MBB: USA South Conference

narch · January 22, 2009, 08:25:17 AM

just took a good look at the box score, and rumley killed the monarchs (again) - how's this for a line:

6-10, 16 pts, 7 rebs, 9 asst, 0 to's, 7 steals...nice, efficient performance...that kid can play

kickerdad · January 22, 2009, 10:00:36 AM

CNU 85

Thinking about coming to the game Saturday Averett/CNU.. What will be best entrance to take and which parking lot is available to visitors?

CNU85 · January 22, 2009, 12:20:10 PM

Quote from: SU97 on January 21, 2009, 10:45:18 PM
Quote from: CNU85 on January 21, 2009, 10:20:30 PM
Blasingame had 7 blocks...i only saw second half....he was schooling NCW's #50....made him look like a rec league player.
another double-double for Blasingame, but he also logged 38 minutes. CNU85, can't you guys find anybody to give the kid a breather??

We got a kid named Faris. I think he's pretty good...but still a Freshman. He went in the game yesterday and picked 3 fouls in a couple of minutes (I haven't checked box score...so I might be off a little). He plays a very physical game and that's what got him in foul trouble.

CNU85 · January 22, 2009, 12:22:15 PM

Quote from: kickerdad on January 22, 2009, 10:00:36 AM
CNU 85

Thinking about coming to the game Saturday Averett/CNU.. What will be best entrance to take and which parking lot is available to visitors?

Don't go through the entrance towards the museum like you did for football. Go up Warwick Blvd and turn by the Freeman Center. you can park right next to the Freeman.

hasanova · January 22, 2009, 01:21:38 PM

Quote from: narch on January 22, 2009, 08:25:17 AM
just took a good look at the box score, and rumley killed the monarchs (again) - how's this for a line:

6-10, 16 pts, 7 rebs, 9 asst, 0 to's, 7 steals...nice, efficient performance...that kid can play

Yeah, that's nice effort. One of my Guilford College classmates was his HS coach at Kernersville Glenn ... we've made a special effort to watch Rumley whenever Averett's in the area. I'm sure the local schools tried hard to get him to stay in NC!

cnububba · January 22, 2009, 07:20:34 PM

Good win for CNU last night. One of the key stats – only 11 TOs. The Bishops are down right scary. Athletic, big and deep. But streaky. #50 was a load 85. When Blasingame wasn't checkin' him, he dropped-stepped to the front of the rim pretty much at will.

Davon is really starting to hit his stride. It'll be an interesting weekend. Sincerely hope Barton and Blasingame can hold up for two games. It's nice to see these two guys who came in as freshman and overcame some health issues have such a positive impact! Baker, Whinnett and Green all had solid games.

We definitely need positive minutes from the bench from this weekend. Was sincerely happy for Ryan Barbosa. I thought he had his best game off the bench against the Bishops.

Good luck this weekend Caps. Keep it rollin'.

narch · January 25, 2009, 12:02:10 AM

the monarchs get a 57-55 win against lagrange today...it wasn't pretty, but it was a W

connor with 9 pts, 11 rebs and 6 blocks, jernigan led mu in scoring with 13

box score

looks like the su/fc game was a real offensive explosion, as well...48-45 must have been tough to watch

cnububba · January 25, 2009, 09:12:10 AM

Narch they need to check the rims at SU!!! Davon Barton had a great game against AU yesterday with 26 big points. He looked quick and was really nailing the mid-range jumpers. If his legs can hold up for back-to-backs we're going to be tough. May be the story for CNU today; three of five starters logged 35 or more minutes yesterday. Blasingame logged 31, only because he was in foul trouble in the 1st half. He did not come out in the 2nd half. So it'll be interesting to see how we hold up today against another tough USA South foe. Whinnett had a tough day at the FT line. He makes'em we win going away. That will not happen often though, Thomas has a nice stroke and did make a huge three pointer in the last three minutes when it looked like AU was going to pull away. As CJ pointed out, not a great day by our wings shooting wise, but they stepped up when they needed to down the stretch. Blasingame was a not factor in the first half, with two horrible, horrible calls going against him. He had a very solid 2nd half, with some huge rebounds down the stretch and two big free throws with less than a minute to go. I'll say this one last time; we miss #22 off the bench. Hope he's back next year.

CNU85 · January 25, 2009, 12:37:21 PM

What happened to #22?

I missed yesterday's game. Had to celebrate my baby girl's birthday - 18!!! UGGHH...that was an aging experience! I feel old.

I will be there in a few hours. I hope I can leave work in time to see some of the Lady Captains game. They are having a fantastic year with 12 freshmen on the team and only 2 returning players. If Hunter doesn't win COY I would be shocked....I know, this is the men's board.

Does anyone know where I can find d3 career stats? I can find specific years. But I'd like to see the top 10-20 on each category. I'm curious to see where Blasingame is with his blocked shots Any help is appreciated.

cnububba · January 25, 2009, 12:47:23 PM

85 don't know with #22, but see him and Reid (knee injury) hanging around the bench. Also, recently read in the paper where Tabb High School's Sherwood may head CNU's way. It would be nice to have those three and all of the other underclassman back next year.

I assume you're talking overall d3 stats? Not just CNU?

kickerdad · January 25, 2009, 01:28:05 PM

CNUbubba,

I am sure you and 85 are more knowledgable of basketball than I. I know football like the back of my hand but never got into the roundball end of it. I had the pleaseure of visiting the Freeman Center at CNU for the first time yesterday to watch CNU take on Averett. FYI, great facility.

Averett jumps out like a fireball and gets up to (I think) 20 point lead and then keeps it there until 4 minutes left in the half and all of a sudden it looks like Averett changed teams.

Someone please tell me how a team goes from a 20 point lead to sucking wind in the second half and end of the game. From my seat it was caused by bad passing or maybe poor decision making on where and when to pass. The players that had been making the 3's couldn't find the rim much less the backboard. Averett stopped shooting from the outside and tried to force the ball inside where a much taller CNU team shut that down from the get go. However Averett thought they were a great team and continued to try and force the ball inside and drive the basket. Everytime they would either throw it away, lose control of the ball or make an ugly attempt to make a "Michael Jordan Shot" None of which got into the nets. I also heard folks from Averett wondering why the coach was taking players out of the game that were not in foul trouble and leaving inexperienced players in to try and play catch up. Also, Averett depended on #22 too much. He was cold as ice all game and make very poor decisions even in the first half yet they continued to let him do what ever he wanted to do.

If Averett is to repeat as conference champions this year, something needs to change very quickly. They had all of December to work out issues agains non conference opponents and should be playing much better ball than they displayed in the last 4 minutes of the 1st half and all the second half.

I am open to anyone commenting on this and giving me a different prepective of what took place. Not to take anything from CNU, they didn't give up and kept coming back. They appeared to have kept their game plan in place all the time and the coach had confidence that his players would soon start finding the basket after a shaky start.
Congrats to CNU. Averett you look good for 16 minutes then you went off to zulu land and never came back.

Ralph Turner · January 25, 2009, 01:48:36 PM

Biggest Averett lead was 17 at 28-11 and 32-15.

(I was curious. Yesterday, McMurry overcame a 24-point lead with 17+ minutes left and 20-pt lead with 10:15 left!)

Ralph Turner · January 25, 2009, 04:52:20 PM

CNU 39 Ferrum 32 at the half.

cnububba · January 25, 2009, 07:15:03 PM

Kicker, not sure about the "more" knowledgeable thing, but the way you guys started yesterday I thought it was going to be blowout. You guys were hitting everything and we could not throw it in the ocean, due in part to the excellent defense you were playing. Have to agree with you, your coach does sub a LOT, 14 different players saw the court. Interestingly we're at the other extreme. I think sometimes the challenge of playing 14 different guys is understanding roles and being ready when the call comes. BUT, when you're on a roll and sub, you do risk losing momentum.

Good win today against Ferrum. Davon had an outstanding weekend -- 21 pts and all around excellent floor game! Four of five starters in double figures. Barton, Blasingame and Green logged 30+ again and all three played well...our 4 Green had 20 pts/8 rbs and 5 Blasingame14 pts/10 rbs/5 blks.

CNU85 · January 25, 2009, 09:13:15 PM

Kicker,

I wish I could help you but I didn't see the game. However, I've coached enough youth hoops games to know that momentum is a very tircky thing. I've been on both ends of it....I've seen large leads vanish like that and with it the kids' confidence. I've subbed trying to break the momentum, I've left the first stringers in, hoping they would break out of the funk. The only thing that becomes obvious after the fact is, "did what I tried work?". If you win, you tell yourself you did a good job coaching. Fact is, take the same situation and do the same thing and you will probably get a different outcome.

Long winded post to say - there is no answer. You just endure and move on and hope the kids take something away from the experience.