WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[DPU3619]

A nice little win, that one.  I think Denison might be a pretty darned good basketball club in the North Coast this season.  Ought to be a dandy of a ballgame when the Big Red host Wittenberg right after New Year's.

[roaring0506]

Pat,
What's the likelihood that the "Scoreboard" section will go back to its original form with the ranked teams at the top and then the rest of teams in an ordered fashion.  It is really hard for me to read this new format with the games scores shown by game time.  Just wanted to know if this format is going to stay like this for the rest of the season, or if we're going to go back to the original way.

Thanks for the information.

[Ralph Turner]

Pat,
What's the likelihood that the "Scoreboard" section will go back to its original form with the ranked teams at the top and then the rest of teams in an ordered fashion.  It is really hard for me to read this new format with the games scores shown by game time.  Just wanted to know if this format is going to stay like this for the rest of the season, or if we're going to go back to the original way.

Thanks for the information.

Pat was trying to affect that change.

In the off-season, he linked up with D3scoreboard.com, the company that handles scores for the SCAC.

I am sure that he is trying to work out the programming issues to make the site better.

[scaccommish]

SCAC Women's Hoops Weekly for Week 2:

http://www.scac-online.org/basketball_womens/112706wbasketballupdate.pdf

[moseshightower]

Just noticed Lauren Andrews is back on the Trinity roster.  She was the starting point guard for the Sweet 16 team Trinity had a couple of years ago and sat out last year with a knee injury.  She should have a pretty big impact on the Tigers.

[Borat...NOT]

Trinity will add two players to the rotation tonight.  A freshman girl from the soccer team will also be on the bench for the first time. 

Anyone seen Rhodes in action this year or have any reports on what to expect?

[roaring0506]

Borat, were you at the game last night to see what happen to Rhodes.  I see that 38 turnovers happened, but was TU defense suffocating, or did Rhodes just make mistakes? 


DePauw tips off conference play this afternoon when they host Centre at 1:00 PM.   Go TIGERS!

[Borat...NOT]

Roaring, 

        Trinity came out a different basketball team after the half.  The defensive effort picked up which led to some easy baskets.  Not only was Rhodes turning the ball over but they weren't making shots when they got them.  Trinity opened the 2nd half on a 28-2 run.  The Tigers really looked energized by the return of Lauren Andrews.  She continued where she left off 2 years ago.  Rhodes wasn't a very deep basketball team and it looked like they got frustrated and their energy level dropped off. 

[roaring0506]

DePauw 101
Centre 48

DePauw team stats:
56.1% FG (37-66), 82.1% FT (23-28), 14 OB, 20 Steals

DePauw individual stats:
Liz Bondi - 30 pts, 11-12 FG, 8-8 FT, 2 asst, 4 steals, 1 block, 1 TO (21 min)
Suzy Doughty - 7 pts, 6 asst, 4 steals (21 min)
Emily Marshall - 14 pts, 6 rbs (21 min)
Gretchen Haehl - 12 pts, 4-5 FG, 4 asst, 1 steal, 0 TO (15 min)
Andrea Travelstead - 9 pts, 5 reb, 5 steals (15 min)


It was a total team effort this afternoon.  DePauw just dominated.

[DPU3619]

It was a total team effort this afternoon.  DePauw just dominated.

I really thought Centre might be a little better this season than they were last year.  They had a boatload of turnovers today and DPU had a ton of points off the break.  Liz Bondi was absolutely insane today with her 30 points.

DePauw had a chance to get some youngsters some playing time today with Bridget Bailey still on the shelf and Jenna Fernandez not playing.  Emily Marshall looked very good today while Andrea Travelstead had a very nice day in the post off the bench for Coach Huffman. 

The scary thing is that this DePauw team might be better than they were last year.  The post is at least 5 deep in quality players.  Bondi, Bailey, Fernandez, Marshall, and Travelstead all look like very good scoring threats.  It's also a typical DPU backcourt with Doughty, Lowes, Pruzin, both Haehls, and McGonigal. 

This DePauw team is going to make another serious run at a national championsip this year in my opinion.  They're really freakin' good.

[roaring0506]

I would agree with you DPU3619.  This team is a lot deeper than last years team, but only time will tell.  DePauw has already shown they can have some off-games (Illinois Wesleyan-who actually, is a really good team that I believe is 4-0 right now).  The thing DePauw needs to do right now is take each game one at a time (which I think they do seeing that in every article in the newspaper, a player quotes that they "can't look to far down the road", and not get complacent.  The strength of this team is their experience, and refusal to lose.  This team (from top to bottom) HATES losing... and even when they win, they look as if they aren't satisfied.  Plus, they do with with class. 

The post players on this team are as strong as they've been in years - and like you said DPU3619, there's a lot of youth.  Here's what they're doing right now:

Liz Bondi (senior) - 16.7 ppg (65.6% FG), 5.8 rpg, 1.5 steals (23.3 min/g)
Jenna Fernandez (freshman) - 10.0 ppg (53.8% FG), 3.4 rpg, (20.8 mins/g)
Emily Marshall (freshman) - 8.5 ppg (54.8% FG), 5.3 rpg, (15.5 min/g)
Andrea Travelstead (soph)- 4.2 ppg (47% FG), 3.0 rpg, 1.3 steals (12 min/g)
Meghan Warner (freshman) - 4.7 ppg (70% FG), 4.7 rpg, (11 min/g)

Not to mention... Bridget Bailey will be returning within the next month hopefully.  An extremly formiable front line!

On to the guard court is where all the experience can be found.  Every one of the guards that play for the Tigers have started at least one game in a Tiger uniform (with the exception of Gw. Haehl, who joined the Tigers last season).  That gives Coach Kris Huffman a lot of different options and lineups to go with. 

With the point guards, you have the ever-so-steady leadership of Doughty (senior) and Gr. Haehl (junior).  The duo are combining for 12.5 ppg (47.6% FG/93.3% FT), 8.5 apg, 3.66 spg, while avg. only 5 TO per game.  Doughty is playing 21 min/g, Gr. Haehl 15.8 min/g. 

The remainder of the back court is making there most of their minutes, with junior Kalei Lowes (8.2 ppg, 2.33 apg, 22 min/g) and sophomore Cassie Pruzin (7.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 2.66 spg, 20.2 min/g) starting for the Tigers, and the experience that comes off the bench in senior Caitlin McGonigal (9.7 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 17.3 min/g) and junior Gwen Haehl (2.7 ppg, 1.1 apg, 1.0 rpg, 12.5 min/g). 

The future does look bright for this Tiger squad.  Hopefully, we see last years winning streak of 28 being broken by this years team.  The target on their back is getting bigger and bigger, and there's a whole heck of a lot of basketball to be played this seaon!  This is going to be a fun year!

[roaring0506]

Today's SCAC scoreboard:
Trinity 90
Millsaps 51

Well-balanced attack for the Tigers.

Anyone know what happened to Oglethorpe yesterday?  Is Sewanne that much improved to beat them?

[Borat...NOT]

Did anyone see Rhodes beat Southwestern?  Pretty interesting that a Rhodes team gets killed by Trinity and then goes and beats a Southwestern team that beat HSU just a few weeks before.  The same HSU team that dismantled Trinity in the first weekend of the season. 

From what I saw this weekend, Millsaps has a long way to go.  Most of their good players are younger but they looked clueless out there.  They had no inside presence today and turned the ball over 31 times.   Although the scores in San Antonio were similar, Rhodes is a much better basketball team than Millsaps.   Trinity forced 69 turnovers in 2 games this weekend!!!! It looks like they are finding their stride after a rough start.  Did anyone see the SU/Rhodes game???

[DPU3619]

Did anyone see Rhodes beat Southwestern?  Pretty interesting that a Rhodes team gets killed by Trinity and then goes and beats a Southwestern team that beat HSU just a few weeks before.  The same HSU team that dismantled Trinity in the first weekend of the season. 

Not sure "dismantle" is the right term there, champ.  Rhodes led that ballgame at halftime and then came about and made a robust 12% of their shots in the second half.  That was less of Trinity steamrolling them and more about Coach Dean's squad not being able to hit water if they fell out of a boat after the half.

I like the Rhodes women.  They gave DePauw a couple of really good runs last season.  Crystal Jessee and Ashley Farrell are both really good players.

I think Southwestern is clearly better than they were last year, but I'm still not ready to call them a contender.  That HSU win might be a bit more of a fluke than anything else at this juncture.

[Pat Coleman]

Pam Ruder had some insight on the nature of that game for us on one of our Tour de Tejas podcasts.

http://www.d3hoops.com/audio/06/tourdetejasruder.mp3