MBB: American Southwest Conference

[John_Wesley]

Wesley played a good game and was helped a little be the refs when Winford got fouls called on him. In d3 games it gets physical down in the paint but he was the only one that got called out. His fifth foul came when he wasn't even within reach of the shooter but was called for pushin him from behind. In three years that was the first game that I have seen the chocs lose but Coach Jones will definitely have them ready to go tomorrow they have practiced all weak and even a three hour one on thanksgiving day. Coach Jones will not let them lose again.

Chocsrock, you don't know how funny that last post reads.

Mississippi College getting hosed by the officials in the Gold Dome?  Signs of the end times!!!

If I am not mistaken, we had more fouls than MC, but they were spread out. Our player who shot the running jumper and missed at the buzzer ending regulation was fouled, and should have gone to the line.  We were fouled on almost every 3 pointer we shot but it was not called.  It happens.  The quality of the refs in NCAA is so much better than what we had seen against the NAIA that I cannot complain.  Overall it was well called.  MC's problem was that when we fouled them they could not hit a free throw to save their lives.  If they would have hit the FT's, we would have lost.  We shot poorly at the charity stripe, but MC missed a lot.

It appears that Millsaps beat us in Memphis if what is reported on the other board is accurate. 57-70.  I did not feel good about that game.  The folks from Pensacola thought we would, but I was not so sure.  I cannot imagine how bad we were shooting to score that little...either that or Millsaps has GREAT defense.  After the game against MC we may have been a bit flat.  That was the biggest win in school history. 

Playing these NCAA teams will help us in NCCAA play.  The calibre of basketball in NCCAA D2 is not what we are seeing right now.  I think we can beat Rhodes (don't know if we will).  If we can take one of two in Mobile (Springhill and U of Mobile) and finish 2-2 on this 5 day stretch, I will be happy.

[hoopstar]

I figure wesley came out flat after a huge win. NOTE: MC beat Milsaps by 30 in a preseason game a couple of weeks ago. If MC had not turned the ball over 31 times verse Wesley i believe they win farely easy, I believe that wesley scored 39 points off of MC tournovers.Also like JON Wesley said MC couldnt shoot free throws well going 16-29 from the line. I didnt think the refs helped either team much( Wesley had 26 fouls to MC 23) . The reason winford didnt have many minutes was he was in foul trouble early. You cant say because he just played 13 minutes that they singled him out, he didnt play because he fouled.  One thing that amazes me though is that wesley had 74 shots during the game to MC' s  56(Wesley shot 40% to MC 57%).  A difference from MC team last year and this year is that 4 of their starters played 33 minutes(Still though 12 players played). For MC to beat MHB I think they will need to shut down Burgart and Guyden

[frank_ezelle]

Let's be fair about the Millsaps-MC practice game.  It was held at 2pm on the Sunday following the Millsaps Homecoming where Millsaps beat Trinity and won the SCAC crown.  It was a situation that didn't exactly leave Millsaps ready to play their best game.  I'm not taking anything away from MC, just pointing out that it wasn't Millsaps at their best.

I did see that scrimmage and my comment at the time was that MC has more redundancy than the NASA Space Shuttle.  If they are a top 10 team, then you could split their roster in two and form two top 20 teams since there are so deep.  Tyler Winford is a very good player but they have a host of players who should be able to come in and take up the slack for any starter who gets in foul trouble.  It surprises me that the other 4 starters played over 30 minutes (even in a 45 minute game) because it seems like the depth of the team in MC's greatest strength.

Without seeing the game and only reading the box score and the story, it seems like MC might have underestimated Wesley or overestimated themselves.  After a first half that ended up 40-39 in MC's favor, MC stretched it out to 60-47 after about 10 minutes in the second half.  Regardless of how good Wesley is this year, a team like MC should have been able to hold on to that lead for the rest of the game.  The silver lining for MC is that they got a wakeup call that didn't hurt them any in D3 ratings and it may turn out to be far better for the team than the blowout win that some might have expected.

And for the record and for what it's worth, I think MC and Millsaps will play once again this year with that game coming in NCAA Tournament action.  If I'm right, I hope the results are the reverse of the last Tournament meeting.

[dballa]

Ozarks 86 HPU 74

HPU had 17 TO's to Ozarks 7 and Ozarks shot 15 more free throws.  Can't win playing that way.

[mcmfanatic]

LeTourneau vs McMurry

McM wins 63-51

[MC Boy]

MC vs MHB
   75 - 47
Chocs played very well and really shut down a good team.  Broomfield played great with 16 pts 10 rebs.  Coach Jones also found some playing time for Gene Hunt and it payed off.  All of the chocs played well.  Winford hasnt came out of the slump yet but he will be just find.  I knew they would bounce back with a great game beacause of their lost and also the fact that MHB beat them last year.  So that gave them a little motivation coming into this game.  Once again CHOCS ROCK!!!!!!!!

[mcmfanatic]

LeTourneau vs McMurry 

Correction McM wins 73 - 61

[etbualum]

HSU 86 ETBU 63

Pickleman 22pts 6rbs
Dinkins 21pts 7rbs

for etbu
Isom 19 pts 14rbs not a good day from the line 5-13

etbu falls to 0-4

[kid nice]

I was shocked to see the score of the Wesley game, and a little embarrassed, but someone said it earlier on here that maybe it was for the best.  Happy to see they turned it around quickly and shut down UMHB.  Ralph, pretty funny comment about the end of times, but maybe the refs had just forgotton how much Coach Jones stays on them during a game. I'm sure  that MC had plenty of opportunities to win the game and just didnt. Congrats to Wesley!

[Ralph Turner]

Kid, Miss College comes to McM on Thursday!  Looking forward to that one!

[MC Boy]

MC vs Concordia
91 - 70

DJ Jones 21 pts
Chocs rock again!  Looking forward to McMurry thursday.

[warped]

HSU 60 LETU 61

[John_Wesley]

Greetings D3 faithful. As per earlier request, I am dropping in to give you a Wesley College update.

Well, after losing two close games in Memphis to Millsaps and Rhodes (Rhodes was up by 3 with 26 seconds and then pulled ahead), Wesley went to Mobile and beat NAIA D-1 Springhill college in overtime.  It was Springhill's home opener, but they had played 4 exhibition games against D1 opponents FSU, LaLa, McNeese, and USM, and had been competitive in all but USM.  It was the first loss for Springhill at home in 16 games in their house.  Wesley runs their record to 10-3 on the season with a game against the always tough University of Mobile tomorrow.  I am a bit concerned about that game because we have played 3 games in 4 days including this overtime win against Springhill.  We held a 23 point lead at the 15 minute mark of the second half but saw it go away.  Our guys are tired and I know this game took a lot out of them.  UofM is coming off a drubbing by the #1 ranked team in NAIA (Robert Morris) and will be looking to unload on somebody.

I can't wait until we get to NCCAA D2 play and away from these schools that are 10 to 50 times bigger than us., but I am looking forward to getting Millsaps on our home court on Valenties day.

[warped]

SRSU 70 OZARKS 75

[warped]

UMHB 71 LC 57