MBB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

The DIII season is heading in the wrong direction.  Looking at the D3hoops scoreboard for yesterday, about 3/4 of games were cancelled or postponed. 

As to the RMC game, Macon played a very good Salisbury team, but earned a surprisingly easy 24 point win.  Several freshmen played valuable minutes, with 3 freshmen on the floor at times.  Buzz's 30 points carried the day. 

With so many cancellations, ODAC play will be sketchy going forward.  I feel so bad for the players, especially those teams (like RMC) that has real chances at the national level in a normal year.  The opportunity for post season play (not to mention regular season play) seems slim to non-existent for these top notch teams.  But, in the bigger picture called life, it is still a game.

A lot of those games were canceled long ago but since they are schools who are Presto members, we have some restrictions as to whether we can remove them from the schedule.

About 60% of the games which were scheduled for yesterday by teams which are playing this year actually took place (8 of 13).

[Macon]

Thanks, appreciate the correction and clarification!  Much more hopeful than I thought.

[jknezek]

W&L's men's and women's games vs RMC on 1/31 have been cancelled. This is rapidly getting pointless.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

W&L's men's and women's games vs RMC on 1/31 have been cancelled. This is rapidly getting pointless.

W&L had delayed it's return of students and weren't going to be ready for the start of the ODAC season... this could be the continued fall-out of that versus anything else.

W&L men's schedule when I looked at it last night gave no indication they were going to play until Feb 4 or 7 ... women hadn't indicated that, but that could be simply a logistical oversight.

[Seatfiller]

Roanoke beats Ferrum in a nail bitter 49-48.  RC hit a shot with 2 seconds left to win it. Very entertaining game, but again I don't think RC is one of the top 5 teams. They had multiple times to really put the game away and couldn't get it done. When we face a top 3 team we're most likely going to get beaten badly.


In other odac news:

Randolph loses at Bridgewater 79-82 in OT

[jknezek]

And W&L goes on pause.
https://generalssports.com/news/2021/1/29/general-washington-and-lee-pauses-athletic-competition.aspx

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

And W&L goes on pause.
https://generalssports.com/news/2021/1/29/general-washington-and-lee-pauses-athletic-competition.aspx

They finally put it into words what we all already knew. Some won't even put anything out about these things.

[Macon]

Roanoke beats Ferrum in a nail bitter 49-48.  RC hit a shot with 2 seconds left to win it. Very entertaining game, but again I don't think RC is one of the top 5 teams. They had multiple times to really put the game away and couldn't get it done. When we face a top 3 team we're most likely going to get beaten badly.


In other odac news:

Randolph loses at Bridgewater 79-82 in OT

I'm not ready to underestimate RC yet, as I think FC is a better team than expected.  FC gave RMC all that it could handle as well.  At this point, I'd say that RC beat a very good FC team, more of a statement of FC strengths than RC weaknesses. 

[Seatfiller]

Roanoke beats Ferrum in a nail bitter 49-48.  RC hit a shot with 2 seconds left to win it. Very entertaining game, but again I don't think RC is one of the top 5 teams. They had multiple times to really put the game away and couldn't get it done. When we face a top 3 team we're most likely going to get beaten badly.


In other odac news:

Randolph loses at Bridgewater 79-82 in OT

I'm not ready to underestimate RC yet, as I think FC is a better team than expected.  FC gave RMC all that it could handle as well.  At this point, I'd say that RC beat a very good FC team, more of a statement of FC strengths than RC weaknesses.

Thanks for the insight. FC is a good team, but RC just doesn't seem to me to have a decent offense. We have good defense but it doesn't matter if you hold your opponent to 0 fgs in 3 minutes if you don't score in that 3 minutes either.

[thescottharris]

And W&L goes on pause.
https://generalssports.com/news/2021/1/29/general-washington-and-lee-pauses-athletic-competition.aspx

Don't see much point in even having a basketball season at this point for them unless the ODAC moves back the ODAC Tournament. Haven't been practicing, I assume, and then only three weeks of the regular season left if they even resume at the current projected time.

[flightless bird fan]

2021 ODAC MEN'S BASKETBALL COACHES POLL
1. Randolph-Macon (10) - 142 pts
2. Virginia Wesleyan University (3) - 135 pts
3. Washington and Lee University - 110 pts
4. Roanoke College - 102 pts
5. University of Lynchburg - 101 pts
6. Guilford College - 99 pts
7. Hampden-Sydney College - 82 pts
8. Ferrum College - 64 pts
9. Bridgewater College - 60 pts
10. Shenandoah University - 35 pts
11. Emory & Henry College - 33 pts
12. Randolph College - 28 pts
13. Eastern Mennonite University - 23 pts

I have offline for awhile.  Is Lynchburg not in ODAC basketball now?

[Tiger Mic]

#5 in that poll you just posted.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The Division III basketball season technically started nearly three months ago, but it has taken until the end of January for it to start feeling like the season is really underway. Even so, only about a quarter of the division has played just a single game. Another quarter of the division will never take to the court. And in between is wide gulf of different options.

On the first video-version of Hoopsville this season, Dave McHugh is joined by much of the D3hoops.com crew, Pat Coleman and Ryan Scott, to react to what has been one of the more unique seasons ... to say it lightly.

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[thescottharris]

Caleb Kimbrough's first full recruiting cycle is going to have a really bright future at H-SC. Watched most of the game at Roanoke, worked the game at Lynchburg, and have watched most of this game at Macon and there are three in particular that look like good foundation pieces in DJ Wright, Josiah Hardy, and Adam Brazil. Not sure how they'll work the Brazil and Wright combo going forward since they are both under six-feet though, but man Wright is going to score an absolute ton of points.

[y_jack_lok]

Caleb Kimbrough's first full recruiting cycle is going to have a really bright future at H-SC. Watched most of the game at Roanoke, worked the game at Lynchburg, and have watched most of this game at Macon and there are three in particular that look like good foundation pieces in DJ Wright, Josiah Hardy, and Adam Brazil. Not sure how they'll work the Brazil and Wright combo going forward since they are both under six-feet though, but man Wright is going to score an absolute ton of points.

H-SC looked really good in the game against R-MC yesterday. Quick, tough close out defense, good offensive movement and spacing. If Ian Robertson hadn't been hitting threes (8 of 13) for the Jackets the Tigers probably would have won.