Scanning the SoCon - Week Eleven

Each week, our SoCon bloggers/message boarders (one representing each team) will vote on Power Rankings, a Game of the Week, and Player of the Week. At least three will answer a series of questions on their team and things of interest around the SoCon.

Scanning the SoCon - Week Eleven

The following was my submission to week eleven of Scanning the SoCon. You can read the entire consolidated article and see everyone's Power Ranking, Player and Game of the Week, as well as, answers to this week's questions at MocsMania


Power Rankings  
1-Western Carolina
2-Davidson
3-Elon
4-Georgia Southern
5-UNCG
6-Chattanooga
7-Wofford
8-Samford
9-App State
10-The Citadel
11-Furman

Game of the Week
Massachusetts at Elon

Player of the Week 
Z. Mason (UTC)

Sum up your team
The Catamounts start off the season 3-0, with a very tough road win at Georgia Southern. The Eagles are certainly playing better than their preseason pick of number nine. The Cats have wins over preseason favorite Elon and a very good UNCG team. The Cats will not play again until next Saturday, when they will take on Samford in Cullowhee. WCU is on a four game win streak, and have won five of their last six games.

Who is the most overrated player in the SoCon? Why?
Jack Isenbarger (Elon) - Selected as a preseason all conference selection, Isenbarger is only averaging 6.9 ppg and has a 36.4% field goal average. He just hasn't played to expectations.

What record do you think a SoCon team will need to get a bye in the SoCon Tournament? Why? Five teams get a bye out of 11 team, that means six team play in the first round. To get that number 5 bye, I think a team will have to have at least a 11-5 conference record out of the 16 conference games each team will play. I think that the top three finish with three or less conference losses, and four and five finish with 4 or 5 losses.

Agree or disagree with Dean Keener?
I think there is a lot the conference office could do, but only with the agreement of a majority of the conference members, which the conference will not get. I think about the only thing the conference office can really do, it encourage better scheduling. This is not a basketball centered conference, as long as football is center of the universe of the SoCon, basketball will not greatly improve overall, conference wide.


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