MBB: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Texas-Dallas         13-4   17-5  MC, UTT, LeTU   (UTD has clinched the tourney host.)
ETBU                   11-7   14-8  at LeTU, LaColl and MissColl
Miss. College          9-8   12-10 at UTD, at ETBU, LaColl
La. College            9-8   10-11  at UOz, at ETBU, at MissColl
Texas-Tyler           9-8   10-12  at LeTU, at UTD at UOz

We may not know the seedings until Monday, Feb 21st.

[THE U - TD]

Wow thought it would come down to the last weekend.  Two surprising losses from ETBU.

Hopefully UTD can still come out and win the last 3 games to finish the season 20-4 in Division III to have a good shot at an at-Large bid if they are not able to win the conference tournament.

[Ralph Turner]

Wow thought it would come down to the last weekend.  Two surprising losses from ETBU.

Hopefully UTD can still come out and win the last 3 games to finish the season 20-4 in Division III to have a good shot at an at-Large bid if they are not able to win the conference tournament.

Then 20-4 in-region plus 2-1 in the ASC tourney goes 22-5 in-region for a Pool C bid.

I think that UTD would look good there.

Trinity might sneak in as the SCAC Pool A bid, if they can get the right draw in the tourney.  (Birmingham-Southern is ineligible.)

Having 3 teams in this part of the country for a bracket would be nice.

[THE U - TD]

I'm not very familiar outside of the ASC this season.  I remember Trinity looked nothing last year like they did 2 years ago when UTD faced them in the tournament.

Also I think its important to note that the power in the ASC has shifted back to the West after the East had a couple of strong years.  The HSU, MCM, and UMHB trio seems a lot stronger than the top side of the East.  I was looking at the rankings on who UTD would face in the first round and I don't really like any of the possible first round match-ups, like years in the past. Concordia just has one of those styles that can be dangerous against anyone, especially not one you want to face in the tournament.

[Ralph Turner]

I think that you are correct about the relative strengths.

In fact, CTX might be the wrong match-up for UTD in the first round.  Most fans around the country don't understand that this is virtually a "play-in" tourney for the ASC.  We knock out a perfectly good team from the NCAA tourney with the conference tourney.

[mcmfan]

The McMurry webpage and today's Abilene Reporter-News say that McMurry took an "outright lead" in the ASC West with yesterday's win over UMHB.  But the D3hoops standings at http://www.d3hoops.com/conf/ASC/men/2010-11/standings show McM, UMHB, and HSU all having a 13-6 conference record.  Which is it?

[Ralph Turner]

The McMurry webpage and today's Abilene Reporter-News say that McMurry took an "outright lead" in the ASC West with yesterday's win over UMHB.  But the D3hoops standings at http://www.d3hoops.com/conf/ASC/men/2010-11/standings show McM, UMHB, and HSU all having a 13-6 conference record.  Which is it?

I think that the error occurred when the person who logged in the UOzarks game gave the win to UOzarks and not McMurry.

I have sent a couple of emails notifying PrestoSports.com of the error, but it has not been fixed yet.

[mcmfan]

You're right!  D3Hoops is rewriting history, just like Stalin in the Soviet Union!

[TxFight]

I know it was early in the year when the East played the West...but ETBU went 6-2 against the West (5-1 before Christmas when they were easily playing their best ball) and beat UMHB and McMurry.  So I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that the power has shifted back to the West just yet (although it is definitely leaning in that direction of late).

[Ralph Turner]

I know it was early in the year when the East played the West...but ETBU went 6-2 against the West (5-1 before Christmas when they were easily playing their best ball) and beat UMHB and McMurry.  So I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that the power has shifted back to the West just yet (although it is definitely leaning in that direction of late).

You beat UMHB at home in the second weekend.

You beat McMurry at home in OT two weeks later.   

I look forward to a relatively neutral court at UT-Dallas.

[Pat Coleman]

You're right!  D3Hoops is rewriting history, just like Stalin in the Soviet Union!

Schools have the ability to change the scores, too. I've changed it but the schools always had the ability to log in.

[TxFight]

I know it was early in the year when the East played the West...but ETBU went 6-2 against the West (5-1 before Christmas when they were easily playing their best ball) and beat UMHB and McMurry.  So I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that the power has shifted back to the West just yet (although it is definitely leaning in that direction of late).

You beat UMHB at home in the second weekend.

You beat McMurry at home in OT two weeks later.   

I look forward to a relatively neutral court at UT-Dallas.

Ralph I think we're on the same page...thats what I was trying to hint at with the early in the year comment and the record before Christmas comment. 

ETBU is not playing their best ball right now, and the top West teams will be wanting a little revenge come tourney time (especially McMurry after lasts years first round bounce). 

ETBU desperately needs to win their last two ball games to right the ship a little bit heading into Dallas and the conference tourney.

[Ralph Turner]

I think that the most exciting thing about the ASC tourney is the match-ups.

It almost seems that one can pick any of 5-6 winners depending on the way that you draw the initial bracket!   

[THE U - TD]

UTD won tonight against Mississippi on the Chris Webber play.  Mississippi tied it up with a 3 at 54 to 54 with 5 seconds left.  UTD's Brandon Greene tried to throw a full court pass from out of bounds that was intercepted, and the Mississippi player immediately called a timeout.  But they had no more timeouts.  Curtis Davis then knocked down the 2 technical free throws.  Mississippi got the ball back and got a shot up but it didn't go in.  Never seen that happen in person, gotta feel bad for the player that called timeout.  Big win for UTD's National Tournament chances and a big loss for Mississippi. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Week 3 Regional Rankings are out: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2011/02/16/ncaa-2011-regional-rankings-week-3/