MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[scaccommish]

Just to clarify, Hendrix is already in on the men's side - they own the in-division tiebreaker in any scenario between Southwestern and Austin and since SU and AC play each other, one of them is guaranteed to have nine losses, which is the worst that Hendrix can do.

Check out this week's Hoops Weekly (always available on Tuesday from the SCAC front page)

http://www.scac-online.org/basketball_mens/021808mbasketballreport.pdf

All men's slots for the tourney are clinched except the final position in the West.

[frank_ezelle]

Thanks for the clarification--as I reread my post I had a vague feeling that someone was already in because of the tiebreaker situation.

With that in mind, what becomes important about Hendrix in the West is where do they end up in the seeding.  I'm not sure if there is an easy draw in the tournament, but we have seen in the past that being the #1 seed and drawing the host team in the first round is not a good break.  Hendrix played at Centre a month ago with Centre winning 69-59.  Centre had a 12 point lead at the half, Hendrix cut the lead to 2 with 15:22 remaining, and then Centre built the lead back to about 8-10 for the rest of the game.  King finished that game with 19 points and 14 rebounds in 28 minutes.

[d3allstar]

Friday, February 22

I like Trinity to pick up a win at Austin, probably by 5 points.  TU has leaked oil of late with injuries, but this weekend gives them a chance to build a little mo for the tournament.  I am going with a major upset at Colorado College with CC pulling out a 4 point win over Southwestern for their first victory.  Southwestern has been hitting their stride of late, but they're still trying to find the correct combination of players each game.  DePauw gets right back on the winning track by beating Sewanee by 12.  Mike Moore will score 20+ in this game.  Maybe the game of the night is in Atlanta with Centre prevailing against Oglethorpe by 7 points.  Oglethorpe has the troops to pull out a win, but Centre matches up well with the fast-paced Stormy Petrels and Centre continues playing solid defense & shoots a decent percentage for the win. 

Saturday, February 23

Colorado College's winning streak ends at one as Trinity wins by 13.  Good ballgame in Jackson between Hendrix and Millsaps.  I see Millsaps winning by 6 and creating 20 turnovers against the Warriors.  Look for a  head-to-head battle in the post with Montgomery scoring more points than King and King winning the rebounding war by one.  Birmingham Southern has been a bit of a Jekkle and Hyde team during the past several weeks so this could be a game for the taking by Rhodes.  However, I think BS wins by 8 with superior 3-point shooting.

Sunday, February 24

Southwestern's final game in Austin goes better than the one in Colorado Springs as they triumph by 6.  DePauw plays their best game of the season on the road by defeating OU by 13 points and getting revenge for the earlier loss in Greencastle.  Schott and Oilar play big, and DPU wins the battle of 3-pointers.  Centre struggles to the finish line on the mountain against an overmatched Sewanee group.  Centre breaks away in the final 2 minutes for a 4 point win.

OUCH!!!!
I hope you are wrong so I can see my boys play in Conway!!

[DPU3619]

With UW-Oshkosh's loss last night and a potential loss by UW-Platteville this weekend, and a win by Millsaps this weekend, they should move up in the Top 25; and DePauw should enter the Top 25 with a sweep this weekend. If Centre sweeps this weekend also, there (Millsaps and DePauw) regional ranking should also go up. I'm optimistic, I think all 3 will get in, unless either Millsaps or DePauw looses in the first round of the tournament.

Now do keep in mind that while you make a fair point here, the Top 25 isn't a selection criteria.  That won't help or hurt the case for anyone.

Again, everything I've said in my last few posts is simple conjecture on my part based on how I evaluate the selection criteria.  I'm not sure I know exactly what's going to happen since this is the first year for OWP and OOWP.  I could be miles off base here.  I did feel like I had a pretty good knack for it the last couple of years. 

I always thought that it seemed the committee leaned heavily on the region record and region rankings.  The old QoWI didn't seem to make or break a team's case in the past in most cases.  Does that change this year?  Can't say that I know for sure.  We're all going to find out together, I think.

[Pat Coleman]

Region rankings were influenced heavily by QOWI, however. One year we ran the numbers of the Pool C teams taken and those left out and only one team that was left out had a higher QOWI than any of the teams selected.

[pbrooks3]

----Hendrix at Millsaps:  As mentioned earlier, a Millsaps loss probably means no at-large berth for Millsaps.  Hendrix is in a 3-way tie in the loss column for the 3-5 spots in the West.  A loss for Hendrix could easily mean that they are sitting out the tournament they host.
 

Frank, I think Hendrix gets the 4th seed at worst.  Since there is a head-to-head this weekend between Southwestern & Austin, one of those 2 teams can finish no better than 6-9, and I'm pretty sure Hendrix owns the tie-breaker.

[pbrooks3]

Friday, February 22

I like Trinity to pick up a win at Austin, probably by 5 points.  TU has leaked oil of late with injuries, but this weekend gives them a chance to build a little mo for the tournament.  I am going with a major upset at Colorado College with CC pulling out a 4 point win over Southwestern for their first victory.  Southwestern has been hitting their stride of late, but they're still trying to find the correct combination of players each game.  DePauw gets right back on the winning track by beating Sewanee by 12.  Mike Moore will score 20+ in this game.  Maybe the game of the night is in Atlanta with Centre prevailing against Oglethorpe by 7 points.  Oglethorpe has the troops to pull out a win, but Centre matches up well with the fast-paced Stormy Petrels and Centre continues playing solid defense & shoots a decent percentage for the win. 

Saturday, February 23

Colorado College's winning streak ends at one as Trinity wins by 13.  Good ballgame in Jackson between Hendrix and Millsaps.  I see Millsaps winning by 6 and creating 20 turnovers against the Warriors.  Look for a  head-to-head battle in the post with Montgomery scoring more points than King and King winning the rebounding war by one.  Birmingham Southern has been a bit of a Jekkle and Hyde team during the past several weeks so this could be a game for the taking by Rhodes.  However, I think BS wins by 8 with superior 3-point shooting.

Sunday, February 24

Southwestern's final game in Austin goes better than the one in Colorado Springs as they triumph by 6.  DePauw plays their best game of the season on the road by defeating OU by 13 points and getting revenge for the earlier loss in Greencastle.  Schott and Oilar play big, and DPU wins the battle of 3-pointers.  Centre struggles to the finish line on the mountain against an overmatched Sewanee group.  Centre breaks away in the final 2 minutes for a 4 point win.

OUCH!!!!
I hope you are wrong so I can see my boys play in Conway!!

I'm been wrong on many predictions and I realize this is a bit of stretch with the way Colorado College's season has gone to date.  Just have a premonition that things might go their way tonight.

[lammersk]

I can't seem to get the feed from Oglethorpe to work.  Anyone else having problems or is the game just starting late?

[pbrooks3]

I can't seem to get the feed from Oglethorpe to work.  Anyone else having problems or is the game just starting late?

Need to run it through Quicktime.  Your settings in Quicktime (Advanced Settings) need to be:

Transport Protocol:   HTTP
Port ID:  80

[lammersk]

All of which I am doing.  No luck.  Guess I'll just have to wait and hear the game after they've archived it.

[frank_ezelle]

Centre is up 30-20 at the half.  The announcer said OU had missed 6 free throws in a row down the stretch, with 2 being on 1-and-1's.  That's not the way to pull off an upset.  OU has been playing a 2-3 zone and they did several substitutions where they put in 5 new players.  

The first 15 minutes were fairly close, then OU missed a few and Centre hit a few and the lead ballooned to the largest of the half.

[pbrooks3]

Stormy Petrels are employing a zone defense.  Fortunately in the first 20 minutes OU is struggling from the field and foul line.  Centre is up 30-20.  Chris Bentley has come off the bench to can two 3's and Rob Matthews and Ryan Crowdis got one each.  Nestheside and Britt ended the first half by each hitting a deep 3, Britt's coming as the horn went off.  Not a great shooting half for the Colonels, but they managed a few key offensive rebounds and shut down Oglethorpe in last several minutes before the half.  Centre needs to keep the hard-nosed defense going.  Oglethorpe can't be expected to stay cold for the last 20 minutes of this contest on their homecourt.  It will be a dogfight to the finish.  

[frank_ezelle]

All of which I am doing.  No luck.  Guess I'll just have to wait and hear the game after they've archived it.

I was able to get on with no problem.  You probably did exactly the same as I did, but here were my steps:

1)  Went to this link:  http://www.oglethorpe.edu/athletics/listen_live.asp

2)  Went down the page to the listen link by the Men's basketball game and I clicked on that.

3)  That brought up a small window that had the Stormy Petral logo with a yellow background.  I had to click on the logo to get the window to come up that actually does the broadcast.

Like I said, you probably have done the same.

[pbrooks3]

All of which I am doing.  No luck.  Guess I'll just have to wait and hear the game after they've archived it.

We'll try to keep ypu posted throughout the 2nd half to fill you in on what's happening in this contest.

[pbrooks3]

Oglethorpe has the first 6 points of the second half.  Centre leads 30-26.