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Second half of conference play
Tiani Bradford
@SOURaiders @souwbb @Tiani_Bradford
SOU’s basketball teams have now played each team in the Cascade Conference once. They will play them all again before the regular season is over.
Despite Saturday’s loss to Eastern Oregon University, the 16-1 women’s team is in a good position. They will face second place EOU and third place OIT at home in the second half. Massey has them as an 81-100% favorite in each of their remaining, regular-season games. Massey has them at #8, while the coaches have the Lady Raiders at #11. If they can win their final 10 games, and win the conference tournament (which will be in Ashland if they continue winning), they should have no problem getting back into the coaches’ top 8. A final ranking between four and eight means a #2 seeding in the national tournament. A #1 seeding (by virtue of a final ranking in the coaches’ poll between one and four) is unlikely after the loss to EOU.
Kenny Meyer
The men will need a better second half to win the conference, and it won’t be easy. They are currently in second place, but they must face Northwest Christian, Corban, and Warner Pacific on the road in the second half. At least they get Oregon Tech at home. Still, it will be difficult to make it through the conference with fewer than 4 or 5 losses.
Both teams will be at home (Ashland High School) this coming Saturday and Sunday.
The Mo Center
6-photo photomerge of the Ed Moshofsky Sports Center before day two of the 2016 Oregon Matt Hartner Memorial Classic (January, Eugene)
We just got back from three days of volleyball. The Rogue Valley Volleyball Club 18U team came in 38th place out of 108 teams. They finished with a 6-2 record, losing both of their games in three sets. In other words, they beat everyone they faced at least once. Given the original rankings, Rogue Valley couldn’t have finished higher than 29th place, even if they won all their games, so I guess you could say they came in 9th place.
Raider domination
Toria Bradford
@SOURaiders @souwbb @toriabradford23
The Raiders continued their winning ways tonight against College of Idaho. They are now 16-0. The only team that may have a decent chance of stopping them is Eastern Oregon University in La Grande on Saturday night. A win for the Raiders on 1/16/16, and what became a possibility after the Warner Pacific blowout a couple weeks ago will become a probability, a 27-0 regular season.
No conference team has played the Raiders very tough yet, with only EOU remaining. The Raiders will get Oregon Tech and EOU at home during the second half of the regular season.
Weeed @ Club 66
WEEED
A shot from last week’s show.
Grizzly Peak Sunrise
Today’s photo is from this morning. The whole town was in shadow, but Grizzly Peak was glowing.
SOU women’s basketball up to #8 in new poll
Courtney Setzer
@courtney_setzer @SOURaiders @souwbb
The new coaches poll has the last undefeated team in the #8 spot (up from #12 last week).
Here is where unbiased Massey Ratings have the 15-0 Raiders, #6:
Massey Ratings as of 1/12/16
A few things to note:
– Massey shows the Raiders with one loss since Massey counted the exhibition game against San Jose State (an NCAA D-I opponent).
– The Raiders need to get to a top four spot in the coaches poll by the middle of March in order to be one of the four #1 seeds in the national tournament. (12 more wins should get them there.)
– SOU’s strength of schedule (SoS) isn’t nearly as high as the other top 10 teams according to Massey. Concordia’s departure to NCAA D2 (and being replaced by 0-8 Walla Walla and 1-7 Multnomah in the Cascade Conference) isn’t helping.
2016 SOU Track & Field Schedule
Aspen Abbott and Jessie Rozario
@SOURaiders @JessieRozario @SOUTrackXC @runaspenrun
The schedule for the upcoming season can be found here. Your only chance to see college level athletes compete in Ashland is between April 21 and 23 in 2016.
Raider women go to 15-0 with another blowout win
Autumn Durand
@SOURaiders @souwbb @ADurand25
Today’s final score was 115-40 over Walla Walla. Next weekend the Raiders travel to College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon. Massey thinks the Eastern Oregon University game will be the last decent chance a team has to beat Southern Oregon in the regular season. Even so, Massey gives SOU a 66% chance of victory and predicts a win for the Raiders by 5 points.