MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[mattgrubb]

Coach what is challenging is getting bobby away from a buffet

I personally want to extend an offer for Coach Lambert to meet Coach Haynes in a battle of Stomp the Grass at center court before the MC/LC game next year, Lambert has never backed down from a challenge so i speak for him when i say he's in

Coach, MC players already have a complex, bobby knows we love him we just want him to get better and skinnier, for him they are one in the same

Speaking of Bobby he was spotted at the shoney's breakfast bar this morning at 7 Am

[scottiedoug]

William:  A high percentage of MC students have financial aid of some sort.  Over 30% are first generation college students and many are from families without the financial resources to handle the full costs.  MC has always had a lot of low to moderate income kids. 

Mattgrubb: Ennen did not play ball his first year at MC, did he? 

Can Dee Bell get young Sara to refresh the family legacy at MC?  Sara Chaney for President has a nice ring to it.

[mattgrubb]

Scholarships are all relative?
Ennen did not play his first year, he was about 6'6" with long arms and weighed about 190 pounds and looked like he was about 12 years old, that was his red shirt year, the next year he was about 6'9" 240, with a sweet little jumper, he did start almost every game for 4 years, except when he hurt his ankle in warm ups

Dee Bell can bring in anybody, i heard Candace Parker is thinking about transferring just to learn from Coach Bell

[Spencer Beaty]

Coach Haynes.  Im not sure what mattgrubb is talking about when he says "stomp the grass" but I can tell you the art of the real game "kill the grass" created by lambert perfected by chaney.  You imagine that the middle circle of the court is full of grass and you work on your dribbling to "kill the grass" by pounding the ball in as many different places at a very fast rate.  Dont let this spread to other places coach or we might start an epedimic of Andy Chaneys which as of now there is only one

[mattgrubb]

Also, you do not want to play circle of death with Lambert, either version
version 1 Jon Wright was the champ
version 2 i am the champ, version 2 involves Jack Daniels

[Spencer Beaty]

Please explain

[mattgrubb]

Version 1 is where to combatants go head to head in the center court circle trying to knock the ball away from their adversary while dribbling
Version 2 is the way we used to play in college when the season was over with Jack Daniels

[old_lion]

I just saw the NCAA's final D3 stats. To my knowledge, they did not post team stats for assists and steals during the season.

I knew we had an unselfish team that did a good job of finding the open man  ... but I was impressed to see we finished 9th nationally in assists ... and 14th in steals and scoring offense.

We made progress in our rebounding and defense last year. If we can improve in those areas again next year, we will be very tough.

So here's a heads up to any of you big men out there who feel you didn't reach your potential in high school because your teammates didn't get you the ball ... come to Piedmont! We'll get you the ball and make you a star! 

Only six and a half months until practice starts ... Go Lions!

(sorry the cut and paste below is not very legible ... there is a link to NCAA Stats on the front page of D3hoops.com)

Piedmont (13-12)
Men's Basketball National Ranking Summary
Thru Games 03/19/2006

Back to team selections
Category Rank Actual National Leader Actual
Scoring Offense (379 ranked) 14 86.4 Grinnell  117.3 
Scoring Defense (379 ranked) 354 83.8 Wittenberg  54.6 
Scoring Margin (379 ranked) 149 2.6 Wooster  21.5 
Field-Goal Percentage (379 ranked) 93 46.4 Baldwin-Wallace  53.5 
Field-Goal Percentage Defense (379 ranked) 233 44.8 Huntingdon  35.4 
Three-Point Field Goals Per Game (379 ranked) 77 7.5 Redlands  21.1 
Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage (332 ranked) 78 37.2 Potsdam St.  43.3 
Free-Throw Percentage (379 ranked) 51 72.6 Wis.-Stevens Point  79.2 
Rebound Margin (379 ranked) 218 -0.3 Coast Guard  11.1 
Assists Per Game (379 ranked) 9 18.8 Redlands  24.2 
Blocked Shots Per Game (379 ranked) 325 1.8 Chris. Newport  6.9 
Steals Per Game (379 ranked) 14 11.4 Redlands  17.3 
Won-Lost Percentage (383 ranked) 171 52.0 Lawrence  96.2 
Turnovers Per Game (379 ranked) 341 18.6 Wis.-Stevens Point  10.6 
Personal Fouls Per Game (379 ranked) 347 21.4 Carleton  13.0 

 
Category  Player Rank Actual National Leader Actual
Points Per Game (100 ranked)          Kyle Myrick, Lincoln (Pa.)  33.7 
Field-Goal Percentage (100 ranked) Jake Baldwin  45  58.7  Brian Schmitting, Ripon  76.3 
Three-Point Field Goals Per Game (100 ranked)          Amir Mazarei, Redlands  5.8 
Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage (100 ranked)          Peter Lipka, Farmingdale  55.4 
Free-Throw Percentage (100 ranked)   
   
   
   Tony Bollier, Wheaton (Ill.)
Matt Secrease, Hendrix  92.9
92.9 
Rebounds Per Game (100 ranked) Brent Walker  95  8.2  Anthony Fitzgerald, Villa Julie  14.3 
Assists Per Game (100 ranked) Jake Green  43  5.0  David Arseneault, Grinnell  8.6 
Blocked Shots Per Game (100 ranked)          Drew Cohen, Colby  4.8 
Steals Per Game (100 ranked) Brent Walker  47  2.4  Quameir Harding, Ramapo  4.0

[Spencer Beaty]

I would like to take this post to congratulate my friend Lee Humphrey from MURVUL TENNESSEE on a great final four performance against George Mason.  Lee is the all time leading scorer for the Maryville High School Rebels and led them to the state tourney where they lost to who else but Bradely Blair's Greenville High school.  Lee can stroke it from anywhere and I mean anywhere.  If he is past the timeline its time to guard him.  Congrats Lee.

[wilburt]

Oh yea...  Lee Humphrey can shoot the lights out, but put a man on him and it's a different story.  He can't create his own shot.  But give him a screen or let him set up for an open shot he's deadly!  I could have sworn that the CBS announcer said that he was from Murvul, Tennesseee instead of Maryville, Tennessee.  Congrats Lee on the CBS Player of the Game award.

Nevertheless, UCLA will take home their 12th national title tonight...

Long live the legend of John Wooden, the greatest college coach of all-time!!!!!!!  I can't believe he is 95 years old.

 

[wilburt]

I think Maryville would get a lot more kids if they were looking at education first, but that is not an easy concept to sell, i think that is where Fisk has an advantage, as a national recruiter they are recruiting a different kind of kid...
i know Fisk does not recruit local kids, but maryville does and there is a lot of talent that comes out of Middle TN

For the record, the majority (60% - 70% in any given year) of Fisk's student body is not from Tennessee.   A large percentage number of students come from the Chicago area and California.

None of this year's starting five for Fisk hailed from Nashville.  When you have 4 Division I schools in the city (Vandy, TSU, Belmont, Lipscomb), plus a NAIA school (Trevecca) and two D1 OVC schools (Austin Peay and MTSU) within 35 miles of Nashville there will not be much high school talent left for Coach Glover to choose from much less recruit to Fisk.  So given the national/international makeup of Fisk's student body it's better (for the most part) to recruit basketball talent nationally or regionally rather than just in Nashville. 

In recent years the Fisk roster has included players from Oregon, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York-New Jersey and Texas.

Question, how many starters from Nashville or Middle Tennessee has Maryville had in recent years?      

[mattgrubb]

Lee Humphrey is awesome

Maryville has had a few in the past ten years, i don't know how many were starters, but definitely some players and lost a transfer to Trevecca who started as a freshman

[wilburt]

Grubb the ones from Nashville and Middle TN that I'm aware of is Joshua Herndon (Giant amongst trees), Chris Orr and Quinn Bradley but none of them have started for Maryville (to my knowledge). 

[wilburt]

Questions for everyone: 

1. Does Piedmont host next year's GSAC basketball tourney?

2. How does everyone's tentative schedule look like for next season?  I see that Fisk will be playing in a St. Louis tourney during Thanksgiving weekend with Fontbone and Wash. U. serving as hosts.  I wonder if there are some prospective recruits in St. Louis the coaching staff is looking at?

[mattgrubb]

go back before that Wilburt
I was talking about Bennie Shepherd and Jeremy Austin
Austin did start for MC and had 24 boards in one game as a freshman

I don't know what MC's schedule looks like next year, i am sure Lambert has the same ole peeps on his agenda, maybe he can get VWC to play.
Herndon was a man's man

Bobby Watch 06, he was spotted briefly at spanky's ice cream after 2 hours at the pizza hut buffet