MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations to Rhodes before the home fans!

[Rose Basketball]

This certainly opens things up a bit.

If Rose-Hulman can somehow manage a victory this evening against DePauw, I like the Engineers' chances a WHOLE LOT better against Rhodes than I did against the Tigers. Just a huge win for Rhodes College.

Biggest upset in the history of the tournament?

Rose-Hulman gets smoked by DePauw 76-54 tonight and ends their season 11-15.

[BUC FAN08]

Hey Fellas, I think Bowser showed why he is all-american today. gonna be a tight match tomorrow against centre. good luck to all.

[frank_ezelle]

The news that Rhodes beat Trinity just makes the 2OT loss yesterday even worse.  I thought Millsaps could beat Centre and SW but then they would run out of steam to compete with Trinity's height.  Knowing that the finals would be against DePauw or Rhodes, teams that Millsaps matche up better with sizewise, makes me think that Millsaps could have won that third game despite their lack of size/experience on the bench for the 4 & 5 spots.

I wouldn't count out any of the 4 teams but SW is in the driver's seat.  Centre will have less rest time coming into this game and all of the Centre starters played 42 or more hard minutes yesterday.  SW will have the edge in the last 10 minutes for sure and possibly in the first 10 minutes of the game if Centre starts out a little leg weary.

As for Millsaps, it was a great effort and I hated to see us fall short.  I'll just say this now and then get out of the way for the remaining teams in the tournament:  Millsaps has had 3 groups of players go to the NCAA Tournament (1 group went twice).  In all three cases the year prior to the tournament season was around the breakeven mark and the team was loaded with younger players.  If the non-seniors all return and Millsaps can get at least one extra player in the middle, I think Millsaps will be the team to beat next season.

And with that, good luck to all the remaining tournament teams and I hope that we get two teams in the NCAA's and that they both have great success.

[DPU_radio_guy]

I tell ya, Frank...SW has to play a lot better than they did yesterday to beat Centre..even a tired Centre.

It really is a good thing that Oglethorpe couldn't buy a bucket yesterday, because SW would have been in big trouble.  Aaron Bowser carried that team to a win yesterday.  Cates and Little were a non-factor until 6-7 minutes left.  That game was a lot closer than the final score indicated. 

I know Centre's going to be tired.  But a special good luck wish from me to Robert Cates.  There's a large Icelander whom you're drawing on defense today.  I picked to Centre to win this thing from the start, and Reggie's going to be one angry man after the crap he put with from the officials yesterday.  I say Magnusson goes for 25 and Centre wins by 9.

[frank_ezelle]

Now you've brought up an interesting point that I wasn't going to mention but you make me feel obligated to address it.  The Centre crowd was obviously out buying cokes and popcorn during that pregame announcement about sportsmanship and comments addressed towards the refs, etc.  Obviously every team has their moments and every team has their "problem" parents/fans, but the Centre group as a whole was pretty bad (in my opinion).  Now you infer that Magnusson got the screw job yesterday, implying again that the refs were calling against Centre.

It was 50 minutes of close, emotional basketball and a lot of calls could have been made both ways.  I didn't think Millsaps was getting screwed when only 3 fouls were called against Centre in the first half.  In 50 minutes of action Centre only got called for 16 fouls but I'm not going to say that Millsaps got cheated or that the refs did a poor job.  The refs could have called a foul on the last play of regulation or at the end of the first OT that would have sent Millsaps to the line with a chance to win the game.  They didn't, I'm not going to complain about the call, and I'm not going to bitch about the refs on those plays or about their performance during the game. 

The Millsaps starters collected 22 fouls in the game and only a couple were intentional fouls at the end--that's 2 starters fouling out and the rest ending up with 4 fouls.  The Centre starters, who actually played more minutes than the Millsaps starting five, finished up with 11 total fouls.  In 90 minutes of playing time, Magnussom and Zerhusen picked up 23 rebounds and only 2 fouls between them--don't you think there were plenty of times when the refs could have called some fouls in there and they didn't?

SO, I've got that off my chest.  I don't blame the refs one iota for the Millsaps loss last night.  I don't agree with all of their calls but I think they did a better job calling the game than any 3 other people in the gym were capable of doing.  Centre played a very good game and I give their coach and their players credit for the victory but it ticks me off to have their fans or anyone else indicate that the game was close because the refs were screwing over Centre or any of their players.

Okay, now I think I've got that off my chest and I can go back to working on Millsaps basketball photos.

[BucBasketball08]

Mr. Radio guy,
    Great job announcing the game. I agree that Bowser led in scoring, but there were 4 other players scoring in double digits. Mike Powell and Danny Franklin made thier presence known I think. I'll be listening at 1.

[DPU_radio_guy]

Centre 77-55 over Southwestern.  Aaron Bowser completely disappeared, scoring 4 pts on 1-8.  Jamonn Little had 27 to lead exactly 6 Pirates that scored.  Little and Cates had 46 of the 55. 

Nestheide had 23 on 6-12 & 4-6 from 3.  Magnusson ended up with 18 despite foul trouble.  Matt Jacobson 5-8 from 3 with 17 pts.

[DPU_radio_guy]

Also, I wasn't saying that the refs were screwing Centre, to clarify.  A lot of Centre's fans think that their little boy couldn't ever possibly do something as terrible as committing a foul.  Magnusson just wasn't getting a lot of calls down low.  Rogan didn't a bunch of 'em either to be honest.

[DPU_radio_guy]

DPU 74-54.  DPU 10-20 from 3.  Reid Sakel with 21 for DPU on 8-10 from the floor.  Stephen Schott with 14. 

Rhodes shot 32% from the floor and were 6-27 from 3.  DPU & Centre in the championship. 

[scaccommish]

The 2005-06 All-SCAC men's team is posted:

http://www.scac-online.org/bballtourney

[warriorfan]

We are really proud of Andrew King for earning Newcomer of the Year.  He is a very impressive player. 

[frank_ezelle]

I've been working all day on Millsaps photos which brings me to this offer:

At the tournament this weekend the parents of a Southwestern player stopped me and told me how much they liked the photo of their son that was on the Millsaps website.  I told them to email me and I'd send them a copy of the original file.

I may regret saying this, but there may be other parents/players/SID's out there who would like a couple of the photos from games played at Millsaps.  I'll be glad to email the photos files to folks who request them as long as it doesn't get out of hand.  On the photo website there is a "Contact Member" button.  That sends an email to me at frankezelle@yahoo.com.  It would help if I got the information I needed all at once--namely the team, men's or women's game, and the photo name that appears at the bottom of the photo.

Here's the link for Millsaps photos:  http://photobucket.com/albums/v283/Millsaps_Majors/

I can't promise instant replies because I'm in the middle of fixing all of the Millsaps basketball CD's and then I have to get started on spring sports, but I will get the photos out to you (and in case you are wondering, there is no charge).

Frank.

[Ron Boerger]

That's worth at least a karma bump.  Very generous of you, Frank!

[DPU_radio_guy]

34-33 DPU at the half.  DPU's web server isn't functioning, so the broadcast is available on Teamline.  www.wgre.org