MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hasanova]

There's a wealth of information in this link on basketball doubles.  To date, the only known quintuple-double of 10 or more points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks was recorded by Tamika Catchings for Duncanville, TX high school in 1997 (25, 18, 11, 10, 10).  Wow!  Now that's a stat line!    

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_(basketball)

[hasanova]

EMU loses its first game of the season to Southern Virginia University 92-79

SVU must really have some great players - they've upended several good teams this season.

[donho]

 Hasanova, your last post kinda makes one think EMU has a good team this year. I am not ready to agreed with that at this time of the year. Other then VWC their victims have not been very good teams to this point.
  Heck even their big supporter has disappeared already! wwspenser22 now shows up as a quest poster.

[emufan]

Don Ho,

The season is still early but the Royals have beaten two teams who were in the NCAA tournament (Averett and Wesley) last year handily as well as there win over VWC.  The thing that has impressed me is that they are winning games with someone different stepping into a scoring role each night.  EMU's team looks like none other that I have seen in Park View before.

[hasanova]

Hasanova, your last post kinda makes one think EMU has a good team this year. I am not ready to agreed with that at this time of the year. Other then VWC their victims have not been very good teams to this point.
  Heck even their big supporter has disappeared already! wwspenser22 now shows up as a quest poster.

I believe EMU has a good team team this year ... but let's just say I'm not yet ready to label them a great team.  I've watched the Royals steadily improve the last few years and I still think they'll be a top 4 or 5 ODAC team in 2009-10.  Sure, there were some cupcakes in their early schedule, but starting 8-0 and beating VWC on the road are not the signs of a greatly overrated team.   

[hasanova]

Don Ho,

The season is still early but the Royals have beaten two teams who were in the NCAA tournament (Averett and Wesley) last year handily as well as there win over VWC.  The thing that has impressed me is that they are winning games with someone different stepping into a scoring role each night.  EMU's team looks like none other that I have seen in Park View before.

I'm not trying to take too much away from EMU or be overly unkind to Averett (and I know little about Wesley's team), but Averett sans Jonathan Rumley is a far cry from last year's USA South AQ.  It's just not the quality win it would have been in 2008-09.

[rmc1982]

R-MC destroys Alvernia 92-64 in Ashland-faces #23 Wooster tomorrow night....I will admit I was very skeptical of this group at first, but now I'm beginning to think they're for real( although probably not a #6 team)Hasa-the date in Ashland could loom large........;-)

[hasanova]

R-MC destroys Alvernia 92-64 in Ashland-faces #23 Wooster tomorrow night....I will admit I was very skeptical of this group at first, but now I'm beginning to think they're for real( although probably not a #6 team)Hasa-the date in Ashland could loom large........;-)

You're absolutely right, rmc1982.  The lone RMC/GC game in Greensboro last Jan. 31 appears to have been the tie-breaker that sent the Quakers to to the NCAA's and kept the Yellow Jackets home.  We've only played a few games in the ODAC, but I've already noted the importance of the Ashland trip.  I'm not trying to leave anyone out, but VWC and EMU's visits to Ragan-Brown loom large as well.

[hasanova]

Congratulations to the resurgent Lynchburg Hornets, as they won their 3rd in a row by upending CNU in OT!

[rmc1982]

R-MC destroys Alvernia 92-64 in Ashland-faces #23 Wooster tomorrow night....I will admit I was very skeptical of this group at first, but now I'm beginning to think they're for real( although probably not a #6 team)Hasa-the date in Ashland could loom large........;-)

You're absolutely right, rmc1982.  The lone RMC/GC game in Greensboro last Jan. 31 appears to have been the tie-breaker that sent the Quakers to to the NCAA's and kept the Yellow Jackets home.  We've only played a few games in the ODAC, but I've already noted the importance of the Ashland trip.  I'm not trying to leave anyone out, but VWC and EMU's visits to Ragan-Brown loom large as well.

For us as well,but I think we play both  of the other teams twice.......ours is a unique situation....which brings a question.....to a game that could be as big as ours, couldn't the powers that be in the ODAC have brought themselves to give us both a home and home situation????DUH.....I know that things can change every year and big matchups shift, but this one is a no-brainer!!Like you said, it got you in and kept us out last year....

[emufan]

hasa,

I agree with you. Averett isn't as good as last year. However, EMU didn't just sneak by them, they held a 35 point lead over them until they brought in their bench and won by 20. 

The real season starts after Christmas and then we can see how good EMU really is. 

[hasanova]

R-MC destroys Alvernia 92-64 in Ashland-faces #23 Wooster tomorrow night....I will admit I was very skeptical of this group at first, but now I'm beginning to think they're for real( although probably not a #6 team)Hasa-the date in Ashland could loom large........;-)

You're absolutely right, rmc1982.  The lone RMC/GC game in Greensboro last Jan. 31 appears to have been the tie-breaker that sent the Quakers to to the NCAA's and kept the Yellow Jackets home.  We've only played a few games in the ODAC, but I've already noted the importance of the Ashland trip.  I'm not trying to leave anyone out, but VWC and EMU's visits to Ragan-Brown loom large as well.

For us as well,but I think we play both  of the other teams twice.......ours is a unique situation....which brings a question.....to a game that could be as big as ours, couldn't the powers that be in the ODAC have brought themselves to give us both a home and home situation????DUH.....I know that things can change every year and big matchups shift, but this one is a no-brainer!!Like you said, it got you in and kept us out last year....

Eleven teams and a 16-game conference schedule will always create problems.  You have to set the schedule in advance and who do you think will be contenders and who won't?  From a geographic and historical perspective, there are certain matchups that will be home-and-away every season, but others won't.  I'm not sure what the best solution is.  

[hasanova]

I don't think the ODAC would ever want to play a 20-game conference schedule, which is the only way you can play everyone home-and-away when you have eleven teams.  As long as the NCAA limits the regular season to 25 games, twenty ODAC games would only allow you five nonconference tilts.  The ODAC could return to an 18-game conference scheme, but it would require every team to limit themselves to one matchup per season with two ODAC squads (play eight teams home-and-away, one team once away and one team once at home).  It would be marginally better, but still not perfect. 

[hasanova]

hasa,

I agree with you. Averett isn't as good as last year. However, EMU didn't just sneak by them, they held a 35 point lead over them until they brought in their bench and won by 20. 

The real season starts after Christmas and then we can see how good EMU really is. 

emufan, in 2009-10, I put a lot more stock in EMU nipping VWC at the beach than I do in their romp over Averett.  As you say, we'll see how it goes by mid- to late January!

[y_jack_lok]

I don't think the ODAC would ever want to play a 20-game conference schedule, which is the only way you can play everyone home-and-away when you have eleven teams.  As long as the NCAA limits the regular season to 25 games, twenty ODAC games would only allow you five nonconference tilts. 

On the women's side Hollins is the equivalent of Hampden-Sydney on the men's side as a single gender institution, and the women play a 20 game home and away confernece schedule. In fact, they were doing it before Randolph-Macon Women's College became co-ed Randolph. I agree that having only 5 non-conference games is too few and they should change the schedule to be like the men's so the women get more non-conference games.