Big Sky Conference Basketball Thread (Men & Women)

[AZGrizFan]

Grizzly men pull off the upset 72-65 over Portland State.

Woo HOOO!!!!! That is a SHOCK!!! I figured there was a mile wide gulf between PSU/WSU and the next level of the BSC. Glad to see the Griz step it up!

[Wildcat Ryan]

Thanks for the help Griz

Wildcats take care of Business and beat ISU 76-67

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  UNC 66-59 SAC; Bear F Jabril Banks gets 17 points and 8 boards
  WEB 76-67 ISU (OT); Matt Stucki scores a career-high 29, but the Bengals still blow a 13 point lead
  PSU 65-72 UMT; Kyle Sharp gets a double-double (15 points & 10 boards) for the Griz
  EWU 65-69 MSU; Bobcats get 18 assists and 4 players in double figures despite shooting 39%
  
  
  
  Women
  
  MSU 75-90 EWU; Eagles hit 13 threes and outrebound MSU by a whopping 20
  UMT 62-72 PSU; Mandy Morales scores 34, but no other Lady Griz can net more than 6
  SAC 71-53 UNC; The Hornets win the second half 48-27

[grizzaholic]

• Men
  
  UNC 66-59 SAC; Bear F Jabril Banks gets 17 points and 8 boards
  WEB 76-67 ISU (OT); Matt Stucki scores a career-high 29, but the Bengals still blow a 13 point lead
  PSU 65-72 UMT; Kyle Sharp gets a double-double (15 points & 10 boards) for the Griz
  EWU 65-69 MSU; Bobcats get 18 assists and 4 players in double figures despite shooting 39%
  
  
  
  Women
  
  MSU 75-90 EWU; Eagles hit 13 threes and outrebound MSU by a whopping 20
  UMT 62-72 PSU; Mandy Morales scores 34, but no other Lady Griz can net more than 6
  SAC 71-53 UNC; The Hornets win the second half 48-27

Were the three's just not falling like they have been the past few games or was the D from PSU just that good?

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  UNC 66-59 SAC; Bear F Jabril Banks gets 17 points and 8 boards
  WEB 76-67 ISU (OT); Matt Stucki scores a career-high 29, but the Bengals still blow a 13 point lead
  PSU 65-72 UMT; Kyle Sharp gets a double-double (15 points & 10 boards) for the Griz
  EWU 65-69 MSU; Bobcats get 18 assists and 4 players in double figures despite shooting 39%
  
  
  
  Women
  
  MSU 75-90 EWU; Eagles hit 13 threes and outrebound MSU by a whopping 20
  UMT 62-72 PSU; Mandy Morales scores 34, but no other Lady Griz can net more than 6
  SAC 71-53 UNC; The Hornets win the second half 48-27

Were the three's just not falling like they have been the past few games or was the D from PSU just that good?

It was more the former than the latter. UM shot 1-14 from the arc (Beck with the only make) and 0-9 in the second half. Morales was 15-27 from the field, but 0-6 from the arc. I only watched the second half, but the threes were all pretty open and yet still weren't really close to going in. Hadj-Hamou hit a series of 3-point daggers in the second half to prevent the Lady Griz from completing the comeback.

PSU did a good job denying the good post passes to Ena & the rest, but they didn't seem to do a good job at all on Morales in the post. The PSU team is claiming the strategy was to let Morales score & deny the rest, but that isn't really what I saw. Morales made a bunch of tough shots in the second half while the others missed a lot of open shots. I don't know why you would want to let Morales shoot anyway, since you know she can make the shots while players like Beck, Lohman, & the bench are less consistent shooters. If that actually was the strategy, they executed it poorly and were fortunate the others couldn't hit when open.

Turnovers killed Montana in the first half, & missed threes killed them in the second.

[Wildcat Ryan]

• Men
  
  UNC 66-59 SAC; Bear F Jabril Banks gets 17 points and 8 boards
  WEB 76-67 ISU (OT)[/i]; Matt Stucki scores a career-high 29, but the Bengals still blow a 13 point lead
  PSU 65-72 UMT; Kyle Sharp gets a double-double (15 points & 10 boards) for the Griz
  EWU 65-69 MSU; Bobcats get 18 assists and 4 players in double figures despite shooting 39%
  
  
  
  Women
  
  MSU 75-90 EWU; Eagles hit 13 threes and outrebound MSU by a whopping 20
  UMT 62-72 PSU; Mandy Morales scores 34, but no other Lady Griz can net more than 6
  SAC 71-53 UNC; The Hornets win the second half 48-27

Ah, all alone in first place.

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  ISU 61-75 WEB; Daviin Davis scores 19 points off the bench to lead the Wildcats
  UNC 64-67 NAU; The Lumberjacks shoot 55% and only commit 7 fouls
  EWU 52-60 UMT; Griz G Anthony Johnson scores 20 points & gets 6 assists to 0 turnovers
  
  
  
  Women
  
  UMT 81-56 EWU; Mandy Morales gets game-highs in points (28), rebounds (6), & assists (8)
  MSU 94-90 PSU (OT); Bobcat PG Erica Perry scores a career-high 27 points
  WEB 78-77 ISU (OT); 2 double-doubles for Weber (Caitlin Anderson & Tonya Schnibbe)
  NAU 53-59 UNC; Bears force 30 turnovers, including 9 steals from G Courtney Stoermer

Portland State @ Montana State (men) tomorrow @ 2:00 PM MST on Altitude.
Should be a more interesting SB pre-game show than the actual one.

[AZGrizFan]

• Men
  
  UNC 66-59 SAC; Bear F Jabril Banks gets 17 points and 8 boards
  WEB 76-67 ISU (OT)[/i]; Matt Stucki scores a career-high 29, but the Bengals still blow a 13 point lead
  PSU 65-72 UMT; Kyle Sharp gets a double-double (15 points & 10 boards) for the Griz
  EWU 65-69 MSU; Bobcats get 18 assists and 4 players in double figures despite shooting 39%
  
  
  
  Women
  
  MSU 75-90 EWU; Eagles hit 13 threes and outrebound MSU by a whopping 20
  UMT 62-72 PSU; Mandy Morales scores 34, but no other Lady Griz can net more than 6
  SAC 71-53 UNC; The Hornets win the second half 48-27

Ah, all alone in first place.

You're welcome. Fcuker.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Portland State can't avoid getting swept in Montana as they lose to the Bobcats, 85-82. Will Bynum led with 24 points and 7 steals for Montana State. Jeremiah Dominguez surprisingly didn't start for PSU.

• • Men
    
    1. Weber State___________8-1_____14-8_____ W5
    2. Montana ______________7-3_____13-9_____ W4
    3. Portland State_________6-3_____15-7_____ L2
    4. Montana State ________5-4_____11-9_____ W2
    5. Northern Colorado____5-5______9-14____ L1
    6. Idaho State ___________4-5______7-16____ L3
    7. Northern Arizona _____3-6______6-14____ W1
    8. Eastern Washington___3-7______9-13____ L6
    9. Sacramento State _____1-8______2-20 ___ L1

• • Women
    
    1. Portland State_________7-1_____14-7_____ L1
    2. Montana ______________7-1_____18-4_____ W1
    3. Northern Colorado____4-4_____10-11____ W1
    4. Eastern Washington___4-4______9-12____ L1
    5. Northern Arizona _____3-5______6-15____ L2
    6. Montana State ________3-5______9-11____ W1
    7. Idaho State ___________3-5______6-15____ L2
    8. Sacramento State _____3-5______5-16 ___ W1
    9. Weber State___________2-6______7-14____ W2/W1

[Mvemjsunpx]

Mandy Morales picked up her 13th. Big Sky Player of the Week Award, a new career record.


http://www.bigskyconf.com/News/wbball/2 ... ath=wbball

http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/pages/n ... =7829&m=23

[Wildcat Ryan]

Cats still perfect on the ROAD at 6-0 move to 9-1 in Big Sky, now I have just one question.....


WHY THE #$%^% DID WE LOSE AT HOME TO MONTANA STATE????????

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  SAC 46-67 EWU; The Hornets trailed 41-9 at the half
  NAU 66-78 PSU; Jeremiah Dominguez pulls in a double-double with 15 points and 11 assists
  WEB 82-76 UNC; Wildcat G Kellen McCoy gets 25 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 3 steals
  
  
  
  Women
  
  EWU 67-74 SAC; Hornets outrebound the best rebounding team in the Big Sky by 12
  PSU 69-57 NAU; Lauren Hoisington grabs 14 points and 15 boards off the bench for NAU
  UNC 55-66 WEB; Wildcats close the game on a 17-0 run

[AZGrizFan]

• Men
  
  SAC 46-67 EWU; The Hornets trailed 41-9 at the half
  NAU 66-78 PSU; Jeremiah Dominguez pulls in a double-double with 15 points and 11 assists
  WEB 82-76 UNC; Wildcat G Kellen McCoy gets 25 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 3 steals
  
  
  
  Women
  
  EWU 67-74 SAC; Hornets outrebound the best rebounding team in the Big Sky by 12
  PSU 69-57 NAU; Lauren Hoisington grabs 14 points and 15 boards off the bench for NAU
  UNC 55-66 WEB; Wildcats close the game on a 17-0 run

Is that Web/UNC score indicative of how close the game really was?

[Wildcat Ryan]

• Men
  
  SAC 46-67 EWU; The Hornets trailed 41-9 at the half
  NAU 66-78 PSU; Jeremiah Dominguez pulls in a double-double with 15 points and 11 assists
  WEB 82-76 UNC; Wildcat G Kellen McCoy gets 25 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 3 steals
  
  
  
  Women
  
  EWU 67-74 SAC; Hornets outrebound the best rebounding team in the Big Sky by 12
  PSU 69-57 NAU; Lauren Hoisington grabs 14 points and 15 boards off the bench for NAU
  UNC 55-66 WEB; Wildcats close the game on a 17-0 run

Is that Web/UNC score indicative of how close the game really was?

The game was close all the way to the last 25 seconds.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Is that Web/UNC score indicative of how close the game really was?

Yeah. I believe UNC actually led for a majority of the game. It wasn't as close as the Ogden meeting, though, which went to OT.

Weber hasn't really blown anyone away this season, but they've been able to win the close to somewhat close games & that's why they're 9-1. The fact that they lead the Big Sky in free throw shooting is probably not a conicidence (the Griz are second in FT % and are in second place, so that furthers the correlation).

[papa bear helena]

• Men
  
  SAC 46-67 EWU; The Hornets trailed 41-9 at the half
  NAU 66-78 PSU; Jeremiah Dominguez pulls in a double-double with 15 points and 11 assists
  WEB 82-76 UNC; Wildcat G Kellen McCoy gets 25 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 3 steals
  
  
  
  Women
  
  EWU 67-74 SAC; Hornets outrebound the best rebounding team in the Big Sky by 12
  PSU 69-57 NAU; Lauren Hoisington grabs 14 points and 15 boards off the bench for NAU
  UNC 55-66 WEB; Wildcats close the game on a 17-0 run

Really? 9 in a half? Against Eastern?

[Mvemjsunpx]

Really? 9 in a half? Against Eastern?

Sad, isn't it? Sac made only 3 shots, got outrebounded by 8, and committed 10 more turnovers. They did outplay EWU in the second half, though.

The last time I can remember a team scoring single digits in a half in a Big Sky game was when the Lady Griz clobbered MSU-Billings several years ago.

[Wildcat Ryan]

This is when the year starts getting really exciting.

[Mvemjsunpx]

• Men
  
  NAU 50-54 EWU; Both teams combine for just 16 free throw attempts
  UMT 78-63 MSU; Griz now 8-1 against the Bobcats since the '05 Big Sky Tournament
  ISU 74-79 UNC; Bengals come back from a 13 point deficit, but can't quite grab the lead
  
  
  
  Women
  PSU 74-65 SAC; The Vikings win the boards by 10
  UNC 58-63 ISU; Bengal F Michelle Grohs gets 10 boards & a game-high 27 points
  EWU 68-70 NAU; 'Jack PG Sade Cunningham gets 9 assists & passes 1000 points for her career (w/ 21)
  UMT 67-60 MSU; Lady Griz F/C Britney Lohman puts together one of the best individual defensive performances I've seen in a while

[AZGrizFan]

• Men
  
  NAU 50-54 EWU; Both teams combine for just 16 free throw attempts
  UMT 78-63 MSU; Griz now 8-1 against the Bobcats since the '05 Big Sky Tournament
  ISU 74-79 UNC; Bengals come back from a 13 point deficit, but can't quite grab the lead
  
  
  
  Women
  PSU 74-65 SAC; The Vikings win the boards by 10
  UNC 58-63 ISU; Bengal F Michelle Grohs gets 10 boards & a game-high 27 points
  EWU 68-70 NAU; 'Jack PG Sade Cunningham gets 9 assists & passes 1000 points for her career (w/ 21)
  UMT 67-60 MSU; Lady Griz F/C Britney Lohman puts together one of the best individual defensive performances I've seen in a while

At the beginning of the season I'd have bet a month's paycheck the Griz would NEVER get to 8-3 in conference.

[Willie]

Neither would I. But I am PLEASANTLY surprised by it.

[Wildcat Ryan]

Grizzlies sure did turn their season around.

[AZGrizFan]

Grizzlies sure did turn their season around.

Well, the last few weeks will tell the real story about their success...

[Willie]

Yeah well we'll see how well they do down the stretch without Selvig.

And 3 out of the next 5 on the road.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Portland State unsurprisingly wins over Sac at home, 59-42. Both teams shot under 35% for the game, but PSU made 10 threes to Sac State's 1.

• • Men
    
    1. Weber State___________9-1_____15-8_____ W6
    2. Montana ______________8-3_____14-9_____ W5
    3. Portland State_________8-3_____17-7_____ W2
    4. Northern Colorado____6-6_____10-15____ W1
    5. Montana State ________5-5_____11-10____ L1
    6. Eastern Washington___5-7_____11-13____ W2
    7. Idaho State ___________4-6______7-17____ L4
    8. Northern Arizona _____3-8______6-16____ L2
    9. Sacramento State _____1-10_____2-22 ___ L3

• • Women
    
    1. Portland State_________9-1_____16-7_____ W2
    2. Montana ______________8-1_____19-4_____ W2
    3. Idaho State ___________4-5______7-15____ W1
    4. Northern Colorado____4-6_____10-13____ L2
    5. Northern Arizona _____4-6______7-16____ W1
    6. Sacramento State _____4-6______6-17 ___ L1
    7. Eastern Washington___4-6______9-14____ L3
    8. Montana State ________3-6______9-12____ L1
    9. Weber State___________3-6______8-14____ W3/W2