All three ODAC teams -- W&L, Randolph, Shenandoah -- win tonight.

After going 1-3 in games on Sun, Mon, & Tues ODAC teams are now 23-14 in non-conference play.

Three teams in action tonight and one on Friday, before a busy weekend, all of it vs non-conference teams.

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Quote from: y_jack_lok on November 16, 2025, 03:06:33 PM^^^ What convinces you?

The part about the decreased quality over the short run.

Okay. Got it. Kind of like imposing tariffs that raise prices, then reducing tariffs to lower prices.

... as the conversation approaches the political ...

 

Sorry about that. I knew I was venturing into political territory, which isn't a good thing here. Will be more careful in the future.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on November 15, 2025, 11:24:54 PMStrong performance today by RMC in their 42-14 win in The Game. Hoping for a first round playoff bye, or at least a first round home game.

Got the bye, but not the home game. Jackets travel to John Carroll on 11/29. Maybe they can repeat 2018.

Quote from: WUPHF on November 16, 2025, 03:11:52 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on November 16, 2025, 03:06:33 PM^^^ What convinces you?

The part about the decreased quality over the short run.

Okay. Got it. Kind of like imposing tariffs that raise prices, then reducing tariffs to lower prices.

^^^ What convinces you?

Strong performance today by RMC in their 42-14 win in The Game. Hoping for a first round playoff bye, or at least a first round home game.

ODAC teams were 6-1 today, bringing the overall non-conference record to 22-11.

RMC with a strong second half, turning an 11-point halftime lead into a 35-point win over Yeshiva 92-57. I wasn't able to watch the entire game live, but what I did see live was blurry and choppy. Then when I went to the replay and watched from the begining it was the same way. I hope there's a remedy for that.

Earlier today I saw a social media post (Facebook, I think, though could have been X/Twitter) saying that Flo Sports would be broadcasting the RMC/H-SC game free via YouTube. Sorry I can't find it again to provide a link to the broadcast, if there was one. Just thought that anyone interested who hadn't subscribed to Flo and wasn't attending in person might like to watch without paying.

Update. After a bit of a search I found this link on the FloCollege site:

https://www.flocollege.com/articles/14756788-how-to-watch-hampden-sydney-vs-randolph-macon-football-for-free

You have to scroll down a little to find the YouTube broadcast screen.

Quote from: Seatfiller on November 14, 2025, 10:20:11 PMRoanoke started their season last Tuesday with a beat down against a developing Christendom team 90-38.  That game didn't really tell me much about us except we can beat teams that most likely won't have a good season.

Today Roanoke played Southern Virginia University and won 86-56.  First half we only had a 9 point lead but the defense got way better in the second half.  Hard to judge this team right now as we haven't played anyone really that good. That might change tomorrow as we go against a Marymount team who's currently beating Guilford 82-68 with 40 seconds left at Roanoke college.

I watched a good bit of this game. The announcers said Roanoke had won all six previous meetings vs SVU by an average of 28 points and never allowed SVU to score more than 60 points. With five and a half minutes left in the first half and SVU leading 31-24 it sure looked like that would change. Then Roanoke went to another gear, scored 18 unanswered points and led 42-33 at halftime. They kept it up in the second half and kept the scoring margin and under 60 streak in tact. Final was 86-56.

Averett downs Greensboro in a back and forth game 82-73. W&L starts off strong, downing Salisbury 88-63. Guilford loses to Marymount 84-68.

Just now went to Flo Sports to tune into a game and got sidetracked by the photo and lead article on the home page. The photo is identified as being from "Randolph Macon Athletics" (no hyphen between Randolph and Macon, which should be there). But the photo is of a team wearing jerseys saying "Wildcats" and shorts with what I believe is the Wildcat logo of Randolph College. (Randolph-Macon, of course, are the Yellow Jackets.) The colors on the wall of the gym could be those of either school, but the gym is clearly not Crenshaw at Randolph-Macon.

Then I clicked on the article, which is titled "The Best Rivalries in Division 3 College Basketball". Before the text of the article begins there is archived video of the recent women's game between Randolph-Macon and Notre Dame University of Maryland. The article then lists five rivalries -- Calvin/Hope, Randolph-Macon/Hampden-Sydney, Haverford/Swarthmore, Amherst/Williams, and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps/Pomona-Pitzer. You can argue about whether or not these are the five best rivalries, but Flo clearly must be referring to men's rivalries since Hampden-Sydney doesn't enroll women. So, why was that video chosen when it is a women's game and includes a team that is not among those named in the rivalries?

Seems that Flo still has work to do to get this kind of stuff right.

Quote from: rmc1982 on November 14, 2025, 09:29:43 AMYeshiva comes to Crenshaw tomorrow evening for an 815 Tipoff precipitated by the Jewish Sabbath ending at sundown.Plus tomorrow is "The Game" vs HSC at Day Field- PLUS its Homecoming at RMC, which makes for a very busy weekend in the COTU! Don't know what we'll see in Yeshiva, but they are usually well coached and a good team so I expect a good game! We were supposed to play them in the NCAA Playoffs the very day the NCAA shut down for CoVid in 2020 and that was supposed to be a huge matchup then. I would expect Josh has his kids ready to play and we should have a good crowd in Crenshaw so it should be a good atmosphere GO JACKETS!!

Yeshiva and RMC are both very different teams in 2025 than they were in 2020. The 2020 teams each had future D3 POYs in Ryan Turrell for Yeshiva and Buzz Anthony for RMC. Turrell went on to spend some time in the NBA G-League with the Detroit Pistons and now (correct me if I'm wrong) plays professionally in Israel. Buzz has been playing professionally in Germany since graduating (again, correct me if I'm wrong). Also, I don't want to take anything away from the other players on those 2020 teams. I'd say it's safe to say both 2020 teams were more storied than their 2025 counterparts.

Tigerfan noted the four games tonight. W&L sees its first action with Randolph playing its first game tomorrow.

On Wednesday Guilford won a high scoring game at NC Wesleyan 106-102. Quite a change for the Quakers. Overall, on Wednesday night ODAC teams were 5-1. When factoring in last night's loss by Lynchburg, ODAC teams are now 13-9 on the young season.

Quote from: CNU85 on November 13, 2025, 09:01:42 AMI predicted an 8 point CNU loss.

Matt and Zac Snyder of the D3datacast had this game as their pickems game of the week with RMC being a 5 point favorite according to their computer. They both picked CNU to beat that spread, primarily given that they were the home team. Zac even introduced his pick by saying he should learn never to pick against RMC. If I were doing the pickems I would have picked CNU to beat that spread as well. They fell one hoop short.

The officials certainly were a bit whistle-happy in the first half. Maybe all those whistles were actually fouls that in some games don't get called. Who knows? It wasn't on-sided.

CNU doesn't have quite as much size as RMC's first two opponents, so that could have helped the Jackets. As for RMC being loaded, they certainly have experience, starting three seniors and a junior, all of whom also started most of last season. Six freshmen and sophomores played well last night, combining for 78 minutes.

Pretty good game tonight down at CNU. RMC wins 71-65. Both teams turned the ball over a bit more than they would like -- 14 TOs for each. Some of those were forced, but enough were unforced -- especially for RMC -- that it had to be frustrating for the coaching staff. The Jackets were pretty foul prone and sent the Captains to the line 34 times, though they only made 21. RMC shot better from the field and made five more three pointers, exactly offsetting CNU's 15 point advantage at the free throw line (RMC was six of nine). That meant the game came down to the Jackets making three more two pointers. Both defenses played tight and tough.

Matt Snyder of the D3datacast did a pretty thorough review of the scoring discrepancy in the UWL vs H-SC game, since it was their game of the week and had an 0.5 point spread in favor of UWL. His analysis begins at about the 48 minute mark: https://youtu.be/WT1HAO1lh50?si=2N9fZ6rxB_L5xtls