MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[allsky7]

Old_Lion:  Nobody authorized me to apologize for a fellow MC fan, but I do anyway.  I think it is ridiculous for the GSAC not to have five all conf. players and for Jake Green not to be one of them.  We all agree that the GSAC on the men's side in bb is not much of a league but that is no excuse for a newbie to act out and contribute to the correct impression that even scots fans occasionally can be short on class. 

     OL.....as a former Fighting Scot living in VA with connections to the ODAC and USA South, I would be happy to see MC headed to VA more often. It has been nice in football to be able to catch them more than just on my annual pilgrimage to Honaker Field. The only thing better IMO, would be if they could rejoin the ODAC as it was back in the day. (not likely) I am of the biased opinion (as posted previously) that they never should have left.
     That being said, if in fact the move comes to past, I certainly hate to see the others suffer as a result. I was excited and hopeful that the GSAC would be absorbed into the USA South. I have family in the Atlanta area so it may even have been possible to expand my horizons and visit some schools that I haven't had the opportunity to see before.
     My hats off to you for keeping your cool in responding to MCFL's post. He/She is certainly entitled to their opinion but you can say things with a little more tact and class.  8)
     Haven't seen MC hoops since the famous H-SC game a few years back. I WILL be in Salem in 3 weeks if I have a reason to be. How about it Scots?
     GO SCOTS!!

[old_lion]

To all my Murvul friends, I appreciate the kind words.

Good luck in the tourney.

[GSAC Killer]

Scots do it again! Watson is special! Hopefully we get to host. Great season again by RDL's gang!

Jake was a good point guard and should have been on the All GSAC team. Note to old lion: Those who know basketball, know that Jake was class act and was a 1st Teamer!

Good luck to all in the off-season!

[mattgrubb]

Scots at Millsaps with a possible rematch with Mary hardin baylor in the second round.

NCAA committee,
could we please go somewhere besides jackson MS for the tournament.  It is a great town, but we go every year.  A change of scenery would be nice.
thanks
The Grubby One

Go Scots

[fcnews]

What's the chances of getting a big plate of mudbugs in Jackson? Fontbonne will have a fan charter bus arriving on Friday so there will be a Griffin contingent. Does Jackson turn out for these kind of events?

[old_lion]

Scots do it again! Watson is special! Hopefully we get to host. Great season again by RDL's gang!

Jake was a good point guard and should have been on the All GSAC team. Note to old lion: Those who know basketball, know that Jake was class act and was a 1st Teamer!

Good luck to all in the off-season!

Killer,

Good to hear from you ... appreciate your comments.

I agree whole heartedly. To me, the irony of that statement is astounding ... considering that, apparently, the selections were made by coaches. Wow ... that is an unsettling thought.   

You pure PGs have to stick together ... you are a rare and special breed. 

[Ralph Turner]

I enjoyed Coach Lambert's interview on Hoopsville.

[Spencer Beaty]

Wow seems like we got a tough section of the bracket.

[scottiedoug]

Here is the DailyTimes' article today about the Scots' trip to Jackson:

http://thedailytimes.com/article/20080304/SPORTS/698136149

[Spencer Beaty]

I think it is kinda crazy that three conference champions are in the same pod and that Centre and Millsaps both host.  I guess we gotta beat 'em eventually.

[Pat Coleman]

Being conference champions are about the only thing Fontbonne has in common with Mary Hardin-Baylor and Millsaps, Spencer.

[Spencer Beaty]

Well that doesn't make me feel any better considering we won't even play Frontbonne cause they will lost to MHB.  The Scots gotta keep their streak of advancing to the second round alive.

[batteredbard]

Now that I've arrived back after taking a detour to Fla. post GSAC tourney (No I didn't get that lost leaving Demorest it was planned)

I was impressed Piedmont had as many students as they did at the tourney as spring break started on Friday. There were some minor admin things that might have made it easier but under the circumstances I thought the tourney went fairly well. So kudos to PC.
Unless I've miscounted or somehow they have decided to let one of the female-only schools host a tourney without men's locker rooms, I think it goes to Maryville next year provided everybody hangs together.

I still think its fuzzy logic to send Maryville 8 hours to jackson when Greensboro (Guilford) and Centre are so very much closer. But it makes as much sense as Piedmont women getting Oglethorpe, a team they played regular season, rather than one of the other two teams who neither OU or PC had played. So I take it either great respect that they wanted to avoid putting MC in with Guilford or Centre thinking they'll advance to sweet 16 or somebody saying "hey these guys must be close to Jackson, they're there every year" while looking at last year's bracket.

Lastly. For those who did listen to Lambert Monday afternoon on Hoopsville. I heard him restate a comment I heard from other ADs at the tourney about a possible new member from the juco ranks that  is 3-4 years away at best and a possible application to D3 thats expected sooner. That still would leave the men a team short  of an AQ unless the unmentioned school that has a split personality between AD and Prez decides to come in to make seven.

I heard several mentions about waiting to see what happens with the partition vote but I still need convincing that if accepted and the split happens that the south region conferences will see much shake up. In fact it could make some of the other regions a little more appreciative of the scheduling issues and travel cost the south and to a greater extent the west region have been dealing with for years. RDL didn't rule out the merger option but said it was something that would be looked at on both sides this year, so even in best case it falls 09-10 season so its still after the partition vote.

[Ralph Turner]

Bard, this bracket was specifically designed with the concept of geographic proximity in mind.  Millsaps was within busing distance to three, and only three, other bid winners.

UMHB is only within busing distance to Millsaps.  I think that UMHB is the #1 because they are playing Fontbonne.

I think that Millsaps is #2; Maryville is #3 in this bracket.  Maryville has tourney tradition.  Millsaps doesn't.  Let's see if Millsaps' senior leadership carries thru.

[old_lion]

       OK.....now let me see. It is the GSAC all conference TEAM is is not? The sport is basketball is it not? There are 5 positions in basketball are there not? Not 9 like baseball....not 11 like football....not 4 like Tibetian Yak wrestling.    Hmmmmm........perhaps there should be 5 spots on each basketball all conference T-E-A-M?  The question should be how many T-E-A-M-S do you want to honor. Sure seems logical to me. Who gives a rats rear end that there are only 4 teams in the GSAC.  If two more honorees to make a full 1st and 2nd team are going to ruin the entire lot, then perhaps there should only be a 1st team. 

There are 5 positions in basketball are there not? Not 9 like baseball....not 11 like football....not 4 like Tibetian Yak wrestling.    Hmmmmm........perhaps there should be 5 spots on each basketball all conference T-E-A-M? 

All right, allsky. By introducing logic into this discussion, you taken things in a whole new direction ... I like it.

You touch on another interesting angle ... positions.

On a typical all star baseball team, do they select 5 outfielders, 2 first basemen, and 2 catchers on the 1st team? Of course not.

On a typical all star Tibetian Yak wrestling team, do they select 1 left Yaksman and 3 ball twisters? I don't think so ...

Hmmmm ... Well, maybe on each basketball T-E-A-M we select, we should pick 2 bigs, 2 wings, and a PG ...

Nah ... They'd never buy that ... makes way too much sense. 

Hey allsky,

Check this out ... another group of 4 DIII teams picked their post season awards and handled it differently.
Compare and contrast to the gsac SNAFU ...

It seems the GABCA covered all the logical bases ...

1) For the anti-dilutionist ... they picked a 1st team ... so that could mean something.  (Pat has to like that.)

2) For those of us who believe in handing out a few more attaboys to recognize the accomplishments of these amateur athletes ... they also recognized 6 honorable mentions.  Attaboy! 

3) And finally, for all the fans of logic out there ... the first team even works position-wise ... one PG, one post, one wing, and two versatile guys who could play either a wing or inside. Nice ...

http://www.piedmontlions.com/News/mbball/2008/3/4/03_04_08_mball.asp?path=mbball

To see the complete GABCA all-state awards ...

http://www.gabca.org/