WBB: American Southwest Conference

[fanstand]

Ralph, my knowledge as we know is limited, but one of the girls who graduated with one of my girls several years ago, got a partial scholarship from McNeese St.  She was a mediocre player at best, but was tall, and only was there for one semester.  Their women's basketball program was weak at best.  Unless there has been improvement over the past few years, I can see a decent DIII team beating them.

[thundercat]

We will see just how good LC is tomorrow as they play at HPU!!

[fanstand]

Someone explain to me how come, both #10 Messiah and HPU in the same tournament in South Padre and they never meet? That would have been a nice match up instead of whoever they played the last game that they pounded.  Messiah played two games and went undefeated also, seems like there could have been better scheduling? Just wondering....

[dballa]

fanstand from what I gather from the tournament it was a rather large one with men's teams as well.  But I agree with you I would rather have seen that matchup than playing a couple of teams with only a couple wins.  It doesn't help the team prepare for tough games ahead.  Although I'm sure the ladies did have a wonderful time down there and a lot of players got some valuable playing time.

[Ralph Turner]

We will see just how good LC is tomorrow as they play at HPU!!

thundercat, I fear that the HPU-LC game may tell us how poorly McNeese State played that night. 

[dballa]

Ralph McNeese is 2-11 on the year with an added exhibition win against Dillard.  But i'm not sure if that's a college or the sales exec's from the store
They definitely aren't a very good team at all.

But one thing LC does have coming into the game today is a winning streak and some confidence.  As much as I believe HPU will win fairly easily, teams like that can be very dangerous if you let your guard down.

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph McNeese is 2-11 on the year with an added exhibition win against Dillard.  But i'm not sure if that's a college or the sales exec's from the store
They definitely aren't a very good team at all.

But one thing LC does have coming into the game today is a winning streak and some confidence.  As much as I believe HPU will win fairly easily, teams like that can be very dangerous if you let your guard down.

Dillard University is the HBCU in New Orleans, down on Poydras Street, so I am not sure how "put back together" they are.  They are 0-8 this year.

[fanstand]

Trinity women beat an NAIA DI team last night also.  This year in the Polk Key City Tourney (high school) I watched AA Jim Ned (yes, Colt's old HS) girls beat 5A Mansfield, and Lubbock Trinity a private school beat 5A Amarillo High, and both 5A teams are excellent. You can never underestimate opponents no matter what size of school.  I believe a lot of DIII players could play DII or even DI. They are not always seen by DI coaches. Their (DI) recruiting is in alot of AAU ball, a lot of these girls are just hometown kids who aren't playing AAU ball in the larger areas. But they play with a lot of skills and heart. That's why I love DIII. Most of these players are coachable, too.  Those that aren't, usually move on. Just an opinion.

[Josh Bowerman]

Jim Ned's women's basketball team is usually pretty solid.  If I remember correctly, they won at least one state championship in the early to mid-1990s.

[WLCALUM83]

ETBU/Schreiner about to get underway:

[sethhpu]

HPU 6 LC 2, 14:38 1st half

[Ralph Turner]

McM 13, UTT 10, 14:59.  Sawyer has 4 for McMurry, Richardson has 6.

Media timeout. Richardson at the line for 2.

[sethhpu]

HPU 15 LC 2 11:25 left 1st

[sethhpu]

HPU 21 LC 4 9:40 left, Brasher has 4 fouls for LC.

[WLCALUM83]

ETBU 22, Schreiner 19, just shy of 10 minutes left in 1st half.