MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Seatfiller]

I do not see Colton Hunt's name in box scores for Randolph"s last 2 games. Is he injured?

He's missed every game this year (including the Liberty exhibition). He is a good kid, so I can only assume injury at this point.

He's sick

[algernon]

Final: HSC 99, LaGrange 86.  Harrison George gets 19 pts and 8 reb, Khobi Williamson has 15 pts and 8 reb., Jessee gets 17, Ru White has 14, and Ward has 12.

Two freshmen: Cam Anderson has 7 pts and 4 rebounds and Greg Lewis has 4 pts and 6 reb in their first games as Tigers!

[hasanova]

The Guilford Quakers over the Johnson & Wales (NC) Wildcats last night, 86-71, and the Greensboro Pride over the Bridgewater (VA) College Eagles, 68-58.  BC (1-1) will face JWU (0-7) today at 1 pm and Guilford (3-0) will square off against Greensboro (2-1) for the second time in three days at 3 pm.

Go Quakers!

[HSCDad]

HS-C had another good day  - 98-71 against Huntington College - 4 starters in double figures - Harrison George had 17 pt and 7 rebounds in 22 minutes - Cam Anderson (freshman) had 18 points in 15 minutes with 2 rebounds - 44 points from bench - great spread across all players

[hasanova]

Guilford (4-0) over Greensboro (2-2), 72-60, and BC (2-1) over Johnson & Wales (0-8) (NC), 85-41, in Greensboro this afternoon.  BC played well, but JWU also didn't show up today.  The Quakers led by 23 at one point and held GCP to 17 first half points.  It was the second victory for Guilford over the Pride in three days.    The Averett Cougars visit Ragan-Brown Tuesday night.

[Bucket]

Saw that my alma mater, W&L, got a taste of NESCAC basketball tonight, getting thumped by Amherst by ~40 points.

[algernon]

Saw that my alma mater, W&L, got a taste of NESCAC basketball tonight, getting thumped by Amherst by ~40 points.

The Generals will get a taste of ODAC basketball before long!

The ODAC and NESCAC matchup pretty evenly by any criteria of success, and a 40-point loss to Amherst does not bode well for W&L's season against similar-quality teams in the ODAC.  I'm remembering that VWC lost to Williams by only 6 points in the Sweet Sixteen last year, but they lost by a similar or worse score to four ODAC foes ... Guilford, Hampden-Sydney, EMU, and Randolph ... during the final weeks prior to the NCAAs.

Guilford and Randolph should be as good or better than last year.  Hampden-Sydney is clearly much improved, with Cam Anderson scoring 18 points, with 3 steals, in 15 minutes of action against Huntingdon on Saturday, and there were 3 other freshmen who got at least 9 minutes of action.

[Seatfiller]

So after the first week of basketball this is how the ODACs looks:

Guilford 4-0
Hampden-Sydney 2-0
Bridgewater 2-1
Emory & Henry 2-1
Lynchburg 2-1
Randolph-Macon 2-1
Washington & Lee 2-1
Eastern Mennonite 1-2
Randolph 1-2
Virginia Wesleyan 0-0
Roanoke 0-2

[algernon]

So after the first week of basketball this is how the ODACs looks:
Guilford 4-0
Hampden-Sydney 2-0
Bridgewater 2-1
Emory & Henry 2-1
Lynchburg 2-1
Randolph-Macon 2-1
Washington & Lee 2-1
Eastern Mennonite 1-2
Randolph 1-2
Virginia Wesleyan 0-0
Roanoke 0-2

The overall record at this point is not as strong as in some years past.  Only 18-11, against some pretty weak competition (like Shenandoah and Averett).  The best wins to date, in my opinion, are:
Lynchburg    81        Ferrum    69   
Randolph-Macon    90.   Chris. Newport    88   
Hampden-Sydney    98    Huntingdon    71

[DeWayneCarter]

So far, VWC remains undefeated! That's a good sign for the Marlins 

[hasanova]

So far, VWC remains undefeated! That's a good sign for the Marlins 

I prefer to think of the Marlins as winless. 

[jdubyadubya]

ha,ha,ha Nova. On a SCALE of 1-10 that was an 8! I wouldn't give you a FIN for it though! 

[hasanova]

ha,ha,ha Nova. On a SCALE of 1-10 that was an 8! I wouldn't give you a FIN for it though! 

JWW, as the old saying goes, though, "beauty is in the eye of the beerholder". 

[GuyFormerlyPSBBG]

I think d3 can come with "salute to armed forces/fallen heroes" tournament.

My idea would be to incorporate battle locations of the Civil War/Revolutionary War into a d3 basketball tournament.

Since the ODAC has teams that would qualify, I posted the idea here.

ODAC could practically rotate a team into the tournament every year.  We could throw in Gettysburg and Mary Washington every year.  I am not familiar with all the battles, but I am sure there are several more locations north and south that could be rotated into this tournament.

What do you guys think?

[hsctigers2002]

So after the first week of basketball this is how the ODACs looks:
Guilford 4-0
Hampden-Sydney 2-0
Bridgewater 2-1
Emory & Henry 2-1
Lynchburg 2-1
Randolph-Macon 2-1
Washington & Lee 2-1
Eastern Mennonite 1-2
Randolph 1-2
Virginia Wesleyan 0-0
Roanoke 0-2

The overall record at this point is not as strong as in some years past.  Only 18-11, against some pretty weak competition (like Shenandoah and Averett).  The best wins to date, in my opinion, are:
Lynchburg    81        Ferrum    69   
Randolph-Macon    90.   Chris. Newport    88   
Hampden-Sydney    98    Huntingdon    71

Keep in mind Ferrum is without Derek Mitchell and Keith Crump this year, by far and away their two best players from a season ago. Nothing close to the same team that made it to the NCAA Tournament last year. Derek Mitchell was one of the best players they ever had. They barely beat what is likely to be another bad Roanoke team.

Huntingdon is nothing to get excited over either - LaGrange was clearly the second best team in the Huntingdon Classic. Huntingdon's close loss to Birmingham Southern was clearly a fluke or BSU just isn't as good as their preseason ranking indicates. Huntingdon may have won the GSAC last year, but it was with a 12-14 overall record.

The Macon W over CNU is the only notable win thus far.

W&L's win over Dickinson is a solid W and so is Macon's win over Rutgers-Newark.