MBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

pbrooks3 · November 22, 2008, 09:09:53 PM

Centre up at the half 32-26.

pbrooks3 · November 22, 2008, 10:03:14 PM

The Colonels lost a close one to Transy tonight. Transylvania scored 13-28 on 3's and it appears they outplayed Centre in the 2nd half. Danny Noll did not have one of his better games, scoring but 4 points, all from the foul line. Turnovers were also an issue for Centre tonight. I had secretly hoped the Colonels could get through the opening three games with at least 2 wins, and they've succeeded. A little surprised the loss came at home, but games with Transy are traditionally tough regardless of the venue. Perhaps someone who attended tonight's game will post an analysis of the action.

tarheelfan · November 23, 2008, 04:58:17 AM

Hendrix handled RHEMA 79-67.

frank_ezelle · November 23, 2008, 06:17:58 AM

Saturday was an interesting day in SCAC Men's basketball:

DePauw falls to Wabash 57-52.

Oglethorpe defeats Swarthmore 93-70.

Rhodes falls to Westminster 68-57.

Colorado College goes down in defeat to Chadron State, 82-61.

Millsaps loses at Loyola-New Orleans 57-54. I was following this game and Millsaps was behind by about 20 at the half and their second half rally fell just short as they missed 2 3-pointers at the end that could have tied the game. I believe Loyola is ranked or was ranked #24 in the NAIA polls.

Trinity lost an OT heartbreaker to Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 71-70.

Southwestern took a win over Schreiner, 58-41.

Centre lost to Transylvania, 65-63 (and I couldn't come up with a vampire play on words this early in the morning)

Hendrix beat Rhema 79-67.

Austin gets their first win of the season with a blow out of Hardin-Simmons, 79-56.

I believe that 4-6 for the SCAC on Saturday. The wins were all by double-digits and 4 of the 6 losses were by 5 points or less.

OLD STUDENT/ATHLETE · November 23, 2008, 09:00:15 AM

Although the box score may not show, the Centre-Transy game was one of the best games I have watched in a long time. The score was within 3 or 4 most of the game either way with Transy having a 12 point lead at one time, and Centre being up by 9 at another time. Transy prevailed with experienced players and great 3 point shooting. They will go far in their league. Centre's great 6th man from last year, Chris Gowers, is injured, and when he returns they will be a better team. Their 6-8 Sophmore Alex Lloyd continues to improve as well as their highly recruited 6-1 Freshman guard, Jeff Mulaney. Other freshman are adapting to Coach Mason's system, and will help soon. They will be very good later in the season. Sounds like their coming game with Oglethorpe on Dec. 7 will be very tough.

Walter17 · November 23, 2008, 01:58:37 PM

Trinity had a great showing last night against #6 UW-Stevens Point, but came up just short of the win, with a 70-71 defeat in overtime. Sophomore Luke Caldarera knocked down a few huge shots down the stretch (one being a buzzer beater in regulation to send it into overtime), but came up just short with a buzzer beater at the end of overtime. He really showed that he will be an elite player at this level.

I am very excited for what the season has in store for this Trinity team. A motivated Mary Hardin-Baylor comes to San Antonio Tuesday and will be a great test for the Tigers on how they bounce back from such an emotional game last night.

pbrooks3 · November 23, 2008, 04:30:26 PM

Quote from: OLD STUDENT/ATHLETE on November 23, 2008, 09:00:15 AM
Although the box score may not show, the Centre-Transy game was one of the best games I have watched in a long time. The score was within 3 or 4 most of the game either way with Transy having a 12 point lead at one time, and Centre being up by 9 at another time. Transy prevailed with experienced players and great 3 point shooting. They will go far in their league. Centre's great 6th man from last year, Chris Gowers, is injured, and when he returns they will be a better team. Their 6-8 Sophmore Alex Lloyd continues to improve as well as their highly recruited 6-1 Freshman guard, Jeff Mulaney. Other freshman are adapting to Coach Mason's system, and will help soon. They will be very good later in the season. Sounds like their coming game with Oglethorpe on Dec. 7 will be very tough.

Old Student / Athlete, good to have your presence back on the board. Agree that Oglethorpe is shaping up to be the next biggest game on Centre's schedule. Oglethorpe is off to a nice start. Their weekend games in PA were not against stellar opponents but were nonetheless against competitive squads and on par with some of the mid range teams in the SCAC.

Didn't catch much of the particulars on the Trinity UW- Stevens Point, but it sounded as if it was a great game. Perhaps someone will post more details on the SCAC board on this one.

The game of the weekend last night was #2 Augustana hosting #1 Wash U. I caught the final several minutes on the internet. It went to overtime, and it was exciting until the final buzzer as Washington U pulled it out.

pbrooks3 · November 23, 2008, 04:33:26 PM

Quote from: Walter17 on November 23, 2008, 01:58:37 PM
Trinity had a great showing last night against #6 UW-Stevens Point, but came up just short of the win, with a 70-71 defeat in overtime. Sophomore Luke Caldarera knocked down a few huge shots down the stretch (one being a buzzer beater in regulation to send it into overtime), but came up just short with a buzzer beater at the end of overtime. He really showed that he will be an elite player at this level.

I am very excited for what the season has in store for this Trinity team. A motivated Mary Hardin-Baylor comes to San Antonio Tuesday and will be a great test for the Tigers on how they bounce back from such an emotional game last night.

Thanks for the post, Walter17 - guess I missed it when I was responding earlier to Old Student / Athlete. I am thinking at this juncture of the season Trinity is back and ready to win another SCAC title.

Walter17 · November 23, 2008, 05:00:10 PM

No problem.

It was a terrific "back and forth" game with neither team holding a lead more than about 6 or so. It was one of those games with one big shot after another. As a fan of basketball, you couldn't ask for a better game. Although it was a loss, it was a great game for Trinity.

pbrooks3 · November 23, 2008, 09:33:55 PM

Walter17, this may be a campaign for Trinity similar to Centre's last regular season. Moon and Houston are very fine senior players. While they are different players than Britt and Nestheide from last year's Centre team, there are some similarities. They both are capable of helping make their supporting cast better players. I am glad Centre doesn't play in San Antonio this season.

Walter17 · November 24, 2008, 10:41:49 AM

haha, that would be nice to go undefeated in conference play, but Centre's run was an extremely special one. I'm not sure if that will happen too frequently. I agree that Moon and Houston are special players. I don't know if I've seen a better perimeter defender over the last several years in the SCAC than Houston. If this group can consistenly bring the type of effort they did against UW-Stevens Point Saturday, then they are more than capable of winning any game they go into. What Centre's group last year did was take care of the teams that they SHOULD beat. That's often what gets to good teams. They don't concentrate as much on the "lesser teams."

I'm looking forward to how this group performs night in and night out.

pbrooks3 · November 24, 2008, 02:34:48 PM

Agreed that what Centre accomplished in the regular season last year was special. I wasn't inferring Trinity would duplicate the undefeated SCAC regular season Centre had; only that Trinity perhaps had the horses to win the SCAC tourney this year. In retrospect, Millsaps achieved bigger in 2007-08 with an elite eight finish in D3 and the SCAC tourney crown.

kid nice · November 25, 2008, 12:14:27 AM

Frank,

I went to the Millsaps and Loyala game over the weekend. I really liked the way they fought in the game. It would have been easy for them to lay it down at half time on the 2nd night of a back to back. They didnt and I bet they surprise some people in conference play. How does the point gaurd, who I really liked, tough, smart, and can shoot it, stack up with other point gaurds in the conference.

frank_ezelle · November 25, 2008, 11:04:57 PM

I can't really compare Chad Songy to the other SCAC point guards. While the coaches get to see film and really analize each player in the league, the typical fan only sees the other teams once or in some cases not at all since the schedule isn't a pure home-and-away setup.

I do know that Chad is extremely valuable to Millsaps and that they are counting on him heavily this year. He reminds me a lot of my nephew Travis who played at Millsaps when they went to the NCAA tournament in 1999 or 2000. That's a compliment that I wouldn't give to many point guards.

pbrooks3 · November 25, 2008, 11:38:43 PM

I only saw Songy play twice last season. I'd seen him 3 or 4 times the previous year. In my book he made great strides in his game last season. To me, he seemed like the 2nd most valued player on the court right behind Montgomery. There were other very nice players on the court for Millsaps but Chad and Edrick were the keys to leading the Majors to the Elite Eight the way I saw it.