(02-15-2024 09:07 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  WKU wins 90-80 (And did not play that well--coach quote).

1st place La Tech beats Gamecocks 63-58 before less than a thousand folks. They have the most talented team in the league. A league leading NET rating of 79 and deserve better support. I feel bad for their players.

I bereave TECH is on quarter break. So not many around campus.

(02-15-2024 11:01 PM)WWDog Wrote:  

(02-15-2024 09:07 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  WKU wins 90-80 (And did not play that well--coach quote).

1st place La Tech beats Gamecocks 63-58 before less than a thousand folks. They have the most talented team in the league. A league leading NET rating of 79 and deserve better support. I feel bad for their players.

I bereave TECH is on quarter break. So not many around campus.

Fair enough.

(02-15-2024 11:01 PM)WWDog Wrote:  

(02-15-2024 09:07 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  WKU wins 90-80 (And did not play that well--coach quote).

1st place La Tech beats Gamecocks 63-58 before less than a thousand folks. They have the most talented team in the league. A league leading NET rating of 79 and deserve better support. I feel bad for their players.

I bereave TECH is on quarter break. So not many around campus.

NOt many around ever, is break Jan-March?

Yeah I guess it’s like your football attendance when you are hosting the championship game. That’s a head scratcher too. Doesn’t your team “deserve better?”

Hey, I thought attendance was totally irrelevant. Why the the attendance smack?

(02-16-2024 09:41 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Hey, I thought attendance was totally irrelevant. Why the the attendance smack?

Folks still trying to get that attendanceball trophy.

(02-16-2024 09:41 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Hey, I thought attendance was totally irrelevant. Why the the attendance smack?

It is only irrelevant when convenient of course. /s

Attendance matters all the time. It also matters less than winning.

No program is completely honest with their numbers. Some fudge less than others, at the end of the day none of us should be throwing attendance stones in glass houses.

(02-16-2024 09:58 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-16-2024 09:41 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Hey, I thought attendance was totally irrelevant. Why the the attendance smack?

Folks still trying to get that attendanceball trophy.

I don’t see the basketball standings on the OP in this thread.

I DO see the attendance standings!

(02-16-2024 10:04 AM)EatEmUp11 Wrote:  

(02-16-2024 09:58 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-16-2024 09:41 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Hey, I thought attendance was totally irrelevant. Why the the attendance smack?

Folks still trying to get that attendanceball trophy.

I don’t see the basketball standings on the OP in this thread.

I DO see the attendance standings!

Different strokes. . .

Looking forward to the LU/SHSU rematch tonight. Kats DO NOT match up well with the Flames. Liberty’s stretch ability presented our defense tons of issues in VA. If they’re hot we might get shot out of our own gym. Flames are a 5 point favorite.

Lamar Wilkerson’s availability is still questionable.

Liberty’s first trip to Huntsville since 2012, a season in which they went to the NCAA Tournament! Hoping for a decent crowd at the Coliseum, although I’d imagine the baseball game with Okie State will be the main attraction in Huntsville today.

(02-17-2024 11:35 AM)EatEmUp11 Wrote:  Looking forward to the LU/SHSU rematch tonight. Kats DO NOT match up well with the Flames. Liberty’s stretch ability presented our defense tons of issues in VA. If they’re hot we might get shot out of our own gym. Flames are a 5 point favorite.

Lamar Wilkerson’s availability is still questionable.

Liberty’s first trip to Huntsville since 2012, a season in which they went to the NCAA Tournament! Hoping for a decent crowd at the Coliseum, although I’d imagine the baseball game with Okie State will be the main attraction in Huntsville today.

May be true about matchups, but Liberty is 1-4 on the road in CUSA. If Liberty wants to make any type of run, they really need this game vs. Sam Houston, though it is Sam Houston with the revenge factor.

Wow--this thread is a little slow...

WKU 72 NMSU 58

La Tech 75 FIU 68

WKU out rebounds Aggies 41-29. Hilltopper FT% of 88 percent 15/17 to 5/10 for the visitors. Game was tied at the half.

MT 38

UTEP 32

Halftime.

(02-17-2024 04:36 PM)Turtle Power 98 Wrote:  

(02-17-2024 11:35 AM)EatEmUp11 Wrote:  Looking forward to the LU/SHSU rematch tonight. Kats DO NOT match up well with the Flames. Liberty’s stretch ability presented our defense tons of issues in VA. If they’re hot we might get shot out of our own gym. Flames are a 5 point favorite.

Lamar Wilkerson’s availability is still questionable.

Liberty’s first trip to Huntsville since 2012, a season in which they went to the NCAA Tournament! Hoping for a decent crowd at the Coliseum, although I’d imagine the baseball game with Okie State will be the main attraction in Huntsville today.

May be true about matchups, but Liberty is 1-4 on the road in CUSA. If Liberty wants to make any type of run, they really need this game vs. Sam Houston, though it is Sam Houston with the revenge factor.

Rolling with a smallball lineup tonight. Huefner starts at center.

Wilkerson playing. Kats open up an early six point lead in Huntsville.

(02-17-2024 07:01 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  MT 38

UTEP 32

Halftime.

UTEP has come back and is leading by a point 4 to play in 2H, Miners looking for road win number one for 2023-2024.

My take:

SHSU taking smaller flames to the bucket to score easily--too quick for the "D".

Flames generally use threes to neutralize their weaknesses--but only 1 for 8 so far.

27-9 mismatch early.

MT back up 1 with 1:05 to go. UTEP ball.

Going to the wire.

MT-UTEP.................. Overtime!

Bearkats embarrassing Liberty 41-22 3m, 1st H.