MBB: USA South Conference

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Captains and the Bobcats meet Saturday at 2 pm in the Free.

[averetthoops]

AU plays Monday at 5 against Marymount.  Then we have Guilford at home on January 2nd.  Then its on to York, PA that weekend

[narch]

monarchs beat randy mac 76-69 today and will play gettysburg on monday...no box on the rmc site or on d3hoops.com - solid win for mu

[SU97]

Nice win over the weekend for SU against Mary Wash, hope some of that continues tonight at Guilford. 

PS:  I like all the talk about Averett tearing things up this year, but they still need to beat CNU in the regular season and conf. tourney.  Which is something they haven't done in like 4-5 years if I remember correctly.  They still need to find an answer to Blasingame in the paint, he was by far the best guy down low all year in '05-06. 

[hasanova]

Nice win over the weekend for SU against Mary Wash, hope some of that continues tonight at Guilford. 

PS:  I like all the talk about Averett tearing things up this year, but they still need to beat CNU in the regular season and conf. tourney.  Which is something they haven't done in like 4-5 years if I remember correctly.  They still need to find an answer to Blasingame in the paint, he was by far the best guy down low all year in '05-06. 

I just got home from the SU at Guilford game.  The Quakers won 70-58 to stay unbeaten at 7-0 and the Hornets are now 3-4.  SU is very athletic, but GC had too much height inside (Strong and Sanborn had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 7 blocks in the Center position) and Snipes got hot with 15 first half points.  A very physical game without many whistles from the officials - neither team ever got in the bonus, but there was one intentional foul on a play that Strong was probably going to dunk.  SU will win their share this year.  I wonder how long Guilford can stay unbeaten - next two games at Methodist and Averett.  We'll see ....

http://www.guilford.edu/sports/Mbasketball/2006-07/HTML/gcm-07.htm

[narch]

the monarchs win 71-61 against gettysburg...nice weekend for mu

[hasanova]

the monarchs win 71-61 against gettysburg...nice weekend for mu

I agree, very nice weekend for the Monarchs.  Should be a good game versus Guilford in Fayetteville on Dec. 30.  narch, I think you already found this information, but here's the box from Gettysburg and Methodist:

http://www.rmc.edu/athletics/stats/men_bball/mcmgu.htm

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Week 4 Power Rankings

Averett
CNU
Greensboro
NC Wesleyan
Methodist
Ferrum
Shenadoah

CNU and AU are starting to pull away.  With .4 points the difference from second to third.

[averetthoops]

Just saw the new Top 25 poll.  Averett moves up to #12 and CNU comes in at #25.  Great for the conference to have 2 teams in the Top 25!

[CNU85]

Narch,

nice win against Randy-Mac.......I think you guys are hiding under the radar!!! Gonna be fun come conference play!! Lots of really good teams this year!

[hasanova]

Just saw the new Top 25 poll.  Averett moves up to #12 and CNU comes in at #25.  Great for the conference to have 2 teams in the Top 25!

Congratulations to AU and CNU.  Of area interest from the ODAC, VWC still at #3 and the unbeaten Guilford Quakers garnered 14 points in this poll, up from 3 last week.

[notamensa]

three teams drop out of the top 25 and cnu just moves up one spot from 26 to 25, receiving one more vote than last week. i guess voters werent very impressed with the frostburg win. both nyu and north central slipped by cnu, and neither of those teams seemed to have great weeks either. for the week of 12/11-17, nyu beat a 2-7 team and north central was idle. north central did win against a 4-5 team last night but that shouldnt have been considered. but, there are only 3 votes difference between the 3 teams at the bottom, so if only one voter adjusted his or her opinion of cnu, that would be enough for the others to slip by. we need to do well against john carroll tomorrow and fisk the day after that. conference gaames start soon!

[narch]

Narch,

nice win against Randy-Mac.......I think you guys are hiding under the radar!!! Gonna be fun come conference play!! Lots of really good teams this year!

not sure how good a win that was...randy mac is just 5-4 this season...but as a monarch fan, i'll take it

Week 4 Power Rankings

Averett
CNU
Greensboro
NC Wesleyan
Methodist
Ferrum
Shenadoah

CNU and AU are starting to pull away.  With .4 points the difference from second to third.

i agree with your top 3...the bottom 4 are really tough to rank, for me, but here goes - i've given d3 wins and losses to substantiate each ranking:

4. su - 2-2 against solid d3 competition, with wins against emu (5-4) and mwc (7-1) and losses to frostburg (4-5) and gcq (7-0)

the win against mwc really stands out here, and the losses are not horrible losses

5. mu - 4-1 against d3 competition with wins against nna (0-8), baruch (3-5), rmc (5-4) and gettysburg (2-7) and a loss @ piedmont (4-5)

wins against baruch and rmc looked better in the pre-season than they do right now...vwc and guilford are next up for the monarchs, so we'll see what they're made of...i could be over-rating them because of my allegiance, but i'm also looking at the result vs. d1 gardner webb (a game which was close for all but the last 7 minutes, or so) and a solid game against naia d2 erau (ranked 6th nationally and 10-2 right now)

6. ncwc - 3-5 against d3 competition with wins against john jay (1-9), southrn vt (4-5) and york, ny (6-4) and losses to lagrange (7-4), oglethorpe (5-3), mwc (7-1), piedmont (4-5) and hsc (5-3)

the york, ny win is solid, and losses to hsc, oglethorpe, hsc and piedmont are respectable losses

7. fc - 3-2 against d3 competition with wins against piedmont (4-5), lynchburg (2-5) and huntingdon (1-7) and losses to hsc (5-3) and emu (5-4)

the win against piedmont is solid, and losses to hsc and emu are not bad losses, either

[hasanova]

narch, good work on the USASAC rankings.  I know it'll take you some time, but could I persuade you to do the same sort of thing on the ODAC board?  Until proven otherwise, I'll even give you the first team (hint - way over in eastern VA), so you only have nine more.  lol

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Narch-

Yours are solid.  They have some merit.  My "computer rankings"  although not perfect have FC and SU college at the bottom.  They are being out scored by opponents and you can't win many games in the long run if that is kept up. So the rankings show that    It is tough to rank the rest of the league after the bottom three.

I posted earlier about this power %/floor %.  MU is % is solid right now at 53% 3rd best in the conference (for an explaination see previous post.)  CNU has the best right now followed by NCWC.  AU is at 51% but because they can knock down 3's(8.11 3's a game) it doesn't really hurt them.