WBB: American Southwest Conference

[JACKET84]

But the final four refs will call an eastern type game and it will be up to HPU to deal with it.

What's an eastern type game?

[dballa]

Looks like HPU will be in for another physical game just looking at the UW@WW roster.  they have 6 girls that are 6ft to 6ft 1'' and seems to be Hope size girls.  They have 2 or 3 girls that can light it up from the outside the Lady Jackets are going to have to rebound better than the Hope game if they want to advance to the finals.  UW@WW on paper looks to be a very good basketball team.  Does anyone else have any info on these girls?

Looking at their stats their normal starters are 5'6, 5'7, 5'9, 5'11, and 6'.  Their subs that play the most minutes one is 6'1 the others are 5'10, 5'9, 5'9 and 5'7.
I would definitely say we have the size advantage in this matchup. 

They've shot almost as many free throws as we have so they are good at drawing fouls too, or they must have some of that "home cooking" we apparently have in Brownwood according to some fans

It should be a good game, I'm just extremely disappointed I'm not going to be able to make the trip.  They should be able to hear me yelling from Brownwood though.

Travel safe ladies and HPU fans, bring home the Walnut and Bronze.

[golfniz1]

DaBalla do not worry myself and 249 more will be there to cheer the girls on to the big prize.  It will be a tough road but I believe the girls are very battle tested and ready to go.  They are focused on one thing and one thing only and that is the"WALNUT & BRONZE''.  GO HPU!

[fanstand]

Just heard on the radio that ALL American flights out of DFW have been cancelled for the rest of the day due to weather. That could pose some problems.

[calhsu]

An eastern type game is tough in the middle.  Hope did not win on the scoreboard which is the only place that counts, but Hope did control the boards.   And if HPU doesn't have a high per cent shooting game that will be a concern.

Now I realize that most the posters on this site at this point are people who bleed yellow for the Jackets.  You should be as proud as peacocks, your team has come to another level.  I have not tried to say anything bad about the team( what is there to say).  All I am doing is bringing up things that they will face in Mass. 

There is a reason that only Trinity has won from the south.  The midwest and eastern teams have ruled by sheer power basketball.  HPU is good enough to beat them on talent.  If they lost it would most likely be because of some team roughing them up and the refs not calling it.  I'm not hoping for that.  But a great team like the Yellow Jackets would only lose if someone gets into their head. 
I have been watching this tourney for the last several years.  And I do believe the ASC is stronger than it was in the past.  If MCM and even if HSU had been in a different bracket they could have beat many teams in this tourney.  But HPU  is the best team ever sent from the ASC, and these weekend they will show if they have got to the ultimate level. 

[Pat Coleman]

Games are in Michigan now, calhsu.

[JACKET84]

If you could see Stacey Blalock's left eye at this time, you would say they played an eastern style game against Hope.

[golfniz1]

calhsu:  The girls are ready to go they will play however they need to win these next 2 games.  They learned from last year in Iowa that is why they hit the weights hard over the summer and during the course of the year.  Those Hope girls were tough and I cant see anyone playing as tough as they did.  HPU is ready to play a N/S/E/or W style of game so with that being said please just root for them we need all the support we can get.

[Ralph Turner]

If you could see Stacey Blalock's left eye at this time, you would say they played an eastern style game against Hope.

I actually wonder if that game would have been called as it were in another part of the country.  I wonder if that may have been some of the frustration that Hope was feeling about the way that the game was called.  Their coach was especially perturbed with the officiating.

Every contested rebound was whistled a jump ball before too many elbows had flown.  (Maybe that is why Stacey's right eye looks untouched.     )

There was a lot of scrambling on the floor, and the players came out relatively uninjured.  (I hope that Hope Hohertz is doing okay.  She did not look good after that fall that she took in front of the Hope bench going for the loose ball over her head in the last minute!)  However, the rapid tendency to call a jump ball on contested rebounds was a consistent feature of the game. A savvy player would have picked that up in the first five minutes!

[JACKET84]

Hope is doing good.  She'll be ready to play.

[golfniz1]

Mr. Turner where do you get all your info?  You got to be on the staff for D3 Hoops.  What kind of chance do you give HPU in winning it all?  I respect your insight on this.

[gordonmann]

That's good news on Hope Hohertz.

The midwest and eastern teams have ruled by sheer power basketball. 

I'm not sure how you're classifying "east," but the East Region hasn't had a champion since NYU won in 1997.  If you mean east as a general geographic orientation, the regions that line the east coast - Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Atlantic haven't fared much better with zero championships in the last ten years.  The South (also covering the east coast) has a champion but that team was from San Antonio.

You're right on the Midwest part, though.  The Great Lakes and Central regions have won most of the titles.  And they tend to have more depth at the forward position, perhaps making better suited to play a physical, grinding game.

[jacket16]

Ok after having watched the games in Brownwood last weekend what do the great moderators of this site think of HPU's chances later this week? Oh and one other point if Meia Daniels is not a 1st Team All-American after her game vs Hope then there is no justice in this world! (I realize she has been a second or honorable mention, I can't remember which before, however she deserves to be on the 1st team). One more question I am sure someone can answer is there a player of the year award for D3 women throughout the entire country?

[Ralph Turner]

Mr. Turner where do you get all your info?  You got to be on the staff for D3 Hoops.  What kind of chance do you give HPU in winning it all?  I respect your insight on this.

Nope, not on the staff.  Pat Coleman let me moderate the baseball message boards beginning in December 2005.

I try to keep track of things.  I saw the HPU-Hope game.

I don't know what to predict.  I think that HPU got the benefit of officiating that favors more Naismithian (less aggressive, less physical) style play.

However, I hope that we can see whether Coach Kielsmeir has found the key to the ASC winning it all.

I will defer to Chad Grubbs, the HSU SID who went in 2006.  I don't think that we ASC teams have found the key just yet.

If you look at the conference, McMurry had two big posts (Richardson and Nelson) HPU has three, HSU had one really big quality post (Lindsey Newcombe) and UMHB added a very good and talented post in Landie Thompson.

If that is what it takes, then the best teams will have the best posts as we try to make the run at the Final Four.

[Pat Coleman]

Ok after having watched the games in Brownwood last weekend what do the great moderators of this site think of HPU's chances later this week? Oh and one other point if Meia Daniels is not a 1st Team All-American after her game vs Hope then there is no justice in this world! (I realize she has been a second or honorable mention, I can't remember which before, however she deserves to be on the 1st team). One more question I am sure someone can answer is there a player of the year award for D3 women throughout the entire country?

We have a player of the year award, as does the WBCA.