The Atlantic Sun is officially on the map in 2007!!! Lets keep it up!!! GO ATLANTIC SUN!!!!

Gardner Webb 84
#22 Kentucky 68

Belmont 86
Cincinatti 75

Mercer 96
#18 USC 81

This list needs to keep growing!!

Congratulations! Huge, huge win for your program. Florence is a stud.

Mayo who?

Thanks a lot. I think that's our biggest win ever in basketball.

CBS Sportsline has a "Beware the Atlantic Sun" feature on their front page. It's a box to the right of the main picture (currently a picture of Illinois football).
http://cbs.sportsline.com/

In case they take it down...



And on Yahoo! Sports:

Here's another photo-op for you SouthGaEagle! ESPN.com frontpage of their college hoops section. "SCORCHING SUN" http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncb/index

edit -- and SI.COM is giving the biggest props, their basketball front page is covered with the story "SUN BURNED" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/

CONGRATULATIONS to the A-Sun. In the last 18 months, I lived in both Atlanta & Jacksonville. I went to four Kennesaw State games (love that arena -- looks quite new) and enjoyed it. Then two JU games and 7 UNF ones -- so it was great to see the results that happened.

Sportscenter just ran a great clip on the Atlantic Sun w/ Mercer highlights afterwards. They said something like "Whoever has to play the A-Sun champion better watch out". Just great exposure for our league.

And thanks MemTGRS. Glad you've enjoyed some A Sun games.

Here's those two sites:





I saw the SportsCenter clip too. Working on getting it encoded off my TiVo....

And we dropped the ball today guys... Hopefully we'll get it back with Syracuse or OK State. I'm starting to believe now.

I love this :D

I just wish KSU hadn't got torched by WKU :( Maybe we will just go beat auburn on Tuesday and make up for it...

I'll be at the Auburn game... Should be a fun time.

Tuesday is a big A-Sun night. The Kennesaw game w/ Auburn and Alabama visiting Mercer.

We did need a little faith in our conference. These victories are extremely helpful for everyone. I think that's the reason for the OOC support of the teams. It puts us in the conversation and that benefits everyone.

Definitely Nick. Hopefully the snowball effect continues through the A-Sun.

I just hope the victorious teams can take these wins and create a fan base.

I just hope you leave.

Well you can hope in one hand and crap in the other, see which one gets filled first.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3106635

Quote:Wildcats, Trojans fall from Top 25 following upset losses
ESPN.com news services

Updated: November 12, 2007, 1:36 PM ET

Kentucky and USC found out what losses to Gardner-Webb and Mercer, respectively, can do to a Top 25 program. Namely, knock it out of the Top 25.

The Wildcats and Trojans fell to the ranks of "others receiving votes" in the second ESPN/USA Today coaches poll of the season, with the Wildcats plummeting from No. 22 to receiving just one vote -- as many as Mercer -- and USC dropping from No. 18 to the ranks of the unranked.

Gardner-Webb beat Kentucky by 16 at Rupp Arena last week, while Mercer withstood 30 points from O.J. Mayo to beat USC by 15 in Los Angeles.

Kansas State (2-0) entered the poll at No. 24, while Syracuse joined at No. 25 despite having yet to play a game. The Orange are scheduled to host Siena on Monday night.

Kansas State propelled itself into the rankings behind the play of freshman forward Michael Beasley, who's had consecutive double-doubles to start his career. In his debut, he had 32 points and a Big 12 Conference-record 24 rebounds in a victory over Sacramento State.

The top 7 remained unchaged, with North Carolina, UCLA, Memphis, Kansas, Georgetown, Louisville and Tennessee all holding steady. Indiana, Washington State and Duke rounded out the top 10.