps were Chad Songy with 17 and Lorenzo Bailey and Chris Sanders with 15 each.  Edrick Montgomery had 10 and he didn't foul out, and he even blocked a key shot towards the end.  The rest of the scoring for Millsaps was Rodney Rogan with 7, Russell Booth and Blake Martinez with 5, and Allen Odum with 3.

This game drops Trinity to 7-6 in the SCAC but I think they will be a very dangerous team at the SCAC Tournament.  Their problem is as the 2nd place in the West, they will be up against either DePauw or OU in the first round, a very tough way to start tournament action.

[pbrooks3]

Halftime - Rhodes leads OU 42-40. Rhodes has played pretty consistent ball with balanced scoring - Hamilton and Smith have 8 each; Hoskins leads with 12. Long has about 6 rebounds. Oglethorp impresses me with their overall athleticism. The freshman Ward is a leaper and has 6 points, 2 baskets on jams.  He picked Cory Smith's pocket once for the 2nd dunk. This is the kind of game that could go either way. Rhodes likes the pace of the game. If they will defend a little better after they've scored, my prediction of Rhodes by 4 could hold up. Oglethorpe has an impressive corp of young players on which to build. Really like the Ward kid - he plays a lot bigger than 6'5" and has a wonderful 1st step. He's a match-up problem for a lot of SCAC teams. 

[FlightofthePetrel]

That's a fairly good evaluation of the young OU team.  Ward really does play above the rim and seems to be a matchup problem for most SCAC teams... minus Messenger from BSC who shut him down the other day blocking 3 of his shots- it was definitely something I haven't seen this year.

What's your take on next weekends games against Centre and Depauw...   Thanks again for the updates.

[pbrooks3]

16:56 to go in 2nd half - Rhodes leads 51-40.

[frank_ezelle]

The halftime score at Memphis shows that Rhodes is not a team that Millsaps can overlook at the SCAC Tournament (I think that matchup is already guaranteed).

The win by Millsaps today was their 21st, which ties for the 4th most wins in school history.  Some of you will remember the team from the mid-90's that won 25 games in 1994-05 and 22 games in 1995-96.  I feel certain that none of you remember the Bernie Ward coached team of 1940-41 that were "Dixie Champions" on their way to a 23-4 record or the B.O. Van Hook coached team of 1931-32 that went 21-8.  I wonder if they were still had the rule about doing a jump ball after every basket back in 1931-32?

[pbrooks3]

Fast paced and OU has fought back to within 5 at the 14:11 mark. Ward is on fire, having scored 9 in the half on a combo of jumpers. (57-52)

[pbrooks3]

OU 64-62 at 11;11 to play. Ward and Chaz Smith are making plays. 

[pbrooks3]

Rhodes 72 OU 72 6:38 to play. Correction - Eric Palmer not Chaz Smith has been assisting Ward - 5 3 pointers.