MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Two point Milllsaps win at home over LC...

LC is a harder place at which to win, tho'.

The Trinty win was at home, too.

I haven't seen a good DePauw or Centre play a great ASC team, but I think that the ASC matches very favorably with the SCAC-West.  My personal assessment is that Miss College matches more favorably in the ASC-East and usually wins the ASC-East.  There have only been three teams to get a portion of the ASC-East or the ASC in the last 8 seasons.

The ASC-West is a knock-down /drag-out.  We have had 5 champs in the last three years.  The West plays a more wide open style.  Miss Coll is traditional half-court style.  They move into the Great Lakes and then run into great fundamental teams and lose in the Sweet 16.

I think that we will see the SCAC boil down to DePauw and one other team.

The ASC hasn't had any tests yet, so the book is still open on them.

[frank_ezelle]

Ralph, I thought the LA College team looked fairly solid last night and the ASC must be very tough this year if LC and TL ended up near the bottom of the standings as has been predicted in the preseason voting.

As I'm starting to learn, getting a South Region win last night was big for Millsaps and it will be just as important that they win this afternoon against Rust College.  There are so many things at stake at this point of the season for Millsaps--the chance to reach 20 wins this season, staying in competition for an at-large berth, establishing a solid ranking in the South Regional.  For Millsaps with so many key seniors on the 2007-08 team, this is a now or never situation for a group that came close last year but was really undone by a 4-5 start.

One quick question for anyone to anyone about this season.  With the teams in the SCAC now being divided into an East and West division, is it the top 4 from each division that gets to the SCAC Tournament?  If that's the case, do the crossover games count in the standings for the divisions?  I've looked on the SCAC site but I haven't seen an explanation on the new divisional setup.

[frank_ezelle]

Some interesting results from the Millsaps 2007 Turkey Shoot-Out this weekend:

Friday scores:

Huntingdon College 72 -- Rust College 65
Millsaps 63 -- Louisiana College 61

Saturday scores:

Louisiana College 110 -- Huntingdon College 66
Millsaps 79 -- Rust College 58

Based on the scores, one would think that both Huntingdon and Rust aren't very strong this year.  In the case of Rust, they fall to 1-3 with their only win being a 68-67 win over Centre at LaGrange--I wonder if there is a "rest of the story" about that win over Centre because I just can't see that result if Centre is as good as I expect them to be this year.

[DPU3619]

DePauw 83
Marian 72

Marian's a pretty good NAIA team out of Indianapolis. 

DePauw played well for some stretches of the game and played pretty poorly in some others.  Mike Moore dropped a career-high 28.  Brian Oilar 17 & 13.  Stephen Schott 14 & 7.

One quick question for anyone to anyone about this season.  With the teams in the SCAC now being divided into an East and West division, is it the top 4 from each division that gets to the SCAC Tournament?  If that's the case, do the crossover games count in the standings for the divisions?  I've looked on the SCAC site but I haven't seen an explanation on the new divisional setup.

The answers to your questions are both yes.  Top 4 seeds go in each division.  Cross-divisional games do count.

[FlightofthePetrel]

Oglethorpe defeated Lagrange today 100-63.  Don't have any statistics from the game although I was told scoring was distributed evenly with 6 or so players scoring in double figures.  Jackson and Shaheed led the Petrels with 15 a piece.

Fun Fact from the game: Gwinn Nixon scored the 100th point.  Glad to hear you got some action bud.

[frank_ezelle]

The OU game makes LaGrange 1-2 against SCAC teams:

Centre 76 - LaGrange 59 at Lagrange
LaGrange 85 - Sewanee 71 at Sewanee
Oglethorpe 100 - LaGrange 63 at Maryville

[FlightofthePetrel]

Interesting scores... makes you wonder which team is going to show up night in and night out.  Sewanee waxes Emory then loses to Lagrange?  Maryville beats Emory by 3 and then Oglethorpe puts it on Lagrange  by 37.  Should be an interesting season for all.

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps plays their 3rd game of the weekend this afternoon, taking on Division 1 Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond at 3:00.  Southeasterns only loss this year is a 72-62 loss to LSU and they beat Millsaps 90-67 when the teams met last year. 

Link to live audio:  http://www.lionsports.net/basketball.html

[frank_ezelle]

With 9 minutes left in the first half, Millsaps and Southeastern are tied at 21.  Millsaps has already played 11 people, making the tie score even more surprising.  I can't get the radio broadcast but the live stats are at:

http://www.lionsports.net/stats/livestats/mbasketball/xlive.htm

[frank_ezelle]

Lorenzo Bailey hits a 3 to end the first half and Millsaps trails 40-35.  Chad Songy leads Millsaps with 10 points, followed by Rogan and Bailey with 6 each.  Eight Millsaps players have scored.

Southeastern leads in rebounding 18-13, no surprise since only 3 players on their roster are under 6'5" in height.  Millsaps has hit 6 of 11 3-point shots and they'll need to stay just as hot in the second half.

[frank_ezelle]

Well it was interesting for a half.  Millsaps came out and missed their first 10 or so shots and added in at least 3 turnovers, which ended up becoming an 19-0 run for SLU.  With 11:13 remaining, it is 61-38 and it will probably get worse rather than better.  Millsaps won the two games that matter this weekend and they made it interesting for a half against a D1 school--that's not a bad three day stretch.

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps came back a little and ended up losing 73-55, so obviously the 19-0 run to start the 2nd half was the difference maker.  Songy lead Millsaps with 15, the only player in double-digits for Millsaps.  Millsaps did have 10 players with double-digit minutes played so that's a plus that the bench could come in and play fairly well against a D1 team.  The next game for Millsaps will be at Hendrix on December 1.

[mattgrubb]

Ben Pursell for SCAC Player of the year
He put it on Preseason All American Baldwin from Piedmont while being named MVP of the BSC Black tie classic

he learned from the best this summer

the grubby one

[FlightofthePetrel]

Maryville 101  Oglethorpe 70    in a game that wasn't even that close.  Murvul got to many easy points off of layups and OU turnovers. 

[DPU3619]

DePauw 81
Chicago 67

DePauw played great for the first 10 minutes or so.  They led by as many as 12.  Then Chicago rallied to cut it to 1 at the break. 

Then DePauw shot 70% in the second half.

Moore 19 pts & 10 assists.  Schott 17 & 10 reb.  Oilar 14 points.  DePauw again shot well over 50% from 3.  They're shooting 50% (47-95) from out there on the year.