MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[y_jack_lok]

 ^^^  Your calculation is correct. NCAA site has been updated already: https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d3

After holding Bridgewater to 41 points last night R-MC moved from 7th to 5th.

[Macon]

RMC held BC to only 3 made FGs in the second half.  That's quite remarkable.

[Macon]

Also of note, Mallory tied the ODAC career block record with GC great, Ben Strong.  Will likely break the record on Saturday,  and doing it with a short 12 game season during Covid.

[hasanova]

Also of note, Mallory tied the ODAC career block record with GC great, Ben Strong.  Will likely break the record on Saturday,  and doing it with a short 12 game season during Covid.

Congratulations.  Anyone who breaks one of Ben's records has had a fine career.

[rmc1982]

Also of note, Mallory tied the ODAC career block record with GC great, Ben Strong.  Will likely break the record on Saturday,  and doing it with a short 12 game season during Covid.

Congratulations.  Anyone who breaks one of Ben's records has had a fine career.

Anyone who has followed R-MC and Miles Mallory will attest to the fact that in  most of his blocks he seems to come from nowhere to do it! Hes kind of a finesse player inside, unlike other R-MC big men like Jesse Hellyer, Jared Mills, or Brandon Braxton, who were a lot more on the physical side. Miles is even GRACEFUL, if thats the correct word. He never seems out of position and times it perfectly, and also doing it without fouling most of the time. Hes going to go down as one of the all time greats in Yellow Jacket history, and hes one of the quietest, most even keeled young men personally as I've ever met. Nothing ever seems to phase him- he has the same expression on his face whether he just got beat inside or he just schooled someone himself- just a nice  quiet young man that can flat out play ball!

[hasanova]

Also of note, Mallory tied the ODAC career block record with GC great, Ben Strong.  Will likely break the record on Saturday,  and doing it with a short 12 game season during Covid.

Congratulations.  Anyone who breaks one of Ben's records has had a fine career.

Anyone who has followed R-MC and Miles Mallory will attest to the fact that in  most of his blocks he seems to come from nowhere to do it! Hes kind of a finesse player inside, unlike other R-MC big men like Jesse Hellyer, Jared Mills, or Brandon Braxton, who were a lot more on the physical side. Miles is even GRACEFUL, if thats the correct word. He never seems out of position and times it perfectly, and also doing it without fouling most of the time. Hes going to go down as one of the all time greats in Yellow Jacket history, and hes one of the quietest, most even keeled young men personally as I've ever met. Nothing ever seems to phase him- he has the same expression on his face whether he just got beat inside or he just schooled someone himself- just a nice  quiet young man that can flat out play ball!

I look forward to seeing him play on Feb. 18.

[y_jack_lok]

R-MC makes only 1 of 11 three pointers in the first half, a number of them with decent looks, and only scores 14 points in the half. They open the second half missing their first four three pointers, but scored nine points in the first 5 1/2 minutes to keep Roanoke from extending its seven point halftime lead. Then, suddenly, the threes started falling for the Jackets, making six in a row over the next eight minutes to build an 11 point lead and eventually win by 12, 58-46.

Both teams played stifling defense. A real battle.

[Seatfiller]

R-MC makes only 1 of 11 three pointers in the first half, a number of them with decent looks, and only scores 14 points in the half. They open the second half missing their first four three pointers, but scored nine points in the first 5 1/2 minutes to keep Roanoke from extending its seven point halftime lead. Then, suddenly, the threes started falling for the Jackets, making six in a row over the next eight minutes to build an 11 point lead and eventually win by 12, 58-46.

Both teams played stifling defense. A real battle.

That 1st half was the best defense I've seen a Roanoke team have in a LONG time. The problem was we couldn't capitalize.  We had at least 5 good open 3 shots that wouldn't fall in the 1st half.  Some of our play makers forced shots as they seemed to get frustrated by RMC's really good defense.  I felt like 1 extra pass at times would've gotten us a great look at some mid range shots.  All credit goes to RMC they're a well oiled machine. 

RMC like I already knew is the real deal and Roanoke isn't on their level.  It's going to take a lot for any team especially a ODAC team to beat RMC.

[hasanova]

Another stellar defensive effort by the Quakers in a nice road win over VWC, 65-47.  A big test Wednesday at HSC as the Quakers travel to Farmville.

[rmc1982]

Another stellar defensive effort by the Quakers in a nice road win over VWC, 65-47.  A big test Wednesday at HSC as the Quakers travel to Farmville.

That should be an excellent game Hasa! If your Quakers can pull out a convincing win they will climb significantly in the polls!

[hasanova]

Another stellar defensive effort by the Quakers in a nice road win over VWC, 65-47.  A big test Wednesday at HSC as the Quakers travel to Farmville.

That should be an excellent game Hasa! If your Quakers can pull out a convincing win they will climb significantly in the polls!

I never look past HSC, especially with Coach Kimbrough having played for Coach Palombo!

[hasanova]

Currently, Guilford is now the #1 team in D3 in defensive ppg.  The Quakers moved from #2 to first with last week's 50 and 47 against Roanoke and Virginia Wesleyan, respectively.  Those two games dropped the Quakers from 54.6 to 53.9 (970/18 games).

I often like a great offensive shoot-out, but I have to say the 2022-23 Quakers come after you on Defense for the full 40 minutes.  It's fun to watch a great defensive effort as well!

[hasanova]

Three ODAC teams in this week's Top 25 plus a 4th receiving votes:

RMC #2
Guilford #14
HSC # 25
Roanoke RV

[y_jack_lok]

Currently, Guilford is now the #1 team in D3 in defensive ppg.  The Quakers moved from #2 to first with last week's 50 and 47 against Roanoke and Virginia Wesleyan, respectively.  Those two games dropped the Quakers from 54.6 to 53.9 (970/18 games).

I often like a great offensive shoot-out, but I have to say the 2022-23 Quakers come after you on Defense for the full 40 minutes.  It's fun to watch a great defensive effort as well!

Yes, higher scoring games are often a "prettier" form of basketball and more fun to watch. It has taken me years to learn to watch and appreciate what teams do on defense.

I took a look at the Top 50 scoring defense teams. Five are from the ODAC: GC #1, R-MC #4, VWU #16, Averett #19, Roanoke #39. Also included in the Top 50 are Mary Washington #45 and CNU #46. https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d3/current/team/146

Noticing Averett in that group reminds me that R-MC travels there tomorrow night. It's just the sort of game that can result in an upset.

[Macon]

R-MC makes only 1 of 11 three pointers in the first half, a number of them with decent looks, and only scores 14 points in the half. They open the second half missing their first four three pointers, but scored nine points in the first 5 1/2 minutes to keep Roanoke from extending its seven point halftime lead. Then, suddenly, the threes started falling for the Jackets, making six in a row over the next eight minutes to build an 11 point lead and eventually win by 12, 58-46.

Both teams played stifling defense. A real battle.

That 1st half was the best defense I've seen a Roanoke team have in a LONG time. The problem was we couldn't capitalize.  We had at least 5 good open 3 shots that wouldn't fall in the 1st half.  Some of our play makers forced shots as they seemed to get frustrated by RMC's really good defense.  I felt like 1 extra pass at times would've gotten us a great look at some mid range shots.  All credit goes to RMC they're a well oiled machine. 

RMC like I already knew is the real deal and Roanoke isn't on their level.  It's going to take a lot for any team especially a ODAC team to beat RMC.

While the current RMC team is strong and will go far, it's certainly not last year's team.  Two major differences, obviously Buzz being the major difference.  The second differential is that last's team had three senior often time starters (Robertson, Morris, Funderburg) as the first off the bench, whereas this year those players are freshmen (Pulley, Keener and Scott).  Don't get me wrong, these freshmen are doing very well and will contribute to the success of this team and will be the key as to how far this team goes.  I'm hoping they take the team all the way to a repeat.  Go Jackets!