MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[cush]

Maybe it's time to move the scac HQ from Georgia to Texas  now if they could jump to 12 with Texas Wesleyan and maybe our lady football could come back

[Ron Boerger]

I think one of the terms for Mr. Hanberry staying on as SCAC commissioner (he likely could have taken the same position with the SAA) was the league office remaining in the ATL.   
It certainly hasn't hindered his ability to work with the schools or to bring new schools in.   And if that's the price to pay for keeping the SCAC as a viable league, it's a small one to pay.  You wouldn't have seen too many people willing to bet the SCAC would be where it is today after being left with only five teams. 

Football isn't coming back to the SCAC.  UST has no plans to add it, J&W doesn't, CC isn't going to bring it back, and the other SCAC schools besides AC/SW/TLU/TU had years to think about it and didn't start a program. 

[guest323]

I think one of the terms for Mr. Hanberry staying on as SCAC commissioner (he likely could have taken the same position with the SAA) was the league office remaining in the ATL.   
It certainly hasn't hindered his ability to work with the schools or to bring new schools in.   And if that's the price to pay for keeping the SCAC as a viable league, it's a small one to pay.  You wouldn't have seen too many people willing to bet the SCAC would be where it is today after being left with only five teams. 

Football isn't coming back to the SCAC.  UST has no plans to add it, J&W doesn't, CC isn't going to bring it back, and the other SCAC schools besides AC/SW/TLU/TU had years to think about it and didn't start a program.

i've heard that the SCAC fee is as expensive as it is because of the travel and lodging of the staff, any truth to that?

[Ron Boerger]

I've heard you shouldn't respond to anonymous trolling on chat boards.

Schreiner clinched the regular season championship and top seed in the SCAC tourney last night with a 74-66 win at home over Trinity.  Dallas (8-5 SCAC) can clinch the #2 seed with a win at Colorado College on Saturday.   Colorado, Southwestern, and Texas Lutheran are all at 6-7 and battling for the last two spots; TLU and SW face off on Saturday.   A whole bunch of teams could end up 7-7, but according to the conference 7-6 Trinity (final game @home v. Schreiner) clinched a spot last weekend, so 7-6 Centenary (final game at 2-11 Austin) may have, as well. 

[Ron Boerger]

Southwestern is the odd man out after this weekend's results.

Trinity defeated Schreiner last night 75-56 behind 29 points from Danny Rivara to pull into a three-way tie for second with Dallas and Centenary.   Tie breakers will determine who gets the bye in the conference championships but if I had to guess it would be Centenary (2-0 v Trinity, 1-1 v Dallas) 2, Dallas (1-1 v Trinity but +2 on total points) 3, Trinity 4.  Colorado and TLU tied for the last spot and were 1-1 against each other but CC is +2 on total points and so may be 5.   If true this would set up

# 3 Dallas v #6 TLU, winner v #2 Centenary
# 4 Trinity v #5 Colorado, winner v #1 Schreiner

Dallas was 1-1 v TLU in the regular season; Trinity was 1-1 v Colorado with both wins coming on the other team's home floor.

From what I saw in the Schreiner-TU game last night (and the H2H results above) this year's championship is wide open. 

[Ron Boerger]

Huh.  Maybe it won't be tie breakers as the women's top seed was settled with a coin toss during the SCAC swimming champsionships yesterday.

[Ron Boerger]

Seeds were announced (and the SCAC does use tiebreakers; on the women's side, none of them differentiated between the two schools):

1) Schreiner (10-4 SCAC; 13-12 overall)
2) Centenary (8-6 SCAC; 14-10 overall)
3) Dallas (8-6 SCAC; 15-10 overall)
4) Trinity (8-6 SCAC; 14-11 overall)
5) Colorado College (7-7 SCAC; 12-13 overall)
6) Texas Lutheran (7-7 SCAC; 11-14 overall)

4 plays 5 and 3 plays 6 in the first round; Schreiner plays the 4-5 winner, Centenary the 3-6 winner.

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?action=post;topic=4107.3675;last_msg=1858120

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The NCAA men's basketball regional advisory committees released their third set of rankings, and as expected, the Atlantic Region was among those getting shuffled. Here's the full list: http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2018/02/men-regional-rankings-third

[Ron Boerger]

SCAC Tourney:

#4 Trinity 63 (Rivara 14, Colliflower 10), #5 Colorado College 47 (Houska 11, Black 10 pts/15 reb)
#6 TLU 91, #3 Dallas 76 (box not yet up)

Semifinal games tomorrow:   #1 Schreiner (13-12/10-4 SCAC) vs #4 Trinity (15-11/8-6); #2 Centenary (14-10/8-6 SCAC) vs #6 TLU (12-14/7-7)

[Ron Boerger]

Schreiner got revenge for last weekend's loss, defeating Trinity 74-67.   The Mountaineer D held Trinity under 33% from the floor, and the Tigers didn't help themselves missing 10 of 34 free throws.   Keenan Gumbs had 19 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 steals to lead the way for Schreiner, and Blake Kelley added 18.   Trinity got 18 from Danny Rivera (on 6-of-16) and 12 from Jayden Holden in his last game as a Tiger.

After losing to TLU each of the last two seasons, Centenary held off the Bulldogs 76-70 to reach the conference finals for the first time since 2015. Travion Kirkendoll led all scorers with 28 points, Kaharri Carter added 14 as four of Gents starters reached double digits.   TLU got 18 from Jacob Kouremetis and 15 off the bench from Alex Cage.

[Ralph Turner]

Schreiner beat Centenary for the Pool A bid.

So, if Schreiner placed a bid to host the tourney, they are within 500 miles of Sul Ross (ASC Pool A) and would be within 500 miles for either LeTU or ETBU as a Pool C bid.

That would only mean one flight to Texas!

Or only Sully and Schreiner earn bids from this part of the country and both are shipped out!

[guest323]

Connor is the lowest paid coach in the conference - give the man a raise!!

[Ron Boerger]

Schreiner beat Centenary for the Pool A bid.

So, if Schreiner placed a bid to host the tourney, they are within 500 miles of Sul Ross (ASC Pool A) and would be within 500 miles for either LeTU or ETBU as a Pool C bid.

That would only mean one flight to Texas!

Or only Sully and Schreiner earn bids from this part of the country and both are shipped out!

D3h projects ETBU as the first team on the table from the region but doesn't see them getting past that point, and sends both Sully and Schreiner to California to almost certain quick deaths at Whitman.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Schreiner beat Centenary for the Pool A bid.

So, if Schreiner placed a bid to host the tourney, they are within 500 miles of Sul Ross (ASC Pool A) and would be within 500 miles for either LeTU or ETBU as a Pool C bid.

That would only mean one flight to Texas!

Or only Sully and Schreiner earn bids from this part of the country and both are shipped out!

D3h projects ETBU as the first team on the table from the region but doesn't see them getting past that point, and sends both Sully and Schreiner to California to almost certain quick deaths at Whitman.

Washington.  Whitman and Whitworth are in Washington.

Also, it's far more likely Schreiner goes there and Sul Ross gets sent someplace north or east - it saves them a flight to keep Whitworth up there.

[Ron Boerger]

Washington, Cali, it's all the West Coast to me ;-)

Thanks for the correction.