MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

Millsaps defeats Huntingdon 68-60 on Saturday afternoon.  Rodney Rogan was the leading scorer with 18, Allen Odum had 14, Lorenzo Bailey 12 and Chris Sander 11.  It sounds like they didn't play as well as they did on Friday but it's nice to go on the road and get two wins.

Next up for Millsaps will be Rhodes College at Rhodes on Saturday.

[JeffRookie2]

Is anyone at Trinity broadcasting the Trinity/Amherst game tonight? If so, could you provide a link?

[Pat Coleman]

Doubt it. There's a chance they might be broadcasting the game against Amherst tomorrow, however.

[tusid]

Trinity will indeed have a webcast and live stats available for the New Year's Eve game against Amherst.  I just put the links on Trinity's site for anyone who might be a little over-anxious.   

The webcast stream is active, but there will be no sound/activity until a few minutes before the game.

[frank_ezelle]

To add to the post on the Trinity game:

--Game starts at 4 pm Sunday afternoon.
--Amherst is ranked 2nd in the country.
--Link to Trinity site:  http://www.trinity.edu/departments/athletics/index.htm

[JJFlash]

I'm looking forward to listening to the Trinity - Amherst game today.  Although the Tigers won each of the last two nights, playing 3 games in 3 days will make it tough for them.  Even playing at home, they have to be considered the underdogs.  Let's see what happens!

[Ralph Turner]

+1 tusid!  Thanks!

[Ralph Turner]

Amherst 66, Trinity 54.

That is not very impressive for the #2 team in the country.  Respectfully, Top 25? Yes. Top 10? Maybe! Top 2? No!

Live Stats

This is still a 2-possession game until 6:34 when Amherst's Andrew Olson hits a 3FG to extend the lead to 54-45.  This very young Trinity team stayed with McMurry (3 1/2 weeks ago) until McMurry finally took the lead with 3:45 left on the way to our 75-62 win.  (And we are hurting without our starting point guard!)

I like the comment about whether Amherst would be undefeated playing ONU's, Witt's, Wooster's or UW-SP's schedule.

Good job, Trinity!  Good luck in SCAC play!

[Li'l Giant]

I went to the Amherst-Trinity game. (Quick aside: I saw a t-shirt on an Amherst fan that said "Amherst : Williams :: Chocolate : Poop" That's high quality smack there.)

The two halves were fairly similar. The play was physical. In each half, Trinity would play close, and then Amherst would start hitting shots, especially from outside, and pull away.

Starting the second half Trinity came out on a tear and the play was even until, as Ralph said, they pulled away the last 6 minutes.

Thought it was a pretty good game, though. Trinity answered the physical play, but Amherst's outside shot was just too much.

[Ralph Turner]

I went to the Amherst-Trinity game. (Quick aside: I saw a t-shirt on an Amherst fan that said "Amherst : Williams :: Chocolate : Poop" That's high quality smack there.)

+1 Karma for the smack! 

[David Collinge]

I went to the Amherst-Trinity game. (Quick aside: I saw a t-shirt on an Amherst fan that said "Amherst : Williams :: Chocolate : Poop" That's high quality smack there.)

I love chocolate.  But I really don't think I could live without poop, when it comes right down to it. 

[Titan Q]

An article about Pat Cunningham and Trinity from the Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph...

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/01/02/sports/doc459738838dfa4508848078.txt

[Ralph Turner]

An article about Pat Cunningham and Trinity from the Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph...

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/01/02/sports/doc459738838dfa4508848078.txt

Trninity's endowment was $733M in 2005 or #79 of the 746 college and universities that report to the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

In D3, Trinity's endowment is exceeded only (in ascending order) by Carnegie-Mellon, Yeshiva, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Pomona, Rochester, Grinnell, Cal Tech, CWRU, NYU, JHU, UChicago, Wash StL, Emory, and MIT, and Middlebury was #80, Oberlin #82, RPI #87, Bowdoin #92, Wesleyan #94, Carleton #97, W&L #98, Hamilton #99, Macalester #100 and Brandeis #102 at $519M.

[carlweathers]

Amherst 66, Trinity 54.

That is not very impressive for the #2 team in the country.  Respectfully, Top 25? Yes. Top 10? Maybe! Top 2? No!

Trinity might have actually made it hard on Amherst.  It is a possibility.   Trinity normally controls tempo pretty well so it can be hard to blow the game wide open.  A 12 point win in a 66-54 game is more impressive than a 12 point win in a 112-100 game.

Also, the measure of the #2 team in the country isn't just their margin of victory in a single game, or even their average margin of victory.  Amherst might not be the second best team in the country but it is hard to definitively state that because they only beat Trinity by 12, on the road, after a three week lay-off. 

Just a thought.

[scottiedoug]

Ralph:  Do you think these endowments are related in any important ways to the "discounts" athletes in D3 can get off the announced costs of tuition and board at D3 schools?  I cannot help but think that schools with big endowments can more easily make it possible for anyone, not just athletes, to manage the costs of attending schools that theoretically are in the $30,000 and up range.  It could follow that big endowment schools can get players that less wealthy schools cannot.  I am not suggesting, necessarily, that anyone "cheats" on their academic standards, but of course that is possible.