MBB: USA South Conference

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Capts win in another wild one, 78-74 over a solid Wesley team.  The Wolverines record was 3-6 coming in and they sure as heck didnt look like a 3-6 team. One thing that did the Capts in was Wesley's 20 points on 20 CNU turnovers, however, the Captains did dominate in the paint, outscoring them something like 56-38. Wesley shot very well from outside of 15 feet. The Captains were just 1-of-8 from long range but were very effective inside, shooting over 50% for the game. Now the real tests begin, as they hit the road Wednesday for the start of conference season at Shenandoah.

[narch]

the monarchs lose their 4th straight, 76-72 to rutgers-newark - lehmann hit 8 3's in the game to set a mu record, but it wasn't enough - the one solice i can take in a 4 game skid is that the teams they've played have been very tough...there aren't many 4 game sequences like this:

guilford: 10-1, vwc: 11-2, defending national champs, catholic: 9-2, rutgers-newark: 10-2...that's a combined 40-7

i hope gc feels the brunt of the monarch frustration on wednesday night

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Hey, I read on the blog that there have been a bunch of Averett players missing the last few games.  Any word on how/when they will be back in the line-up?

[averetthoops]

Looking very doubtful for Eubanks.  Rumley could go.  McDaniel should play.

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Man conference season starts tomorrow and its awfully quiet in here.

Capts and Hornets tip tomorrow in Winchester. Those games are usually always wars. I wish I could be there to watch it, guess Ill have to settle for the radio version.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Sorry its been a few days.  Its Tuesday though and my Week 7 Power Rankings are out and ready.  Nothing changed too much.

Week 7 Power Rankings
Averett
CNU
Greensboro
Ferrum
Shenadoah
NC Wesleyan
Methodist

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Narch- I would be frustrated too if I was out scored 340-266 in those 4 games.  I think MU is a much better team then they have played in the last 4 games.  Both teams will be frustrated coming into tomorrow.  GC has lost their last two games and I am sure they are frustrated too after the great start they had.  It should be a good game, MU is not an easy place to play.

[PrideFan1986]

Narch- I would be frustrated too if I was out scored 340-266 in those 4 games.  I think MU is a much better team then they have played in the last 4 games.  Both teams will be frustrated coming into tomorrow.  GC has lost their last two games and I am sure they are frustrated too after the great start they had.  It should be a good game, MU is not an easy place to play.

That is really true that it is not a easy place to play at. I have been there for basketball the past two years and will be back there tommorow. Narch---are the students back at Methodist yet other than the players.

[narch]

Narch- I would be frustrated too if I was out scored 340-266 in those 4 games. 

as a fan i'd be just as frustrated, maybe more, if they were out scored 340-336 in those games - plus, it's not like they were playing fisk (twice) or huntingdon, or eastern mennonite...they were playing real, big-boy basketball teams, each with 10 or more wins right now

I think MU is a much better team then they have played in the last 4 games.

let's not paint such a bleak picture...the monarchs played well in 2 of those games, they just didn't get the w - they pushed guilford to 2 ot's and gave them everything they could handle and they led by as many as 19 before a late game let-down cost them a win against a 10-2 opponent...the two games in the middle weren't so pretty, but we're going to forget about those

and i think the word you are looking for is THAN...

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Nerch- (dona on purposa)

You forgot to mention that Catholic did win the 00-01 national championship, and think they are still pretty good.

[SU97]

Narch, I feel for you.  Your out of conference schedule is nasty.  SU has had a tough time too; we got hammered by NCAA D1's Radford and Longwood, and ran into that same buzzsaw at Guiford (except you took them to OT). 

I'm always on the fence on that kind of schedule.  I can see that a coach would want to play better competition to get the squad to see a different level, to learn to compete and what it takes...  but on the other hand at the end of the year, I hate to say that what most people see is the W-L records and you might end up digging a hole that you can't get out of. 

Personally I think you guys are doing the right thing, best of luck in the conference (except against the hornets). 

[SU97]

FINALLY!  Conference hoops start tonight, heading to campus to catch the SU-CNU game in an hour. 

Great way to start off the year, the SU-CNU game is always a great game - regardless of the score.  I know we've only won about 30% of these match-ups over the years, but it is the one game on campus each year that you can count on to be a physical game.  For as long as I can remember it's been a focal point for SU as kind of an informal "rivalry" on the court. I think that's why adding football in 2000 and then having CNU do the same the year after made SU Football so much more enjoyable to follow, because there was already some history from the hardcourt that carried over to Shentel Stadium. Here's to a great game tonight and (I hope) a "W" for the home team...  cheers.

[Hampton U SID]

cant wait to hear the versions from Fun-chester.  Sounded like a typical SU-CNU shootout.

CNU down 12-0 in the first four minutes and wins 84-81 in OT...

someone check Coach Woollum's heart rate now

[narch]

monarchs lose their 5th straight - first win for the pride in the riddle center since 99-00

[notamensa]

awesome... captains win in winchester! great start to the conference schedule. i was really concerned about this game. if someone that saw it would post their impressions, id really appreciate it. how about it, su97?