MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[cuabigdog]

congratulations to Coach Dickman and Hood College for making the tourney in your first year  in the  CAC.. best of luck to you all in the NCAA's ..

[Matt Letourneau]

Unless, of course, you happen to play Catholic again...

[Matt Letourneau]

WEEEELCOME TO DUFOUR NCAA'S!!!!!


Catholic will host the Regionals--Coming to DC are Messiah, Lincoln and Alvernia.

[njlincolnlion]

There should be some interesting games as the three PA teams that met last year in the first round visits D.C.  Alvernia, Messiah, Lincoln, and CNU played first round games at Lincoln last year.  This year CUA host the "PA-3".

Hopefully Lincoln's Coach Yuille will have the  Lions focused, since this will be the "last hurrah" for Lincoln in division 3.  As Pat Coleman fondley says Lincoln will be moving down  to d2 (provisional) next year, and a full d2 schedule in the 2008-2009 season competing in the CIAA.

[njlincolnlion]

Another take on the "three versus one" scenario has Lincoln as the only non-religious based institution playing in D.C. this weekend.  Alvernia (Franciscan) and Catholic are Roman Catholic schools with Messiah (well the names speaks for itself)  .

[Matt Letourneau]

I really don't think its too much of a factor.   Messiah is obviously from a much different religious tradition than Catholic and Alvernia.

Those that are Catholic, though (and even those that aren't) may enjoy visiting the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, which is one of the largest churches in the Western Hemisphere and is located on the CUA Campus.  The Basilica is the"mother church" of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and is just down the street from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

http://www.nationalshrine.com

[cuabigdog]

Hey Matt..

Don't forget . we also have the National Cathedral  downtown.... for anyone who's new to the area and want to venture down there

                              www.cathedral.org

[southbender10]

Congrats to Hood! Its only the 4th season they have been playing with a mens basketball team and they are into the Division III tourney!!! I think that there first round game against sydney should be a good match and both teams have a good chance of moving on. Good Luck Blazers!

[Pat Coleman]

That is impressive, and it's one of the stories that's getting lost in the crossfire here.

[Matt Letourneau]

Yes, that is true.

I think the Hood-H-S matchup is intriguing, too.  I assume Hampden Sydney would not have gotten a Pool C bid and is one of the lower seeded teams.   They have a pretty poor QoWI. 

Neverthess, would you want to play them if you're Hood? I don't know--that's a program with a lot of poise and experience.  Hood is probably a better team, but they have to be careful to avoid "Just Happy to Be Here" syndrome, especiailly when you take the court at VWU against H-S.  Probably a little intimidating.

Now, I'm not saying I expect that out of Hood, I'm just saying that sometimes it happens with teams that don't have much history going up against storied programs. I remember when SUNY-Old Westbury (and Hood is way better than that team, so I'm not comparing) showed up to play Catholic in 2004, they stood in the gym for 5 minutes staring at the National Championshp banner.   That carried right over to the game--stood around watched Catholic play for 40 minutes and got blown out.

I don't expect that from Hood, particularly because I doubt Coach Dickman would even let that happen, but I'm just saying that they've got a tall order.  They've already accomplished so much that it will be impossible to characterize this season as anything but a success no matter what.

[Pat Coleman]

If I'm Hood, yes, I want to play them. Because it means I am in the tournament.

[southbender10]

What Hood needs to do is go in there and have a " Nothing to lose" attitude. This is the first time they have been there and they have no pressure to have to beat anyone. They need to come into the game and just play basketball and do what they do.

[rebeltiger]

I hope it will be a good game b/w HSC and Hood.  Impressive to get to the dance in just 4 years of existence.  You are correct...HSC would not have been a Pool C team.  They got hot at the right time to win the ODAC.  They lost their best player and only real inside presence to a torn ACL at Christmas.  They were inconsistent even before then....but it looks like they hit their stride.

Fill us in (on the ODAC board would be great) about Hood.  From a peek at their roster, looks like a good senior guard and junior big man.  I don't know a thing about them or the team, but gotta believe I'd be pulling hard for them if they weren't playing HSC as kids who took a chance to build something are obviously getting some reward for their work building the program.

[smcmsid]

All-Conference Teams were released this morning...

http://www.cacsports.com/mbasketball/weeklynotes/2007mbballcac.pdf

[Salem, VA]

Hood will give anytime a lot of matchup problems with there big man in the middle.  He is a no doubt first team all-conf and maybe player of the year...He is smart with the ball and gets a lot of easy buckets.