MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

As is the norm, not much is going on with the SCAC board.  I watched the Mississippi College-Millsaps scrimmage yesterday and I didn't come away with a lot of info on either team.  They played 3 20-minute periods with a liberal amount of subbing by each team so you couldn't get a feel of how the teams would match up in a real game.

As for MC's high ranking, I think that D3 Hoops has them at 21 which seems more realistic than those who have them in the top 5.  MC has talent and tremendous depth but I don't know if they have the one or two outstanding players that you usually see on a top 5 team.

Millsaps definitely has some new players who will help and they seem to be more balanced this season on the offensive end.  I won't be surprised if they get a consistent 30-35 points per game from the 4 and 5 spot along with an equal amount from the 1, 2 and 3 positions combined.  They had a lot of 3 point shooters last year and it looks like they had added more this year but the key will be keeping the big men healthy and out of foul trouble.  With the lack of depth and experience at the 4 and 5 positions, they just can't afford an injury or a player having to sit for long stretches of a game.

You can click on the link in my previous post to get to photos of the MC-Millsaps scrimmage.

[Coach C]

Frank -

Just about everyone is thin at the 4-5 spots, so Millsaps is not that different then most teams I see all over the country.  if you have 3 guys who can contribute at those positions, you are really doing well in my opinion.

C

[carlweathers]

Frank -
Just about everyone is thin at the 4-5 spots, so Millsaps is not that different then most teams I see all over the country.  if you have 3 guys who can contribute at those positions, you are really doing well in my opinion.

I count 4 on Depauw's roster. 

[warriorfan]

Hendrix will be in the mix this year, if their two scrimmages are any indication.  They beat Williams Baptist in the first scrimmage by 12 and hung hard and fast with University of Central Arkansas (d2 last year, d1 this year) loosing by 13.  It was a totally different look from years past.  Coach Priest was up and at em the whole time and there were actually players filling the bench--I believe we had 14 total.  Some of you may remember last year when we only had about three or four extra players!  I heard that we have a transfer from UCA and a transfer from Rhodes as well as a D1 transfer. 

[Ralph Turner]

Warrior Fan, I believe that UCA is still D2, participating in the Gulf South Conference.

http://www.uca.edu/uca/athletics.php

[hoopnation]

Trinity has two scrimmages this coming week: Texas Luthren and Mary Hardin-Baylor.

[Rose Basketball]

Rose-Hulman will scrimmage against Wash. U (Nov. 6th) and Wabash (Nov. 13th).

[warriorfan]

Warrior Fan, I believe that UCA is still D2, participating in the Gulf South Conference.

http://www.uca.edu/uca/athletics.php

They are in the process of becoming D1.  I'm not sure how all of that works.  That's the talk around here and it has been discussed in the paper. 

Hendrix will be traveling to Monroe, La to get a spanking Tuesday night.  I know teams and players get better by playing up, but what does as D1 team get by playing down?

[scaccommish]

2005-06 SCAC Men's Preseason Predicted Order of Finish posted at:

http://www.scac-online.org/basketball_mens

[Rose Basketball]

Thanks, Sid.

Rose-Hulman should be an interesting club to watch this season. On paper, they certainly appear to be a middle-of-the-pack club. Anytime you lose players like Ludwig, Griffith, Ballinger, and Cusic, and then unexpectadely lose Kareem Lee and Brian Bibb to retirement and academics respectively, you are going to struggle.

However, with Munchie Muskeyvalley and Brennan Dunville set to provide leadership to almost new Engineer club, they have a shot to surprise some people. Junior's Jason Bednarko and David Yarachefski will be looked upon as contributors this season. As will Sophomore's Jared Moore and Ron George.

I am looking forward to another fantastic year of SCAC Basketball. Hopefully Rose can have a successful run in this, their last year as a member of the conference.

[carlweathers]

The SCAC press release is incorrect.   Trinity lost four starters from last years team.  Andy Bates started every game last year averaging 10.2 ppg and was second in blocked shots and tied for third in assists. 

[warriorfan]

Arkansas State University (d1) played an exhibition game against Rhodes College last week.  The local paper referred to Rhodes as a d2 team for two days straight and I was told by someone who went to the game that they continued to refer to Rhodes as d2 during the game.  Anyway, Rhodes did lose but from what I heard they looked pretty good and shot the trey quite well.  The local ASU fans gave ASU, the home team, a B for their effort in the first half and a C for their second half play.  Rhodes came out with a better effort after the half and closed the margin.  Sounds like Rhodes may have a pretty good team this year, according to some of the ASU fans that watched the game.

[Rose Basketball]

Ok, time for everyone to list whom they feel will be the projected starters for each school in the SCAC this season.

Rose-Hulman, at this point, is looking at......

G Munchie Muskeyvalley, 6-0, Sr.
G Jason Bednarko, 6-2, Jr.
F Jared Moore, 6-3, Soph.
F David Yarchefski, 6-6, Jr.
C Brennan Dunville, 6-7, Sr.

[DPULefty22]

Now that our Bell is gone and the football season is over, it's time to turn our attention to hoops... but in the State of Basketball, you could argue that our attention never really wavers.

Your 2005-2006 'starting lineup' (Coach Fenlon will probably use roughly 10 different starting fives this year):

PG - Michael Moore, Fr
SG - Reid Sakel, Jr
SF - Alex Stewart, Sr
PF - Brian Oilar, So
C - Steve Schott, So

This is what the Tigers went with in their scrimmage against Evansville - they gave the Purple Aces a game thanks to some impressive shooting from the perimeter but ended up losing by 9.

[warped]

ANYONE GOING TO THE UMHB / TRINITY SCRIMMAGE IN SAN ANTONIO?