A Sea Of Red

Liberty goes undefeated (7-0) to capture its 8th Big South championship in 10 years of Quiz Bowl:

LU over G-W, 325-250
LU over HPU, 405-190
LU over Longwood, 390-185
LU over Coastal, 370-105
LU over Radford, 340-165
LU over Campbell, 505-65
LU over Presby, 470-190

That is domination!

Article from the Big South Conference website:

http://www.bigsouthsports.com/entries/l ... ampionship

So does this team have the resume to get them to Nationals again this year? I'm guessing the solid showing last year would bode well for selection this year if you compete well enough at regionals.

So does this team have the resume to get them to Nationals again this year? I'm guessing the solid showing last year would bode well for selection this year if you compete well enough at regionals.

Cider can shed some light on this but I believe Kaity, Greta, Jon and Doug all came in in back to back years so they have a ton of experience

LU scored 6 more wins at the NAQT Sectionals at UVa on Saturday. Including 3 wins by our varsity team playing in the DI bracket:

- Liberty over Delaware, 220-215
- Liberty over North Carolina, 265-100
- Liberty over North Carolina, 175-165

- Liberty JV over VCU, 395-175
- Liberty JV over Liberty Novice, 330-185
- Liberty Novice over Roanoke, 205-120

Invitations to the ACF nationals will come out later today.

Glad to see we disposed of the academically tarnished Tarheels. I guess the questions stayed away from African-American Studies.

I won four rounds of trivia tonight at a Chili's in Smithfield, RI. Would that qualify me for Quiz Bowl team tryouts??

JK, if you take one LUO course, you could try out for the team.

In other news, the LU Quiz Bowl team is going to the National ACF Tournament at the University of Michigan on April 18-19.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 22ca03eabe

I'm done with school. Wife won't let me get a doctorate; she says I'm already enough of a pompous know-it-all. The last thing I need is that title, her words.

Congrats on the return to Nationals, CJ!

In our last home match of the season yesterday, the LU varsity and JV teams scrimmaged the faculty team comprised of 3 Ph.D.s and a librarian. The varsity team won both games, and our JV team of mostly freshmen kept it close against the faculty.

Round 1--varsity over faculty, 450-95
Round 2--faculty over JV, 415-360
Round 3--varsity over faculty, 500-280

The LU Quiz Bowl Quiz Bowl team is at the ACF Nationals at the University of Michigan this weekend, and we scored 3 big WINS today:

LU over University of Michigan, 130-45
LU over University of California-San Diego, 135-60
LU over Ohio State University, 150-65

Sweet! Congratulations to the entire team!

Congratulations to the team for making it this far against some presumably much stiffer competition than the Big South . Updates on the second day? What was the final overall record?

We finished with 4 wins, also defeating the University of South Carolina on Sunday morning, 120-95. We finished the tournament ranked 34th the country (but that even includes teams from Canada and England).

You seem to have built something special, CJ. Congrats to both you and your squads.

Sly Fox wrote:You seem to have built something special, CJ. Congrats to both you and your squads.

+1

Our 34th in the country ranking was a combination of undergrad and grad school teams. Among just undergrad teams, Liberty finished tied for 14th in the country (with UCLA & South Carolina). That's our best national ranking ever.

Top 25 ACF Undergraduate Quiz Bowl Teams
1. Stanford B
2. Illinois
3. Yale
4. Harvard
5. Cal-Berkeley
6. Northwestern
7. Oxford
8. (tie) Chicago B, MIT B, Detroit Catholic Central
11. Central Florida
12. Virginia Commonwealth
13. Notre Dame
14. (tie) UCLA, Liberty, South Carolina
17. Kenyon, Rice,
19. Penn B, Waterloo
21. (tie) Ohio State, Michigan B
23. (tie) Penn C, Chicago C
25. California-San Diego B

Very impressive!

Liberty's novice team traveled to Richmond on Saturday to complete in the VCU Novice Tournament and scored 4 wins:

LU over Reynolds CC, 400-40
LU over Longwood, 330-40
LU over VCU, 280-130
LU-A over LU-B, 90-70

We were also leading at the half against both Duke and Wake Forest, but lost two close matches to them. Longwood's coach told me that ALL their varsity team graduated last year, so their novice team will be their varsity team at the Big South Tournament in January. That's great news for Liberty, since Longwood is usually our toughest competition in conference.

The LU Quiz Bowl team scored 11 wins at Saturday's ACF Fall tournament hosted at UNC:

LU over UVa, 285-180
LU over Wofford, 375-55
LU over VCU, 340-145
LU over South Carolina, 305-175
LU over Wofford, 245-115
LU over UVa, 270-125
LU over College of Charleston, 165-50
LU over VCU, 210-160
LU over College of Charleston, 200-100
LU over VCU, 210-120

Looks like grear time was had by all being coached by CJ.

Kyle Kallander was ready to cancel this year's Quiz Bowl tournament until Liberty stepped up and agreed to host the tournament on Saturday, Feb. 27, and 6 teams have confirmed thus far--Radford, Coastal Carolina, Campbell, Longwood, Gardner-Webb, & Liberty.