Still three more games to go in our nonconference schedule. We get blasted by North Dakota State as it's brick after brick, but rebound for a nice 61-49 road win over Bucknell - our first away trip of the year. 13 points in 15 minutes by
Tony Romero earns PotG, but
Todd Carruth had 11 points, 12 rebounds, and a block, and
Ryan Farley was ever-present with 12 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists.
And we finish non-conference play with a winning record, dropping Rice 79-69 by playing nails defense and watching
Ryan Farley blow up for 21 points and 9 rebounds as Player of the Game.
Todd Carruth did his thing with 14 points, 11 rebounds, and a block, while
Al Delk had a multi-faceted game with 7 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, a block, and a steal.
Flush with confidence (and a comparatively impressive 304 RPI), we march into Corpus Christi for our Southland opener, where we promptly fall flat on our faces against then 2 win Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 45-57.
In fact, we lose all 6 of our conference games in December, undone by terrible shooting, especially from the FT line.
Code:
EAST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Northwestern State 4 2 .667 8 10 .444 250 25
Nicholls State 3 2 .600 6 12 .333 211 13
Stephen F. Austin 3 2 .600 12 6 .667 219 37
Southeastern Louisiana 3 2 .600 6 12 .333 162 28
McNeese State 3 2 .600 8 10 .444 239 26
Central Arkansas 1 5 .167 6 13 .316 252 16
WEST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Texas-Arlington 6 0 1.000 13 5 .722 144 31
Sam Houston State 4 2 .667 8 11 .421 213 51
Texas A&M-CC 3 3 .500 5 13 .278 229 33
Texas-San Antonio 2 3 .400 6 12 .333 230 32
Texas State 1 4 .200 5 13 .278 292 15
Lamar 0 6 .000 7 11 .389 339 25
I'm frankly at a loss. There's no reason we should suddenly be bombing like this.
Code:
Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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John Hallett SG 18 18 33.8 7.7 1.6 3.3 2.6 1.2 0.0 2.6 2.5 0.1
Todd Carruth PF 18 18 31.2 11.3 3.3 9.8 1.1 0.5 0.9 1.8 3.4 -0.7
Ryan Farley SF 18 18 29.4 9.2 1.4 4.8 1.6 1.1 0.2 2.4 3.1 -0.1
Al Delk C 18 18 28.9 5.0 1.5 7.1 2.0 0.8 0.6 2.0 2.4 2.6
Chris Lehman PG 18 18 27.1 9.9 1.1 2.4 1.7 0.8 0.0 1.7 2.5 -0.7
Tony Romero C 18 0 17.2 7.3 0.6 2.5 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.7 1.9 -2.3
William Kelly PG 18 0 14.3 4.3 0.6 1.7 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.9 1.4 -2.6
Benton Dixon SF 18 0 7.5 1.9 0.4 1.2 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.9 -2.6
Gregory Heady PF 17 0 6.2 2.1 0.3 0.9 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.4 -2.0
Larry Mebane PG 18 0 2.9 0.5 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 -0.2
James Horner C 10 0 1.7 1.1 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3
Aubrey Spring SG 7 0 1.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0
Mark Akers SG 4 0 1.3 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 -1.0
Code:
Player Pos Fgm Fga Fg% Ftm Fta Ft% 3pm 3pa 3p% PPS +/-
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John Hallett SG 37 132 .280 59 88 .670 6 52 .115 1.05
Todd Carruth PF 75 160 .469 53 73 .726 0 0 .000 1.27
Ryan Farley SF 53 140 .379 44 68 .647 15 48 .313 1.18
Al Delk C 35 82 .427 17 27 .630 3 16 .188 1.10
Chris Lehman PG 72 156 .462 30 64 .469 4 17 .235 1.14
Tony Romero C 45 94 .479 41 56 .732 0 3 .000 1.39
William Kelly PG 23 64 .359 29 36 .806 3 12 .250 1.22
Benton Dixon SF 12 38 .316 11 17 .647 0 7 .000 0.92
Gregory Heady PF 13 32 .406 9 12 .750 1 1 1.000 1.13
Larry Mebane PG 3 7 .429 3 6 .500 0 2 .000 1.29
James Horner C 5 7 .714 1 1 1.000 0 0 .000 1.57
Aubrey Spring SG 1 5 .200 0 0 .000 0 3 .000 0.40
Mark Akers SG 1 2 .500 2 2 1.000 1 1 1.000 2.50
Daren Taylor SF 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0.00
Damion Morgan SG 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0.00
Time to put
William Kelly back in the starting lineup it looks like.
John Hallett is killing our offensive efficiency. Hopefully we can find a way to salvage this disaster of a season.
Recruiting, we're doing a lot of scouting, trying to figure out which 1* guys we want to make our final two offers to.