First Unbeaten Team to go home?

[gatoradio]

Who's going down first?  and who brings them down?

[LogShow]

I would have to go with Hope, because Puget Sound scheduled to play them in Sweet 16 (I think).  Puget Sound took down Howard Payne in the NCAAs last year ...so they know what its like.

[hoopnut]

They will fall in this order:
Hope, HPU and Thomas-Moore, since that's the order UPS will meet them. Of course, that assumes no one else knocks them off first.

[Mr. Ypsi]

FWIW (very little, probably), in Pick Ems I have Hope downing Howard Payne in the Elite Eight, Messiah downing Thomas More in the semis, and Hope winning it all (after beating my beloved Titans in the other semi).

[hickory_cornhusker]

I too have Hope winning it. Although I have them winning the final against Thomas More

[Pat Coleman]

This is a great poll question. Hope you don't mind if I borrow it and put it on the front page.

[Ralph Turner]

This is a great poll question. Hope you don't mind if I borrow it and put it on the front page.

Borrowing the poll...

I really enjoy the polls being compiled in archive for review.

[Erm Schmigget]

My, my...aren't those Loggerheads just plucky!  We all may as well just walk away now.      

Seriously, though.  I see Hope and HPU in another elite eight battle that, but for the wiz-dumb of the selection committee, should have been avoided through better disbursement of the top teams.  Looking through those teams rosters and stats, I pick Hope over HPU.  None of Hope's players average more than 20.1 minutes, and the bench outscores the starters.  They've seen prolific scorers like Meia Daniels (e.g. Allison Kessler, St. Mary's), and bigger line-ups (e.g. Albion, who was on the bubble for the NCAA tourney).

But there's alot of basketball to be played until then.  One game at a time.   

[Pat Coleman]

This is what the committee did -- it just didn't agree with you and me as to who the top teams were.

[gatoradio]

This is a great poll question. Hope you don't mind if I borrow it and put it on the front page.

By all means, Pat.  Go right ahead. 

[LogShow]

My, my...aren't those Loggerheads just plucky!  We all may as well just walk away now.      

Hey you gotta support your team right?   UPS would have to play a heck of a game to beat Hope.  I am not saying it would be easy, but they won't be intimidated by that game, as they beat Howard Payne last year in the NCAAs.

[LogShow]

And, most importantly...UPS have to get there first

[Ralph Turner]

My, my...aren't those Loggerheads just plucky!  We all may as well just walk away now.      

Hey you gotta support your team right?   UPS would have to play a heck of a game to beat Hope.  I am not saying it would be easy, but they won't be intimidated by that game, as they beat Howard Payne last year in the NCAAs.

Best thing that has happened to HPU!

I hope that we (McMurry) can knock off Horrid Pain*.

But if we can't, I really think that the lessons that the Lady Jackets learned in Decorah can take them to the Elite 8 and maybe to the title game.


*Horrid Pain is a nickname that goes back in my family to the late 1930's.  My late father would "kid" his cousin who was a QB at Howard Payne College.  the name may be even older than that.  The two schools are 80 miles apart and began playing one another in the early 1930's.  From that same era, the other McMurry rival was called "Hardened Sinners",  Hardin-Simmons University.

[Erm Schmigget]

My, my...aren't those Loggerheads just plucky!  We all may as well just walk away now.      

Hey you gotta support your team right?  

Absolutely.  And I wouldn't have you do/say anything to the contrary.   

[LogShow]

Having 3 unbeaten teams entering the tournament is pretty impressive though, all 3 schools deserve a congrats for a heck of a regular season.  But atleast 2 of those undefeated records will fall...maybe even 3. 

I know both are bad, but...Do you think that being undefeated and losing in the tournament is more painful then already having a number of losses and then losing?