MBB: American Southwest Conference

[Bearkat00]

Thanks Chris. 

In the past, I would've said this was a moral victory for LETU.  Now, this is just a disappointing loss.  LETU's 4 losses this season:

Loss to McM at the Colorado Christian tournament in which we held a lead
Loss to UMHB at home when we had a 15 point lead
Loss to ETBU on the road.  Didn't handle the post game very well.
Loss to UMHB on the road.  Had a couple of chances to win it and couldn't get over the hump.

I want to say that we are moving up and being considered a top tier team in the league, however, it'll be interesting to see how we respond against a good CUA team. 

[#1ascfanman]

Hello everyone, i have not been on in a while.  Another great weekend of basketball in which the East is dominating so far other than ETBwho and LeT it rain.  My wildcats got a big win and are setting themselves up to be in good shape this weekend if the same trend continues as it did last night.  ETBU is going to be in a big hole if they lose to UMHB and they probably will after the 13 point blown lead to CUA.  LeT needs a win against CUA or they will  be on the down slide while my Wildcats can win and gain some ground.  Tyler and Dallas both pulled off games that were tough on the road but both still have their work cut out for them. 

Go Wildcats

[Ralph Turner]

Concordia-Austin 102, LeTourneau 99, OT.

Tough road trip for the Yellow Jackets!

LaCollege 72, TLU 69

[Ralph Turner]

Really big game for McMurry last Saturday.  They were "walking wounded" with the flu that had gone around campus!

They only got partial minutes out of several players.  However, Chris Beck (FT 8-8) and Curtis Davis' 27 points had the games of the careers!

I like where the team is now.  They have a great win on which to build.  They can make the playoffs, and go from there.

[#1ascfanman]

WOW! What a weekend, my boys have put themselves in contention with the sweep!!!!!!!!!!! Hard to believe Miss lost to Shreiner!!!!!!! Tough weekend for ETBu and Let! It is only going to get crazier.

Go Wildcats

[Ralph Turner]

Mississippi College fell out of the receiving votes category of the Top 25 Poll for the first time in 45 weeks!

[gccfan]

As a LETU Jacket fan it was a long weekend, but I think it just shows how strong the conference is.  It is very tough to win on the road just about anywhere you go.  I'm depressed thinking about the two games that we didn't pull out, but still feel very good about this team and think that as long as they make the playoffs they have a good shot to win the title this year. 

Oh yeah, one more thing... Valentino Maxwell is definitely back from his season ending injury he suffered last year.  He willed Concordia to the win on Saturday hitting big shot after big shot

[golden_dome]

Mississippi College fell out of the receiving votes category of the Top 25 Poll for the first time in 45 weeks!

That was a pretty good run. Hopefully, we can get things going and finish this year like UMHB did last season. But I think the league is much better this year, particularly on the East side. LeTourneau and UTD are good again and Coach Bizot has UT-Tyler tied for 1st at 4-2. The tournament could shape up to be as deep as it has every been.

[Ralph Turner]

At UMHB 104, CUA 102 (2OT).

[gccfan]

Wow, I just looked at the play-by-play from that UMHB-CTX game.  Jason Wagner hit two huge shots, tying the game with 4 seconds left in regulation and then winning the game with 2 seconds left in 2OT.  Mike Moore had an incredible game for CTX.  I think UMHB and CTX are the two best teams I've seen in the West this year.

[gccfan]

Well, it's about halfway through the season so I thought I would give out the player ratings using the same formula I used last year.  Here are the top five

Tom Hermann, HPU - 45.77
Prince Trotter, MC - 41.95
Josh Johnson, LC - 38.55
Mardochee Jean, HSU - 38.35
Filiberto Torres, SRSU - 37.14

[#1ascfanman]

As of right now I am 7-6 on the predictions, here are my predictions for this weekend:

Thursday:
Concordia over Ozarks
La College over HPU
LeT over TLU
McMurry over Tyler
Miss over Sul Ross
ETBU over Schreiner in a close one
UTD over HSU

Saturday:
HSU over UTTyler
Ozarks over UMHB  Upset pick of the weekend
ETBU over TLU
McM over Dallas
LeT over Schreiner
Miss over HPU
LC over Sul Ross

[mcmfan]

It seems to me the real loser in the Schreiner victory over MC and the CUA victory over LeT was McMurry.  We needed the east division teams to knock off some of the western division teams that are ahead of us in the standings, if we want to get out of the basement.  To make the conference tournament, we need to be one of the top four teams in the west.  Mathematically, if we win all of our remaining games from now on we can do it, but is that likely?  Time will tell, I suppose. 

[Ralph Turner]

We are only 2 1/2  games out of 2nd place and only 2 games out of 4th place.

I think that the team can gain 2 games on the #4 team in the West.

I am optimistic that this team can work thru this adversity!

[lewis]

37-28 La College over HPU at the half