WBB: American Southwest Conference

[calhsu]

Tonight HSU had the second half they have been looking for.   I noticed in the HSU pregame material they are already playing up the MCmurry showdown.  Seem like 2000 all over again right Ralph.

[baddog]

dballa -- The issue is not winning one out of the last five. That is historical review. Those were those teams.
Rather, it is the simple matterof winning/losing one of the one -- so far -- this year. How else are you going to gauge it? Isn't that why the score is kept?

[Ralph Turner]

calhsu, you mean that McMurry is already the burr under the Cowgirls' saddle?

Lady Indians 92,  Lady Jackets 61.  McMurry led by 22 at the half.

Coach Nichols was happy with the defensive adjustments that the team was able to make and come up with a nice win, in the midst of a 4 game in 8 day run.

McMurry had 5 players in double figures and lots of players got minutes.  DeeDee Burton got 12 points off the bench!

PG Symbri Tuttle had 13 points and 15 assists.  Solid broad based rebounding by the Lady Indians.  A good outing!

[dballa]

HPU 63 AC 50

and baddog like you HSU fans use to say when HPU would beat HSU a few years back, one game doesn't make a season thats why you play more than one.  If they want to say they are better 4 games into the season thats fine but it all pans out in the end.

[inthepaint]

I agree with Baddog.  It makes no difference what previous seasons held as the teams of the past are not playing this season.  HPU may very well be the better team.  I just think its silly to lose yet say the better team did not win.  Maybe, just maybe, HPU played poorly because of what MC was doing on the floor.  Maybe, just maybe, they missed those second half second chances and free throws because the MC girls wore them down.  Again, HPU may, and probably does, have the better team, but so far MC gets the nod.  Just my $.02 worth.

And Ralph, who are the Lady Jackets that lost to McM?

[Ralph Turner]

Paint,  LeTourneau!

http://www.letu.edu/opencms/opencms/_Student-Life/athletics/LadyJackets/Basketball/index.html

[fanstand]

Lady Indians had 32 assists tonite and played some really good defense.  LeTourneau plays "bombs away" from the perimeter.  If you don't cover that they are a team that can sneak up on you even with a lead. They don't even touch the rim, nothing but net. Really impressed with Mcmurry's ladies, they are a fun group with lots of enthusiasm. Hope they keep smiling and keep winning!!!!!

[Ralph Turner]

Lady Indians-Lady Jacket box score

http://www.mcm.edu/sports/wbasketball/luw12105.htm

[mcmfan]

CALHSU,
2000?  I doubt if anyone remembers that year.  What about February 26, 2005?

[calhsu]

Couldn't resist the dig could you.  I certainly understand, considering the fact last years victory was one of the very few times that the Indian girls clearly won the year.   The fact I was referring to a year in which not only were the games close but that both teams made the national tournament.
The reason I mentioned the year and Ralph was that he never fails to remind us of that competive year.

[Ralph Turner]

 

Cahsu, I really believe the 2000 HSU and McM teams were the strongest that the ASC has seen.  I am still convinced that McMurry took HSU's game out of them (and it would have been vice versa), such that the tank was dry for the Regional finals the next night!

[Ralph Turner]

I am using the number of page views on the message boards to gauge the support for the women's conferences.

The most active board is the MIAC in West Region with about 8000 page views.  The MIAC has very good teams and 2 past Women's Champions.

Second is the MAC (Middle Atlantic Corporation), the combined boards for the Commonwealth and Freedom conferences, from the Mid-Atlantic Region.  This board has had about 6800 page views.

The third most active board is the WIAC from the Central Region with 4500+ page views.

The ASC is fourth most active with nearly 4300 page views.  Way to go ASC!

[Gray Fox]

And the SCIAC brings up the rear.

[mcmfan]

CALHSU,
Yeah, it was a dig, but not  big one.  I remember 2000 as an incredible year for women's basketball at McM and HSU, but none of the students do because none of them were here then.  For them, it's history, documented only by the banners in the respective gyms.  For everybody, though, 2004-5 is vivid.  Each of the three HSU-McM games were intense, everything-you've-got contests.  The students at McM want to win some more, and I'm sure the students at HSU want revenge for what happened on Feb. 26.  If past history is any guide, we could be in trouble for the match up on Dec. 12, since it's at McM; we seem to play better against HSU on HSU's home court!

[Ralph Turner]

Just to refresh everyone's memeory of that January game, please go to the 2004-05 season on the McMurry team page and click on the camera icon, or click below.

http://www.d3hoops.com/gallery.php?gallery=36835

The McMurry Athletic Foundation brought Pat Coleman to McMurry for the long weekend.  He posted pictures from the McMurry-TLU and the McM-HSU games, both men and women!

We had a full house for that McM-HSU game.  The Kimbrell Kraizes and some HSU guests had that place rocking.  For any of you high-school-aged lurkers who are reading this, a rocking Kimbrell arena is a great place to be!