MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

warriorfan · November 18, 2006, 08:45:50 AM

Rhema had some kids that were dangerous from the three point line. They also had a very vocal bench and crowd that got their players pumped up at the right times. From talk in the crowd, they were a much improved team over last year.

spfan22 · November 18, 2006, 09:10:02 PM

Oglethorpe is off to a great start. They beat Carver College 98-72, which was a game that they should have won. Today however, they played a very talented and athletic NC Wesleyan team and won 99-81. They led by 30 at one point in the second half. The Petrels are off to their first 2-0 start since 1998, and if they continue to play this well, they should have a good season.

irion · November 19, 2006, 09:59:11 AM

Roanoke beat Sewanee 83-81 at Roanoke. Eddy did not play and Pursell was limited. Anybody know how strong Roanoke is?

warriorfan · November 19, 2006, 11:48:02 AM

Hendrix lost by 1 to Westminster in the Rhodes Tip Off Classic Saturday afternoon. Hendrix led by 1 at the half, found themselves down by 7 then went on a 6 point run. They held the Blue Jays scoreless in the last 4 minutes of the game but came up short. Freshman Cal Rose led the Warriors with 17.

I have a question. During the Hendrix/Rhema game, two fouls called on two seperate players were officially posted to a third player (Andrew King), causing this third player to foul out early in the game. This is the first time I recall seeing this happen. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Ralph Turner · November 19, 2006, 01:01:43 PM

Quote from: warriorfan on November 19, 2006, 11:48:02 AM
Hendrix lost by 1 to Westminster in the Rhodes Tip Off Classic Saturday afternoon. Hendrix led by 1 at the half, found themselves down by 7 then went on a 6 point run. They held the Blue Jays scoreless in the last 4 minutes of the game but came up short. Freshman Cal Rose led the Warriors with 17.

I have a question. During the Hendrix/Rhema game, two fouls called on two seperate players were officially posted to a third player (Andrew King), causing this third player to foul out early in the game. This is the first time I recall seeing this happen. Anyone seen anything like this before?

No, but it seems like an effective strategy to me!

Have Wooster/Witt or Hope/Calvin tried it before?

8)

warriorfan · November 19, 2006, 01:18:57 PM

Wooster/Witt? Hope/Calvin? Are these refs? Coach Priest closely and quickly followed the refs off of the court at the Westminster game yesterday. As soon as the refs took off, he was on their heels!!!! The refs blew the whistle, hustled off of the court and Priest hustled off with them. The very end of the game was questionable. It looked as though a whistle should have been blown with a couple of seconds left on the clock. There was some hesitation by the officials. Instead, they blew the whistle to end the game and quickly exited.

hasanova · November 19, 2006, 10:15:38 PM

Quote from: irion on November 19, 2006, 09:59:11 AM
Roanoke beat Sewanee 83-81 at Roanoke. Eddy did not play and Pursell was limited. Anybody know how strong Roanoke is?

The Roanoke Maroons are a middle-of-the-pack ODAC team. They were 14-11, 8-10 (6th of 10) in 2005-06 and are a preseason tie for 5th this year. The ODAC, however, is a tough conference with defending national champ Virginia Wesleyan plus nationally ranked Hampden-Sydney and Randolph-Macon. I also think Guilford (preseason #4) will get some votes this year in national polls. So far, the Quakers beat Elon (DI) in an exhibition game and clearly was the best team at the Roanoke tournament defeating Robert Morris, 101-77, and Sewanee, 91-78 (Sewanee was down 91-68, but scored the last ten points when all the reserves were on the court). For comparative scores, Robert Morris beat Roanoke today, 79-75.

frank_ezelle · November 20, 2006, 08:55:35 AM

Millsaps looked good in two wins this weekend. The first against Pensacola Christian is one of those games where everyone dressed out gets some minutes and it was hard to tell much about the Millsaps team. Millsaps won 93-62 with 10 players getting double-digit minutes of playing time and no one getting more than 21 minutes.

The second game was a 79-69 win over Rust College. Rust is a fairly solid team and they usually do well in the early season against the SCAC teams in this area. Millsaps looked a little sluggish in the first half which ended up tied but played better in the second half for the 10 point victory. Rodney Rogan (20 pts, 10 rbs) and Edrick Montgomery (15 pts, 12 rbs) had double-doubles and Lorenzo Bailey and Allen Odum chipped in 16 and 10 points respectively.

The Millsaps team will look very similar to last year's team with most of the key player's back. The biggest exception to that is the absence of Tyler Warren, but it looks like all of the returning players have stepped up their game a bit to cover for that loss. There is more depth on the inside this year but the biggest improvement in depth on the inside will be if Edrick Montgomery can cut down on the foul problems that plagued him last year. It's a good sign that he played 27 minutes against Rust with only 3 fouls.

Millsaps will get a good test this Tuesday against in-town opponent Belhaven College, an NAIA school that recently lost to D1 Murray State 72-73 at Murray State.

HunterT · November 20, 2006, 11:22:02 AM

Time to make the switch to B-Ball...

Rhodes looked good this weekend. A tough faught game against Westminster to lose by 3, then a good game vs. Rhema to get the win.

The team is talented, and have their sites set on their second consecutive SCAC tourney bid this year. They are young though and will have to get the chemistry down to really challenge the teams in the middle of the conference.

Losing the seniors from last year (Almefty, Jakes, Strong) hurts, a lot. But there are some really talented freshmen that are stepping into certain roles and getting good playing time. The team is hungry and playing that way, they want to show people that Rhodes is going to play hard and fight in every game. This is not the same Rhodes team as the program has been in past years. Once they get a few things ironed out they will make some noise.

The team is young (having only one senior fighting back from an injury, and starting only a couple juniors), but most of the players got good experience last year, so they are aware of the competion level in the SCAC, and it shouldn't be a problem. It will be fun to watch them progress this season and into the SCAC Tourney.

spfan22 · November 20, 2006, 06:04:33 PM

Congratulations to Matt Nestheide of Centre College and Andrew Tulowitsky of Oglethorpe University for being named players of the week in the SCAC. It looks like both guards had great weekends and led there team to two big wins.

etg · November 20, 2006, 08:51:05 PM

(El Tea Gray---re: Trinity Starters)

carlweathers & Borat NOT,

Charles Houston "will play" for the Tigers, and "can score".
Comments?

scaccommish · November 20, 2006, 09:25:09 PM

SCAC Men's Hoops Weekly for Week 1:

http://www.scac-online.org/basketball_mens/112006mbasketballupdate.pdf

frank_ezelle · November 21, 2006, 12:38:30 PM

I just heard a rather shocking D3 score that adds some interest to the Millsaps-Belhaven game this evening. Mississippi College, preseason #2 in one of the polls, lost at home in OT to Wesley College last night. Wesley College is a local school that in the past has been a nice early season game that allows the opposing team to play all of their players. Apparently that's not the case this year.

Wesley is now 9-1, with their one loss coming last week at home to visiting Belhaven. Belhaven beat Wesley 93-73 and then Wesley turns around and beats Mississippi College. It should be an interesting game this evening.

consultant · November 21, 2006, 02:20:28 PM

Frank,
I saw that MC/Wesley score too and was completely shocked. It will be interesting to see the outsome of the Millsaps/Belhaven game.

Borat...NOT · November 21, 2006, 02:45:24 PM

ETG

I agree with your comments about Charles Houston. He had a great weekend and will need to score for them to have a good year. My original comments were more that there weren't many people returning who were proven scorers outside of York. In Houston's playing time last year he didn't look to score. You could argue that wasn't his role, however in comparing this years team of newcomers to last years team of newcomers, players like Burt, Bates and Lake had come off the bench to score points the year before they became starters. If Houston can keep this up, it will be a huge lift for Trinity.