MBB: American Southwest Conference

[CUAfan]

2007-08

12/8/07 - HSU 76 at McMurry 71
1/21/08 - HSU 78 vs. McMurry 75 (OT)

[mcmfan]

Today's Abilene Reporter-News points out that HSU actually holds the all-time record over McMurry, 43-41.  If McM had won last night, it would have been tied.

[McM Blue Devil]

McM drops another one last night at Schreiner.  I just can't put my finger on what is going on right now.  I have watched a couple of games this year and I scour the statistics for hints at what the issues are.  Anyone care to offer a theory? 

[CUAfan]

As far as the whole season, not yet. As far as last night goes, McMurry had a bad shooting night which led to their worst in-conference offensive night of the year. Combine that with a more-or-less average offensive night for Schreiner, and that's what happens.

After the season, I intend to work out week-to-week variance for everyone. I had been thinking CTX would be the most variable, but maybe it's really McMurry and they're just inconsistent?

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry spotted TLU a 11 point lead at the half, 44-33.

McMurry's Connor Robinson makes one of 2 FT's with 0:02 left, 73-72.

TLU in-bounds under the McMurry basket...

TLU's Michael Flores missed a 3FG buzzer beater.

[McM Blue Devil]

Great defensive effort by McM in the second half.  That is what got them back into the game.  Offensively in the second half they got to the free throw line and took advantage of opportunities when they presented themselves.  Gutsy performance by Connor Robinson down the stretch especially hitting that free throw in the last seconds.  A big win in light of the Schreiner win over HSU.

[CUAfan]

Top Performances of the Week

Best Offense: 1.25, Concordia-Texas at Sul Ross State, 2/2
Best Defense: 0.74, Mary Hardin-Baylor at Howard Payne, 2/2
Biggest Win: +0.28, Mary Hardin-Baylor (1.02) at Howard Payne (0.74), 2/2
Closest Win: +0.01, McMurry (0.93) at Texas Lutheran (0.92), 2/4
Most Combined Offense: Sul Ross State (1.14) vs. Concordia-Texas (1.25), 2/2
Least Combined Offense: Texas Lutheran (0.79) vs. Hardin-Simmons (0.87)

[CUAfan]

Updated Rankings

ASC West
# Team (W-L) - Off/Def/Net/Pace
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor (16-1) - 1.07/0.89/+0.18/73.8
2. Hardin-Simmons (13-4) - 1.08/0.98/+0.10/75.1
3. McMurry (10-7) - 1.08/1.02/+0.07/77.2
4. Concordia-Texas (11-6) - 1.07/1.04/+0.03/87.7
5. Schreiner (10-7) - 1.03/1.01/+0.01/77.9
6. Texas Lutheran (8-9) - 0.96/0.96/+0.01/73.0
7. Howard Payne (6-11) - 0.99/1.05/-0.06/76.4
8. Sul Ross State (5-12) - 0.91/1.00/-0.09/68.9

ASC East
# Team (W-L) - Off/Def/Net/Pace
1. Texas-Dallas (12-4) - 1.09/0.97/+0.13/67.0
2. East Texas Baptist (9-7) - 1.03/1.00/+0.03/77.0
3. Louisiana College (7-9) - 0.97/1.02/-0.05/73.6
4. Mississippi College (5-11) - 1.00/1.05/-0.05/73.6
5. Texas-Tyler (6-11) - 0.95/1.02/-0.07/70.3
6. Ozarks (4-12) - 1.01/1.10/-0.09/74.7
7. LeTourneau (3-14) - 0.86/1.03/-0.17/72.0

[CUAfan]

Projections for the week:

February 9
East Texas Baptist 78 vs. Texas-Tyler 70 (74 poss.)
East Texas Baptist 73 vs. Texas-Tyler 62 (73 poss.)
Texas-Dallas 77 vs. Mississippi College 68 (70 poss.)
Texas-Dallas 72 vs. Mississippi College 67 (62 poss.)
Concordia-Texas 88 vs. McMurry 86 (82 poss.)
Concordia-Texas 99 vs. McMurry 109 (93 poss.)
Mary Hardin-Baylor 78 vs. Hardin-Simmons 72 (74 poss.)
Mary Hardin-Baylor 89 vs. Hardin-Simmons 80 (82 poss.)
Ozarks 77 vs. Louisiana College 75 (74 poss.)
Ozarks 83 vs. Louisiana College 64 (74 poss.)
Sul Ross State 72 vs. Schreiner 73 (73 poss.)
Sul Ross State 66 vs. Schreiner 63 (73 poss.)
Howard Payne 74 vs. Texas Lutheran 73 (75 poss.)
Howard Payne 60 vs. Texas Lutheran 62 (66 poss.)

February 11
East Texas Baptist 79 vs. LeTourneau 68 (75 poss.)
East Texas Baptist 87 vs. LeTourneau 83 (78 poss.)
Concordia-Texas 85 vs. Hardin-Simmons 84 (81 poss.)
Concordia-Texas 88 vs. Hardin-Simmons 92 (93 poss.)
Howard Payne 79 vs. Schreiner 78 (77 poss.)
Howard Payne 77 vs. Schreiner 74 (74 poss.)
Texas-Dallas 76 vs. Louisiana College 67 (70 poss.)
Texas-Dallas 94 vs. Louisiana College 65 (82 poss.)
Mary Hardin-Baylor 81 vs. McMurry 73 (75 poss.)
Mary Hardin-Baylor 90 vs. McMurry 87 (77 poss.)
Ozarks 78 vs. Mississippi College 76 (74 poss.)
Ozarks 83 vs. Mississippi College 86 (76 poss.)
Sul Ross State 68 vs. Texas Lutheran 68 (71 poss.)
Sul Ross State 62 vs. Texas Lutheran 54 (60 poss.)

[CUAfan]

Bonus this week! Conference season-to-date rankings for Dean Oliver's Four Factors (see link for details). For free throw rate, I also multiply the result by 100 since I think the numbers look better that way. Today, the offensive numbers. Tomorrow, defense.

Effective FG%
1. Texas-Dallas, 0.548
2. Mississippi College, 0.524
3. Hardin-Simmons, 0.519
4. Concordia-Texas, 0.518
5. East Texas Baptist, 0.516
6. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 0.506
7. Texas Lutheran, 0.499
8. Ozarks, 0.485
9. Schreiner, 0.479
10. McMurry, 0.474
11. Louisiana College, 0.466
12. Sul Ross State, 0.463
13. Howard Payne, 0.463
14. Texas-Tyler, 0.458
15. LeTourneau, 0.420

Turnover Rate
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 20.3%
2. Louisiana College, 20.7%
3. Howard Payne, 21.9%
4. Schreiner, 22.2%
5. Hardin-Simmons, 22.5%
6. Concordia-Texas, 22.9%
7. McMurry, 23.2%
8. Texas-Dallas, 24.0%
9. Texas-Tyler, 24.1%
10. Ozarks, 24.3%
11. East Texas Baptist, 24.3%
12. LeTourneau, 24.9%
13. Mississippi College, 25.9%
14. Texas Lutheran, 26.3%
15. Sul Ross State, 30.6%

Offensive Rebound Rate
1. McMurry, 46.7%
2. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 36.1%
3. Hardin-Simmons, 34.9%
4. Schreiner, 33.8%
5. Mississippi College, 33.5%
6. East Texas Baptist, 33.2%
7. Concordia-Texas, 33.1%
8. Ozarks, 32.8%
9. Texas-Tyler, 32.7%
10. Sul Ross State, 32.4%
11. Texas-Dallas, 31.9%
12. Howard Payne, 31.5%
13. LeTourneau, 30.7%
14. Texas Lutheran, 29.4%
15. Louisiana College, 28.5%

Free Throw Rate
1. Sul Ross State, 40.2
2. Schreiner, 34.9
3. Ozarks, 32.6
4. Texas-Dallas, 31.4
5. Texas Lutheran, 29.6
6. Howard Payne, 28.8
7. Hardin-Simmons, 27.6
8. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 27.2
9. Mississippi College, 26.8
10. Texas-Tyler, 26.7
11. Concordia-Texas, 26.7
12. McMurry, 26.2
13. East Texas Baptist, 22.9
14. LeTourneau, 22.2
15. Louisiana College, 21.4

[CUAfan]

As promised, the defensive numbers to go with yesterday's offensive stats. One deviation from the yesterday's link is that I calculate free throw rate differently for defense. Since the offensive goal is to get to the line and score, using FTM makes sense. However, since the defensive goal is to keep the opponent from getting to the line in the first place (and the defense has little to no control over whether or not a FT is missed), I use FTA in the calculations for defensive free throw rate.

Effective FG%
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 0.436
2. Texas-Dallas, 0.465
3. Texas-Tyler, 0.469
4. Hardin-Simmons, 0.472
5. East Texas Baptist, 0.475
6. Louisiana College, 0.477
7. Texas Lutheran, 0.483
8. Sul Ross State, 0.488
9. McMurry, 0.492
10. Mississippi College, 0.494
11. Schreiner, 0.502
12. Howard Payne, 0.517
13. Concordia-Texas, 0.518
14. LeTourneau, 0.522
15. Ozarks, 0.522

Turnover Rate
1. Texas Lutheran, 30.0%
2. Concordia-Texas, 28.5%
3. Schreiner, 25.5%
4. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 25.3%
5. Louisiana College, 24.5%
6. LeTourneau, 24.1%
7. Howard Payne, 23.9%
8. Sul Ross State, 23.7%
9. McMurry, 23.6%
10. Hardin-Simmons, 23.3%
11. East Texas Baptist, 21.7%
12. Texas-Dallas, 21.6%
13. Mississippi College, 20.8%
14. Ozarks, 20.0%
15. Texas-Tyler, 19.1%

Offensive Rebound Rate
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 30.2%
2. McMurry, 30.6%
3. Texas-Dallas, 31.5%
4. Schreiner, 31.8%
5. Texas-Tyler, 31.9%
6. Hardin-Simmons, 32.3%
7. Sul Ross State, 33.1%
8. Ozarks, 33.1%
9. LeTourneau, 33.2%
10. East Texas Baptist, 33.5%
11. Mississippi College, 33.7%
12. Texas Lutheran, 33.8%
13. Howard Payne, 35.8%
14. Louisiana College, 39.6%
15. Concordia-Texas, 40.6%

Free Throw Rate
1. Texas-Dallas, 26.8
2. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 29.6
3. Mississippi College, 30.0
4. Ozarks, 33.9
5. Louisiana College, 35.6
6. LeTourneau, 36.4
7. East Texas Baptist, 37.2
8. Sul Ross State, 39.5
9. Howard Payne, 39.5
10. Texas-Tyler, 40.6
11. Hardin-Simmons, 43.1
12. Schreiner, 45.0
13. McMurry, 49.7
14. Texas Lutheran, 60.7
15. Concordia-Texas, 66.4

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry 109, CTX 99. McMurry wins the season series with CTX so this helps with tie-breakers for 3rd and 4th place.

A must win game tonight!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

If anyone want to tune in, Coach Ken DeWeese from Mary Hardin-Baylor will be on Hoopsville tonight!

Show starts at 7:00 PM EST and Coach DeWeese is schedule for the second hour of the show.

Tune in at www.d3hoopsville.com.

You can email questions to hoopsville@d3hoops.com
Follow us on Twitter: @d3hoopsville or #hoopsville
And on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Hoopsville

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

In case you missed Hoopsville, tonight, and Coach DeWeese on the show, the archive is already available: www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2011-12/feb12

Coach DeWeese appears around 1:40 or so into the show.

Enjoy!

[Ralph Turner]

In case you missed Hoopsville, tonight, and Coach DeWeese on the show, the archive is already available: www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2011-12/feb12

Coach DeWeese appears around 1:40 or so into the show.

Enjoy!

Thanks.  Will try to get to it tonight!