MBB: American Southwest Conference

[balls a dunkin]

which posting catagory has the john hopkins and the westmont fans in it

[Pat Coleman]

Hmm ... so we can enable you gloating?

[balls a dunkin]

no gloating. just want to see what they say about us and our conference

[Pat Coleman]

Westmont is in the NAIA.

As for Johns Hopkins, here's a thought -- use the tools available on this very Web site and find out.

http://www.d3hoops.com/school_info.php?school=Mississippi%20College&team=m

[Ralph Turner]

UT-D goes to Clinton on Jan 11th.

The Chocs come to Dallas on Feb 15th.

Remember that McMurry saw JHU at their tourney in the first weekend, and knowledgeable observers predicted a double-digit MC win when they played the Bluejays.

The games with the Comets will be good, and they have beaten the Chocs before! 

Might the ASC tourney be in Dallas this year?

That would neutralize the Choctaws.  Dallas is an easy drive for the 4 best ASC-West teams!

This will be fun!

[Ralph Turner]

On the ODAC board, reliable VWC poster FISHTANKFAN says that First Team  All-American Forward Brandon Adair did not play for VWC vs. HSU.

Keep that in the back of the mind.

[balls a dunkin]

UT-D goes to Clinton on Jan 11th.

The Chocs come to Dallas on Feb 15th.

Remember that McMurry saw JHU at their tourney in the first weekend, and knowledgeable observers predicted a double-digit MC win when they played the Bluejays.

The games with the Comets will be good, and they have beaten the Chocs before! 

Might the ASC tourney be in Dallas this year?

That would neutralize the Choctaws.  Dallas is an easy drive for the 4 best ASC-West teams!

This will be fun!

not to be negative (lord knows my karma doesn't need to go any lower) but what does ut-d's win in feb 05 have to do with anything.

this is a new year, new players, and a new coach (for mc).

i have no doubt that ut-d has a great team, and chances are that they will probally make it to the ncaa tourny, but come on ralph a win in 05. chances are
almost everyteam has beaten each other at some point.

[Ralph Turner]

Good morning balls,

I won't smite your karma for a genuine and respectful "fan" debate about the coming games!  I gave you that karma point that you have for the link to the Live Stats to the Westmont game that you posted in reply 1802!   Thanks!  That gave me time to go find the audio link on the Chocs web site!

This season will be too much fun.

You are right about these teams being different teams and seasons.  I think that the key to this UTD team is the leadership by Salinas and the senior point guard Carruthers, both of whom were there in Clinton in the tourney in 2005.  This team plays with its brains as much as any team that I have seen in the ASC.  They have some athleticism to them (I like#24 Ernie Lowery's athleticism and #23 Mike McKee is a very talented athlete),  but this UTD team plays "smart".  They were unfazed, when they were down 14 points with 8 minutes to go!  When UTA started to play more "athletically" with the lead, UTD handled it very well.  Also, I think they (UTD) are less fazed by the "Golden Dome mystique" than anyone in the conference.

The ASC Tie-breaker guidelines (in pdf) are linked on the right side of the page.  Tiebreaker #3 for two teams that are 19-1 Co-champs in East Division play is point differential up to 10 pts max.  I think that we need to be considering this, the point differential in the home-and-home, today.

Have a Happy New Year's Eve tonight!  Be safe!  Congratulations on the Westmont wins! 

[gccfan]

Ralph, Thanks for post 1798.  It's always good to hear an eye witness account.  For the last few years I have been waiting for UTD to have a break out season and this appears to be it.  Before, it seemed like they would start very slowly and then get things rolling by the end of the season.  I think you are absolutely right in crediting their senior leadership at the guard spot.  I think Carruthers is generally underrated, but I think he has proven that he is exactly what a winning teams needs... a distributor who can hit the big shot and is money at the line.

[Ralph Turner]

CUA 89, D-2 Incarnate Word 85!

No box score yet on the UIW website.

[Warren Thompson]

Concordia and Incarnate Word are old rivals from a now-defunct D2 league (whose name escapes me), though this was the first meeting since 1999.

[Ralph Turner]

Concordia and Incarnate Word are old rivals from a now-defunct D2 league (whose name escapes me), though this was the first meeting since 1999.

Was it the old (?NAIA?) Heart of Texas Conference?  UMHB, Southwestern, St Ed's, UIW, CUA, TLU?

[Warren Thompson]

Concordia and Incarnate Word are old rivals from a now-defunct D2 league (whose name escapes me), though this was the first meeting since 1999.

Was it the old (?NAIA?) Heart of Texas Conference?  UMHB, Southwestern, St Ed's, UIW, CUA, TLU?

That's it ... give the man a cigar! St. Mary's was also a member, and I think Houston Baptist, as well. Some of these venues were, earlier, also members of the Big State Conference. When the Big State was functioning, Incarnate Word was still an all-women institution.

[CUAfan]

I went nuts when I saw that we won that UIW game. Keep in mind that we won that game without Maxwell in the lineup (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). I really want to see that box score.

[Bill McCabe]

Congratulations to UT Dallas.  What a way to start the new year!