Sure, it would be nice for MC to get to host a sectional, but I'm not sure "home-court advantage" really means anything to the Chocs.  I went back to look at their record, and the lowest number of points they won by on the road was 8 (and one of those was in Clarksville!   ).  Most of the time, the margin was well into double digits.  They seem to take care of business, at home or on the road.

Good luck!

Quote from: Ron Boerger (BfB) on March 02, 2006, 12:59:03 PM
Geez, guys, from the lack of traffic you would never know that a team from the ASC was hosting this weekend's subregional. 

I'm still following along -- just don't know that much to be making predictions, etc. 

I'd like to see MC in the Final Four too.

Good luck to the Indians tomorrow!  It will be tough!

Ralph, do you know if McMurry will have an internet broadcast of the game?  If not, will you be doing updates on this board?  Thanks!

Quote from: jmnaseum on February 22, 2006, 09:22:41 PM
SRLobo51 -- Don't private schools receive state money?  I think they do.

I don't know how it is in the other states in the conference, but in Arkansas, private schools don't receive state money.  There are some special programs on campus that are funded by federal grants (like the Student Support Services program), but the rest of the budget has to come from tuition or fund-raising.  Thank God for angels like Helen Walton (just gave Ozarks a BIG gift).

Our guys left for Brownwood this afternoon after the memorial service for Josh and Trevor this morning.  I won't make any predictions, but I will say I hope there isn't a 30-point difference in the score this time -- unless it is in the other direction!!   

I'm looking forward to following everybody through the tournament.

OK, I see cp's message.  Sorry I didn't look before. 

It's a little hard to be philosophical about it all at this point, but I guess it makes for an exciting end to the season for everything to be up in the air until the last day.

Ozarks loses to LeT, 76-64.  And ETBU won over Austin (don't know the score).  So that makes a tie for second -- who gets the 2nd seed and who is 3rd?

A rather lackluster performance for the Eagles -- seems like there were a LOT of steals by LeT.  They had 3 people in double figures:  Evers, 20; Burnett, 16, and Bankett (?), 11 (?).  Pretty much all Ozarks had was Habeeb Kareem, 27 points on 11-13 shooting from the field and 5 of 5 from the line.

The final on the game was ETBU 87, Ozarks 66.

I just found out that one of the freshmen from the Ozarks' team, Josh Leverton, and another student were killed this afternoon in a car accident.  Josh's twin brother is also on the basketball team and has apparently gone home to be with his family.  

I take back the "horrid" comment -- I'm sure the guys have other things on their mind tonight.

6:05 to go in the first half and it's ETBU 38, Ozarks 17. 

You know, this Ozarks team makes me think of the little girl with the curl -- when they're good, they're very good, but when they're bad, they're HORRID!!!   

Another close game in Clarksville -- Ozarks 76, UTD 74.  

Ozarks held a 39-37 lead at halftime, then UTD built a lead pretty quickly at the start of the second half to lead by 7 with about 14 minutes to go.  The Eagles got back into the game, though, with some 3-point shots, and tied the game at 55 with about 11:30 to play. From that point on, it was close, pretty much trading baskets.  With about 6 minutes to go, UTD missed a shot and Jake Sibley hit a 3-pointer to give Ozarks the lead 64-61 and the advantage of UTD now having to answer every shot.  With two minutes to play, though, Ozarks fouled twice under the UTD basket and Milson hit two FTs to tie the game at 71.  That led to what was, IMHO, the most important play of the game for Ozarks -- they had sort of bungled the ball down under their own basket, but Brad Johnson came sliding in on his knees to keep the ball in play, leading to a foul that let David Hamilton hit two FTs to give the Eagles the lead again.

I guess I need to make a long story short.  With 22 seconds to play, Hamilton hit the front end of a 1-and-1 to put Ozarks up 76-74.  UTD had a chance at a 3-pointer, missed, got the rebound, but missed again.  

Both teams had 4 men in double figures.  For UTD:  Bush, 21; Salinas, 17; Swafford, 16; and Milson 13.  For Ozarks:  Kareem, 17; Hamilton, 12; McCall and Sibley, 11 each.

It was Senior Day -- gosh, we'll miss those guys!  I hope they get to keep playing for a good while yet!!  

It was a nail-biter in Clarksville tonight -- Ozarks 94, UTT 92.  Brad Johnson hit two free throws with 4.7 seconds left to give Ozarks the lead.  David Hamilton knocked a UTT pass out of bounds, then Johnson got a steal on the inbounds pass to end the game.

The most impressive thing about this game was the shooting.  Ozarks shot 63.6% for the game (70.8% in the first half -- I know, I have to keep looking at the box score to make sure it still says that!), and UTT shot 57.1%.  UTT had four guys in double figures, lead by Vanderbilt with 20 and Weasby with 19.  Ozarks had five players who scored double figures, led by Josh Joyner with 23 points.  Brad Johnson had 11 assists.

I heard Coach O'Connor say we "survived" the game more than "won" it.

MC 75, Ozarks 67

MC came out hot -- I swear they must have hit 7 of their first 8 shots, including something like 3 3-pointers.  They led at halftime 39-35.  But Ozarks took the lead with about 15 minutes to go (sorry I can't be more detailed -- need to remember to take a pen to the game with me  ) and it was back and forth from that point -- neither team could go up by more than 3.  Then with about 5 minutes to go, Ozarks had a string of bad luck (bad calls?), including a timeout awarded to MC on what looked like a contested possession.   With less than a minute to go, MC led by 8. David Hamilton hit a 3-pointer to cut it to 5, but then we couldn't get another one in three tries, and MC hit some free throws to stretch it out.

For MC, Broomfield had 15 and Winford had 13.  For Ozarks, Kareem had 16.

MC is big, and deep -- they could send in a whole other five at once, and there wasn't much difference in the quality of their play.    First loss at home for the season.  Good game, anyway.  I feel like I need to go run a couple of miles to get rid of this excess adrenelin!

Ozarks 73, LC 61.

It was close at halftime with Ozarks up by 32-29, but the lead stretched out to double figures early in the second half.  LC made a little run with about 8 minutes to go, got the lead back down to 4 a couple of times, then Jake Sibley hit a 3-pointer with 5:35 to go to push the lead back to double figures for good. 

Skluzacek had 22 points for LC.  For Ozarks, Kareem had 16 points, Johnson had 15, and Joyner had 11. 

Mississippi College beats Ozarks, 71-54.  I had to leave the broadcast before the game was over and I was afraid it was going to be much worse than 17 points! 

Shooting percentage was the story here -- MC shot 63% in the second half, Ozarks shot 23%. Ouch.  At least we outrebounded them, 53-33 (but I guess there are lots of rebounds to be had when you're missing 8 of every 10 shots!).

For MC, Powers had 12, Eugene had 11, and Winford had 10.  Ozarks had two guys with double-doubles -- Joyner with 17 points and 16 rebounds, and Kareem with 11 points and 13 rebounds.

Hope things are different next Saturday in Clarksville. . . .