MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[pbrooks3]

PBrooks3.  Since you evidently saw the game, can you write a bit more about your impressions of the Scots?  It sounded on the radio like they were really good in the first half and less so later.  Also sounded like the Colonels, as usual, made a game of it even with Noll being controlled.  They always know what to do.

Amazing that I seem that good in my analysis; I'm not, nor was I at the game!  I followed it pretty closely via Live Stats. I see enough Centre games and know their style of play that the Colonels can't get down 16-18 points to a quality opponent like Maryville and win a basketball game. The Scots despite leaking some oil in the stretch did two key things in the game - they didn't turn the ball over much (7) and they knocked down free throws (16-18 I think). Centre will be a good team because of quality players and good coaching, but they're some growing pains as they mesh two talented freshmen into their starting lineup. Maryville's bench seemed to be a factor too in that they contributed much more than the Colonels' backups. I'm glad to see that Centre kept competing down the stretch, but the better team won last night's game. 

[scottiedoug]

As an experienced ex-Scot said on the GSAC board, it is never easy to play at Centre.  Good luck to the Colonels and maybe the two teams will see each other again later on. 

[Patriot_Pride]

NOTE TO THOSE INTERESTED IN MILLSAPS COLLEGE WEBCASTS:

Almost 40 of the men's and women's basketball games will be webcast this season starting with the men's game vs. Belhaven College this evening at 7:00 Central time.  The link to the webcast is:

http://www.sportsnation360.com/schools/webcast/Millsaps-College

Frank,
Watched the webcast the other night and it was great! Derrel Palmer does a great job with the broadcast and I enjoy his insight. I could see Millsaps as a .500 team this year, maybe a 13-12 kind of year. The Majors have too many new faces I think to make any kind of a run in the SCAC, which is probably why they were picked 9th of 11 teams. Anyways, looking forward to Friday night's broadcast vs Pensacola Christian with SID Kevin Maloney on the call because DP will be at the Pearl playoff game. GO MAJORS!

[pbrooks3]

Noted that Emory took down Oglethorpe in OT tonite 85-81. OU went into this game a bit banged up.

[FlightofthePetrel]

OU was without starting point guard David Allison but Oglethorpe should have won this game. The Petrels played a very poor first half of basketball and Emory easily broke the zone and nailed 8 three pointers. Even with the 12 point defecit at the half the Petrels chipped away at the Emory lead and were sparked by transfer Tyler Cerone's back to back 3 pointers. The Petrels seemed to have the game locked up, up by 6 with under 2 to go. Poor free thow shooting did the Petrels in as they missed their last 5 (I think) down the stretch and Emory was able to tie the game up. Under 20 seconds left and the Petrels had a chance for the win as they drew a play up for Todd Ward and he seemed to have clear drive to the basket but a hard take to the hoop did not fall and no foul was called as bodies fell... Any other juncture and I'm sure a foul is called, but not with the game on the line.  Emory hit a quick 2 followed by a 3 (in the overtime)  and the Petrels were never able to recover.

The story of the night had to be free throw shooting as OU shot a dismal 7-19 from the charity stripe! As hard as this loss is to take it may be just what this team needed to focus on the rest of the season after lofty expectations were placed on them in the pre season. They will recover and learn from this and benefit from it in the long run.

Go Petrels!

[pbrooks3]

Rhodes is hosting a tournament this weekend for both mens and womens teams. Schools participating are Greenville (IL), Westminister, Hendrix and the Lynx. Rhodes will play Greenville tomorrow and Westminister Saturday. There"ll be 4 games tomorrow & 4 Saturday. Good way to get a quick fix on early season D3 hoops.

[frank_ezelle]

NOTE TO THOSE INTERESTED IN MILLSAPS COLLEGE WEBCASTS:

Almost 40 of the men's and women's basketball games will be webcast this season starting with the men's game vs. Belhaven College this evening at 7:00 Central time.  The link to the webcast is:

http://www.sportsnation360.com/schools/webcast/Millsaps-College

Frank,
Watched the webcast the other night and it was great! Derrel Palmer does a great job with the broadcast and I enjoy his insight. I could see Millsaps as a .500 team this year, maybe a 13-12 kind of year. The Majors have too many new faces I think to make any kind of a run in the SCAC, which is probably why they were picked 9th of 11 teams. Anyways, looking forward to Friday night's broadcast vs Pensacola Christian with SID Kevin Maloney on the call because DP will be at the Pearl playoff game. GO MAJORS!

The game this evening starts at 7 and Kevin has always done a good job when filling in for DP.  Despite losing two key players in Chad Songy and Chris Sanders from last year's team, I believe Millsaps will be much improved this year.  It is definitely a blue collar team that counts on hard work and success as a unit rather than a few individuals carrying the team.  From what I've seen early, some of the newcomers have a lot of potential, AND JUST AS IMPORTANT, they seem to understand just how much effort is expected from them at both ends of the floor.  

I'm not predicting that Millsaps is going to be an upset winner of the SCAC, but I think they are a team that can upset all of the teams who have high hopes for winning the league.  And if they get to the SCAC Tournament on their home court, maybe they can put together 3 good games and win the thing.  There's a lot of basketball to play before giving much thought to that.

[jekelish]

AC is heading down to Dallas for a tournament this weekend.  The 'Roos have Rust College tonight.  Based on what I've heard/seen/etc about Rust, seems like it should be a pretty easy win.

If AC wins out over the weekend to start out 4-0, what are the odds they get a couple votes in the D3Hoops Top 25 poll, considering they beat #12 UTD?

[pbrooks3]

Exciting finish at Rhodes in the opener with Hendrix defeating Westminster 80-78. With about 20 seconds left Hendrix got a traditional 3 point play from Jesse Ford to retake the lead for good. It was a seesaw affair throughout the 2nd half.  2nd game begins shortly between Rhodes and Greenville.

[pbrooks3]

Rhodes is behind at halftime 32-29.

[pbrooks3]

Rhodes pulls out a victory - 71-67.  Reid Hamilton leads the way with 20 points followed by Saberion with 18.  This one was close the whole way with the lead changing hands a number of times.  Saberion took over down the stretch to hit some key baskets.  Hamilton went down with about 8 minutes to go with a severe ankle sprain and did not return.  These teams were pretty evenly matched, though Greenville turned the ball over a ton in the 2nd half.

The hero of the 1st game, Jesse Ford, went down with a bad injury to his knee with about 20 seconds remaining after he'd put Hendrix in the lead for good.  He was going to have knee evaluated after the game.  No news yet.

Rhodes does have a young leader in the making in freshman point guard, Andrew Gallows.  He scored 11 points and demonstrated pretty fair court awareness much of the game.  While he made a few silly mistakes, he's got good ballhandling skills and seems to know when to drive it and when to distribute.  He has nice size (6'4") and decent quickness.

[phillipst]

Story about the Rhodes victory is on their website at

http://www.rhodeslynx.com/news/2009/11/20/MBBALL_Greenville_College_1120092625.aspx?path=mbball

Schedule for the remainder of the Tipoff Classic by Hampton Inn~Poplar is:

Hendrix vs. Greenville          3pm
Rhodes vs. Westminster      5pm

[frank_ezelle]

Thanks for the link phillipst.  Hope you'll stick around and report on the Lynxs all season.

Millsaps had a spotty game with Pensacola Christian last night, eventually winning 71-59.  The game never seemed to get into much of a flow for either team, not surprising for Millsaps since there are a lot of new faces being thrown into the mix.  Some familiar faces led the way as Blake Martinez bombed away for 27 points, Chris Ingle played his typical "no frills, just results" game and netted 15 points to go along with 7 rebounds, and Cameron Varnado dunked on 2 of his 3 baskets including one drive to the hoop that definitely sent a buzz through the crowd. 

Link to story:  http://www.gomajors.com/news/2009/11/21/MBB_1121095507.aspx

Link to Boxscore:  http://www.gomajors.com/custompages/MBB/2009-10/stats/mcm10-02.htm 

[pbrooks3]

Hendrix comes back in the final 5 minutes to win 85-76. Cal Rose heated up when the team needed it to knock down 3 consecutive 3's in the span of 60 seconds to help Hendrix pull away. Nick Heathscott was steady dropping in 27 points and Aamon Martin tallied 16 including 4 free throws in the stretch run. Greenville seems to be able to play 35 minutes of strong basketball before they lose control. Their loss today followed script with the way they dropped last night's game to Rhodes.

Westminster is leading Rhodes by 6 with 10 minutes remaining in the opening half.

[pbrooks3]

Rhodes closed out the 1st half strong after getting down 13 with 7 minutes left and finds itself down only 2 at the break - 44-42. Andyshea Saberion has been big knocking down shots and getting steals. He's got 14; Reid Hamilton has 10. A game of runs for sure.