MBB: University Athletic Association

[AndOne]

From a regular poster in the CCIW room-----

Wash U loses a player of Wallis' caliber and still goes on to win the national championship---Pretty damn good!

Congrats to the Bears

[Titan Q]

Congratulations to Mark Edwards and the Washington University Bears on an amazing accomplishment.  I think we all knew Wash U had a great team, but the way they played this weekend here in Salem was impressive to say the least.  They absolutely dominated Amherst today, and I left the Salem Civic Center last night not sure Wash U could beat the Lord Jeffs...Amherst was really, really good.

A great coach and a great program earned a much deserved national championship today.  Congratulations to the Wash U faithful -- enjoy your title.

[mark_reichert]

The Bears are really having their way with Amherst. Wash U's up by 18 with four minutes left. Looks like the UAA is going to have its second-ever national championship.

I take it "men's" is implied.

[Pat Coleman]

As was "basketball."

[Greek Tragedy]

and "Division III" 

[ILive4This]

Congrats to Ruths, Coppens and Hainje on their All American honors (and player of the year etc. etc. to Ruths). I was just wondering, is the d3 AA the official NCAA AA's for d3 basketball or is there an alternate list published by the NCAA?

[Pat Coleman]

There is no official NCAA list.

[fpc85]

wash u. played like the champions they are last night. the jeffs were beat in the post and on the perimeter...i don't think i remember a team scoring 90 points on them... i think they only missed 6 shots in the 2nd half...not sure what team could have beaten them yesterday. hixon mentioned that wash u. did to the jeffs what amherst had the pleasure of doing to other teams
in addition, they were a great group of guys, a class act...we couldn't have lost to a better group of guys.

[sac]

I'll also pass on my congratulations to the Wash U Bears, they put on a great show this weekend and were without a doubt the best team in Salem. 

Wash U put up 89 and 90 points vs Hope and Amherst, 2 teams I think most would believe were probably among the top 5 or 10 defensive teams in D3 this season.....at least statistically.

89 was the most Hope gave up by 12 in regulation, that by Mt. Vernon Nazarene, a pretty high scoring NAIA team in their own right.  Hope only gave up 70+ points 10 times all season.

Here's an amazing number, 93...............93 is the number of games since Hope last gave up 80 points period, that dates back to the final game of the 2005 season, an 82-61 loss to Calvin.

Washington did something pretty special and rare against Hope Friday night.


Amherst had give up 87 earlier in the year, but the 90 points by WashU was well over Amherst's defensive avg of 67.1

[Gregory Sager]

The Bears are really having their way with Amherst. Wash U's up by 18 with four minutes left. Looks like the UAA is going to have its second-ever national championship.

I take it "men's" is implied.

As was "basketball."

and "Division III" 

I also implied that the nation referred to in the word "national" is the United States of America.

Any other examples of soul-crushing exactitude that you guys would like to parse from that sentence?

[quaj]

The Bears are really having their way with Amherst. Wash U's up by 18 with four minutes left. Looks like the UAA is going to have its second-ever national championship.

I take it "men's" is implied.

As was "basketball."

and "Division III" 

I also implied that the nation referred to in the word "national" is the United States of America.

Any other examples of soul-crushing exactitude that you guys would like to parse from that sentence?

Nope but there will finally be a national championship banner for a men's team up in the Field House next to the four women's basketball national championship banners and the nine volleyball national championship banners.

[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.

[ILive4This]

I find it interesting, how not just Wash U but seemingly across the UAA, the conference is shifting from a women's power conference, to a men's power. I understand both genders received 4 bids, however just look at the finishes on each side.

[jagluski]

Coach Edwards of Wash U is on AM 1380 in St. Louis at 11:15am cst and AM 590 in St. Louis at 3:30pm.  Links at http://bearsports.wustl.edu/

[mark_reichert]

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.

Going to other sports, from a quick look at the NCAA site, the Rochester and NYU men have won Cross Country championships (Brandeis wasn't in the UAA when they won).  The Emory women won four straight championships in tennis and managed back to back championships (presumably over Kenyon) in Swimming and Diving.

I wonder if it what omen it will be if the Kenyon men ever lose.