MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[scottiedoug]

So LaGrange beats Sewanee by a lot and Sewanee beat Methodist, which is picked as the cream of the USA SOUTH.  Maybe there are several GSAC teams that are seriously competitive this year, despite Coach Haynes' poormouthing.

[coachwgh]

LaGrange will not have any live broadcasting or updates of our tournament this weekend but we have a great place to visit. 

I wish the A beats B, B beats C, so A beats C would work in college basketball but it is just way to unpredictable, much like my team.  We played well defensively in all three games so far, but Tuesday was our offensive explosion. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

[wilburt]

Mr. Grubb

FYI, UT Asst. Coach Tony Jones and FISK Head Coach Coach Larry Glover were teammates at FISK in the late 1970s.

I have to take issue with you on characterizing the SCAC as a sissy conference.  It is a fine conference with very high academic standards. As I have noted in previous posts, FISK used to be a member of the SCAC during the 1980s and early 1990s.  We regularly finished in the bottom half of the conference standings during that time, except for one year we lost to Centre at home in the last regular season game (no conference tourney during that time) that cost the Bulldogs the SCAC championship and the NCAA automatic tourney bid.   

Finally, I would not read too much into FISK playing TSU better than D2 Carson-Newman.  Although this may be Coach Glover's most talented team since he has been Head Coach, but the Bulldogs still have a LOT of work to do, if they want to win the GSAC (ie: beat Maryville and Huntingdon) and possibly compete for a NCAA tourney bid.
 
IMHO, the games against ranked Mississippi College and ranked Randolph-Macon and tonight's game against (3-0) Millsaps will really tell me where the Bulldogs stack up, rather than the TSU Game.

[Ralph Turner]

Wilburt, Fisk's game against Wesley MS may give us a comparator for Mississippi College, unless Wesley is too weak to use.

Good luck!

[mattgrubb]

William
Could we see a Fisk UT preseason match up?
When was the last time a SCAC team competed with maryville late in the year(centre is always tough early at centre)
And here is your trash for the day, Randy lambert would dominate a 1on1 tournament of GSAC coaches!  who is your money on

[wilburt]

Mr. Grubb

I don't think FISK can compete with a SEC team like UT. So don't expect that matchup anytime soon.  How about Maryville versus Tenn. Tech? That's a regional matchup that could appeal to some East Tennessee people.

1 on 1 tourney with GSAC coaches, I'd have to go with Coach Haynes on that one, or maybe Coach Duckworth. I think Coach Haynes is the youngest of all the GSAC Head Coaches.  I have to go with youth and vigor on that 1 on 1 tourney.  I think Coach Haynes could run circles around Coach Lambert in a 1 on 1 game 
 

[mattgrubb]

William
I agree, Lambert is aging
Look at Hope's new arena, i think Fisk should build something very similar and then they could get some good D3 teams to come to Nashville.  WOW

[mattgrubb]

i just got done looking at LC's schedule and it is sick, that is what Lambert needs, they have ODAC, ASC, HCAC, SCAC, all kinds of games, good for you panthers, you won't win a lot of them but the experience will certainly help build your program it will pay off and allow your underclassmen to learn how to compete in D3 and make the conference better
Fisk has also done an excellent job scheduling, the rest of the conference is getting to see the D3 teams that Maryville has been seeing for years in the national tournament

[mybleedinghands]

anyone know who won the Lynchburg vs. Huntingdon game???

[Ralph Turner]

Matt, I reviewed the Maryville schedule, Coach Lambert has assembled a very good South Region Schedule.  It will be reasonably challenging.

Comparing it to LaGrange, and I agree with your assessment that Coach Haynes has a good schedule as well, Maryville has the same opponents, Oglethorpe, Emory, Sewanee, Centre and Rust.

LaGrange has ODAC's Lynchburg, SCAC's Hendrix and Millsaps and South Region independent, UDallas.  There are no ASC opponents.

Maryville picks up USASAC's at Averett and Methodist home and away, a very good Transylvania (2).  No ASC teams either.

[wilburt]

Can't wait for the GSAC regular season to start!   

Grubb I think we can get some teams to come to Nashville to play if we do a double header with Tennessee State.  For example, FISK would play Mississippi College in the first game of a double header at the Gentry Center followed by  a TSU game with and OVC opponent.

I think that would work, until the new gym is built.

Ralph Turner, FISK's game with Wesley is not a good barometer of anything...

[wilburt]

Fisk 70, Millsaps 68

Courtney Ellis scored 21 points to lead visiting Fisk (3-1), which shot 50.9 percent in the Cabot Lodge Turkey Shootout game. Rodney Rogan topped the Majors (3-1) with 15 points.

Looks like a tough road game for Fisk, but a great win.   It was the Bulldogs 2nd game in less than 24 hours.  (1-0) in the South Region with upcoming South Region games on the road against Mississippi College and Randolph-Macon.  If Fisk can get to (3-0) in the South Region then we can legitimately stake our claim as a Top 25 team, but that is a BIGGGGG IFFFFFFFF.... 

With wins against Sewanee, Centre, Millsaps and Oglethorpe I think the GSAC should have about a .500 record against the SCAC teams

[mattgrubb]

William
I think that is a great idea of playing a doubleheader with TSU.  Also, good job on beating Millsaps.  The scots pounded Rust this weekend, I guess the standout performance was from Blair off of the bench, but an all around good performance by the whole team

[wilburt]

Trevecca 86 FISK 80

The Bulldogs (3-2) lost a heart breaker last night in the last few seconds against a (6-0) NAIA DI Trevecca Nazarene team that returns 6 players from a (25-8) team that went to the NAIA Sweet 16 last season.

I hope these games (TSU, Trevecca et al.) help the Bulldogs later in the season because these "scholarship teams" do things faster, quicker, and stronger than a lot of D3 teams the Bulldogs will play this season...

[njlincolnlion]

Wilburt:

I know all about the heartbreaking losses.  Lincoln lost by 1 at Albright on a last second shot, to give us our first loss.  On the bright side, we've beaten two DII teams (Salem International and Cheyney), and last night beat Randolph Macon at home by 23 pts  .  We have to back to R-MC on 12/18/05 for a tourney, and if we meet the Yello Jackets again, I sure they will be thinking about "payback".

Go luck to the Bulldogs for the rest of the season.