CHAMP WEEK

[loca2874]

Day 1 of Conference Tournaments

Atlantic Sun – Feb 27-28, March 2, 5

Tournament starts today. First round is today with the quarterfinals tomorrow. One bid league.

ASUN – First Round – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
FGCU	172	at	Queens (NC)	207	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Bellarmine	262	at	North Florida	228	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Tuesday, February 28 will start the following Tournaments

Sun Belt – First Round
Horizon – First Round
Patriot League – First Round

These Tournaments will have another game

ASUN - Quaterfinals

Check back each day for new updates

Automatic Qualifiers

Looking for an at Large Bid – These are the top NET teams and if the AQ from 1 Bids were the top NET.

Houston	Kansas St.	Michigan St.	Missouri
Alabama	Indiana	Miami (FL)	Oregon
Tennessee	Fla. Atlantic	Rutgers	North Texas
UCLA	Kentucky	Auburn	Pittsburgh
Purdue	TCU	Northwestern	Col. of Charleston
Kansas	Iowa St.	Memphis	Texas Tech
Saint Mary's (CA)	Maryland	Providence	Michigan
UConn	Xavier	Mississippi St.	Penn St.
Gonzaga	Duke	Liberty	UAB
Texas	Texas A&M	NC State	Clemson
Arizona	West Virginia	Iowa	Arizona St.
Baylor	Virginia	Oral Roberts	Sam Houston
Marquette	Boise St.	Southern California	Bradley
Arkansas	Nevada	Oklahoma St.	Drake
San Diego St.	Illinois	North Carolina	Yale
Creighton	Utah St.	New Mexico	Florida

 

[TUcandoit]

I dont see us in the at-large section..hmmm. It was that one loss to that one team, huh?

 

[rusty-c]

Regardless of it meaning anything for our beloved Hurricane, the data is always interesting. Thanks for keeping your skills up until Konkol gets this thing turned around.

 

[loca2874]

Queens beat FGCU and will face Kennesaw St. tomorrow
Bellarmine beat North Florida and will face Liberty tomorrow

 

[I.I.]

What will be interesting is which # 1 NCAA seed will play the 8-9 winner with UNC being the #9 seed this year but still one of the favorites to win it all. UNC did something similar in TU's elite 8 run.

 

[loca2874]

Day 2 of Conference Tournaments

Atlantic Sun – Feb 27-28, March 2, 5

All Games Campus sites.

ASUN – Quarter Finals – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Bellarmine	260	at	Liberty	40	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
North Ala.	229	at	Eastern Ky.	177	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Queens (NC)	205	at	Kennesaw St.	119	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lipscomb	158	at	Stetson	150	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Sun Belt – Feb 28, March 2, 4-6

Tournament starts today. First round is today. Second Round on March 2.

Sun Belt – First Round – Pensacola, Fl

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Arkansas St.	295	at	Coastal Carolina	287	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Georgia St.	290	at	Texas St.	215	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+

Horizon – Feb 28, March 2, 6-7

Tournament starts today. First round is today and Quarterfinals are March 2. First two rounds are campus site and the final 4 is in Indianapolis.

Horizon Conference – First Round – Campus Site

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
IUPUI	360	at	Robert Morris	242	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Green Bay	361	at	Wright St.	182	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Purdue Fort Wayne	230	at	Detroit Mercy	212	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Patriot League – Feb 28, March 2, 5, 8

Tournament starts today. First round is today with the quarterfinals March 2. All games are Campus sites.

Patriot League – First Round – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Bucknell	292	at	American	267	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Holy Cross	338	at	Loyola Maryland	319	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Wednesday, March 1 will start the following Tournaments

Ohio Valley – First Round
Big South – First Round
Northeast Conference – Quarter Finals

These Tournaments will have another game

None

Check back each day for new updates

Automatic Qualifiers

Looking for an at Large Bid – These are the top NET teams and if the AQ from 1 Bids were the top NET.

Houston	Kansas St.	Michigan St.	Missouri
Alabama	Indiana	Miami (FL)	Oregon
Tennessee	Fla. Atlantic	Rutgers	North Texas
UCLA	Kentucky	Auburn	Pittsburgh
Purdue	TCU	Northwestern	Col. of Charleston
Kansas	Iowa St.	Memphis	Texas Tech
Saint Mary's (CA)	Maryland	Providence	Michigan
UConn	Xavier	Mississippi St.	Penn St.
Gonzaga	Duke	Liberty	UAB
Texas	Texas A&M	NC State	Clemson
Arizona	West Virginia	Iowa	Arizona St.
Baylor	Virginia	Oral Roberts	Sam Houston
Marquette	Boise St.	Southern California	Bradley
Arkansas	Nevada	Oklahoma St.	Drake
San Diego St.	Illinois	North Carolina	Yale
Creighton	Utah St.	New Mexico	Florida

 

[loca2874]

Detroit mercy is up 60-46 with over 7 min left to play. Davis already has 30 points

 

[loca2874]

Davis had 3,604 points coming into the game today. He is now at 38 points with 3 min remaining. Since he will play at least one more game he is assuredly going to break the record

 

[loca2874]

Mercy won 81-68. Davis is now at 3,642 points. If he scored 28 or more in the next game he will break the record

 

['Cane-man]

I'm looking forward to the Missouri Valley Tournament. Still love me some "Valley." Must be the Casey's pizza.

 

[loca2874]

Day 3 of Conference Tournaments

Ohio Valley – March 1 - 4

Tournament starts today. First round is today with the quarterfinals tomorrow.

Ohio Valley – First Round – Evansville, IN

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Lindenwood	336	at	Southeast Mo. St.	265	6:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Southern Ind.	250	at	SIUE	222	9:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Big South – March 1, 3-5

Tournament starts today. First round is today with the quarterfinals on Friday.

Big South – First Round – Charlotte, NC

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Charleston So.	305	at	High point	290	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Presbyterian	353	at	Campbell	247	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Northesast – March 1, 4, 7

Tournament starts today. Starts with the Quarterfinals.

Northeast – Quarterfinals – Campus sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
LIU	363	at	Merrimack	309	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
St. Francis Brooklyn	354	at	Fairleigh Dickinson	307	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Central Conn. St.	339	at	Saint Francis (PA)	337	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Wagner	303	at	Sacred Heart	331	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Thursday, March 2 will start the following Tournaments

Missouri Valley – First Round
West Coast – First Round

These Tournaments will have another game

Ohio Valley – Quarterfinals
Atlantic Sun – SemiFinals
Sun Belt – Second Round
Horizon – Quarterfinals
Patriot League - Quarterfinals

Check back each day for new updates

Automatic Qualifiers

Looking for an at Large Bid – These are the top NET teams and if the AQ from 1 Bids were the top NET.

Houston	Kansas St.	Michigan St.	Missouri
Alabama	Indiana	Miami (FL)	Oregon
Tennessee	Fla. Atlantic	Rutgers	North Texas
UCLA	Kentucky	Auburn	Pittsburgh
Purdue	TCU	Northwestern	Col. of Charleston
Kansas	Iowa St.	Memphis	Texas Tech
Saint Mary's (CA)	Maryland	Providence	Michigan
UConn	Xavier	Mississippi St.	Penn St.
Gonzaga	Duke	Liberty	UAB
Texas	Texas A&M	NC State	Clemson
Arizona	West Virginia	Iowa	Arizona St.
Baylor	Virginia	Oral Roberts	Sam Houston
Marquette	Boise St.	Southern California	Bradley
Arkansas	Nevada	Oklahoma St.	Drake
San Diego St.	Illinois	North Carolina	Yale
Creighton	Utah St.	New Mexico	Florida

 

[TU_BLA]

Mercy won 81-68. Davis is now at 3,642 points. If he scored 28 or more in the next game he will break the record

Let's make sure this record has an *** by his name. It's a great accomplishment for sure and he is a tremendous scorer, but he played 5 seasons to Maravich's 3 (FR weren't eligible to play.) Davis has played in 143 games to date, Maravich played in 83. Want to do an apples to apples comparison, look at the career avg. points per game. Maravich is at 44, Davis is a tick about 25. 25 ppg over 5 years and 143 games is nothing to sneeze at but I don't think anyone is really going to question who the best scorer in collegiate history is. That's why I like Brennan Marion's current NCAA record for avg. yards per catch in a season. It's not like he had 2 catches, 1 for 60 and 1 for 2. He had 39 catches that year. His career YPC is pretty impressive too at 28.7

 

[loca2874]

Let's make sure this record has an *** by his name. It's a great accomplishment for sure and he is a tremendous scorer, but he played 5 seasons to Maravich's 3 (FR weren't eligible to play.) Davis has played in 143 games to date, Maravich played in 83. Want to do an apples to apples comparison, look at the career avg. points per game. Maravich is at 44, Davis is a tick about 25. 25 ppg over 5 years and 143 games is nothing to sneeze at but I don't think anyone is really going to question who the best scorer in collegiate history is. That's why I like Brennan Marion's current NCAA record for avg. yards per catch in a season. It's not like he had 2 catches, 1 for 60 and 1 for 2. He had 39 catches that year. His career YPC is pretty impressive too at 28.7

If there is an Asterisk by anyone's name, it would be Maravich stating what he accomplished in 3 years. Unless he goes out with a leg injury, he will break the record and it will be talked about and scrutinized just like we have been doing on here. also I was wrong. he will break it at his 26th point.

 

[TU_BLA]

If there is an Asterisk by anyone's name, it would be Maravich stating what he accomplished in 3 years. Unless he goes out with a leg injury, he will break the record and it will be talked about and scrutinized just like we have been doing on here. also I was wrong. he will break it at his 26th point.

At the end of the day it doesn't really matter. Is there a stat correction for the points Maravich would have scored if there had been a 3 pt line when he played? That'd be interesting to see where he would have ended up.

 

[loca2874]

At the end of the day it doesn't really matter. Is there a stat correction for the points Maravich would have scored if there had been a 3 pt line when he played? That'd be interesting to see where he would have ended up.

It would have been interesting. Even when they first introduced it a lot of players were not using it like they do today. It it would be interesting

 

[loca2874]

Day 4 of Conference Tournaments

Ohio Valley – March 1 - 4

Ohio Valley – Quarterfinals – Evansville, IN

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Southeast Mo. St.	260	at	Tennessee St.	274	6:30 p.m.	ESPN+
SIUE	216	at	UT Martin	247	9:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Missouri Valley – March 2-5

Missouri Valley – First Round – Saint Louis, MO

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Illinois St.	270	at	UNI	220	12:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Evansville	348	at	Indiana St.	95	2:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Valparaiso	283	at	Murray St.	218	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
UIC	285	at	Missouri St.	144	8:30 p.m.	ESPN+

Atlantic Sun– Feb 27-28, March 2, 5

Atlantic Sun – Semifinals – Campus sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Lipscomb	148	at	Kennesaw St.	120	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Eastern Ky.	166	at	Liberty	39	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Sun Belt – Feb. 28, March 2, 4-6

Sun Belt – Second Round – Pensacola, FL

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Appalacian St.	###	at	South Alabama	126	11:30 a.m.	ESPN+
Arkansas St.	287	at	Troy	135	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Texas St.	214	at	Old Dominion	143	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
ULM	292	at	GA. Southern	204	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+

Horizon – Feb. 28, March 2, 6-7

Horizon – Quarterfinals – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Oakland	272	at	Northern Ky.	174	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Detroit Mercy	211	at	Youngstown St.	112	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Wright St.	186	at	Milwaukee	212	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Robert Morris	250	at	Cleveland St.	176	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

West Coast – March 2-4, 6-7

West Coast – Second Round – Las Vegas

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
San Diego	223	at	Portland	168	8:00 p.m.	WCC NET
Pepperdine	198	at	Pacific	205	10:30 p.m.	WCC NET

Patriot – Feb. 28, March 2, 5, 8

Patriot – Quarterfinals – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Boston U.	264	at	Army West Point	249	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Loyola Maryland	318	at	Colgate	99	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
American	267	at	Navy	167	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lafayette	282	at	Lehigh	268	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Friday, March 3 will start the following Tournaments

Southern – First Round
Colonial Athletic – First Round
Summit – First Round

These Tournaments will have another game

Ohio Valley – Semifinals
Big South - Quarterfinals
Missouri Valley – Quarterfinals
West Coast – Second Round

Check back each day for new updates

Automatic Qualifiers

Looking for an at Large Bid – These are the top NET teams and if the AQ from 1 Bids were the top NET.

Houston	Kansas St.	Iowa	Missouri
Alabama	Fla. Atlantic	Miami (FL)	Texas Tech
Tennessee	Kentucky	Nevada	North Texas
UCLA	Maryland	Illinois	Oregon
Purdue	TCU	Auburn	Pittsburgh
Kansas	Duke	Providence	Col. of Charleston
Saint Mary's (CA)	West Virginia	Memphis	Michigan
UConn	Texas A&M	Liberty	Bradley
Gonzaga	Xavier	Northwestern	UAB
Texas	Boise St.	NC State	Iona
Baylor	Iowa St.	Oral Roberts	Florida
Arizona	Indiana	Mississippi St.	Penn St.
Marquette	Virginia	North Carolina	Arizona St.
Arkansas	Utah St.	Southern California	Clemson
Creighton	Michigan St.	Oklahoma St.	Sam Houston
San Diego St.	Rutgers	New Mexico	Ohio St.

 

[loca2874]

I will be posting the rules for the Annual Bracket challenge on Saturday. There will be an actual PRIZE fo the winner this year out of those who qualify! You will understand once you see the rules.

 

[TU_BLA]

Day 4 of Conference Tournaments

Ohio Valley – March 1 - 4

Ohio Valley – Quarterfinals – Evansville, IN

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Southeast Mo. St.	260	at	Tennessee St.	274	6:30 p.m.	ESPN+
SIUE	216	at	UT Martin	247	9:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Missouri Valley – March 2-5

Missouri Valley – First Round – Saint Louis, MO

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Illinois St.	270	at	UNI	220	12:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Evansville	348	at	Indiana St.	95	2:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Valparaiso	283	at	Murray St.	218	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
UIC	285	at	Missouri St.	144	8:30 p.m.	ESPN+

Atlantic Sun– Feb 27-28, March 2, 5

Atlantic Sun – Semifinals – Campus sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Lipscomb	148	at	Kennesaw St.	120	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Eastern Ky.	166	at	Liberty	39	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Sun Belt – Feb. 28, March 2, 4-6

Sun Belt – Second Round – Pensacola, FL

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Appalacian St.	###	at	South Alabama	126	11:30 a.m.	ESPN+
Arkansas St.	287	at	Troy	135	2:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Texas St.	214	at	Old Dominion	143	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
ULM	292	at	GA. Southern	204	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+

Horizon – Feb. 28, March 2, 6-7

Horizon – Quarterfinals – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Oakland	272	at	Northern Ky.	174	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Detroit Mercy	211	at	Youngstown St.	112	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Wright St.	186	at	Milwaukee	212	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Robert Morris	250	at	Cleveland St.	176	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

West Coast – March 2-4, 6-7

West Coast – Second Round – Las Vegas

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
San Diego	223	at	Portland	168	8:00 p.m.	WCC NET
Pepperdine	198	at	Pacific	205	10:30 p.m.	WCC NET

Patriot – Feb. 28, March 2, 5, 8

Patriot – Quarterfinals – Campus Sites

Team	Rating		Team	Rating	Time	TV
Boston U.	264	at	Army West Point	249	5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Loyola Maryland	318	at	Colgate	99	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
American	267	at	Navy	167	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lafayette	282	at	Lehigh	268	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

Friday, March 3 will start the following Tournaments

Southern – First Round
Colonial Athletic – First Round
Summit – First Round

These Tournaments will have another game

Ohio Valley – Semifinals
Big South - Quarterfinals
Missouri Valley – Quarterfinals
West Coast – Second Round

Check back each day for new updates

Automatic Qualifiers

Looking for an at Large Bid – These are the top NET teams and if the AQ from 1 Bids were the top NET.

Houston	Kansas St.	Iowa	Missouri
Alabama	Fla. Atlantic	Miami (FL)	Texas Tech
Tennessee	Kentucky	Nevada	North Texas
UCLA	Maryland	Illinois	Oregon
Purdue	TCU	Auburn	Pittsburgh
Kansas	Duke	Providence	Col. of Charleston
Saint Mary's (CA)	West Virginia	Memphis	Michigan
UConn	Texas A&M	Liberty	Bradley
Gonzaga	Xavier	Northwestern	UAB
Texas	Boise St.	NC State	Iona
Baylor	Iowa St.	Oral Roberts	Florida
Arizona	Indiana	Mississippi St.	Penn St.
Marquette	Virginia	North Carolina	Arizona St.
Arkansas	Utah St.	Southern California	Clemson
Creighton	Michigan St.	Oklahoma St.	Sam Houston
San Diego St.	Rutgers	New Mexico	Ohio St.

Looks like I'll be firing up my ESPN+ at work. Always loved this week.
BTW, the MVC Tournament holds a special place in my heart. Back in 1996 I won a contest and got to participate in a shooting competition at the convention center at halftime of a TU game...against 3 others. Winner won a trip to the MVC tournament and a chance to shoot for a million dollars. It was sponsored by Subway and Pepsi. The winner from Tulsa would shoot against the winners of the other 8 MVC schools. So the contest at TU consisted of shooting FTs for 30 seconds followed by 3-pointers for 30 seconds. I hit something like 8 FTs and 5 3 pts and won the Tulsa competition. So in previous years to win the million dollars you had to hit a half court shot during halftime of one of the MVC semi's. So I practiced a lot of half court shots to the point where I could hit 4 of 10 pretty consistently. 3 days before the trip, a contest coordinator calls and tells me what the contest will look like. Each of the 9 contestants would have a shot at a 3 pointer...anyone who hit the 3 pointer would then qualify to take the million dollar shot which was from....THE OPPOSITE FOUL LINE. So I spent probably 20 hours in Mabee Gym the next couple of days practicing my baseball throw from the opposite foul line (at this point I had practiced so much 3 point shooting I was hitting something like 65% from the top of the key). Evening before I leave I hit 2 of 3 from the opposite foul line and just said I'm done practicing because it's pretty much never getting better than that.

I shot during halftime of the Bradley-Missouri State (then SMSU) semi final....shook Charley Steiner's hands on the way out (Bradley alum). I was the only person of 9 to hit the 3 pt shot in order to take the 3/4 court shot. 3/4 court shot wasn't even close...think I blacked out in there. Shooting for an actual million dollars in front of about 12k fans is way different than heaving shots towards a basket in an empty Mabee Gym. I got a free trip and tickets to the tournament and a free stay in StL...but all I got for actually hitting the 3 pt shot in the contest was a Pepsi t-shirt 😂 So that's the reason I still tune in to a lot of the MVC games when I can.

 

[TU 1978]

Meanwhile at Louisville…

Frisbee Catching Dog Takes A Dump On The Court During Louisville Basketball Halftime Show

A RIFF on what country is really about.

www.whiskeyriff.com

We’re lucky that Goldie can’t be trained to do anything damaging.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Meanwhile at Louisville…

Frisbee Catching Dog Takes A Dump On The Court During Louisville Basketball Halftime Show

A RIFF on what country is really about.

www.whiskeyriff.com

We’re lucky that Goldie can’t be trained to do anything damaging.

That is classic. Just glad it didn't happen to us earlier in the season, with our dog handler. I wonder if they made him clean up the mess? Your dog, your mess.

 

[TU_BLA]

Meanwhile at Louisville…

Frisbee Catching Dog Takes A Dump On The Court During Louisville Basketball Halftime Show

A RIFF on what country is really about.

www.whiskeyriff.com

We’re lucky that Goldie can’t be trained to do anything damaging.

This happened at TU once

 

[Gmoney4WW]

This happened at TU once

I remember that. Like I said, glad it didn't happen to us, this year. The poeticness of it happening to Louisville when they are extremely bad is not something that would have looked good on us. (or Louisville for that matter)

 

[Bill Lowery]

Amazing record and coach.

 

[loca2874]

Halftime mercy is up on Youngstown 33-29 at halftime. Davis has 7 points. 18 short of the tie

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Halftime mercy is up on Youngstown 33-29 at halftime. Davis has 7 points. 18 short of the tie

Yeah! 😜 Now they just need to pull ahead of Mercy.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

11 Points away with 12 min to go. Mercy down by 2.

 

[loca2874]

Tied at 49 with just over 11 min left in the game. Davis is at 17

 

[loca2874]

11 Points away with 12 min to go. Mercy down by 2.

You are ahead of me. Also he needs 25 points to tie and 26 to take the lead. So he is 8 away from it

 

[I.I.]

Looks like I'll be firing up my ESPN+ at work. Always loved this week.
BTW, the MVC Tournament holds a special place in my heart. Back in 1996 I won a contest and got to participate in a shooting competition at the convention center at halftime of a TU game...against 3 others. Winner won a trip to the MVC tournament and a chance to shoot for a million dollars. It was sponsored by Subway and Pepsi. The winner from Tulsa would shoot against the winners of the other 8 MVC schools. So the contest at TU consisted of shooting FTs for 30 seconds followed by 3-pointers for 30 seconds. I hit something like 8 FTs and 5 3 pts and won the Tulsa competition. So in previous years to win the million dollars you had to hit a half court shot during halftime of one of the MVC semi's. So I practiced a lot of half court shots to the point where I could hit 4 of 10 pretty consistently. 3 days before the trip, a contest coordinator calls and tells me what the contest will look like. Each of the 9 contestants would have a shot at a 3 pointer...anyone who hit the 3 pointer would then qualify to take the million dollar shot which was from....THE OPPOSITE FOUL LINE. So I spent probably 20 hours in Mabee Gym the next couple of days practicing my baseball throw from the opposite foul line (at this point I had practiced so much 3 point shooting I was hitting something like 65% from the top of the key). Evening before I leave I hit 2 of 3 from the opposite foul line and just said I'm done practicing because it's pretty much never getting better than that.

I shot during halftime of the Bradley-Missouri State (then SMSU) semi final....shook Charley Steiner's hands on the way out (Bradley alum). I was the only person of 9 to hit the 3 pt shot in order to take the 3/4 court shot. 3/4 court shot wasn't even close...think I blacked out in there. Shooting for an actual million dollars in front of about 12k fans is way different than heaving shots towards a basket in an empty Mabee Gym. I got a free trip and tickets to the tournament and a free stay in StL...but all I got for actually hitting the 3 pt shot in the contest was a Pepsi t-shirt 😂 So that's the reason I still tune in to a lot of the MVC games when I can.

I shot free throws at half time against another competitor at the TU Bradley MVC Championship game. I shot like Anthony Price with a Deer in the Headlights shot and got beat. It was for SW Air tickets to anywhere.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

You are ahead of me. Also he needs 25 points to tie and 26 to take the lead. So he is 8 away from it

He scored a basket since I made that statement. He is 9 away.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

6 away with a little less than 4 to go.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

davis just committed a fourth offensive foul.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

2.5 to go 6 away with 4 fouls, and tie game youngstown ball

 

[loca2874]

Mercy down 4 with 30 seconds left

 

[Gmoney4WW]

:30 s to go, youngstown up by 4 mercy ball still 6 away with 4 fouls

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Looks like I'll be firing up my ESPN+ at work. Always loved this week.
BTW, the MVC Tournament holds a special place in my heart. Back in 1996 I won a contest and got to participate in a shooting competition at the convention center at halftime of a TU game...against 3 others. Winner won a trip to the MVC tournament and a chance to shoot for a million dollars. It was sponsored by Subway and Pepsi. The winner from Tulsa would shoot against the winners of the other 8 MVC schools. So the contest at TU consisted of shooting FTs for 30 seconds followed by 3-pointers for 30 seconds. I hit something like 8 FTs and 5 3 pts and won the Tulsa competition. So in previous years to win the million dollars you had to hit a half court shot during halftime of one of the MVC semi's. So I practiced a lot of half court shots to the point where I could hit 4 of 10 pretty consistently. 3 days before the trip, a contest coordinator calls and tells me what the contest will look like. Each of the 9 contestants would have a shot at a 3 pointer...anyone who hit the 3 pointer would then qualify to take the million dollar shot which was from....THE OPPOSITE FOUL LINE. So I spent probably 20 hours in Mabee Gym the next couple of days practicing my baseball throw from the opposite foul line (at this point I had practiced so much 3 point shooting I was hitting something like 65% from the top of the key). Evening before I leave I hit 2 of 3 from the opposite foul line and just said I'm done practicing because it's pretty much never getting better than that.

I shot during halftime of the Bradley-Missouri State (then SMSU) semi final....shook Charley Steiner's hands on the way out (Bradley alum). I was the only person of 9 to hit the 3 pt shot in order to take the 3/4 court shot. 3/4 court shot wasn't even close...think I blacked out in there. Shooting for an actual million dollars in front of about 12k fans is way different than heaving shots towards a basket in an empty Mabee Gym. I got a free trip and tickets to the tournament and a free stay in StL...but all I got for actually hitting the 3 pt shot in the contest was a Pepsi t-shirt 😂 So that's the reason I still tune in to a lot of the MVC games when I can.

When I was in school, I got my ticket drawn 3 times for the $100 scholarship shootout. (the ticket taker was a family friend).

I hit it all 3 times, and even went 2 for 2 one night to win a hundred for the other shooter.

A Pepsi shirt would have been nice though.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

4 away with 11s to go

 

[loca2874]

4 points away! This is so close

 

[I.I.]

YSU wins.

 

[loca2874]

HE FALLS SHORT BY 4 POINTS!!!!