William Kelly lasts just two games as the starter before he's pulled again, because yeah, he's bad. After our third loss of the month, I move
Tony Romero to starting PF, benching
Al Delk. It's a switch I should have made earlier, as we play better, but maybe it doesn't matter,
because we keep losing. How bad?
We don't get our first nonconference win until the end of February, a narrow 58-56 victory over Central Arkansas. Player of the Game is
Al Delk with 13 points, 9 rebounds off the bench, finally ending the 13 game losing streak.
As per policy, we'll carry over through March. We beat Nicholls State 53-43 to put together a two game conference win streak. Ugly game, with
Todd Carruth's 14 points, 8 rebounds, 3 blocks and a steal earning PotG nod, but it really doesn't even matter because we're guaranteed to finish at the bottom of the division and probably the league anyway. It's
Todd Carruth as Player of the Game again in a narrow 66-65 victory over Texas State - 17 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 2 steals.
Al Delk with 6 points, 7 rebounds, 2 blocks, and a steal off the bench.
We close out with a 60-54 road win over Northwestern State and
Todd Carruth has his finest hour in his final college game - 27 points, 15 rebounds, a steal, and a block.
Benton Dixon has a surprise 10 points and a steal off the bench as we finally end this miserable season.
Chalk holds in the conference tournament as #1 seed Texas-Arlington plays #2 seed Southeast Louisiana in the final, with the Lions upsetting the Mavericks 58-48.
Defending champion Gonzaga goes 31-1 and gets a 2 seed, as does 31-1 Utah State. Got to love that P5 bias. Southeastern Louisiana draws a 15 seed against Virginia because there were a lot of small conference upsets. Texas-Arlington is a 9 seed in the NIT East. where they're destroyed by 8 seed Winthrop. Southeastern Louisiana is similarly squashed by the Cavaliers.
NCAA Final Four
3 seed Wisconsin
1 seed Pittsburgh
5 seed Stanford
1 seed Georgetown
Well, guess the committee deserves some slack here. Huge leap for the Cardinal, going from NIT champions last year to Final Four team this season. The Hoyas and the Badgers are in their second straight Final Fours.
NIT Final
2 seed Vanderbilt vs 3 seed Richmond
The Commodores conquer the Spiders 92-84 for the second straight P5 member NIT championship.
NCAA Final
3 seed Wisconsin vs 5 seed Stanford
Can the Cardinal, who upset Georgetown by 3 points, pull off the dream? In a barnburner of a game, they fall just short, the Badgers taking it 71-68.
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2012 SOUTHLAND AWARDS
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Player of the Year:
JR PG Richard Comfort Texas-Arlington 15.8 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 5.0 APG 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG
Freshman of the Year:
FR SG Robert Larochelle Texas-San Antonio 18.8 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.9 APG 0.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG
Coach of the Year:
Dave Lewandowski Texas-Arlington 22 - 11 (13 - 3)
All-league 1st Team:
C SR Beau Baty Southeastern Louisiana 14.8 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 1.0 APG, 0.4 SPG, 0.6 BPG
PF SR Todd Carruth Lamar 12.8 PPG, 10.0 RPG, 0.8 APG, 0.7 SPG, 1.2 BPG
SF FR Daniel Davis Sam Houston State 13.2 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 1.7 APG, 1.2 SPG, 0.2 BPG
SG JR Brian Rodriguez Southeastern Louisiana 14.3 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 2.8 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PG JR Richard Comfort Texas-Arlington 15.8 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 5.0 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG
All-league 2nd Team:
C SR Charles Beck Northwestern State 10.3 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 0.8 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.5 BPG
PF SR Victor Alcaraz Stephen F. Austin 6.2 PPG, 6.9 RPG, 1.1 APG, 0.3 SPG, 1.4 BPG
SF JR Jerry Brown Texas-Arlington 11.1 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 1.8 APG, 0.8 SPG, 0.3 BPG
SG FR Robert Larochelle Texas-San Antonio 18.8 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.9 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PG SR Colby Persons Stephen F. Austin 11.9 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 2.2 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG
All-freshman Team:
C FR Candelario Garcia McNeese State 6.6 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 0.9 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.4 BPG
PF FR Jerry Garrard Texas-Arlington 6.1 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 1.2 APG, 0.4 SPG, 0.3 BPG
SF FR Daniel Davis Sam Houston State 13.2 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 1.7 APG, 1.2 SPG, 0.2 BPG
SG FR Robert Larochelle Texas-San Antonio 18.8 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.9 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG
PG FR Genaro Yoon Texas State 8.4 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 2.4 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG
Why
Todd Carruth is listed as PF, I'll never know, as he played CE his two years here. *shrug* But it's the second straight year where we have a senior make the All-Conference team.
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2012 Southland Conference Standings
EAST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Southeastern Louisiana 12 4 .750 18 15 .545 138 28
Stephen F. Austin 11 5 .688 20 10 .667 199 37
Northwestern State 9 7 .563 14 17 .452 218 25
Nicholls State 5 11 .313 8 21 .276 285 13
Central Arkansas 5 11 .313 10 19 .345 267 16
McNeese State 4 12 .250 9 20 .310 298 26
WEST CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Texas-Arlington 13 3 .813 22 11 .667 133 31
Sam Houston State 11 5 .688 16 16 .500 204 51
Texas A&M-CC 9 7 .563 12 18 .400 219 33
Texas-San Antonio 7 9 .438 11 19 .367 240 32
Texas State 6 10 .375 10 20 .333 260 15
Lamar 4 12 .250 11 18 .379 336 25
I'm so on the verge of getting fired.
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LAMAR TEAM INFO
Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 25 Record Vs 1-50: 0-1 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 11-18 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0 RPI Rank: #336
Conference Record: 4-12 Record Vs 101-200: 2-6
Home Record: 8-12 Record Vs 200+: 9-11
Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 58.1 10 273 Points 61.1 3 88 Points -3.0 6 213
O.Reb 10.7 3 150 O.Reb 8.7 1 33 O.Reb 2.0 1 71
D.Reb 23.4 5 189 D.Reb 24.5 7 236 D.Reb -1.1 8 244
Rebounds 34.2 4 165 Rebounds 33.2 3 121 Rebounds 0.9 4 142
Assists 10.9 7 234 Assists 10.6 2 10 Assists 0.3 3 133
Steals 5.4 2 156 Steals 5.0 6 106 Steals 0.4 3 132
Blocks 2.4 6 188 Blocks 2.0 4 21 Blocks 0.4 4 101
Turnovers 13.6 5 165 Turnovers 14.5 1 93 Turnovers -0.9 3 124
Fouls 19.6 6 251 Fouls 20.3 3 25 Fouls -0.7 5 111
FG% .397 11 315 FG% .435 6 198 FG% -.038 9 292
FT% .672 10 179 FT% .665 3 113 FT% .008 7 146
3P% .188 12 347 3P% .291 3 34 3P% -.103 12 334
PPS 1.13 12 324 PPS 1.25 6 230 PPS -.125 11 307
Adj. FG% .414 11 343 Adj. FG% .475 5 136 Adj. FG% -.061 12 321
We were just bad all around.
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LAMAR Averages
Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Todd Carruth PF 29 29 32.9 12.8 3.2 10.0 0.8 0.7 1.2 2.1 3.2 -2.5
John Hallett SG 29 27 32.1 7.4 1.5 3.0 2.2 1.2 0.0 2.3 2.6 -1.6
Ryan Farley SF 29 29 28.2 7.6 1.2 4.7 1.7 0.8 0.1 2.5 3.0 0.1
Chris Lehman PG 29 29 27.0 8.0 1.0 2.4 2.0 0.7 0.0 1.7 2.6 -1.0
Al Delk C 29 21 26.7 4.8 1.3 6.5 1.6 0.6 0.5 1.7 2.2 -1.2
Tony Romero C 29 8 20.1 8.1 0.9 2.9 0.7 0.4 0.2 1.0 2.4 -1.7
William Kelly PG 29 2 15.6 4.2 0.6 1.8 1.0 0.5 0.0 1.2 1.4 -3.6
Benton Dixon SF 28 0 7.9 2.1 0.3 1.1 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.9 -2.1
Gregory Heady PF 28 0 6.1 1.8 0.3 0.8 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.7 -2.3
Larry Mebane PG 29 0 3.1 0.7 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.3 -0.2
James Horner C 14 0 1.6 0.8 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3
Aubrey Spring SG 8 0 1.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0
Mark Akers SG 7 0 1.3 0.7 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 -0.6
Daren Taylor SF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Damion Morgan SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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LAMAR Shooting
Player Pos Fgm Fga Fg% Ftm Fta Ft% 3pm 3pa 3p% PPS +/-
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Todd Carruth PF 140 294 .476 92 133 .692 0 0 .000 1.27
John Hallett SG 63 220 .286 78 109 .716 11 84 .131 0.98
Ryan Farley SF 71 192 .370 58 84 .690 20 73 .274 1.15
Chris Lehman PG 95 232 .409 39 78 .500 4 29 .138 1.00
Al Delk C 53 130 .408 27 46 .587 7 36 .194 1.08
Tony Romero C 79 174 .454 76 105 .724 1 6 .167 1.35
William Kelly PG 39 109 .358 41 55 .745 3 19 .158 1.12
Benton Dixon SF 22 63 .349 14 22 .636 0 10 .000 0.92
Gregory Heady PF 18 52 .346 12 17 .706 2 5 .400 0.96
Larry Mebane PG 7 16 .438 5 10 .500 2 6 .333 1.31
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
We lose our two top scorers to graduation, and I have a feeling next year is going to be ugly, 3* recruit notwithstanding. There was a 1* big who would have been great for fixing those woes, but we found him too late and lost him to Texas Southern.
Still have a couple offers out on recruits that we need to wait for the summer to see if we landed.