WBB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Jester1390]

Well here I am at Anderson university.  Maybe tonight will be the night.   We have a girl go 5 for 5 they decide to shoot 60 percent from free throw.  The refs give us the benefit on calls.  All the girls remember you know what I was really good in high school.  I do know how to pass and dribble. I do remember what it's like to score a basket. 

Most importantly to remember when they were the puncher and not the punching bag.  I think people have been right all the teams have taken their pound of flesh.  They knew they were beatable so they have gotten everyone's best and sustained game.  Now the bloodletting is almost over it will be interesting how the 2nd go around gos

[Jester1390]

20-16. Losing at half.  Nosa is killing it inside but her free throw shooting is such a disvantage not making them pay for fouling her.  Difference in game 4 3s to 0 for rose.  Kid is playing excellent defense has hit the floor hard twice already playing with a hip flexor proud of her sucking it up.  She needs to shoot the dam ball

[Jester1390]

YES YES YES YES Gold Almighty YES

[Enginerd]

YES YES YES YES Gold Almighty YES

Still some big holes to plug, particularly on the perimeter (which could get exposed Saturday-Transy is GOOD on the perimeter) - but looked more like the team I think everyone was expecting - best basketball they've played since the first half of the WashU game. They seemed to really tank after the Nashville trip - what was in the water down there?
If they can get Igiehon to play that hard on a consistent basis, she'll be an All-American before she's done. My God she is athletic. That steal she had towards the end of the game where she just took the ball away from #24 Moore as she was leaving the ground for a lay-up was just sublime. Her stat line says it all: 18 points (should have been 28-30 between blown lay-ups and missed FT's), 21 rebounds, and 7 blocks.
Burnham reminds me of a working man's Chiarra Franklin, and #21 Barlow, their 6'1 post, will only get better as well. Jester, your kid has had her troubles scoring this year, but she really sees the floor, defends, and once she gains some confidence and gets healthy, will be a really good all-around player.
I've said all along, the future is bright if they all come back and they recruit as well as they always have.

[Jester1390]

They are a re pounding monster team already.  I told my kid even though she scored 4 she affected the game on both ends of the floor.   Held her defensive assignments she was guarding one of their top scorers to 0 points.   The play she made when Nosa was shooting the free throw and kahlan was the only person coach had in the lane.  She fought off 3 defenders and was able to tip it Nosa for her to make a layup. Then she immediately got 2 turnovers.   We talked a About finishing better it's another game where she could have easily been in double figures and she only shot a few times   

Key to game 14 turnovers only.  The senior guard woody came through with a huge 3 the only one of the game and was clutch on free throws down the line.   They still reside in brick city but it's getting better with the shooting

[Baldini]

It seems to be a down year for most in the HCAC this season.

Transylvania looks like they are going to run the table. Hanover will probably beat everyone except Transy and the other 8 seem to be an 'any given night' group. Before last night I would of guessed that Franklin, Bluffton and Manchester were good candidates to earn playoff spots, but Franklin losing at home gives me doubt about them being a sure thing. With 11 conference games yet to be played, it would not surprise me to see anyone of the 8 teams fill out the playoff spots 3-6.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Trany
Defiance
Rose
Bluffton
franklin

May I suggest that if anyone want's to shorten Transylvania ... this is NOT how it's done. Transy works.

I realize it might be a typo, but I also realize that some would take exception to it as well.

[Jester1390]

* Rose-Hulman ranks No. 2 in the HCAC in scoring defense, allowing just 58.3 points per game

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Congrats to Rose on getting that first win. Looks like turnovers were better and more action inside. Huge night for Igiehon.

Franklin just couldn't hit anything the final 5 minutes. They went 1 for 12 to finish the game, 0 for 4 from three. MSJ won it at the line, they were 23 of 29 while Franklin was just 6 of 14.

[Jester1390]

so i got a negative for spelling trany for short seems reasonable shortening. If you get upset by that you are really  going out of your way to be offended. If we are going to take umbrage at Trany when its obvious there is no disrespect and why does one have to automatically go there and more importantly that a transgender person is going to get triggered by seeing a shortening of a school's name is some how mean spirited or offensive is actually in my opinion very condescending to that person.  So there will be no apologies but at the same time if Transy makes the world a little brighter I can do that as well.

[Baldini]

Saturday's games.

Mount St. Joseph @ Defiance
Transylvania @ Rose-Hulman
Anderson @ Bluffton
Franklin @ Manchester
Earlham @ Hanover

I will take Defiance, Transy, Bluffton, Franklin and Hanover. 

[Jester1390]

defiance
transy
anderson
manchester
hanover

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

so i got a negative for spelling trany for short seems reasonable shortening. If you get upset by that you are really  going out of your way to be offended. If we are going to take umbrage at Trany when its obvious there is no disrespect and why does one have to automatically go there and more importantly that a transgender person is going to get triggered by seeing a shortening of a school's name is some how mean spirited or offensive is actually in my opinion very condescending to that person.  So there will be no apologies but at the same time if Transy makes the world a little brighter I can do that as well.

You may be reading too much into this. First off, I corrected you and I don't smite or applaud in general (unless really pushed) ... but I'm just making sure the hundreds (or thousands) of people who read these boards ... at least one is off your apparent "list."

Secondly, you could be applauded or smited for anything you write at any time. You don't know why people might do it based just on when or what you posted last. That isn't how it works. Someone could have read something you wrote from a few weeks ago and didn't like it and smited you ... but it pops up now because they just read it. It's coincidental. We also don't have a record of what post they smited.

Just don't assume because you didn't include an "s" in the short-hand for Transylvania (which should be obvious to include in my opinion) that someone smited you for that specifically. It could have been anything you wrote on these boards. You just don't really know.

You also took a nice long walk off a pretty short pier to assume the person that smited you must be a transgender - or at least that is how it has come across reading it six times. Or at least that a transgender person is going to get "triggered" because of your apparent (I say apparent, because you have yet to apologize for what I assume was a spelling or typo mistake but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt; you should do the same with others) misspelling. You don't have a clue who the person was who smited you ... but you certainly seem to think you do know which is pretty odd for a somewhat newby to these boards.

Or you assume you know what people might be "triggered" by. You shorted Transylvania to what is a condescending term especially for transgender individuals. And you are made at someone for being upset with you? Really? Even if you did it by accident, you did it. This isn't on other people. And your recourse is to not only assume someone smited you for it (and again, please provide the proof it was that particular post that caused the negative reaction; I can guess your most recent post has caused more negative feedback, though), but to then be unapologetic because ... you don't like that fact?

Why you won't apologize for a typo (at best) is beyond me. Why you take a "smite" from someone personal is beyond me. But attacking particular people because you think you know the reason is insane. I'm not sure why you simply can't apologize for the mistake and not attack others. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to eliminated the 's' and misconstrue the intent. I'll make sure to keep that in mind in the future," goes a long way.

I will say, the kind of mentality you are reacting with, though, has seen people exit these boards.

The proper way to shorted Transylvania is Transy and all you have to do is look at their website to get that information. Apologizing and admitting you, like the rest of us, are human is certainly a nice way to go about it as well.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Sorry for the delay on this... had a shoulder manipulation on Wednesday and I've been a bit off since. Still trying to get back into the swing of things.

Baldini 3-2     23-9
FCGG 3-2       22-10
Jester 3-2      21-11
Enginerd 0-0   8-7

I'm taking MSJ, Transy, Bluffton, Franklin, Hanover