COC NOTEBOOK: COC NOT REWARDED BY POLLS.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News The College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. men's basketball team was one of the hottest in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, the second half of the regular season, winning five consecutive games and 13 of 14. The Cougars' reward for their efforts was a No. 17 ranking in the final California Community College Men's Basketball Coaches Association state top 20 poll, including a No. 9 ranking in Southern California. That spot in the regional poll should have given COC See chip on chip. (18-8) a first-round matchup with No. 8 L.A. Southwest (18-9), the third-place team in the South Coast Conference's South Division. Instead, because of a glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. in the polls, the Cougars were dropped to No. 12 and now must travel to No. 5 College of the Desert (24-6) - the Foothill Conference champion - at 7 tonight for their first-round game. Chaffey and Mt. San Jacinto San Jacinto, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. , also from the Foothill Conference, finished Nos. 10 and 11 in the polls, respectively. Since the California Community College Commission on Athletics doesn't allow two teams from the same conference to play in the first round, No. 12 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley was moved to No. 9 and COC was dropped to No. 12. The Cougars will depend on University of Houston-bound small forward Carlton Spencer, who averaged 23.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.7 assists during the regular season. Curtis Dunwoody is averaging 16.7 points and shooting 40.2 percent from behind the 3-point arc, and Cedric Davis has contributed 8.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game. That trio led COC to an 11-1 record in the Western State Conference South Division and the team's second consecutive division title. They'll have to post similar numbers tonight to defeat Desert, which is led by conference co-most valuable player Earl Isaacson, who averaged 27.1 points and 9.9 rebounds during the regular season. Sophomore guard Mike Lang averaged 14 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists and Reuben Mitchell averaged 9.7 rebounds for the Roadrunners. --Tough loss, bad seed: The COC women's basketball team (16-11) saw its bid for a favorable seed in the Southern California Regional playoffs take a serious hit Saturday with a 91-87 loss at Bakersfield. The Cougars' setback not only cost them second place in the WSC WSC Winter Symposium on Chemometrics WSC Winter Simulation Conference WSC Wayne State College WSC Westfield State College (Westfield, MA) WSC Western State College (Colorado) South Division, but it also gave Bakersfield (18-9) the No. 12 seed and dropped COC to No. 14. That meant the difference between COC playing at No. 3 Antelope Valley (28-2) - which it will at 7 tonight in a first-round contest - and No. 5 Cypress (23-5). The Cougars lost to Cypress 79-78 on Dec. 15. COC beat AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C 79-73 in the second round of last year's regional playoffs, but the teams are much different this season. AVC is riding a 19-game winning streak en route to earning the highest seed in the program's history. COC - which had won five in a row entering the Bakersfield game - has shown flashes of last season's dominance, but has been hurt by inconsistency. AVC has only two players averaging double figures (Mariqueta Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. at 14.6 points and RaChauna Randle at 11.7) compared to COC's four, but the Marauders have much more depth on the bench than the Cougars. COC needs big games from Jessi Loring (17.7 points, 11.8 rebounds), Erica Doyle (15.5 points, 12.6 assists, 4.1 steals), Janette Galindo (13.8 points) and Alli Weier (11.9 points) to win. Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607 erik.boal(at)dailynews.com |
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