Who Is running the Grinnell system?

[TeeDub]

Don't forget, there is still a season to go.  I'm most interested in the Mazarei vs. Grotberg matchup...while I wish it was head to head, I'll have to be content with it being a comparison of stat sheets.

[hjmphelp]

Until GC and Redlands meets in the West Region final anyway!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Plus you have to remember to divide all of Grotberg's numbers by pi and then factor in the rotation of the earth, which he keeps moving with his mind at all times.

[digs]

Jordis-

Just wondering if you shouldn't change your name to Dilana Rocks?

[TeeDub]

While she does rock too, I'll stick with my loyalty to Jordis...but thanks for the recognition...

[smedindy]

Ok, does anyone have a count on how many system teams are out there this year? Or semi-system teams??

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I haven't heard of anyone starting, but I haven't heard of any dropping either.


I also wonder if UPS is going to play a little more system type ball with their new coach.  They have been scoring even more than they usually do this first weekend.

[Gregory Sager]

With Gary Smith retiring after this season, you have to wonder if this is the last year that Redlands will be utilizing the Grinnell system.

[hjmphelp]

It may very well be Redlands last year playing system ball, hard to say yet. MacMurray is no longer playing the style, but System Ball is taking hold at HS levels everywhere with over 200 teams playing one version or another at HS, NAIA and DIII level-especially on the women's side. VMI is the only DI team playing a real version of the System and are off to a fair start. I beleive they broke the DI scoring record for a single game several nights ago.

Sager-
Your man Bosco proved how great a coach he is Saturday by beating Grinnell with a barely better than mediocre team. They were VERY well coached-even if Grinnell's sputtering offense aided their win.







It ain't dead yet!

[smedindy]

They actually just broke the Big South record for points in a game. 156.

The all time record is Loyola Marymount, who beat US International 186-140 on January 5, 1991.

[hjmphelp]

I meant to say that the record was for DI vs DI. Correct me if I'm wrong, but US International is not/was not a DI team, therefore it isn't an official DI record just as Drake University's 162 point against Grinnell wawsn't considered a DI record.

[smedindy]

Yes, US International was D-1. The school soon went out of business, but they definitely were Division 1. If I remember, they had a good player, Kevin Bradshaw, who scored 72 points in that game, which is a record for D-1 players against D-1.

VMI was the one NOT playing a D-1 team. Virginia Intermont is NAIA II.

[hjmphelp]

Yup, my original source Emailed (most of) that info to me after my second post. Oh well, at least it gave you something to do today, eh?


VMI is still the 1st and only DI team playing a very close version of system ball.

[Redlands Rick]

I made a post earlier today under the West Region, SCIAC thread. Although I have watched this system of ball for a long time, and since I am new to this board, I did not know if or how I could cross-post the same entry in asking several questions that members who are familiar with this system could help answer.

Please read my questions, and any help you can give me is appreciated.

Redlands Rick

[Gregory Sager]

Sager-
Your man Bosco proved how great a coach he is Saturday by beating Grinnell with a barely better than mediocre team. They were VERY well coached-even if Grinnell's sputtering offense aided their win.

Jeff, Bosko Djurickovic is the only person in the history of D3 men's basketball who has five national championship rings in his possession. Saying that Carthage is "very well-coached" is like saying that the sun came up yesterday.

As for Carthage being "barely better than mediocre", I'm reserving judgment until I see the Red Men for myself. They may have been picked to finish close to the bottom of the CCIW by the other coaches and by most of the league's observers, but knocking off both Calvin and Hope within the space of eighteen hours isn't chicken feed.