MBB: American Southwest Conference

[dballa]

HPU 97 UTTyler 91.

HPU only had 9 turnovers compared to UTT's 19.

For HPU Wheeler with 30 pts 10 rbs,  Mcguire with 25 pts and K. Johnson with 24 pts.

[etbualum]

Two good wins for the Tigers.  Bert West always seems to get them going after the break.  Now time to beat up on the east a little.  Should be a good game tuesday night against LETU

[Ralph Turner]

UOz stats:

McCall 14
Habeeb 12
Beard 11
Sibley 11
FG 27-71, 3FG 10-24; FT 16-24. Rebs 20 off + 25 def = 45 tot
Turnovers 26, steals 7.

McM stats-
JR Williams 17
Elijah Bryant 17
Colina 16
Mirabal 11
Jones 10
FG 41-80; 3FG 10-31; FT 18-28; TO 19; Steals 17; Rebs 49 (19 off + 30 off)

[Ralph Turner]

Great win for the Jackets.

The Brownwood Mausoleum ought to have a good crowd on Thursday night!

Both the men's and women's Division leaders!

[dballa]

Ralph it will be depending on how much of the population shows up and how many students come back early.  Classes don't start until the week after the games against McM and HSU.  So it will be interesting to see what kind of crowds do show up.

We've had a fairly good turnout for this weekends games so i'm sure we'll see a good one next week. 

[fanstand]

I finally get this system that McM has going. After watching Thursday's game and today's game, I see what Ralph has been saying all this time.  You MUST believe in this system to make it work, it does work if you believe and you give it your all. On the other hand, it takes a lot of encouragment and positive praises to make it fun and to win.  You could see the difference in the faces and the "passion" with which they played today as opposed to Thursday.  You must work hard and it is difficult, but if you play like you did today there will be lots of W's. Awesome job guys!!Keep up the good work.

[Ralph Turner]

Fanstand, good morning!  And it is a great morning!

http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/sp_lc_mcmurry_univ/article/0,1874,ABIL_8787_4372387,00.html

The system is fun and it works!

I counted 5 guys in double figures and the box score suggests that 5 more could have been there by hitting 1-2 more shots or making their free throws.  I'll bet that 10-11 guys got double digit minutes, too.

You play hard defense, so you can get back on offense.  You score quickly, so you can get back on defense.

There is very little difference in talent in the starting lineups among the 16 teams in this conference.  Virtually every team has several players that could play at any school in the conference.  But McMurry has 11-12 players like that and the younger ones will develop.  The system requires players who have the passion to improve, who want to work harder than an opponent who may be more talented, and who want to win more than the other guy.

HPU only goes 5 deep in most games.  We need our players to realize that their best chance to defeat HPU is for our "#8" or "#11" to step and play this game and beat their #8 or "#11".

The beauty of the "system" is that everyone can hustle on defense, whether your shooting game is "on" that night or not.  This system is like watching Dallas Stars hockey.  Have you ever noticed how the Stars coach will juggle his lines to get mismatches?  "Razor" and Ralph Strangis, the Stars broadcast team, will talk about the scoring from the 2nd or 3rd line.

It looks like McM got mismatches from "bench" second line and third line players like Raymond (8 pts), Jones (10 pts) and Mirabal (11 pts).  You can only start 5 players in basketball, or 6 in hockey.  But when McMurry finds a mismatch that accentuates the contribution that a Raymond or a Jones or a Mirabal has made, it is like Lance Armstrong hitting another gear on his bicycle climbing a hill in the Tour de France!  You just leave your opponents standing still!  And it is a different player every night!  And you realize thruout the season that it was a different player every game who provided the mismatch, that extra gear, that left the opponent standing still!

If your shooting is off on a particular night, then play strong defense and feed the guy who is hot!  Have fun with this.  The beauty is of the system is the in-your-face defense, the steal, the well-set screen, the great pass for an easy layup.

For McMurry, we have (IMHO) the hardest road trip of the West...the Brownwood Mausoleum on Thursday night and then the long bus ride to the Gallego Center... coming this week.   Right now, HPU leads with McMurry and UMHB and SRSU is tied with HSU for the 4th tourney berth!

Ya gotta believe...every day, every play!

[bcal]

In the past few games, Curtis Jones, 6'6" soph, has become a factor.  His minutes have increased and his shooting has been quite good.  In the McMurry system, shooting is not the only thing that will get a player minutes.  He has to contribute in all aspects of the game to earn time.  Mirabel has also stepped up with added playing time and is a solid contributor. 

[dballa]

I know I don't get a vote in the team of the week but I hope HPU's Sean Wheeler gets on it this week.  He avg 28.5 pts and 9.5 rbs in the two wins against UTDallas and UTTyler.

[morknolle]

Wow, it's been a couple years since I've logged onto the old ASC message boards, not since my senior season at LeTourneau in 03-04.  I guess I've moved on to bigger and better things and forgotten about it.  How are the teams looking this year?

[etbualum]

The score on the scoreboard is posted incorrectly even though the article is correct.

ETBU 80
Letu 72

ETBU beat a pretty determined LU team tonight.  Evers is going to be a pretty good player for them.  Wished he had ended up here like it looked like he would have two years ago.  Two more very tough home games this week for ETBU.  Hopefully the gym will be packed for the second home game with students in town.

[warped]

UMHB 92 @ CUA 90 OT

one of the worst officiated games I have seen in a while...UMHB was up by as many as 16 in the 2nd half...Former Tornado Patrick Oliver hit a tough left handed shot to to win the gam in OT.

Gatlin lead the Cru w/ 34pts 15-20 FT's
Oliver 16pts 11 Rebs
Justin Schwartz 14pts

Valentino Maxwell 34pts
Joel Mcdonald 21pts

[warped]

sorry about the 2 gramatical errors

[Ralph Turner]

Big win for UMHB.  McMurry always seems to have trouble at CUA!

[dballa]

Hey ralph I was looking on the McMurry website and reading the writeups...might wanna let them know Brandon Gatlin doesnt play for HPU as much of a nice addition he would make.