Big Sky Basketball - 2012-13

[Mvemjsunpx]

NoCo now down 2 with less than :30 left. Davis going to the line I believe.

And big news for the other UNC team as their women lost to SUU at home by 16 (first home loss of the season). Lady Griz now up a game in the loss column.

[Mvemjsunpx]

UCD missed the front end of the 1&1, and Garnica hit a trey to give NoCo a 1-point lead with 14 seconds left.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Aggies hit a deuce with 2 seconds left to win it. Big Sky 2-4.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Weber's up 7 late in the game in Tulsa.

Suutah already down 10 in the first half against CSUN.

[uofmman1122]

Then with 4:40 to play, Will Cherry came up lame. He spent the rest of the game on the bench with ice on his right foot, the same one he broke back in September. He said after the game that it feels the same as it did when he broke it during a pick-up game.

“That’s what he says, but obviously we won’t know anything until we get an X-ray,” Tinkle said. “He said it feels the same, but who knows? Obviously, if that’s true, it’s not a good thing.”

Especially not with road games at Montana State and Southern Utah looming on the horizon. The Griz, who hold a one-game lead over Weber State in the Big Sky standings, will probably need to win their remaining four league games in order to host the postseason tournament for the second straight season.

Well....shitsprinkles.

[Mvemjsunpx]

SUU's come back to cut it to 1 at the break.

Sac & NAU getting whipped early.

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Weebs hold on to beat Oral Roberts on the road by 4.

That's got to be doubly embarrassing for the evangelicals at ORU. Not only do they lose to a school from Mormon country, they lose to a public school from Mormon country.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Sac down by 12 in a low-scoring game.

NAU getting thumped on the islands.

SUU just got a bucket to go up 1 with 11 seconds left. T-Birds win 73-72 in the battle of new Big Sky versus former Big Sky.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Sac has now cut it to 1 with 2:30 to go. Looks like first team to 50 gets the win.

'Jacks now down by 30. Their women also lost to Sac at home tonight by double digits.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Hornets apparently win 51-50. Three of the games today decided by exactly 1 point.

Big Sky now 5-5 once the mercy rule is implemented in Honolulu. MSU/SoDak will be the rubber match.

[Wildcat Ryan]

Not good news for Montana, hopefully Will didn't re-break his foot

[Mvemjsunpx]

NAU loses by 34, just to wrap everything up.

[uofmman1122]

Not good news for Montana, hopefully Will didn't re-break his foot

It's really too bad, but I really think he's done. I couldn't see it, but several people on eGriz basically knew when it happened that he was done.

I was hoping at the beginning of the year that Will would just bite the bullet and take a medical redshirt to be able to play next year, but I think he really wanted to be out there.

It's easy now to say I think it would have helped him more than playing this year, since he could very well be done as a college player now.

One of the greatest Griz BBall players ever. It's sad it had to end like this.

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  SHSU 76-81 EWU; The Eags get a Big-Sky-record 16 blocks and win despite 40 fewer shot attempts
  UCR 58-66 PSU; Highlanders start the second half on a 23-9 run, then don't score again for nearly 7 minutes
  SAC 51-50 UCSB; The cold-shooting Hornets win with D by holding UCSB to 10 points over the final 12:00
  ID 75-69 ISU; The Bengals hold sharpshooting Idaho to 39%, but lose the boards by 22
  CSUN 72-73 SUU; The stats were virtually identical except that Suutah made 6 treys to Northridge's 1
  WEB 70-66 ORU; Perimeter proficiency made the difference here, too, as Weber made 9 treys to ORU's 4
  NAU 50-84 HAW; Hawai'i cooled off markedly in the second half, but NAU shot 17% in the same period
  UMT 87-93 DVDSN (OT); Kareem Jamar's 28 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 assists aren't quite enough
  UNC 78-79 UCD; The Bears regain their shooting touch, but the defense remains the same
  UND 75-83 OMAHA; The No-Nicks shoot an uncharacteristic 47% from the line
  
  
  
  Women
  
  SAC 78-68 NAU; Hornets clinch their 4th. BSC Tournament berth in 5 years—they only had 2 prior to that
  SUU 73-57 UNC; NoCo's 13-game home winning streak comes to an end
  PSU 50-71 UND; The depleted Viks are outshot 50%-25% and only force 9 TOs against turnover-prone NoDak

[kalm]

• Men
  
  SHSU 76-81 EWU; The Eags get a Big-Sky-record 16 blocks and win despite 40 fewer shot attempts
  UCR 58-66 PSU; Highlanders start the second half on a 23-9 run, then don't score again for nearly 7 minutes
  SAC 51-50 UCSB; The cold-shooting Hornets win with D by holding UCSB to 10 points over the final 12:00
  ID 75-69 ISU; The Bengals hold sharpshooting Idaho to 39%, but lose the boards by 22
  CSUN 72-73 SUU; The stats were virtually identical except that Suutah made 6 treys to Northridge's 1
  WEB 70-66 ORU; Perimeter proficiency made the difference here, too, as Weber made 9 treys to ORU's 4
  NAU 50-84 HAW; Hawai'i cooled off markedly in the second half, but NAU shot 17% in the same period
  UMT 87-93 DVDSN (OT); Kareem Jamar's 28 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 assists aren't quite enough
  UNC 78-79 UCD; The Bears regain their shooting touch, but the defense remains the same
  UND 75-83 OMAHA; The No-Nicks shoot an uncharacteristic 47% from the line
  
  
  
  Women
  
  SAC 78-68 NAU; Hornets clinch their 4th. BSC Tournament berth in 5 years—they only had 2 prior to that
  SUU 73-57 UNC; NoCo's 13-game home winning streak comes to an end
  PSU 50-71 UND; The depleted Viks are outshot 50%-25% and only force 9 TOs against turnover-prone NoDak

EWU is improving a little bit of late. The vast majority of minutes are played by underclassmen and if IIRC we had three freshman and a sophomore starting yesterday's game with another sophomore, Parker Kelly coming off the bench to be the #2 scorer. Freshman forward Venky Jois is leading the conference in rebounding and blocked shots and is also the team's leading scorer.

Some hope for the future...

[SDHornet]

Hornets apparently win 51-50. Three of the games today decided by exactly 1 point.

Big Sky now 5-5 once the mercy rule is implemented in Honolulu. MSU/SoDak will be the rubber match.

Garrity hit Veteto for the go ahead layup with 5 seconds to go. UCSB's desperation shot hit the front of the rim. Poor shooting night by both teams. Good to see the Hornets get a win that can hopefully give us some momentum heading into the final 4 BSC games.

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  SDK 85-74 MSU; The suddenly defenseless Bobcats have allowed 80+ in 4 of their last 5 games

[Mvemjsunpx]

• • Men
    
    1. Montana _____________15-1_____19-6_____ W1/L1
    2. Weber State__________14-2_____20-5_____ W6/W7
    3. North Dakota _________9-8_____12-15____ W1/L1
    4. Southern Utah ________8-8_____11-15____ L3/W1
    5. Northern Arizona _____7-9_____10-17____ W1/L1
    6. Sacramento State _____7-9_____13-12____ L2/W1
    7. Montana State ________7-9_____10-15____ L4/L5
    8. Northern Colorado____7-10_____9-17____ L1/L2
    9. Eastern Washington___6-10_____9-18____ L1/W1
    10.Portland State_________5-11_____8-16____ W2/W3
    11.Idaho State ___________4-12_____5-21____ L1/L2

• • Women
    
    1. Montana _____________13-3_____19-6_____ W3
    2. Northern Colorado___13-4_____16-10____ L1
    3. Eastern Washington__11-5_____15-10____ W2
    4. Idaho State __________10-6_____15-10____ W1
    5. Sacramento State ____10-6_____15-10____ W1
    6. Montana State ________9-7_____15-10____ W1
    7. Southern Utah ________7-9_____13-13____ W1
    8. Northern Arizona _____6-10_____7-18____ L1
    9. North Dakota _________6-12____11-16____ W1
    10.Portland State_________5-12____11-15____ L4
    11.Weber State___________0-16_____0-25____ L34/L44

[Mvemjsunpx]

Men

Michael Harthun (PSU) - 16.5 ppg, 2.5 apg, 69% shooting, 5/6 on treys (2 games)


Women

Hailey Mandelko (SUU) - 21 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals (1 game)

[Wildcat Ryan]

Read on egriz that Will did not break his foot. Great to hear. Anybody know the extent of his injury?

[Wildcat Ryan]

4 of the 5 BSC games were won by the road team

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  UNC 88-80 EWU (OT); Eagles go 0/7 from the arc in overtime as their Big Sky Tournament hopes slip away
  UND 74-66 PSU; The No-Nicks deal a likely deathblow to PSU's postseason chances
  WEB 70-55 SAC; The Hornets just couldn't keep up with Weber's 55% shooting from three
  MSU 62-61 SUU; The final score was MSU's only lead of the entire game
  ISU 58-67 NAU; Lumberjacks get the win despite not scoring over the final 5:00 of the first half
  
  
  
  Women
  
  NAU 46-67 ISU; The desperate 'Jacks only shoot 23% in Pocatello
  SAC 63-57 WEB; Three Big Sky Conference Records were broken in this game (see following post)
  SUU 54-70 UMT; Southern Utah's starters only score 11 points
  EWU 66-67 UNC; Lexie Nelson commits 8 TOs, 2 of which helped EWU blow a 5-point lead in the final minute

[Mvemjsunpx]

Three Big Sky records were set in tonight's Sac/Weber women's game in Ogden…


1. As expected, Weber State lost their 45th. consecutive overall game. This breaks the record of 44 straight set by, ironically, the Sac State women from early 2001 to late 2002.

2. Megan Kritscher broke Brenda Souther's 29-year old record for single-season blocks. Souther had 100 even, Kritscher now has 101 (Souther played before the Big Sky adopted women's basketball, but the Big Sky record book includes all stats/records amassed during the MWAC era (1982-88)).

3. Kylie Kuhns broke the Big Sky's career rebounding record. She now has 1178 boards, surpassing the previous mark of 1174 accumulated by Natalie Doma (ISU) from 2004-08.

[SDHornet]

I expected a loss to Weber, but NAU, UNC, and MSU wins really puts us in a terrible spot. We need to win 2 of the last 3 to have a chance at the BSCT. Not good.

[Mvemjsunpx]

I expected a loss to Weber, but NAU, UNC, and MSU wins really puts us in a terrible spot. We need to win 2 of the last 3 to have a chance at the BSCT. Not good.

You'll probably get most—if not all—of that ground back Saturday, since you host ISU while MSU & NAU play the top two.