MBB: USA South Conference

[hasanova]

Taylor replaced by Arte Culver. Former assistant @ Wheaton College.

I can look it up, but which Wheaton ... Illinois or Massachusetts?

[bballlover]

Sorry, My Bad. Illinois.

[scottiedoug]

MC Scots edged Centre.  Pretty typical MC-Centre game...early season ball pretty well played for teams figuring out who is who.  Both teams loaded with freshmen and sophomores.  Scots are undersized and relied a lot on 3's.  Worked out but it is not a great plan.  Unclear who are scorers but there are several contenders!  Garcia, Songster, Boyer.... maybe Spicer.  Nice work by Chris Watson in the post...he played very little last year.  Anybody else there?

[Ben Stein Fan]

Coach Wallace has LaGrange off to a nice start.  It will be interesting to see what happens when the Panthers travel to Maryville for thier first conference battle.  The surprise team, for me, so far is Covenent. Could this be the year that LaGrange wins the conference and tournament championships in the same year?

[scottiedoug]

Well the young MC Scots had LaGrange on or near the ropes all afternoon.  Lots of Scots scored. LaGrange is supposed to be the team to beat.  The Panther press bothered the Scots in the second half but as long as the Scots can shoot that well, they are fun to watch.  Live by the 3 and die by it.  They best not get too in love with it.

[mattgrubb]

The combination of Michael Corleone and Vito Corleone, Michael (Placeres) has to translate b/c these millennial definitely don't understand 75% of the things Vito (Lambert) says, are 7-1 at the break.  It takes any normal person at least 18 months to learn to speak Murvul.  Things haven't been this good since, well I guess Placeres was a player.  It was a nice win for Vito to beat his student who has surpassed him b/c the Scots will never get an at a large bid out of the USA South.  Murvul actually came out and stunned Lagrange and the panthers couldn't recover athoughl the maker of men and disciple of defense woke them up at half time.  Good win for the scots.

The Corleone twins had a great game plan against BSC yesterday and a nice win.  The scots have 6 legitimate perimeter players.  If they had one more strong low post player their practices would be a straight D3 game but Colt Nokes is a man beast.  Ive offered him $20 to slap the taste out of Jack Roberts' mouth.

It wasn't the same Lagrange/Murvul match up b/c the best looking of the 4 coaches McGreal has moved to Penn State Altoona as the head coach and is doing the usual big things that Murvul guys do.  The maker of men/disciple of defense look some what lonely on the bench without his soul mate.

Congrats to Randall "Vito Corleone" Lambert on career win #666   While he has won most of those games due to his incredible good looks as he can lure any recruit with his pure aesthetics, he has actually coached in some of those wins. 

Michael and Vito Corleone prove one great principle in life, Hair and brains don't mix.

[Ben Stein Fan]

Congrats to Maryville for a conference win at home, but don't get too carried away.  Coach Wallace will have the team ready for when the Scots make the trip to Lagange.  I watch some of the Covenant action last night and I have come away with the USAC just doesn't play defense.  Until then, we will be only a one-bid conference league.

[scottiedoug]

The young Scots played real defense for a while against BSouthern.  Maybe they can do it for most of a game if they get the idea that you cannot hit the 3 every time you try but you can win anyway if the other team does not score.

[Ron Boerger]

Future conference member Berea gets featured by ESPN's twitter feed for a game-winning half-court buzzer beater (against the SAA's Birmingham-Southern):

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18266084&ex_cid=espntw&sf46378037=1

[Ralph Turner]

Future conference member Berea gets featured by ESPN's twitter feed for a game-winning half-court buzzer beater (against the SAA's Birmingham-Southern):

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18266084&ex_cid=espntw&sf46378037=1

Wow!

Mileages in the USA South are gonna look like the ASC!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Future conference member Berea gets featured by ESPN's twitter feed for a game-winning half-court buzzer beater (against the SAA's Birmingham-Southern):

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18266084&ex_cid=espntw&sf46378037=1

Wow!

Mileages in the USA South are gonna look like the ASC!

Not until they add UMPI as a member!

[Ben Stein Fan]

As a graduate of Berea College and LaGrange College, I cannot wait for the two teams to meet on the court. 

Lagrange is heading way down south to take on Susquehanna (D3Hoops.com #18) and then Hartwick.  It will be nice for the Panthers to come home with two wins and give the USAC some national exposure. Lagrange looks to be the quicker and more athletic team.  The question is can Lagrange score in half-court sets and cut down on turnovers.  If so, Lagrange can pull off the upset.

[bballlover]

It will be a real test for Piedmont this weekend as they start the conference schedule @ WPU and then @ Ferrum.

[hasanova]

Final Guilford 90, NC Wesleyan 62, Dec. 17 in Greensboro

Led by Carson Long (19) and Alston Thompson (16), the Quakers (7-2) never trailed against the Bishops (7-4).  It was 15-13 GC after a made three-pointer by NCWC, but then Guilford went on a 16-0 run to effectively set the tone for the rest of the game.  It was 46-28 at the half and GC had a 39-point 2nd half lead before the reserves finished it out.  Guilford's next games are Dec. 29-30 versus the Albion (MI) Britons and the Bridgewater (MA) State Bears, respectively.  Greensboro plays BSU on the 29th and then Albion on the 30th in Guilford's Ragan-Brown Fieldhouse. NCWC played at High Point on Friday night, so they could've had tired legs ... I think they are better than this loss would show at first glance.

[Hawks88]

Huntingdon hires Guilford Associate Head Coach Caleb Kimbrough as Associate Head Coach and to replace Mike Pugh as Head Coach when he retires at the end of the 2017 season. Looking forward to seeing what he can do with the program.

http://www.huntingdonhawks.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20160602hd9xb2

After an 0-10 start Mike Pugh has announced his immediate retirement and Caleb Kimbrough will go ahead and take over as head coach at Huntingdon.
http://www.huntingdonhawks.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20161230jaijwh