You people sometimes amaze me.  Not one of you acknowledged someone that just  told you a FRESHMAN, which means she could not be more than 19 years old, on the Austin College girls team was killed today.  I do not know any of you who post all of the time but maybe  someday you will realize there are more important things in life than HSU, McMurry, and HPU girls basketball.  This will probably be my last post so I will make it a good  one.  My daughter plays for AC and we talked today and she is a mess.   For those of you that care, her name was Brittany Simpson who lived in The Woodlands just north of Houston.  She was evidently driving back from there today and was killed in a car crash.   That is all we know at this time.  I know here parents and I feel for them.  There is a good posibility that we will not play our game on Saturday because the funeral may be that day.   

As I said this will be my last post.  I try to be a nice person and don't let things bother me but I have to tell you what I feel about the fans from the west.  You people need to get a life.  From the first time I posted I recieved a slashing from In the Paint to reading about how good or bad these teams are from the west.  I said this in my first post and I will say this again.  The girls at AC play more for fun and are at AC for the great education.  I am sorry we don't stand up to ya'lls standards for BBall but as today shows, THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE THAN ASC GIRLS WEST DIVISION BASKETBALL.  I will continue to read what ya'll write because it does entertain me.  But for right now I think I will sign off for good as a poster and say a prayer for the Simpson family and the AC girls BBall team.

Millie, I thought your daughter was a senior last year.  You just can't get enough of this can you?  It sounds like you have a pretty good club over there in Clinton.  I hope AC can hang with you this year.  Nice to see someone else from the east is posting.  I think the west also likes to see the east posting so they can get a scouting report. 

As usual my first post causes controversy.  Deballa I think you misunderstood what I meant when I said higher level.  I meant she could be playing D2 maybe even D1.  I also think I said in my earlier post, " I know it is early" when I was refering to my evaluation of not just HPU but all of the teams.  I will say that HPU played AC at home, road trip or not, and we had 30 turnovers and shot the ball terrible and you only beat us by 11 or so.  That is not what I have seen in past HPU teams.   

I have been reading, but I have not said anything.  I have seen everyone in the west division with the exception of McM and HSU.  It sounds like from the results we are seeing and the margins of victories, the game tonight might very well be a preview of the ASC championship game.  I am a little surprised that UT Tyler has had some troubles in the east, but I am not surprised that MC seems to have turned things around.  I hate to tell you HPU fans this but I think you and HSU will probably be fighting for the two seed in the west.  I know it is early and a lot of things can happen but I was not that impressed with your team this year.  I am still wondering why Mia Daniels is not playing at a higher level.  She is impressive to me. 
Just a note on the polls.  I really don't know who is voting in these polls, I am sure Ralph can answer that, but they need to get out and watch some of these teams they are voting for.  I saw that last years D3 champ, Millikin, got beat by Illinois College.  IC played in the AC tournament at the start of the year and AC beat them pretty easily.  I do not think we are going to see AC ranked in the top 25 this year and IC was not very strong at all.  Millikin was ranked number seven at the time.  I talked to some of the IC parents when they were here and they said IC girls were not used to such physical play which kind of surprised me. 
Well I am signing off for now.  I will be listening to the game tonight.  Merry Christmas to all of you.