WBB: American Southwest Conference

[fannie]

Does anyone know of any TV coverage of this game (HPU vs. HOPE)?  Thought I had heard on the radio last night that they were calling "tv time-outs", or maybe it was media time out???

[Rob Don]

Does anyone know of any TV coverage of this game (HPU vs. HOPE)?  Thought I had heard on the radio last night that they were calling "tv time-outs", or maybe it was media time out???

i highly doubt it.  though i wish there was a visual broadcast of some kind...i watch UT Tylers video feed they had set up for the conf. tourney, that was cool... though it wasn't very quality.

I'd love to see HPU implement a video feed for next years games!!!

[sethhpu]

HPU LADY JACKETS HEADED TO THE FINAL FOUR

What a game, I listened on the radio and was shaking towards the end of the game. 37 points by Meia Daniels, what a performance. Great season by Hope, defintely a great game. Congrats to the Lady Jackets, on to Hope. (Edited for supersition)

[WLCALUM83]

Congrats to HPU!



(This poster doesn't want to jinx them!  )

[inthepaint]

HPU Jackets all the way, baby! 

i just wanted to quote that. 

+1 to the Karma, Rob, just for quoting me!   

[Rob Don]

ha ha thanks paint!

GREAT JOB JACKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Interesting night of bball... DePauw lost to UW-Whitewater (that hurts my bracket  )
And Oglethorpe beat Kean (i actually picked Oglethorpe to be in the final four! so that breaks me even  )

Any predictions anyone...i've got Messiah and HPU playing in the Championship...so far so good. 

THe HPU n Hope game was a pretty low percentage game, neither team shot 40% from the field or from the 3pt line.  and HPU got out rebounded by TWENTY! Hope had 22 Offensive rebounds, geez!  That right there shows how hard Howard Payne had to play in order to win tonight.  Good Job ladies.  It looks like going hard to the basket worked well; because in a game one by four points...taking 18 Freethrows was a major difference maker!

I tell ya what...if i know Coach K like i think i do (and i do ) he is going to be talking about rebounding all week long! ha ha ha 

GOOD LUCK JACKETS!!!  Finish It!!!  94/40

On a side note:  Did anyone look at the Boxscore for the DePauw n Whitewater game?  Depauw shot 11 for 15 from downtown!!! over 70% and 49% from the field...and lost!  thats just crazy, plus that had less turn overs and twice as many steals...wow only in basketball!  Again the big diff was in the free throws!

[inthepaint]

How many ASC teams have made it to the Final Four in years past?

[Toby Taff]

The HSU Cowgirls made it in the 2005-06 season.

[dballa]

What a great day to be a Lady Jacket fan, HPU alumni and Brownwood citizen.  WAY TO GO LADIES!!

The crowd was rocking and as it was the past couple of games the wave was looking good.

Hope has a hell of a team.  They came in showing a lot of confidence and definitely are an amazing bunch of players.  The outcome of this game if played at Hope or on a neutral floor could have definitely gone the other way.

Meia Daniels played out of this league tonight on offense but we can't forget how great the ladies played on defense.  Boles hit some big 3's for Hope but HPU's defense played great on the inside. 

Like Rob Don said Coach K will definitely be stressing rebounding all week long. 

Time to take the show on the road and show some more people what HPU basketball is all about.  "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!!"

[dballa]

Also tonight I had the pleasure of meeting David Collinge, Gordon Mann and Ralph Turner.  It's always nice to meet people you talk to on here and put a face with the words.  I know Ralph and I have some words on here when it comes to HPU/McM but it was a pleasure meeting, even if he was wearing maroon and white

[mcmfan]

The game was definitely worth the drive to and from Abilene.  Meia was phenomenal, got more than half of all the HPU baskets.  I'd say HPU had trouble getting into their game the first half; they jumped ahead at the start and then had their lead slowly whittled down until it was tied 20-20 at the half.  Hope had momentum on their side at that point and HPU looked a bit tired and frustrated.  But they turned it around in the second half, getting the fouls that got them the free throws to make the difference in the final game.

[Ralph Turner]

I just got back home.  It was a good night!

Good to see you and your family, McMfan.

Thanks to Rick Akins!  A great treat.

It was good to meet Gordon Mann, David Collinge and Adam Choate!

dballa, congratulations!  This one was big!

I heard the attendance was 2777.  If the balcony seats 2900 with modifications for the scoreboards, I thought that the floor seating, pep band, benches and scoring and officials tables counter-balanced the scattered vacancies in the balcony to give you roughly 3000 fans.  It was a great environment.  I think that Hope is among the small handful of the 430 D-III women's teams that could handle the crowd.  After the initial minutes, it must have just sounded like another Hope-Calvin game from the Calvin end of the gym.

Coach Kielsmeir!  Good job, and it was nice to meet your delightful parents.  They beamed with pride tonight!

[Ralph Turner]

Having talked to some fans from around the country, I am coming to the impression that the ASC has "battled tested" HPU as few other conferences would have.

We have several challenging venues which draw good crowds for the women.  UMHB is getting better and the CRU have responded.  Of course HSU and McM have been really tough games and venues.  CUA puts up a challenge for a #5 in the West.  Mississippi College is always hard on the road and UT-Tyler is getting that way.  I think that very few women's teams in D3 have to face the gauntlet of games that we have in the ASC-West.  The final score may be 20-point  margins, but getting to the victory took outstanding effort, such that at the end of the game, you knew that you had worked hard.  Last week in the second round game versus McMurry, the final HPU margin was 12 points, but McMurry had climbed back to within 6 with 5 minutes to go.  It took 3 Meia Daniels 3FG's to put it away.

I think that that tenacity helped to prepare the Lady Jackets, and the ASC is building its reputation.

[JACKET84]

I just looked at the box score of the UW Whitewater / Depaw game.  UWW (with an enrollment of 10,000+ ) hosted this game with a crowd of 452.  I can understand spring break lowering the attendance, but this is unbelievable.  When I see things like this, I'm so thankful we have the support we do here at HPU.

[mcmfan]

Of course, it apparently didn't hurt for HPU to keep the dorms open an extra two days before spring break!