WBB: American Southwest Conference

[fanstand]

McM93, you do realize I was speaking of the women? Duke was undefeated when they got beat the other night. Uconn and LSU are having pretty good years, (except for the coaching thing at LSU) A&M got beat last night. Just an observation

[McM93]

McM93, you do realize I was speaking of the women? Duke was undefeated when they got beat the other night. Uconn and LSU are having pretty good years, (except for the coaching thing at LSU) A&M got beat last night. Just an observation

You are right I was thinking about the men.  I forgot Duke got beat, thought maybe they would go undefeated through the NCAA's.

[mcmfan]

HPU has been a mystery to me.  Two years ago, when they won the conference, they looked unbeatable (of course, that's because I watched them beat McM three times in the season).  They got to host Trinity in the playoffs and lost in the first round on their own court.  Last year they lost to both McM and HSU on their home court, then beat both of us in Abilene, then got knocked out of the tournament in the second round, got to the playoffs and got beaten by HSU.  I think some of that was because Molly Buker was injured, if I remember right.  To go all the way this year needs not only the big, fast players which the team has highlighted for the last few years, but some extra consistency which seems to have been lacking then.  HPU should win it all this weekend... but will they?

[dballa]

You have to remember though in that game against Trinity, HPU had no playoff experience outside of the conference tournament.  Trinity had players on their team that were a part of the national championship team a couple years prior.  Also Trinity had the national player of the year that year.  That makes a huge difference no matter where you play.  Now that HPU's starters have some playoff experience and some big game experience they are more prepared for this run than they've ever been.

6pm can't get here fast enough.

[McM93]

HPU has been a mystery to me.  Two years ago, when they won the conference, they looked unbeatable (of course, that's because I watched them beat McM three times in the season).  They got to host Trinity in the playoffs and lost in the first round on their own court.  Last year they lost to both McM and HSU on their home court, then beat both of us in Abilene, then got knocked out of the tournament in the second round, got to the playoffs and got beaten by HSU.  I think some of that was because Molly Buker was injured, if I remember right.  To go all the way this year needs not only the big, fast players which the team has highlighted for the last few years, but some extra consistency which seems to have been lacking then.  HPU should win it all this weekend... but will they?

HPU had young players and a young coach.  Now they both are experienced.

[snail]

The night HPU lost to Trinity was a see saw battle with HPU looking to win and the Trinity throws up a prayer at the buzzer, a real fluke shot as she was falling down after riding a players back to get a rebound. and as is the case all the time an official did not want to make a call to decide a game at the end of a game, which is precisely when they are needed most.

[dballa]

A little non-basketball note, I wanted to congratulate HPU75, UMHBcrufan16 or whichever name you want to go by on your newly elected position.  I know you'll serve well and I hope it doesn't deter you from posting on here.

[dballa]

I looked at the Luther College website and looks like the games will have livestats.  Sorry about not shortening the link.
http://sports.luther.edu/women/basketball/season-2006/recaps/lutherhosts.html

[dballa]

Congrats to Coach K for being named WBCA Regional Coach of the year:
NCAA Division III

Region           Coach           Institution
1            Walter Paschal     Fitchburg State College
2             Jennifer Kroll       Saint Lawrence University
3             Erin Monahan      William Paterson University
4            Michael Strong     University Of Scranton
5            Chris Kielsmeier   Howard Payne University
6            John Ross            Calvin College
7            Jackie Slaats        Lake Forest College
8            Jane Hildebrand   Luther College

Also congrats to Meia Daniels and Symbri Tuttle for being WBCA/Kodak All-American Finalists. 

All info can be found on www.wbca.org

[HPU_HSU_UMHB_BU]

A little non-basketball note, I wanted to congratulate HPU75, UMHBcrufan16 or whichever name you want to go by on your newly elected position.  I know you'll serve well and I hope it doesn't deter you from posting on here.

HPU75/UMHBcrufan16 is my daddy 
He is gone for the weekend to the games in Iowa, but I will be sure to tell him what you said, and I'm sure he would thank you very much!   

[dballa]

Well I'm sure your dad isn't enjoying the start to the game so far.  They aren't playing well at all right now but starting to get back into the game slowly.  They need to take care of the ball and start hitting some shots.

[dballa]

Beautiful comeback by the Lady Jackets to take the lead into the half 26-24.

Stacey Blalock has been big with 14 pts, 8 coming from the free throw line.

HPU was down 18-6 at one time.  They finally started settling in and hopefully have shown signs of things to come for the 2nd half.

STING EM

[HPU_HSU_UMHB_BU]

They finally started settling in and hopefully have shown signs of things to come for the 2nd half.

The first half sure didn't sound pretty, but it seems like they were able to stay in it with free throws and rebounding (mainly Pippins).  And the very end of the half sounded exciting.   

[mcmfan]

The 2nd half isn't looking any better.  With a tad under 3 minutes to go, HPU is down by 4.  The HPU radio announcer says HPU is only shooting 23 1/2% for the game, compared to UPS shooting 35%.

[dballa]

They've done it to themselves missing way too many layups and having too many turnovers.  Just hasn't been a good showing.  It's very dissappointing because this isn't the HPU team that has played well all year.  Puget Sound has played good defense but no excuse for missing wide open shots.