MBB: American Southwest Conference

CUAfan · February 17, 2012, 10:04:16 AM

Thanks for the link, Pat. If I'm remembering right, won't that leave 12 teams once McMurry moves up to D2 in a 5/7 split? Either an East team (ETBU or UTD?) would have to switch or they'd have to go to a full double-round-robin, right?

Ralph Turner · February 17, 2012, 12:44:59 PM

I will bet that UTD gets moved west.

CUAfan · February 17, 2012, 03:57:48 PM

On the bright side, a 16-game league schedule leaves more games for non-conference matchups to boost regional rankings (assuming I'm understanding the concept correctly).

Maybe CTX will finally start playing Southwestern regularly. I cannot understand why they don't play every year in everything, given that travel costs are essentially nonexistent.

cover2 · February 17, 2012, 05:14:39 PM

I would prefer the double round robin. True champion that way.

If UTD moves to the West, it just got even tougher than it already is!

CUAfan · February 17, 2012, 06:27:37 PM

So would I, personally, but that would be 22 conference games, leaving even less opportunity for non-conference play as it is.

CUAfan · February 21, 2012, 06:21:40 PM

Final division standings for the season. Tournament projections to follow sometime later today, and team-by-team profiles for the tournament teams sometime after that will be posted on my blog (I'll link here when they're up). Before too terribly long I'll have some player stuff ready.

ASC West
# Team (W-L) - Off/Def/Net/Pace
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor* (20-1) - 1.05/0.89/+0.16/75.3
2. Hardin-Simmons* (16-5) - 1.05/0.95/+0.10/78.1
3. McMurry* (13-8) - 1.07/1.00/+0.07/79.7
4. Schreiner* (11-10) - 0.99/0.98/+0.01/79.1
5. Concordia-Texas (11-10) - 1.02/1.01/+0.01/89.4
6. Texas Lutheran (10-11) - 0.93/0.93/+0.00/74.5
7. Howard Payne (7-14) - 0.96/1.02/-0.06/78.3
8. Sul Ross State (7-14) - 0.90/0.98/-0.08/70.1

ASC East
# Team (W-L) - Off/Def/Net/Pace
1. Texas-Dallas* (16-4) - 1.08/0.94/+0.14/67.2
2. East Texas Baptist* (11-10) - 1.01/0.99/+0.02/75.7
3. Mississippi College* (7-13) - 0.99/1.03/-0.04/74.1
4. Louisiana College* (9-11) - 0.95/1.01/-0.05/75.3
5. Ozarks (6-14) - 1.00/1.06/-0.06/76.2
6. Texas-Tyler (7-13) - 0.93/1.00/-0.07/72.3
7. LeTourneau (3-17) - 0.86/1.02/-0.16/72.5

* - Made ASC Tournament

CUAfan · February 21, 2012, 06:44:00 PM

Projections for the entire tournament. Only UMHB gets home-court advantage in the projections.

Quarterfinals
E1 Texas-Dallas 75 vs. W4 Schreiner 71 (73 poss.)
E1 Texas-Dallas 80 vs. W4 Schreiner 55 (67 poss.)
W2 Hardin-Simmons 79 vs. E3 Louisiana College 73 (77 poss.)
W2 Hardin-Simmons 110 vs. E3 Louisiana College 100 (82 poss.)
E2 East Texas Baptist 78 vs. W3 McMurry 80 (78 poss.)
E2 East Texas Baptist 75 vs. W3 McMurry 100 (89 poss.)
W1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 79 vs. E4 Mississippi College 68 (75 poss.)
W1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 75 vs. E4 Mississippi College 63 (75 poss.)

Semifinals
E1 Texas-Dallas 74 vs. W2 Hardin-Simmons 72 (73 poss.)
E1 Texas-Dallas 63 vs. W2 Hardin-Simmons 64 (63 poss.)
W1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 81 vs. W3 McMurry 74 (77 poss.)
W1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 69 vs. W3 McMurry 77 (69 poss.)

Final
~~W1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 72 vs. E1 Texas-Dallas 68 (71 poss.)~~
W2 Hardin-Simmons 81 vs. W3 McMurry 80 (79 poss.)
W2 Hardin-Simmons 81 vs. W3 McMurry 86 (78 poss. - including OT)

CUAfan · February 21, 2012, 07:47:59 PM

The profiles are up! Feel free to comment on the blog or here.

JACKET84 · February 22, 2012, 10:22:25 AM

I think Schreiner has the potential to upset UTD in the first round. Could be only the teams from the West still playing after the first day.

Ralph Turner · February 25, 2012, 04:58:12 PM

HSU 64, UTD 63.

Another win by HSU over a regionally ranked team, but I think that their only chance is to win the ASC.

Ralph Turner · February 25, 2012, 07:25:22 PM

McMurry 77 UMHB 69.

McMurry's final ASC men's (conference) basketball game will be against HSU.

mcmfan · February 25, 2012, 07:29:31 PM

HSU has got to be happy about this: I'm sure they didn't want to play UMHB on their home court after losing twice to them in the regular season. Now, they get to play for the conference championship against McM, a team they've beaten twice, on a neutral court. But will three be the charm for McM?

Ralph Turner · February 25, 2012, 07:42:15 PM

Quote from: mcmfan on February 25, 2012, 07:29:31 PM
HSU has got to be happy about this: I'm sure they didn't want to play UMHB on their home court after losing twice to them in the regular season. Now, they get to play for the conference championship against McM, a team they've beaten twice, on a neutral court. But will three be the charm for McM?

It is very hard to defeat a team 3 times in a season.

mcmfan · February 25, 2012, 08:21:12 PM

I watched the streaming video of the games at LC and the announcers did interviews after the games with the players and coaches. But after the McM-UMHB game, the announcers just said good-bye and there was nothing left but silent video of the stands, which they apparently forgot to turn off. Did they have interviews after the previous games at UMHB, or did they end the broadcast that abruptly for all the games?

CUAfan · February 25, 2012, 09:45:09 PM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on February 25, 2012, 04:58:12 PM
HSU 64, UTD 63.

Another win by HSU over a regionally ranked team, but I think that their only chance is to win the ASC.

I'm none too familiar with the whole selection process in D3, but it seems to me that the ASC is only likely to get the HSU/MCM winner plus Mary Hardin-Baylor into the tournament, but not all three.