MBB: USA South Conference

[CNU85]

docked Karma.....that stinks....some people just can't take a joke.

the visitor seats are a bit uncomfortable...I sat up there for a few minutes one or two games to visit with players' parents.....but you can't do to much to them as they need to be 100% removable and quickly for other events like indoor track meets.

I like my chairback seats on the home side.....so if I'm really honest with my answers....I probably would say I don't care how uncomfortable the visitor seats are! 

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Thats understandable too.  They need it to be removable so the indoor track team can work on winning another national championship.

I think they are docking my karma in the men's basketball top 25 talk. I gave them four possible national champions, (and thats what I said 4 possible national champions, and they implied I said the final 4.) My post follows.

"Like I said I will give my 4 possible national champions. (In no order)

Mississippi College
Lawrence
Whittenberg
Va. (Wesleyan)

To make that call with 4 teams out of alot (I am not sure the actual number), I would consider that bold.  Hold those picks to me until the end of the year."

I did a little research when it came to making those predictions 3 out of the last 7 preseason polls whomever was in the 9-13 spot won it. (Va. Wesleyan was no exeception) 2/7 years the preseason poll the number 1 team won it.  I think i had the polls covered 5/7.

[CNU85]

Keep that post Bball......I can't remember anything 3 days later...and next March is out of the question. Good picks.....I bet out of those 4 possibles at least 2 will be in the hunt after round 2 of the tourney.

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Less than 2 weeks to the season opener! CNU vs. York (NY) in the Free (as i like to refer to it as!). Tip I think is at 730. Cant wait to see what the captains have in store for the CNU faithful this year!

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

haha Free...because tickets are far from free at the freeman center 

[CNU85]

may not be free........but the food at halftime is good! I changed my seat location this year...I wonder where I'll end up? I hope Lou doesn't get too lonely up at the camera stand when I leave!

[CNU85]

hey.....10 days and counting!!!

any word onthe cnu team this year....anybody?

[cnubbballer]

CNUs roster may surprise you a bit as to who is missing.  Couple of the big men are gone and the other one (starter) is not 100%.  I'll try to get more info, lol, however my source left the team!   They should be OK and very competitive with barton, seldon, riley and lewis.  Bench could be a little challenged.     

[cnubbballer]

Nice article in the Daily Press today with the Captains outlook.  Good luck to Matt Coleman, he'll be missed.  CNU will have no trouble scoring this year, but I think a lot of their success will depend on rebounding and defense.   Hopefully Blasingame IS 100%, it would be sad to lose 9.2 rpg when your next highest is 5.2!  I think there defense will be the key, it's nice for the guards to have Riley, Lewis and especially Blasingame's shot blocking ability backing them up.   Regardless they'll certainly light it up. 

[narch]

monarchs open the season @ d1 gardner-webb tonight in an exhibition - gwu went 17-12 last year, losing to unc-chapel hill 83-80 in their opener and beating minnesota at their place - they are a solid d1 team, loaded with juco talent (kind of like gc ), and they're huge - they've got 5 guys that are 6'8" or bigger, and one who is 6'10"/270 - should be good prep for the usasac for the monarchs

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

I wonder if anyone would be interested in doing a different kind of survior pick in here or where ever.  Rules are very similar to the one in the survior board, with the exception that you need to pick a different team each day and you can't repeat that team for the rest of the year.

Picks will be submited at the beginning of the week.  If you lose Sunday and win through Saturday you are at 6 consecutive games, etc.  Whoever has the longest streak wins at the end of the year. 

I want to try to keep it to about 10 people, just to see if it is feasible.  Is anyone interested? Tell me anything to make it work better.

MLB.com does a similar thing where they do "beat the streak."  Pick a different player everyday to see if you can beat Joe D's 56 game streak.

[narch]

monarchs fell 86-68 last night, but i saw some things i liked in the box score

#1 - shooting 45% against a d1 opponent and holding them to 43%
#2 - radmonovic had a nice night w/ 18 points, but frosh darrian anderson had 16 points (on 7-11 shooting), 4 assists (0 turnovers), 7 rebounds and 2 steals...pretty nice debut

[CNU85]

Not fair Narch!!!! You got to see some hoops already....I have to wait until the 17th!!!

[narch]

mu season preview from the fayetteville observer

[Monarch96]

Monarchs did a good job against GWU. The balance between the three levels is amazing. I know most will look at the final 86-68 score and laugh at me, but it was a 4 pt. game at the half.  the game had 7 ties and 11 lead changes.  You add that to the fact that the monarchs started 2 freshman and 2 sophmores and the future looks bright.  I will get a first hand look at the monarchs on saturday when they scrimmage Wingate U. I'll be sure to give you my assessment of the team.