MBB: American Southwest Conference

[sulrosslobos]

SRSU......62
HSU........52

6:05 to go

[sulrosslobos]

SRSU......73
HSU........59

FINAL

[Ralph Turner]

McM by 9 with  8:32 left.

[dsc]

Good game SRSU...

73-59 SRSU over HSU.

SRSU shot 10 3 ptrs and 43% FG...seemed to be the difference.

[Ralph Turner]

McM 93 HPU 82 5:23 left.

[Ralph Turner]

McM 98, HPU 86, 4:21 

[Ralph Turner]

McM 102, HPU 90, 3:12 left.

McM 107, HPU 92.

[Ralph Turner]

McM 112 HPU 95. 1:00

[Ralph Turner]

McM 116 HPU 97.  Final

[Ralph Turner]

HPU stats:

Johnson 35pts 8rebs 6 assists, Wheeler 23 pts, McGuire 15 pts 10 rebs in 38 minutes.  Zinser 14 points.  Only 10 points from the bench.

FG  36-75; 3FG  4-19;  FT 21-26;  Rebs 34 12 off 22 def.
TO 24.

McM--

Elijah Bryant 20 pts ( 5-8 3FG);  Alvin Stevens 20; Terence Mirabal  19 on 4 3FG's; Colina 17 pts and 6 rebs; Brashears 16 pts and 7 rebs; Baker 10 pts and 12 rebs; Faught 10 pts.

FG 45-78; 3FG 12-28; Ft 14-22; Rebs 47; TO 26; Steals 14; Assists 26.

Coach Holmes called Kendrick Johnson MVP in the league.

[bcal]

McMurry played well tonite aganist a fine HPU team.  It was pleasing for them to close out the game on a positive note in the later parts of the second half. 

HPU will come back strong aganist HSU.  Sully defeated HSU and McMurry gets the Lobos on Saturday afternoon.  McMurry can not be looking back at the HPU game.  Remember, the SRSU game at Alpine, 3 pointer to win at the buzzer, as I recall.  The lobos would like nothing better than to win both games in Abilene.

[Aerie Head]

It was a nail-biter in Clarksville tonight -- Ozarks 94, UTT 92.  Brad Johnson hit two free throws with 4.7 seconds left to give Ozarks the lead.  David Hamilton knocked a UTT pass out of bounds, then Johnson got a steal on the inbounds pass to end the game.

The most impressive thing about this game was the shooting.  Ozarks shot 63.6% for the game (70.8% in the first half -- I know, I have to keep looking at the box score to make sure it still says that!), and UTT shot 57.1%.  UTT had four guys in double figures, lead by Vanderbilt with 20 and Weasby with 19.  Ozarks had five players who scored double figures, led by Josh Joyner with 23 points.  Brad Johnson had 11 assists.

I heard Coach O'Connor say we "survived" the game more than "won" it.

[finnman]

Wow!  I'll be honest.  I did not think we could beat HPU tonight.  They are so athletic and Johnson is the best player I have seen this year.  

I really think it helped in the second half when we quit trying to trap on the press.  They were killing us with easy layups.  We also started to work the ball better on offense than I have seen in awhile.  HPU didn't really want to play half court defense and also did not hustle back on defense.  HSU can beat them if they hustle and slow the pace down.  HPU is so athletic, HSU cannot run with them.

There is no doubt that HPU is for real...best team they have had in a long time.  Most athletic on the West side.

Finally, I saw the worst call of the year when they fouled out Rommel.  That was not a blocking foul.  That guy ran straight through Rommel standing still.  

[dballa]

Congrats to McM on the win tonight.  HPU just played so poorly at the point for most of the game that they just looked so awful getting their offense going.  Hayes looked so good early on then his freshman status started showing late in the 1st half turning the ball over 3 straight times and letting McM get back into it.  That was huge giving them momentum to go into the 2nd half.  The usual guys that come off the bench and contribute really didn't do so for most of the game.

finnman you are right about the bad call, but that wasn't the only one.  There were so many going both ways that those refs just should never be allowed to do college basketball.  But at least they were consistent on that foul on Rommel because they called that same kind of foul on Zinser on the other end to foul him out. 

Tough loss for the Yellow Jackets but they  will bounce back and still have a 1.5 game lead over McM.

[SRLobo51]

Congrats to the Lobos,

Anytime you take care of HSU at their place is great!!!
Keep playing with energy, smarts and lots of heart and everything will take care of itself.

Go Lobos!!!!!!!!!