WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[OUfan22]

Can anyone supply any details of the trinity games this weekend?  Is there an internal problem going on within the team that is affecting their playing?  Any comments?

[Bob_Lotts]

Should be a good Friday night between OU/Trinity....OU can all but lock up 2nd place with a win and vice versa.  Both teams would like to stay either 2nd or 3rd to avoid the steamroller beter know as DePauw to the championship game of the tourney....

[moseshightower]

I think Trinity and Oglethorpe have all but locked up the 2/3 spot in some order.  Both have defeated Rhodes and Hendrix this year so barring a collapse by either team in these last two weekends, they both should be in the bracket opposite Depauw.  Should be a great SCAC tournament.  Both of these teams would have to face an opponent like Southwestern or Rose-Hulman early on (both of whom just beat Trinity).  On the other side, it should be another Rhodes-Hendrix classic in the first round of this tournament with the winner facing Depauw.  Rhodes has played Depauw close both times this year and with the home court and a litte more depth than last year.  The Lynx might have enough to pull off the huge upset.  That's still a few weeks away, should be interesting to see how things wrap up.  And can we go ahead and just give Liz Bondi Player of the Year honors?  She has won Player of the week honors 4 times and the SCAC tends to give the award to the top player on the #1 seed no matter what (see Argetsinger winning last year over Rohde, even though Rohde won the Jostens Trophy and was 1st team All-American).  The only other played in contention is Rebekah Forsyth who is probably the best player but with her team in 6th, she won't win.

[Ron Boerger]

Can anyone supply any details of the trinity games this weekend?  Is there an internal problem going on within the team that is affecting their playing?  Any comments?

I don't have specifics, but it's a team which lost most of last year's leaders and which has a first-year coach (in the collegiate ranks, anyway).  SW is a rivalry game and the road trip from SA to Indiana is always difficult.  Don't forget they were tied with #5 (one-loss) DePauw in Greencastle until 7 or 8 seconds left in that game.   They lost to RHIT because they couldn't hit more than 50% of their free throws, and eight missed FTs in 19 chances didn't help in the three-point loss to Southwestern. 

Must be something in the water in SA; the Spurs can't hit their FTs, either.   

[roaring0506]

I think Bondi deserves POY honor this year.  She has helped her team win 21 games this season, thus far.  As for is it locked up, I don't think so.  If you recall past years, the POY hasn't always came from the top seed.  While it's up for debate who should have received the POY last year between Argetsinger/Rohde, you could have asked the DePauw team and Trinity team, and they would have said their respective players.  In past years, the SCAC didn't give much love to DePauw.  In the year they went to the final four, only one player was all-conference.  They were first in the conference (no conference tournament that year), but she didn't when POY.  The year following, DePauw was first (seeded) going into the conference tournament, but the POY didn't come from there team.  It was H. Francouer.  So, maybe R. Forsyth does have a chance.  If you remember right, Francouer's team was towards the lower end of the bracket too. 

[moseshightower]

I forgot about Francouer.  But I think her stats were far and away best in the league while I don't think that is the case for Forsyth.  I just think Forsyth is the best player in the league, I'm not trying to take anything away from Bondi and what she has done for her team.  Clearly, Depauw is tops in the conference and she is a huge part of that.

[Bob_Lotts]

Oglethorpe ranked 2nd in first South region rankings of the year!!!!!

[SCAC_fan34]

I hear the Dorough Delinquents are comming to the TU/OU Game tomorrow. It Should be a good one.

[Ron Boerger]

Oglethorpe defeats Trinity, 82-77.  From the OU website:

The Oglethorpe women's basketball team beat Trinity University 82 - 77 on Friday night in front of a frenzied Dorough crowd prepping for Homecoming. The win lifted the Petrels to 19 - 3 for the season and a solid 9 - 2 in the SCAC, good for second place

The game between the Petrels and the Tigers opened with a frenetic pace and after only six minutes of clock time, the Petrels held a 22 - 18 advantage. The contest tightened a bit from there as both teams began to work into their offensive sets. Using a 6 - 0 run to close the half on 3 - pointers from Hannah Brooks and Erin Flynn, the Petrels led the Tigers 47 - 36 at the break.


Oglethorpe came out gunning in the second stanza and used a 12 - 6 run to take what would be their biggest lead of the night at 59 - 42. The Tigers responded with a steady run of their own and with two minutes remaining had trimmed the lead seven at to 79 - 72. Freshman Anna Findley, however, stepped to the line with 56 ticks remaining and calmly sank two free throws to ice the win.

All of Oglethorpe's starting five scored double digits in the game with Katie Kulavic and Hannah Brooks leading the way with 16 points apiece. Junior Erin Flynn added 15 points and 4 assists while Anna Findley scroed 11 points, grabbed 7 rebounds and dished out 4 assists. Biz Richmann rounded out the balanced Petrel attack with 14 points, 6 boards, 3 assists and 3 steals.

[Ron Boerger]

Oglethorpe loses today to Southwestern, 83-79.  Obviously with wins over Trinity and now Oglethorpe the Lady Pirates are starting to gel. 

[frank_ezelle]

Fortunately, there was a loss to Millsaps sandwiched between those two big Southwestern wins.  The Millsaps victory moves them into a tie with Sewanee and Millsaps holds the tiebreaker, having won at Sewanee in the only meeting between the two teams this season. 

With a win at Hendrix this Friday, Millsaps would clinch a tournament berth if Sewanee falls at Southwestern.  It would also leave Millsaps in a position to pass Hendrix in the tournament seeding if the Majors could manage a victory at Rhodes on Sunday.

[frank_ezelle]

Friday's results found Millsaps, Centre and Sewanee all losing on the road and today these three teams will be playing road games against teams that have beaten them once already.  The odds are that the standings will remain the same and I think that would put Millsaps in as the 8th seed since they have the tiebreaker over Sewanee. 

IF I'm not mistaken, Sewanee will be the 8th seed if Centre wins and the result is a 3-way tie at 3-11 so Centre can still be a factor but they have been eliminated from going to the SCAC Tournament.  If that doesn't happen then Millsaps goes to the tournament unless Sewanee wins at Southwestern and Millsaps loses at Rhodes.  Earlier in the year SW won the road game to Sewanee 59-56 and Rhodes won 78-63 at Millsaps.

One certainy is that the 8th seed will play 24-1 DePauw, a team that has seperated itself from the remainder of the league this season.  The men's tournament this year seems like it will be wide open but the women's side looks like DePauw all the way barring a major upset.

[Ron Boerger]

One certainy is that the 8th seed will play 24-1 DePauw, a team that has seperated itself from the remainder of the league this season.  The men's tournament this year seems like it will be wide open but the women's side looks like DePauw all the way barring a major upset.

Frank, remember that Trinity had DPU tied up coming down the stretch in Greencastle - I think until DPU hit a three with 7 seconds left.  IF the TU women can control the demons that have caused so many close losses this year, they might be able to give the nationally ranked Tigers another run for their money. DePauw has to be considered the prohibitive favorite ... but there is quite a rivalry between the two programs - funny things can happen.   Rhodes also played DePauw tight, losing 69-64 at DPU.

[Ron Boerger]

Southwestern 55 Sewanee 45 FINAL
@Trinity 80, Centre 52 FINAL
Oglethorpe 48, @ Hendrix 40, halftime
Millsaps at Rhodes, underway

1. DePauw 14-0
2. Trinity 10-4
3. Oglethorpe 9-4*
4. Rhodes 8-5*
5. Southwestern 7-7
6. Hendrix 6-7*
7. Rose-Hulman 6-8
8. Millsaps 3-10*
9. Sewanee 3-11
10. Centre 2-12

* - excluding final game

I believe that with the win today, Trinity clinched the #2 seed.  If I understand the SCAC's tiebreaker correctly you start at the top of the seeds and go down until you find that one team did better than the other.  Oglethorpe and Trinity split their head-to-head matchup; both were 0-1 against DePauw, but Trinity was 1-0 against Rhodes while Oglethorpe was 1-1. 

[scaccommish]

Seeds for tournament:
1)DePauw
2)Trinity
3)Oglethorpe
4)Rhodes
5)Southwestern
6)Rose-Hulman
7)Hendrix
8)Millsaps

Brackets for both men and women can be found at:
http://www.scac-online.org/bballtourney