MBB: American Southwest Conference

[Spirit_of_66]

Nice comeback. And the pigeons? Are they dinner for the Hillbillies?

[dballa]

yeah they are cooked in the hospitality room for the visiting team while the home team gets steak

[Ralph Turner]

Dballa,

Have they paid the light bill in Brownwood Coliseum lately? Last time I was there, you could not make a half court pass, because it got too dark to see the other side of the court. Secondly, the wind currents throw off a deep 3-pointer and watch out for the pigeons... I guess anything to help the Hillbillies.

One correction there, Spirit...

The doors closed on the Daniel Baker College Hillbillies in 1952!  

That building now hosts the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom.

[Spirit_of_66]

Actually didn't hpu absorb DBC, at least athleticly? Well anyway, they will always be the hpu hillbillies to me.

Correction: DBC was financially backed by Southwestern University in 1946. Its buildings were taken over by hpu in 1952.

[dsc]

Any score from Alpine?

[SulrossBBall]

SRSU 89 HPU 82

[dballa]

was that a final? 

Figured the way they played in Abilene this weekend they would be in trouble.

[SulrossBBall]

Yeah thats the final....srsu was up 43-35 at halftime and got up i think around 12 to 13 with about 5 minutes left and hpu cut it to 2 with 30 seconds left but srsu was able to hit their free throws to end it

[dballa]

Thanks for the info even as depressing as it is to hear

Looks like it's going down to the wire...i guess like all races should be.

[dsc]

HSU has to win one of their remaining two games to get into the playoffs.

So, SRSU is still in the running!

Go Cowboys!

[Ralph Turner]

HSU has to win one of their remaining two games to get into the playoffs.

So, SRSU is still in the running!

Go Cowboys!

dsc, the exciting thing about this weekend is that UMHB is now only one game behind HPU and McM for a piece of the title.

The CRU can foresee defeating HSU and McM and imagining a crumbling HPU to lose one or both games.  HSU is in the middle of this, needing to win one game.

This is gonna be a great race for the title and the playoffs!

Go McM!!!

[dsc]

Yeah, Ralph...

I sure wish the HSU games were "home" games.  I had forgotten that UMHB would have such incentive to win!


Regardless of who gets in...the playoffs should be great this year!

Who will host the tournament, Ralph?  Can it end in a three-way tie?

[Ralph Turner]

dsc, here are the tie breaker formulae.

http://www.americansouthwestconf.org/pdffiles/policy-tiebreaker-allsports.pdf

[Ralph Turner]

In a three way tie at 16-6 with UMHB McM and HPU,
HPU would host because of the 2-0 record over UMHB and 3-1 among the 3 schools.

HPU and McM at 17-5 goes to the coin-flip.

McM can host if they win both games and HPU loses one game this weekend.

UMHB can host if they tie with McMurry at 16-6 and have the better record vs. a 4th place HSU (and HPU at 15-7).

HSU in a 4-way tie at 15-7 with HPU, UMHB and McM cannot host because of the record of HPU being 5-3 against the 3 other first place teams.  Mathematically, only HSU can get a tie of the conference and not have a chance at hosting.

[321inandout]

I don't see any way of UMHB hosting or HSU.  Those possibilities are possible but so far out there.  With HPU hosting two of the worst teams in the west they will win one, if not both. 

I predicted earlier in the conference that HPU would slide, they are.  Luckily for them it happened when they already have locked themselves in the playoffs.  They may make an early exit out of the tourney.

I think we have McMurry hosting in Abilene and I have no other predicitons.  McMurry hosting will help The Abilene schools, if HSU gets in, to make a good run.  I could easily see HSU or UMHB losing two this weekend.  Where is everyone going to end up?