MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Seatfiller]

Tonights ODAC match ups, there looks to be some good ones:

Guilford @ N.C. Wesleyan
I got Guilford

Eastern Mennonite @Hampden-Sydney
If George shows up to play I got HSC in a tight one

Roanoke @ Washington & Lee
Haven't seen enough of these 2 teams to make a good guess

Emory & Henry @ Lynchburg
Lynchburg has looked real good so far this season so im taking them

Bridgewater @ Randolph
I got Randolph winning comfortably

Randolph-Macon @ Virginia Wesleyan
Huge matchup I got VA Wes taking this one at home

[y_jack_lok]

5 of the top 10 in teams in D3hoops.com top 10 are comparable academically with W&L. 3 of them are NESCAC schools. I can't fathom why the Generals should be a middle of the pack ODAC team. IMHO - We should be aiming for the top.

Very true. I don't mind aiming for the top. I just don't see it happening this year. Until recently I can't remember too many good years, so there isn't a lot of historical interest in W&L basketball the way the NESCAC schools are known. I also believe the NESCAC schools use a slotting system for admitting athletes (though I could be wrong on this so feel free to let me know) that I know W&L does not employ. Still, we have certainly improved in the last couple years and I am thrilled. That being said, I don't really see us competing at the top of the ODAC right now, even if I am incredibly thankful we are no longer suffering a long serious of sub .500 years.

Regarding a "slotting" system in the NESCAC, see this posting sequence on the UAA women's board from September: http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=621.1605

[jknezek]

Interesting. Thanks. I remember seeing a different discussion of it somewhere else that had some deeper information, but essentially the same thing. Thank you for digging it out.

+K

[algernon]

Eastern Mennonite @Hampden-Sydney
If George shows up to play I got HSC in a tight one

It wasn't tight .... That's for sure!

HSC led by 23 at the half and kept it going in the second period, up at one point in the game by a score of 90-45 and ultimately winning 108-65.

Harrison George had 22 minutes of playing time, as did Ben Jessee, with 9 other players in the game for 11-18 minutes each.

Harrison had 26 points and 12 rebounds, Khobi Williamson had 8 points and 11 rebounds, Jessee had 16, Ward had 13, and Cam Anderson had 7 points and 7 rebounds in only 12 minutes on the court.  The Tigers outrebounded the Royals 55-28.

The game was fast, fast, fast!  Great start to the Tigers' ODAC season!

[HSCDad]

H-SC 108 EMU 65  Not a "tight one"     George had 26/12   The three pointers were 10/18 vs last week's 1/18.  Quite a turn around there as a lot of practice this week on the 3 pointers per the broadcasters.  Sure would ben nice to have a re-play of NC Wesl and Methodist!!!

[algernon]

Harrison George is now at 974 career points and could break 1000 in his next game.

[HSCDad]

vwu 63  rmc 60

[HSCDad]

W&L 73  Roanoke 60
Lynchburg 91  E&H 69
Randolph 93  Bridgewater 78
H-SC 108 EMU 65
VWU 63 RMC 60 (great ending at 2 min mark 60-60  took 10 minutes to play 2 minutes!!)
NC Wesl 65  Guilford 61

[DollFin]

Marlins' outside shooting was terrible tonight and we looked pretty sloppy, but our defense was really aggressive and held off RMC.  RMC's outside shooting looked great and kept them in the game.

[DeWayneCarter]

HSC over EMU by 43???

[hasanova]

I haven't studied the boxscore closely, but it looks like the Quakers shot poorly in yesterday's loss at NCWC.  Josh Pittman was 2 of 13.  Ouch.

[2RMCFans]

Congrats to last night's winners. 

Glad the Jackets kept it tight at the end. 

GO JACKETS!!!

[jdubyadubya]

Permit this old man an observation: The Marlins are verrrrry lucky. Randolph Macon unleashed a crushing defense on 00 double and triple teaming him but then peeling off to cover other open players. The result was complete chaos by the Marlins who did not have an answer to the swarming defense. In fact, the Yellow Jackets took the lead right after the second half started. Tough D for sure. Randolph Macon is as good or better than the Marlins this year. Should be a most interesting season.   

[hsctigers2002]

Anyone who has seen Guilford have any insight into their offensive struggles thus far? Top three scorers all under 40% from the floor - surprisingly their three point % is better than their two point % - headlined by 31.7% from Josh Pittman. He does have a very good 38.9% from three, but is just 5-24 on two pointers. Lucky for them it appears their defense has been superb so far and they have been able to get to the foul line a ton.

[baselinejam]

5 of the top 10 in teams in D3hoops.com top 10 are comparable academically with W&L. 3 of them are NESCAC schools. I can't fathom why the Generals should be a middle of the pack ODAC team. IMHO - We should be aiming for the top.

Very true. I don't mind aiming for the top. I just don't see it happening this year. Until recently I can't remember too many good years, so there isn't a lot of historical interest in W&L basketball the way the NESCAC schools are known. I also believe the NESCAC schools use a slotting system for admitting athletes (though I could be wrong on this so feel free to let me know) that I know W&L does not employ. Still, we have certainly improved in the last couple years and I am thrilled. That being said, I don't really see us competing at the top of the ODAC right now, even if I am incredibly thankful we are no longer suffering a long serious of sub .500 years.

Regarding a "slotting" system in the NESCAC, see this posting sequence on the UAA women's board from September: http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=621.1605

What exactly did the above URL express - I must have missed sumthin.

Mr. Coleman set me straight - that is interesting info.