MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

ohyeah · March 03, 2006, 08:37:28 PM

i guess maryville decided to show up tonight. hopefully they will show up tomorrow as well and prove some doubters (including myself) wrong.

actually, i hope mississippi gets upset and then I will take Maryville for $100.

scottiedoug · March 03, 2006, 11:35:57 PM

ohyeah: Even if the Scots do not "show up" Saturday, they already have proven the bigtime national posters wrong. One was to be "flabbergasted" if Maryville beat Trinity. Another had Maryville as "toast" against Trinity.

scotswin · March 04, 2006, 08:09:37 AM

That is an impressive win for the Scots. I believe that makes 8 straight years with a win in the tourny as well!

I just checked out Miss. College's recent scores. They have had few wins with less than 10 point margins. If the Scots can keep it close, Miss. will be playing in unfamiliar territory.

ohyeah · March 04, 2006, 11:02:47 AM

that is incorrect, Maryville did not win a game in the tourney last year. They lost a 2nd round host game to Mississippi College.

GSAC Killer · March 04, 2006, 01:04:59 PM

yes we did... oh yea cmon now... your supposed to be a Scots fan.. We beat Methodist by 25..
Good luck to the boys tonight...
Both the girl and the boys play Top 10 teams in the country and teams with only one loss... A trip to the sweet 16 on the line... Lets hope we both bring our A games....
7pm tonight...

mattgrubb · March 04, 2006, 05:14:40 PM

Again the grubby one is prophetic, i said after the sewannee and oglethorpe losses that we might not be able to handle the worst of the SCAC, but looks like it will be another 1st round victory over there best, while it wasn't their best it was close and we dominated.

Got a tough one against MC tonight, if the scots win i am going to beat up my friend that played there after the game

Spencer Beaty · March 04, 2006, 07:34:31 PM

Once again the scots are turning heads and making believers. Look for someone other than Bo Mason to have a breakout game. Mississippi will be gunning for bo and that will leave chaney or bobby with the big game. Look for a close game hopefully how bad did fisk get beat by mississippi college

Ralph Turner · March 04, 2006, 07:55:19 PM

Quote from: Spencer Beaty on March 04, 2006, 07:34:31 PM
Once again the scots are turning heads and making believers. Look for someone other than Bo Mason to have a breakout game. Mississippi will be gunning for bo and that will leave chaney or bobby with the big game. Look for a close game hopefully how bad did fisk get beat by mississippi college

MC 88, Fisk 75.

http://www.d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=48920

Ralph Turner · March 04, 2006, 08:35:53 PM

We ASC fans have postulated about how hard it is to play in Mississippi. Here are the posts.

I could postulate numerous theories about the difficulty of winning in Clinton.

--The Mississippi Mud theory...
--A different requirement for certification courses for officiating basketball in Mississippi...
--Road Weariness...
--the Bayou Voodoo theory.

The response by Mississippi College fan, Millie... and my replies in italics...

Hey Ralph,

You left out he wind currents in the Golden Dome...2 years ago that was the problem..

Oh I forgot about the wind currents!

i am not sure about the Mississippi mud...Clinton is on the high side of the Miss River..

But the mud is readily available for use by the locals.

Road weariness...there is only 1 team that does not have a long way to come...just like we do every other year.

You use it to your advantage whenever you can!

But, the Bayou Voodoo...wrong state... in Miss it is not a bayou...it is a creek...bayous are in Louisiana ***

"It's the voodoo that you do" a Rod Stewart cover for those really romantic nights with the lovely bride, but I digress!

i agree about the refs...they are bad no matter what side you are on

Well what ever it takes, mud, voodoo,or wind currents...Mississippi College will need all of these things to line up for them this weekend.

***Ya'll be careful and drive safe coming through Louisiana...

Murvul has taken control of the game, leading 24-22, with 2:55 left.

Spencer Beaty · March 04, 2006, 08:56:51 PM

murvul leads by 2 at half

scottiedoug · March 04, 2006, 11:51:46 PM

Well here we are again, not able to get by the Choctaws. One of these years....

wilburt · March 05, 2006, 01:13:16 PM

Articles on the MC-MC game:

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/SPORTS030105/603050326/1085

http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/231790

wilburt · March 05, 2006, 01:30:55 PM

Great season guys...

Funny, I did not realize that 20% or 5 of Fisk's 25 regular season games were against teams that made the NCAA d3 tourney [Randolph-Macon, SUNY-Farmingdale. Mississippi College, and Maryville (2)]. Plus games against D1 TSU, Top 25 ranked NAIA Crichton and Top 10 ranked NAIA Trevecca, made for a tougher regular season schedule than one initially thought...

Hope to have some GSAC recruiting news for you later in the summer!

Spencer Beaty · March 05, 2006, 02:10:29 PM

Man we played em tough but this was the telling tale that we really needed monte. They wouldnt have been able to double bo everytime he go the ball cause monte can knock the threes down. Man, but thats how it goes cya guys next year.

Love,
Spencer Beaty

carlweathers · March 05, 2006, 03:16:37 PM

I don't know whether Huntingdon deserved to be in the tournament or not but saying that Trinity didn't deserve to be in based on one game is absolutely ridiculous.

This is a Trinity team that beat Howard Payne (the ASC-West champions), beat Virginia Wesleyan on the road (The ODAC champions), won their conference regular season by 2 games. They may have performed poorly in their last two games but no reasonable person can say that they didn't deserve to be in the tournament.

In the regular season Maryville was 2-2 vs the 3rd, 7th, and 9th place teams in the SCAC while Huntingdon was 2-3 vs the 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th place teams in the SCAC so I don't want to hear about the GSAC "houses of pain" and I don't want to hear that the SCAC getting two teams in being a travesty.

This point of this post isn't to take anything away from Maryville or Huntingdon. Both had great seasons and Maryville had a great NCAA tournament and definitely beat Trinity but...

Trinity was not the last team in the NCAA Tourney and was totally deserving of their bid so please look elsewhere when trying to fit Huntingdon into the tourney field.

Quote from: Big Dog on March 03, 2006, 08:36:56 PM
Huntington and your team. I have to apologize by saying not only did you deserve to be in the tourney, you deserved to be playing somewhere tonight. Please don't hold anything against Maryville and the Scots. Coach Lambert has spoke glowingly about your team. However, tonight's spanking of Trinity irks me that Huntington was not in and Trinity got in. Trinity and their 20-6 record, 12-2 in the conference, GSAC guys we all know that Trinity would not have fared well in the GSAC's multiple houses of pain, Maryville, Huntington, and Fisk. The SCAC getting two teams in the NCAA is a travesty. The GSAC only getting one is an even bigger injustice. When will folks learn that the eight straight years of Maryville College going to the NCAA's speaks to the truth the SCOTS spoke tonight in Miss. SCOTS crush Trinity, flood the court with reserves, and speak directly to my apology, Huntington belonged in the field.