MBB: American Southwest Conference

[ctxer]

ctx loses to umhb on a buzzer beater. unfortunate because it was a clear travel that led to the bucket. it was absolutely embarrassing. asc needs to get their act together. i hope bonewitz sends that film into the league office.  thoughts on the game: not impressed with umhb. concordia's smothering defense left dean pele ineffective. he didnt look much interested in the game really and you could tell dewesse knew it due to how much time he spent on the bench.  theo ard... that boy is long, but carries the ball like a mighty mite player, was apalled at how many times he got away with it. but anyways, umhb wins on a buzzer beater and their players immediate response was to taut ctx fans, in a pretty classless way as well. not sure thats gonna help them come tournery time.

[Ralph Turner]

Welcome ctxer.

Glad to have you on the boards!

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry's Jamal Anene has a career night... 36 points and 12 boards to lead McMurry to a 87-72 win over HSU.

Anene goes 12-18 on FG's and 12-16 on FT's, 3 offensive and 9 defensive boards.

McM's Steven Luckey gets 12 points and 3 crucial steals against his old team in the game.  He had 3 straight steals that turned the game in mid second half.

[etbualum]

ETBU 66 Austin College 63 at AC.  Nice win for the tigers they go into the break with a 5-3 record overall 4-2 in conference.

[#1ascfanman]

A few picks for the rest of the week before we all enjoy a wonderful Christmas. 

So far I am 8-2.

LC over HPU
MC over SRSU
UT-D over McM
MC over HPU

[Ralph Turner]

Senior guards come thru for McMurry in a 23-7 run to beat Ozarks.

Quoting from McM SID Kyle Robarts' press release,

McMurry trailed 29-24 at half and then the Eagles went on a 13-2 run early in the second half to make the score 48-36 with 12:57 left to go. However, Moreno countered with a 3-pointer with 12:45 left to cut the lead to single digits. Then, Steven Luckey hit back-to-back 3-pointers for McMurry cutting the Eagle let to three points at 50-47 with 9:05 left to go.

A couple of minutes later, Moreno unloaded as the senior scored the next 12 points for McMurry on four consecutive 3-point field goals. By the time he drained the fourth, which was actually his fifth-straight successful attempt from beyond the 3-point arc, McMurry had built a 59-55 lead with 5:31 to go.

Luckey is a great addition, and Moreno is the Most Valuable Player in the conference.

By most valuable, I believe that Moreno impacts his team's play more than anyone else in the conference.

Someone may have more impressive numbers, but Moreno is the key to McMurry's success.

[Ralph Turner]

HPU 73 LaCollege 70

http://www.lcwildcats.net/index.aspx?path=mbball

SRSU 61, LaCollege 51

[Ralph Turner]

Nice McMurry win over UT-D, 75-68.

It looks like these two will be playing again in the tourney!

McMurry goes 3-0 this week against HSU at home and Ozarks and UT-Dallas on the (expensive) long road trip.

[Ralph Turner]

My highlight of the game occurred with the score McM 68 UTD 65.  McMurry's Jeremie Hart has just scored off a rebound and a layup to go up by 3.

UTD calls a 30-sec. time out.

In the UTD back court, Ryan Boyd steals the ball  and drives uncontested for a layup.

He chooses not to slam the ball, but puts up a gentle finger roll over the front rim.  Solid!

McMurry is now up by 5, a two possession game, with 0:54 seconds left.  That is a big statement!

(I thought that that was the sign of a mature player, who knew what the team needed!)

[mcm_sid]

How was the stream quality the last three games or so Dr. T?

KR

[Ralph Turner]

How was the stream quality the last three games or so Dr. T?

KR

Very good.  Very few times when there seemed to be a buffering problem.

Sound quality was good.

Camera angles were good and the videographers did a good job of following the action.

I appreciate that fact that you tried to stay on long enough after the Ozarks game to interview the Men's Coach.

Great job on the broadcast.  You did a good job!

I know that you have variable access to the web in some of the rural places where we play (and some places just don't have web access for us at all), but Clarksville and UTD were good.

[#1ascfanman]

LC over HPU-INCORRECT
MC over SRSU-CORRECT, CLOSER GAME THAN EXPECTED
UT-D over McM-INCORRECT, NICE WIN FOR MCMURRY
MC over HPU-CORRECT


10-4 OVERALL

[golden_dome]

Very good win for Mississippi College tonight beating local NAIA (DI) Belhaven University 89-79 on the road. Belhaven wasn't ranked yet but they were 10-1 with wins over NAIA #13 Trevecca Nazarene and NAIA #19 Union University.

MC is 10-0 and playing a lot of guys again with 10 players averaging 10 minutes or more, and no player averaging more than 20 minutes. One player I should mention is leading scorer Donnie Haywood. Donnie is a senior transfer 6'3" guard averaging 15.3 points per game in 20 minutes. Just wanted to get his name out there since he's only with us for one season, but he's averaging 21 points per in his last 4 games. He's probably in the discussion of best players we've had come through MC, and might be as good as any.

Looking forward to the second half, tough trip this week to Concordia and UMHB.

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations to McMurry Point Guard Robert Moreno, who is a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award for the finest point guard in the country.

http://www.cousyaward.com/

There were only 9 D-3 nominees of the 380+ schools that play D-III.  That is quite an honor.

The full list of finalists has not been named.

[etbualum]

Congratulations to McMurry Point Guard Robert Moreno, who is a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award for the finest point guard in the country.

http://www.cousyaward.com/

There were only 9 D-3 nominees of the 380+ schools that play D-III.  That is quite an honor.

The full list of finalists has not been named.

Ralph

You should get to see a pretty good matchup this weekend with Turnipseed vs Moreno.  After losing at the buzzer twice over the break ETBU is in Abilene for 2 games.