WBB: American Southwest Conference

[dballa]

They are provisional, kind of like Miss. College was when they came to the conference.  They won't be able to win anything until all their scholarship players are gone.


HPU 48 SRSU 31 early in the 2nd half.

[dballa]

HPU 56 SRSU 36 just under 14 mins to go in the game.

HPU was up I think 36-29 at the half then started the 2nd half on a big run.

[dballa]

HPU 84 SRSU 51 Final

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry only lost one vote (329 to 328 votes) in the Top 25 balloting after the loss to BSC.

Let's thank the voters who seriously considered that 6 point loss (3-8 point deficit all thru the 2nd half) to a former D-1 team on a neutral court.  The voters believed that that was a representative outcome, (in the first weeks of the season), by us in playing BSC which was up by 24 points early in the second half versus Maryville, on Maryville's home court.

[mcmfan]

The voters seem more impressed with the LIB than we at McMurry, since we call the outcome of the game an "upset" on the women's basketball page at http://athletics.mcm.edu/News/wbball/2007/11/23/112307wbb.asp!

[dballa]

http://www.wbca.org/DIIICoachesPoll.asp

The new Coaches Poll came out with HPU #1 in the nation.  Amazing they received that when they only received 1 first place vote and another team received 4.

[golden_dome]

Mississippi College loses 70-50 at Concordia tonight. Just couldn't handle the ball with a school record 46 turnovers for MC in the game.

[Ralph Turner]

UMHB 70, LaCollege 61.

[Ralph Turner]

Mini-rant here!  And I hope the ETBU Brain trust will help us here.

ETBU is only 1-3 coming into the McMurry game.

The loss to UL-Monroe as a money game is okay, but the rest of D3 doesn't care how good NAIA Wiley and LSU-S are.  When at large bids are considered, those games count as nothing!  I will boldly state that had ETBU played 2 or 3 non-conference D3 (in-region) opponents last season, and won them, then they would have earned a Pool C bid in 2007!

The rest of D3 could have seen a 3-1 ETBU (with 3 wins over D3's) playing a 3-1 #11 McMurry.  A good game by ETBU would be recognized nationally.

We ASC schools need to look at any way that we can heighten our profile across D3. Play the money game with UL-Monroe (and maybe even one cross-town game versus Wiley), and then find a D-3 tourney where you pick up at least one in-region game versus a "respected" and "known" D3 team.

McMurry's game at Maryville TN will be judged because Birmingham-Southern is a high profile team that will play several strong squads including Oglethorpe, DePauw and Trinity as well.

I hope that next year, that ETBU women will find a way to raise their profile.

[Ralph Turner]

Final McMurry 79, ETBU 62.

There are more that 420 women's teams in D-3, and very few know how good ETBU is.

I hope they can schedule more D-3 non-conference games (especially in-region) games in the coming years.

It will help ETBU and the entire ASC.

[grizwald]

According to the HPU website the girls beat University of the Ozarks 88-24.

[mcmfan]

Final from McMurry: McM 79, ETBU 62
McM started slow (cold might be a better word), letting ETBU build up a solid lead of over 10 points, and then finally caught fire in the second part of the first half and pulled ahead by halftime.  We never trailed after that, but ETBU refused to go away even though some of their key players like #41 got into foul trouble and had to sit a good part of the second half.  The final score, with McM free throws after ETBU started fouling us, is misleading; it only got that high in the last minute or two. What will be interesting will be to see who will fill Simbri Tuttle's shoes for McM; will it be #15 Dominique Brown?

[Ralph Turner]

UMHB 68, Miss College 62.

Coach Paul Allen Duke talked about execution.  The new players have not jelled.

Fewer turnovers.

In the first 8 minutes of the second half, the Lady Choctaws did not play with urgency.

UMHB was 21-27 on Ft's.

Miss College was 15-25 on FT's.

Miss College goes 0-2 on this road trip!

[dballa]

The HPU game against the Ozarks wasn't even as close as the final scored showed even at 88-24.  HPU was up 48-6 at the half.  The score was 4-2 Ozarks a couple minutes into the game then HPU woke up and really took it to them.  HPU's defense was outstanding today holding Ozarks to 24% shooting and causing 34 TO's.

Daniels and Blalock each had 20 pts. 

Now they play Dallas Christian on Tuesday in a game that could actually see the score be even worse than today's. 

[fanstand]

Was glad to see LIB in action yesterday.  It will take us awhile to get all of our ducks in a row.  We have some speed in #15 and #5.  ETBU is a very good team and played well, but got into foul trouble.  We played well inside, our outside shooting wasn't there yesterday, but that won't stay that way.  Hope to have a really good game against Letu tomorrow, where everyone gets to play and relax with good fundamental bball.  But if I remember they shoot lots of outside shots which can really hurt if they are on.  Go LIB!!!!!!