MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

hasanova · February 09, 2011, 09:14:02 AM

rmc1982, I agree that you want to control the tempo and keep the score in the 55-65 point range versus VWC. The Marlins are talented, but not every young player makes the best decisions or is calm when it's one shot or one defensive stop for the game in the waning seconds.

rmc1982 · February 09, 2011, 10:04:54 AM

Quote from: hasanova on February 09, 2011, 09:14:02 AM
rmc1982, I agree that you want to control the tempo and keep the score in the 55-65 point range versus VWC. The Marlins are talented, but not every young player makes the best decisions or is calm when it's one shot or one deffensive stop for the game in the waning seconds.

I agree Hasa! and 424 I do not agree!! I think VWC is a good 1/2 court team too, but it will definitely be the kiss of death if we try to run with them.I will take the lesser of the two evils and keep the game in the 50's or 60's where we have the best chance to win ANY DAY over rolling the dice and running with a team that is tailor-made for that!They may not crack, they may handle the pressure very well and beat us anyway, but then we gave them our best shot and THEY TOOK IT!I'll never be ashamed if you do every thing you can, you leave it all on the court, and you still lose........You can look yourself in the eye tomorrow morning and know you did everything you could........

DeWayneCarter · February 09, 2011, 11:25:45 AM

I feel like driving to Va Beach RIGHT NOW I'm so amped for this game..... VWC hasn't had an SRO crowd since they hosted the NCAA Tournament games in 07... and the feeling in Batten during those games was electric... I personally hope for TEN dunks from the Marlins tonight to top the seven from the Roanoke game

rmc1982 · February 09, 2011, 12:20:08 PM

Quote from: DeWayneCarter on February 09, 2011, 11:25:45 AM
I feel like driving to Va Beach RIGHT NOW I'm so amped for this game..... VWC hasn't had an SRO crowd since they hosted the NCAA Tournament games in 07... and the feeling in Batten during those games was electric... I personally hope for TEN dunks from the Marlins tonight to top the seven from the Roanoke game

I personally hope you're wrong DeWayne for our sake!!

...As for the SRO crowd, we are having a Yellow Jacket Club reception in the campus center before the game and were concerned about tickets.Luckily those of us who are registered for the reception have a block of tickets waiting-we were concerned about getting in after all of the hoopla on our Hampton Roads media outlets the last couple of days! Should be a GREAT atmosphere tonite! The kids playing should LOVE this! Like Nathan said on the radio saturday after the W&L game, this is why you come to VWC or R-MC to play basketball-to participate in these kinds of games.If you can't get "Amped up" for this game, like you say, you shouldn't be playing! Good Luck and good health to ALL players tonite!Go JACKETS!

jdubyadubya · February 09, 2011, 12:31:37 PM

DeWayne/rmc1982 - yikes! I'm jealous. I guess I'm the only person who isn't going to this game. Great article in the VA Pilot. Almost sounds like the Marlins are the underdogs. I would expect that the Yellow Jackets are a little nervous too

Good luck. This is a HUGE game, not only for the teams involved but for ODAC and DIII.

DeWayneCarter · February 09, 2011, 12:39:45 PM

JWW... me and Pete were goin bucket for bucket for a couple posessions in the alumni game saturday haha

jdubyadubya · February 09, 2011, 01:09:29 PM

DeWayne - Pete was excited because he said this was the first year he was on a winning team. I guess he got together with Josh Fisher and Bill Gobble afterward. He said neither of them played because they aren't in very good shape. Pete still plays every weekend and occasionally goes up against Pittsnogle. Boy, I sure wish I could attend tonight's contest. I bet Billy Greer is going to go berserk

Jacketlawyer · February 09, 2011, 01:17:03 PM

Quote from: jdubyadubya on February 09, 2011, 01:09:29 PM
DeWayne - Pete was excited because he said this was the first year he was on a winning team. I guess he got together with Josh Fisher and Bill Gobble afterward. He said neither of them played because they aren't in very good shape. Pete still plays every weekend and occasionally goes up against Pittsnogle. Boy, I sure wish I could attend tonight's contest. I bet Billy Greer is going to go berserk

Billy Greer will indeed go berserk. Should be a great game, though it's the matchup in the tournament that really matters. FOr Billy's sake, good luck to the Marlins, but for mine, I hope we win. GO JACKETS.

Pat Coleman · February 09, 2011, 03:02:31 PM

Newest men's regional rankings are up. Pass it on:

http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2011/02/09/ncaas-2011-regional-rankings-week-2/

algernon · February 09, 2011, 07:25:42 PM

It's really kind of ridiculous that North Carolina Wesleyan (15-6, 10-4) is ranked #8 in the regional rankings while EMU (16-4, 10-4) is unranked. What are those who are doing the ranking thinking???

And here's the record of these two teams against common opponents:
VS Hampden-Sydney ... NCW lost by 14 ... EMU won by 16
VS Guilford ... NCW lost by 17 ... EMU won by 12
VS Shenandoah ... NCW won by 19 and won by 14 ... EMU won by 14
VS Averett ... NCW won by 17 ... EMU won by 8
VS Ferrum ... NCW lost by 6 ... EMU won by 6

EMU has fewer losses, the same record in regional games (10-4), and in games against 5 common opponents, EMU is 5-0 while NCW is 3-3.

algernon · February 09, 2011, 07:31:12 PM

Eastern Mennonite 15, Bridgewater 12, with 10:39 left in the 1st
Guilford 22, Washington and Lee 18, with 6:01 left in the 1st
Hampden-Sydney 36, Ferrum 22, with 3:56 left in the 1st
Randolph 22, Lynchburg 16, with 9:00 left in the 1st
Randolph-Macon 16, Virginia Wesleyan 16, with 6:02 in the 1st
Emory & Henry 26, Roanoke 22, with 6:42 in the 1st

algernon · February 09, 2011, 07:45:49 PM

Eastern Mennonite 41, Bridgewater 29, at the half
Washington and Lee 31, Guilford 30, at the half
Hampden-Sydney 42, Ferrum 28, at the half
Randolph 41, Lynchburg 33, at the half
Randolph-Macon 24, Virginia Wesleyan 20, at the half
Emory & Henry 36, Roanoke 34, at the half

algernon · February 09, 2011, 08:22:40 PM

Eastern Mennonite 58, Bridgewater 46, with 11:12 left
Guilford 55, Washington and Lee 44, with 4:54 left
Hampden-Sydney 66, Ferrum 60, with 7:11 left
Randolph 60, Lynchburg 56, with 8:36 left
Virginia Wesleyan 47, Randolph-Macon 42, with 6:50 left
Emory & Henry 62, Roanoke 58, with 8:44 left

PA Royals Fan · February 09, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Runnin Royals get first win at Bridgewater since 1990, 81-64. Orie Pancione scores career high 22 and breaks EMU record for FG% in a game, hitting 10-of-11 shots to go 90.9%.

hasanova · February 09, 2011, 09:00:56 PM

The Quakers over the Generals in Greensboro, 68-57. Josh Pittman with 27, Stafford 12 and Lowder 10. W&L was led by Guest 14 and Adkins 10. Guilford improves to 15-7, 9-4 and W&L drops to 13-9, 5-8.

http://www.guilford.edu/sports/Mbasketball/2010-11/HTML/gcm-22.htm

Wildcats visit Ragan-Brown at 2 pm Saturday. Go Quakers!