WBB: American Southwest Conference

[JACKET84]

When I was a boy, and SFA and Sam Houston came to town, the Fire Marshall had to actually turn people away.  I remember people setting in the aisles.  There's no telling how many were actually there.  I had always heard that it was over 4,500 and nearly 5,000. It was standing room only, including on the floor.  Great memory.

[dballa]

That seating capacity also only accounts for the top level.  It doesn't account for the student section bleachers as well as the other fans in wheel chairs and older fans that can't make it up the stairs.

The only bad thing is there really isn't much parking all around so you need for people to ride together or take public transportation. 

My hope is that the school, the city, or volunteers will arrange for shuttle buses from different places so that more people can attend the game.

[golfniz1]

A big shout out to CRUfan !  I want to tell you those girls from MHBU earned some serious respect from this fan. Do you remember when you nocked my 150% take well I do not know if you were there, but those girls played their hearts out and it seemed like they did play at that level.  Big props goes out to the CRU from this HPU fan.

[Ralph Turner]

That seating capacity also only accounts for the top level.  It doesn't account for the student section bleachers as well as the other fans in wheel chairs and older fans that can't make it up the stairs.

The only bad thing is there really isn't much parking all around so you need for people to ride together or take public transportation. 

My hope is that the school, the city, or volunteers will arrange for shuttle buses from different places so that more people can attend the game.

The official total of 4,356 by the NCAA is "actual certified paid" attendance. 

[Ralph Turner]

On the men's boards I have posted the impact of the 20/21 game schedule on the OWP (opponents' winning percentage). 
The last that I saw, HPU's was around .536 and McMurry's was .527 going into the tourney.

I calculated the impact of not playing the bottom three ASC-East teams, at all on the OWP of HPU and McMurry.

Arbitrarily, only HPU or only McMurry not playing ETBU, LeTU and UOz would raise the OWP to .640 and .629 respectively.

These are preliminary, and I hope that someone will review the Handbook and double-check my calculations!!!  Please help me here.

Cutting back to an 18 game mandatory schedule in the conference as we have discusses on the men's board would require more research, but I believe that we need to discuss the implications of this, and possibly consider a plan for the 2009-10 season.  I want to see what the impact of switching low W-L percentages for .500 percentages (out-of-conference opponents) does, too.

[Ralph Turner]

Academic and athletics in the ASC

Good article about Tarra, and it mentions Meia Daniels and the HSU women.

[lewis]

The HPU/Chapman I think was quess and was later changed to an official attendance of 4,011.

[lewis]

sorry guess

[golfniz1]

HOOPNUT I would love to see HPU and the Sound play again.  HPU had the worst shooting game of the year and alot of that was nerves.  This years team is more seasoned and 1 year wiser.  With that being said you may not want to see HPU about that time of the tourney.

[hoopnut]

I would love to see a rematch as well, since that would mean UPS would have gotten by LaVern, GFU/Chapman, and probably Hope. I don't doubt that HPU is a great team. I also know there are other gret teams out there. UPS has lost no games by more than 9 points. Two of those losses were to DII teams, one of which is undefeated and currently ranked #2. One loss to a ranked team (GFU) they have since beat twice by double digits, and a last second loss to Whitman. Look past teams outside the ASC at your own risk.

[WWWRHH]

hoopnut, as a Hope fan I really hope (we over use that pun at times) that there is not an UPS / HPU rematch, since as you pointed out that would mean the Dutch had stumbled.

But you make a really good point.  At this stage of the season we can not look past the next game.  In D3 it is hard to make comparisons with teams outside of your region.  This is especially true for geographically isolated teams like HPU, UPS and Hope.  (I know it is hard to appreciate that an eastern mid-west state like Michigan is isolated, but being on a pennisula with Canada to the east and north, Lake Michigan to the west and Indiana to the south filled with NAIA teams puts Hope in a difficult position finding quality regional opponents within driving distance.)

However, if any of "our" teams meet at least we will have made it to the sweet sixteen or even the elite eight and that is a good start.  Good luck......for now.

I don't expect anyone to give away state secrets, but how does this year's HPU team compare to Hardin Simmons final four team of 2006?

[dballa]

Tickets for Saturday night are selling fast.  My wife went to the Admin office at HPU and bought one last ticket.  The cashiers office said they had already run out of tickets once and had to get more brought to them.

It would be nice to have a sellout and break our own attendance record. 

[golfniz1]

I am not looking past anybody ,after all this is the tourney now and any of the teams are capable of beating the other.  I was making my statement based on what happened to HPU last year with the Sound.  This is going to be a great tournament in 2008!  You are right dballa the tickets are going like crazy for Saturdays game the way it is going right now we will have a sell out.  I can not wait!  go HPU

[mcmfan]

I've been assured that tickets have been reserved for whoever plays HPU on Saturday, McM or Trinity.  Otherwise, I'd be worried right now from what you're saying that people in Brownwood would buy up all the seats before any visitors from outside town ever got a chance to get any!

Of course, while tickets have been reserved, there was no word about toilet paper... 

[sethhpu]

HPU has no control on the number of seats, the NCAA has guidelines as far as ticket designation. I have a feeling that the visitors will be outnumbered by just a few