Scanning the SoCon - Week Seventeen

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 Seventeen

The following is my submission to week sixteen 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, all of the answers to this week's questions at MocsMania.

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

Player of the Week
Trey Sumler, WCU

Game of the Week
Davidson at Elon

Sum up your team
Western Carolina is now 5-1 during the month of February, and seems to show signs of coming together down the stretch. at 17-12 with two regular season games to go (one home and one on the road) the Cats have a valid chance of hitting the 20 game win mark this season. The Cats will face Chattanooga on Thursday, in Cullowhee where the Cats are 10-1 this season, playing a Chattanooga team that has lost 5 of their last 7, and four of their last 5 games. Then ending the season on the road at Samford.

Dean Keener talks about the NLI. What are your thoughts on this? 
 I don't think the NLI process will change anytime soon. There will be problems with any procedure and the current process works fine in my opinion.

Tournament style play is different. How you do think your teams style will play in Asheville? Why? 
The Cats play an aggressive style defense, which can result in high personal foul numbers. If the Cats can control their fouls, and continue with their offensive scoring capability, they have a legit chance to go deep in the tournament. This group of seniors wants a championship, I guess we'll see how bad they want it.

In honor of the Big Three in the NBA, name the top trio on a team in the SoCon. Why?
My selection for the "Big Three" in a SoCon team is Lucas Troutman, Ryley Beaumont, and Jack Isenbarger of Elon. These three seniors were named to the SoCon preseason all conference team and are major reason why Elon was selected by both the coaches and media as favorites to win the conference title. All three are 1,000+ scorers and Elon is currenlty sitting in second place in the conference standing with one week to go in the season.