MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[pbrooks3]

Anyone else believe that tonight's performance won Mike Moore the POTY?

I thought on the basis of 3 POTW honors, and inspite of the 9 turnovers at Centre last week, he's got it in the bag.  I think Todd Ward finishes #2.

[pbrooks3]

Looks like Southwestern is going to beat Austin if they convert free throws.

[pbrooks3]

55-46 Southwestern.  I think this is the outcome Frank was looking for.

[frank_ezelle]

Well not exactly.  Now I have to switch from "Go Roos" to "Go Tigers", plus a "Go Colorado" in case the Tigers don't come through, and of course there's the always "Go Majors". 

Millsaps must win tomorrow to get in the SCAC Tournament and they can't have a 3-way tie between Austin, Millsaps and Southwestern.  At least that's the way I understand it.

[pbrooks3]

As for the Majors, they have a chance to control their destiny today at Hendrix. This team has been playing some of its best basketball at season's end, and they have the tag "Giant Killers" written all over them. Only problem is they've got to get into the tournament first to play out their role.  I'll go out on a limb & say Millsaps gets it done today at Hendrix by 3 points. The Hendrix partisans will probably be happy with my prognostication because I've usually been wrong with my predictions on the Warriors this season.

[frank_ezelle]

Maybe the one plus Millsaps has going for them is that they have won 3 straight "tournament games" already.  They had to win at Colorado College and against Trinity and Southwestern to keep their hopes alive and they have responded with some great basketball.  Now they have to win at Hendrix and they will need Trinity to play like they are trying to keep an at-large berth as a possibility--which is what they do have riding on their game with Austin.

I expect a close game at Hendrix with it being Senior Day (Ryan Wible, Andrew King and David Foley).  I remember when the Millsaps team of 1999-00 (I think that was the year) needed a win at Rhodes in the final game to get into the NCAA Tournament.  Rhodes wasn't great, but it was Senior Day and Neal Power got 40+ points in his last game as a Lynx.  Millsaps barely won.  I wouldn't mind if Andrew King gets 40+ points today as long as Millsaps barely wins--all I care about is a Millsaps victory.

It's a big day for Millsaps athletics and I'm going to list the 3 things I'll be trying to keep up with here so I'll have one spot for everything.  Maybe it will help someone else:

Softball:  Millsaps plays at LA College at 1:00 and LC is ranked from 1 to 3 in the preseason polls.  I can't find a live stats link but the LC softball page is:  http://www.lcwildcats.net/index.asp?path=softball

Basketball:  Men play at Hendrix at 1, women at 3.  Both Millsaps teams need to win to keep the SCAC Tournament hopes alive.  Here's the Hendrix link to all the video, live stats, etc (and I must say, their Hendrix Warrior mascot outfit looks good--I like their new logo):  http://www.hendrix.edu/Athletics/

Baseball:  Millsaps plays a DH at Southwestern starting at 2:00 and the link to the Millsaps webcast is in my signature below (click on the blog link and see photos of my new grandniece--I'm not sure if anyone is still around who remembers my nephew Travis, the point guard on the above mentioned NCAA team).  It's possible that the first game will feature the first two SCAC Pitchers of the Week going head-to-head and the first two SCAC Offensive players (Will Hawkins and Hunter Owen) will be in the center of the Millsaps batting order.

[Walter17]

Pbrooks, in my opinion Danny Noll looks to be the runner up for POY.  Mike Moore definitely has it in the bag though, so I guess it really doesn't matter.  Here's a good question, who rounds out SCAC first team?

[frank_ezelle]

Hate to see fouls being such a big factor at Hendrix.  Still have 13 minutes to go and Millsaps has 2 starters with 4 fouls and 2 more starters with 3 fouls. 

Hendrix leads 60-54 with just under 13 minutes to go.

[pbrooks3]

Hate to see fouls being such a big factor at Hendrix.  Still have 13 minutes to go and Millsaps has 2 starters with 4 fouls and 2 more starters with 3 fouls. 

Hendrix leads 60-54 with just under 13 minutes to go.

Looks like Blake Martinez or Chad Songy need to light it pretty soon.  Time is running short for the Majors.

[pbrooks3]

Pbrooks, in my opinion Danny Noll looks to be the runner up for POY.  Mike Moore definitely has it in the bag though, so I guess it really doesn't matter.  Here's a good question, who rounds out SCAC first team?

My 1st team would have to be:

Mike Moore
Todd Ward
Luke Caldarera
Danny Noll
Cory Smith

Kola Alade would be the 6th man

[Ralph Turner]

Hendrix 88, Millsaps 81

[Ron Boerger]

For the second straight night, Trinity has jumped out to a huge early lead.  With 6:36 remaining in the opening half it's 35-12.

Edit:  51-21 at the half.  AC had 11 turnovers.

Final, Trinity 88, AC 55.   BJ Moon led Trinity with 16, Michael Tobolowsky added 14.  Chris Sturtevant had 10 for AC , Kola Alade 8.

[hendrixfan]

I'll go out on a limb & say Millsaps gets it done today at Hendrix by 3 points. The Hendrix partisans will probably be happy with my prognostication because I've usually been wrong with my predictions on the Warriors this season.

pbrooks, if you will pick Hendrix to lose each time they play in next week's tournament, I'll see to it that you are compensated by the college!   

[pbrooks3]

HendrixFan, I've been paying Hendrix tuition for the past 4 years - I'll certainly look forward a credit on this!  Seriously, this win today hopefully sets up Hendrix for a potentially nice tournament run.

[pbrooks3]

Just a note - Centre will again have Live Stats available today on its website for the Oglethorpe game. There's probably a link as well on the SCAC site.