MBB: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Exhibition at Clinton:  D-1 Alcorn State 63, Mississippi College 61

[golden_dome]

Exhibition at Clinton:  D-1 Alcorn State 63, Mississippi College 61

Hard to believe that basketball season is already here. A couple thoughts on the game.

Alcorn is not a very good DI team, still they are DI and had a few players better than anyone we'll see this year. I think MC probably wins the game comfortably if that was the #1 goal. Coach Lofton played 18 players in both halves and is trying to figure out who will be playing this year. That will shrink to 10-12 guys at some point, but several players looked good.

I'll say this about this years' team. I'm not sure how our top 5 will stack up with previous teams, but there really are 17-18 kids at this point who are tightly bunched. Fans probably won't recognize the team with only a couple players back and as usual there are a lot of transfers.

I think we dressed out 23 guys, 11 of them were JUCO transfers, 4 are NAIA transfers, and one player is back from 2007. E. C. Williams is a 6-5 guard who was All-Freshman in 2007 and missed last year with injury.

Should be another good season for us hopefully.

[Ralph Turner]

Exhibition tonight in Houston:

D-1 Texas Southern 88, McMurry 81

McMurry had a chance to cut the lead to 2 a couple of times in the last couple of minutes but could not bring the deficit closer.

[Ralph Turner]

University of New Orleans is investigating moving to D-III.

Thanks to awadelewis for posting the link on the Future of Division III board.

[#1ascfanman]

Ralph,

That is intersting, I know Louisiana is in really bad financial problems and I am not sure if it still the case but the state of Louisiana, including all state schools, were on a hiring freeze.  I know Centenary is not a state school but it is affecting everyone.  Maybe all the Louisiana schools are going to go D3 and start a new conference!  Very sad for our great state.  On the flip side I am not sure how good Texas Southern is but sounds like McM has yet another good team.  I have not heard anything about LC, I know they play an exhibition the 16th. 

[etbualum]

ETBU travels to Northwestern for a game tonight at 7:45.

Live stats here
http://www.nsudemons.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=20000&KEY=&SPID=11384&SPSID=93111

or you can get the sid twitter feed here
http://twitter.com/ETBU_Tigers

[#1ascfanman]

ETBUaluminumcanman  j/k, how did ETBU look against NSU?  I know they love to play that game every year. I was not at the LC game but they lost by 22, I would say respectable.  We have a new kid from Avinger, TX, I looked on the map and saw it was close to Marshall, do you know of him or ever heard of him?  UTD upset and McMurry with a big win over some bible school I have never heard of.  Ralph do you have any insight to that game?

[pedh34]

Letourneau 16, Austin College 13 8 minutes left in the first half

[pedh34]

LeTourneau 32, Austin College 35 halftime.

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry 72, Ohio Northern 69 (OT).

[#1ascfanman]

LC beats St. Thomas!!! 1-1

How good is the Ohio Norhtern team?

[Ralph Turner]

LC beats St. Thomas!!! 1-1

How good is the Ohio Northern team?

ONU was pre-season #3 in the OAC.

McMurry lost by 16 to #15 Wheaton IL tonight.  (88-72)

That St Thomas is the NAIA school in Houston that is adding sports.

That is a new program.  Prior to this, St Thomas Houston was known for its fencing team.

[#1ascfanman]

Ralph,

I wondered about St. Thomas, I was not sure as to who or what they really were.  Even at that I will take the win, even if it was against their fencing team!

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph,

I wondered about St. Thomas, I was not sure as to who or what they really were.  Even at that I will take the win, even if it was against their fencing team!

University of St Thomas, Houston

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry beat Ohio Northern (pre-season #3 OAC) by 3 points in overtime at the Lee Pfund tourney at Wheaton last week.  ONU then went on the road to Wooster which is the favorite to win the North Coast AC, where they lost by 6 points.

ONU has a brutal schedule, but I like the comparison of a McMurry 3-pt OT win over ONU and an ONU 6-point road loss to Wooster.

Here is another random thought...

What do you posters think about the real Home Court Advantage in the ASC actually being the basic 3 points, plus 1 point for every 100 miles away from home?