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Looks like another fun week of basketball is upon us, followed by (finally) the season, week in and week out, without interruption! Yessss. Finally.
The PacWest looks like they are gonna lay quiet with just some cupcakes till next year and then CBU lands in Hawaii for a showdown with HPU. Should/could be interesting with both teams sporting really good records, largely on their respective home floors. CBU far from home, but a strong favorite in most parts for making the NCAA tourney and even hosting the regional (but let's not get ahead of ourselves now!). HPU still not venturing far from home, but will they continue to defend their home court? KTodd better give us the low-down on this game, cause I can't recommend paying the fee to watch that one on the video feed after my experience when the Alaska schools were there to open the season!
The CCAA looks to be loaded with a lot of interesting games, highlighted by the New Year's Even showdown of San Francisco State @ Chico. A lot of their other games between the 29th and the 31st look interesting, because like the GNAC, there seems to be a lot of parity and a lot of potential for knocking off each other in the CCAA on any given night.
The GNAC looks interesting this week with Saint Martin's and SPU in Alaska and CWU @ WOU. The GNAC still looks like a convoluted mess of a transition year to me. Almost everybody exited non-con play looking pretty messy. Almost nobody has the non-con record that would allow them to have an off week in conference play and still hope for an at large bid to the regional. But, all the same, a messy, transition year could still be really fun till late February. Either way, to have SMU and SPU in Alaska this week will mean big implications for all four of those teams (they all come in 1-1 in conference, will they all leave 2-2?). SPU swept the Alaska schools at home last year and I'm sure UAA and UAF would like to stop that trend, SMU knocked off Anchorage in Anchorage last year and so on and so forth. I'm pretty sure SMU comes back strong from the break. The other three teams seem a little less predictable this year... CWU @ WOU could be a real fun one too. CWU looks comfortable in their game, WOU not so much. But those things could change now. WOU only has one player on their active roster who had a lot of minutes last year (Omlid). Their bigs that played last year played really limited roles with limited minutes. All of their returners that played big game minutes last year appear on their roster without numbers, looking like they are redshirting. Would be nice if Omlid had a few of those guys on the floor helping to steady the boat a bit, but you never know why they are redshirting versus playing and it's probably easier for us to criticize than it is to understand the "whys" of those decisions. Anyways... The NNU, Concordia, MSUB games could be interesting too as all those teams seem better this year too, making things even more interesting...
What's everyone else thinkin?
The PacWest looks like they are gonna lay quiet with just some cupcakes till next year and then CBU lands in Hawaii for a showdown with HPU. Should/could be interesting with both teams sporting really good records, largely on their respective home floors. CBU far from home, but a strong favorite in most parts for making the NCAA tourney and even hosting the regional (but let's not get ahead of ourselves now!). HPU still not venturing far from home, but will they continue to defend their home court? KTodd better give us the low-down on this game, cause I can't recommend paying the fee to watch that one on the video feed after my experience when the Alaska schools were there to open the season!
The CCAA looks to be loaded with a lot of interesting games, highlighted by the New Year's Even showdown of San Francisco State @ Chico. A lot of their other games between the 29th and the 31st look interesting, because like the GNAC, there seems to be a lot of parity and a lot of potential for knocking off each other in the CCAA on any given night.
The GNAC looks interesting this week with Saint Martin's and SPU in Alaska and CWU @ WOU. The GNAC still looks like a convoluted mess of a transition year to me. Almost everybody exited non-con play looking pretty messy. Almost nobody has the non-con record that would allow them to have an off week in conference play and still hope for an at large bid to the regional. But, all the same, a messy, transition year could still be really fun till late February. Either way, to have SMU and SPU in Alaska this week will mean big implications for all four of those teams (they all come in 1-1 in conference, will they all leave 2-2?). SPU swept the Alaska schools at home last year and I'm sure UAA and UAF would like to stop that trend, SMU knocked off Anchorage in Anchorage last year and so on and so forth. I'm pretty sure SMU comes back strong from the break. The other three teams seem a little less predictable this year... CWU @ WOU could be a real fun one too. CWU looks comfortable in their game, WOU not so much. But those things could change now. WOU only has one player on their active roster who had a lot of minutes last year (Omlid). Their bigs that played last year played really limited roles with limited minutes. All of their returners that played big game minutes last year appear on their roster without numbers, looking like they are redshirting. Would be nice if Omlid had a few of those guys on the floor helping to steady the boat a bit, but you never know why they are redshirting versus playing and it's probably easier for us to criticize than it is to understand the "whys" of those decisions. Anyways... The NNU, Concordia, MSUB games could be interesting too as all those teams seem better this year too, making things even more interesting...
What's everyone else thinkin?
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