MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

lammersk · December 22, 2008, 11:42:55 AM

What's up with Hoopsville? I cannot get any of the episodes to play or download.

pbrooks3 · December 23, 2008, 10:59:12 PM

Lammersk, I picked up Hoopsville live Sunday night for the 1st time this season. I had problems pulling from the recent archives, but successfully grabbed podcasts from the previous season.
I'll check this further.

Greg Mason served as the voice on southern D3 basketball Sunday night. He was good as usual and limited his remarks to the teams he knew about and had played. He highlighted the fact that Centre has played a tougher out-of-league schedule this year with a 6-0 road record and quality road wins at Franklin, Maryville, Oglethorpe and Thomas More. He also mentioned that the Colonels are a quicker and physically stronger team than last year's version. Greg has two quality bigs in Danny Noll at 6'6" and Alex Lloyd at 6'8". He complimented the whole team and the great defense being played, positive assist to turnover ratio and the much improved rebounding.
It's good exposure again for the SCAC to have Coach Mason on Hoopsville. Not only is he doing great things with Centre basketball, but he's getting some national notice, too.

Ralph Turner · December 28, 2008, 11:04:00 AM

A question about BSC...

How are they progressing thru the re-classifying process?

Is there any chance that they might complete re-classification in three years instead of four?

Thanks.

Ralph Turner · December 28, 2008, 07:01:53 PM

Halftime -- Dickinson 34, Hendrix 34.

7:25 left -- Dickinson 55, Hendrix 50.

Dickinson 62 Hendrix 55, 4:11 left.

Dickinson 64, Hendrix 61 2:36 left

Dickinson 71-62. 1:03 left.

Final Dickinson 73-64 from Livestats.

hendrixfan · December 28, 2008, 09:50:47 PM

According to the live stats for Hendrix, King scored 27 but didn't play the last 6 minutes. Foley didn't play the last 8 minutes. Neither in foul trouble. Interesting.

pbrooks3 · December 29, 2008, 08:51:15 AM

Am going to see if we can find out how Birmingham Southern is charting on its path to be reclassified based on Ralph's post.

Centre returns to the hardwood tonight hosting their annual holiday tournament against Piedmont. Hanover and Maryville hook-up in the other game. Tomorrow the Colonels have their rematch with Maryville, a young team with some nice players. I suspect Centre will have their hands full with Maryville inspite of having the so-called homecourt advantage. Interesting to note that Centre is 2-1 at Danville this season and 6-0 on the road with 4 quality regional victories. Hope to see TC Thomason have a big tournament.

Ralph Turner · December 29, 2008, 11:08:43 AM

Quote from: pbrooks3 on December 29, 2008, 08:51:15 AM
Am going to see if we can find out how Birmingham Southern is charting on its path to be reclassified based on Ralph's post.

Centre returns to the hardwood tonight hosting their annual holiday tournament against Piedmont. Hanover and Maryville hook-up in the other game. Tomorrow the Colonels have their rematch with Maryville, a young team with some nice players. I suspect Centre will have their hands full with Maryville inspite of having the so-called homecourt advantage. Interesting to note that Centre is 2-1 at Danville this season and 6-0 on the road with 4 quality regional victories. Hope to see TC Thomason have a big tournament.

If someone could complete re-classification in 3 years, I think BSC is that team.

OLD STUDENT/ATHLETE · December 29, 2008, 11:18:58 AM

I was in Atlanta for a week over Christmas, and there were several reports on the local TV news about the dire financial condition of Oglethorpe. The report stated they may loose their "accreditation". Does anyone know more about this? I hope this is not a harbinger of things to come for small D3 schools in a bad economy.

Ralph Turner · December 29, 2008, 02:08:26 PM

Quote from: OLD STUDENT/ATHLETE on December 29, 2008, 11:18:58 AM
I was in Atlanta for a week over Christmas, and there were several reports on the local TV news about the dire financial condition of Oglethorpe. The report stated they may loose their "accreditation". Does anyone know more about this? I hope this is not a harbinger of things to come for small D3 schools in a bad economy.

Thinking out of the box...

Travel in the GSAC is less expensive than travel in the SCAC.

1) Huntingdon
2) LaGrange
3) Murvul
4) Piedmont

5) Oglethorpe
6) Berry (If they go provisional in 2009-10)
7) Covenant (If they go provisional in 2009-10.)

Bingo! Pool A bid in all sports in 2015-16.

Ralph Turner · December 29, 2008, 02:15:25 PM

Oglethorpe and SACS...

AJC 19Dec08

AJC 20Dec08

Much duplicity in the two articles... $:-\$

jekelish · December 29, 2008, 05:33:56 PM

AC got back into action today against Milwaukee School of Engineering. I don't know much about MSOE other than they were 7-2 and had beaten Grinnell in a shootout coming into today's game, but AC managed to hold them off (built double digit leads several times) for a 58-54 win.

Mark Foster had 17 for AC, Kola Alade had 12 (only took 7 shots) and nine boards, and Spencer Burke had six blocks. Adam Bishop hit the game winner with 1:06 left, hitting a short jumper as the shot clock expired. AC had the ball out on the baseline, 1 second left on the clock, Bishop takes the ball out, throws it off the back of a MSOE player, picks up the ball and knocks down the jumper. Heads up play there.

pbrooks3 · December 29, 2008, 09:21:50 PM

The Oglethorpe accreditation issue is a carryover from the previous year. Essentially SACS continued the probation for another year. The timing of the economic downturn was unfortunate for OU and their efforts to get off probation.

Ralph Turner · December 29, 2008, 09:28:42 PM

Quote from: pbrooks3 on December 29, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
The Oglethorpe accreditation issue is a carryover from the previous year. Essentially SACS continued the probation for another year. The timing of the economic downturn was unfortunate for OU and their efforts to get off probation.

pbrooks, I have heard that the economic downturn and its effects on financial issues inside the SACS accreditation profile will make the reviewers' jobs harder.

Strong leadership at the Presidential level will help OU.

pbrooks3 · December 29, 2008, 09:34:44 PM

A rough night for the Colonels at home tonight. An unheralded Piedmont squad came into Alumni Gymn and shot 53% from the field to beat Centre 82-75. Colonels went cold in the 2nd half (26%) after leading at halftime by 4. Piedmont knocked down 20-22 free throws in the final twenty minutes to help salt away the victory. Piedmont won the game in the paint and outrebounded Centre by 6. The homecourt has not been kind to the Colonels this season as they are now 2-2 at Alumni. Hopefully this loss will help Centre get fired up to play well against a solid Maryville team tomorrow.

Ron Boerger · December 30, 2008, 10:24:13 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on December 29, 2008, 09:28:42 PM
Quote from: pbrooks3 on December 29, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
The Oglethorpe accreditation issue is a carryover from the previous year. Essentially SACS continued the probation for another year. The timing of the economic downturn was unfortunate for OU and their efforts to get off probation.
pbrooks, I have heard that the economic downturn and its effects on financial issues inside the SACS accreditation profile will make the reviewers' jobs harder.

Strong leadership at the Presidential level will help OU.

I tried to find something on the Oglethorpe web addressing the funding/accreditation issue and was unsuccessful. The only thing I did find was a page listing facility rentals which I guess could be one way to close the gap.