[Purple Haize]

The Quiz Bowl team is getting some love from Kyle Kallander, the LU spash page, and The Champion student newspaper (print edition):

http://www.bigsouthsports.com/ViewArtic ... =205371147

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=46946

That's the kiss of death right there!

[FigurinItOut]

C'mon, Cider, the suspense is unbearable! Give us a report. How'd it go today at the VT tournament?

[Purple Haize]

Apparently he only posts their success.

[Cider Jim]

LU finished 3rd out of 12 teams in the NAQT Regionals, going 9-2, but we beat the team, UNC-Chapel Hill, that won it all.

Georgia Tech played out of the their region, so we really should have finished first or second in our region, had they not been there. LU's Catherine Hardee got a medallion for earning MVP of the tournament for scoring 1005 points (91.4 PPG). There is a possibility that Liberty could get invited to the NAQT National Tournament in Chicago in March.

WINS
LU 380, College of Charleston 95
LU 295, North Greenville 75
LU 280, Davidson 235
LU 295, UNC-Chapel Hill 280
LU 360, VA Tech 175
LU 335, Radford 120
LU 370, Roanoke 150
LU 430, High Point 80
LU 385, LU (jv) 70

LOSSES
LU 180, GA Tech 270
LU 200, Vanderbilt 275

STANDINGS
1. UNC (11-1)
2. GA Tech (10-2)
3. LIberty (9-2)
4. College of Charleston (8-3)
5. Vanderbilt (7-4)
6. Davidson (6-5)
7. Virginia Tech (6-5)
8. North Greenville (1-10)
9. Liberty jv (3-8)
10. Roanoke (3-8)
11. Radford (3-8)
12. High Point (0-11)

[Purple Haize]

Wow. With all the resources you have you can ONLY come up 3rd? Geez. The LU mediocrity continues!
I mean I would say good job but.....

[FigurinItOut]

Way to go, Cider!

[Cider Jim]

[BJWilliams]

Did Corbin (Payne) not make the trip Cider?

[thepostman]

LU finished 3rd out of 12 teams in the NAQT Regionals, going 9-2, but we beat the team, UNC-Chapel Hill, that won it all.

Georgia Tech played out of the their region, so we really should have finished first or second in our region, had they not been there. LU's Catherine Hardee got a medallion for earning MVP of the tournament for scoring 1005 points (91.4 PPG). There is a possibility that Liberty could get invited to the NAQT National Tournament in Chicago in March.

WINS
LU 380, College of Charleston 95
LU 295, North Greenville 75
LU 280, Davidson 235
LU 295, UNC-Chapel Hill 280
LU 360, VA Tech 175
LU 335, Radford 120
LU 370, Roanoke 150
LU 430, High Point 80
LU 385, LU (jv) 70

LOSSES
LU 180, GA Tech 270
LU 200, Vanderbilt 275

STANDINGS
1. UNC (11-1)
2. GA Tech (10-2)
3. LIberty (9-2)
4. College of Charleston (8-3)
5. Vanderbilt (7-4)
6. Davidson (6-5)
7. Virginia Tech (6-5)
8. North Greenville (1-10)
9. Liberty jv (3-8)
10. Roanoke (3-8)
11. Radford (3-8)
12. High Point (0-11)

I blame JB!!!

Seriously though good job!

[Purple Haize]

We need more JUCO Quiz Bowl transfers. Injuries decimated us this year.

[Cider Jim]

BJ, Corbin is doing an internship in DC this semester and could only get away for one tournament, so we jointly chose the Big South for him. Purple, we do have a home schooled, Bible college transfer joining the team next semester, who may prove to be our best player next year.

[Purple Haize]

BJ, Corbin is doing an internship in DC this semester and could only get away for one tournament, so we jointly chose the Big South for him. Purple, we do have a home schooled, Bible college transfer joining the team next semester, who may prove to be our best player next year.

Figures you'd take short cuts! We need coaches that can build Quiz Bowlers from their Freshman year! How many 4 or 5 star Quiz recruits have we landed? With the resources we put behind Quiz Bowling we should be THE destination for Christian Quizzers!

[Cider Jim]

We do have 6 National Merit Finalists on our Quiz Bowl team receiving a full academic scholarship for particiapating in our Honors Program. And we have recruited at least one more National Merit Finalist to join us next year on the team, or as least we have a verbal commitment from him.

[Sly Fox]

As Libertine always used to say, verbal commitments mean nothing.

[Cider Jim]

Lib is usually right, but his big brother is already on the team, and it's a pretty competitive family, so little brother wants to show big brother how it's done. They are both home schooled National Merit Finalists.

Maybe I need to get JB to show me how to do LOI for Quiz Bowlers.

[Sly Fox]

We're approaching the day where homeschooled National Merit Finalists may overtake public school kids. The lowest common denominator principle of public education today doesn't lend itself to fostering excellence.

[R i]

Congrats. Hope we get the invite to Chicago.

[Cider Jim]

Sly, right now, LU has 38 National Merit Finalists on full academic scholarship in the Honors Program, and many of them are home schooled students.

[Purple Haize]

Sly, right now, LU has 38 National Merit Finalists on full academic scholarship in the Honors Program, and many of them are home schooled students.

But if they are homeschooled aren't they really only competing against the other people at home? I'm pretty sure I could win if that was the case! Especially if they were an only child!

[Sly Fox]

That's not how it is determined. But I get the attempt at humor.

[Purple Haize]

That's not how it is determined. But I get the attempt at humor.

Well I'm sure some of them come from larger homes!

[Cider Jim]

For those of you who don't know, National Merit Finalists are chosen based on their PSATs taken their junior year in high school, and these are the top half of the top 1% academically.

[Cider Jim]

DENIED! (now I know how the LU football team feels).

http://www.naqt.com/ict/2012/invitations-dii.html

[Sly Fox]

Ouch! Great season nonetheless.

[flamehunter]

A travesty!!
I think they are probably scared of you, didn't want to lose to those Christians.