WBB: American Southwest Conference

[jmnaseum]

What has happened to HPU?

[Ralph Turner]

What has happened to HPU?

My first thought is that they have graduated all of the Hohertz' sisters.      

Secondly, I think that they have had the hardest conference schedule to date.  I think that they have played at least 3 of the 4 teams from the west who will make the playoffs.

The Centre win was a good win.

[JACKET84]

What has happened to HPU?

In the game against LC, it seemed like HPU was always 1 step slower.  HPU was much improved for the MC game, but just couldn't pull it out.  MC is probably the best team in the conference.  Seems like HPU is missing an inside game.  They do have a really good JC transfer that drives to the basket on a consistant basis.  They'll turn things around.

[dsc]

Congratulations Cowgirls!!!

HSU 70
McM 52

Go HSU!

[Ralph Turner]

#3 CNU 67, McMurry 59.

The game was tied at 59 with 1:59 left in the game.

The McMurry women look like a solid 3rd place team in the ASC-West. They need to gain confidence, and the younger players need to develop for me to rank them higher in the ASC-West.  Besides, the ASC-East may be stronger than the ASC-West this year.

Respectfully, CNU may not be even a Top 20 team.

I do like the fact that McMurry got good situational minutes out 12 players.  Overall, with the win over Lake Forest last night, they had a good tournament.

[Ralph Turner]

The lunar eclipse is neat.

[Ralph Turner]

Best game of the season for the McMurry women.

McMurry comes from behind for 51-43 win over the Lady Choctaws.  It was a game of runs.  Mississippi College led 19-18 at the half.  McMurry put on a 17-4 run from 17 minutes to 11 minutes left in the game.  MC closed to 4 several times thereafter, but McMurry played good defense and hit the FT's at the end.  McMurry defense forced 29 turnovers.

McM had season best games from Senior Post Precious Williams (IMHO, this may be her career-best game in all aspects of the game)  and 10 points and 10 rebounds from Freshman Forward Keisha Collins.

McMurry played 8 women who got 21-29 minutes plus another player with 13 minutes.  (I like the depth on this team.)

[Ralph Turner]

Across town, La College 85 HSU 71.

[Kelly Boggs]

Way to go Lady Wildcats, still undefeated!

[DavidNichols]

Best game of the season for the McMurry women.

McMurry comes from behind for 51-43 win over the Lady Choctaws.  It was a game of runs.  Mississippi College led 19-18 at the half.  McMurry put on a 17-4 run from 17 minutes to 11 minutes left in the game.  MC closed to 4 several times thereafter, but McMurry played good defense and hit the FT's at the end.  McMurry defense forced 29 turnovers.

McM had season best games from Senior Post Precious Williams (IMHO, this may be her career-best game in all aspects of the game)  and 10 points and 10 rebounds from Freshman Forward Keisha Collins.

McMurry played 8 women who got 21-29 minutes plus another player with 13 minutes.  (I like the depth on this team.)

McMurry played very well and did a great job of taking the Lady Choctaws out of their game.  This was only the third road game of the year for MC, and it showed.  McMurry was very physical on both ends of the floor and bumped MC off of their normal execution in the paint.  The Lady Choctaws actually held an 8-2 lead with just over 7 minutes left in the first half.  It may have been the best defensive game McMurry has played all season, but neither team executed on the offensive end. 

Just to clarify, Ralph, the score was 15-14 at the half.  And also, it would probably not be good in the future for the referees to be hugging McMurry players on the floor before the game.  That sort of thing just looks bad.

I look for LC to have no trouble playing at McMurry as the Lady Wildcats are a physical bunch, as well.  If MC could go across town and pick up a win over Hardin-Simmons, that would set up a huge matchup with LC next Tuesday.  Not quite as big with the loss to McMurry, but it will be a good game either way.

[Ralph Turner]

David, thanks for the comments.

I sometimes wonder how much the Home Court Advantage is in the crossover games.  We ASC fans know that it is a good 10 hour drive from Clintion to Abilene.

[Ralph Turner]

Another good game for McMurry.

They held on to defeat a solid LaCollege team (#19 in this week's d3hoops.com poll).

This has been two good back-to-back performances since the last minute (something like 1:19) loss to CNU.  The young players are learning to win and to play defense as Coach Snow likes it played.  Lots of solid depth on the team, too.

After the heart-breaking home loss to UTD, the road fiasco at UTT and then the HSU blow out, McMurry is in a three-way tie with UMHB and HSU.  HPU is at 5-4 with 2 wins over SRSU.

The West is wide open.  I think that the East also has shown that it will be an exciting race.


My bad...

HSU      6-2
UMHB    5-3
McM     5-3

[Kelly Boggs]

LC's first loss. Thanks for the info, Ralph.

[fanstand]

This is way off the subject of basketball, but could someone from LC tell me how the Givens' (father or grandfather) is?  He had an episode at the game on Saturday, and we were just wondering if he is all right, it reminds me that its just a game.  We have been thinking of their family.  Yes, I'm still here and keeping up, and keeping quiet.  It's very difficult for me, (to be quiet), but I still attend games, and have brought my granddaughter.  She loves basketball by the way, better watch out, she'll be dribbling before you know it.

[mcmfan]

Thursday result: HPU 61 McM 58
McM led for 3/4 of the game, by as much as 10 for a while, but then fell apart in the last 10 minutes.  Got called for way too many fouls, so HPU basically won the game with free throws.  Neither team looked very sharp for most of the game, but HPU pulled it together at the end and McM did not.