biobengal wrote:A tale of two cities... Sacramento and Bozeman... WOW!
Bobcat basketball, men (12th) and women (11th).
Sac men (tied 1st) and women (tied 1st)
Yep. Sac was supposed to be in the upper tier on the men's side, but definitely not 1st. place. Their women are really making their tough non-conference schedule pay off, though the fact they only play Montana in Missoula may doom them (they also still have to go to Grand Forks).
The Bobcat men were supposed to take a beating this year, but the performance of their women is quite mystifying. They shouldn't be contending or anything, but they've got enough decent players that they should be better than 1-6—especially when you consider that they tend to play better in the first half of conference.
Nobody expected either Sac teams to be doing this well halfway through BSC play. I knew the men would be pretty solid but I didn’t expect this. I don’t know enough about the women’s team so say much other than a few top scorers graduated last year so I figured there would be a bit of a step back. It’s been an entertaining run so far.
UMT 73-54 PSU; Griz start the second half with a 33-9 run
MSU 59-75 SAC; Hornets win the last 9 minutes 27-13 to avoid an embarrassing upset
ISU 76-79 UNC; NoCo shoots 71% from the arc WEB 67-60 UND; The Wildcats go 19/21 from the line
Women
UNC 61-70 ISU; The Bengals shoot 48% against the tough Bear defense UND 57-54 WEB; NoDak overcame a 13-point deficit, though they nearly blew a 9-point lead in the final :35
PSU 31-72 UMT; 31 points is the fewest allowed by the Lady Griz to a DI opponent in more than 17 years
SAC 64-91 MSU; Bobcats win shooting 58%-29% and win the boards by 31
ID 95-98 EWU(OT); Vandals blow an 11-point lead in the final 1:30 of regulation
MSU 62-80 PSU; Vikings shoot 82% from the arc
UMT 69-70 SAC; Sac beats Montana for the first time in 8 years thanks to a game-closing 9-0 run NAU 81-60 SUU; The T-Birds somehow get blown out at home despite committing just 3 turnovers
WEB 57-71 UNC; The preseason favorites are now 5 games back with 8 to go
ISU 69-80 UND; Quinton Hooker finishes 1 rebound shy of a triple-double
Women
EWU 58-71 ID; Stacey Barr scores 20 in a decisive second half
UND 69-75 ISU; Bengals win points-off-turnovers 22-8
UNC 52-59 WEB; The Wildcats make 1 more field goal on 19 fewer attempts than NoCo
SUU 64-73 NAU(OT); Erikka Banks & Raven Anderson both get double-doubles for NAU
SAC 86-94 UMT; UM gets a stranglehold on the Big Sky race despite allowing 55 more pts. than on Thursday
PSU 46-63 MSU; Bobcats win easy despite having nobody score more than 10 points
We're showing some depth. Venky clearly wasn't 100% and Harvey sat out most of the 2nd half with an injury. Meanwhile, true freshman Bogdan Blysniuk followed up his 24 against UND with 21 and 15 rebounds. Awesome comeback.
kalm wrote:We're showing some depth. Venky clearly wasn't 100% and Harvey sat out most of the 2nd half with an injury. Meanwhile, true freshman Bogdan Blysniuk followed up his 24 against UND with 21 and 15 rebounds. Awesome comeback.
ID 95-98 EWU(OT); Vandals blow an 11-point lead in the final 1:30 of regulation
MSU 62-80 PSU; Vikings shoot 82% from the arc
UMT 69-70 SAC; Sac beats Montana for the first time in 8 years thanks to a game-closing 9-0 run NAU 81-60 SUU; The T-Birds somehow get blown out at home despite committing just 3 turnovers
WEB 57-71 UNC; The preseason favorites are now 5 games back with 8 to go
ISU 69-80 UND; Quinton Hooker finishes 1 rebound shy of a triple-double
Women
EWU 58-71 ID; Stacey Barr scores 20 in a decisive second half
UND 69-75 ISU; Bengals win points-off-turnovers 22-8
UNC 52-59 WEB; The Wildcats make 1 more field goal on 19 fewer attempts than NoCo
SUU 64-73 NAU(OT); Erikka Banks & Raven Anderson both get double-doubles for NAU
SAC 86-94 UMT; UM gets a stranglehold on the Big Sky race despite allowing 55 more pts. than on Thursday
PSU 46-63 MSU; Bobcats win easy despite having nobody score more than 10 points
Griz were outscored 24-10 in the last 7 minutes. absolutely horrid 7 minutes of basketball. If you can't make a free throw to ice the game, you don't deserve to win. Griz missed TWO in the last 38 seconds.
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kalm wrote:We're showing some depth. Venky clearly wasn't 100% and Harvey sat out most of the 2nd half with an injury. Meanwhile, true freshman Bogdan Blysniuk followed up his 24 against UND with 21 and 15 rebounds. Awesome comeback.
AZGrizFan wrote:
Griz were outscored 24-10 in the last 7 minutes. absolutely horrid 7 minutes of basketball. If you can't make a free throw to ice the game, you don't deserve to win. Griz missed TWO in the last 38 seconds.
Hornets dug deep and pulled it off. Hell of a game. It's a damn shame we don't travel to Missoula in the regular season. Hornsby and Demps kept the team in it when Garrity and McKinney were held in check. Great effort.
BTW how does UM not double team McKinney AND Garrity on that final possession?
AZGrizFan wrote:
Griz were outscored 24-10 in the last 7 minutes. absolutely horrid 7 minutes of basketball. If you can't make a free throw to ice the game, you don't deserve to win. Griz missed TWO in the last 38 seconds.
Hornets dug deep and pulled it off. Hell of a game. It's a damn shame we don't travel to Missoula in the regular season. Hornsby and Demps kept the team in it when Garrity and McKinney were held in check. Great effort.
BTW how does UM not double team McKinney AND Garrity on that final possession?
You mean aside from the fact that would leave one person to guard 3 other people?
Also, Garrity had a lousy game going until that shot.
SDHornet wrote:
Hornets dug deep and pulled it off. Hell of a game. It's a damn shame we don't travel to Missoula in the regular season. Hornsby and Demps kept the team in it when Garrity and McKinney were held in check. Great effort.
BTW how does UM not double team McKinney AND Garrity on that final possession?
You mean aside from the fact that would leave one person to guard 3 other people?
Also, Garrity had a lousy game going until that shot.
Garrity and McKinney are both clutch. Anyone who knows anything about the current Hornet team knows that is where the ball is going. Regardless of how they were playing up to that point in the game I would want one of those 2 taking the final shot 10 times out of 10 in that type of situation. The outcome of this game just proves that point.
My double teaming McKinney and Garrity comment was TIC but let’s play this out: Tiffin was on the floor so no point in guarding him (although the guy that left Garrity open rotated to cover him so ), that leaves either Hornsby or Demps to be covered; both of whom were playing great. Most likely either of those 2 would have not shot a 3 so at worst it’s a tie game assuming they make the bucket. I understand this is a ridiculous scenario but given the outcome can you honestly say you wouldn’t like to see how this would have played out?
Mvemjsunpx wrote:
You mean aside from the fact that would leave one person to guard 3 other people?
Also, Garrity had a lousy game going until that shot.
Garrity and McKinney are both clutch. Anyone who knows anything about the current Hornet team knows that is where the ball is going. Regardless of how they were playing up to that point in the game I would want one of those 2 taking the final shot 10 times out of 10 in that type of situation. The outcome of this game just proves that point.
My double teaming McKinney and Garrity comment was TIC but let’s play this out: Tiffin was on the floor so no point in guarding him (although the guy that left Garrity open rotated to cover him so ), that leaves either Hornsby or Demps to be covered; both of whom were playing great. Most likely either of those 2 would have not shot a 3 so at worst it’s a tie game assuming they make the bucket. I understand this is a ridiculous scenario but given the outcome can you honestly say you wouldn’t like to see how this would have played out?
I would've liked to see somebody guard Garrity. That was the problem: the Griz defenders gave a guy an open shot in the final seconds. It wouldn't have mattered if not for the comedy of errors down the stretch, but still…
At least Montana didn't have the biggest late-game choke of the day.
UND 89-85 SUU (OT); A.J. Hess makes a desperation trey to tie it, but SUU never leads in OT
UNC 60-65 NAU; Quinton Upshur scores 31 as the 'Jacks take advantage of NoCo's road woes EWU 75-69 UMT; Despite no Tyler Harvey, the Eags beat the Griz in Missoula for the first time in 11 years ID 80-71 MSU; Bobcats shoot 31% in the second half against a bad defense
Women
UMT 64-65 EWU; EWU nearly blew a 10-pt. lead with 1:00 left, but UM forgot they were down 3 at the end MSU 76-65 ID; Stacey Barr gets 26 points and 15 boards, but her Vandals only shoot 27% NAU 51-49 UNC; Bears fall into 10th. place after a surprising loss
SUU 52-67 UND; The T-Birds are shooting 26% over their last three games
PSU 60-64 SAC; The Hornets have already set a school (DI-era) record for most wins in a season WEB 70-63 ISU; Jeremy Senglin scores 30 points, going 7/8 from the field and 14/15 on free throws UNC 84-80 SUU; T-Birds score 80+ and lose for the second-straight game
UND 63-88 NAU; Kris Yanku gets 26 points and 9 assists
ID 56-70 UMT; Vandals are held 20+ points below their average thanks to 17 TOs and just 39 FG attempts EWU 61-51 MSU; Drew Brandon gets 15 pts., 12 boards, and 6 steals to help EWU out of a bad offensive game
Women
MSU 58-72 EWU; Eagles go 7/9 from the arc in the second half SAC 92-60 PSU; Hornets break a Big Sky record with 30 steals and win points-off-turnovers 47-2 UMT 87-74 ID; Idaho shoots 25% in the second half after shooting 60% in the first
ISU 57-63 WEB; Weber wins 10 games for the first time in 6 years
SUU 58-87 UNC; Bears get 29 assists and dominate the reeling Thunderbirds
NAU 62-78 UND; Loyd, Evers, & Dyer combine to go 26/34 for 60 points
It was a tale of two halves in the PSU-Sac game. The Hornets had a solid 1st half and lead by 9 at the break. Then PSU came out firing on all cylinders and evened things out. It was a back and forth game until the Hornets edged them out in the final minutes. Some bad FT shooting by the Hornets almost let PSU steal the game. Resilient performance by the Hornets.
SDHornet wrote:It was a tale of two halves in the PSU-Sac game. The Hornets had a solid 1st half and lead by 9 at the break. Then PSU came out firing on all cylinders and evened things out. It was a back and forth game until the Hornets edged them out in the final minutes. Some bad FT shooting by the Hornets almost let PSU steal the game. Resilient performance by the Hornets.
SDHornet wrote:It was a tale of two halves in the PSU-Sac game. The Hornets had a solid 1st half and lead by 9 at the break. Then PSU came out firing on all cylinders and evened things out. It was a back and forth game until the Hornets edged them out in the final minutes. Some bad FT shooting by the Hornets almost let PSU steal the game. Resilient performance by the Hornets.
Showdown this Thursday...
Indeed. I'm on the road for work this week, I hope I can find some time to watch it.
