MBB: University Athletic Association

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Gotcha, thanks for the update.

[Wydown Blvd.]

pretty good summary

yeppers so argument over....and btw its a "she"

[Gregory Sager]

Oops. My apologies. 

[Wydown Blvd.]

lol...

[martin]

The latest US News rankings are out.  UofC went from 14 to 9 - turns out they were not giving accurate information to US News for the past few years.  Chicago has been very critical of the rankings so did not cooperate fully.  I guess the pressure of a sliding ranking - behind Wash and Northwestern - finally got to them.

Here are the UAA members (all ranked in National Universities):
9 Chicago
12 Wash
18 Emory
21 CMU
31 Brandeis
34 NYU, Rochester
38 CWRU

Potential UAA members (D3 and top rated National Universities):
4 Cal Tech, MIT
16 Hopkins
27 Tufts
42 RPI
44 Yeshiva

Should drop out of D1 and join the UAA:
17 Rice
44 Tulane

Tufts, RPI and Yeshiva are not members of the Association of American Universities ("an association of 62 leading research universities in the US and Canada").  I thought that was a requirement of UAA members.  Emory did not join the AAU until 1995.  UAA was formed in 1986.  Brandeis joined the AAU in 1985 - everyone else was also in.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

New Princeton Review rankings are out.  U of C was ranked #1 in "Best Academic Undergraduate Experience"  Pretty nice honor.

[martin]

Rusty Loyd has left Chicago.  Mike McGrath's assistant and former Maroon guard is taking the head coaching position at IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology - an NAIA school also on the south side of Chicago).

Taking over for Rusty is Jarred Samplesm formerly an assistant at Southwestern.  He pkayed at Dallas, graduating in 2001.  Link to the press release is at:
http://athletics.uchicago.edu/mensbasketball/mbk.htm

You have to go to that page to see a pic of Jarred - there is none on the actual press release.

[martin]

The Chicago men are in Italy right now.  They won their first game 88-60.  Tour coverage is at:
http://athletics.uchicago.edu/mensbasketball/mbk-italytrip06.htm

[bouttime]

Carnegie Mellon kicks off the 2006-07 season with an exhibition game against University of Pittsburgh tonight at 7:30. Perhaps the Tartans can give Pitt another run for their money. Reguardless of the outcome, it will be a great experience for the players.

[David Collinge]

Should drop out of D1 and join the UAA:
17 Rice
44 Tulane

Oh man, from your lips to Scott Cowan's ears!  But I'm afraid that ship has sailed, since the school did a complete "reevaluation" of their athletic programs about 3 years ago and decided to stay D1A.   

David Collinge, Law '04

[bouttime]

Pitt is leading CMU 48-17 at halftime. It is very obvious that Pitt is the number 5 team in all the land while CMU is a very young team. CMU is playing very hard but I think they are shooting well under 20% from the floor. We'll see what happens the rest of the way.

[bouttime]

Pittsburgh 103
Carnegie Mellon 45

[martin]

The coaches' poll is up -

1. NYU (4)  44  1-1-1-1-2-2-4 
2. Rochester (1)  40  1-2-2-2-2-3-4 
3. Brandeis (2)  37  1-1-3-3-3-3-5 
    Washington (1)  37  1-2-2-3-3-4-4 
5. Chicago 27  3-4-4-4-4-5-5 
6. Emory 18  5-5-5-5-6-6-6 
7. Carnegie Mellon  13  5-6-6-6-6-7-7 
8. Case 8  6-7-7-7-7-7-7

[martin]

In the D3 Hoops Poll, three UAA teams got votes:

30  Rochester (62)
50  Chicago  (11)
60  Washington (3)

No mention of the UAA favorite, NYU.

[Pat Coleman]

NYU has disappointed too many Januarys and Februarys to get my vote.