MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[hendrixfan]

What ifs unfortunately don't win championships?

Yeah, I've thinking all weekend, "What if Tyler Hansbrough, O.J. Mayo, and Michael Beasley would've come to Conway?"   

[Pat Coleman]

I've been told no football in the works at Oglethorpe but lacrosse is a possibility.

[frank_ezelle]

What ifs unfortunately don't win championships?

Yeah, I've thinking all weekend, "What if Tyler Hansbrough, O.J. Mayo, and Michael Beasley would've come to Conway?"   

Now that's just being silly since all three of those guys personally told me that Millsaps was their second choice.

It's not quite so silly to wonder what Millsaps would have been like if this year's team had included Tyler Winford and Sandro Norris, teammates on the same local high school team.  Sandro did come to Millsaps, was the second leading scorer his freshman year, left for a local NAIA school when his father helped coach at that school, and then tried to come back his junior year but that didn't work out.  With Tyler, an ASC 1st team player and one of the 10 finalist for the Josten Award this season, it is my understanding that he strongly considered Millsaps.  In essences, those two players would be like adding players on par with Edrick Montgomery and Rodney Rogan to a team that made it to the quarterfinal round.  To me, it seems like two players like that added to the Millsaps roster would have made them a strong candidate for a #1 ranking and a national championship, and it really isn't so far-fetched that these two players could have been at Millsaps.

BUT, as I said in my first post and others have pointed out, there are other teams that have their own version of "what could have been".  It's just that in the case of Millsaps, the what could have been is a little more realistic than Michael Beasley going to Hendrix.

[hendrixfan]

What ifs unfortunately don't win championships?

Yeah, I've thinking all weekend, "What if Tyler Hansbrough, O.J. Mayo, and Michael Beasley would've come to Conway?"   

Now that's just being silly since all three of those guys personally told me that Millsaps was their second choice.

[Bubba the Petrel]

I've been told no football in the works at Oglethorpe but lacrosse is a possibility.

Does anyone else in the SCAC field a lacrosse team?  I ask only because I don't see lacrosse listed on the SCAC website...

[Pat Coleman]

Colorado College, Hendrix and Sewanee have lacrosse.

[tarheelfan]

As does Southwestern.

[Gray Fox]

The University of Dallas (not SCAC) has women's lacrosse.

[Pat Coleman]

Is Southwestern a varsity team? The NCAA doesn't list it.

http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=3&sport=MLA

[frank_ezelle]

I believe that Millsaps also has a club team.  It seems like I read that they will play a home match on April 5th.  (I should clarify that this is a women's team--I'm not sure if there is a club team for the men.)

[d3allstar]

Is Southwestern a varsity team? The NCAA doesn't list it.

http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=3&sport=MLA

it's club...

[tarheelfan]

Is Southwestern a varsity team? The NCAA doesn't list it.

http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=3&sport=MLA

it's club...

ok, didn't know if it was varsity or club because it just says Southwestern on Hendrix's lacrosse schedule.

[Bubba the Petrel]

Thanks for the lacrosse info, folks - y'all answered my question.  That explains why it's not included as a sport on the SCAC website.

[bballlover]

does anyone know if coach thoni resigned or was forced out?

[cush]

Yeah, i'm sure the scac likes a school in Georgia but picked this up from fox:

. One source told FOXSports.com that Centenary could wind up going the D-3 route in a couple years.


I would think if they want to go d3, they should get it going but maybe they don't have a place to land unless OU moves on. Also, not many d3 football school's in LA, so maybe they start up a program.