Daily Archives: December 3, 2006

Two hundred and one?

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Two hundred and one points?

There’s been a lot of discussion about this total put up by Lincoln on Saturday afternoon. Most of the discussion appears to revolve around “class” and other abstract concepts. None of the people commenting on the game saw it.

Neither did I. That’s why I’m not going to jump to conclusions.

A box score isn’t available that I’ve seen. Salem International, the Division II school which invited Ohio State-Marion to its tournament, hasn’t even posted Friday game info on its site, let alone Saturday. But from looking at the site of UDC, another Division II school at this tournament, it’s not like trouncing Ohio State-Marion was unprecedented. On Friday, UDC beat this team 133-53 — scoring about double its previous season average in the win.

For Lincoln, 201 points is about double its previous season average as well. The Lions came into the tournament averaging 103 points per game.

Perhaps a little perspective before you jump all over Lincoln on this. Just a thought.

Day 4: Red brick buildings

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SAN ANTONIO – “You mean ‘just come to campus and look for the red brick building’ didn’t work?”

That’s what Trinity SID Justin Parker asked me a few minutes after I sat down at press row here, about seven and a half minutes into the game with Trinity trailing Millsaps 16-8. Uhh, no, and while I knew how to get here, let’s just say it’s not been the best morning. But I got to see a lot of campus. And red brick buildings.

These Sunday morning games can’t be much easier on the players either. Millsaps’ trip this time hasn’t been too difficult but the second day of a trip including DePauw and Centre or Oglethorpe and Sewanee can’t be easy.

Even more so in the UAA, which plays a similar schedule and has teams going from Atlanta to Cleveland, from St. Louis to Chicago or from New York City to Boston.

Trinity has taken a 20-19 lead. The Tigers have given uniform numbers to 17 players, 11 of them freshmen and sophomores. It’s been a ragged first half, with the times shooting a combined 16-for-53. And seemingly worse than that since I got in the building.