MBB: American Southwest Conference

[WLCALUM83]

Ralph, do you want both men's and women's updates on one and the same board, or one board for the men's scores and one board for the women's scores?

[Ralph Turner]

I'll do one for the women if you think that we have enough people posting.

[diehardfan]

What a minute! Is this actually the real diehardfan posting in the ASC room? Mercy! Might a relocation to Alpine be in the works?

No.... but I haven't lived there yet, and I'm a pretty adventurous soul, so who knows? I will probably be out there in April-May for work though.

[Ralph Turner]

What a minute! Is this actually the real diehardfan posting in the ASC room? Mercy! Might a relocation to Alpine be in the works?

No.... but I haven't lived there yet, and I'm a pretty adventurous soul, so who knows? I will probably be out there in April-May for work though.

diehardfan, Jan-Mar are the best months for the Big Bend country.

[diehardfan]

What a minute! Is this actually the real diehardfan posting in the ASC room? Mercy! Might a relocation to Alpine be in the works?

No.... but I haven't lived there yet, and I'm a pretty adventurous soul, so who knows? I will probably be out there in April-May for work though.

diehardfan, Jan-Mar are the best months for the Big Bend country.

By out there, I meant Texas. I think I heard it was going to be in San Antonio. It's for a meeting on US-Mexico border stuff... so I doubt it's in Alpine.

[mcmfanatic]

Kudos to Ralph for the score posting site!   

As for the McM game tonight... It's difficult to tell which McM team is going to show up from game to game and even from one half to the other.  The inconsistency has to be driving Holmes to the edge.  They have some very talented players and appear to be able to play with the best when they fire on all cylinders, and then they play like they did the first half tonight.  I feel the FRUSTRATION.

[Ralph Turner]

Fanatic, the karma goes to dballa tonight for the McM scores, because my computer could not get on the server! 

Sitting here at home at the computer, it was exciting to see all of the scores coming in!  Thanks to balls-a-dunkin, dballa and mcm_sid, who kept the scores coming in.

I also want to mention Chitwood Media that is making webcasts from the home sites present at ETBU and CUA.  We have had radio at HPU at home and McMurry has a radio broadcast by Kit Kimbrell and Leon Rawlins for about 80 games in football, men's and women's hoops conference games, and baseball for several years!  (Kit and Leon, if my dad were living now, he would be your greatest fans! He loved radio baseball and taught me how to love radio sports!  Thank you for that Field of Dreams moment!)

Bill Mercer, a name that many of you fans who are my age and older will remember, is bringing some of his UNT radio students to do UTD home games. 

I encourage you fans to post the scores and comments as you can.  Don't worry about messing up.  Just the facts, and if you make a mistake, correct it as soon as you can. 

We have a great group of ASC fans, and this board is making it even more fun!

And look for stuff in baseball in about 6-8 weeks.

[gccfan]

Nice job on the scores everybody.  I was away from my computer during game time, but I just got back in around 11 and read them all and it was like I was following four games at once.  Initial thought of the night is that Hardin-Simmons must not have been able to stop the Tornados at all, a huge win for them.  Also a nice win for ETBU, they must have kept their momentum going from a strong second half at LETU on Tuesday night.

[golden_dome]

Just in from the MC/UTD game tonight. Not the best game I have seen the Choctaws play but they still got the double digit win. For whatever reason MC was lackluster most of the first half on offense and but were solid on the defensive end all game. They were down six then all of a sudden they ended the first half on a 9-1 run and opened the second 11-2 for an eleven point lead. UTD did get within one midway through the 2nd half but a 14-1 run put the game out of reach.

UTD has a good team but they struggled to find open shots. They have some very good shooters but they took some tough shots tonight. Salinas scored 17 but was just 5-15. After that championship game performance against MC in the Dome two years ago, he is probably a marked man but he is legit and can shoot it from anywhere. He was hounded all night by D. J. Jones and was playing with an injury that sat him down the final eight minutes or so. Noone else provided much offense.

MC did play very well in the second half. After being outrebounded 17-12 in the first half and I'm sure getting an earful at halftime from Coach Jones, they came out and outrebounded UTD 20-8 in the 2nd half and got a lot of easy shots.

I can see how UTD has won 11 games. If you lose them for a second, they have shooters who can hurt you.

About the Concordia/Hardin-Simmons game. I am surprised HSU got beat because they are talented but I thought Concordia was one of the most athletic teams we have played all year.

[balls a dunkin]

About the Concordia/Hardin-Simmons game. I am surprised HSU got beat because they are talented but I thought Concordia was one of the most athletic teams we have played all year.

right behind Wesley

[Bearkat00]

Once again, an exciting evening in ASC basketball.  CUA - what's the word on Valention Maxwell?  Done for the season or if CUA made the playoffs could he come back?

[CUAfan]

To the best of my knowledge, which isn't every good on the matter, he's done for the year. Personally, I'd rather have him back 100% next season than rush him back for the tourney and risk another more severe injury. Assuming all non-seniors come back, I think we lose at most one starter (mental note to check on that).

I wasn't at the game, unfortunately, but from the box score it looks like HSU ran into a CUA team that had three guys have career nights. I think that Moore's 24 was a career high, if not it was close. Stat-wise, Mann played the best all-around game of his short career, or close to it. Sherlin got more PT than he had in a while and came through big time. Way to go, boys!

Now, if we can repeat the feat against McMurry the West will be really jumbled up again.

[etbualum]

Dont know if anyone noticed but Kase Gonzales of LC was 9-11 from the 3 pt line and was one make away from Ryan Vines ASC record. He is shooting 47% from deep 31-55 on the season. He had 29 points in the game to lead LC over Tyler.  Josh Johnson had 27.

[golden_dome]

Since we are now playing division teams and finished with the crossover games, here is an interesting stat. The East Division held the advantage this year going 31-25 against our friends from the West. That number is a little out of whack with MC accouting for eight of the wins, but even if you throw out the top teams from each side (MC 8-0, HSU 5-2) the East still held a 22-20 advantage. I thought that to be interesting because the West has been better top to bottom the last few years but not this year if you go by crossover games. Hopefully that is a sign that the entire ASC is getting better as a whole and more competitive within the conference.

[Bearkat00]

Since we are now playing division teams and finished with the crossover games, here is an interesting stat. The East Division held the advantage this year going 31-25 against our friends from the West. That number is a little out of whack with MC accouting for eight of the wins, but even if you throw out the top teams from each side (MC 8-0, HSU 5-2) the East still held a 22-20 advantage. I thought that to be interesting because the West has been better top to bottom the last few years but not this year if you go by crossover games. Hopefully that is a sign that the entire ASC is getting better as a whole and more competitive within the conference.

Great Post!  I'd also like to think that if LETU's Dewones Smith went on the trip to SRSU/HPU, they would've split on that road trip.  But such is life and that's a time when bench players need to step up.