MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[bballlover]

Emory has won 5 of 6. Should be a good one at the Cave tonight.GO LIONS

[mattgrubb]

Coach Haynes
You are behind the 8 ball.  Lambert and Wallace have already started recruiting William Andrew Wallace as PG recruiting class of 2028. He was born last night. Now Coach Haynes, i am saying you are behind the 8 ball, not out of the picture.  If he likes you, i would allow him to play for you.  he is an intelligent PG who rebounds and defends well.
Current measurements
6lbs 8oz
20 inches long
born at 10:17 last night.
Go Scots

[bkbfan30]

Congrats!! but Ive heard the "fake scots" want and need him now!
Lets get a debate goin-do the Scots run the table and host a 1st round? I say yes-they are starting to shoot it now and I believe they have come back to earth a little after playing Guilford-RDL saw top that.

Watts I hear your dad is still undefeated up the road-good thing you don't coach because you would screw up what your grandad and dad are doing-ha

[scottiedoug]

I think that even if the Scots run the table they will not host.  They do not play a schedule of D3 teams that compares with what the ODAC and ASC schools do.  And there are only two teams nationally that will get Pool B slots.  Chapman is one and they are nationally ranked (although they do not play a competitive schedule either) and Elms is having another good year.

If the Scots lose a game or two, they may not even get in.

[mattgrubb]

My son would lead the fake scots in assists today...book it

Of course Dad Walsh is ballin at the newman, it runs in the fam

The scots are not entitled to an NCAA tourney bid, do they think obama is going to hand them one?  No, they have to earn it and the bottomline is they will have a good record but so far they are 1-2 against ranked teams.  Not very impressive to a selection committee.  I think this is a good team with a lot of weaknesses.  toughness, leadership, flow of their motion consistent shooting, and they have an ego they are not willing to back up.
There are 2 types of players, the guy who tells you how good he is to get you to play him and the one who tells you how good he is to try to get you to not play him, this team seems to be the latter and i know that is not the way they were in 92, 00, or 04.  There were guys in 92 and 00 they would love play with no one there to witness strictly for the pride.  The past teams would go to the other teams gym and smack them in the mouth, not hope that somebody was coming to MC so they had an advantage.  I am not advocating fighting or anything like that, but the great ones always have a chip on their shoulder.  these guys don't have a chip, they have PDA's and ipods, and all the nice things.

They will need to change somethings before i bring my son to the game.  I want him to learn by seeing the right way to do things.  Setting the family trend, RDL will have the scots in the hunt at tourney time, but these guys are going to have to earn it themselves.

[scottiedoug]

This will not help, Grubby:

http://www.maryvillecollege.edu/athletics/news-detail.asp?sportNameID=5&id=3324

National rankings in statistics against mediocre opposition does not mean much.  The only thing worse would be not to have good stats.

My sense is that the seniors who play a lot are the most committed to the playthegame attitide Grubby favors.

[old_lion]

Nice win for the Lions ...

http://www.piedmontlions.com/news/2010/1/16/01_16_10_mball.aspx?path=mbball

The 3-ball was falling ... and a 22 to 8 assist to TO ratio will win you some games.

But, where was HC's Frazier?

[scottiedoug]

Speaking of missing persons, where were Jordan and Maverick @ LaGrange?

I am looking forward to seeing the Lions.  Whodathunkit.

[scotfan]

Speaking of missing persons, where were Jordan and Maverick @ LaGrange?

I am looking forward to seeing the Lions.  Whodathunkit.

According to RDL on the radio postgame show, Jordan was out with a stomach virus and Maverick was out with a concussion.

[bballlover]

Frazier was not on the pregame roster.

[scottiedoug]

Here is a posting from a couple of our friends in Bumblin' B's in Multi-Regional topics in men's bb that has all the GSAC teams' ranked using strength of schedule and records.  These rankings will be important in the decision about which 2 teams get Pool B bids to the NCAA.    That is pretty much the only way in for GSAC teams although in theory some team could get invited as a Pool C team.

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=2870.1740#msg1162194

Just in case you do not pursue this lead, I feel obliged to point out that a GSAC school is ranked #1 nationally in the B's category.  Three guesses....

[mattgrubb]

if i was a scot in 2010, I would just win the whole dang thing.

[old_lion]

Speaking of missing persons, where were Jordan and Maverick @ LaGrange?

I am looking forward to seeing the Lions.  Whodathunkit.

According to RDL on the radio postgame show, Jordan was out with a stomach virus and Maverick was out with a concussion.

Murvul has so much depth, missing a couple of guys just doesn't make much difference.

It was nice to see Laverdiere get some major minutes and an opportunity to shine.  I have always felt that he is overlooked and underrated.

http://www.greatsouth.org/sports/mbball/GSACM09/HTML/11610mcm.htm

[old_lion]

Regarding conference only stats ...

I've always said that even over the full conference schedule (an extensive 6 games ...  ), that conference only stats are drawn from much too small of a population of data to have any valid statistical relevance. 

That is why giving them any sort of serious consideration ,as opposed to the full season stats, is so statistically ludicrous.  But, I digress ...

That disclaimer aside, my point is, for all you PC faithful out there ... you might want to take a look at them now.  Heck, print them out and frame them.  We've never looked this good, relative to the rest of the gsac.

Hey, if the gsac brain trust can decide post season honors based on 6 game schedules, then I can get excited about our dominance early in the grueling gsac schedule. 

http://www.greatsouth.org/sports/mbball/GSACM09/HTML/confonly.htm

[mattgrubb]

bout time my scots got some votes in the top 25
we know they are not the number two team in the country, obviously
but they deserve a little love