Go Wolves! Yellowstone University Basketball (FBCB)

[Young Drachma]

The primary intent of this dynasty is to profile the life and times at Yellowstone University, a fictional institution that I've created in Cody, Wyoming.

As a new school on the block, with deep pockets, Yellowstone is trying to distinguish itself, using the iconic name of the national park to drive the university into the big time in basketball and football.

I'll detail the football part in another dynasty, but this dynasty will focus primarily on the basketball program and it's rise from mid-major to national power.

[Young Drachma]

The Mountain West Conference is aligned in two divisions of eight teams for basketball, making it the only other 16-team power basketball conference in the country.

Here's what it looks like:

EAST
Air Force
Yellowstone
Colorado State
Houston
TCU
Tulsa
Wyoming
New Mexico

WEST
Boise State
BYU
Fresno State
Gonzaga
Nevada
San Diego State
UNLV


After creating my mega basketball conference, there was the matter of figuring out a conference alignment that worked.

After rankling with it for a while, I came up with an alignment that worked me. What I did was, cannibalize parts of Conference USA and the WAC with the Mountain West.

What we ended up with, are two conferences called the Mountain Athletic and the new Western Athletic Conference which are managed by the Mountain West Conference. The WAC agreed to the deal, because it gave the opportunity to keep their football operation alive, for fear the MWC would take their best teams somehow and render them meaningless in football.

So here are the new conferences:

MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC
Boise State
BYU
Air Force
TCU
Utah
Fresno State
New Mexico
Tulsa
Nevada

The new WAC is a 12-team conference with a championship game and two divisions

WAC PRESIDENTS DIVISION
San Diego State
Wyoming
UNLV
Colorado
Hawaii
San Jose State

WAC GOVERNORS DIVISION
Southern Miss
SMU
Yellowstone
Houston
UTEP
Rice

Conference USA is now a ten-team league of castoffs from all over America.

Tulane
LA Tech
Utah State
Memphis
Central Florida
Marshall
New Mexico State
Idaho
UAB
ECU

[Young Drachma]

Here are some Yellowstone University wallpapers to get you warmed up for the dynasty.

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[Young Drachma]

In basketball, I won't even be starting at YU. I'm going to start at a tiny school in South Hill, Virginia called the College of St. Charles.

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The school has an enrollment of about 1,450 students. St. Charles was founded in 1936 by five members of the community, comprised of two former slave owners and three former slaves, who eventually became property owners and two of them, the parents of college graduates. Their idea was a humble one, but ambitious plan to create an institution that prepared students for careers and for life. The Saint Charles School grew and in 1943, was approved by the state to begin awarding bachelors degrees.

The school integrated, with its first white students attending in 1959, as the parents of five northern professors enrolled their students at the institution. There was never an explicit rule that prevented the institution from only accepting blacks, but no local whites would send their students to the school, though many were supportive of its mission, due to the "goodwill" the students brought to the area, as well as the money their families spent in remittances and later, as visitors to their children at the campus.

The 63-acre campus isn't intended to be the most grand or celebrated place, it's simply a good school for people who want to learn and live life right. That's the school's motto. "Opus ferreus quod vado vox via" or loosely translated "work hard and go the right way."

The school supports itself by recruiting heavily around the globe, through several international grants, as the school was a pioneer in the 1960s at recruiting students, via its work program which has become well known the world over. Students pay only for incidental expenses such as textbooks. Tuition, room, and board are covered by scholarships.

The school will begin its newfound life as a Division I school, after completing the probationary period. The school will start its first season as a D1 school as an independent, but hopes to join a conference in due time.

[Young Drachma]

College of St. Charles
Location: South Hill, VA
Founded: 1936
Enrollment: 1,450
Nickname: Beagles
School colors: Carrot orange & Brown
Home Field: Cousins Gymnasium
Capacity: 3,000
Conference: Independent
Mascot: Charlie The Beagle
Rivals: None

[Young Drachma]

Now, I've never done a basketball dynasty that I can remember and so, I'm going to have to figure out how best to organize this thing.

The hardest thing to do as an independent is get games. We're going to be shaking the trees to get anyone we can to check us out and get us a ballgame, if we can. The whole idea behind this thing, is the fact that we're a school that can 'woo' people to come play against us, etc., we're not a bottom of the barrel D-1 school or else, the story wouldn't work.

We're not really partial to schools that are lower of the rung, because while it seems unlikely we can make it to the tournament, we'd like to at least have a winning record this first season and see what we can do from there.

So with that, here's our final schedule for the 2014-15 season.


11/18: Duke
11/21: Seattle
11/24: @ Davidson
11/27: Grinnell
11/30: @ Texas
12/02: @ UALR
12/05: Alcorn State
12/08: Rutgers
12/12: Army
12/15: American
12/18: @ Appalachian State
12/19: Baylor
12/27: @ Boston College
12/30: @ Providence
1/02: @ Boston University
1/05: Northern Colorado
1/08: BYU
1/11: @ Wichita State
1/14: @ Arkansas State
1/17: Syracuse
1/21: Brown
1/25: Chicago State
1/29: @ Ball State
2/1: @ Central Florida
2/6: @ Southern Illinois
2/11: @ Centenary
2/15: Charleston Southern
2/20: @ Houston

[Young Drachma]

Here's what the team looks like for this first season:

College of St. Charles Beagles Roster

# Name Pos Cl Ht Wt Hometown
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42 Edward Blanc C Sr 6' 8" 263 Livingston, LA
4 Marcellus Oreilly C Fr 6' 9" 258 Crockett, TX
35 Robert Diorio C Sr 6' 8" 263 Dumfries, VA
52 Gaylord Everhart PF Fr 6' 9" 260 Waynesboro, VA
32 Benjamin Paine PF Sr 6' 9" 236 Wytheville, VA
21 David Gittens PF So 6' 8" 251 Richmond, VA
13 William Lubin SF Sr 6' 5" 217 Chesapeake, VA
40 Armando Deltoro SF Jr 6' 8" 241 Lexington, NC
0 Nickolas Young SF Jr 6' 5" 198 Mount Pleasant, PA
3 Charles Dacosta SG Fr 6' 6" 191 Batesville, AR
41 Claud Jones SG Jr 6' 3" 209 Amarillo, TX
30 Xavier Delebecque SG Jr 6' 4" 226 St-dizier, France
33 Matthew Eichler PG So 5' 9" 185 Staunton, VA
34 Boyce Bodine PG So 5'10" 203 Martinsville, VA
20 Wiley Osullivan PG So 5'11" 152 Morton, TX


Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Edward Blanc C 6' 8" 263 A B- F- C- F A+ C- A C C+
Marcellus Oreilly C 6' 9" 258 C D- F- C D C- C B+ D C
Robert Diorio C 6' 8" 263 B- C- D F+ C A- D A- C- C
Gaylord Everhart PF 6' 9" 260 C- D F- D C- B D B+ C D
Benjamin Paine PF 6' 9" 236 C+ D F- D C C- C B- C B+
David Gittens PF 6' 8" 251 C C- F+ C C A- C- B C D+
William Lubin SF 6' 5" 217 C B- A- C- C+ B C B+ B C
Armando Deltoro SF 6' 8" 241 B- C C C C C C+ B C C-
Nickolas Young SF 6' 5" 198 B- A- D C- C D B B- C+ C-
Charles Dacosta SG 6' 6" 191 C+ D+ C- C C C A- C- A F-
Claud Jones SG 6' 3" 209 C A A- A- C- D- A- C+ C+ C
Xavier Delebecque SG 6' 4" 226 C+ B+ B+ B+ D F B C C+ C-
Matthew Eichler PG 5' 9" 185 D B B C C+ C A- C- C+ C
Boyce Bodine PG 5'10" 203 D+ C+ C+ A- C- D A- C- C D
Wiley Osullivan PG 5'11" 152 C A- B B+ B- D- A C B- C+



Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Edward Blanc C 6' 8" 263 A+ C- F A+ A+ A+ C- A C C+
Marcellus Oreilly C 6' 9" 258 C+ D D+ C- C- F+ C B+ D C
Robert Diorio C 6' 8" 263 A C C B+ A A+ D A- C- C
Gaylord Everhart PF 6' 9" 260 C F C C- D+ A D B+ C D
Benjamin Paine PF 6' 9" 236 B D+ B C+ C- A+ C B- C B+
David Gittens PF 6' 8" 251 C D- C B+ A- C C- B C D+
William Lubin SF 6' 5" 217 A A- B C D A- C B+ B C
Armando Deltoro SF 6' 8" 241 C D- A- B- C B+ C+ B C C-
Nickolas Young SF 6' 5" 198 B- A- C- A- C+ A B B- C+ C-
Charles Dacosta SG 6' 6" 191 D C D+ D- D- B A- C- A F-
Claud Jones SG 6' 3" 209 C- C C+ C- D+ C A- C+ C+ C
Xavier Delebecque SG 6' 4" 226 D C+ C- D- C C- B C C+ C-
Matthew Eichler PG 5' 9" 185 F+ C C C C- F+ A- C- C+ C
Boyce Bodine PG 5'10" 203 D- B C- D F B- A- C- C D
Wiley Osullivan PG 5'11" 152 C C D+ D+ D F+ A C B- C+



Player Potentials

Name Pos In Jps FT 3ps Hn Pas ORb DRb PsD PrD Stl Blk
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Edward Blanc C A B C F C F A A A D F A
Marcellus Oreilly C B D D F C D C C A D C B
Robert Diorio C B D D D F C B A A C C B
Gaylord Everhart PF C D D F D C A C B F B C
Benjamin Paine PF C D C F D B D D B D B C
David Gittens PF C C D D C C A A B D C A
William Lubin SF C A C B D B B D A A B B
Armando Deltoro SF A C B C C C C C C F A B
Nickolas Young SF B A C D C C D B A A C A
Charles Dacosta SG B C B C B B B D D A C D
Claud Jones SG B A B A A C D D C C B C
Xavier Delebecque SG C A B A A D F C D B C F
Matthew Eichler PG D A C A B A C C F B C B
Boyce Bodine PG C B D A A C D F D B C D
Wiley Osullivan PG B A C A A A F D B C C C

[Young Drachma]

I don't coach my games in text-sims, I find it tedious. Instead, I'm all about the results, so I'll give you all a game-by-game and try to talk highlights and such, but...that's it.

That said, if people give me suggestions about lineup stuff or anything else, I'd be likely to take it. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this game.

Our starting lineup heading into the season is comprised of:

C Blanc
PF Diorio
SF Young
SG Jones
PG O'Sullivan

[Young Drachma]

With a friendship spanning over thirty years, the coach at Duke agreed to usher in his pal's new team's first game as a full member in D1.

But no one really expects that the Beagles would win, right?



College of St. Charles 82, Duke 69

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Duke (1-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Lonny Burch C 34 5-8 0-3 1 5 2 2 10
Henry Hadley PF 31 3-5 1-1 1 9 6 5 7
Mark Wayman SF 26 2-8 1-2 1 4 2 1 5
J. McCartney SG 32 7-13 4-4 2 4 4 2 20
Darin Flagg PG 29 5-11 2-2 1 3 4 4 16
Michale Wright PG 11 0-2 0-0 0 2 4 0 0
Eliseo Larsen SF 15 2-9 0-0 1 3 0 3 4
Carter Spano PF 8 0-3 1-2 0 2 0 0 1
Eddie Foster C 2 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Joesph Plant C 4 0-1 1-2 0 0 0 2 1
Solomon Peabody SG 8 1-3 0-0 1 2 0 0 3

Turnovers: 10 (L.Burch 1, H.Hadley 2, M.Wayman 3,
J.McCartney 1, E.Larsen 1, S.Peabody 2)
Blocked Shots: 6 (L.Burch 1, M.Wayman 1, J.McCartney 1,
E.Larsen 1, C.Spano 2)
Steals: 10 (L.Burch 3, M.Wayman 2, J.McCartney 1,
D.Flagg 1, M.Wright 1, E.Larsen 2)
3P FGs: 7-22 (M.Wayman 0-2, J.McCartney 2-5, D.Flagg
4-6, M.Wright 0-1, E.Larsen 0-5, S.Peabody 1-3)

College of St. Charles (1-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 31 8-16 6-9 2 11 3 2 22
Robert Diorio PF 30 3-7 2-3 2 8 1 2 8
Nickolas Young SF 27 3-7 0-0 0 4 4 0 6
Claud Jones SG 30 8-10 2-5 1 4 6 3 24
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 24 2-5 2-2 1 4 4 4 8
Armando Deltoro PF 19 3-9 2-2 0 4 0 1 8
William Lubin SF 13 2-2 0-0 0 1 2 0 6
Boyce Bodine PG 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 9 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 1 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 10 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (E.Blanc 3, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 1,
C.Jones 1, W.O'Sullivan 1, A.Deltoro 2, W.Lubin 1,
B.Bodine 2)
Blocked Shots: 6 (E.Blanc 2, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 1,
C.Jones 1)
Steals: 1 (A.Deltoro 1)
3P FGs: 10-16 (R.Diorio 0-1, N.Young 0-1, C.Jones 6-6,
W.O'Sullivan 2-5, A.Deltoro 0-1, W.Lubin 2-2)

Player of Game: SG Claud Jones (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats DUKE STCHA
Halftime Score 24 49
FGM-FGA 26-64 29-58
FG% .406 .500
FTM-FTA 10-16 14-21
FT% .625 .667
3PM-3PA 7-22 10-16
3P% .318 .625
Rebounds 34 39
Assists 22 24
Steals 10 1
Blocks 6 6
Turnovers 10 13
Team Fouls 19 13

[Young Drachma]

After the Duke win, people started talking about the little college from South Hill. Maybe these boys were serious?

Next game is against Seattle University, who replaced Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference when the Zags went to the Mountain West.

College of St. Charles 107, Seattle 59
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Seattle (0-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Basil Steinmetz C 18 1-1 0-0 0 2 1 4 2
Derek Wood PF 25 4-4 1-2 1 2 1 4 9
Kenneth Henriquez SF 26 3-6 2-4 1 4 2 3 8
Jeffrey Caudell SG 30 5-14 3-4 0 1 1 1 17
Gilbert Vickers PG 33 2-7 3-4 0 1 5 4 7
Domenic Early SF 25 3-8 2-5 1 3 0 3 8
Milo Abbott PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Chris Strom PF 7 1-1 0-0 0 2 2 1 2
Brian Peterson PG 5 0-2 2-2 0 0 0 1 2
Andreas Barton PF 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Elliot Holmes C 15 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 4 0
Jeffrey Frey C 6 1-1 0-0 1 1 1 1 2

Turnovers: 19 (D.Wood 3, K.Henriquez 3, J.Caudell 2,
G.Vickers 3, D.Early 2, M.Abbott 1, B.Peterson 2,
E.Holmes 3)
Blocked Shots: 1 (B.Steinmetz 1)
Steals: 3 (D.Wood 1, K.Henriquez 1, G.Vickers 1)
3P FGs: 4-12 (K.Henriquez 0-2, J.Caudell 4-5, G.Vickers
0-1, D.Early 0-2, B.Peterson 0-2)

College of St. Charles (2-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 34 10-17 14-21 4 10 1 1 34
Robert Diorio PF 26 0-1 0-0 0 5 3 3 0
Nickolas Young SF 26 5-7 2-3 1 2 3 3 12
Claud Jones SG 23 4-6 4-4 0 4 3 4 14
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 32 6-8 1-2 0 2 8 3 17
Armando Deltoro PF 20 3-3 5-5 1 3 1 3 11
William Lubin SF 14 2-2 1-1 2 4 1 1 5
Boyce Bodine PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 4 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 2 2
Xavier Delebecque SG 17 4-6 2-2 1 4 3 2 12

Turnovers: 14 (E.Blanc 5, R.Diorio 5, W.O'Sullivan 1,
A.Deltoro 1, X.Delebecque 2)
Blocked Shots: 2 (R.Diorio 1, N.Young 1)
Steals: 9 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 3, C.Jones 2, A.Deltoro
1, W.Lubin 1, M.Eichler 1)
3P FGs: 8-12 (N.Young 0-1, C.Jones 2-3, W.O'Sullivan
4-4, X.Delebecque 2-4)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats SEATT STCHA
Halftime Score 35 65
FGM-FGA 21-46 35-51
FG% .457 .686
FTM-FTA 13-21 29-38
FT% .619 .763
3PM-3PA 4-12 8-12
3P% .333 .667
Rebounds 17 34
Assists 13 25
Steals 3 9
Blocks 1 2
Turnovers 19 14
Team Fouls 27 22

[Young Drachma]

College of St. Charles 108, Davidson 52
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College of St. Charles (3-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 32 17-21 9-12 4 11 1 3 43
Robert Diorio PF 31 1-6 0-0 2 8 1 3 2
Nickolas Young SF 26 0-5 0-0 0 4 4 1 0
Claud Jones SG 26 7-13 1-2 2 7 1 4 19
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 28 3-7 4-5 0 1 7 4 11
Armando Deltoro PF 17 2-4 3-3 3 7 2 3 8
William Lubin SF 14 1-2 4-4 1 4 4 1 7
Boyce Bodine PG 6 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 4 3
Matthew Eichler PG 6 3-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 7
Xavier Delebecque SG 14 2-5 2-2 0 2 3 0 8

Turnovers: 11 (E.Blanc 5, N.Young 1, C.Jones 1,
A.Deltoro 1, M.Eichler 2, X.Delebecque 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (E.Blanc 2, N.Young 2)
Steals: 8 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 1, N.Young 2, C.Jones 1,
A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 1, M.Eichler 1)
3P FGs: 11-26 (N.Young 0-3, C.Jones 4-8, W.O'Sullivan
1-4, A.Deltoro 1-2, W.Lubin 1-2, B.Bodine 1-1,
M.Eichler 1-1, X.Delebecque 2-5)

Davidson (1-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
James Corwin C 21 1-3 2-2 0 6 1 4 4
Henry Turnage PF 12 0-0 0-0 0 2 1 5 0
Harold Hollinger C 23 3-6 1-2 0 5 0 5 7
Mark Pearson SG 31 3-11 0-2 1 4 0 1 7
Felix Makowski PG 29 2-10 5-6 0 3 3 0 10
Earl Wallace PF 15 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 4 1
Gavin Forbes SF 21 5-9 3-5 1 2 0 1 14
Caleb Stevens PG 19 0-2 7-8 1 2 0 1 7
Mathew Cano SF 17 1-3 0-1 1 1 1 0 2
Chris Hein C 9 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 2 0
Timothy Jones PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 22 (J.Corwin 1, H.Turnage 2, H.Hollinger 4,
M.Pearson 2, F.Makowski 5, E.Wallace 1, G.Forbes 2,
C.Stevens 4, M.Cano 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (J.Corwin 1)
Steals: 6 (M.Pearson 2, G.Forbes 2, C.Stevens 1, C.Hein
1)
3P FGs: 3-15 (H.Hollinger 0-1, M.Pearson 1-5,
F.Makowski 1-4, G.Forbes 1-4, M.Cano 0-1)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA DAVDS
Halftime Score 55 25
FGM-FGA 37-67 15-45
FG% .552 .333
FTM-FTA 23-28 19-28
FT% .821 .679
3PM-3PA 11-26 3-15
3P% .423 .200
Rebounds 45 25
Assists 25 6
Steals 8 6
Blocks 4 1
Turnovers 11 22
Team Fouls 24 23

[Young Drachma]

Grinnell is a founding member of the Missouri Valley Conference which returned to Division I play in basketball a few years ago.

Can the Beagles keep their run going?

College of St. Charles 77, Grinnell 41

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Grinnell (1-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Michael Ebner C 31 2-3 0-0 0 2 3 3 4
Walther Lohner PF 27 1-3 0-0 1 6 0 2 2
Jameson Bignell SF 24 2-10 2-2 0 5 2 1 6
Edward Hannigan SG 29 2-6 0-0 1 3 1 4 4
James Eckman PG 29 3-7 1-3 0 1 2 2 9
Joshua Mulkey PG 11 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 2
Malcom Holloman PF 22 3-4 1-2 0 5 1 3 7
Colton Brook SG 13 0-3 1-2 1 4 0 3 1
Frankie Blaisdell SF 11 2-2 2-2 1 2 1 1 6
J. Martineau SG 3 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 29 (M.Ebner 4, W.Lohner 3, J.Bignell 3,
E.Hannigan 3, J.Eckman 4, J.Mulkey 6, M.Holloman 3,
C.Brook 1, F.Blaisdell 1, J.Martineau 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (M.Ebner 3, W.Lohner 2, M.Holloman 1)
Steals: 5 (M.Ebner 2, E.Hannigan 1, J.Eckman 1,
J.Mulkey 1)
3P FGs: 2-7 (J.Bignell 0-1, E.Hannigan 0-2, J.Eckman
2-2, C.Brook 0-2)

College of St. Charles (4-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 31 7-18 4-4 6 15 2 1 18
Robert Diorio PF 30 0-3 1-3 1 9 2 2 1
Nickolas Young SF 27 6-9 3-4 0 4 3 1 17
Claud Jones SG 30 5-10 6-10 0 0 2 3 18
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 31 1-6 0-0 0 1 4 3 2
Armando Deltoro PF 19 4-5 1-2 2 4 0 1 9
William Lubin SF 13 2-3 1-2 1 1 1 2 5
Boyce Bodine PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Matthew Eichler PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 2 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 10 2-4 2-2 0 0 0 1 7

Turnovers: 12 (E.Blanc 4, N.Young 4, C.Jones 1,
A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 1, X.Delebecque 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (E.Blanc 1, C.Jones 1, A.Deltoro 2,
W.Lubin 1)
Steals: 17 (E.Blanc 1, N.Young 3, C.Jones 4,
W.O'Sullivan 3, A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 2, X.Delebecque 3)
3P FGs: 5-15 (R.Diorio 0-1, N.Young 2-2, C.Jones 2-6,
W.O'Sullivan 0-3, W.Lubin 0-1, X.Delebecque 1-2)

Player of Game: SG Claud Jones (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats GRINN STCHA
Halftime Score 13 46
FGM-FGA 16-42 27-58
FG% .381 .466
FTM-FTA 7-11 18-27
FT% .636 .667
3PM-3PA 2-7 5-15
3P% .286 .333
Rebounds 29 34
Assists 11 15
Steals 5 17
Blocks 6 5
Turnovers 29 12
Team Fouls 19 17

[Young Drachma]

Despite a 46-38 lead at halftime, the Beagles ran out of gas on the road and ceded their first game of the season, to the Texas Longhorns 87-80.

Claud Jones continues to impress, going 25 points on 9 of 16 shooting.

Texas 87, College of St. Charles 80

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College of St. Charles (4-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 32 4-19 9-10 1 9 6 0 17
Robert Diorio PF 30 3-7 0-0 2 8 2 3 7
Nickolas Young SF 27 1-5 0-0 1 5 1 2 2
Claud Jones SG 32 9-16 0-0 0 0 2 4 25
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 22 1-2 0-0 0 2 2 5 3
Armando Deltoro PF 18 3-3 0-0 4 9 3 2 6
William Lubin SF 13 1-1 2-2 0 0 3 1 5
Boyce Bodine PG 11 2-4 0-0 0 2 1 1 4
Matthew Eichler PG 8 2-4 0-0 1 1 1 0 4
Xavier Delebecque SG 8 1-3 4-4 0 1 0 2 7

Turnovers: 21 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 7,
C.Jones 4, W.O'Sullivan 6, B.Bodine 1)
Blocked Shots: 9 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 2,
C.Jones 2, W.Lubin 1, B.Bodine 1)
Steals: 7 (R.Diorio 1, N.Young 3, C.Jones 1, A.Deltoro
1, W.Lubin 1)
3P FGs: 11-23 (R.Diorio 1-1, N.Young 0-3, C.Jones 7-13,
W.O'Sullivan 1-1, W.Lubin 1-1, B.Bodine 0-2, M.Eichler
0-1, X.Delebecque 1-1)

Texas (3-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Mark Lazo C 32 5-8 5-6 3 7 5 3 16
Tod Bergstrom PF 32 7-10 1-4 1 11 2 4 15
Judson Rees SF 24 4-11 3-4 2 6 1 4 12
Johnson Levinson SG 31 5-11 0-0 0 2 5 2 12
Homer Beck PG 32 7-15 1-1 2 5 11 1 16
Stefan Kersey PF 13 1-1 0-0 0 3 0 0 2
Danny Herren C 3 0-1 1-2 1 1 1 0 1
Tony Holmes SF 16 4-6 0-0 1 3 1 1 9
Charles Day SG 17 1-4 1-2 1 1 1 1 4

Turnovers: 16 (T.Bergstrom 7, J.Rees 1, J.Levinson 4,
H.Beck 2, T.Holmes 2)
Blocked Shots: 7 (M.Lazo 2, T.Bergstrom 2, S.Kersey 2,
D.Herren 1)
Steals: 11 (M.Lazo 3, T.Bergstrom 1, H.Beck 2, S.Kersey
1, T.Holmes 2, C.Day 2)
3P FGs: 7-16 (M.Lazo 1-1, J.Rees 1-3, J.Levinson 2-6,
H.Beck 1-4, T.Holmes 1-1, C.Day 1-1)

Player of Game: SF Mark Lazo (TX)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA TX
Halftime Score 46 38
FGM-FGA 27-64 34-67
FG% .422 .507
FTM-FTA 15-16 12-19
FT% .938 .632
3PM-3PA 11-23 7-16
3P% .478 .438
Rebounds 37 39
Assists 21 27
Steals 7 11
Blocks 9 7
Turnovers 21 16
Team Fouls 20 16


Texas took the lead early in the second half and the game remained close into about 8 minutes to go, before the Longhorns took the lead for good and never looked back.

[Young Drachma]

December 1, 2014
AP Top 25 Poll


Top 25 Poll

# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Michigan State (50) 3-1 1774 1
2. Indiana (21) 5-0 1712 6
3. Illinois 4-1 1591 8
4. Maryland 3-1 1528 2
5. Stanford 4-1 1511 4
6. Texas (1) 3-1 1471 12
7. Oklahoma State 5-1 1366 5
8. Kentucky 4-1 1294 7
9. Oklahoma 4-1 1198 20
10. Miami 6-0 1027 17
11. Brigham Young 4-0 1015 13
12. College of St. Charles 4-1 1013 3
13. Cincinnati 2-1 932 10
14. Boston College 4-0 854 21
15. UCLA 4-1 798 23
16. Kansas 2-2 659 11
17. St. John's 4-0 609 16
18. Florida 2-1 491 18
19. Duke 3-3 444 15
20. Notre Dame 3-0 399 24
21. Arkansas 2-2 326 19
22. Connecticut 4-1 317 14
23. Georgia 4-0 266 NR
24. Syracuse 2-1 257 NR
25. Wichita State 4-0 178 NR

Others Receiving Votes:
Wake Forest 4-0 173
Arizona 3-2 112
Texas Christian 2-0 39
Pennsylvania 2-0 30
Seton Hall 4-0 9
North Carolina State 2-0 5
Virginia 5-1 2

[Young Drachma]

To reduce the stat dumpy feel of the dynasty, I'll only do the boxscores to games against opponents that are interesting or when we get upset or lose.

Recruiting, we're looking strictly at foreign players at the moment, as well as a few local targets. No real news on anyone yet, as our prestige is deterring the stars from being super interested and so, we're scraping for something that works.

Games of December 1-6, 2014
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St. Charles 92, Arkansas-Little Rock 62
St. Charles 79, Alcorn State 48

[Young Drachma]

Rutgers, who sit at 4-1 and who play in the Big Ten are here to challenge us in what should be a spirited contest.

College of St. Charles 94, Rutgers 77

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Rutgers (4-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Emile Jauregui C 34 3-9 5-10 0 11 4 3 11
Martin Avent PF 25 1-2 0-0 2 6 1 2 2
Douglas Gribble SF 28 4-8 5-6 1 2 0 4 15
David Stagner SG 30 5-13 2-2 3 8 3 2 13
Brian Lewis PG 30 4-8 4-5 0 2 4 1 12
Thomas Fortunato SF 22 5-7 1-4 1 5 1 1 12
Justin Lindell PF 7 1-1 0-1 0 2 0 2 3
Arden Lampkin SG 20 3-6 2-2 0 1 1 1 9
Edmundo Boulanger C 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 2 0

Turnovers: 19 (E.Jauregui 1, M.Avent 4, D.Gribble 5,
D.Stagner 2, B.Lewis 3, T.Fortunato 2, A.Lampkin 2)
Blocked Shots: 6 (E.Jauregui 2, T.Fortunato 3,
A.Lampkin 1)
Steals: 5 (D.Gribble 3, T.Fortunato 1, A.Lampkin 1)
3P FGs: 6-12 (E.Jauregui 0-1, D.Gribble 2-2, D.Stagner
1-5, T.Fortunato 1-2, J.Lindell 1-1, A.Lampkin 1-1)

College of St. Charles (7-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 31 12-18 5-7 4 9 0 2 29
Robert Diorio PF 32 3-6 4-4 2 5 1 3 10
Nickolas Young SF 25 4-16 3-4 1 7 6 4 13
Claud Jones SG 20 2-9 0-0 0 1 2 4 5
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 30 5-7 1-1 0 4 7 1 12
Armando Deltoro C 18 4-9 0-0 3 6 1 3 10
William Lubin SF 15 2-5 0-0 3 4 2 3 5
Boyce Bodine PG 7 3-4 0-0 0 0 3 1 8
Matthew Eichler PG 8 0-0 0-0 0 1 3 0 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 16 1-4 0-0 0 2 2 3 2

Turnovers: 12 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 1, N.Young 2,
C.Jones 1, W.O'Sullivan 2, W.Lubin 2, M.Eichler 2,
X.Delebecque 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (E.Blanc 1, A.Deltoro 3, W.Lubin 1)
Steals: 12 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 5, N.Young 1, C.Jones
1, W.O'Sullivan 1, M.Eichler 1, X.Delebecque 2)
3P FGs: 9-21 (R.Diorio 0-1, N.Young 2-3, C.Jones 1-3,
W.O'Sullivan 1-2, A.Deltoro 2-4, W.Lubin 1-3, B.Bodine
2-3, X.Delebecque 0-2)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats RTGRS STCHA
Halftime Score 51 52
FGM-FGA 26-54 36-78
FG% .481 .462
FTM-FTA 19-30 13-16
FT% .633 .813
3PM-3PA 6-12 9-21
3P% .500 .429
Rebounds 38 39
Assists 14 27
Steals 5 12
Blocks 6 5
Turnovers 19 12
Team Fouls 18 24

[Young Drachma]

12/12: St. Charles 57, Army 33

AP Poll as of Dec. 15, 2014


# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Indiana (65) 7-0 1792 2
2. Stanford (6) 7-1 1732 4
3. Kentucky 7-1 1642 6
4. College of St. Charles (1) 8-1 1542 7
5. Michigan State 8-2 1519 1
6. Texas 5-1 1379 11
7. Illinois 9-2 1336 3
8. Maryland 6-2 1286 5
9. Cincinnati 7-2 1246 10
10. Notre Dame 8-0 1122 14
11. Wichita State 8-0 968 16
12. Oklahoma 6-2 917 8
13. Georgia 7-0 898 18
14. Miami 8-1 845 9
15. Florida 5-2 773 21
16. Oklahoma State 5-3 636 13
17. St. John's 7-1 587 12
18. Utah 5-1 538 NR
19. Virginia 6-1 424 24
20. UCLA 6-3 420 20
21. Boston College 8-1 398 NR
22. North Carolina State 5-0 385 22
23. Texas Christian 5-0 319 25
24. Duke 4-5 213 23
25. Kansas 3-4 136 17

Others Receiving Votes:
Arizona 6-4 97
South Florida 5-0 75
Texas Tech 5-0 62
Temple 7-2 59
Mississippi 4-4 40
Auburn 5-1 9
Arkansas 4-4 3
Connecticut 6-3 2

[Young Drachma]

12/15: St. Charles 77, American 28
12/18: St. Charles 87, Appalachian State 50
12/19: St. Charles 82, Baylor 68

[Young Drachma]

Now, we're headed on a swing around Boston area and we drop our first game of that three game road trip and we drop the game. Turnovers are a huge problem for the team, still. No real need to panic, though.



Boston College 99, College of St. Charles 71

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College of St. Charles (11-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 29 7-15 2-4 2 4 0 4 16
Robert Diorio PF 31 2-3 1-2 2 6 1 2 5
Nickolas Young SF 28 2-10 3-4 1 3 4 2 7
Claud Jones SG 20 2-8 0-0 0 1 0 5 4
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 32 1-3 2-4 0 0 7 3 4
Armando Deltoro C 19 5-9 0-0 2 4 0 2 11
William Lubin SF 12 0-4 0-0 0 2 3 1 0
Boyce Bodine PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 6 2-2 0-0 1 2 0 0 4
Xavier Delebecque SG 20 7-8 2-2 0 2 2 2 20
David Gittens PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 17 (E.Blanc 2, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 2,
W.O'Sullivan 4, W.Lubin 2, B.Bodine 2, M.Eichler 1,
X.Delebecque 2)
Blocked Shots: 2 (R.Diorio 1, A.Deltoro 1)
Steals: 12 (R.Diorio 3, N.Young 3, C.Jones 1, A.Deltoro
2, W.Lubin 1, X.Delebecque 2)
3P FGs: 5-18 (N.Young 0-5, C.Jones 0-3, W.O'Sullivan
0-2, A.Deltoro 1-2, W.Lubin 0-2, X.Delebecque 4-4)

Boston College (9-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Philip Pisano C 29 8-12 7-10 1 5 3 4 23
Dennis Savino PF 30 3-4 0-0 0 9 0 3 6
Timothy Shoemaker SF 28 4-7 2-4 0 6 4 2 10
Josue Harrison SG 32 3-7 6-7 3 7 9 3 14
Henry Salgado PG 25 7-8 0-0 1 1 1 4 17
Marvin Meneses C 12 1-2 1-2 0 1 1 0 3
Robert Urban PF 4 0-0 2-4 1 1 1 0 2
Scot Myrick PG 17 5-6 2-2 2 3 1 2 15
Ahmad Byrum C 5 0-0 0-2 0 1 1 0 0
Courtney Ramirez SF 12 2-4 0-0 1 4 1 1 6
Thomas Hartman SG 7 1-2 0-0 0 2 1 0 3

Turnovers: 19 (P.Pisano 3, D.Savino 1, T.Shoemaker 8,
J.Harrison 1, H.Salgado 4, M.Meneses 1, C.Ramirez 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (P.Pisano 1, M.Meneses 1, A.Byrum 1)
Steals: 10 (P.Pisano 1, T.Shoemaker 1, J.Harrison 3,
H.Salgado 3, S.Myrick 1, T.Hartman 1)
3P FGs: 11-17 (D.Savino 0-1, T.Shoemaker 0-2,
J.Harrison 2-4, H.Salgado 3-4, S.Myrick 3-3, C.Ramirez
2-2, T.Hartman 1-1)

Player of Game: SG Josue Harrison (BSCOL)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA BSCOL
Halftime Score 53 53
FGM-FGA 28-62 34-52
FG% .452 .654
FTM-FTA 10-16 20-31
FT% .625 .645
3PM-3PA 5-18 11-17
3P% .278 .647
Rebounds 24 40
Assists 17 23
Steals 12 10
Blocks 2 3
Turnovers 17 19
Team Fouls 21 19

[Young Drachma]

AP POLL December 30, 2014


# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Stanford (72) 11-1 1800 1
2. Michigan State 12-2 1728 4
3. Illinois 12-2 1628 3
4. Maryland 10-2 1564 7
5. Cincinnati 10-3 1520 5
6. Oklahoma 11-2 1433 10
7. Kentucky 9-2 1306 9
8. Miami 11-1 1169 14
9. Indiana 10-2 1165 6
10. Utah 9-1 1134 16
11. College of St. Charles 11-2 1054 2
12. St. John's 12-1 1007 13
13. Oklahoma State 8-3 929 15
14. Florida 10-3 927 19
15. Texas Christian 9-0 825 17
16. UCLA 9-3 760 18
17. Texas 8-3 750 12
18. Auburn 9-1 587 23
19. Virginia 9-2 420 11
20. Purdue 11-1 398 NR
21. Wichita State 11-1 239 8
22. Duke 6-5 235 25
23. Mississippi 6-4 196 24
24. UNC Wilmington 8-1 186 NR
25. Notre Dame 11-2 125 NR

Others Receiving Votes:
Dayton 8-1 84
Ohio 9-1 74
South Carolina 7-1 51
Georgia 10-2 43
Syracuse 7-4 39
Arkansas 7-6 21
North Carolina State 7-1 3

[Young Drachma]

College of St. Charles 72, Providence 63
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College of St. Charles (12-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 33 3-8 6-7 3 10 4 0 12
Robert Diorio PF 30 1-3 1-2 1 4 0 1 3
Nickolas Young SF 27 4-8 2-2 0 6 2 0 10
Claud Jones SG 33 8-17 5-6 0 3 0 2 25
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 30 3-6 3-6 0 4 7 0 12
Armando Deltoro PF 18 2-3 0-0 0 3 2 1 5
William Lubin SF 13 1-4 3-4 0 0 1 1 5
Boyce Bodine PG 3 0-0 0-1 0 0 1 1 0
Matthew Eichler PG 7 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 1 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 7 0-3 0-0 0 2 0 3 0

Turnovers: 15 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 4, N.Young 4,
W.O'Sullivan 2, A.Deltoro 2, B.Bodine 1, M.Eichler 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (E.Blanc 4, R.Diorio 1)
Steals: 10 (E.Blanc 2, N.Young 1, C.Jones 2,
W.O'Sullivan 1, A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 2, X.Delebecque 1)
3P FGs: 8-17 (N.Young 0-1, C.Jones 4-7, W.O'Sullivan
3-5, A.Deltoro 1-1, W.Lubin 0-1, X.Delebecque 0-2)

Providence (7-5):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Dean Colston C 34 2-5 0-0 2 15 1 4 5
Garfield Capel PF 32 4-10 1-2 2 7 3 1 10
Aaron Ferrell SF 31 2-2 0-0 0 5 3 4 6
Mac Behrens SG 27 5-13 1-2 0 3 2 4 14
Barry Brock PG 27 4-11 0-0 0 0 1 1 10
Newton Teran PF 14 0-2 1-2 2 7 0 2 1
Jared Markey SG 26 4-12 1-2 3 3 2 5 13
Wilfred John SF 9 2-4 0-0 1 1 0 0 4

Turnovers: 22 (D.Colston 4, G.Capel 2, A.Ferrell 3,
M.Behrens 3, B.Brock 6, N.Teran 1, J.Markey 3)
Blocked Shots: 8 (D.Colston 2, G.Capel 3, A.Ferrell 2,
N.Teran 1)
Steals: 5 (D.Colston 2, G.Capel 1, M.Behrens 1, W.John
1)
3P FGs: 13-31 (D.Colston 1-1, G.Capel 1-1, A.Ferrell
2-2, M.Behrens 3-9, B.Brock 2-8, J.Markey 4-9, W.John
0-1)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA PRVD
Halftime Score 42 39
FGM-FGA 22-52 23-59
FG% .423 .390
FTM-FTA 20-28 4-8
FT% .714 .500
3PM-3PA 8-17 13-31
3P% .471 .419
Rebounds 32 41
Assists 18 12
Steals 10 5
Blocks 5 8
Turnovers 15 22
Team Fouls 10 21

[Young Drachma]

We beat Boston University 103-50, taking us to 2-1 on our Boston swing. (1/2/15)

January 5, 2015
AP POLL TOP 25


# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Maryland (40) 12-2 1764 4
2. Michigan State (19) 14-2 1731 2
3. Stanford (4) 13-1 1652 1
4. Oklahoma (9) 12-2 1609 6
5. Illinois 13-3 1494 3
6. Cincinnati 12-3 1443 5
7. Miami 12-1 1312 8
8. Kentucky 10-2 1268 7
9. Indiana 11-3 1263 9
10. Oklahoma State 9-3 1106 13
11. Florida 10-3 1079 14
12. Utah 10-1 1047 10
13. Texas 9-4 920 17
14. UCLA 11-3 901 16
15. Duke 8-5 819 22
16. Syracuse 9-4 594 NR
17. Wake Forest 12-3 540 NR
18. Mississippi 8-4 528 23
19. St. John's 13-2 491 12
20. College of St. Charles 13-2 454 11
21. Arkansas 7-6 439 NR
22. Boston College 10-3 309 NR
23. Arizona 8-7 237 NR
24. South Carolina 9-1 121 NR
25. Brigham Young 7-5 114 NR

Others Receiving Votes:
Kansas 5-5 73
Texas Christian 10-0 51
Connecticut 9-5 27
Dayton 9-1 13
Virginia 10-3 1

[Young Drachma]

January 5, 2015

PG Napoleon Franco committed, he's are his vitals:


#22 PG Napoleon Franco
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Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 203
High School: Glen Rose High School
Hometown: Malvern, AR
GPA: 2.10
Test Score: 970
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: D- C C C C+ D- C C F+ C D- D+ C- A- C C C+
Potential: D B C C C C C C F B C B

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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10.1 2.4 6.0 2.5 1.9 1.35 2.2 0.9 2.4

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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4.6 10.2 .451 0.3 0.5 .600 0.6 2.1 .262

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to College of St. Charles
Rankings: Southeast Region #64 Overall, Southeast Region #17 PG
High School Awards: All-State, Mr. Basketball (Arkansas)
Top 5 Schools: *College of St. Charles, Illinois-Chicago, Bradley, Iowa State,
Texas-San Antonio

[Young Drachma]

1/8: St. Charles 88, BYU 43

1/11: College of St. Charles 97, Wichita State 81

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College of St. Charles (16-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 31 11-17 7-11 2 7 2 3 29
Robert Diorio PF 31 6-8 0-1 3 9 5 3 12
Nickolas Young SF 28 1-4 0-0 2 7 4 3 2
Claud Jones SG 31 8-14 5-7 2 5 5 2 23
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 27 5-10 4-6 0 0 5 4 15
Armando Deltoro PF 17 1-1 0-0 0 5 4 2 2
William Lubin SF 12 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 2 3
Boyce Bodine PG 9 2-3 0-0 1 1 2 3 5
Matthew Eichler PG 4 0-1 1-2 0 0 1 2 1
Xavier Delebecque SG 9 2-4 0-0 1 1 0 1 5

Turnovers: 19 (E.Blanc 5, R.Diorio 5, N.Young 3,
C.Jones 2, W.O'Sullivan 2, B.Bodine 1, X.Delebecque 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 1,
B.Bodine 1)
Steals: 9 (E.Blanc 2, R.Diorio 1, N.Young 3, C.Jones 1,
W.O'Sullivan 1, B.Bodine 1)
3P FGs: 6-17 (C.Jones 2-7, W.O'Sullivan 1-4, W.Lubin
1-1, B.Bodine 1-2, M.Eichler 0-1, X.Delebecque 1-2)

Wichita State (12-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Phillip Quan C 22 5-8 4-4 2 3 1 4 14
Charles Morabito PF 30 4-7 3-5 1 5 1 4 11
Henry Abel SF 31 5-12 2-4 1 3 4 1 15
Robert Washington SG 27 4-7 0-0 1 4 0 1 9
Kevin Cusick PG 27 1-5 2-3 0 1 7 4 5
C. Montgomery PG 13 0-4 0-0 1 1 1 1 0
Charles Parmenter PF 7 1-1 0-0 0 2 2 2 2
Joseph Troy SF 9 3-4 0-0 2 6 0 0 6
Octavio Page C 20 1-3 1-2 0 4 0 4 3
Ned Young SG 13 5-7 6-8 1 2 1 0 16

Turnovers: 23 (P.Quan 2, C.Morabito 5, H.Abel 3,
R.Washington 3, K.Cusick 2, C.Parmenter 1, J.Troy 1,
O.Page 5, N.Young 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (C.Morabito 2, C.Parmenter 1, O.Page 1)
Steals: 12 (P.Quan 1, C.Morabito 1, H.Abel 5, K.Cusick
1, C.Montgomery 1, C.Parmenter 1, N.Young 2)
3P FGs: 5-14 (H.Abel 3-5, R.Washington 1-3, K.Cusick
1-4, C.Montgomery 0-1, N.Young 0-1)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA WCST
Halftime Score 43 37
FGM-FGA 37-65 29-58
FG% .569 .500
FTM-FTA 17-27 18-26
FT% .630 .692
3PM-3PA 6-17 5-14
3P% .353 .357
Rebounds 37 31
Assists 30 17
Steals 9 12
Blocks 5 4
Turnovers 19 23
Team Fouls 25 21

[Young Drachma]

AP TOP 25 POLL, January 12, 2015



# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Michigan State (59) 16-2 1786 2
2. Maryland (12) 14-2 1740 1
3. Oklahoma (1) 13-2 1646 4
4. Stanford 15-1 1595 3
5. Kentucky 11-2 1480 8
6. Cincinnati 14-3 1473 6
7. Illinois 14-4 1368 5
8. Indiana 11-3 1295 9
9. Texas 11-4 1199 13
10. Duke 10-6 1056 15
11. Syracuse 11-4 997 16
12. Miami 13-2 994 7
13. Oklahoma State 10-4 887 10
14. Florida 11-4 815 11
15. Arkansas 8-6 751 21
16. Wake Forest 13-3 719 17
17. College of St. Charles 16-2 679 20
18. St. John's 15-2 622 19
19. Mississippi 10-4 620 18
20. UCLA 12-4 449 14
21. Kansas 7-5 407 NR
22. Boston College 12-3 268 22
23. Arizona 10-7 242 23
24. Connecticut 10-5 225 NR
25. Utah 11-3 50 12

Others Receiving Votes:
Dayton 12-1 36
Virginia 12-3 1

[Young Drachma]

Syracuse 72, College of St. Charles 71

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Syracuse (12-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Charles Ice C 30 4-7 1-2 0 5 0 1 9
Lane Hernandez PF 25 2-4 0-0 1 7 0 4 5
Theron Vick SF 33 5-10 0-0 4 10 3 1 11
Peter Parker SG 12 2-7 0-0 0 1 2 4 5
Archie Vanbuskirk PG 25 2-7 3-4 1 2 3 0 9
Michael Killebrew PF 8 2-2 0-0 0 3 1 0 4
Mark Call C 17 3-5 3-3 2 3 2 1 9
Rico Martin SG 23 2-11 0-1 0 1 2 2 4
Moses Flores PG 17 3-6 3-5 0 2 4 3 12
Joseph Estevez SF 7 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 4
Jim Bailey SG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 14 (L.Hernandez 1, P.Parker 2, A.Vanbuskirk
6, M.Call 1, R.Martin 2, M.Flores 2)
Blocked Shots: 7 (C.Ice 4, T.Vick 1, M.Killebrew 1,
M.Call 1)
Steals: 9 (C.Ice 1, L.Hernandez 1, T.Vick 5, M.Call 1,
M.Flores 1)
3P FGs: 8-25 (L.Hernandez 1-2, T.Vick 1-3, P.Parker
1-4, A.Vanbuskirk 2-5, R.Martin 0-7, M.Flores 3-4)

College of St. Charles (17-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 32 6-13 4-4 5 13 1 3 16
Robert Diorio PF 31 5-8 1-3 4 10 0 3 11
Nickolas Young SF 26 4-11 1-2 2 6 3 1 9
Claud Jones SG 32 5-13 2-2 0 1 3 3 16
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 32 0-5 2-2 1 2 7 2 2
Armando Deltoro PF 17 4-5 0-0 0 6 0 2 9
William Lubin SF 14 0-3 0-1 1 3 2 2 0
Boyce Bodine PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 2 1 3
Xavier Delebecque SG 8 2-2 0-0 0 1 4 1 5

Turnovers: 18 (E.Blanc 4, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 2,
C.Jones 3, W.O'Sullivan 2, A.Deltoro 3, W.Lubin 1,
M.Eichler 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (E.Blanc 3, R.Diorio 1, C.Jones 2)
Steals: 5 (C.Jones 2, W.O'Sullivan 1, A.Deltoro 1,
X.Delebecque 1)
3P FGs: 7-18 (C.Jones 4-8, W.O'Sullivan 0-4, A.Deltoro
1-1, W.Lubin 0-3, M.Eichler 1-1, X.Delebecque 1-1)

Player of Game: SF Theron Vick (SYR)

Game Summary:

Game Stats SYR STCHA
Halftime Score 27 40
FGM-FGA 27-61 27-62
FG% .443 .435
FTM-FTA 10-15 10-14
FT% .667 .714
3PM-3PA 8-25 7-18
3P% .320 .389
Rebounds 34 42
Assists 17 22
Steals 9 5
Blocks 7 6
Turnovers 14 18
Team Fouls 16 18


The Orange won with a last second shot, after the team went for a three-pointer and missed and the team went for a dunk, made it and won the game.

The Beagles were up 40-27 at halftime and managed to blow the game.

[Young Drachma]

Jan. 29, 2015: College of St. Charles 76, Ball State 62

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College of St. Charles (20-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 30 6-8 7-11 5 12 1 3 19
Robert Diorio PF 31 1-2 1-1 2 16 3 3 3
Nickolas Young SF 27 5-10 0-0 0 2 3 3 12
Claud Jones SG 31 8-18 1-1 0 5 1 1 20
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 31 4-12 5-6 0 0 7 2 17
Armando Deltoro C 18 0-1 0-0 1 3 1 2 0
William Lubin SF 13 0-2 0-0 0 1 2 1 0
Boyce Bodine PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 9 2-5 0-0 0 1 1 2 5

Turnovers: 18 (E.Blanc 3, R.Diorio 4, N.Young 4,
W.O'Sullivan 3, A.Deltoro 2, W.Lubin 2)
Blocked Shots: 6 (N.Young 3, C.Jones 1, W.Lubin 1,
M.Eichler 1)
Steals: 5 (E.Blanc 1, N.Young 1, C.Jones 2,
W.O'Sullivan 1)
3P FGs: 10-26 (N.Young 2-4, C.Jones 3-7, W.O'Sullivan
4-8, W.Lubin 0-2, B.Bodine 0-1, X.Delebecque 1-4)

Ball State (10-10):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Leonard Gibb C 27 2-7 3-5 1 9 3 4 7
Dudley Ludwig PF 28 6-7 1-4 0 6 2 2 13
Caleb Wiegand SF 27 4-16 2-3 4 9 3 2 11
Robert Albrecht SG 24 4-7 1-2 0 1 4 1 9
Stewart Sharp PG 24 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 0 2
Byron Mahone SF 25 3-6 2-4 1 3 0 2 8
Jonathan Baugh C 13 2-4 0-0 1 2 0 0 4
Dillon Newlin PG 16 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Winston Reimers SG 16 2-6 1-2 0 3 1 3 6

Turnovers: 19 (L.Gibb 2, D.Ludwig 1, C.Wiegand 4,
R.Albrecht 2, S.Sharp 3, B.Mahone 3, D.Newlin 3,
W.Reimers 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (D.Ludwig 1, C.Wiegand 2, S.Sharp 1,
J.Baugh 1)
Steals: 8 (C.Wiegand 1, R.Albrecht 4, S.Sharp 2,
B.Mahone 1)
3P FGs: 2-13 (C.Wiegand 1-8, S.Sharp 0-1, W.Reimers 1-4)

Player of Game: C Edward Blanc (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA BLST
Halftime Score 47 28
FGM-FGA 26-59 25-57
FG% .441 .439
FTM-FTA 14-19 10-20
FT% .737 .500
3PM-3PA 10-26 2-13
3P% .385 .154
Rebounds 40 35
Assists 19 15
Steals 5 8
Blocks 6 5
Turnovers 18 19
Team Fouls 18 14

[Young Drachma]

TOP 25 POLL

February 1, 2015


# School FPV Record Points Previous
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1. Michigan State (55) 20-3 1783 1
2. Oklahoma (17) 16-4 1722 3
3. Maryland 17-2 1679 2
4. Kentucky 17-2 1571 6
5. Illinois 19-4 1525 5
6. Indiana 16-4 1439 8
7. Stanford 20-2 1312 4
8. Florida 17-4 1254 12
9. Cincinnati 18-4 1190 7
10. Syracuse 14-5 1128 11
11. Miami 18-2 1081 10
12. Duke 14-6 1032 9
13. St. John's 20-2 965 15
14. Oklahoma State 16-4 942 14
15. UCLA 17-5 773 22
16. Connecticut 14-5 704 19
17. Arkansas 12-8 665 18
18. Arizona 16-7 505 20
19. Virginia 19-3 489 23
20. College of St. Charles 21-3 421 21
21. Texas 12-8 263 17
22. Mississippi 14-5 245 13
23. Boston College 16-5 229 NR
24. Kansas 10-7 200 24
25. Georgia 16-2 147 25

Others Receiving Votes:
Wake Forest 17-5 91
UNC Wilmington 18-1 41
Utah 14-5 4

[Young Drachma]

With a dearth of games left on the regular season schedule and no post-season tournament to speak of, I'm going to go ahead and sim to the conference tournaments and see what we can find out. As always, if you're interested in knowing about a particular team, lemme know.

I'll do a cursory runthrough of the rest of the league and talk about interesting things, before getting down to the tournament brackets and seeing where we'll lineup.

I'd like to believe that our performance this year, would merit us a low seed in the NCAA tournament. But our goal is just to make a postseason tourney, so the NIT would be just fine.

[Young Drachma]

Here's our final schedule and results from the regular season:


College of St. Charles Beagles 2014 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/18/14 Duke (23-8) W 82-69 1-0
11/21/14 Seattle (13-16) W 107-59 2-0
11/24/14 at Davidson (11-18) W 108-52 3-0
11/27/14 Grinnell (5-24) W 77-41 4-0
11/30/14 at Texas (21-12) L 87-80 4-1
12/02/14 at Arkansas-Little Rock (16-14) W 92-62 5-1
12/05/14 Alcorn State (19-10) W 79-48 6-1
12/08/14 Rutgers (14-15) W 94-77 7-1
12/12/14 Army (7-23) W 57-33 8-1
12/15/14 American (10-19) W 77-28 9-1
12/18/14 at Appalachian State (13-17) W 87-50 10-1
12/19/14 Baylor (14-15) W 82-68 11-1
12/27/14 at Boston College (21-11) L 99-71 11-2
12/30/14 at Providence (15-14) W 72-63 12-2
01/02/15 at Boston University (12-18) W 103-50 13-2
01/05/15 Northern Colorado (7-22) W 100-40 14-2
01/08/15 Brigham Young (19-12) W 88-43 15-2
01/11/15 at Wichita State (25-8) W 97-81 16-2
01/14/15 at Arkansas State (14-16) W 87-38 17-2
01/17/15 Syracuse (26-5) L 72-71 17-3
01/21/15 Brown (12-15) W 81-46 18-3
01/25/15 Chicago State (4-25) W 96-46 19-3
01/29/15 at Ball State (14-15) W 76-62 20-3
02/01/15 at Central Florida (6-23) W 94-38 21-3
02/06/15 at Southern Illinois (16-16) W 82-68 22-3
02/11/15 at Centenary (10-19) W 63-41 23-3
02/15/15 Charleston Southern (9-19) W 87-49 24-3
02/20/15 at Houston (6-22) W 68-47 25-3

[Young Drachma]

Watching the selection show now. I'll report back when I find stuff out.

[Young Drachma]

WEST
#1 Seed: Indiana (25-7)

MIDWEST
#1 Seed: Illinois (29-6)

SOUTH
#1 Seed: Kentucky (27-5)

EAST
#1 Seed: Miami (29-4)


We are in the tournament! We got the #10 seed in the east region. Our first round matchup is against our home state's Virginia Cavaliers!

How exciting!

[Young Drachma]

2014 Conference Tournament Champs


Conference Team Record
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America East Maine 24-7 (13-1)
Atlantic 10 Xavier 19-13 (10-6)
Atlantic Coast Conference Miami 29-4 (13-3)
Atlantic Sun Samford 23-8 (12-2)
Big 12 Kansas 21-12 (9-7)
Big East Connecticut 24-9 (12-4)
Big Sky Weber State 18-15 (7-7)
Big South Elon 16-15 (8-6)
Big Ten Illinois 29-6 (13-3)
Big West Long Beach State 16-15 (7-7)
Colonial Athletic Association UNC Wilmington 30-1 (18-0)
Conference USA Tulane 18-14 (9-7)
Horizon League Detroit 23-8 (10-4)
Ivy League
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Fairfield 23-9 (10-8)
The Summit League UMKC 12-19 (8-8)
Mid-American Conference Kent State 27-5 (14-2)
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Hampton 20-11 (14-4)
Missouri Valley Conference Wichita State 25-8 (14-6)
Mountain West Conference Brigham Young 22-12 (11-5)
Northeast Conference Wagner 20-11 (12-8)
Ohio Valley Conference Tennessee Tech 23-8 (13-3)
Pacific-10 UCLA 24-9 (13-5)
Patriot League Holy Cross 24-7 (12-2)
Southeastern Conference Kentucky 27-5 (14-2)
Southern Conference Tennessee-Chattanooga 17-14 (10-6)
Southland Conference McNeese State 19-11 (14-4)
Southwestern Athletic Conference Alabama State 14-17 (9-9)
Sun Belt Conference Western Kentucky 26-5 (13-3)
West Coast Conference San Diego 23-8 (10-4)
Western Athletic Conference Southern Utah 28-3 (13-1)

[Young Drachma]

The play-in game is Alabama State (14-17) versus UMKC (12-19), both of whom won their conference tournaments to get here, ensuring a team with a losing record will play in the main draw.

[Young Drachma]

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[Young Drachma]

Our schedule this season was the 188th ranked schedule in the country, our RPI was 35, though.

We face off against the Virginia Cavaliers, who had an RPI of 29 and had the 49th ranked schedule in the country.

Common opponents between the two schools:

Rutgers L 72-69
Boston College W 83-57
Duke L 94-65

We beat two of three common opponents between us, though they beat BC and we lost to them.

We're obviously not battle tested compared to an ACC team, so we're not sure what to expect.

The Cavs season stats are as follows:


Virginia Cavaliers Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Nathaniel Hambrick SG 32 32 30.6 14.5 0.9 5.2 3.7 1.6 0.1 2.3 2.1
Porter Kozlowski SG 32 32 30.1 11.7 0.5 4.1 3.3 1.0 0.1 3.8 2.8
James Alva PF 32 32 29.2 10.8 1.8 8.2 1.8 0.8 1.9 2.0 2.9
Harold Yates PG 32 32 28.6 10.0 0.7 1.7 3.4 1.3 0.3 2.9 2.1
Collin Webb PG 32 0 20.7 7.3 0.8 2.5 1.6 0.8 0.2 1.9 1.3
Joseph Niemeyer C 32 32 29.3 6.9 2.5 8.5 1.7 0.4 1.3 1.3 2.5
Marcus Mink C 32 0 13.8 4.2 1.3 3.8 0.5 0.4 0.5 1.0 1.5
Deangelo Higgins PF 32 0 7.9 2.6 0.6 2.0 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 1.0
Stephen Castro SF 32 0 10.1 2.5 0.3 1.2 0.7 0.3 0.3 1.0 0.7
Gregory Odonnell SF 1 0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
Cary Bourque SG 6 0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.3


Meanwhile, here are our team's stats and information breakdowns for this season:


College of St. Charles Beagles Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Edward Blanc C 28 28 31.4 22.0 3.9 11.5 2.3 0.9 1.5 2.6 1.8
Claud Jones SG 28 28 28.9 16.7 0.9 2.8 2.7 2.4 0.3 1.0 2.9
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 28 28 28.1 10.1 0.4 1.9 5.4 1.2 0.0 1.4 3.0
Nickolas Young SF 28 28 26.2 9.4 1.1 4.6 2.5 1.8 0.8 2.1 1.9
Armando Deltoro SF 28 0 18.9 6.3 1.4 4.2 1.3 1.3 0.6 1.0 1.7
Xavier Delebecque SG 28 0 10.9 5.8 0.1 1.5 1.0 0.8 0.0 0.4 1.3
Robert Diorio C 28 28 29.4 5.8 2.6 8.3 1.9 1.2 0.8 2.6 2.2
William Lubin SF 28 0 13.6 4.6 1.0 2.2 1.7 1.1 0.2 1.1 1.4
Boyce Bodine PG 28 0 6.1 1.9 0.1 0.3 0.9 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.9
Matthew Eichler PG 28 0 6.0 1.7 0.4 0.9 1.3 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.9
David Gittens PF 3 0 3.3 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
Charles Dacosta SG 3 0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0

[Young Drachma]

On paper, I think we match up better against them, in that, Edward Blanc is simply a guy that they don't have an answer for. He's a monster on the boards, he scores points and so, up the middle they're just gonna have to figure out how to handle him. Claud Jones is known to be a big-game solution and I expect him to put it down.

They have way more balance offensively, but I don't really think that it matters that much in the end, because if our boys show up and do what they're capable of -- forcing turnovers, playing lock-down defense and scoring points at will -- we'll get out of this matchup.

The winner of this game plays the winner of #2 St. Johns and #15 Hampton and I think we matchup well against those teams too. So really, we're angling for a Sweet 16 appearance, but it'll really rest on our ability not to blow this game when we manage to get a lead and to put them away when it matters most, which we struggled with at times during the year.

Let's see how it goes.

[Young Drachma]

UMKC won the play-in game, beating Alabama State 57-48.


FIRST ROUND GAME: Virginia v. College of St. Charles

I knew it would be a tight battle, just given the way everything looked.

We were up 38-29 at halftime, but I wasn't really expecting that lead to last. UVa could never really get a big enough lead to put the game out of reach. They led by 2 with 4 1/2 minutes to go, before the Beagles began to press into action.

With 26 seconds left, Virginia made two free throws to get within two (61-63), but rather than letting St. Charles run the clock out or attempt a shot, they fouled. Wiley O'Sullivan of St. Charles made both free throws, making the score 65-61. The Beagles defense held the Cavaliers from attempting a three pointer with about 4 seconds to go, that they missed and the Beagles will advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament!

Final score, 65-61 St. Charles.


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College of St. Charles (26-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 32 7-15 3-5 1 11 1 3 17
Robert Diorio PF 26 2-2 0-2 2 3 1 2 4
Nickolas Young SF 28 2-4 2-2 0 7 3 1 7
Claud Jones SG 30 7-19 0-0 1 2 1 4 17
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 30 2-7 2-4 0 2 7 2 8
Armando Deltoro PF 22 2-4 3-3 0 2 0 1 7
William Lubin SF 12 0-2 0-0 1 2 2 0 0
Boyce Bodine PG 5 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Matthew Eichler PG 5 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 0 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 10 2-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 5

Turnovers: 11 (E.Blanc 3, R.Diorio 1, C.Jones 1,
W.O'Sullivan 3, W.Lubin 1, B.Bodine 1, X.Delebecque 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 1, N.Young 1)
Steals: 10 (R.Diorio 2, N.Young 3, W.O'Sullivan 2,
A.Deltoro 2, M.Eichler 1)
3P FGs: 7-25 (N.Young 1-2, C.Jones 3-10, W.O'Sullivan
2-6, A.Deltoro 0-1, W.Lubin 0-2, B.Bodine 0-2,
M.Eichler 0-1, X.Delebecque 1-1)

Virginia (23-10):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joseph Niemeyer C 22 3-4 0-1 3 9 0 5 6
James Alva PF 29 2-3 0-4 0 7 0 2 4
Porter Kozlowski SF 30 1-5 4-6 0 4 2 1 6
N. Hambrick SG 31 6-16 1-2 0 3 5 2 15
Harold Yates PG 28 6-8 2-2 1 4 3 3 16
Marcus Mink C 18 3-5 0-0 2 5 0 2 6
Deangelo Higgins PF 11 3-6 0-0 1 4 0 1 6
Collin Webb PG 21 1-3 0-0 0 2 3 0 2
Stephen Castro SF 10 0-1 0-0 0 3 1 0 0

Turnovers: 22 (J.Niemeyer 1, J.Alva 4, P.Kozlowski 4,
H.Yates 5, M.Mink 2, D.Higgins 1, C.Webb 3, S.Castro 2)
Blocked Shots: 3 (J.Niemeyer 1, C.Webb 1, S.Castro 1)
Steals: 5 (N.Hambrick 1, H.Yates 1, M.Mink 2, C.Webb 1)
3P FGs: 4-11 (N.Hambrick 2-8, H.Yates 2-3)

Player of Game: SF Nickolas Young (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA VA
Halftime Score 38 29
FGM-FGA 24-59 25-51
FG% .407 .490
FTM-FTA 10-16 7-15
FT% .625 .467
3PM-3PA 7-25 4-11
3P% .280 .364
Rebounds 31 41
Assists 15 14
Steals 10 5
Blocks 3 3
Turnovers 11 22
Team Fouls 13 16

[Young Drachma]

Here are the second round matchups in the tourney:

WEST REGION
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Indiana v. Western Kentucky
Arkansas v. Connecticut
Maryland v. Gonzaga
Oklahoma v. Arizona

MIDWEST REGION
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Illinois v. Missouri
Xavier v. UCLA
Syracuse v. Yellowstone
Stanford v. Kansas

SOUTH REGION
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Kentucky v. Iowa
Cincinnati v. Boston College
Michigan State v. Iowa State
Duke v. Temple

EAST REGION
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Miami v. Georgetown
Oklahoma State v. Ohio State
St. John's v. College of St. Charles
Florida v. BYU

[Young Drachma]

2ND ROUND PREVIEW:

The Red Storm of St. John's finished the season 30-4 and went 15-1 in the Big East. So to say that it'll be a strong test would be an understatement. They're a strong team on the boards and their point guard Carson Leigh is a threat scoring the rock or distributing it to his teammates.

It'll be an interesting matchup for us. I think the trick here is going to be, that we need to simply outrun them and to minimize our mistakes.

I feel like we can win it, but it'll come down to our players being able to manage the game and to not give up bad shots.

[Young Drachma]

NCAA Tournament 2nd Round: College of St. Charles 82, St. John's 63

An 18-0 run early in the second half was the difference in this ballgame, as the Beagles advance to the Sweet 16. Beagles coach Matt Carey has been dogged by rumors that several teams are interested in interviewing him after the season is over and are "waiting for his team to lose, so they can begin to interview him. They're like vultures..." said one source.

Schools showing interest include Rutgers, Georgia and Seton Hall. Also, the Beagles are expected to get hounded by offers of conferences looking to have them join after this season, on the heels of their successful run. But it's not clear yet whether they'll join a conference or which one they'll join.

"We're just enjoying our ride and we're not planning to go home yet," said Coach Carey.




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College of St. Charles (27-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 32 8-18 1-1 1 6 4 2 17
Robert Diorio PF 29 3-8 4-6 2 7 0 2 10
Nickolas Young SF 27 1-5 2-4 0 5 3 1 4
Claud Jones SG 30 7-14 1-2 2 4 2 0 19
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 30 3-8 3-4 1 1 7 2 12
Armando Deltoro PF 18 3-4 0-0 0 6 3 1 7
William Lubin SF 13 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 0 0
Boyce Bodine PG 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 2 0
Matthew Eichler PG 5 3-3 0-0 2 4 1 1 6
Xavier Delebecque SG 10 3-3 0-0 0 0 1 1 7

Turnovers: 13 (E.Blanc 3, N.Young 2, C.Jones 2,
W.O'Sullivan 2, A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 1, M.Eichler 2)
Blocked Shots: 4 (E.Blanc 1, N.Young 1, W.O'Sullivan 2)
Steals: 12 (E.Blanc 1, R.Diorio 3, C.Jones 3,
W.O'Sullivan 2, A.Deltoro 1, W.Lubin 1, M.Eichler 1)
3P FGs: 9-17 (R.Diorio 0-1, N.Young 0-2, C.Jones 4-8,
W.O'Sullivan 3-4, A.Deltoro 1-1, X.Delebecque 1-1)

St. John's (30-5):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Terry Tyner C 28 1-3 0-0 1 8 0 1 2
J. McClanahan PF 25 4-5 0-0 1 4 2 3 8
Jose Render SF 31 0-2 0-0 0 6 0 1 0
Gerald Million SG 29 8-17 2-2 2 5 2 2 23
Carson Leigh PG 32 7-13 0-0 1 2 6 3 19
Jonathan Wells PF 19 0-3 1-4 2 6 1 3 1
Ricky Hines PG 8 0-3 0-0 0 1 2 0 0
Ollie Ebert C 8 1-1 0-0 0 2 0 2 2
Gerald Hazel SG 14 2-6 0-0 0 1 1 1 6
John Calton SF 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 2 1 2

Turnovers: 23 (T.Tyner 2, J.McClanahan 2, J.Render 4,
G.Million 4, C.Leigh 2, J.Wells 1, R.Hines 1, O.Ebert
3, G.Hazel 3, J.Calton 1)
Blocked Shots: 7 (G.Million 1, J.Wells 5, O.Ebert 1)
Steals: 7 (J.McClanahan 2, G.Million 2, C.Leigh 2,
O.Ebert 1)
3P FGs: 12-29 (J.Render 0-1, G.Million 5-12, C.Leigh
5-8, J.Wells 0-2, R.Hines 0-2, G.Hazel 2-4)

Player of Game: SG Claud Jones (STCHA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats STCHA STJN
Halftime Score 38 29
FGM-FGA 31-63 24-55
FG% .492 .436
FTM-FTA 11-17 3-6
FT% .647 .500
3PM-3PA 9-17 12-29
3P% .529 .414
Rebounds 34 35
Assists 24 16
Steals 12 7
Blocks 4 7
Turnovers 13 23
Team Fouls 12 17

[Young Drachma]

Here are the Sweet 16 Matchups:

WEST REGION
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(8) Western Kentucky v. (4) Arkansas
(2) Maryland v. (6) Arizona

MIDWEST REGION
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(1) Illinois v. (5) UCLA
(2) Syracuse v. (3) Stanford

SOUTH REGION
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(1) Kentucky v. (4) Cincinnati
(2) Michigan State v. (3) Duke

EAST REGION
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(1) Miami v. (4) Oklahoma State
(10) St. Charles v. (3) Florida

So needless to say, we busted a bracket, as did Western Kentucky. Let's see how far we can keep the run going.

SWEET 16 PREVIEW: Florida v. St. Charles

Florida went 30-6 this year, including a 14-2 record in the SEC. Their losses this year were against Pepperdine (1st game of the year), Oklahoma on the road, Illinois on the road, Kentucky on the road, Alabama and then Kentucky in th SEC tournament. Needless to say they're battle tested and we're not Kentucky.


Florida Gators Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Edward Webb C 36 36 29.8 14.4 2.4 7.6 1.3 0.5 0.8 1.5 2.1
Scott Delp SF 36 36 32.8 13.8 1.2 3.9 3.3 1.9 0.3 2.5 2.5
Thomas Rutherford PG 36 36 28.8 13.5 0.6 1.5 6.2 1.8 0.2 1.7 2.5
William Johanson SG 36 2 20.6 10.2 1.9 3.6 1.1 1.1 0.2 1.7 1.7
Brian Turcotte SG 34 34 24.9 8.2 0.7 3.5 2.7 0.8 0.1 1.1 2.4
Albert Taylor PF 36 36 29.6 6.2 2.8 8.4 1.2 0.8 0.9 1.9 2.3
Donat Prouvost PG 36 0 7.9 3.1 0.2 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.1 0.7 0.7
Lynn Lucky C 36 0 12.5 2.7 1.2 4.1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.8 1.1
Wolf Hessmer C 36 0 8.2 2.0 0.9 2.8 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.5
Isidro Boyd PF 1 0 5.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Scot Maher PG 36 0 5.7 1.6 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.6 0.5
Cameron Herrera SF 5 0 3.8 1.0 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.6 0.8
David Cavin PF 1 0 4.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0


The key to beating them will be similar to St. John's. Force turnovers like mad. We've been doing it all year and that's how we've made it this far. Our offense knows how to show up and so, if we can manage to keep them off the board, we'll muscle our way through this. But I think it's a formidible challenge and really, it's hard to say what'll happen in this one, as I don't have any real clues to know what it'll look like.

My guys are capable of beating top-tier talent, as they've done throughout the year, but also lapse massively at times when they ought to keep their composure.

We'll see how it goes.

[Young Drachma]

We were down by 12 with about 3:16 to go and that really spelled doom in my mind, as I wasn't convinced we had enough juice to get back in the game and I ended up being right.

After being down 43-22 at halftime, the fact that we made it close at all, is a testament to the resolve of the kids on my team.

We played hard and really, we jsut couldn't get our game in check all night. We had 21 turnovers, which is just not Beagles basketball and they only had 10, which is anti-gameplan.

So our tournament run is over, which is sad, but we've got a lot to build on now and that's an exciting thing.


Florida 66, College of St. Charles 61

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Florida (31-6):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Webb C 32 1-4 3-4 1 6 3 0 5
Albert Taylor PF 31 2-4 2-3 1 5 0 2 6
Scott Delp SF 34 5-14 3-4 1 3 3 3 16
Brian Turcotte SG 27 3-6 2-2 0 2 2 1 8
Thomas Rutherford PG 32 7-17 6-7 3 4 2 2 22
Lynn Lucky C 10 0-0 1-2 0 4 0 2 1
Wolf Hessmer PF 7 2-2 0-0 0 1 0 1 4
Scot Maher PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 1 1 0
Donat Prouvost PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 3 2 0
William Johanson SG 19 1-4 2-2 2 4 0 0 4

Turnovers: 10 (E.Webb 1, A.Taylor 3, T.Rutherford 3,
S.Maher 2, W.Johanson 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (E.Webb 2, A.Taylor 1, W.Hessmer 1)
Steals: 9 (E.Webb 2, S.Delp 3, T.Rutherford 3,
D.Prouvost 1)
3P FGs: 5-15 (S.Delp 3-7, B.Turcotte 0-2, T.Rutherford
2-5, S.Maher 0-1)

College of St. Charles (27-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Edward Blanc C 31 3-7 1-2 2 11 3 2 7
Robert Diorio PF 30 1-4 0-0 3 11 0 2 2
Nickolas Young SF 27 5-8 1-2 3 3 2 2 11
Claud Jones SG 30 5-14 0-2 1 3 2 2 13
Wiley O'Sullivan PG 32 4-8 2-2 0 0 5 4 13
Armando Deltoro PF 18 3-4 0-0 1 5 0 1 6
William Lubin SF 13 1-4 0-0 4 6 3 3 3
Boyce Bodine PG 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Matthew Eichler PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 2 0
Xavier Delebecque SG 10 2-6 0-0 0 0 1 1 6

Turnovers: 21 (E.Blanc 5, R.Diorio 2, N.Young 5,
W.O'Sullivan 3, A.Deltoro 2, W.Lubin 3, M.Eichler 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (E.Blanc 2, N.Young 1, W.O'Sullivan 1)
Steals: 5 (C.Jones 1, A.Deltoro 3, X.Delebecque 1)
3P FGs: 9-24 (R.Diorio 0-1, C.Jones 3-7, W.O'Sullivan
3-6, W.Lubin 1-3, M.Eichler 0-1, X.Delebecque 2-6)

Player of Game: PG Thomas Rutherford (FL)

Game Summary:

Game Stats FL STCHA
Halftime Score 43 22
FGM-FGA 21-53 24-56
FG% .396 .429
FTM-FTA 19-24 4-8
FT% .792 .500
3PM-3PA 5-15 9-24
3P% .333 .375
Rebounds 29 40
Assists 14 17
Steals 9 5
Blocks 4 4
Turnovers 10 21
Team Fouls 14 20

[Young Drachma]

ELITE 8 MATCHUPS
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EAST REGION
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Florida v. Oklahoma State

SOUTH REGION
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Kentucky v. Michigan State

MIDWEST REGION
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Illinois v. Syracuse

WEST REGION
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Arkansas v. Arizona

So we have the prospect of THREE SEC teams in the Final Four.


In the NIT, the Final Four is:
LSU (22-12) v. Delaware (24-9)
Wisconsin (22-12) v. Santa Clara (24-9)

[Young Drachma]

OFF THE HOOK

The following schools have called me up, literally 24-hours after we lost that game.


Southern Mississippi
DePaul
Seton Hall
Michigan
Oregon


That list wasn't exciting, but most of the schools I might be interested in talkng with, are waiting until the tournament is over to make moves. So I agree only to meet with Seton Hall off that list. I want a safety school, I know the area well and I think it's a job I can get and they'll pay, as I know that St. Charles just doesn't really have it in the budget to pay much more than the terms of my contract will give me for making the tournament.

So I agree to meet with them Monday.

[Young Drachma]

Here is the 2015 Final Four bracket:

Arizona v. Kentucky
Illinois v. Oklahoma State

I have an interview at Seton Hall today. I'll let you tune in on what I find out.

[Young Drachma]

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SETON HALL INTERVIEW

The Pirates were 16-16 last year, finishing 6th in their division of the Big East last year, going 6-10 in league play.

They lost in the 1st round of the Big East tournament to Georgetown 67-47 and lost to UL-Lafayette in the first round of the NIT 58-50.

This job would be a fixer-upper for sure, as the roster contains four seniors and three juniors.


Seton Hall Pirates Roster

# Name Pos Cl Ht Wt Hometown
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33 Charles Dicken SF Sr 6' 8" 245 Westville, NJ
53 Maxwell Waltz SF Sr 6' 7" 259 Blackstone, MA
11 William Banks C Sr 6' 9" 226 Abington, PA
55 Nathanael Nelson SG Sr 6' 7" 232 Hebron, CT
35 Daniel Morgan PF Jr 6' 8" 253 Windsor, Canada
51 Malcom Weekley PF Jr 6' 8" 236 Lawrenceville, NJ
20 Eddie Burdick PG Jr 6' 3" 201 Edison, NJ
10 Ahmed Dao C So 6' 8" 273 Cliffside Park, NJ
52 Severino Ruiz PF So 6'10" 252 Elizondo, Spain
41 Noble Burns PG So 5'10" 203 Crestline, OH
21 Christopher Fulton SG So 6' 2" 200 Medford, MA
0 John Morgan SG Fr 6' 4" 202 Shelby, NC
22 Jonas Jones C Fr 6' 9" 266 Oviedo, FL
30 Michael Kinnard SF Fr 6' 7" 230 Coatesville, PA
44 Lewis Musser PG Fr 5'11" 157 Weehawken, NJ




Seton Hall Pirates Player Potentials

Name Pos In Jps FT 3ps Hn Pas ORb DRb PsD PrD Stl Blk
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Charles Dicken SF C D B B C D A D B C B C
Daniel Morgan PF B F C F B F C B D F B B
Nathanael Nelson SG C D D B F C D C D D D C
Eddie Burdick PG C A B D D A D D D B C C
William Banks C C F D F C F C A B D F B
Malcom Weekley PF C D C F C C C B F F D D
Noble Burns PG D C B B D C F C D B B F
Severino Ruiz PF D D C D C D A A D B C C
Ahmed Dao C C C D D D F B C A C F F
Maxwell Waltz SF C F C F C D F D B C C C
Christopher Fulton SG D B D B B A F C D F D D
Jonas Jones C B F C F F C C C C B C D
Michael Kinnard SF C D D B F B D A C F B C
John Morgan SG C B D C C C C F D D B D
Lewis Musser PG B D D D A F C C D B D D


Here are the team stat averages:


Seton Hall Pirates Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Charles Dicken SF 32 32 32.1 16.0 3.0 5.2 2.0 1.8 0.3 2.9 1.9
Daniel Morgan PF 29 29 29.6 12.9 1.8 7.7 1.8 0.9 1.9 2.0 2.8
Nathanael Nelson SG 32 32 31.3 12.6 0.9 4.9 2.1 1.0 0.3 3.9 2.9
Eddie Burdick PG 32 32 28.8 9.0 0.6 2.3 5.4 1.7 0.2 4.4 2.7
William Banks C 32 32 30.6 6.5 2.1 10.8 1.0 0.2 1.1 2.1 2.8
Malcom Weekley PF 4 0 8.8 4.3 0.8 2.8 0.8 0.3 0.3 0.0 1.5
Noble Burns PG 32 0 13.1 4.0 0.1 1.1 1.5 0.9 0.0 1.5 1.2
Severino Ruiz PF 32 3 11.1 2.9 0.9 3.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 1.0 1.5
Ahmed Dao C 32 0 10.2 2.9 0.8 2.3 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.9 1.1
Maxwell Waltz SF 32 0 8.2 2.4 0.1 0.9 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.9 0.7
Christopher Fulton SG 32 0 6.8 1.3 0.2 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.6 0.5


In short, while I appreciated that they were really interested and I feel like if I want the job, I can have it, I'm probably going to have to pass. This team -- while in the Big East -- isn't an improvement over what I have now.

[Young Drachma]

Delaware beat Wisconsin 63-55 to win the NIT.

FINAL FOUR RESULTS
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Kentucky 86, Arizona 72
Illinois 86, Oklahoma State 66

[Young Drachma]

Kentucky 58, Illinois 57

The Wildcats win the 2015 NCAA Basketball championship.

[Young Drachma]

AWARDS

Edward Blanc was named a 2nd Team All-American.

[Young Drachma]

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE WELCOMES COLLEGE OF ST. CHARLES

The Southern Conference, home to talented programs such as Davidson, have welcome the College of St. Charles, fresh off their run to the Sweet 16 in this year's NCAA tournament. VMI has opted to become an Independent as a result.

"We're happy to be a member of the prestigious Southern Conference," said the school's athletic director Martha Kipley. "We're appreciative of the opportunities this will give our student-athletes to compete at a high level all year long."

[Young Drachma]

YELLOWSTONE UNIVERSITY HIRES CAREY AS HEAD COACH

CODY, WYOMING -- Yellowstone University President D.C. Daly and Athletics Director Bob Driscoll announced today the appointment of Matt Carey as the head basketball coach of the University. Carey, who becomes the 2nd head coach in school history, comes to PC after spending the 2014-15 season as the head coach at the College of St. Charles. Davis, a 2005 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, was named the 2015 National Coach of the Year by the ESPN the Magazine.

"We are very excited to have Matt Carey leading our men's basketball program," Father Shanley said. "Over the last several weeks, we have conducted a thorough search. During this process, we talked to some of the most knowledgeable members of the college basketball community. It was our task to find a coach who would lead our student-athletes and embrace the University's mission. Keno Davis met all of our selection criteria."

In his first season as a head coach, Carey led the St. Charles Beagles to a 27-4 mark, as an independent. His team advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history, in their first year of eligibility for the tournament as a Division I school. Drake was defeated in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament by Florida, 65-61.

Last season, the Yellowstone Wolves were 25-6 (13-3 in MWC play) and lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

[Young Drachma]

Our assistants at Yellowstone are:

Recruiting Coordinator: David Cooper, 36 Recruiting: C+

Lead Scout: Neil Currie, 57, Scouting: A-

Coaching Assistant: Eddie Nesbitt, 51, Offense: A Defense: C

[Young Drachma]

Here's our schedule for the 2015-16 season. I made it tough intentionally out of conference, because I really wanted to see what these kids are made of. Chances are, we'll get beaten bad, but that's okay.

We join the 2015-16 season in progress.


Yellowstone Wolves 2015 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/15/15 at Kentucky (9-1) L 75-69 0-1
11/19/15 at UCLA (11-3) L 97-74 0-2
11/22/15 College of St. Charles (9-0) L 70-68 0-3
11/25/15 Mississippi (8-4) W 84-67 1-3
11/27/15 Creighton (5-7) L 87-82 1-4
12/03/15 Boston University (4-9) W 76-75 2-4
12/09/15 Virginia (9-3) L 75-74 2-5
12/14/15 Duke (10-1) L 78-51 2-6
12/19/15 at San Francisco (4-7) W 87-77 3-6
12/26/15 Montana (3-7) W 77-46 4-6
12/31/15 at Georgetown (7-3) L 93-84 4-7
01/04/16 Nebraska (8-2)
01/09/16 at Tulsa (10-3)
01/11/16 at Wyoming (3-7)
01/16/16 Boise State (2-8)
01/23/16 Wyoming (3-7)
01/25/16 at Colorado State (1-8)
01/30/16 Texas Christian (9-3)
02/01/16 at Texas Christian (9-3)
02/06/16 at Utah (9-3)
02/13/16 at Air Force (6-5)
02/15/16 Colorado State (1-8)
02/20/16 at Fresno State (8-3)
02/22/16 Houston (4-7)
02/27/16 Air Force (6-5)
02/29/16 Tulsa (10-3)
03/02/16 Utah (9-3)
03/05/16 at Houston (4-7)


Here's our roster:


Yellowstone Wolves Roster

# Name Pos Cl Ht Wt Hometown
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50 William Moynihan C Fr 7' 1" 271 Lakewood, CO
52 Andrew Kazmbe C Fr 7' 0" 246 Lusaka, Zambia
51 Eric Murillo PF So 6' 7" 226 Sheridan, WY
23 Maurice Kennedy PG Sr 6' 0" 189 Aurora, IL
33 Sandy Ordonez PG Fr 5'11" 175 Mayaguez, PR
22 Eric Abraham PF Jr 6'10" 242 Berwick, PA
0 Bradford Guardado C Sr 6' 9" 263 Elizabeth, NJ
5 Allan Mendes SG Jr 6' 2" 177 Mountain View, WY
32 Barry Dameron SG Sr 6' 3" 230 Lander, WY
40 Andres Mathis SF Fr 6' 6" 228 Independence, VA
1 Matthew Duenas SF Jr 6' 6" 233 Dallas, GA
3 John Strange PF Sr 6'11" 267 Greybull, WY
43 Willis Wilson SF Fr 6' 7" 217 Willits, CA
35 John Litton SG So 6' 3" 217 Cheyenne, WY
13 Ray Garnett PG Fr 5'10" 160 San Diego, CA

[Young Drachma]

Here are the team stats, thus far:


Yellowstone Wolves Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Sandy Ordonez PG 11 11 31.8 16.8 1.0 3.9 6.2 1.4 0.2 3.6 2.5
William Moynihan C 11 11 30.1 15.0 1.1 7.5 2.0 0.8 0.5 1.9 3.5
Maurice Kennedy PG 11 11 29.1 12.7 1.1 2.9 1.8 2.1 0.3 1.4 2.6
Andrew Kazmbe C 11 11 26.5 6.5 1.2 5.9 1.6 0.3 0.4 1.2 3.5
Barry Dameron SG 11 0 12.7 5.9 0.3 1.1 1.6 0.8 0.4 2.1 1.1
Eric Murillo PF 11 11 28.5 5.5 1.8 6.0 1.2 1.1 0.1 2.8 2.7
Allan Mendes SG 11 0 6.3 3.9 0.1 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.5 0.7
Andres Mathis SF 11 0 11.5 3.5 0.5 2.8 0.5 0.2 0.0 1.6 1.6
Eric Abraham PF 11 0 14.5 2.9 1.6 5.5 1.0 0.3 0.2 1.3 1.5
Bradford Guardado C 11 0 7.9 2.0 0.4 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.9 0.5 0.7
Matthew Duenas SF 1 0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
John Strange PF 2 0 4.5 0.0 1.0 1.5 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5
John Litton SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ray Garnett PG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Willis Wilson SF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

[Young Drachma]

What I am truly excited about is our recruit class for next year.

We recruited three kids that should help us a lot.

All three are west coast targets, which wasn't my original M.O, but it ended up working out for us I think.


Team Recruiting: Offered Players

Name Pos Ht Wt Rating Interest State
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Bennie Olivarez PF 6' 9" 238 ***** Committed California
Jeremy Rinaldi PG 6' 0" 173 ***** Committed Arizona
Karl Mack C 6'11" 246 *** Committed Oregon



Team Recruiting: Offered Players

Name Pos Ht Wt Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO
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Karl Mack C 6'11" 246 18.8 7.4 1.3 1.6 2.1 2.2
Bennie Olivarez PF 6' 9" 238 24.2 5.8 0.4 1.1 1.3 2.4
Jeremy Rinaldi PG 6' 0" 173 10.6 4.2 4.3 1.5 0.5 2.5

[Young Drachma]

Ok, our last non-conference game of the year is against Nebraska.

I think we can beat them, they have a better record than us, but they didn't play a schedule like we did.

I'm simming the game now and at half-time. We led the game 53-35. Sandy Ordonez has sixteen points at the half and Andy Kazmbe has 5 boards and 3 points.

Second half, we just came out and roared, keeping the lead and extending it massively and in the end, we won 101-68.

This was the sort of output I wanted from these guys, because this is the sort of team we're supposed to beat and going into the conference schedule, this is the sort of talent we'll face off against more often than not, except for the upper echelons of the conference.


Yellowstone 101, Nebraska 68

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Nebraska (8-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Gregory McBride C 27 3-4 2-2 2 8 2 5 8
Siegfried Gerneth PF 30 1-2 0-0 0 6 2 4 2
Max Lustecker SF 31 5-8 2-4 6 15 1 3 12
Hunter Bateman SG 31 12-29 1-1 2 4 3 4 29
Ellis Goodwin PG 32 3-8 2-2 0 2 5 2 8
Malcolm Cardwell C 18 0-1 0-0 2 3 0 0 0
David Bernal PG 8 2-4 2-3 0 1 0 1 7
Elden Ireland PF 5 0-2 0-0 1 2 0 2 0
David Dexter SF 18 1-5 0-0 1 3 0 3 2

Turnovers: 31 (G.McBride 2, S.Gerneth 2, M.Lustecker 7,
H.Bateman 5, E.Goodwin 4, M.Cardwell 2, D.Bernal 2,
E.Ireland 1, D.Dexter 6)
Blocked Shots: 6 (G.McBride 4, M.Cardwell 2)
Steals: 7 (S.Gerneth 2, M.Lustecker 2, H.Bateman 1,
M.Cardwell 1, D.Bernal 1)
3P FGs: 5-21 (S.Gerneth 0-1, H.Bateman 4-13, E.Goodwin
0-1, D.Bernal 1-3, D.Dexter 0-3)

Yellowstone (5-7):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 31 5-11 4-7 1 8 3 2 14
Andrew Kazmbe PF 31 4-7 1-5 1 6 1 2 9
Eric Murillo SF 30 2-5 0-0 3 6 1 3 4
Maurice Kennedy SG 30 9-17 8-9 0 1 0 4 30
Sandy Ordonez PG 34 10-12 6-8 1 1 9 1 30
Eric Abraham PF 11 1-1 0-0 2 4 0 2 2
Bradford Guardado C 7 0-1 0-0 0 3 0 0 0
Allan Mendes SG 5 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0
Barry Dameron PG 12 3-7 2-3 0 0 3 1 9
Andres Mathis SF 10 0-2 3-4 0 1 1 1 3

Turnovers: 15 (A.Kazmbe 3, E.Murillo 2, M.Kennedy 1,
S.Ordonez 4, B.Guardado 1, B.Dameron 3, A.Mathis 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (W.Moynihan 1, A.Kazmbe 2, E.Murillo
1, E.Abraham 1)
Steals: 18 (W.Moynihan 4, E.Murillo 2, M.Kennedy 5,
S.Ordonez 2, E.Abraham 1, B.Guardado 1, B.Dameron 3)
3P FGs: 9-20 (E.Murillo 0-1, M.Kennedy 4-10, S.Ordonez
4-5, B.Dameron 1-3, A.Mathis 0-1)

Player of Game: PG Sandy Ordonez (YSTON)

Game Summary:

Game Stats NEB YSTON
Halftime Score 35 53
FGM-FGA 27-63 34-63
FG% .429 .540
FTM-FTA 9-12 24-36
FT% .750 .667
3PM-3PA 5-21 9-20
3P% .238 .450
Rebounds 44 31
Assists 13 19
Steals 7 18
Blocks 6 5
Turnovers 31 15
Team Fouls 24 16

[Young Drachma]

We lost a close one to Tulsa 107-106 on a last-second shot.


Tulsa 107, Yellowstone 106

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Yellowstone (5-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 36 9-16 7-13 2 8 3 5 25
Andrew Kazmbe PF 35 3-8 4-5 2 13 2 3 10
Eric Murillo SF 31 9-11 3-5 0 5 2 3 22
Maurice Kennedy SG 34 4-11 5-6 1 5 2 4 15
Sandy Ordonez PG 35 4-9 2-4 0 0 9 1 11
Eric Abraham PF 12 2-4 3-4 1 5 1 3 9
Bradford Guardado C 7 0-1 2-2 1 2 1 0 2
Allan Mendes SG 7 1-1 0-0 1 2 0 0 2
Barry Dameron PG 15 2-3 1-4 0 1 1 0 5
Andres Mathis SF 14 1-2 2-2 0 0 0 1 5

Turnovers: 16 (W.Moynihan 1, A.Kazmbe 3, E.Murillo 1,
S.Ordonez 3, E.Abraham 1, B.Guardado 1, A.Mendes 2,
B.Dameron 2, A.Mathis 2)
Blocked Shots: 1 (E.Abraham 1)
Steals: 9 (W.Moynihan 1, E.Murillo 3, M.Kennedy 1,
S.Ordonez 1, E.Abraham 1, A.Mendes 1, B.Dameron 1)
3P FGs: 7-18 (E.Murillo 1-3, M.Kennedy 2-7, S.Ordonez
1-4, E.Abraham 2-2, A.Mathis 1-2)

Tulsa (12-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Robert Mercer C 16 3-4 3-4 0 3 0 4 9
Dewey Joplin PF 21 2-5 1-4 2 6 2 5 5
Noel Rodriquez SF 36 5-9 1-2 3 11 4 2 13
Clifton Couch SG 34 9-16 6-6 1 7 2 5 27
Everett Presnell PG 30 5-12 1-2 1 2 6 2 14
Carl Landin PF 12 3-4 0-0 1 3 0 5 6
C. Christianson PG 22 5-10 1-2 0 1 3 0 15
Jerrod Woolfolk SF 20 1-7 0-0 3 5 6 1 2
Chuck Bartels SG 17 5-10 2-2 1 3 3 4 16
Joe Reid C 17 0-1 0-2 0 5 1 2 0

Turnovers: 17 (R.Mercer 2, D.Joplin 3, N.Rodriquez 2,
E.Presnell 5, C.Landin 1, J.Woolfolk 2, C.Bartels 2)
Blocked Shots: 1 (R.Mercer 1)
Steals: 8 (R.Mercer 1, D.Joplin 1, E.Presnell 2,
J.Woolfolk 1, C.Bartels 2, J.Reid 1)
3P FGs: 16-34 (R.Mercer 0-1, N.Rodriquez 2-4, C.Couch
3-6, E.Presnell 3-6, C.Christianson 4-7, J.Woolfolk
0-2, C.Bartels 4-8)

Player of Game: SG Clifton Couch (TLSA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats YSTON TLSA
Halftime Score 49 54
FGM-FGA 35-66 38-78
FG% .530 .487
FTM-FTA 29-45 15-24
FT% .644 .625
3PM-3PA 7-18 16-34
3P% .389 .471
Rebounds 41 46
Assists 21 27
Steals 9 8
Blocks 1 1
Turnovers 16 17
Team Fouls 20 30


I'm proud of the team, again, for how they showed up in this one. Sucks to lose, but I'm confident that this is just the beginning of what ought to be a strong conference year for us, heading into the MWC tourney in two months.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the rest of our regular season schedule. I'm going to do a cursory runthrough, in part because I'm not sure how interesting it is when I go game-by-game, unless we run into something worth sharing.


Yellowstone Wolves 2015 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/15/15 at Kentucky (11-1) L 75-69 0-1
11/19/15 at UCLA (13-3) L 97-74 0-2
11/22/15 College of St. Charles (10-0) L 70-68 0-3
11/25/15 Mississippi (9-4) W 84-67 1-3
11/27/15 Creighton (5-9) L 87-82 1-4
12/03/15 Boston University (4-10) W 76-75 2-4
12/09/15 Virginia (12-3) L 75-74 2-5
12/14/15 Duke (12-1) L 78-51 2-6
12/19/15 at San Francisco (5-8) W 87-77 3-6
12/26/15 Montana (5-7) W 77-46 4-6
12/31/15 at Georgetown (8-3) L 93-84 4-7
01/04/16 Nebraska (8-4) W 101-68 5-7
01/09/16 at Tulsa (12-3) L 107-106 5-8 (0-1)
01/11/16 at Wyoming (4-8)
01/16/16 Boise State (3-9)
01/23/16 Wyoming (4-8)
01/25/16 at Colorado State (1-10)
01/30/16 Texas Christian (11-3)
02/01/16 at Texas Christian (11-3)
02/06/16 at Utah (11-3)
02/13/16 at Air Force (6-6)
02/15/16 Colorado State (1-10)
02/20/16 at Fresno State (10-3)
02/22/16 Houston (4-7)
02/27/16 Air Force (6-6)
02/29/16 Tulsa (12-3)
03/02/16 Utah (11-3)
03/05/16 at Houston (4-7)

[Young Drachma]

We got a ranked win (2/7/16) by knocking off #20 Utah 82-79. We're 11-9 on the season and 6-2 in the Mountain West.


Yellowstone 82, Utah 79

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Yellowstone (11-9):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 35 3-7 4-7 1 8 1 2 10
Andrew Kazmbe PF 13 1-4 0-0 0 3 0 4 2
Eric Murillo SF 30 3-5 2-4 2 6 1 2 9
Maurice Kennedy SG 31 6-11 2-2 0 3 0 1 17
Sandy Ordonez PG 34 3-17 12-14 0 4 8 1 19
Eric Abraham PF 15 1-2 0-0 1 5 1 4 2
Bradford Guardado PF 17 3-7 0-0 3 6 2 0 6
Allan Mendes SG 4 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 6
Barry Dameron PG 10 2-3 4-4 0 0 0 0 9
Andres Mathis SF 10 1-2 0-0 2 5 1 1 2

Turnovers: 18 (W.Moynihan 1, A.Kazmbe 1, E.Murillo 4,
M.Kennedy 1, S.Ordonez 6, E.Abraham 2, B.Dameron 3)
Blocked Shots: 4 (W.Moynihan 1, B.Guardado 3)
Steals: 9 (W.Moynihan 1, E.Murillo 1, M.Kennedy 5,
S.Ordonez 1, A.Mathis 1)
3P FGs: 8-21 (E.Murillo 1-3, M.Kennedy 3-7, S.Ordonez
1-8, A.Mendes 2-2, B.Dameron 1-1)

Utah (18-5):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Dudley Studley C 32 1-2 4-6 5 17 0 2 6
Patrick Dressler PF 30 7-14 4-6 4 10 1 2 19
Christian Loeb SF 31 4-9 2-2 0 6 1 2 10
Art Humble SG 28 7-18 0-0 1 3 1 1 17
Tony Lawrence PG 13 2-5 2-2 0 2 2 5 8
Tommy Davis PG 29 1-3 0-0 0 1 8 3 3
Edward Morello PF 5 1-4 0-0 1 1 1 1 2
Billie Lyman SF 9 3-9 0-0 1 3 2 2 7
Douglas Obryan C 12 1-2 0-0 1 2 1 1 2
Louie Sonnier SG 10 2-4 0-0 0 0 2 4 5

Turnovers: 19 (D.Studley 5, P.Dressler 2, C.Loeb 1,
A.Humble 4, T.Lawrence 1, T.Davis 4, B.Lyman 1,
D.Obryan 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (D.Studley 6)
Steals: 10 (C.Loeb 2, A.Humble 2, T.Lawrence 1, T.Davis
3, B.Lyman 1, L.Sonnier 1)
3P FGs: 9-29 (P.Dressler 1-1, C.Loeb 0-2, A.Humble
3-10, T.Lawrence 2-5, T.Davis 1-3, B.Lyman 1-5,
L.Sonnier 1-3)

Player of Game: PG Maurice Kennedy (YSTON)

Game Summary:

Game Stats YSTON UTAH
Halftime Score 39 44
FGM-FGA 25-60 29-70
FG% .417 .414
FTM-FTA 24-31 12-16
FT% .774 .750
3PM-3PA 8-21 9-29
3P% .381 .310
Rebounds 40 45
Assists 14 19
Steals 9 10
Blocks 4 6
Turnovers 18 19
Team Fouls 16 23


The rest of our schedule should yield us 6-8 more wins, which would give us a pretty good record headed into the tournament. That said, I dunno if we're really going to be anywhere close to the tournament unless we can get more wins piled up later on in this season.

Here's the current Bubble Watch as of February 7, 2016.


Bubble Watch

# Team Record RPI Rank
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1. Southern California Trojans 15-10 0.592 (35)
Quality Wins: Stanford, Wake Forest, Utah
Projection: In
2. Villanova Wildcats 15-4 0.585 (44)
Quality Wins: None
Projection: In
3. Notre Dame Fighting Irish 17-7 0.580 (48)
Quality Wins: Southern California, Virginia, Iowa State
Projection: In
4. Temple Owls 15-10 0.588 (39)
Quality Wins: Villanova, Massachusetts
Projection: In
5. Stanford Cardinal 16-9 0.578 (50)
Quality Wins: Boston College, Southern California, Oklahoma State
Projection: In
6. Boston College Golden Eagles 13-9 0.587 (40)
Quality Wins: Massachusetts, North Carolina, St. John's
Projection: In
7. Charlotte 49ers 15-8 0.580 (47)
Quality Wins: Georgetown
Projection: In
8. Louisiana State Tigers 12-8 0.589 (37)
Quality Wins: None
Projection: Out
9. Baylor Bears 10-9 0.586 (41)
Quality Wins: Louisiana State, Wichita State, Missouri
Projection: Out
10. La Salle Explorers 14-9 0.570 (60)
Quality Wins: Massachusetts, St. Bonaventure (2)
Projection: Out
11. Alabama Crimson Tide 13-10 0.575 (56)
Quality Wins: Louisiana State, Ohio State
Projection: Out
12. Georgia Bulldogs 12-9 0.579 (49)
Quality Wins: Xavier, Louisiana State, Mississippi
Projection: Out
13. Arizona Wildcats 12-8 0.575 (55)
Quality Wins: Stanford (2), Southern California, Maryland
Projection: Out
14. Florida International Golden Panthers 15-6 0.581 (46)
Quality Wins: None
Projection: Out
15. Dayton Flyers 15-8 0.562 (77)
Quality Wins: Charlotte, Tulsa
Projection: Out

[Young Drachma]

We're riding a four game win streak that began with our win with Utah. With that, we added wins against Air Force, Colorado State and Fresno State, the latter of which was 16-8 before the game started.

Here are our stats on the season. We're clearly not a team that plays defense, but our run and gun style of play is doing someting right.


Yellowstone Wolves 2015 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 72 Record Vs 1-50: 2-7
Season Record: 14-9 Record Vs 51-100: 4-1
Conference Record: 9-2 Record Vs 101-200: 3-1
Home Record: 8-4 Record Vs 200+: 5-0
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 46

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 81.7 National Rank: 6 Conference Rank: 2
Points Allowed: 74.2 National Rank: 310 Conference Rank: 12
Rebounds: 36.6 National Rank: 91 Conference Rank: 8
Assists: 17.7 National Rank: 29 Conference Rank: 5
Steals: 9.3 National Rank: 51 Conference Rank: 4
Blocks: 3.1 National Rank: 116 Conference Rank: 9
Turnovers: 15.0 National Rank: 32 Conference Rank: 2
Fouls: 19.2 National Rank: 200 Conference Rank: 10
FG%: .466 National Rank: 17 Conference Rank: 3
FT%: .704 National Rank: 87 Conference Rank: 3
3P%: .403 National Rank: 5 Conference Rank: 2

[Young Drachma]

After late February losses to Air Force and Tulsa, we squeaked out a W against Utah, we head into the conference tournament as the 4th seed.


Yellowstone Wolves 2015 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/15/15 at Kentucky (23-5) L 75-69 0-1
11/19/15 at UCLA (27-3) L 97-74 0-2
11/22/15 College of St. Charles (30-1) L 70-68 0-3
11/25/15 Mississippi (19-11) W 84-67 1-3
11/27/15 Creighton (9-19) L 87-82 1-4
12/03/15 Boston University (11-19) W 76-75 2-4
12/09/15 Virginia (20-9) L 75-74 2-5
12/14/15 Duke (25-4) L 78-51 2-6
12/19/15 at San Francisco (11-18) W 87-77 3-6
12/26/15 Montana (18-10) W 77-46 4-6
12/31/15 at Georgetown (17-11) L 93-84 4-7
01/04/16 Nebraska (12-16) W 101-68 5-7
01/09/16 at Tulsa (24-6) L 107-106 5-8 (0-1)
01/11/16 at Wyoming (10-18) W 81-59 6-8 (1-1)
01/16/16 Boise State (7-21) W 87-50 7-8 (2-1)
01/23/16 Wyoming (10-18) W 90-79 8-8 (3-1)
01/25/16 at Colorado State (7-21) W 90-84 9-8 (4-1)
01/30/16 Texas Christian (21-9) W 94-80 10-8 (5-1)
02/01/16 at Texas Christian (21-9) L 78-68 10-9 (5-2)
02/06/16 at Utah (23-9) W 82-79 11-9 (6-2)
02/13/16 at Air Force (12-16) W 77-66 12-9 (7-2)
02/15/16 Colorado State (7-21) W 103-56 13-9 (8-2)
02/20/16 at Fresno State (19-11) W 73-60 14-9 (9-2)
02/22/16 Houston (6-22) W 92-60 15-9 (10-2)
02/27/16 Air Force (12-16) L 90-88 15-10 (10-3)
02/29/16 Tulsa (24-6) L 80-77 15-11 (10-4)
03/02/16 Utah (23-9) W 81-80 16-11 (11-4)
03/05/16 at Houston (6-22) W 87-76 17-11 (12-4)
03/10/16 vs. Colorado State (7-21)


Here are the conference standings for this season:


2015 Mountain West Conference Standings

East CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Tulsa 13 3 .813 24 6 .800
Yellowstone 12 4 .750 17 11 .607
Utah 10 6 .625 23 9 .719
Texas Christian 10 6 .625 21 9 .700
Air Force 6 10 .375 12 16 .429
Wyoming 6 10 .375 10 18 .357
Colorado State 5 11 .313 7 21 .250
Houston 2 14 .125 6 22 .214

West CW CL Pct W L Pct
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#15 Gonzaga 14 2 .875 24 6 .800
#24 Brigham Young 13 3 .813 21 7 .750
UNLV 9 7 .563 18 10 .643
Fresno State 8 8 .500 19 11 .633
Nevada 7 9 .438 11 17 .393
New Mexico 5 11 .313 15 13 .536
San Diego State 4 12 .250 8 20 .286
Boise State 4 12 .250 7 21 .250

[Young Drachma]

Conference tournament is all set.

Before I get to that, here's the bubble watch. Notice that Seton Hall, the gig that I spurned to come to Yellowstone, is 20-8, rebounding from last year, by loading up on weak non-conference games and going 9-7 in the Big East to put themselves in good position to make the tourney.

But no matter, if we can notch a few wins, I like our chances.


Bubble Watch

# Team Record RPI Rank
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1. Iowa Hawkeyes 21-10 0.590 (31)
Quality Wins: Tulsa, Michigan State
Projection: In
2. Mississippi Rebels 19-11 0.584 (37)
Quality Wins: Louisiana State, Wake Forest, Arkansas
Projection: In
3. Seton Hall Pirates 20-8 0.590 (32)
Quality Wins: Villanova
Projection: In
4. Boston College Golden Eagles 18-11 0.587 (33)
Quality Wins: Massachusetts, Richmond, Virginia
Projection: In
5. Texas Christian Horned Frogs 21-9 0.582 (38)
Quality Wins: Utah
Projection: In
6. Charlotte 49ers 21-9 0.577 (44)
Quality Wins: UNC Wilmington, Wake Forest
Projection: In
7. Villanova Wildcats 20-8 0.578 (43)
Quality Wins: Seton Hall, Connecticut
Projection: In
8. Stanford Cardinal 20-11 0.576 (47)
Quality Wins: Southern California, Boston College, Oklahoma State
Projection: Out
9. Georgetown Hoyas 17-11 0.568 (52)
Quality Wins: UNC Wilmington, Seton Hall, Notre Dame
Projection: Out
10. Southern California Trojans 18-12 0.578 (42)
Quality Wins: Stanford, Utah, Wake Forest
Projection: Out
11. Massachusetts Minutemen 18-12 0.577 (46)
Quality Wins: UNC Wilmington, Charlotte (2), Temple (2)
Projection: Out
12. Alabama Crimson Tide 18-12 0.570 (51)
Quality Wins: Louisiana State, Ohio State, Arkansas
Projection: Out
13. Yellowstone Wolves 17-11 0.567 (53)
Quality Wins: Utah (2), Texas Christian, Mississippi
Projection: Out
14. Richmond Spiders 17-12 0.580 (40)
Quality Wins: Texas Christian, Wake Forest
Projection: Out
15. Saint Louis Billikens 19-9 0.559 (64)
Quality Wins: Charlotte, Missouri
Projection: Out


The tournament seeds:

1. Gonzaga
2. Tulsa
3. BYU
4. Yellowstone
5. Utah
6. TCU
7. UNLV
8. Fresno State
9. Nevada
10. Air Force
11. Wyoming
12. New Mexico
13. Colorado State

We should get past CSU, which would get us a date against the winner of Utah/New Mexico. We've owned Utah this year for some reason, so I like our chances against them. The winner of that matchup would play the Gonzaga v. Fresno State/Nevada winner. Gonzaga would be a tall order, I think, given we simply haven't beaten a team of that caliber all year and so, I dunno. But that'd be the semi-finals and I dunno if two more wins would be enough to get us into the tournament.

It'll be a close one for sure, I think and it's hard to say how it'll pan out.

[Young Drachma]

MWC Tournament 1st round

Yellowstone def. Colorado State 85-66
Fresno State def. Nevada 72-49
Utah def. New Mexico 89-68
Air Force def. UNLV 84-74
Wyoming def. TCU 61-51

[Young Drachma]

MWC TOURNAMENT QUARTER-FINALS

YELLOWSTONE 78, UTAH 70
It seems we've got their number this year. Rebounding was the name of the game, too. We outrebounded them 50-40, with major contributions from freshman Andrew Kazmbe, who logged a double double and William Moynihan, who did the same. We just played aggressive, Wolves basketball and we now have a date with Gonzaga in the next round of the tournament. The #15 Zags are going to be a formidible test.

OTHER MWC GAMES
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Gonzaga 71, Fresno State 55
Tulsa 86, Air Force 58
BYU 87, Wyoming 62


Yellowstone 78, Utah 70

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Utah (24-10):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Dudley Studley C 32 3-7 3-4 3 11 1 3 9
Patrick Dressler PF 30 3-8 4-7 2 9 3 3 10
Christian Loeb SF 29 5-12 3-4 1 5 1 2 13
Art Humble SG 27 4-9 4-4 1 6 3 2 14
Tony Lawrence PG 26 2-8 1-2 0 1 1 5 6
Tommy Davis PG 21 3-6 2-2 1 5 5 1 10
Edward Morello PF 5 0-1 1-2 0 1 0 2 1
Billie Lyman SF 11 2-5 0-0 0 2 1 1 5
Douglas Obryan C 13 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Louie Sonnier SG 6 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0

Turnovers: 17 (D.Studley 7, P.Dressler 2, C.Loeb 1,
A.Humble 3, T.Davis 2, B.Lyman 2)
Blocked Shots: 9 (D.Studley 6, P.Dressler 2, C.Loeb 1)
Steals: 7 (D.Studley 1, C.Loeb 2, A.Humble 2,
T.Lawrence 1, T.Davis 1)
3P FGs: 6-20 (D.Studley 0-1, C.Loeb 0-2, A.Humble 2-5,
T.Lawrence 1-6, T.Davis 2-3, B.Lyman 1-2, L.Sonnier
0-1)

Yellowstone (19-11):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 29 6-14 3-6 2 10 0 4 15
Andrew Kazmbe PF 27 5-12 4-4 3 10 1 4 14
Eric Murillo SF 31 2-6 2-2 5 9 4 3 6
Maurice Kennedy SG 30 4-10 0-0 3 8 4 3 12
Sandy Ordonez PG 33 6-19 1-2 1 2 5 1 16
Eric Abraham PF 13 0-1 3-4 1 7 0 1 3
Bradford Guardado C 11 1-2 0-0 0 2 0 1 2
Allan Mendes SG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Barry Dameron PG 13 2-5 2-4 1 1 2 2 6
Andres Mathis SF 9 2-2 0-0 1 1 0 2 4

Turnovers: 14 (W.Moynihan 2, A.Kazmbe 1, E.Murillo 5,
M.Kennedy 3, S.Ordonez 2, B.Dameron 1)
Blocked Shots: 7 (W.Moynihan 1, A.Kazmbe 1, E.Murillo
2, B.Guardado 3)
Steals: 7 (W.Moynihan 2, A.Kazmbe 2, E.Murillo 2,
S.Ordonez 1)
3P FGs: 7-20 (M.Kennedy 4-6, S.Ordonez 3-10, E.Abraham
0-1, B.Guardado 0-1, B.Dameron 0-2)

Player of Game: C Andrew Kazmbe (YSTON)

Game Summary:

Game Stats UTAH YSTON
Halftime Score 37 45
FGM-FGA 23-58 28-71
FG% .397 .394
FTM-FTA 18-25 15-22
FT% .720 .682
3PM-3PA 6-20 7-20
3P% .300 .350
Rebounds 40 50
Assists 15 17
Steals 7 7
Blocks 9 7
Turnovers 17 14
Team Fouls 20 21

[Young Drachma]

We just got blown out in this one. We were down 50-26 in the first half. They're just better than us, really.

So I decided to see if I couldn't intervene and help things a bit. Probably not, but...I didn't know what else to do.

I decided to set the Pace to 10, Motion and 3pt usage to 10 as well. I decided not to double team anyone on their side, made Kazmbe a key player along with Moynihan and Ordonez and went with an Auto Defense, because the 3-2 clearly wasn't getting it done.

Sandy Ordonez fouled out with about six minutes to go and I replaced him with Allan Mendes who was like the least worst option we had on the bench anyway.

With about a minute to go, we were down 66-60. I think we put up a valiant effort and maybe if I'd intervened sooner we might have won this one, but it's obvious that we just don't have the horses to compete and run a system like that this year. Next year, maybe. But for now, we'll just have to wonder what might have been.

Final score: Gonzaga 68, Yellowstone 60.


Gonzaga 68, Yellowstone 60

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Yellowstone (19-12):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 35 4-12 4-5 2 6 2 4 12
Andrew Kazmbe PF 34 3-10 2-6 4 8 2 1 8
Eric Murillo SF 35 3-6 0-0 1 2 4 2 7
Maurice Kennedy SG 33 3-7 1-1 1 2 0 3 8
Sandy Ordonez PG 31 5-14 4-4 0 1 2 5 17
Eric Abraham PF 7 0-1 0-0 1 2 0 1 0
Bradford Guardado C 4 0-0 0-0 0 3 0 0 0
Allan Mendes PG 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 0 2
Barry Dameron PG 8 3-4 0-0 0 2 0 0 6
Andres Mathis SF 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0

Turnovers: 14 (W.Moynihan 2, A.Kazmbe 1, E.Murillo 2,
M.Kennedy 1, S.Ordonez 6, B.Guardado 1, B.Dameron 1)
Blocked Shots: 0
Steals: 10 (W.Moynihan 1, E.Murillo 1, M.Kennedy 3,
S.Ordonez 3, B.Dameron 2)
3P FGs: 5-14 (E.Murillo 1-3, M.Kennedy 1-3, S.Ordonez
3-7, A.Mendes 0-1)

Gonzaga (26-6):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Rocco Evans C 21 0-0 1-2 1 5 2 1 1
Michael Webster PF 27 3-3 0-0 3 10 1 3 6
Mstislav Kamensky SF 21 3-4 2-2 1 1 0 2 9
Brett Bias SG 31 6-11 0-0 0 1 1 2 15
Francis Woods PG 31 3-6 3-3 0 3 7 2 10
Jack Broussard C 23 2-5 4-5 1 9 1 2 8
Gus Spates PF 9 2-5 0-3 2 3 1 1 4
Dalton Bower PG 4 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 2
Jason Bromley PG 5 2-2 0-0 1 1 0 0 5
Brooks Milne SF 12 2-4 0-0 0 1 1 1 5
Michael Cantor SG 16 1-8 0-0 0 1 0 0 3

Turnovers: 21 (M.Webster 2, M.Kamensky 4, B.Bias 6,
F.Woods 1, J.Broussard 1, J.Bromley 1, M.Cantor 6)
Blocked Shots: 5 (M.Webster 3, J.Broussard 1, G.Spates
1)
Steals: 6 (R.Evans 1, B.Bias 5)
3P FGs: 8-17 (M.Kamensky 1-1, B.Bias 3-6, F.Woods 1-3,
J.Bromley 1-1, B.Milne 1-1, M.Cantor 1-5)

Player of Game: PG Francis Woods (GONZG)

Game Summary:

Game Stats YSTON GONZG
Halftime Score 26 50
FGM-FGA 22-56 25-49
FG% .393 .510
FTM-FTA 11-16 10-15
FT% .688 .667
3PM-3PA 5-14 8-17
3P% .357 .471
Rebounds 26 36
Assists 11 14
Steals 10 6
Blocks 0 5
Turnovers 14 21
Team Fouls 17 14

[Young Drachma]

Gonzaga won the Mountain West Conference tournament.

I decide to watch the NCAA Tournament selection show.

Here are the seeds by region:


WEST
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1. Syracuse
2. Gonzaga
3. Oklahoma State
4. Ohio State
5. North Carolina
6. Notre Dame
7. Arizona
8. Temple
9. Iowa State
10. Iowa
11. Charlotte
12. Butler
13. Southern Illinois
14. Chicago
15. Oral Roberts
16. Bethune-Cookman



MIDWEST
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1. Kentucky
2. UCLA
3. Cincinnati
4. Texas
5. Maryland
6. Missouri
7. Indiana
8. Kent State
9. Wichita State
10. Utah
11. Western Kentucky
12. Villanova
13. Montana
14. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
15. UC Santa Barbara
16. Elon


At this point, I'm watching and it looks evident that we're not going to get in. It's hard to say, but I feel like we just don't have the resume, given that I can't see any at-large bids from our league of teams that should be in. Utah hasn't gotten in, neither has Tulsa yet. So, it's hard to say what it looks like for us, but it seems like we'll be dancing in the NIT. Which is fine, we'd probably get a lot further over there anyway.

Let's get to the rest of the brackets.

[Young Drachma]

SOUTH
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1. Miami
2. Illinois
3. Oklahoma
4. Florida
5. Michigan State
6. Wake Forest
7. Brigham Young
8. Virginia
9. Seton Hall
10. Mississippi
11. Stanford
12. San Diego
13. Bowling Green
14. George Mason
15. Winthrop
16. Cal State Fullerton/Middle Tennessee State



[I]So, one bracket to go. I don't see College of St. Charles and I don't see Tulsa. That's not good. The former, is probably hobbled by their crap conference and an upset loss in the early rounds of their tourney. But I didn't look to see how they did. Seton Hall got in, but they play in the Big East and we'd played a creampuff schedule to start the year, we'd be sitting pretty now too. In retrospect, we probably should have. Our RPI stinks and we lost too many pivotal games.

Seeing BYU get in, is a good sign, because that's two teams from our conference. But that's it. So..I dunno what to expect for this last bracket, but let's just go ahead and get it over with.

EAST
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1. Duke
2. Kansas
3. Arkansas
4. Connecticut
5. Tennessee
6. St. John's
7. St. Bonaventure
8. College of St. Charles
9. Tulsa
10. Florida International
11. TCU
12. Princeton
13. Manhattan
14. Vermont
15. Alcorn State
16. Fairleigh Dickinson


TCU and Tulsa both get in. There goes CoStC as the 8th seed. They went 30-1 this year. But all of that and we didn't make it, of course. When I saw Tulsa as a #9, I knew we weren't going to get in.

So let's see what the NIT bracket is gonna look like for us, now that we're not in.

NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT

We're the #2 seed in the NIT's south Region bracket.

We get a bye in the first round, then we'll end up playing the winner of the Purdue (16-14) v. Northern Iowa (19-12) matchup. Fresno State is the #3 in this bracket, USC is the #1 seed at 19-13.

I think this is probably the sort of tournament we need to be in and it'll be better for our guys going into next year to win more games here, than going to the NCAA's and getting blown out after one round as a #14 seed or something.

Let's see if we can rebound and be successful here. Right now, you could say that I don't look good. I left St. Charles who are still soaring high, I turned down Seton Hall who are in the tournament and I'm just playing for pennies in the NIT.

But it could be worse, we could've not made the tournament at all. And I think our tough schedule is all about getting our kids mentally tough and about building something long-lasting.

I have the support of the administration and I have a strong recruit class coming in this next year, which will help. We need depth and I think we'll get there and it'll make it all better.

[Young Drachma]

NIT SECOND ROUND

We're hosting a game against Northern Iowa in our first NIT game. We have a common opponent, as we both beat Nebraska.

I'd like to believe we can win this game, because we're battle tested.


Northern Iowa 83, Yellowstone 80

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Northern Iowa (21-12):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Darrel Chandler C 33 3-7 2-2 0 10 2 3 8
Gordon Houston PF 27 4-8 2-2 3 15 2 1 10
Devin Highsmith SF 22 2-5 2-4 0 2 0 5 6
Claude Atkins SG 33 8-18 8-10 1 5 2 4 28
Herbert Waltz PG 29 4-8 5-5 4 9 3 2 14
Arthur Mundy PF 16 5-8 0-0 1 4 1 4 10
Mitch Green PG 6 0-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 0
George Moriarty SG 12 1-3 0-1 0 0 2 5 2
George Donaldson SF 12 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Ferdinand Wilmoth SF 7 2-3 1-1 1 2 2 0 5
Erich Lee C 4 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 2 0

Turnovers: 22 (D.Chandler 7, G.Houston 3, C.Atkins 3,
H.Waltz 6, G.Donaldson 1, F.Wilmoth 1, E.Lee 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (D.Chandler 2, D.Highsmith 2, C.Atkins
1)
Steals: 8 (D.Chandler 1, C.Atkins 1, H.Waltz 3,
G.Moriarty 1, F.Wilmoth 2)
3P FGs: 5-17 (D.Highsmith 0-1, C.Atkins 4-10, H.Waltz
1-2, M.Green 0-2, G.Moriarty 0-1, G.Donaldson 0-1)

Yellowstone (19-13):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Moynihan C 24 3-6 1-5 1 8 1 4 7
Andrew Kazmbe PF 27 1-3 0-2 0 3 2 3 2
Eric Murillo SF 22 0-4 2-2 1 1 1 4 2
Maurice Kennedy SG 30 4-14 6-6 0 4 1 3 14
Sandy Ordonez PG 32 5-19 6-10 0 2 7 1 20
Eric Abraham PF 19 4-6 2-2 5 13 1 2 10
Bradford Guardado C 9 0-0 2-2 1 4 0 1 2
Allan Mendes SG 6 1-1 1-2 0 0 0 1 3
Barry Dameron PG 12 3-7 0-0 0 1 2 1 8
Andres Mathis SF 18 4-6 4-4 0 1 1 1 12

Turnovers: 15 (W.Moynihan 4, A.Kazmbe 1, E.Murillo 2,
S.Ordonez 2, E.Abraham 2, B.Guardado 1, A.Mendes 1,
B.Dameron 2)
Blocked Shots: 5 (W.Moynihan 3, E.Abraham 1, B.Dameron
1)
Steals: 8 (W.Moynihan 1, M.Kennedy 3, E.Abraham 1,
B.Dameron 1, A.Mathis 2)
3P FGs: 6-27 (M.Kennedy 0-6, S.Ordonez 4-13, E.Abraham
0-1, B.Dameron 2-5, A.Mathis 0-2)

Player of Game: SG Claude Atkins (NTHIA)

Game Summary:

Game Stats NTHIA YSTON
Halftime Score 45 38
FGM-FGA 29-64 25-66
FG% .453 .379
FTM-FTA 20-26 24-35
FT% .769 .686
3PM-3PA 5-17 6-27
3P% .294 .222
Rebounds 49 37
Assists 15 16
Steals 8 8
Blocks 5 5
Turnovers 22 15
Team Fouls 26 21


Instead, we get upset by them 83-80 and our season is over.

This is just a disappointing year and I can't wait to get better assistants and get on the road and get more depth on our bench, because we're getting killed as it is.

[Young Drachma]

2015 Season Awards

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Overall Awards:
Player of the Year: PG John Harris Ohio State
Freshman of the Year: PG Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone
Coach of the Year: Bert Northcutt Miami

All-League First Team:
C: Terrell Stripling Stanford
PF: Rodger Long Cincinnati
SF: Henry Abel Wichita State
SG: Lon Griffin Missouri
PG: John Harris Ohio State

All-League Second Team:
C: Harold Young Temple
PF: Chris Clark Oklahoma
SF: Ronald Enloe Oklahoma
SG: Jason Geiger Maryland
PG: Steven Obrian Arkansas

All-League Third Team:
C: Kent Grundy Illinois
PF: Henry Hadley Duke
SF: Clinton Jones Dayton
SG: David Fultz Arizona
PG: Wilson Ramirez Kentucky

All-Freshman Team:
C: William Moynihan Yellowstone
PF: Malik Romero Colgate
SF: Kieth Mount Temple
SG: Paul Beyer Oral Roberts
PG: Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone




2015 Mountain West Conference Awards

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Overall Awards:
Player of the Year: PG Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone
Freshman of the Year: PG Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone
Coach of the Year: Chris Fussell Gonzaga

All-League First Team:
C: William Moynihan Yellowstone
PF: Patrick Dressler Utah
SF: Noel Rodriquez Tulsa
SG: Deangelo Fierro Texas Christian
PG: Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone

All-League Second Team:
C: Jeffrey Stinnett Brigham Young
PF: Dewey Joplin Tulsa
SF: Clark Coley New Mexico
SG: Clifton Couch Tulsa
PG: Francis Woods Gonzaga

All-Freshman Team:
C: William Moynihan Yellowstone
PF: Espiridion Lozano Wyoming
SF: Andres Mathis Yellowstone
SG: Michael Cantor Gonzaga
PG: Sandy Ordonez Yellowstone

[Young Drachma]

I got job offers from Arizona State, Fordham, Mississippi State, Louisville, Richmond, USC, St. Joseph's and Vanderbilt.

I won't be accepting any of them.

[Young Drachma]

We've been invited to the Preseason NIT as the 6th seed and we'll be going.

Maybe last year's rough schedule might have helped.

[Young Drachma]

Yellowstone Wolves 2016-17 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/14/16 Florida International (0-0)
11/18/16 Hofstra (0-0)
11/22/16 vs. Marshall (0-0)
12/05/16 Providence (0-0)
12/08/16 at Ohio State (0-0)
12/11/16 at Princeton (0-0)
12/14/16 at Butler (0-0)
12/17/16 Temple (0-0)
12/20/16 Memphis (0-0)
12/27/16 Notre Dame (0-0)
01/01/17 at College of St. Charles (0-0)
01/04/17 Seton Hall (0-0)
01/07/17 Colorado State (0-0)
01/09/17 Houston (0-0)
01/14/17 at Utah (0-0)
01/16/17 Wyoming (0-0)
01/21/17 at Wyoming (0-0)
01/23/17 Air Force (0-0)
02/04/17 at Colorado State (0-0)
02/06/17 at Fresno State (0-0)
02/11/17 Utah (0-0)
02/13/17 at Air Force (0-0)
02/18/17 Texas Christian (0-0)
02/20/17 Tulsa (0-0)
02/25/17 at Houston (0-0)
02/27/17 at Texas Christian (0-0)
03/01/17 New Mexico (0-0)
03/04/17 at Tulsa (0-0)

[Young Drachma]

2016 Preseason NIT


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Seeds
1. Arizona Wildcats
2. Cincinnati Bearcats
3. Gonzaga Bulldogs
4. Indiana Hoosiers
5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
6. Yellowstone Wolves
7. Memphis Tigers
8. Fresno State Bulldogs
9. South Carolina Gamecocks
10. UNLV Runnin' Rebels
11. Marshall Thundering Herd
12. Penn State Nittany Lions
13. UTEP Miners
14. Hampton Pirates
15. Northwestern Wildcats
16. Yale Bulldogs

[muns]

DC you just get this game?

[Young Drachma]

DC you just get this game?

I owned it for years, but had to get my license from elicense, as I'd forgotten it long ago.