MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[snowbird]

Chris Eddy came back abot 4 game ago...played really well for 10 minutes & reinjured his leg. Don't know if/when he'll play again. Also, our "blue collar/workhorse"(Ben Farmer w/ best baby hook in SCAC) is out indefinately. Maybe it'll all come togather in Memphis. Anyway, Sewanee really needed a win & Maryville must have surely been overlooking them. I thought they looked & played a lot like Trinity who Sewanee played within three points.

[ohyeah]

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[Rose Basketball]

Rose-Hulman continued their hot streak of basketball with a 75-69 win at Oglethorpe this evening. Munchie Muskeyvalley, fresh off a share of the league player of week honors, lead the Engineer scoring attack with 20 points, while Brennan Dunville added 14.

Oglethorpe got 19 from league scoring leader Eric Dickinson in a losing cause. Andrew Tulowitzky and Terry Bailey also reached double figures with 16 and 11 points respectively.

Rose improves to 8-8 overall and 4-2 in the SCAC and will travel to Millsaps on Sunday. Ogelthorpe fell to 9-7 overall and 3-3 in the conference with the loss, as they will host DePauw on Sunday.

[frank_ezelle]

RHIT was the only road team to win last night.  Other scores were:
Millsaps 89 -- DePauw 83
Trinity 87 -- Rhodes 79
Southwestern 65 -- Hendrix 63

The game of the night was probably the game at Southwestern.  Hendrix was up 63-59 with 32 seconds to play and Southwestern didn't regain the lead until they got an offensive rebound on a missed free throw and then hit a shot at the 7 second mark.

At Millsaps, it was an offensive shootout.  DePauw shot 64% from the field and 53% on their 3's.  Millsaps shot 54% from the field and 50% on their 3's.  Millsaps used 13 players in the game and just about all of them played in both halfs with 5 ended up in double figures.  Allen Odum had 10, maybe all in the first 5 minutes to keep Millsaps in contact early.  Lorenzo Bailey had 10 on 4 of 6 shooting and he added 5 assists.  Rodney Rogan had 16 (and 6 assists) and was the offensive spark to start the second half.  Edrick Montgomery wasn't 100% but he came off the bench for 19 in 22 minutes.  Tyler Warren also had 19 and as usual he was clutch down the stretch. 

Just about everyone else contributed in some way.  Justin LeBlanc scored 7 and  took at least 2 charges--he must be the SCAC all-time leader in that category.  I remember a key offensive rebound by Brad Greenhaw and an impressive tip-in by Russell Booth.  It was nice to see a game with so many players having a hand in the victory.  And with RHIT on a hot streak, it was nice to get this win to open up the weekend--Millsaps will have to pick up their game if they want to finish this weekend with an Indiana sweep.

[scottiedoug]

Sewanee-Maryville has been a pretty good rivalry for years, although being in different conferences sort of undermines it some.  I hope someday the alignment of these conferences will make more geographic sense.  And congrats to the Tigers, who proved again why they actually play the games!

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity defeats Hendrix 81-66.  Andy Bates shot 8-10 on his way to a game-high 20 points, James Lake added 18 (6-of-8), and Ross Burt chipped in 17 and a game-high 10 boards.  Hendrix (9-8, 2-5 SCAC) got 15 from Andrew King (5-of-6), 12 each from Matt Secrease and John Paul Noland.  The Tigers hit 10-20 from beyond the arc in the win as Burt was 4-4.  TU improves to 6-1 SCAC (13-4 overall) and will remain tied with Southwestern, who demolished Rhodes by a count of 116-67 to up their record to 14-4, 6-1 SCAC. 

[Rose Basketball]

Rose-Hulman 62, Millsaps 61

Munchie Muskeyvalley scores a bucket in the lane with 5 seconds remaining to send the Engineers to their 5th straight victory. David Yarachefski added 10 points off the bench. Brennan Dunville had 10 points.

Muskeyvalley finished with a game and career high 29 points.

Millsaps lead by as many as 16 in the 2nd half.

Rose-Hulman moves to 5-2 in the SCAC and 9-8 overall.
Millsaps falls to 3-4 and 9-8.

[Rose Basketball]

Important homestand in store for Rose-Hulman next weekend as both Trinity and Southwestern come to Terre Haute.

[Ralph Turner]

Important homestand in store for Rose-Hulman next weekend as both Trinity and Southwestern come to Terre Haute.

Rose can lock in the top seed this weekend!

[Fan of the Game]

There are too many conference games left to play for anyone to lock up the top seed next weekend. 

[Ralph Turner]

There are too many conference games left to play for anyone to lock up the top seed next weekend. 

I did not say lock up. 

Sorry for the imprecision.  RHIT can move into a 3-way tie for first with the tie-breaker advantage by defeating SU and Trinity next weekend.

Then they control their destiny.

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps had the last shot in the game, a layup taken between two RHIT players who were both aggressively trying to block the shot.  From my viewpoint, it was a play that would have been a foul in the first 39:50 of a game and maybe in the first 39:55 of a game.  But, not many officials are going to make a call that results in free throws deciding the game with no time on the clock and I'm not surprised that Millsaps didn't get the call on their home court.

That being said, Millsaps actually lost the game long before the layups on either end and an official's call on the last play shouldn't have been the deciding moment in the game.  As has been pointed out, Millsaps lead by 16 in the second half.  RHIT did an outstanding job in the last 10 minutes of chipping away at the lead, hitting just about all of their free throws, and Munchie put on a great individual show.  Millsaps might have tried to milk the clock a little too much down the stretch and they didn't get a lot of good looks at the basket. 

Since Millsaps doesn't travel to Indiana this year, the weekend left Millsaps with a head-to-head advantage over DePauw and they lost the tie breaker to RHIT.  We'll see if that is a big factor down the road. 

[frank_ezelle]

Is there anyone out there who wants to give a "State of the Season" comment on their team?  With half of the SCAC season completed, things are coming into focus for the 2005-06 BB season.

Regarding Millsaps, I think the focus has to be on getting the 4th or 5th seed at the SCAC tournament.  Looking at the remaining schedule, there seems to be no remaining game more important than this Sat.'s home game with OU.  Both teams are 3-4 and OU won in Atlanta so an OU win this week would give them a 1-game lead plus the tiebreaker.  It would be hard for Millsaps to catch OU in the remaining 6 games.

The winner of the Millsaps-OU game goes to 4-4.  From there it would take some work but it's possible to finish 7-7 for the season or, with good luck and great playing, they might get to 8-6 (the remaining 6 games are hosting TU and SW and road trips to Hendrix, Rhodes, Centre and Sewanee).  The losing team this Saturday will have to play well just to make the tournament considering the 4 road games remaining and hosting the top two teams in the conference.  I hope Millsaps can find a way to get some fans out to a 3pm Saturday game.

[warriorfan]

Hendrix is ending the season with most of their games at home.  They will play Centre  and Sewanne at home this weekend, then head out to Indiana for the next two, then play the remaining three at home.  Although the Warriors have descended in the standings, I look for them to rise again here at the close.  Their loss at Southwestern was heartbreaking but showed that this troupe of young men are true Warriors in every sense of the word.  Andrew King has been a powerhouse this season.  I wonder if any other freshman in the SCAC has had such a successful and strong start as King this year.  Matt Secrease is continuing to score as is newcomer John Paul Noland.  Hendrix looks good, if I do say so myself.

[scaccommish]

Oglethorpe 93, Maryville 88 - OT