MBB: Northwest Conference

[80sshorts]

Atwater just hit a 3 at the buzzer to send it to OT, but GFU has Satern, O'Connell fouled out

[80sshorts]

2nd OT that is

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Great... UPS makes an unbelievable comeback - from 26 points down. Ties it. They are then down 2 with L&C heading to the line to shoot one with onlyu six seconds left... and the AUDIO STOPS!!!

[David Collinge]

Great... UPS makes an unbelievable comeback - from 26 points down. Ties it. They are then down 2 with L&C heading to the line to shoot one with onlyu six seconds left... and the AUDIO STOPS!!!

...and let me guess, Dave...you were the one updating the scoreboard, too, not someone at the gym.  Right?  So it'll be 78-76, 0:06 left until the LC SID gets around to posting the score later tonight?   

UPDATE:  NWCSports.com, through extensive exit polling, has declared L&C the 78-76 winner.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Yeah - I was the one updating the scoreboard! So... unless I can stick it out and get a score before falling asleep (I have been up now for 21 hours!)... their SID might need to do some updating !

[nwhoops1903]

Thank God for Flegel and his cell phone.  LC apparently has not held off a monster comeback with a crazy bucket with :06 to play to win by 2 and now trail UPS 92-87 no word if this is a final.

[David Collinge]

Crazy night.  Two sources now agree that UPS won 92-87 in OT. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Yep - I have at least some source that says UPS wins 92-87 in OT!

[80sshorts]

Not that anyone would care at this point but GFU pulled it out in 2 OT against Whitman, 82-75, sounds like a wild night in the Northwest conference

[nwhoops1903]

Tillery fouls out for LC leading by 10 or 13 the rest is UPS History.  Down 26 in the second half on the road.  What happened between :06 and :00?

Congrats to Loggers for an amazing victory.  And to GF for gutting it out and getting their first.

[sac]

Our friend from the MIAA, NWHopeFan was at the Lewis&Clark/Puget Sound game and is returning to Portland to host a satelite party for Hope/Calvin in the morning.

Guys going to have an interesting 15 hours.

[NW Hope Fan]

My first live game in nearly 5 years... WOW

Boy was that a doozy!

UPS didn't look like a top 25 team the first half, or LC showed why they had been at one point.

Second half was a different story... Ups was moving the ball a lot more, and was holding LC on defense.

UPS presses the whole game... wild! This league unlike the MIAA plays Friday/Saturday games... These two teams are going to be pooped tomorrow... I can't imagine a Hope/Calvin game on a Saturday after Hope had to play Albion the night before...

I need to go to bed, but I'll update more tomorrow.

Peace!

[Pio20]

We played like a top ten team in the first half, dominating on defense as well as offensively. We beat the UPS press every time up the floor. Nick Thierry got the start over Tyson Papenfuss (who is not a good ball handler). Thierry is also quick and helped break the press. Tillery dominated and was able to penetrate almost every possession and either take it all the way in or dish it out to shooters. I knew UPS would make a run in the second half but we held it off early on. Then Tillery fouled out and we were done. We stopped penetrating and turned the ball over too many times in the backcourt. Late in the game, Berggren had a chance for a breakaway dunk but laid it up instead and missed it. Then UPS tied it up. Next LC possession Gene Rivera made an amazing shot and got fouled. So it is 78-76 LC with 6.6 seconds left. But then apparently Coach Gaillard called Corey Allen over to the bench but the ball had already been thrown to Rivera to shoot the free throw and Corey had left his mark on the line and so it was a lane violation. That was costly because if Gene makes that free throw it is a three point game with 6.6 seconds. Instead, Antwan Williams goes coast to coast for a layup and it is OT. At that point it was pretty much over. That one hurts a lot. After being up so much to lose that game has to just totally deflate the Pios.   

[nwhoops1903]

DID YOU SAY LANE VIOLATION!!  It is now official, LC imploded.  Just sad to let your opponent breath and then lose.  Tillery fouls out at 7:33 carelessly.  He had left after getting his fourth at 9:48.  Sub back in at 8:11 up 18.  WHY?

UPS  has 22 1st half and 56 second half.  Jeckyl and Hyde action.   

[Pugetsoundfan]

Wow....the posts here showed that Tillery fouled out midway through the second half, which had to be huge.  Puget Sound had no answer for him last season, and judging from the first 30 minutes in this game that didn't change this year.  I only wish I could have seen that game--two tremendous point guards and two teams needing a win....