Congratulations to Brandon Greene, Wells Adams, and Curtis Davis on great careers.

Also Congratulations to Chris Barnes on being named ASC East Player of the year!

I say the Division III Men's National Champions plays the Division I women's champion and the winner gets the TV rights the following year... Then we have all the funds we need and don't have to worry about geographic locations.  Its brilliant.

Wow.  Never would have guessed we were going to have 3 teams.

They say its hard to beat a good team 3 times in one season... I hope UTD can continue the streak of winning a Tournament game and make it 3 years in a row..

I think it is gonna be close.  I think we have a good shot though.  I hope we can continue our tournament streak.

Congratulations to McMurry.

I could not believe HSU came back and won that game.  ETBU looked like the superior team the first 25 minutes and had a 16 point lead in the second half.  But then ETBU just fell apart on offense and all the credit to Hardin Simmons for fighting back.  Lots of big plays were made.  Great career for Josh Chambers. 

As for the UTD game,  I don't think the refs knew the goal-tending rule.  The first half there were 3 shots that were clearly goal-tending and the refs didn't call it.  Almost like they didn't know the rule changed a couple years ago.  I think the head of officiating went in and talked to them at halftime about it.  They made the correct call on the exact same play twice in the second half.

Also I saw the automatic intentional foul call enforced for the first time this season with the elbow to the face... but I didn't think it was applied correctly.  I mean i know the rule says any elbow to the face is an automatic intentional foul, but does that mean if I run into a guys elbow that it is an intentional foul?  Now that is not exactly what happened tonight, but in the play, Barnes did not swing his elbows at all and just threw an overhead pass.  The guy was just pressed up close to him.  It was weird to say the least. 

Looking forward to 2 great match ups tomorrow.

The Abilene Rivalry and I think UTD - UMHB has turned into a little bit of a rivalry the last few years.

That is disappointing. I was looking forward to watching that match up today.

Wow... That is interesting. Looks like he got thrown out in the last 7 seconds of the game. Played 38 minutes and had 38 points.

Excited for the tournament though!

I wouldn't be surprised seeing any of UTD, McMurry, or UMHB winning it. 

Then I have ETBU as the dark horse.  With the outside shots going to Hardin Simmons and Mississippi. 

I don't really see Tyler or Concordia as having much of a shot over the 3 game span. Not saying they couldn't do it, don't forget UTD back in 04/05 winning it all from the 4th seed when they barely got in the tournament. 

That was a good game to watch.  Congrats to Mississippi College on making it to the tournament.  Final 74-66 Mississippi. 

Wow looks like a close one in Mississippi...

Mississippi up 3 with 5:30 left

Looking ahead to the weekend... It looks like

McMurry vs. LA/Miss
ETBU vs Hardin Simmons

UTD vs Concordia
Mary Hardin Baylor vs. Tyler

I think a Mississippi/McMurry match up will be an interesting first round game.  Mississippi certainly still has the talent.  I also think ETBU vs. Hardin Simmons will be a fun game to watch.  Of course anything can happen in the tourney... I'm excited.

UTD won tonight against Mississippi on the Chris Webber play.  Mississippi tied it up with a 3 at 54 to 54 with 5 seconds left.  UTD's Brandon Greene tried to throw a full court pass from out of bounds that was intercepted, and the Mississippi player immediately called a timeout.  But they had no more timeouts.  Curtis Davis then knocked down the 2 technical free throws.  Mississippi got the ball back and got a shot up but it didn't go in.  Never seen that happen in person, gotta feel bad for the player that called timeout.  Big win for UTD's National Tournament chances and a big loss for Mississippi. 

I'm not very familiar outside of the ASC this season.  I remember Trinity looked nothing last year like they did 2 years ago when UTD faced them in the tournament.

Also I think its important to note that the power in the ASC has shifted back to the West after the East had a couple of strong years.  The HSU, MCM, and UMHB trio seems a lot stronger than the top side of the East.  I was looking at the rankings on who UTD would face in the first round and I don't really like any of the possible first round match-ups, like years in the past. Concordia just has one of those styles that can be dangerous against anyone, especially not one you want to face in the tournament.

Wow thought it would come down to the last weekend.  Two surprising losses from ETBU.

Hopefully UTD can still come out and win the last 3 games to finish the season 20-4 in Division III to have a good shot at an at-Large bid if they are not able to win the conference tournament.

Maybe more than UTD fans .  Although I must say, there have been some pretty good showings in the past couple years. ETBU last weekend was pretty good attendance.  The National Tournament game against Wheaton had a great atmosphere.  So UTD can occasionally draw a few hundred fans (out of 15,000 students) to take a study break.