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Courtney Macklin
@SOURaiders @RaiderVB
After last night’s win, the last ever in Riehm Arena after 58 years of use, the #19 Raiders were placed in Pool F for the 2015 NAIA Volleyball National Championship Final Site Pool Play. They need to finish in the top two of their pool to advance. The other teams in Pool F are:
#6 Vanguard (Calif.)
#7 Midland (Neb.)
#22 Coastal Georgia
Matches begin December 1 in Sioux City, Iowa.
Sean Rogers applying the heat in SOU’s 52-8 victory
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @MontanaWestern @racetodaytona @Play_NAIA @FConference
Will the NAIA “powers that be” finally realize after today’s results what people have been saying for a couple years? As I mentioned a week ago, today’s #10 at #7 (according to the NAIA coaches) was really #46 at #3 (according to Massey Ratings). Not to disrespect Kansas Wesleyan, and their 10-2 season, but they couldn’t have beaten anyone in the Frontier Conference other than Montana Northern. That’s what I said, and Massey Ratings agreed, and yet the voting coaches thought KWU was more worthy of a post season birth than Montana Western. Ridiculous.
SOU shouldn’t be playing Montana Tech next week as the top four teams (according to the coaches) won. If the system is at all fair, things will play out so that SOU ends up playing Montana Tech in Daytona this year. SOU should have played Carroll College in Daytona last year. Carroll College should have ended up with the #2 ranking last year.
Things need to be fixed in the NAIA football ranking system soon. SOU and Montana Tech should be at home next weekend. Neither will be since they had to run the Frontier Conference gauntlet just to get to the postseason.
Melvin Mason
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @RaiderVB @Sectionchamp2 @Niki_721
Football at 4.
Volleyball at 9.
Winners continue deeper into the NAIA playoffs. Losers are done. In Ashland. Be there.
Map to Kepler @ Club 66 (11/16/15)
SOU in autumn
@SOUAshland @SOUGrounds @SOUadmissions
Those SOU landscaping people are so on top of the leaf “problem” on campus during the week that in order to get a photo like this, you need to wait until Sunday. Early on Monday works too.
Isiah Carter, David Weider, and Sam Woods before yesterday’s victory over Eastern Oregon University
@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @CarterTheGr8_
Here are the games:
Game 1 – Saint Xavier (Ill.) (7-3) at Morningside (Iowa) (10-1)
Game 2 – Point (Ga.) (8-2) at Baker (Kan.) (10-1)
Game 3 – Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) (8-2) at Grand View (Iowa) (10-1)
Game 4 – Reinhardt (Ga.) (9-1) at Saint Francis (Ind.) (9-0)
Game 5 – Dickinson State (N.D.) (8-2) at Montana Tech (9-1)
Game 6 – Campbellsville (Ky.) (8-2) at Marian (Ind.) (8-2)
Game 7 – Kansas Wesleyan (10-1) at Southern Oregon (8-2)
Game 8 – Doane (Neb.) (9-1) at Tabor (Kan.) (10-1)
Here are the predictions:
Game 1 – Morningside (Iowa) by 20+
Game 2 – Slight edge to Baker (Kan.)
Game 3 – Slight edge to Grand View (Iowa)
Game 4 – Slight edge to Saint Francis (Ind.)
Game 5 – Montana Tech by 20+
Game 6 – Slight edge to Marian (Ind.)
Game 7 – Southern Oregon by 20+
Game 8 – Doane (Neb.) by 7+
For SOU to host a second round game they will likely need three of the top six teams to lose in the first round. Morningside and Montana Tech will probably be victorious, but three of the other four games could go to the visiting team. If that doesn’t happen, SOU may be traveling to Montana Tech for the second round.
Ashland, Oregon
A bit wider view of a prior entry.
