Humanity would be a better place if someone would make a looping GIF of that black dude raising his eyebrows and shoulders at the beginning of the video.
Quote:Here is what we could find out about Champion:
- Team name: Tigers!
- Their website doesn't load and they don't have a Wikipedia page
- They do have an regularly updated Twitter:
- The person that Twitter says is the school's president, Eric Capaci, is also listed as the school's head basketball coach according to pretty much the only page that acknowledged that they have a basketball team, and his Twitter says he's a coach, so, yeah, that seems like it's a thing.
- They are a member of the Association of Christian College Athletics, which is not in the same organizational tree as the NCAA. But the level appears to be, um, kind of low. It's probably considerably below D-2 or D-3.
- The link above tells us the school's enrollment is 250. So one in every 25-ish students is on the hoops team, we'd presume.
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2013 11:41 AM by Eagle66.)
(12-31-2013 08:37 AM)axeme Wrote: That is some classic video. Our local intermediate school gym seats about 500 more than that gym, because our intermediate school seats about 550.
Who wants to schedule the team Champion beat 100-57?
If that was their midnight madness game, they played against themselves. I looked their scores up on ESPN and none ended up at that score. Of course, it only shows they have played 4 games. My guess is that these were all exhibition games and they don't actually have a real schedule.
On E$PN this morning, they said that Southern's excuse for scheduling them was because, as a good mid-major team, they (Southern) have a hard time scheduling. That's a load of BS. Maybe they have a hard time scheduling because they're so bad. I believe they have only 1 D1 win, 3 non-D1 wins, and now this win.
(12-31-2013 03:04 PM)thanksjim Wrote: The gift that keeps giving. The 2013 edition:
Also here is a post on their Facebook page on November 18th:
"Are u interested in playing basketball or volleyball for the Champion Tigers? Call 501-623-2272 for more information on our sports programs!"
Reminds of a friend from my high school who went to St. Louis College of Pharmacy, a Division II NAIA school. He played basketball for a year there, making the team by signing some forms at a student activities fair in August. They sucked, but at least they have the excuse that they're literally a one-major school, that isn't exactly a strong recruiting point.
According to their website, Champion Baptist was founded in 2005 and the only sports they sponsor are men's basketball and women's volleyball. Those two facts probably tell you what kind of athletic program the Tigers have, but there's also the fact that Hot Springs, Arkansas is probably not the most fertile recruiting pipeline in the south.
Seems ironically prophetic that the first video was set to the lyrics "the whole world's gonna know your name." And I assume that is PJ Fleck at the 30 second mark with the microphone asking the crowd to row their boats...
NIU's 4 pt 1st half is still safe 
