Top 25 talk

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Caltech is definately not the worst team in the country this year.


Also, if anyone cares about the real top 25.  ORV and South region sleeper Howard Payne lost last night... done in by McMurry's system- style ball.

[hjmphelp]

Nice big score, Hoops Fan, but wrong school. MacMurray is the school running system ball. McMurry is just running up the score.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

They shoot a lot of threes (30-50% of their field goals; yes, I checked the other box scores to be sure); it looks about as close to me as some of those other so-called "system style systems."  Fine, I'll take my medicine.  I can;t figure out the differences between the M(a)c's anyway (sorry Ralph, but its true).  I know they are in different states, but that's about it; I still have trouble remembering which is which.

[Ralph Turner]

Nice big score, Hoops Fan, but wrong school. MacMurray is the school running system ball. McMurry is just running up the score.

Good morning, Jeff!

You amended your post before I could finish, nevertheless here goes...


Assistant Coach Russell Vanlandingham reunited with his mentor, Ron Holmes this year.  They are implementing the up-tempo system that they used with the 2000 Elite 8 and 2001 Sweet 16 teams.  That system increases the number of cycles in a game by taking acceptable shots quickly and getting back to playing defense, especially if you can shorten the offensive cycle to about 10-12 seconds instead of 25-30 seconds per possession.   This system is more like Coach Nolan Richardson's "forty minutes of hell" than the Grinnell style.  

Actually McMurry has had 3 starters to leave the team this year, including 2 point guards and a post.  The chemistry is still good, so McMurry adjusting the system to the players that remain.   McMurry goes about 10 deep, so they "sub" about every 3-5 minutes.  Last night, McMurry got 51 points off the bench.

As for the margin of victory, one of the conference tie-breakers is margin of victory,  up to 10 points.  Second-place McMurry had to "max" that one.

[Mr. Ypsi]

And now they are using it to track your every movement!

Only now noticed this post.

Coming from April, I'm trusting it is not THAT kind of e-cookie (more like olinemom's e-brownies)!

(Though Greg's follow-up post does have me worried!)

[smedindy]

If I read right, C-M lost at home to NYU tonight. Oopsie! 

[Mr. Ypsi]

A couple of NESCAC results tonite relevant to the polls:

Amherst annihilated Bates, 88-52.
Tufts beat Trinity (CT) in OT, 84-80.

(Amherst and Trinity were the home teams.)

Only Amherst was IN the d3hoops.com top 25 (and the Posters' Poll top 25), but Bates and Trinity were receiving votes in both, and Tufts was receiving votes in the PP (something tells me they will be receiving votes in the real poll next week - pending tomorrow's results, of course).

[Ralph Turner]

And now they are using it to track your every movement!

And here we all thought that April was just some harmless coed who moved to Cali after graduation to do something nature-y ... while all along she's been an NSA operative specializing in cybernetic surveillance.

[Pat Coleman]

Whitworth 46, Puget Sound 24, HALF
http://www.ksbn.net/

[smedindy]

Big OOPSY 

[David Collinge]

UPS is a second-half team; their style is to wear out their opponents with endless full-court pressure and up-tempo offense.  So I wouldn't chalk up the 'L' just yet.  But it's not looking too good (57-34, 14:24 remaining.)

[woosterbooster]

24 points in a half in an uptempo offense?  Were they shooting at the wrong basket?  And even missing most of those?

[David Collinge]

UPS is shooting in the mid-30% range, and is 2 for many from beyond the arc. 

Whitworth 88
UPS 64
5:42

[Mr. Ypsi]

Whitworth has so far out-scored UPS by 2 in the second half - but that's only for the first 14:18 of the half.  Maybe the UPS surge is coming!

[David Collinge]

Not happening for the Loggers tonight; the Whitworth bench has been cleared. 

Whitworth prevails, 98-74.