MBB: American Southwest Conference

[dballa]

Ozarks 84 SU 76
HSU 58 LC 57
UMHB 58 UT Tyler 46

[Bearkat00]

LETU 82
SRSU 77

Final

Not sure exactly if that ws the final score.  Everyone had to evacuate the building as soon as the game was over, but I know we won by 5-7 points. 

[golden_dome]

UT Tyler shot 22% from the floor and missed 21 free throws in the loss to UMHB.

[gccfan]

That UTT-UMHB game must have been brutal to watch, 42 missed free throws between the two teams... ouch!

[#1ascfanman]

UMHB over Tyler-Correct
Concordia over Dallas-Correct
Let over Sul Ross-Correct
LC over HSU -Incorrect My boys put up a fight.
Schreiner over Ozarks-Incorrect 
ETBU over HPU-Incorrect(Big Time)

3-3 on Saturday.  Maybe I will get ahead on Monday!

Sul Ross over ETBU
HPU over LeT Thats my "upset" pick
UMHB over Dallas
Tyler over CUA
LC over McM
MC over HSU
Ozarks over TLU

[mcmfanatic]

In Monday's game between LC and McM look for the boy's from Abilene change their ways and take the first game on this road trip, and I wouldn't count them out at MC.  My inside info says their will be a new face or two on the court... 

[etbualum]

Burch and Scott were the difference on Saturday.  Everytime ETBU had a little run Scott came up with a 3 or Burch had a big offensive rebound.   Maybe tonight against Sully the Tigers will play better.

[#1ascfanman]

 have been trying to log on all night but haven't been able to until now.  Has anyone else had trouble logging on?  My Wildcats pulled off a huge win over McM.  I listened to it on the radio and we seemed to have played okay but got it done from the freethrow line.  Big win for us!

On the predictions:
SRSU over ETBU-incorrect
UMHB over Dallas-correct
HPU over LeT-incorrect
Tyler over CUA-correct
LC over MCM-CORRECT!!!!!
MC over HSU-Correct
Ozarks over TLU-incorrect

That makes me 7-6 on the weekend. 

Go Wildcats

[golden_dome]

MC played probably their best game of the season Monday beating HSU 92-71. MC shot 58 percent and hit 12-18 three point attempts, tying a school record. Five players in double figures.

MC plays McMurry Wednesday night at home. McMurry is 0-4 in the ASC after their tough 77-76 loss at LC. The Wildcats hit 28-32 free throws and 18-21 in the second half to get the win.

UT-Tyler beat Concordia 85-67 with Brandon Weasby back in the lineup. Big win for the Patriots who are now 2-2 in the ASC.

[Bearkat00]

Great win for LETU last night.  Needed to win those two games as they gave away one to ETBU and have two tough conference road games at UMHB and CUA. 

If you take a look at the stats, HPU shot 48% on the game, with LETU shooting 37% from the field. However, LETU went to the free throw line 42 time (converting on 31 of thoes) while HPU only went 14 (converting on 10 of those), keeping LETU in the game just long enough to allow Dewones Smith to take over. 

At the end of the game, LETU had the ball with 1:55 left and didn't change possesion until :12 seconds left in the game (missed ft/offensive rb, missed ft/ball hit ob, missed shot/offensive rb).  It had to have been the most frustrating thing in the world for HPU to watch that last minute tick down. 

Tom Hermann is the real deal.  He absolutley dominated down low in the second half.  LETU was finally able to get W.Smith to play consistant defense on him for the last two minutes of the game, but before that, he ate our lunch. 

Great win for LETU.  Austin College is next on the clock New Years Eve.  Be good to get a couple of wins against them to help out our RPI.

[dballa]

Bearkat00 were you at the game?  I'm just curious about the free throws.  HPU hasn't given up that many free throws all year with their high being the first game of the year with UTPB shooting 33.

I'm just curious if it was overaggressive play or if the foul calling was really tight.

I'm not saying it was home cooking or anything, it very well could have been, but with how well this team has been playing defense it's just odd for them to give the other team that many free throws. 

LeTU could have very well been that more aggressive on the offensive end.  Gotta give them credit for making them when given the chance.

[Bearkat00]

dballa,

It was a very interesting game.  LETU was very aggresive going to the hole.  Our guards were a little bit quicker, espically when Dawson sprained his ankle in the first half, causing Herman, Scott, and Woods to pick up fouls (4,4 and 5 respectively).  HPU tended to settle for outside jumpers. 

While we did get a lot of calls, Dusty Evers fouled out of the game, playing only 11 minutes.  Hermann got away with a few push offs down low off of our post players. 

HPU was forced to foul at least five to six times in the last two minutes, which skewed the numbers a little bit.  If you take away those 5, the foul calls went 21-17 in favor of LETU.

Obviously biased here, but I felt for the most part, it was a fair game up until the last couple of minutes.  After LETU wasn't hitting any jumpers, they decided to take it to the hole and become more aggressive.

BTW ~ HPU is going to be very dangerous to play.  I am glad we got them at home this year. 

[dballa]

I appreciate the input.  I was only able to listen to a couple minutes of it on the internet when HPU went up 51-46.  After that I didn't know what else happened other than what you've said on here.

Trailing in the last couple minutes and having to foul will definitely skew the numbers.

HPU plays hard every game and they all get along great unlike some teams in the past.  It's fun to watch them when they are playing as one unit and very frustrating to see that hard work thrown away with some silly mistakes made during the games.  Being in 2nd place for the moment when they were picked 5th, I don't think they could ask for much more.

[Ralph Turner]

In Monday's game between LC and McM look for the boy's from Abilene change their ways and take the first game on this road trip, and I wouldn't count them out at MC.  My inside info says their will be a new face or two on the court... 

It's official.  Travis Tennison is playing for McMurry!

[golden_dome]

Since we have completed the fall portion of the basketball season, I took a quick look over the results. Some of these records could be off a bit, but it should be pretty close.

The East Division and West Division have gone 15-15 against each other so far with a couple of those games being nonconference contests. The conference has balanced out much better the last couple of years with several solid teams on both halves of the ASC.

The conference will be helped in the south region rankings by a 10-5 record vs nonconference Division III teams. I will probably look at it a little closer to make sure it's right, but here's what I have from a quick look over the results thus far. Wins over George Fox (3-3), D'Youville (1-9), Colorado College (0-8), Emory (6-3), Southwestern (5-3), Austin College(2) (2-5), Huntingdon (2-8), Rust (5-8) and Hendrix (5-2). The losses should not hurt too much with two against Trinity (7-1), Millsaps (7-1), Sewanee (4-5) and Gwynedd-Mercy (7-2).

UMHB (5-0), MC (3-1), LeTourneau (5-3),  UTD (5-3), Ozarks (3-2) and HPU (3-2) are all positioned well with winning DIII records.

Ralph, not trying to make you feel better here but no way McMurry is as bad as their 0-5 ASC record would indicate. Four of their losses have been by 3, 5, 5 and 1 point. I was very impressed with them last night playing at MC. They don't have a lot of size this year but they were very athletic and adding Tennison will make them tough to beat next semester. I thought we played well and they stayed in the game when they could have let us get up 15-20 points.

Tennison is obviously out of shape right now but when he gets some conditioning they will be tough. I could certainly see them putting together a second half record of 13-3 to 11-5 to finish somewhere between 13-8 and 11-10. That will be enough to get them in the tourney and have a shot at the automatic bid.