MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[batteredbard]

I may be going to hell for sending The Pete to an MC game without me, but fot a pitcher he's not doing too bad 8)

Alumni game was fun to watch until about 5 min left and everyone started dragging. By my tally 99-80 with eight to go and it ends up 113-96 or some such. Pace slackened. Was nice to see Golden and Blair go at each other for a change.

Kudos to Shenandoah for making me sound like I know what Im talking about on Hoopsville. Called for them to beat Guilford to put me on their band wagon and darned if they didn't do it Monday night. Guess we'll never see wjat a conf might be like with the ODAC bound Hornets.

[SU97]

Kudos to Shenandoah for making me sound like I know what Im talking about on Hoopsville. Called for them to beat Guilford to put me on their band wagon and darned if they didn't do it Monday night.

Glad to have you aboard Bard.   

[mcalumnifan]

Maryville College year after year goes to the NCAA playoffs and yes they generally lose in the second
round.  However this year they are currently 7-1.  They just defeated Translyvania University (which I watched) by 11 points.  Who last year was an elite 8 team and they just beat Wittenberg College.  Then Maryville beat Division II Carson Newman college who Carson Newman college opened up against and lost to Division I schools Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia!!!!!!!  Maryville beat Averett College which was a top 25 school and their only loss was away to Emory University.  Yes I am a graduate of MC and I will tell you that they have 2 rotating squads of players this year.  You don't beat Transy and Carson Newman D2 and aren't something.  I believe Maryville will only get better and get past the second round of the NCAA's this year.  What do they have to do to get any respect and get ranked? 

[ILive4This]

Emory is not a very good team, Beating a D2 team that played  2 D1 teams does not mean much unless the D2 team beat the D1 team...and finally a team that went to the elite 8 last year and is not a top 8 team this year again does not do much. 7-1 is 7-1 and they will get recognition when they beat some top 25 teams.

[smedindy]

Witt's not that good this year. Neither is Transylvania.

Those Carson-Newman games against D-1 teams were exhibitions. And they got smoked. However, Maryville did hand them their only regular season loss.

They will get their due if they keep winning.

[sac]

  They just defeated Translyvania University (which I watched) by 11 points.  Who last year was an elite 8 team and they just beat Wittenberg College. 

Transy is 5-3 and picked 3rd in the HCAC, and as pointed out Witt is not good 2-5.  Transy was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA's last season, not the elite 8.  Oh yeah and they graduated their 2 leading scorers from last season, and they only made the tournament because they won the HCAC conference tournament.

Then Maryville beat Division II Carson Newman college who Carson Newman college opened up against and lost to Division I schools Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia!!!!!!! 

Ok they beat a 6-2 DII, thats a good win.  But hardly that much of a rare event to see a D3 beat a D2, 13 other teams share the same victory.  But are you seriously going to use a 40 point loss to Georgia Tech and a 59 point loss to Virginia as reasons why a win over Carson-Newman is great?

Maryville beat Averett College which was a top 25 school and their only loss was away to Emory University. 

Averett was never ranked in the top 25, at best they were 27 in the pre-season poll and have since gone 3-5.

You sight Emory as their only loss, yet fail to mention they beat 6-3 Emory by 3, but then lost to the same team 2 weeks later by 11.

  Yes I am a graduate of MC and I will tell you that they have 2 rotating squads of players this year.  You don't beat Transy and Carson Newman D2 and aren't something.  I believe Maryville will only get better and get past the second round of the NCAA's this year.  What do they have to do to get any respect and get ranked? 

All of that is great but plenty of D3's have two squads of rotating players.  Keep winning and you'll get respect.  When you start unranked from a small conference with a poor tournament history, you'll always have an uphill climb.

Maryville's been eliminated 3 years in a row in the NCAA by a team that went on to lose the next game by 15, 12 and 26 

[scottiedoug]

I think one reason this year's Maryville bunch is doing well is that nobody thought they would and they have a bit of an attitude.  I hope they keep it.  It is true that national respect is hard to get and the only way to get it is to beat lots of teams, including some who are good.   That is hard to do in the South because most good regional teams won't play Maryville, so that leaves winning more than one game in the NCAA tournament. 

King, who Maryville plays on Jan. 17, beat the stuffing out of Carson Newman Monday.  That will be interesting!  Let's hope the Scots still have only one loss by then.   

[PrettyBoy]

im tired of people hatin on maryville man.  there the best team in the country and if any of u has beens dont thave somethin good to say about the 7-1 scots dont say it. bowers and orr and company r gonna lead this team to the final four u heard it hear first from pretty boy

[scotswin]

Vets,

Please do not destroy the new eager posters from Maryville.  They have obviously spoken before reading the breadth of knowledge on this board.  Be nice, maybe they will stick around and have something positive to contribute.

[coachwgh]

Well, it is evaluation time for most teams.  Only a few teams are probably happy with where they are but most all teams are second guessing decisions that could have them in a better place.  We finally made plays that got us a win in Memphis.  Rust is a good team.  They had a guy who was 1-11 from 3 going into our game that hit 4 of 9.  Add that to the fact that we cared not to rebound and it leads to a very frustrating game.  Our Oglethorpe game opened our eyes that we could be successful if we executed a game plan.  We only executed it for 36 minutes in that game.  We had a lapse in the second half at Rhodes and it was a situation where our other games got away from us.  We came out of a timeout and gave up a lay-up so I wasn't encouraged, but then we ran our stuff and got good reads for buckets.  We had a shot go under 10 seconds to tie and then got a 5 second call on the inbound.  We missed a game winner with a couple ticks left.  We hit another three at the buzzer of OT and then had a good amount of momentum for the 2nd OT.  Rhodes missed a 3 at the buzzer to tie.  This is a team that if we can get back to full strength will be fun to compete with down the stretch.  Our Senior PG, Baize has a torn ACL.  We are attempting to rehab him and give it a shot before we give in to surgery.  He feels good and definitely doesn't move like he has a torn ACL.  Our other freshman PG is out until sometime in Jan. with his stress fracture and we have a wing out until sometime in Jan. with a stress fracture.  I think the overall theme with this group is that they are finally figuring me out and what I want.  We are playing differently than previous years so even the Seniors have had a little adjustment.  The new guys are coming along, some faster than others.  I can't wait until we get back in here after Christmas and get ready for Hampden-Sydney.  Jan. will be a little nicer to us since we have 7 of 9 games at home.  Did you see the big guy for UNC-Asheville last night versus UT?  He was giagantic! 

[sac]

im tired of people hatin on maryville man.  there the best team in the country and if any of u has beens dont thave somethin good to say about the 7-1 scots dont say it. bowers and orr and company r gonna lead this team to the final four u heard it hear first from pretty boy

It has less to do with "hatin" on Maryville and more to do with correcting facts.  Everyone's going to state their case of why their team should be ranked, thats fine.  But when a post is made using obviously incorrect information its probably going to get called to task by some of the more regular posters.

Its certainly not meant to drive anyone away.  By all means state your cases.

[Spencer Beaty]

what is up with all this new blood in the board.  MattGrubb, what do you think about a possible hazing of the new posters?  Merry Christmas to all.  Chris Orr is a monster and even got a T when he savagely hung on the rim. and growled at the opposing player.

[mattgrubb]

Lets not beat up on the new guys too much, they sound young and eager and that is always exciting.  Orr did growl at the other player and then the other player almost broke him in half.  Let's not jump ahead of ourselves, The scots have had some success, they are not "there" yet.  RESPECT is earned and the program deserves respect.  the facts are they beat a good transy team at home and suspect Averett team.  They lost to a sub par emory team.  they beat the crap out of a very talented but poorly coached D2 team.

I like these new posters, they need to hang around and get rowdy with us, b/c as our scots rack up some wins, the vets will get very rowdy and in pat's ear about the top 25.

Bard, the golden dome is sick, i am glad you finally got to make a trip, it is an arena not a gym, that is why i think we need to build an arena in maryville, so the scots will be used to that type of environment.  How about a 12,000 seat Wesley Lambert Arena and Entertainment Facility, just a thought if all the maryville folks want it, i think Spencer Beaty could make it happen.

merry christmas to all you haters and lovers of maryville

Coach Haynes, stick with it, your guys are getting valuable experience, and tell the HSC guys the grubby one says hello and i hope they are still not mad at us from 2000.

Go Scots in 2008

[Spencer Beaty]

The Wesley Lambert Arena sounds good to me.

[vozdelospetrels]

Ilive4this,

As an Oglethorpe basketball fan, I hate to somewhat disagree with you about our cross-town rival Emory, but I must. On paper Emory does not seem to be a good team, nor do they appear to be a good team in person, but they aren't too bad. Yes, they have some pretty poor losses this season, and a few weak wins but lately they've picked it up. Emory is not a big team, but they play hard and they play efficiently; shoot good shots, draw fouls, and do the little things (box out, take charges). They have a new coach this season, which seriously hurts my heckling as he does not sport the mock turtle neck like their former coach, but I'm impressed with what he has done with that team especially as of late. That's just my opinion, they may prove me to be an idiot as the seaosn moves forward.