MBB: USA South Conference

[Monarch96]

Thanks for your thoughts. i hope the upper classman Monarchs step up this year and get it done. Radmonovich and Williams need to have a good year for us to have a chance.  Methodist always seem to come up with this player out of the woodworks. One transfer that they have should make an immediate impact in the league. hopefully he, mcdonald and lee will man the perimeter.

I guess Fisk can be an honorary member of this board, since they don't have a conference. where are the posters from other schools in the league NCW, Ferrum, Shanandoah, Averette?

[cnufan]

I noticed CNU has released its men's basketball schedule.

http://athletics.cnu.edu/Sports/mensbasketball/0607mbskd.htm

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

I believe the whole conference has schedules listed now on school websites.  Still working on getting them up on d3hoops, I assume.

[wilburt]

Can someone answer this for me?  Are D3 schools allowed 26 regular season games now excluding conference tourneys?  And 13 (half) of the 26 games must be in-region in order to qualify for a Pool A, B or C bid?

[cnufan]

I still think its 25, but Im not a 100% sure.

[Pat Coleman]

It's 25 games, and if you want to play an exhibition against a D-I team, that counts as one of the 25.

Since the USAC uses D3Scoreboard.com, when the schedules are loaded on the conference site they'll be crossposted to ours.

[wilburt]

Pat The reason I ask is that I thought I counted 26 games on Fisk's tentative schedule for 2006-07.  FYI, there are 16 games with d3 foes and 3 games with d1 foes.

13 regional d3 games

1 w/ Mississippi College
2 w/ Maryville
2 w/ Rust
2 w/ Huntingdon
2 w/ LaGrange
2 w/ Greensboro
2 w/ CNU

3 non regional d3 games

1 w/ Fontbonne
1 w/ Webster
1 w/ Otterbein

3 games with d1 opponents

1 w/ Tennessee State
1 w/ Lipscomb
1 w/ Belmont

[Ralph Turner]

Pat The reason I ask is that I thought I counted 26 games on Fisk's tentative schedule for 2006-07.  FYI, there are 16 games with d3 foes and 3 games with d1 foes.

13 regional d3 games

1 w/ Mississippi College
2 w/ Maryville
2 w/ Rust
2 w/ Huntingdon
2 w/ LaGrange
2 w/ Greensboro
2 w/ CNU

3 non regional d3 games

1 w/ Fontbonne
1 w/ Webster
1 w/ Otterbein In (adminstrative) Region #3***

3 games with d1 opponents

1 w/ Tennessee State
1 w/ Lipscomb
1 w/ Belmont

***http://www.d3sports.com/post/index.php?topic=3880.330

Here is another in-region game to give a 14th.

[wilburt]

Thanks Ralph I forgot about that new rule that places Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee in the same region.

Again, I only expect a .500 season for Fisk this year (at best).  It is a rebuilding year with a brand new head coach.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

I don't understand but Greensboro vs Guilford at the colieseum for the men's side.  Yet on the women's side Greensboro is playing at guilford.  Plus playing on different days.  That takes all the fun out of the rivalary. 

[hasanova]

I don't understand but Greensboro vs Guilford at the colieseum for the men's side.  Yet on the women's side Greensboro is playing at guilford.  Plus playing on different days.  That takes all the fun out of the rivalary. 

I think they should just drop the coliseum venue period.  It's simply too big for these schools and their fan base.  I say have a doubleheader in Hanes and Ragan-Brown and alternate years.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

nova-

I guess it isn't so much that the coliseum, that bugs me.  The fact that the games are on different days.  (I knew the girls were playing at guilford.)  We can't settle the rivalary on one night like we are used too.  (Now my nerves will be going crazy for two weeks instead of one.)

[PrideFan1986]

nova-

I guess it isn't so much that the coliseum, that bugs me.  The fact that the games are on different days.  (I knew the girls were playing at guilford.)  We can't settle the rivalary on one night like we are used too.  (Now my nerves will be going crazy for two weeks instead of one.)

I agree with you pride and nova they both should be at one location on the same day like it has been for years

[narch]

...but they don't have the Conference Player of the Year, to graduation. 

did he graduate from gc after just one semester or is it that he's just out of eligibility?

[narch]

once again, the monarchs will be road warriors, with only 11 home games - tough schedule, too, with a d1, a d2, rmc (22-7...ncaa's), catholic (21-7...ncaa's), baruch (23-6...ncaa's), m'ville (21-8...ncaa's) and either union (17-11) or gettysburg (16-9) as well as elizabethtown (15-10 last year)...oh yeah...don't forget the defending national champions (vwc), a solid guilford program (13-14) and the always dangerous peidmont (13-12) games

wow...only one non-conf game against a team with a losing record and 5 teams who went dancing last year (and one which danced last and longest) - the monarchs will clearly be tested early and often and well prepared for conference play