MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

brave heart · December 22, 2009, 12:31:26 PM

Depauw back on track with a 66-55 win over Earlham. After Christmas tourney in Defience OH. 7-2 Tigers need to use the paint more for scoring. They were out scored by Earlham by 10 pts in the paint.We have three nice post players that could be utilized more.Life from 3 pt range has been pretty good but that can go South on you any time.
Merry Christmas to all you posters of the SCAC.

pbrooks3 · December 28, 2009, 04:38:28 PM

Centre hits the hardwood tonight in the opener of their Papa John's/Country Hearth Inn Tournament. They'll play Emory & Henry to kick things off. Tomorrow E & H will take on LaGrange. Wednesday, things wrap up with Centre hosting LaGrange. These games will give the Colonels an opportunity to hopefully move their record to 5-4 before things really begin to crank up in the SCAC. While both E & H and LaGrange have losing records, each has played some good competition & records at this point in the season can be deceiving. I will expect three decent basketball games over the course of the next 3 days. There should be live stats offered through the Centre Athletic website, probably through the link below near gametime:

http://www.centre.edu/web/athletics/basketball_m/schedule_basketballm.html

Notice that Trinity & Southwestern are playing Midwestern teams from Illinois in their co-hosted tournament at Trinity today. SW is matched up against Dominican in the early game and then Trinity hosts Illinois Wesleyan in the 2nd game. Both SCAC teams will find Ill. Wesleyan to be a challenge for sure.

pbrooks3 · December 28, 2009, 05:21:33 PM

Southwestern has picked up another win today against Dominican 79-54. They may be the leading candidate in the west to win this season. They've got a nice rotation of bigs and wing players along with a veteran point in Anthony Cox. Cox nearly willed his team to victory in the tournament last year against Centre in the final. If they can take advantage of their home court, and win a few on the road like they've done at Trinity this season, I like their chances.

Trinity got off to a decent start today, but IWU has finally grabbed control near the end of the opening half with a 40-28 lead.

pbrooks3 · December 28, 2009, 09:33:22 PM

Colonels win 80-70 tonite. Shot the ball better which was bolstered by solid rebounding. Noll had 13 boards; Lloyd had 10. Balanced scoring w/ lots of good looks. Binder recorded his 4th straight double figure scoring game off the bench. Others scoring 2 digits were Dee Smith, Crawford, Noll & Mullaney.

pbrooks3 · December 30, 2009, 05:49:57 PM

Danny Noll is working on a nice game in the opening 20 minutes against LaGrange. He's 5 for 7 from the field with 15 points as Centre leads at the half by 12.

2 more games tonight for SCAC teams - Austin on the road at LeTourneau and DePauw playing in a tournament against Defiance.

Centre has struggled this season with consistent shooting, but Transy's upset this week of #1 Wash U is making the Colonels 8 point loss earlier at Transy look a bit better.

Hope the Colonels will seize total control of LaGrange in the 2nd half today.

pbrooks3 · December 30, 2009, 06:33:19 PM

Colonels win 71-47; Noll notches 20 and Ellis 12.

phillipst · January 02, 2010, 02:17:35 AM

Rhodes defeated Sewanee 67-42 tonight on the Mountain.

RECAP: http://rhodeslynx.com/news/2010/1/1/MBBALL_Sewanee_0101103704.aspx?path=mbball
BOX: http://rhodeslynx.com/documents/2010/1/2/Rhodes_at_Sewanee_01_01_10.pdf?id=1346

Rhodes is at Oglethorpe on Sunday.

brave heart · January 02, 2010, 08:09:05 PM

Looking for a good game tomorrow at Centre.Hope we get off to a better start than our last visit to Danville!De3pauw looks to get back on track after a disappointing loss at Defience.

pbrooks3 · January 03, 2010, 02:56:06 PM

Quote from: brave heart on January 02, 2010, 08:09:05 PM
Looking for a good game tomorrow at Centre.Hope we get off to a better start than our last visit to Danville!De3pauw looks to get back on track after a disappointing loss at Defience.

Think this will a real battle today. DePauw is in a good position to pull out a rare win in Danville if they can score from the outside.

pbrooks3 · January 03, 2010, 03:50:59 PM

DePauw has a 9 point lead at the half. They are playing solid defense and taking good shots. Centre continues its shooting woes and this game has the look of some of the earlier Centre losses. Colonels will need to come out strong in the 2nd half and not let DePauw extend the margin. If the Tigers can expand their lead in the opening 5 minutes of the 2nd half, this will put the Colonels in another tough spot. Noll has 9 points, and Steve LeMaster has 11. LeMaster knocked down 3 consecutive 3-balls late in the 1st half to help DePauw build on their lead.

Rhodes has a 5 point lead on on Oglethorpe at half. Nathan Ollie is back in the Rhodes lineup. Expect OU to come out strong in the final 20 minutes after a so-so opening half.

pbrooks3 · January 03, 2010, 04:49:52 PM

Rhodes played a solid game in Atlanta, and it took Oglethorpe down to the wire before losing 61-55.

Centre prevails in Danville 65-61. Second half rebounding was a key along with the 1-2 scoring punch of Noll & Mullaney was the difference for the Colonels. Mullaney was big in the late stages, especially some 2nd chance opportunities he took advantage of when it counted. Noll made 5 3's but another weak team effort from the arc at 25%. Bryon Ellis couldn't find a 3 today, but made 2 critical free throws in the final minute to extend the Centre lead to 4. Alex Lloyd had 12 rebounds as the Colonels outrebounded DePauw by 6; they had 18 offensive rebounds as a team.

Trinity appears ready to give Colorado College its 1st SCAC loss as that game is about to conclude - it's over 60-50 TU. Southwestern is up on Austin in the opening half in Georgetown by 9. B-S is up on Sewanee by 5 near halftime. We may be down to a single team with an umblemished conference record by the end of the day - Oglethorpe.

phillipst · January 04, 2010, 01:12:11 AM

The game between Oglethorpe and Rhodes today was a wonderful contest to be a part of with both teams truly battling it out. Oglethorpe prevailed and is the only SCAC team with an unblemished record.

Rhodes drops to 6-6 overall with a 1-3 conference record. You can always read more at http://rhodeslynx.com/news/2010/1/4/MBBALL_Oglethorpe_0104100627.aspx?path=mbball with the boxscore at http://oglethorpe.prestosports.com/sports/mbkb/2009-10/files/oum-rcm.htm

Rhodes hosts Birmingham Southern on Saturday with a 5pm tipoff following the 3pm tipoff between the women's teams.

ououou · January 04, 2010, 08:30:57 AM

the rhodes-oglethorpe game was an excellent college basketball game. the rhodes synopsis... while entertaining, left a couple of points out.
everyone knows that ogelthorpe plays a lot of zone. sometimes it seems that defense is an afterthought. it leads to not having the same number of fouls as a team that plays man to man.
while it is true that rhodes committed 13 fouls to oglethorpes 8.... four of those fouls were in the final 90 seconds. hence the wide disparity in free throws as we hit 8 in that time period.
more importantly... in a four guard offense, oglethorpe had 8 turnovers while rhodes had 16. rhodes struggled from the field shooting 2 for 19 from outside the line. that happens on a sunday road game.
oglethorpe is playing pretty well now that david allison has returned. the win ovr birmingham southern was a lot of fun. pinholster court was packed. bsc has a lot of atlanta connctions on its roster.

pbrooks3 · January 04, 2010, 09:48:10 AM

Quote from: ououou on January 04, 2010, 08:30:57 AM
the rhodes-oglethorpe game was an excellent college basketball game. the rhodes synopsis... while entertaining, left a couple of points out.
everyone knows that ogelthorpe plays a lot of zone. sometimes it seems that defense is an afterthought. it leads to not having the same number of fouls as a team that plays man to man.
while it is true that rhodes committed 13 fouls to oglethorpes 8.... four of those fouls were in the final 90 seconds. hence the wide disparity in free throws as we hit 8 in that time period.
more importantly... in a four guard offense, oglethorpe had 8 turnovers while rhodes had 16. rhodes struggled from the field shooting 2 for 19 from outside the line. that happens on a sunday road game.
oglethorpe is playing pretty well now that david allison has returned. the win ovr birmingham southern was a lot of fun. pinholster court was packed. bsc has a lot of atlanta connctions on its roster.

Oglethorpe has positioned itself nicely starting the SCAC part of the schedule. This coming weekend's road trip promises to be an exciting one for them as they get to tussle with eastern division foes Centre & DePauw. While it won't dictate things for the remainder of the season necessarily, even a 1-1 road trip would be big for OU; 2-0 would be huge. There seems to be a fair amount parity in the league this season, and a good team like Oglethorpe that can steal a road win or two against a decent SCAC opponent can gain the upper hand.

Curious about Sunday's game against Rhodes - Todd Ward scored 5 taking only 5 shots and pulling down 6 rebounds in 34 minutes. Did Rhodes stack their defense to shut him down?

Is it my imagination, or is Rhodes beginning to play better defense this year?

ououou · January 07, 2010, 01:23:33 PM

Nice observation. I don't think Todd is all the way back. He had a little scare wi5th that ankle against Rhodes and then took a shot to the face. Not to worry.... he still has his explosive moments.
Oglethorpe has a bit more depth this year and enough weapons that it has been someone different each night. As I said before, David Allison back at the point has changed the tone. This weekend is big. If you want to be considered an elite club, you have to beat the teams that have been the benchmarks.
I thought that Rhodes played effective interior defense. They controlled tempo.
I won't be shocked at all if they knock off Birmingham Southern this coming weekend. I enjoy watching BSC. The substitution pattern works for me. Any time that Aaron Parr spends sitting down works for the opposition.