MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Rose Basketball · November 16, 2005, 02:15:06 PM

Rose-Hulman game notes, as they travel to Chicago to compete in the Midway Classic.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/mbasket/mbbnotes.pdf

Fan of the Game · November 16, 2005, 03:09:02 PM

I hear that Trinity had a very good scrimage against Mary Hardin-Baylor earlier this week. Does anyone have details?

warriorfan · November 19, 2005, 08:44:52 AM

Hendrix beat Westminster 87-65. Michael Bennett led all scorers with 17. Matt Secrease had14. Rhodes also won their game against Rhema. Both teams play again today.

hoopnation · November 19, 2005, 09:02:40 AM

Trinity goes to Virginia Beach, VA and plays Virginia Wesleyen who is pre season rated by Street's & Smith #5. Trinity comes away with a 67-64 victory. Senior Ross burt led the way with 21pt and 8 boards. Andy bates chipped in with 18 and 4. Trinity was down by as many as 18pt in the second half but, the Trinity defense picked as usual and held VW to 9-29 shooting in the second half.
Back to back 3's by Mitchell Walker and James lake cut the lead to 1 with 1:27 to play. Trinity kept the game for good with a steal by Jay Riola and Andy bates hitting two ft's with 48 seconds left. VW got off two 3 pointers in the last 7 seconds not hiiting on either. Trinity shows even though they lost a great senior class they will again be a team in the hunt for a 4th straight trip to the NCAA's.

carlweathers · November 19, 2005, 11:00:58 AM

I would have to imagine that a few SCAC fans and maybe a few coaches were shocked to see TU go on the road a beat the defending ODAC champs and #11 team in the poll.

Trinity had a secret that a few of us knew. Hoopnation and Fan of the Game knew. Trinity still has really good players. They lost 4 great seniors but the kids that are still there can really play and those kids that are there played against the best players in the country every day in practice. Transfer Brandon York will play a huge role on this team as well.

Trinity will be in the mix at the end. They don't have the margin for error that they had in the past but their group of seniors will keep them in it.

Congrats to Hendrix. When was the last time the Warriors had a 20 point win?

Southwestern went down but played short handed against a good team. I believe 3 players were out for them.

madison · November 19, 2005, 07:31:17 PM

Hendrix over Rhema College 86-54.

hoopnation · November 20, 2005, 10:38:28 AM

Trinity played NC Wesleyan on Saturday and didn't let their upset of Virginia Wesleyan go to their head winning 82-50. Ross Burt again was high scorer with 21pt and 5 boards. Andy Bates had 13pt, 5 boards and 5 assists. The backcourt of Mitchell Walker and James Lake played well. Walker finished with 10pt and 5 assists and Bates 13pt and 3 rebounds. 11 players scored in the game for the Tigers. All Tourney: Ross Burt, Andy Bates and Mitchell Walker.
Good start for Trinity. They play Howard Payne on Tuesday(Nov. 22) and play in the Southwestern/Trinity Thanksgiving Classic on Friday and Saturday. Otterbein and Cal Tech are the teams coming in.

Ralph Turner · November 20, 2005, 12:33:10 PM

Hoopnation, those are a couple of in-region wins and one might be very good! Way-to-go, TU.

Go easy on, Cal Tech! The HPU game will be good!

Rose Basketball · November 21, 2005, 02:17:50 AM

Rose-Hulman went down in defeat to The University of Chicago this evening, 61-55, wrapping a weekend spilt of two games in the 9th Annual Midway Classic in Chicago.

The Engineers kicked-off the season Saturday night with a 73-57 victory over Denison (OH). Munchie Muskeyvalley was one of four Rose players in double-figures with 14 points to lead the Engineers. Jared Moore, David Yarachefski, and Brennan Dunville added 11, 10, and 10 respectively. Jason Bednarko chipped in 9 points.

The story of the night, however, may have been the ankle injury to Senior guard Munchie Muskeyvalley, as he went down in pain, grabbing his ankle after attempting a three point basket late in the 2nd half.

This evening's contest against Chicago started out with the Maroons dominating at every facet of the game, while taking a double-digit lead on a young Engineer club. The lead grew as large as 20, before Rose-Hulman rallied to get within give at 55-50 with only 1:42 to go.

Unfortunately, the late comeback fell short, and Rose went down in defeat to the host Maroons, 61-55, in the Championship game of the Midway Classic. Ron George lead the Engineers with 13 points, while Jason Bednarko added 12 in a losing cause.

Chicago's Clay Carmody was voted MVP of the two-day event. Rose guards Jared Moore and Jason Bednarko were chosen as All-Tournament team representatives.

Rose-Hulman (1-1) hosts Anderson on Tuesday night in their home opener.

dballa · November 21, 2005, 10:14:28 AM

Will Trinity be broadcasting Tuesday's game against HPU over the internet or even at all?

frank_ezelle · November 21, 2005, 12:16:47 PM

It's nice to see reports from so many schools. Millsaps opened up with two wins this weekend, 80-64 over Austin College and 60-57 over the University of Dallas. Like last year, Millsaps is a relatively young team, they have a lot of depth at the guard positions and they need to develop depth at the 4 and 5 spots. With so many talented teams in the league, I'm not sure if a league championship is in the picture but they are certainly capable of making a run at the SCAC Tournament like Sewanee did last season.

Things may change but this weekend 6 players shared a lot of playing time at the 1, 2 and 3 spots. Of those six, seniors Tyler Warren and Justin LeBlanc and sophs Deonte Oscar and Lorenzo Bailey played a lot last year. Junior Allen Odum and soph. John Childs were on the team last year but didn't play many minutes (Odum transferred to Millsaps at mid-season last year). There are a couple of other players who might work their way into time at these spots but there is a lot of competition for the available minutes.

Soph. Rodney Rogan returns at the power forward. His best spot might be small forward but Millsaps doesn't have the luxury of playing him there at this time. Rodney reminds me a lot of Daniel Waguespack, a strong 6'4" player who does everything well on both ends of the court. I won't be surprised if he makes some SCAC all-conference teams in the future.

Last year's starting center (Sandro Norris) transferred out and this year's starting center transferred in. Soph. Edrick Montgomery played last year at Jackson State University. At 6'5" he won't be the biggest center in the league but he'll be the fastest (Mississippi high school state champion in the 100M and 200M). Edrick scored 26 points against Austin (19 in the first half) but only had 7 shots against the U. of Dallas. I'm guessing that the team would like to see Edrick get about 15 shots per game.

Maybe the key to the Millsaps season will be just how much support the bench contributes at the inside spots. The potential is there with freshmen Russell Booth and Phil Pass, soph. Ross LeBlanc, and senior Morgan Walvoord so it's just a matter of seeing how much they develop over the course of the season.

There's no doubt that Millsaps is a much better team than they were at this time last year but the league might also be a little stronger this year. I can't disagree with the 6th place prediction by the coaches in the league but if they stay healthy and they get a few good breaks, this team has enough talent and coaching to finish in the top three this year. That's probably a statement that could be made about the majority of teams in the SCAC.

carlweathers · November 21, 2005, 02:46:00 PM

Interesting weekend in the SCAC. In addition to Trinity's nice win, Sewanee beat Methodist who I believe was picked first in their conference.

Edrick Montgomery sounds like a good player but I couldn't find his name in the stats for JSU last year. It appears that he was a freshman in 02-03 for JSU. Not sure how much Phil Pass can help this year. Odum was at Millsaps as a freshman in 03-04 but sat out with a knee injury.

b2bwise · November 21, 2005, 03:42:47 PM

I know this will please a lot of Oglethyorpe's opponents. The Dorough Gym is brighter this year and has a new WOODEN floor. The new court is dedicated to ex-coach Pinholster who coached in the pre-SCAC days. First game is tonight agiansyt Emory and it shoul dbe interesting to see if they can hit the three's like last year despite the loss of Russ Churchwell.

warriorfan · November 22, 2005, 01:06:39 AM

The Hendrix Warriors have won again!!!!! Tonight, they beat Central Baptist College in a close game. CBC (4-2) led 29-26 at the half but Hendrix later tied the game 40 all and finally won 76-70. Hendrix has a deep bench this year and played well on both ends of the court. The Warriors were led by Michael Bennett with 17 and Matt Secrease with 16.

frank_ezelle · November 22, 2005, 09:21:51 AM

Carl--Thank you for the correction regarding Edrick Montgomery's year at JSU. Here's a link to a story that you probably found: http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0306/29/tjsu01.html

Regarding Allen Odum, he was at Millsaps in 03-04 and sat out with an injury. If I have my story correct, he then transferred to another school but came back for the second semester last year and rejoined the team late in the season. He didn't play much at all after rejoining the team but he started both games in Dallas this weekend.

I haven't seen enough of Phil Pass to have a judgement on how much he will help this year. I think Millsaps will be looking primarily for short stretches of defense and rebounding from the backup post men and hopefully Phil and a couple of others can deliver.