MBB: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations to Coach Bonewitz and the CTX Tornados.

[umhb2001]

Well, the Cru definitely beat themselves yesterday. Too many missed FT's. Make those, you win the game. We are too good to not be more successful. I hope we get in and can make some noise!

[Andy Archibald]

Congratulaions to Concordia on their Conference Championship. Coach Bonewitz has been working hard to get his team to this level and he finally reached it. NCAA Bracket has been release and The Cru gets the first rounf bye, but in turn has 13 days off in between games. Hope we dont come out somewhat flat. Why a whole week in between rounds?

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulaions to Concordia on their Conference Championship. Coach Bonewitz has been working hard to get his team to this level and he finally reached it. NCAA Bracket has been release and The Cru gets the first rounf bye, but in turn has 13 days off in between games. Hope we dont come out somewhat flat. Why a whole week in between rounds?

Both Men's D2 and D3 Finals have been moved to Atlanta during the Final Four, for this season. That has prompted the NCAA to spread out the tourney.

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations to CTX which defeated Trinity 87-83.  UMHB in Belton next week.

[CUAfan]

Of all the years I end up not having enough time to hang out here, my alma mater goes and makes the Big Dance. Go figure.

Though, it's got me back working on per-possession (or tempo-free, if you prefer) rankings for D3 again.

[CUAfan]

2012-13 per-possession rankings for the ASC. Over the next month (or two), I'm going to try to get every D3 conference up over on my old blog. Emphasis on try.

ASC Per-Possession
# Team (W-L) - Off/Def/Net/Pace
1. Texas-Dallas (14-5) – 1.13/0.95/+0.17/63.6
2. Mary Hardin-Baylor (17-2) – 1.09/0.92/+0.17/71.9
3. Concordia-Texas (15-4) – 1.13/1.00/+0.13/85.8
4. Texas-Tyler (13-6) – 1.07/0.99/+0.08/68.6
5. Mississippi College (11-8) – 1.04/0.99/+0.05/70.6
6. Louisiana College (8-11) – 1.03/1.04/+0.00/72.8
7. Hardin-Simmons (12-7) – 1.00/1.00/+0.00/77.4
8. Schreiner (8-11) – 0.96/0.99/-0.03/73.8
9. LeTourneau (10-9) – 0.95/0.99/-0.03/68.4
10. East Texas Baptist (5-14) – 0.95/1.01/-0.05/72.1
11. Texas Lutheran (6-13) – 0.92/0.97/-0.05/69.7
12. Howard Payne (6-13) – 0.89/1.01/-0.12/76.0
13. Sul Ross State (4-15) – 0.93/1.06/-0.13/73.5
14. Ozarks (4-15) – 0.95/1.10/-0.15/73.3

Average Pace – 72.7
Average Offense/Defense – 1.00

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations UMHB.  Good luck in the Sweet 16.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

What are you doing tonight? How about watching Hoopsville?

UMHB head coach Ken DeWeese joins us to talk about the two weeks off, the surprising blow out of Concordia, and their upcoming trip to the Great Northwest to play Whitworth. Show hits the air at 7 PM EST and here is how you can follow us:

Website: www.d3hoopsville.com
Tonight's Show: www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2012-13/march10
Twitter: @d3hoopsville or #hoopsville
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Hoopsville
Email: hoopsville@d3hoops.com

[(509)Rat]

Pretty sure there is nobody here to read it, but congrats to the Cru on the win tonight. They were the aggressor for most of the game and it paid off. Good luck in Salem, "y'all"!

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks, Rat!  Yes, the ASC board has gone dead without any McMurry fans to post.

UMHB played an excellent game.

I want to congratulate Coach DeWeese for playing at Whitworth in November 2012.  Getting the players into Whitworth Fieldhouse made the environment less formidable second time around!

[Toby Taff]

I rarely visit the BBall boards, but I have been some this season. Tonight's game was great. Brings back memories of the days before football when UMHB played NAIA Basketball. Congrats Cru. Now do it in Salem!

[Gregory Sager]

UMHB advances in a nailbiter over St. Mary's (MD). This marks the first time ever that an ASC team, or any team from Texas, for that matter, has made it to the Final Four.

[Ralph Turner]

UMHB advances in a nailbiter over St. Mary's (MD). This marks the first time ever that an ASC team, or any team from Texas, for that matter, has made it to the Final Four.

The dominoes were lined up nicely for this one.

1)  I felt that UMHB matched better against St Mary's than any of the other 6 teams in the Elite 8. 
2)  They got thru the Round of 32 at home (bye and then hosting CTX). 
3)  They had played a game at Whitworth in the non-conference.
4)  They played the Elite 8 game on a neutral court.
5)  I like their chances and the match-up against St Thomas (better than against Williams).

Congratulations to the CRU.

[Ralph Turner]

UMHB 74, St Thomas 67. UMHB goes to Atlanta for the National Championship!