MBB: American Southwest Conference

scottiedoug · March 04, 2006, 11:46:09 PM

Congrats to the Choctaws and go get 'em. For whatever it is worth, Maryville and Transy split.

Ralph Turner · March 04, 2006, 11:48:56 PM

Scottiedoug, thanks, and have a good off-season!

They did! Didn't they!

Pat Coleman · March 05, 2006, 01:59:15 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 04, 2006, 09:51:05 PM
I will send Pat Coleman a half-dozen steaks if Miss College hosts the Sectional! 8).
(The drama heightens!)

Mmmmmm, steaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak.

Ralph Turner · March 05, 2006, 08:53:28 AM

Quote from: Pat Coleman on March 05, 2006, 01:59:15 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 04, 2006, 09:51:05 PM
I will send Pat Coleman a half-dozen steaks if Miss College hosts the Sectional! 8).
(The drama heightens!)

Mmmmmm, steaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak.

Okay Choctaws fans, this McMurry alum may be passing the hat and asking for donations to help with getting a Sectional in Clinton. A tremendous sacrifice on my part, and it is tough having to bleed navy blue during March Madness, but sacrifices must be made! And this is one way to taunt the selection gods, a burnt offering (medium rare?) on Pat Coleman's grill!

In the new format of Pools, since 2000, the ASC has never hosted a Sectional. We have been flown to Calvin (McM), to Christopher Newport (McM), to Puget Sound (SRSU) and to Albion (MC).

hoopstar · March 05, 2006, 01:19:12 PM

Chocs are goin to Wittenburg

millie · March 05, 2006, 03:46:28 PM

where in the blue blazes is whittenburg.....don't these people know that the road goes in both directions...what does the ASC have to do to host the higher brackets? i thought i just read that MC is the highest ranked team left in the tourney....MC needs, not a final 4, but an outright championship...i really don't understand the thinking of the NCAA...the south gets it stuck to them again.

millie · March 05, 2006, 03:48:01 PM

FYI...
there is an international airport in Jackson, Mississippi...less than 20 miles away.

baddog · March 05, 2006, 04:34:53 PM

millie -- It is spelled "Wittenberg" and a quick jaunt to mapquest.com showed that Springfield is east of Dayton on the way to Columbus.
They may be asking the same question about Clinton.

scottiedoug · March 05, 2006, 05:36:19 PM

So what is it...is someone afraid to "let" a South region team host in case one might bust up the midwest bias? Ohio is not the only state with a gym with lights and roads and airports and motels....

Go Chocs!

baddog · March 05, 2006, 06:03:28 PM

Hey that war is over. It was in all the papers!
Seriously, the bracket seems fair -- at least in terms of where they will be played with the teams that remain.
Then, look at the teams in the Wittenberg bracket: Witt., MC, Transylvania, and Hope. The states represented: Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Michigan. And Transylvania is in Lexignton -- that's in northern Kentucky (and they were a border state in that war) -- not far from Ohio.
Seems that Springfield, OH is about as central in that bracket as could be had unless the NCAA wanted to go with a neutral site.

Flying Dutch Fan · March 05, 2006, 06:48:01 PM

Following a great suggestion by TigerFan_1973, I created a new topic in the GL Region for discussing the upcoming games in Springfield. Saves us from having to post in multiple places.

millie · March 05, 2006, 06:52:36 PM

of the 4 teams in MC's bracket...who has the best record?
if it is MC then MC should host, if it is not, then the team with the best record (or power points or what ever they are called) should host...there should be an advantage to doing well...if the powers that be really want the truly BEST team to win (which the vote is still out in that)...i am from louisiana and i have had the chance to see some of the BEST politics known to man.

baddog...you must be a geography nerd...you care an awful lot about it especially when it gives you the home court advantage...

let's go Choctaws to whitenberg and win one for the SOUTH.

baddog · March 05, 2006, 07:19:33 PM

Millie -- Maybe a nerd, but I am simply not geographically ignorant. Nor as poor (or hard-headed) a mis-speller.
The issue for the NCAA is not who has the best record. It is centrality to effect cost savings. It really is that simple.
I do not have a dog in this fight. Just trying to call for some objectivity from you Mississloppy fans. (Hey, no surprise you could spell Wittenberg with a "white.")

Ralph Turner · March 05, 2006, 07:38:16 PM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 05, 2006, 08:53:28 AM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on March 05, 2006, 01:59:15 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 04, 2006, 09:51:05 PM
I will send Pat Coleman a half-dozen steaks if Miss College hosts the Sectional! 8).
(The drama heightens!)

Mmmmmm, steaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak.

Okay Choctaws fans, this McMurry alum may be passing the hat and asking for donations to help with getting a Sectional in Clinton. A tremendous sacrifice on my part, and it is tough having to bleed navy blue during March Madness, but sacrifices must be made! And this is one way to taunt the selection gods, a burnt offering (medium rare?) on Pat Coleman's grill!

In the new format of Pools, since 2000, the ASC has never hosted a Sectional. We have been flown to Calvin (McM), to Christopher Newport (McM), to Puget Sound (SRSU) and to Albion (MC).

Well Pat, I guess that turned out to be a safe bet! $:-\$

dsc · March 05, 2006, 08:11:16 PM

I've always been under the assumption (and was told during the football season) that the NCAA Officials' job was to make sure the BEST teams reached the FINALS! It is in the football playoffs, anyway. The SAME should apply to basketball.

Part of making sure this happens is to let the best teams have the "home court advantage."

I don't see this happening...

The Chocs should be playing in Clinton!

I hope you win anyway!!! Good luck! Do your best!

Pat missed a good opportunity for some Texas Beef!

But I am sure money is being saved! So what else matters?