MBB: St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[SaintsBall]

MAryville beats Westminster 90-65!! Advance to the D3 Tourney!

[pantherpride]

Good Job Maryville winning the SLIAC. 

[hopefan]

All Conference was announced after the tourney, as well as an all tourney team

All Conference

First Team
Hebl   MU
Eberhart  Mac
Hammond  BC
Hoggit  Webster
Allan  BC                      Allan was named MOP

2nd team
Kuhn  Webster
Bash  MU
Buxton  Westmin
Spinner  Webster
Djedovich   BC
Regan   MU

HM
McDormand  WC
Skorandt  Font
McKoy  Font
Taylor  GC

All Tourney   

Hebl  MU   MVP
Allan  BC
Turk  Webster
Davis   Westmin
Kurz  Westmin
Regan  MU
Elwell  MU

Congrats to all

[hopefan]

As for the championship game,  MU came out and shot unbelievably - after 13 minutes, the score was 38 -13 and MU was 9 - 11 from 3 point land.  Admirably Westminster cut that lead to 11 in the 2nd half, but eventually ran out of steam.   MU effectively defended Davis, so Westminster's offense became totally perimeter  -  Buxton and Mcdormand keyed the comeback, but when the 3's stopped falling, it was all over.  On the other end, MU offense was unstoppable  - probably over 60% from the field - the only negative at all was poor free throw shooting.

I was off on my attendance estimate   There was about 165 at the game, which in the confines of the dome, got pretty noisy.  My personal thanks to all who were able to attend and support both teams!!!

[hopefan]

Don't know if they got an invitation or not, but classy move by Hoggatt and Turk from Webster to appear at the game and at the awards ceremony afterwards to receive their honors.  I was disappointed none of the Blackburn players appeared in the same manner to also be acknowledged by the crowd.

Another classy move - right after the normal walk through of congrats, the Westminster coach game over to the Maryville bench, huddled them up, and exhorted the team to show what the SLIAC is all about next weekend by playing their hardest  -  coach, much appreciated.

[fcnews]

Thanks Hope for all the information.

[Pat Coleman]

I couldnt get a post on the scoreboard, so the last post will have to do.

Congrts to Maryville,
They played a great game and held off a rallying Webster team!!! Cant wait to see you guys on saturday.

Congrats to West Minster,
They dominated under the boards, from the floor, and just all around. My vote for Tourny MVP goes to Robert Davis just off tonights performance, he shot almost 70% from the floor and put up 30 points on BC. BC didnt show up tonight, and as sad as I am to say it West Minster just had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and BC looked as though they thought it wouldnt be a contest at all. Our boys shot terrible and couldnt protect the baseline.

Good Luck in the Championship game both teams, and for my Beavers lets reload and and make a run for it again next year!

Go Beavers!

If you're looking for Blackburn's username and password, it might have made sense to contact the proprietor of the site.

[fcnews]

Easy Pat this is first year we've had any Beaver Posters at all.

[hopefan]

D3hoops shot at guessing what the brackets might look like has MU going to Augustana  -  let's hope it's closer  -  to IWU instead.  We'll find our early tomorrow morn.

[Beaver_SID]

Hey Pat,

Not to be rude or anything, but it was about 11 o'clock when i got out of work and this site was not the only thing i had to take care of before friday morning. So not a lot of time was put into it, maybe a total of 4 minutes. I apologized for the wrong posting and not being able to get on the scoreboard but at the same time I am just a student worker and If the school or you or someone else wished it to be put up, they should have informed the proper administration.

[Pat Coleman]

Beaver:

I do understand full well. I have been an SID myself and I have been a student worker in a sports info office. I didn't say one thing about "the wrong posting" -- just that if you can't get into something perhaps you should ask for help.

It only takes a few seconds to write an e-mail. You obviously are familiar enough with the site to register to post so I don't think it's that far to stretch to ask for help.

We inform the proper administration every year. Your conference office is aware of the lack of SLIAC score reporting a well. I understand that it doesn't mean it filters down to you but the message board posts surely did.

[hopefan]

Well, not a totally unmanageable situation for Maryville - the competition in the Mississippi College regional is not at a level that Maryville hasn't faced this year.  The ASC has not yet produced a national power, and despite Miss's gawdy record, I'm not convinced they are there yet  -  I imagine these teams are at the Hanover, Transy level - a level that MU has shown they can play at.  Unfortunately it's a LONG trip, and I won't be able to make it down 55 to the Jackson Ms suburb of Clinton.  We are not the underdogs we were 2 years ago when we had to play IWU at the Shirk.

[mactitan]

I want to wish Maryville well.  Has a SLIAC team won an NCAA game?  If not, I think this could be a chance.  I was looking at the Miss. Col. site, and they have not had a close game in a long time, and they clinched the conference championship in January.  They look like they'll have a pretty good crowd, as most of their home games in Feb. were 1000+  They are an incredibly balanced team - at least on the stat sheet.  They have one player averaging double figures, and there are only two guys that play more than 20 minutes a game, and none that play 22 minutes a game.  They have 13 guys averaging more than 3 points a game.  I have never seen them play, but from the stat sheet it looks like they are a guard-oriented team that plays pretty good defense.  If Maryville shoots like they did against Westminster, this could be the upset of the first round, possibly setting up a classic Maryville-Maryville match up.

[iwumichigander]

I want to wish Maryville well.  Has a SLIAC team won an NCAA game?  If not, I think this could be a chance.  I was looking at the Miss. Col. site, and they have not had a close game in a long time, and they clinched the conference championship in January.  They look like they'll have a pretty good crowd, as most of their home games in Feb. were 1000+  They are an incredibly balanced team - at least on the stat sheet.  They have one player averaging double figures, and there are only two guys that play more than 20 minutes a game, and none that play 22 minutes a game.  They have 13 guys averaging more than 3 points a game.  I have never seen them play, but from the stat sheet it looks like they are a guard-oriented team that plays pretty good defense.  If Maryville shoots like they did against Westminster, this could be the upset of the first round, possibly setting up a classic Maryville-Maryville match up.

Without looking it up (again), I believe the SLIAC teams are 0 - 9 in recent NCAA Tournament play.  I think this is actually a good regional for Maryville (Mo) and the SLIAC.  Mississippi College is likely the better match-up for Maryville (Mo).  Maryville (tn) or Trinity (tx) are more physical teams -- long, tall and with lot of banging under the boards by both teams.

[fcnews]

Congrats MU make us proud. Taking nothing away from WC but I think that MU stould a much better chance to get us our first win. Experience, size and guard play.

Hope congrats on the alma matre hosting a regional.
Also can someone explain to me how WC's Davis did not make All-Conference?