MBB: University Athletic Association

[Hoop Dreams]

From a Chicago fan --

Congratulations to the Washington University Bears on dominating in Salem and earning their first-ever championship.  You did the UAA proud.  What an accomplishment after losing Sean Wallis (an excellent PG) early in the season.

The Bears' national title should add some spice to the UC-Wash U rivalry.  Fortunately, the Maroons won't have to deal with Troy Ruths any longer.  Congratulations to Troy -- somebody get that kid a trophy case for graduation.

[jagluski]

From a Chicago fan --

Congratulations to the Washington University Bears on dominating in Salem and earning their first-ever championship.  You did the UAA proud.  What an accomplishment after losing Sean Wallis (an excellent PG) early in the season.

The Bears' national title should add some spice to the UC-Wash U rivalry.  Fortunately, the Maroons won't have to deal with Troy Ruths any longer.  Congratulations to Troy -- somebody get that kid a trophy case for graduation.

Now you know how we felt when Derek Reich graduated!

[AndersDY]

Could you guys please stop beating my teams? As the son of a Hope professor and a graduate of Wooster, I've pretty much had my share of Wash U in the past couple years. I did at least make the call a year ago that Washington would take it all this year having seen their returning talent in Salem last year, though like I'm sure plenty of others, I was hedging a bit when Wallis went down. Besides Ruths, that was quite a shooting display in the second half. Based on their second game against Amherst, I take it that Hope didn't see them shooting much hotter than normal though.

I brought my camera but ended up with pictures the Washington folks will enjoy more than the Hope crowd. Also a couple short clips, for those who weren't there:

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=23jsnep&s=3
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=fuxiz7&s=3

Crappy quality from my little camera, but I thought I might as well capture something that would be happy for someone. Congratulations on a great run through the tourney.

[Gregory Sager]

I'm fully aware of Wash U's accomplishments on the distaff side of athletics, quaj. Nevertheless, this room is under the rubric of men's basketball, which is the reason why I didn't feel it necessary to spell it out in that original post on Saturday afternoon.

Sorry about that, but I really did mean it in good humor.  I was thinking of NYU's 1997 championship as well as the Lady Bears.  Thanks for reminding me of the 1990 championship by the Rochester men.

Understood. I saw the smiley in your post, and Pat and Tom were obviously posting tongue-in-cheek as well, which is why I replied in kind.

[Titan Q]

Some impressive footage of Ross Kelley and some fellow Class of 2010 Wash U Bears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMYzsxtvZk

The agility displayed here by Kelley is what allowed him to guard All-American Andrew Olson so effectively.

[y_jack_lok]

Awesome video!! A definite MUST SEE.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Awesome... disturbing... head-scratching... "what are they doing!"... where was Ruths and Naeding?... can Coach suspend them for something like this?... all things that come to mind on that video .

Now... I am kidding! Though I wish I had seen this BEFORE I talked to Troy Ruths on Hoopsville tonight... I would have had a few other questions for him!

[Gregory Sager]

Some impressive footage of Ross Kelley and some fellow Class of 2010 Wash U Bears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdMYzsxtvZk

The agility displayed here by Kelley is what allowed him to guard All-American Andrew Olson so effectively.

YouTube should've sponsored the First Annual D3 Final Four Danceoff, pitting the Wash U quartet against Hope's Marcus Vanderheide.

[Pat Coleman]

Nice story I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet. Includes Troy Ruths (as well as some Stephen Curry kid that is lighting up some other tournament you may be aware of).

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/bryanburwell/story/C2B5CD1A286599A78625741700136D04?OpenDocument

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

"As he sat inside studio B at Channel 2 waiting to go on air, a robotic television camera that's about the size of an undersized sumo wrestler chugged its way in from studio A operated by remote control and almost wiped him out.

It was as close as anyone or anything came all weekend to knocking him out."

Since I work as a news and sports producer in real life in Baltimore (and for a station also known as "Channel 2"), that quote above makes me laugh. I have actually seen those cameras take off on their own before and get many people scrambling! Glad to hear it didn't hurt Ruths! Though, on the court, he would still have the height advantage!

[Wydown Blvd.]

I mentioned that wall-to-wall coverage has been great:
http://bearsports.wustl.edu/releases/08NCAAHits.html

On another board I mentioned that this does not include three radio interviews of Coach Edwards, and now it does not include the Hoopsville radio coverage.

[Wydown Blvd.]

I mispoke. The WashU SID is on the ball and continues to post more coverage including one of the radio interviews from Monday as of the time of this post.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The Wash U SID needs a link to the specific interview to post it... and since I don't cut down the interviews until at least 24 hours after the interview, he has nothing to link to except the entire show. Knowing Chris as well as I do... I am sure as soon as I get my work done - it will be linked! 

[Marty Peretz]

Fun fact: Bob Mckillop's son is an assistant coach at Emory. McKillop is, of course, the coach at Davidson and his son played there, graduating in 2006. Daddy didn't exactly take it lightly on his son when the Golden Eagles played Davidson to open the season. The Wildcats won 120-56....

[ILive4This]

The second UAA team that Davidson has played in the past four years, as the Judges traveled to NC during this year's sr class' freshmen campaign, getting it handed to them in the first half, then playing close the second half to eventually lose 69-49.

http://my.brandeis.edu/athletics/one-game?group_id=1385&item_id=464965

Interesting to look at the box score from this campaign, as the leading scorer for the Judges in that game (Toppi) is still at Brandeis but has focused on baseball rather than basketball, unlike the leading rebounder from that game (Lambert) who played both sports.... although he has chosen minor league baseball over playing bball in europe.