WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[hoopsfan11]

Kulavic passes Francouer as the all-time leading scorer in OU history tonight in Oglethorpe's win over Rhodes.  Congrats to Katie and all of the seniors on that team who have helped to make that happen.  What a great career that senior class has had.

[DPU3619]

Puts her about 40 shy of the all-time conference scoring record, too.

[pbrooks3]

If anyone is at the DePauw-Centre game or picking it up the audio, you might give the rest of us an occasional post this afternoon.  Thanks.

[pbrooks3]

Finally picking up DPU-Centre on the internet via WGRE.

[pbrooks3]

Centre is up 64-48 with a bit more than 5 minutes to go in the game.

[pbrooks3]

Lauren Hutter and Chelsea Goodman are leading the way for a Centre Ladies squad that is going to upset the #14 DePauw team today.  Centre is up by 19 with 2 minutes to play.

[pbrooks3]

Very impressive the way the Centre Ladies have been playing.  Other than a small hiccup at Birmingham Southern last weekend, this team is playing great basketball right now.  They now own two outstanding home wins against Trinity and #14 DePauw.  Coach Austin-Robinson has done a magnificent job meshing veteran players with youth on this year's team.

Chelsea Goodman led today's effort with 23 points, 7 rebounds and 4-7 on threes.  Freshman Maggie Prewitt also dominated the stat sheet with 18 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4-8 on threes.  Lauren Huter held up her end of the deal in the middle defending effectively against the DePauw post players.

To a casual basketball observer, the Centre Ladies are a fun team to watch.  They play 10 deep most of the time and they come after you with tenacity for 40 minutes.  Their best players are stepping up in the big games.  However, they get key contributions from everyone, and they epitomize the team concept in their play.  Any one of ten players are capable of a big game on a given night.

Look forward to seeing them play again in person at the tournament.

[pbrooks3]

Hendrix Ladies are going to win over Trinity tonight 82-76.  TU made of a game of it late by getting some 3's and forcing Hendrix into some sloppy play.  Christina Byler scored 30 for the Warriors, and Ali Marzella did the same for the Tigers.

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph:
All HOPE DePauw runs the table except Centre, Oglethorpe, & Sewanee.
Keep the posts coming.
They are great.

Centre made its opinion known.

[pbrooks3]

Though it promises to be a challenge, the Centre Ladies would like to go get one more big win - next Sunday they host the great team from Oglethorpe. The Colonels would love to play giant killer again.

[FlightofthePetrel]

While I don't think Centre will beat Oglethorpe next week... I do believe the game will be alot closer than the Petrels want.  IF Centre does well in the tournament (maybe losing in the finals) does this team have any shot at an at large NCAA tournament berth?  If they were to lose in the finals I assume they would most likely end up with a 19-8 record with wins over DPU, Trinity.  The losses to BSouthern, Oglethorpe (2), DPU, Colorado College, Transy, and St. Catherine probably ruin those chances as well as a 22 pt. loss to Thomas Moore.

It just seems like the Lady Colonels are playing tournament worthy ball right now and are peaking at the right time, but that might be mean anything because of their slow start.  It looks like most of this team is coming back next year so 2010 could be their year!

[frank_ezelle]

It would be an understatement to say that Millsaps needed a win today after a promising start to the season was sidetracked by a long SCAC losing streak.  That streak is over as the Lady Majors came out on top over Southwestern today by a 65-62 score. 

In their final game on the Millsaps home court, the 4 Millsaps seniors all played big roles in the win.  Jessica Bowie came off the bench to score a team high 19 points and she added 6 rebounds.  LaReina Adams reached double-digits with 10 points and she grabbed 5 rebounds along the way.  Tiffany Whitmore had 7 points in 35 minutes of play, but she was constantly pushing the pace and only had 2 turnovers which were offset by her 3 steals.  Crystal Dickerson had a fairly quiet 6 points, but one of those was her 1,000th point during her college career.  I she she wants at least 2 more games to add to that total.

Millsaps is now 5-9 with a road game to Hendrix left on their schedule.  Austin is 4-9 with road games to Southwestern and Trinity.  The two teams split during the season, each winning by 2 on their home court, and I don't know who holds the tiebreaker if they end with the same number of wins.  Plus, I believe a Millsaps win over Hendrix would put them ahead of Hendrix since they would have the same record and Millsaps would have won both games.

Someone smarter than me will figure it out.  Here's the link to today's boxscore:

http://www.gomajors.com/custompages/WBB/2008-09/stats/mcw08-24.htm

[Scottatlga]

Saw OU Women beat up on BSC today - it was Senior Day for 7 OU Seniors, so kind of emotional.  OU was up 32-24 at the half, but really kicked it up in the 2nd half winning 83-58.  Congratulations to Biz Richman for reaching the 1,000 point milestone! 
Tina Grace is back...after looking a little rusty on her first night back this past Friday, she poured in 21 points today in the win.  Anna Findley added 20 and reigning SCAC POTY Katie Kulavic added 7 bringing her career total to 1,503 - only 42 to break the conference career point total - Good Luck Katie!

Tough weekend coming up at DePauw and Centre, but this team is up to the challenge.

[FlightofthePetrel]

Saw OU Women beat up on BSC today - it was Senior Day for 7 OU Seniors, so kind of emotional.  OU was up 32-24 at the half, but really kicked it up in the 2nd half winning 83-58.  Congratulations to Biz Richman for reaching the 1,000 point milestone! 
Tina Grace is back...after looking a little rusty on her first night back this past Friday, she poured in 21 points today in the win.  Anna Findley added 20 and reigning SCAC POTY Katie Kulavic added 7 bringing her career total to 1,503 - only 42 to break the conference career point total - Good Luck Katie!

Tough weekend coming up at DePauw and Centre, but this team is up to the challenge.

Nice to have another Petrel on the board. +1 for you for your first post and supporting the amazing senior class that is about to close out a very memorable career!

[pbrooks3]

FlightofthePetrel, your notes on Centre are a pleasure to hear. The Ladies Colonels have definitely come a long way towards getting them back on the SCAC contender map. I think the goal of the Colonels has been met this season with the team competing and settling in just beneath what have been the big 3 - Oglethorpe, DePauw and Trinity. It's been nice to fortunately get Trinity at home this season. While I think Centre can compete with Oglethorpe at home this weekend, it probably will be their most challenging home game of the season.  OU and Centre actually have similar styles of play, and I don't know whether the Lady Colonels can match the intensity and experience of Oglethorpe over the course of 40 minutes. Centre played OU a solid opening 16 minutes in Atlanta in December; the key is whether they can maintain consistency throughout a game against one of the nation's best squads.

Of course it would be great if Centre got into the D3 tournament this season; I think the only way that happens is if they win the SCAC tournament. However, it would make a nice statement if Centre could upset Oglethorpe this coming week.

The Lady Colonels, as you've noted, have most of their key players returning next season. Two of their major players are only freshmen - Prewitt and Huter. Goodman comes back for her senior season next year. Stovall, Luckey, Tronzo and a slew of others will be back.   There are a number of up and coming freshmen as well, and with another decent recruiting season, this team will be good next year, too.