Juco National Championships

[tornado]

Hey-- there were no D-I games yesterday, so let's talk junior college.

In Junior College Division III,
Joliet Junior College (Joliet, IL) made it all the way to the Title Game vs. North Lake College (TX).

http://championships-delhi.org/games/game12.php

North Lake won 73-70 to take the Championship.



NJCAA Division II Finals begin play tomorrow, on Wednesday, at Danville Area College, Danville, IL.

http://www.dacc.edu/njcaa/

Teams in the Final 12 (and include several local teams) are:
Columbus State Community College, Columbus OH
Danville Area Community College, Danville, IL
Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY
Essex County College, Newark, NJ
Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mott Community College, Flint, MI
Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, MO
Prince George’s Community College, Upper Marlboro, MD
Southeast Community College, Beatrice, NE
South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, AZ
South Suburban College, South Holland, IL
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL


NJCAA Division I Finals begin play tonight in Hutchinson, KS.
Here is today's schedule

http://www.njcaabbtrny.org/mod/index.htm

Dodie Dunson's Vincennes team played this morning at 9AM Central time, no results yet available.




The California State Junior College Basketball Tournament began on Mar. 14, and Yuba is already eliminated
in their Elite Eight game loss to Fullerton. Fullerton made it all the way to the finals, and lost the title game
72-67 to the Citrus College Owls. Congrats to Coach Cornelius and Yuba for their fine season.
Here is the CCCAA (California Community College Athletic Association) web site

http://www.coasports.org/

http://www.coasports.org/basketball/men/

Scores

http://www.coasports.org/basketball/Men%27sbasketballstatebrackets.pdf

Yuba's box score

http://www.coasports.org/basketball/championship%20scores%20and%20stats/men/yubfulbox.pdf

[tornado]

Update......score just posted....

Dodie Dunson's team, Vincennes, just lost their opening round game at the NJCAA D-I Finals.
They now drop to the Consolation bracket and play again Wednesday at 2PM Central time.

The score was
Salt Lake CC 65 - Vincennes University 61

TJ Marion's Southeastern IL College is playing now...vs. Paris (TX) Junior College

[BradleyBrave]

It sounds like Dodie has been carrying Vicennes throughout the playoffs. Any word on how he did today?

[tornado]

Nope...they just now posted the final score, but there should be some stats up on the site later.

[tornado]

I just checked again...and the stats are up..........

http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/BoxScore.aspx?uid=124158&ssid=959138CB-FFBE-498E-9586-2D614F5AD3FF&xmlfile=VUSLCC031820081000.xml

Dodie had an off game, played 36 minutes, was 3-9 overall and 3-6 from 3-pt,
and was 0-2 on FT's, totalling 9 points, 2 rebounds, no assists.

Vincennes shot 39% overall, and 28% from 3-pt, compared to Salt Lake's 56% overall and 50% on 3-pt.
It's a wonder the game was close!

[tornado]

The second DI juco tourney game is in the books....
Southeastern Illinois College defeated Paris Junior College 63-57

For Southeastern Illinois, TJ Marion was 2-8, had 5 points, 4 rebs, 4 asst. and played 37 min.
Their leading scorer was Andree Wilson with 18.

[tornado]

Oooops...Top Ranked Chipola will NOT be the National Champs this year, as they get bumped in the first round and will play in the Consolation Bracket.
Seward County beat Chipola 90-84.
By the way, Seward Co. was Theron Wilson's team last year.

http://www.cybersportsusa.com/Webgames/BoxScore.aspx?sport_id=1&tc_id=2009&team_id=8677&sch_id=59325&seas_id=2007&xmlfile=SCCC031820082030.xml

[Da Coach]

Those are some strange stats. Seward only shot 28 times, and made just 13 baskets, to Chipola's 55 shots, and 29 baskets. With that disparity, you would think Chipola would win easily. But Seward was 40/49 on free throws, to Chipola's 14/23.

And one of Chipola's stars, Gary Flowers, a former Oklahoma State player, had just 2 free throws, but is listed with 6 fouls. Do they allow 6 fouls in juco?

http://www.cybersportsusa.com/Webgames/BoxScore.aspx?sport_id=1&tc_id=2009&team_id=8677&sch_id=59325&seas_id=2007&xmlfile=SCCC031820082030.xml

[tornado]

Checking several other stories on this game, it is quite clear that those FT stats ARE correct....BUT...

The numbers which are labelled FG, are actually JUST the 2-point FG's.
so they were 13-28 on 2-pt attempts (26 points), 8-17 from 3-pt (24 points) and 40-49 from the FT line (40 pts) for their total of 90.

Chipola was whistled for 32 fouls, sending Seward to the line for 49 F's.

[FarmerClone]

Those are some strange stats. Seward only shot 28 times, and made just 13 baskets, to Chipola's 55 shots, and 29 baskets. With that disparity, you would think Chipola would win easily. But Seward was 40/49 on free throws, to Chipola's 14/23.

And one of Chipola's stars, Gary Flowers, a former Oklahoma State player, had just 2 free throws, but is listed with 6 fouls. Do they allow 6 fouls in juco?

http://www.cybersportsusa.com/Webgam...1820082030.xml

I don't think they allow six fouls in JUCO, but I would think it would be possible for a player to get six fouls if when they have four fouls they get called for a foul AND get T'd up for protesting. Not sure if that happened, but I would think it could.

[tornado]

Indian Hills just won their 2nd round game and now move on to the Elite Eight in the NJCAA (Division I) Junior College National Tourney.

Dwight Buycks had an awesome game, scoring 24 points, Leon Powell had 14 (with 5 rebounds), Dwight Hardy had 26.
They beat Itawamba 75-73 in OT
Indian Hills shot 26-37, for an overall 65.1% shooting pct.

Vincennes (Dodie Dunson) is presently playing vs. Paris JC in the Consolation Bracket.

[tornado]

Vincennes lost yesterday, and is now done, finishing in the lower half of the Consolation Bracket and is out of title contention.
Vincennes lost 74-69 to Paris JC, Dodie had 10 pts., they finish their season 28-5

Southeastern Illinois College also lost yesterday, and they now play for 4th-6th in the Championship bracket.

Indian Hills is in the quarterfinals and plays at 8:30PM today, if they win, they are in the semi's and play for a chance at the title game Friday.

[Da Coach]

Dwight Buycks had a good game for Indian Hills, but the team had a bad night and lost to South Plains CC of Texas 66-61.
Buycks scored 17 points and Dwight Hardy had 28 as they helped lead a comeback from a 20 point deficit.

http://www.hutchnews.com/Sports/southplains2008-03-20T23-54-5300000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000