Adventures from Division 2

[Young Drachma]

So my last few FBCB dynasties have been false starts. Going to see if I can't do this concept and make it work. The basic premise behind the Island of Misfit Toys in FOF is taking a team and only signing undrafted free agents (UDFAs) to build your team.

With a long held fascination with empty cupboard teams in this game, for the fact that you get so many scholarships each year to play with. But I've never tried to competitive build a team with that methodology before.

So now I'm going to try and see if I can't do it. If you know me, you know I hate rules. So let's keep it simple:

1. Start with a fresh program that has no players.
2. Sign as many transfers as you can get in the first year.
3. When offering recruits, you can never sign anyone beyond a 1-star level recruit.

I felt like 1-star kids were the UDFAs of college basketball and we have no pedigree, no history to work from and I have to try to build a team using borrowed talent to start with, in the hopes that we can get it together.

There's no current restriction on transfers, but if I find that I'm fattening up too much on them, I'll start to put rules in place against them either. But I feel like that's the only way to have even an iota of success in this game, which unlikely a pro scenario has a rigid amount of talent flowing through.

For starters, I've loaded a custom D2 database. We're taking over Lindenwood University's Lions. They're moving to D2 from the NAIA where they were a perpetual national champion in the men's ranks.

There's no real blueprint to this. Just see what happens. The goal is to get the team to the NCAAs. I don't know how long it'll go on and if I'll even be able to do it. But we'll go fast-ish, mostly so that I can get some momentum. It's D2, so I doubt you care about the teams anyway. ;)

[Young Drachma]

So you get an empty roster to start. I've already recruited eight transfers and the idea now is to use those four scholarships left to get some actual recruits in here. I'd consider keeping up with the transfer market, but I feel like our best bet is to try to get as best we can in the recruiting market.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Potential

Player Pos Yr Ins Jps Fts 3ps Hnd Pas Orb Drb Psd Prd Stl Blk
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Shannon Hernandez PF So A F D F D F C C D D B C
Gary Brackett SG Jr C D D C D F D F D D D C
Clyde Nyberg C Jr C D C C C D C D C F D A
Eric Tibbetts C So C D D F C D B C C D B D
Terence Pulliam PG So C C D C C D F B C D D C
Charles Mulvaney SF So D D C C D C C C B B D C
Roman Bogan PF So D F D D F F A A D D F B
Lester Calvo SF Jr D C B C D D D C F A C C
Bryce Correll SF So D B C C C D C C D D B F



Lindenwood plays in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, where one of the teams Nebraska-Omaha is leaving to go D1 actually. So after this year, there will be 12 teams.

We have 3 scholarships for this season. I intend to rely pretty heavily on stats to see if I can't figure out who to bring in.

So here we go.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so it seems like season recaps are going to be the soup de jour. I'll profile the one-star scrubs we're bringing in and then we'll see how they do. Going to fast-sim through the season, because I'm impatient. I'd show the schedule, but it's D2 and I don't think you care.

[Young Drachma]

RECRUIT DETAILS

#10 C Charles Wilson
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Height: 6-11
Weight: 205
High School: Gloversville High School
Hometown: Gloversville, NY
GPA: 2.74
Test Score: 910
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 26 23 52 0 41 27 32 23 38 40 0 20 40 78 55 40
Potential: A D C F C C C C D C F F

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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22.8 2.7 12.5 2.2 2.0 1.13 0.3 1.6 2.6

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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8.6 14.7 .587 5.6 8.6 .651 0.0 0.0 .000

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood

RECRUIT DETAILS

#22 SG Leroy Eastman
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 193
High School: Meadowcreek High School
Hometown: Norcross, GA
GPA: 2.32
Test Score: 990
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 13 43 32 83 40 17 33 5 42 2 41 54 74 41 94 52
Potential: D C C A C C B D C C B C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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30.7 3.3 5.4 3.0 1.7 1.79 2.3 2.1 2.3

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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13.0 24.0 .541 1.5 2.6 .569 3.4 7.1 .475

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood


I went after high scoring HS kids, since evaluating one-star players is otherwise a crapshoot.

[Young Drachma]

First season is complete for Lindenwood.

Not bad with a roster full of transfers and walk-on crap.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/16/90 at Seattle Pacific 18-11 59 L 74-59 0-1
11/19/90 Montana State-Billings 7-22 254 L 51-49 0-2
11/22/90 at District of Columbia 16-13 142 W 63-56 1-2
11/24/90 McKendree 6-24 235 L 74-65 1-3
11/30/90 Palm Beach Atlantic 10-19 197 W 63-51 2-3
12/05/90 at Eastern New Mexico 12-17 217 L 50-43 2-4
12/09/90 at Shaw 17-12 46 L 75-67 2-5
12/13/90 Augustana 16-13 87 L 73-65 2-6
12/15/90 at Northeastern State 7-22 275 L 50-41 2-7
12/22/90 at #17 Fort Hays 26-3 5 L 77-69 2-8 (0-1)
12/26/90 Washburn 13-16 163 L 61-38 2-9 (0-2)
12/29/90 at Northwest Missouri 18-11 85 L 72-51 2-10 (0-3)
01/02/91 Nebraska-Omaha 10-19 216 W 62-61 3-10 (1-3)
01/05/91 #19 Central Missouri 22-7 6 L 90-68 3-11 (1-4)
01/09/91 at Emporia State 13-16 218 L 77-66 3-12 (1-5)
01/12/91 at Truman 12-17 149 L 63-50 3-13 (1-6)
01/16/91 Pittsburg State 10-19 190 W 56-53 4-13 (2-6)
01/19/91 at Southwest Baptist 18-11 86 W 84-81 5-13 (3-6)
01/23/91 Central Oklahoma 16-13 219 L 64-43 5-14
01/26/91 Missouri Southern 23-6 17 L 77-55 5-15 (3-7)
02/02/91 Emporia State 13-16 218 L 50-38 5-16 (3-8)
02/06/91 at Pittsburg State 10-19 190 L 68-53 5-17 (3-9)
02/09/91 Truman 12-17 149 W 55-42 6-17 (4-9)
02/13/91 at Nebraska-Omaha 10-19 216 L 52-35 6-18 (4-10)
02/16/91 Northwest Missouri 18-11 85 L 69-40 6-19 (4-11)
02/20/91 at Missouri Western 10-19 134 W 59-51 7-19 (5-11)
02/23/91 #17 Fort Hays 26-3 5 L 56-40 7-20 (5-12)
02/27/91 at Washburn 13-16 163 L 71-42 7-21 (5-13)
03/02/91 at Lincoln (MO) 9-20 243 L 55-46 7-22 (5-14)
03/06/91 Southwest Baptist 18-11 86 L 51-42 7-23 (5-15)




LINDENWOOD LIONS Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Charles Mulvaney SF 30 30 27.0 8.1 1.3 4.2 2.0 0.5 0.2 2.8 2.1 -7.1
Gary Brackett SF 30 0 14.2 7.3 0.6 1.7 0.5 0.4 0.0 1.6 1.8 -2.9
Ralph Enloe PG 30 30 27.4 6.8 1.2 4.0 1.9 0.4 0.2 2.6 2.1 -5.9
Charles Montalvo SG 30 30 29.8 6.8 1.1 3.6 1.4 0.5 0.2 2.7 2.0 -7.1
Roman Bogan PF 30 30 29.4 6.8 2.1 8.1 0.7 0.2 0.8 2.0 2.7 -5.6
Clyde Nyberg C 30 30 29.9 6.6 1.2 4.8 0.8 0.3 1.5 1.9 2.6 -6.7
Terence Pulliam PG 30 0 15.1 5.8 0.4 2.5 0.9 0.4 0.1 0.8 1.4 -3.8
Eric Tibbetts C 30 0 15.6 3.0 0.8 3.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.6 1.7 -4.9
Shannon Hernandez PF 27 0 5.7 1.4 0.3 0.9 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 -1.7
David Corum PG 29 0 5.1 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.4 -0.9
Bryce Correll SF 12 0 3.7 0.8 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.7 -3.3
Lester Calvo SF 4 0 5.5 0.0 0.3 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 -1.5

[Young Drachma]

I made some cuts and we're down to two scholarships for walk-ons in this 2nd season situation. Will go shopping and see what we can bring in. The goal is to schedule weak again and see what we can do in-conference. In D2, only 32 teams make the tournament, so it's really about winning the conference tourney and we need some years before we'll be in a position to (ever?) do that.

[Young Drachma]

A pretty good haul on the transfer market.

Here's our two new guys:


PLAYER DETAILS

#0 SF Gary Barrett - Lindenwood - Sophomore
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Height: 6-7
Weight: 250
High School: Poolesville High School
Hometown: Poolesville, MD

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 35 25 26 57 34 26 16 42 67 53 24 29 60 56 69 67
1990: 33 23 24 51 30 24 14 39 61 47 22 27 58 51 67 38
Potential: C C D B C C D C A B C C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 67

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1989 High School: Rated **** and #47 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1989 High School: All-State (Maryland)
1989 High School: Mr. Basketball (Maryland)
1990 Transfered from Barton




PLAYER DETAILS

#14 C Clarence Jones - Lindenwood - Sophomore
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Height: 6-11
Weight: 277
High School: Plainfield High School
Hometown: Plainfield, NJ

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 27 18 32 0 25 24 35 28 62 43 30 48 26 71 32 82
1990: 25 16 30 0 23 22 33 26 52 41 28 44 24 71 31 74
Potential: D D D F C D C C A C C C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 27

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1989 High School: Rated ** and #479 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1990 Transfered from West Chester



What's cool about the 2nd kid, that I didn't even notice when I was recruiting him (I had some other kids I preferred ahead of him, honestly..) is that he's from my real-life hometown. Sort of neat.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the Year 2 roster:


LINDENWOOD LIONS Offense

Player Pos Ht Wt Yr Ins Jps Fts 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp
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Clyde Nyberg C 6-8 246 Sr 36 18 46 45 33 31 36 19 91 29
Eric Tibbetts C 6-8 266 Jr 31 15 23 0 40 14 60 17 76 42
Clarence Jones C 6-11 277 So 27 18 32 0 25 24 35 26 71 32
Charles Wilson C 6-11 205 Fr 26 23 52 0 29 27 32 28 78 46
Shannon Hernandez PF 6-7 208 Jr 55 9 37 6 21 12 39 23 61 43
Roman Bogan PF 6-6 218 Jr 23 15 29 28 8 6 58 38 75 52
Matthew Rogers PF 6-10 222 Fr 15 5 23 0 35 6 15 31 64 51
Lester Calvo SF 6-7 245 Sr 19 25 68 48 31 24 25 55 59 46
Gary Brackett SF 6-2 178 Sr 46 39 24 47 17 8 35 71 48 77
Bryce Correll SF 6-6 217 Jr 15 46 55 45 36 29 29 61 47 42
Charles Mulvaney SF 6-4 241 Jr 27 24 45 47 23 46 37 55 59 51
Gary Barrett SF 6-7 250 So 35 25 26 57 34 26 16 60 56 69
Leroy Eastman SG 6-5 193 Fr 13 30 32 69 40 17 47 74 44 94
Warren Cardoso SG 6-3 202 Fr 43 15 38 42 11 29 7 76 49 67
Terence Pulliam PG 5-10 185 Jr 30 55 35 50 48 21 12 76 32 81

[Young Drachma]

Partially because I'm recruiting lazy, I've decided to push back my recruiting process to make it harder. So now, I get to start recruiting beginning in February, so it gives me less time to seal the deal, even though I'm only recruiting 1-star capped players anyway. But it'll make the process more realistic anyway and also, it gives me less time to pour over guys I want since they might not be there when I want them in the late winter.

[rjolley]

I'm following along, especially since you're in my former conference.

[Young Drachma]

Here's how season 2 went:


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/17/91 Montana State-Billings 12-20 81 L 57-55 0-1
11/22/91 at Western Oregon 13-17 200 L 69-66 0-2
11/26/91 Lewis 7-23 259 W 77-69 1-2
12/01/91 Missouri S&T 20-12 66 L 62-41 1-3
12/06/91 at Missouri-St. Louis 14-17 196 L 77-69 1-4
12/13/91 at Morehouse 11-18 258 W 73-64 2-4
12/17/91 Colorado-Colorado Springs 14-16 177 W 72-48 3-4
12/23/91 at McKendree 7-22 268 W 87-79 4-4
12/28/91 at Pittsburg State 11-19 260 W 77-67 5-4 (1-0)
01/01/92 Missouri Southern 21-11 60 L 55-46 5-5 (1-1)
01/04/92 at Southwest Baptist 15-16 96 W 67-55 6-5 (2-1)
01/08/92 Missouri Western 11-19 197 L 61-59 6-6 (2-2)
01/11/92 Lincoln (MO) 15-16 107 L 68-61 6-7 (2-3)
01/15/92 at #8 Central Missouri 30-4 9 L 88-56 6-8 (2-4)
01/18/92 Washburn 19-12 91 L 83-57 6-9 (2-5)
01/22/92 Emporia State 15-16 174 L 61-50 6-10 (2-6)
01/25/92 at Northwest Missouri 15-16 150 L 78-50 6-11 (2-7)
01/29/92 Southwest Baptist 15-16 96 W 77-74 7-11 (3-7)
02/01/92 at Missouri Western 11-19 197 L 79-72 7-12 (3-8)
02/05/92 at Truman 7-23 252 L 77-76 7-13 (3-9)
02/08/92 #8 Central Missouri 30-4 9 L 85-51 7-14 (3-10)
02/12/92 at Lincoln (MO) 15-16 107 W 70-61 8-14 (4-10)
02/15/92 Pittsburg State 11-19 260 L 68-64 8-15 (4-11)
02/19/92 at Emporia State 15-16 174 W 78-45 9-15 (5-11)
02/22/92 Northwest Missouri 15-16 150 L 68-49 9-16 (5-12)
02/26/92 at Missouri Southern 21-11 60 L 61-51 9-17 (5-13)
02/29/92 Fort Hays 16-15 149 L 83-70 9-18 (5-14)
03/02/92 at Palm Beach Atlantic 11-18 274 L 74-46 9-19
03/04/92 at Washburn 19-12 91 L 60-52 9-20 (5-15)
03/08/92 vs. Northwest Missouri 15-16 150 L 91-85 9-21

[Young Drachma]

Here's our two recruits this period:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#11 PG Jermaine Clarke
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 187
High School: A-C Central High School
Hometown: Ashland, IL
GPA: 2.75
Test Score: 1230
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 15 25 52 34 40 61 38 40 16 21 17 32 92 41 53 51
Potential: D C C D C A D B D C F C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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13.6 1.3 7.0 10.3 2.6 4.04 1.2 1.1 3.4

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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6.0 12.5 .476 1.0 1.7 .588 0.7 2.8 .232

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: #40 PG, Midwest Region #60 Overall, Midwest Region #10 PG
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Missouri-St. Louis, Drury, Nebraska-Kearney, Upper Iowa




RECRUIT DETAILS

#41 SG Eric Musselman
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 181
High School: St. Charles West High School
Hometown: St Charles, MO
GPA: 2.42
Test Score: 940
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 17 50 48 63 23 44 13 12 33 13 44 35 69 37 90 56
Potential: F B C B C C F F C F C C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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19.3 1.3 3.6 5.8 2.4 2.47 1.5 1.1 2.2

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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7.9 16.4 .482 1.5 2.1 .732 2.0 5.6 .351

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: All-State
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Truman, Southwest Minnesota

[Young Drachma]

Where our current recruiting class stacks up:


1991 Recruiting Rankings

# Team Conference Best Player Rtg 5* 4* 3* 2* 1*
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13. Fort Hays MIAA SG Angelo Myers **** 0 2 2 0 1
18. Central Missouri MIAA C Pierre Brown **** 0 3 0 0 0
30. Northwest Missouri MIAA PG Arthur Wolfgang **** 0 1 2 0 0
33. Missouri Southern MIAA PG Laurence Ericson **** 0 1 1 1 0
55. Lincoln (MO) MIAA SF Noe Harrigan *** 0 0 2 3 1
133. Pittsburg State MIAA C Daniel Nunn *** 0 0 1 0 3
151. Lindenwood MIAA PG Jermaine Clarke *** 0 0 1 0 1
158. Washburn MIAA C Alvin Ahn *** 0 0 1 0 3
181. Emporia State MIAA PG Mikel Lee *** 0 0 1 0 2
195. Southwest Baptist MIAA PF Stephen Brown *** 0 0 1 0 3
205. Truman MIAA SG Mark Gallagher *** 0 0 1 0 0
275. Missouri Western MIAA SF Reuben Hill * 0 0 0 0 1

[Young Drachma]

I was wrong. There are 64 teams in the D2 tournament, the seeding is just fucked up and so I got confused. (And also apparently, didn't just count the bracket and see 16 teams in each even though there are 8 #1 seeds) but anyway...we'll be expanding next year's tournament to 64 teams as a result of this revelation.

[lcjjdnh]

Following as always.

But am I missing something? Why'd you recruit Clarke if he's 3-stars?

[Young Drachma]

Following as always.

But am I missing something? Why'd you recruit Clarke if he's 3-stars?

Shit, sorry. I didn't even notice. I was doing a lot of autopilot when I was at work today, came home and just wanted to get through it. I wasn't paying close enough attention. (Clearly, I posted it without even thinking about it.)

This question gave me an idea though. And I'll cut him.

[Young Drachma]

I'm curious to see the impact that good coaching & scouting can do for a program that doesn't have the otherwise resources to compete. Because I've simmed and played enough to know that just a team of 1-star players alone isn't really going to do much. FBCB isn't FOF and you don't get years to develop guys before they leave.

So what I'm going to do is essentially make sure the program always has top assistants, but otherwise prevent us from recruiting anyone -- even transfers that are higher than one star -- then we can see how much of an impact the coaching staff is having developing players, we won't be praying for someone magical to come through the door in the form of an awesome recruiting who falls to us and then we can build around; and instead we can just have a team of unheralded guys that we develop and see how they win.

That seems like a far more realistic basketball model.

[Young Drachma]

So we're going to head into this next transfer phase with two scholarships, thanks to the cut 3-star kid that didn't qualify (that's our story and we're sticking to it.) and one other scholarship we didn't manage to give out.

[Young Drachma]

It won't let me cut the 3-star kid, so I just made him draft eligible for the upcoming year and we'll redshirt him to boot. (That ought to help his draft stock, heh.)

Meanwhile, we had one transfer spot and I got no one, because the game crashed before I could save and on the 2nd go-round, I didn't get anyone because I had no scholie since I ended up trying to release the other kid late. We'll just go without for this year.

[Young Drachma]

The good news is heading into this recruiting season we have FIVE scholarships to work with. Let's see what we can get in terms of one-star talent. My goal is still to maximize HS talent from good states and kids who played at a high level.

[Young Drachma]

LINDENWOOD LIONS Potential

Player Pos Yr Ins Jps Fts 3ps Hnd Pas Orb Drb Psd Prd Stl Blk
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Clarence Jones C Jr D D D F C D C C A C C C
Roman Bogan PF Sr D F D D F F A A D D F B
Gary Barrett SF Jr C C D B C C D C A B C C
Leroy Eastman SG So D C C A C D B F C D B C
Terence Pulliam PG Sr C C D C C D F B C D D C
Charles Mulvaney SF Sr D D C C D C C C B B D C
Marcos Lail PG Fr F C C B C B D C D B F C
Bryce Correll SG Sr D B C C C D C C D D B F
Shannon Hernandez PF Jr* A F D F D F C C D D B C
Eric Tibbetts C Jr* C D D F C D B C C D B D
Warren Cardoso SG Fr* C D C C D D F D D B F F
Alex Jacinto C Fr D F D F C D C A C F C D
Charles Wilson C So C D C F D C C C D C F D
Matthew Rogers PF So D F D F C F D D D F D F


That's our team this year with potential for each guy.

[Young Drachma]

It seems we've turned a corner. Good coaching coupled with a bit of talent goes a long way, it seems. Still, I like this precedent because it means we have to continue to be good and find ways to sustain the success. And since Lindenwood had been good at the NAIA level, this isn't completely insane.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/13/92 at Alaska-Anchorage 13-18 132 L 70-54 0-1
11/20/92 McKendree 10-20 192 W 67-64 1-1
11/28/92 Saginaw Valley 13-16 180 L 66-63 1-2
12/05/92 Mars Hill 23-9 43 W 56-38 2-2
12/15/92 Missouri-St. Louis 20-11 103 L 70-57 2-3
12/18/92 Charleston 24-8 25 W 74-69 3-3
12/20/92 at Nebraska-Scottsbluff 12-17 211 L 70-61 3-4
12/23/92 at Colorado-Colorado Springs 13-16 172 W 73-64 4-4
12/26/92 at Southwest Baptist 11-20 226 L 58-48 4-5 (0-1)
12/30/92 Missouri Southern 22-10 30 L 85-60 4-6 (0-2)
01/02/93 at Washburn 15-17 77 W 75-66 5-6 (1-2)
01/06/93 at Emporia State 16-17 167 L 70-61 5-7 (1-3)
01/09/93 Lincoln (MO) 18-12 76 W 77-76 6-7 (2-3)
01/13/93 Truman 15-15 112 W 61-55 7-7 (3-3)
01/16/93 at #6 Central Missouri 27-3 9 L 64-56 7-8 (3-4)
01/20/93 Northwest Missouri 14-16 110 W 65-56 8-8 (4-4)
01/23/93 Pittsburg State 8-22 176 L 71-62 8-9 (4-5)
01/27/93 at Lincoln (MO) 18-12 76 W 85-83 9-9 (5-5)
01/30/93 Southwest Baptist 11-20 226 W 83-71 10-9 (6-5)
02/03/93 Fort Hays 15-15 191 L 95-88 10-10 (6-6)
02/06/93 at Northwest Missouri 14-16 110 W 70-59 11-10 (7-6)
02/10/93 Emporia State 16-17 167 W 72-51 12-10 (8-6)
02/13/93 at Pittsburg State 8-22 176 W 62-53 13-10 (9-6)
02/17/93 at Missouri Southern 22-10 30 W 47-43 14-10 (10-6)
02/20/93 at Truman 15-15 112 W 59-56 15-10 (11-6)
02/24/93 at Missouri Western 14-17 97 W 70-62 16-10 (12-6)
02/27/93 Washburn 15-17 77 W 84-78 17-10 (13-6)
03/01/93 at Missouri S&T 5-24 272 W 53-33 18-10
03/03/93 #6 Central Missouri 27-3 9 L 81-52 18-11 (13-7)
03/08/93 vs. Southwest Baptist 11-20 226 W 65-47 19-11
03/09/93 vs. Missouri Southern 22-10 30 L 53-52 19-12
03/19/93 vs. #11 C.W. Post 28-4 16




So thanks to the expanded tournament, Lindenwood makes the field of 64 for the first time, entering as a #6 seed in the Atlantic Subregional after losing 52-52 to #2 Missouri Southern in the MIAA conference tourney semi-finals.

D2 does 8 top seeds in its tournament and then the Elite 8 is played in the same location, rather than just the last four. So we'll sim the same way. Our conference had 4 bids to the tournament this year.

We'll take on a #3 seed in C.W. Post who went 28-4 this year and won their conference title. They're a lot better than us and I don't see how we have a prayer of beating them. How's that for a confidence boost?

#11 C.W. POST PIONEERS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 86 Record Vs 1-50: 6-2 Poll Rank: #11
Season Record: 28-4 Record Vs 51-100: 4-0 RPI Rank: #16
Conference Record: 12-2 Record Vs 101-200: 11-2
Home Record: 15-1 Record Vs 200+: 7-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Points 79.0 1 26 Points 62.4 1 9 Points 16.6 1 11
O.Reb 11.9 3 76 O.Reb 10.5 4 103 O.Reb 1.4 2 64
D.Reb 28.5 1 4 D.Reb 23.3 3 45 D.Reb 5.2 1 5
Rebounds 40.4 1 10 Rebounds 33.8 3 52 Rebounds 6.6 1 8
Assists 17.2 1 16 Assists 12.5 2 45 Assists 4.7 1 13
Steals 6.9 2 59 Steals 5.9 4 168 Steals 1.0 2 65
Blocks 8.7 1 3 Blocks 4.8 7 276 Blocks 3.9 1 8
Turnovers 14.3 3 173 Turnovers 17.1 1 11 Turnovers -2.8 1 35
Fouls 17.7 1 22 Fouls 21.2 1 29 Fouls -3.5 1 10
FG% .481 1 10 FG% .381 1 4 FG% .101 1 2
FT% .668 5 186 FT% .676 3 106 FT% -.008 4 168
3P% .382 4 35 3P% .357 6 209 3P% .025 4 72
PPS 1.36 2 14 PPS 1.08 1 5 PPS .279 1 2
Adj. FG% .532 3 26 Adj. FG% .443 1 5 Adj. FG% .089 2 9

[Young Drachma]

It went better than I anticipated, in a weird way:


C.W. Post 55, Lindenwood 32

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Lindenwood (19-13, 13-7):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clarence Jones C 34 0-7 0-0 0 3 1 1 0
Roman Bogan PF 32 0-2 2-2 4 14 0 4 2
Gary Barrett SF 25 1-6 1-2 1 4 0 4 4
Leroy Eastman SG 29 2-9 0-0 2 2 0 2 5
Terence Pulliam PG 34 1-8 0-0 1 4 0 1 2
Charles Mulvaney SF 17 3-5 2-2 0 3 1 1 9
Marcos Lail SG 11 3-4 0-1 1 1 1 0 8
Bryce Correll SF 6 1-2 0-0 1 1 0 1 2
Shannon Hernandez PF 9 0-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Eric Tibbetts C 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Matthew Rogers PF 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 17 (C.Jones 4, R.Bogan 1, G.Barrett 3,
L.Eastman 2, T.Pulliam 4, C.Mulvaney 2, B.Correll 1)
Blocked Shots: 7 (C.Jones 3, R.Bogan 1, G.Barrett 1,
C.Mulvaney 2)
Steals: 3 (C.Jones 1, L.Eastman 1, M.Lail 1)
3P FGs: 5-24 (R.Bogan 0-1, G.Barrett 1-5, L.Eastman
1-7, T.Pulliam 0-4, C.Mulvaney 1-3, M.Lail 2-2,
B.Correll 0-1, M.Rogers 0-1)

C.W. Post (29-4, 12-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
William Miles PF 28 2-7 2-3 1 8 0 1 6
Harold Robinson C 34 1-6 1-2 2 4 1 1 3
Robbie Deltoro SF 16 1-5 0-0 3 3 1 4 2
Charles Robb SG 33 5-9 0-2 1 8 3 2 12
Henry Jones PG 27 7-12 1-1 2 3 1 1 17
Rod Schlueter SF 19 0-3 4-6 1 3 1 1 4
Patrick Lopez PG 13 1-4 0-0 1 3 3 3 2
Val Fuller SG 15 1-2 2-2 0 1 0 1 5
Devin Hinson PF 11 1-1 0-0 0 4 0 0 2
Kirby Lira PF 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 2
Eldridge Prine C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Myron Bliss SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 8 (W.Miles 1, H.Robinson 1, R.Deltoro 1,
C.Robb 3, P.Lopez 2)
Blocked Shots: 3 (W.Miles 2, D.Hinson 1)
Steals: 9 (W.Miles 1, R.Deltoro 1, C.Robb 1, H.Jones 2,
R.Schlueter 2, V.Fuller 2)
3P FGs: 5-16 (H.Robinson 0-3, R.Deltoro 0-1, C.Robb
2-4, H.Jones 2-6, P.Lopez 0-1, V.Fuller 1-1)

Player of Game: PG Henry Jones (CWP)



Great experience for our kids to see what the NCAAs are like and now, we'll go out and try to replicate this experience.

[Young Drachma]

We have our own fab five coming forward this year. I'm pretty pleased with them and looking forward to seeing what they can do for us.



RECRUIT DETAILS

#32 PF Dorsey Brayton
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Height: 6-9
Weight: 210
High School: Greenfield High School
Hometown: Greenfield, IL
GPA: 2.78
Test Score: 1060
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 31 37 30 25 33 15 28 67 0 27 33 24 37 46 39 57
Potential: C A C C D D C A F C D C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15.6 2.1 12.7 1.6 3.0 0.53 1.4 1.4 3.5

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6.6 11.8 .562 2.3 4.1 .561 0.1 0.5 .111

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Truman

RECRUIT DETAILS

#34 PF Lazare Waymel
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Height: 6-6
Weight: 200
High School:
Hometown: Beziers, France
GPA: 2.60
Test Score: 1150
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 21 41 28 6 39 10 65 49 15 29 17 63 20 67 43 27
Potential: D C D F C F A B D C D B

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11.6 4.3 11.3 0.4 2.0 0.21 0.9 2.3 3.4

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5.2 9.8 .531 1.2 2.6 .451 0.0 0.2 .000

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: Foreign #45 Overall, Foreign #13 PF
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood

RECRUIT DETAILS

#13 SG Garth Latham
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Height: 5-10
Weight: 181
High School: Wayne County High School
Hometown: Monticello, KY
GPA: 2.42
Test Score: 960
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 22 63 43 66 5 16 39 20 55 4 0 31 83 34 89 50
Potential: C B B B F D C D C F D C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
27.2 1.6 3.7 2.5 3.2 0.77 0.5 0.7 3.2

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10.8 21.7 .497 2.2 3.1 .710 3.5 8.9 .390

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Concord

RECRUIT DETAILS

#51 SG Rohan Thompson
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Height: 6-4
Weight: 185
High School:
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia
GPA: 3.03
Test Score: 1200
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 36 37 27 49 11 19 18 35 16 34 22 25 80 43 89 42
Potential: B D C C B B D C F C D D

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
19.6 1.7 6.8 3.3 3.0 1.12 1.4 0.8 1.9

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8.0 16.9 .475 2.2 4.0 .550 1.4 4.9 .276

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: Foreign #32 Overall, Foreign #7 SG
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood

RECRUIT DETAILS

#45 PG Paul Napoli
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Height: 5-11
Weight: 169
High School: Dickson County Senior High School
Hometown: Dickson, TN
GPA: 2.91
Test Score: 1110
Rating: *

Attributes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 65 41 62 30 44 43 9 36 18 39 0 35 86 40 42 39
Potential: B C A D C C F C C D F C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10.7 1.0 4.4 4.1 2.4 1.72 0.4 0.9 3.1

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4.8 11.3 .425 0.6 0.9 .667 0.5 3.7 .137

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: All-State
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, LeMoyne-Owen

[britrock88]

What a bunch! A 6'9" jump-shooter, a 6'6" shot-blocker, a drive-and-dish point forward, a 5'11" post player, and a 5'10" shooting guard!

[Young Drachma]

C Charles Wilson decided to transfer. We'll need to replace him this off-season I guess.

We do so with this guy:


PLAYER DETAILS

#21 SF Levi Wells - Lindenwood - Sophomore
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Height: 6-6
Weight: 242
High School: Decatur High School
Hometown: Decatur, GA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 39 42 71 39 42 11 68 22 13 25 22 32 45 46 40 54
1992: 37 36 63 35 38 11 64 20 13 23 20 30 42 40 40 44
Potential: C B B C C D B D F D D C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 74

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1991 High School: Rated * and #694 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1992 Transfered from North Georgia

[Young Drachma]

Easily our most difficult schedule is forthcoming this year, but I wanted to challenge the team. Hope it pays off:


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/13/93 at Alaska-Fairbanks 0-0 44
11/15/93 at Alaska-Anchorage 0-0 141
11/27/93 #1 Central Washington 0-0 2
12/08/93 at Quincy 0-0 151
12/10/93 at Maryville 0-0 158
12/12/93 #9 West Liberty 0-0 14
12/18/93 New Mexico Highlands 0-0 270
12/23/93 at McKendree 0-0 190
12/25/93 Washburn 0-0 78
12/29/93 at Northwest Missouri 0-0 112
01/01/94 at Truman 0-0 110
01/05/94 at Missouri Western 0-0 96
01/08/94 Fort Hays 0-0 189
01/12/94 Missouri Southern 0-0 19
01/15/94 Emporia State 0-0 167
01/19/94 Lincoln (MO) 0-0 68
01/22/94 at Southwest Baptist 0-0 224
01/26/94 at Washburn 0-0 78
01/29/94 Truman 0-0 110
02/02/94 at Missouri Southern 0-0 19
02/05/94 at Emporia State 0-0 167
02/09/94 at Lincoln (MO) 0-0 68
02/12/94 Southwest Baptist 0-0 224
02/16/94 Northwest Missouri 0-0 112
02/19/94 at Fort Hays 0-0 189
02/23/94 Missouri Western 0-0 96
02/26/94 at #6 Central Missouri 0-0 4
02/28/94 at Mars Hill 0-0 38
03/02/94 Pittsburg State 0-0 181

[Young Drachma]

We have four scholarships for next year, so we can match the Fab 5 with a pretty awesome four if we play our cards right.

[Young Drachma]

After reeling off 9-straight wins, we went in February excited that this would be a breakout year. It was not meant to be.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/13/93 at Alaska-Fairbanks 19-12 44 L 82-60 0-1
11/15/93 at Alaska-Anchorage 11-18 106 L 66-60 0-2
11/27/93 #5 Central Washington 31-1 2 L 70-36 0-3
12/08/93 at Quincy 21-11 56 W 59-58 1-3
12/10/93 at Maryville 10-21 232 W 65-56 2-3
12/12/93 #6 West Liberty 29-2 9 L 87-47 2-4
12/18/93 New Mexico Highlands 6-23 280 W 69-43 3-4
12/23/93 at McKendree 10-20 118 W 56-44 4-4
12/25/93 Washburn 16-16 167 W 65-57 5-4 (1-0)
12/29/93 at Northwest Missouri 18-12 116 L 76-64 5-5 (1-1)
01/01/94 at Truman 10-21 178 W 65-56 6-5 (2-1)
01/05/94 at Missouri Western 7-23 264 W 91-76 7-5 (3-1)
01/08/94 Fort Hays 13-18 220 W 62-58 8-5 (4-1)
01/12/94 Missouri Southern 24-8 33 W 68-65 9-5 (5-1)
01/15/94 Emporia State 12-18 252 W 91-74 10-5 (6-1)
01/19/94 Lincoln (MO) 13-19 145 W 90-69 11-5 (7-1)
01/22/94 at Southwest Baptist 12-18 241 W 75-63 12-5 (8-1)
01/26/94 at Washburn 16-16 167 W 65-57 13-5 (9-1)
01/29/94 Truman 10-21 178 W 66-52 14-5 (10-1)
02/02/94 at Missouri Southern 24-8 33 L 81-56 14-6 (10-2)
02/05/94 at Emporia State 12-18 252 L 66-45 14-7 (10-3)
02/09/94 at Lincoln (MO) 13-19 145 W 58-57 15-7 (11-3)
02/12/94 Southwest Baptist 12-18 241 L 70-62 15-8 (11-4)
02/16/94 Northwest Missouri 18-12 116 L 75-62 15-9 (11-5)
02/19/94 at Fort Hays 13-18 220 L 68-57 15-10 (11-6)
02/23/94 Missouri Western 7-23 264 W 77-62 16-10 (12-6)
02/26/94 at #11 Central Missouri 28-4 24 L 69-56 16-11 (12-7)
02/28/94 at Mars Hill 14-16 158 L 90-85 16-12
03/02/94 Pittsburg State 10-20 224 L 65-62 16-13 (12-8)
03/07/94 vs. Washburn 16-16 167 L 72-69 16-14



LINDENWOOD LIONS Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Gary Barrett SF 30 30 33.0 14.9 1.0 6.4 1.8 0.7 0.4 3.2 3.0 -1.4
Leroy Eastman SG 30 30 31.9 10.8 2.6 4.4 2.4 0.9 0.3 2.3 2.3 0.1
Clarence Jones C 30 30 31.2 5.4 1.7 6.3 0.9 0.7 2.0 1.6 3.3 -1.6
Shannon Hernandez PF 30 30 30.7 10.3 1.8 5.7 1.1 0.7 0.4 1.5 3.3 0.3
Marcos Lail PG 30 30 29.1 5.6 0.7 2.8 2.7 0.3 0.2 2.4 2.4 -1.4
Paul Napoli PG 30 0 15.1 8.6 0.3 1.7 1.0 0.3 0.1 1.0 1.5 0.8
Eric Tibbetts PF 30 0 12.6 2.9 1.0 3.5 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.4 1.5 -2.3
Warren Cardoso SF 22 0 7.8 2.7 0.1 1.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.0 0.9 -0.4
Rohan Thompson SF 29 0 6.4 2.6 0.2 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.7 0.6 -0.3
Alex Jacinto C 26 0 3.9 1.4 0.8 1.6 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.6
Garth Latham SG 14 0 2.6 1.1 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Dorsey Brayton PF 6 0 1.3 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 2.3
Levi Wells SF 3 0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -0.3
Matthew Rogers PF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Lazare Waymel PF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Here's our recruiting class for this year:



RECRUIT DETAILS

#51 PF Joshua Fitzgerald
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Height: 6-8
Weight: 239
High School: Valmeyer High School
Hometown: Valmeyer, IL
GPA: 2.69
Test Score: 980
Rating: *

Attributes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 44 37 17 15 11 27 24 35 35 14 9 22 27 82 49 56
Potential: B C D F D D D A D D C D

Season Stats:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20.7 2.1 11.7 1.6 2.2 0.72 0.5 1.0 2.5

Shooting Averages:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7.8 12.9 .607 5.1 8.0 .638 0.0 0.0 .000

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood


RECRUIT DETAILS

#25 PF Kevin Vanhoose
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Height: 7-0
Weight: 214
JC: North Carolina CC
High School: Junius H. Rose High School
Hometown: Greenville, NC
GPA: 2.11
Test Score: 1050
Rating: *

Attributes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 46 23 36 23 0 31 29 36 24 56 42 35 32 69 39 74
Potential: B D C D F C D C D C C C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
19.0 1.9 5.4 1.4 3.5 0.41 1.6 1.5 3.6

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7.9 13.2 .595 3.2 5.1 .634 0.1 0.5 .111

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JC Player: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood


RECRUIT DETAILS

#53 PG Freddie Brown
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 201
JC: Michigan CC
High School: Whiteford High School
Hometown: Ottawa Lake, MI
GPA: 3.07
Test Score: 970
Rating: *

Attributes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 47 26 60 70 37 41 34 25 13 65 80 26 82 29 67 53
Potential: C B C B C C B D F B B C

Season Stats:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
14.8 2.2 7.1 3.8 2.7 1.39 3.0 0.8 1.8

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5.7 13.9 .412 0.7 1.1 .667 2.7 8.2 .323

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JC Player: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood


RECRUIT DETAILS

#11 PG Henry Starks
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Height: 6-0
Weight: 182
High School: Owensboro High School
Hometown: Owensboro, KY
GPA: 2.37
Test Score: 1000
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 23 34 50 39 56 21 12 24 25 23 41 40 75 25 72 37
Potential: D B B D C D D C C D C C

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
21.2 1.4 5.3 3.8 2.1 1.83 2.5 1.0 2.7

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9.6 18.8 .511 1.1 1.7 .618 0.9 2.1 .429

Recruiting Notes:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: All-State
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood

[Young Drachma]

Here's our one transfer for this year. We lost two of our players last year (the two who never played and weren't redshirted.)


PLAYER DETAILS

#15 SG Joshua Kulp - Lindenwood - Sophomore
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Height: 6-3
Weight: 174
High School: Starmount High School
Hometown: Boonville, NC

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 27 64 52 26 31 27 33 8 29 20 15 13 67 35 85 52
1993: 25 58 48 24 27 25 31 8 27 18 13 13 66 31 82 15
Potential: D A C D C D C F C D F F

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 20

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
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1993 High School: Rated * and #1029 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1993 Walked on at UNC-Pembroke
1993 Transfered from UNC-Pembroke

[CrimsonFox]

Where's Charlie in the box? :)

[Young Drachma]

Where's Charlie in the box? :)

Who? :)

[CrimsonFox]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PHRvXErr9r0/Sxa7eVtvJCI/AAAAAAAAAx0/uky8QG1n3Z0/s320/282px-CharlieBox.jpg

[Young Drachma]

Another year of meltdowns in February, but we rebounded in the conference tournament before getting bounced by #1 Central Missouri. Wasn't enough to get us back into the tournament though.



LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/13/94 at Chadron State 5-24 266 W 76-55 1-0
11/17/94 Virginia State 15-18 118 L 71-59 1-1
11/19/94 at New Mexico Highlands 11-18 199 W 92-74 2-1
11/24/94 Virginia Union 8-21 183 W 74-62 3-1
11/26/94 Missouri-St. Louis 17-14 156 W 61-60 4-1
12/03/94 Missouri S&T 9-21 145 W 86-62 5-1
12/10/94 at Alaska-Fairbanks 16-15 88 W 67-63 6-1
12/18/94 McKendree 10-19 188 L 66-53 6-2
12/24/94 at #11 Central Missouri 28-4 9 W 87-76 7-2 (1-0)
12/28/94 Emporia State 16-14 176 W 86-66 8-2 (2-0)
12/31/94 at Missouri Western 7-23 241 L 76-72 8-3 (2-1)
01/04/95 Lincoln (MO) 10-20 207 W 67-53 9-3 (3-1)
01/07/95 Pittsburg State 8-22 233 W 82-81 10-3 (4-1)
01/11/95 Fort Hays 17-13 129 L 78-49 10-4 (4-2)
01/14/95 at Washburn 18-14 81 L 75-67 10-5 (4-3)
01/18/95 at Northwest Missouri 18-12 98 W 66-62 11-5 (5-3)
01/21/95 Southwest Baptist 13-18 179 W 81-74 12-5 (6-3)
01/25/95 Missouri Western 7-23 241 W 74-61 13-5 (7-3)
01/28/95 at Pittsburg State 8-22 233 W 72-63 14-5 (8-3)
02/01/95 at Lincoln (MO) 10-20 207 W 84-76 15-5 (9-3)
02/04/95 Northwest Missouri 18-12 98 L 87-84 15-6 (9-4)
02/08/95 at Fort Hays 17-13 129 L 66-65 15-7 (9-5)
02/11/95 at Emporia State 16-14 176 W 75-60 16-7 (10-5)
02/15/95 Missouri Southern 23-8 19 L 58-42 16-8 (10-6)
02/18/95 at Southwest Baptist 13-18 179 L 77-69 16-9 (10-7)
02/22/95 #11 Central Missouri 28-4 9 L 88-68 16-10 (10-8)
02/25/95 Washburn 18-14 81 L 84-61 16-11 (10-9)
02/27/95 at #19 Central Washington 27-5 41 L 86-62 16-12
03/01/95 at Truman 9-22 269 W 58-50 17-12 (11-9)
03/05/95 vs. Missouri Western 7-23 241 W 85-52 18-12
03/06/95 vs. Northwest Missouri 18-12 98 W 82-76 19-12
03/07/95 vs. Missouri Southern 23-8 19 W 63-59 20-12
03/08/95 vs. #11 Central Missouri 28-4 9 L 83-80 20-13

[Young Drachma]

Leroy Eastman is our only senior.




LINDENWOOD LIONS Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Paul Napoli SG 33 0 21.2 13.2 0.4 3.0 1.4 0.4 0.1 1.8 2.2 -1.7
Leroy Eastman SF 33 33 29.2 13.1 2.3 4.0 1.8 1.0 0.7 2.0 3.2 4.8
Freddie Brown SG 33 33 27.9 11.4 1.3 4.6 1.9 1.7 0.2 1.7 2.4 2.3
Kevin Vanhoose PF 33 33 27.9 9.2 1.8 6.2 0.9 1.0 0.6 2.1 3.4 4.1
Marcos Lail PG 33 33 27.9 6.3 0.8 3.2 3.5 0.5 0.3 2.6 2.5 2.4
Alex Jacinto C 33 33 29.4 5.6 1.9 7.2 1.2 0.6 0.3 1.8 3.0 4.8
Levi Wells PF 33 0 14.7 4.8 1.6 3.5 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.7 1.8 -1.5
Warren Cardoso SF 33 0 7.9 2.9 0.2 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.7 0.6 -0.5
Henry Starks PG 32 0 6.1 2.3 0.2 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.5 -0.6
Garth Latham SG 10 0 1.6 1.8 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.1
Joshua Fitzgerald C 33 0 7.2 1.4 0.4 1.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.9 -1.8
Rohan Thompson SF 7 0 2.1 1.0 0.4 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.1 -0.7
Roy Laughlin C 20 0 2.7 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 -1.9
Dorsey Brayton PF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Joshua Kulp SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0


Doesn't look like we'll be able to sign anyone during this period, we'll need to look for a transfer to fill his spot.

[Young Drachma]

Actually we did get a commitment from this young man here.


PLAYER DETAILS

#43 SG Thaddeus Major - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 191
High School: Cedar Crest High School
Hometown: Lebanon, PA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 28 37 40 41 4 18 21 32 22 40 14 3 77 33 95 22
Potential: C C C C F D D C D B D F

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 43

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1994 High School: Rated * and #698 overall by the FBCB scouting service.

[Young Drachma]

LINDENWOOD LIONS General

Player # Pos Yr Ht Wt Sch Acd Status Hometown
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Warren Cardoso 13 SF Sr* 6-5 219 No 33 OK Duarte, CA
Marcos Lail 31 PG Sr 6-2 208 Yes 42 OK Alameda, CA
Alex Jacinto 50 C Sr 6-10 226 Yes 37 OK Beardstown, IL
Levi Wells 21 PF Sr 6-6 242 Yes 74 OK Decatur, GA
Kevin Vanhoose 25 PF Sr 7-0 222 Yes 30 OK Greenville, NC
Freddie Brown 53 SG Sr 6-2 203 Yes 79 OK Ottawa Lake, MI
Garth Latham 1 SG Jr 5-10 184 Yes 33 OK Monticello, KY
Paul Napoli 45 SG Jr 5-11 183 Yes 72 OK Dickson, TN
Rohan Thompson 51 SF Jr 6-4 194 Yes 83 OK Brisbane, Australia
Dorsey Brayton 32 PF So* 6-9 213 Yes 67 OK Greenfield, IL
Joshua Kulp 15 SG So* 6-3 175 Yes 20 OK Boonville, NC
Joshua Fitzgerald 5 C So 6-8 243 Yes 68 OK Valmeyer, IL
Henry Starks 11 PG So 6-0 184 Yes 31 OK Owensboro, KY
Roy Laughlin 2 C So 6-8 236 No 20 OK St Charles, MO
Thaddeus Major 43 SG Fr 6-2 191 Yes 43 OK Lebanon, PA


With five scholarships upcoming, it's up to this class of upperclassmen to really show their worth this year. We brought in a new coaching assistant who had been the head man at Illinois-Springfield.

I scored us an invite to the Disney Classic, the only D2 pre-season tournament. It'll be a good test for our kids.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/08/95 vs. #13 Southern Indiana 0-0 13
11/26/95 Northern Michigan 0-0 237
12/05/95 at Virginia Union 0-0 184
12/07/95 New Mexico Highlands 0-0 200
12/10/95 at Missouri S&T 0-0 144
12/12/95 Alaska-Fairbanks 0-0 89
12/17/95 at Missouri-St. Louis 0-0 153
12/23/95 at Lincoln (MO) 0-0 204
12/27/95 Missouri Western 0-0 240
12/30/95 at Truman 0-0 270
01/03/96 Fort Hays 0-0 126
01/06/96 Northwest Missouri 0-0 97
01/10/96 at #11 Central Missouri 0-0 9
01/13/96 Missouri Southern 0-0 32
01/17/96 Pittsburg State 0-0 230
01/20/96 at Washburn 0-0 82
01/24/96 Truman 0-0 270
01/27/96 at Fort Hays 0-0 126
01/31/96 at Southwest Baptist 0-0 178
02/03/96 #11 Central Missouri 0-0 9
02/07/96 at Northwest Missouri 0-0 97
02/10/96 Lincoln (MO) 0-0 204
02/14/96 at Pittsburg State 0-0 230
02/17/96 Washburn 0-0 82
02/21/96 at Missouri Western 0-0 240
02/24/96 Emporia State 0-0 174
02/26/96 at Virginia State 0-0 114
02/28/96 at Missouri Southern 0-0 32


Not sure what to expect. One of the things about D2 I find is other than not knowing the schools, there aren't the same kinds of annual expectations of "OH YOU JUST KNOW [INSERT HERE] IS GOING TO BE GOOD." Because I just have no clue.

It helps in a way. But in a way, not. Our tournament hopes in the future might be helped by me recruiting better. I haven't really come up with a new tactic yet, though for this next massive class, I have an idea that might help us. Another possibility is moving to a weaker conference, because I think the problem with doing the one-star thing when you're playing with good teams that don't have those restrictions is how comparably overmatched we are.

There are nine other independents at the moment. We could become #10. I'm exploring other possibilities too.

[Young Drachma]

There are some conference moves at the D2 level that I'm going to reflect starting next season:

The following schools are moving up to D2:

Malone University (GLIAC)
Walsh University (GLIAC)
Simon Fraser (GNAC)



These schools are forming a new conference called the Great Midwest Athletic Conference or G-MAC.


Cedarville University
Central State
Georgetown College
Kentucky Wesleyan (moves from GLVC)
Trevecca Nazarene
UVA-Wise
Urbana

So all but Kentucky Wesleyan will be newly created. The G-MAC won't get an auto-bid for five years. I'm considering adding some existing D2 schools to the league though or forming an entirely new conference where Lindenwood would play with more regional rivals.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the Bubble Watch (tm) for our conference brought to you by Joe Crandall AutoDealers. When you need a good deal, give Joe a call.


MID-AMERICA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETI BUBBLE WATCH

Team Record RPI vs. 1-50 vs. 51-100 vs. 101-200 vs. 200+ SOS Projected
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Central Missouri 25-4 .627 (5) 7-0 8-2 5-2 5-0 28 Lock
Missouri Southern 23-6 .609 (9) 3-3 6-3 9-0 5-0 43 Lock
Northwest Missouri 19-10 .545 (55) 3-5 3-2 6-3 7-0 132 In
Lincoln (MO) 18-11 .556 (38) 0-5 9-2 5-3 4-1 67 In
Lindenwood 17-12 .530 (73) 2-5 6-3 4-2 5-2 105 Out
Pittsburg State 14-15 .516 (100) 1-7 1-4 4-4 8-0 68 Out
Emporia State 14-15 .490 (145) 0-6 4-3 5-4 5-2 188 Out
Fort Hays 13-16 .518 (97) 2-6 7-3 3-4 1-3 14 Out
Southwest Baptist 12-17 .503 (118) 2-6 5-4 3-4 2-3 49 Out
Washburn 12-17 .489 (147) 1-5 3-6 3-3 5-3 97 Out
Truman 10-19 .457 (222) 0-7 2-6 3-4 5-2 167 Out
Missouri Western 6-23 .425 (270) 1-3 1-9 3-6 1-5 139 Out



We basically need to win the conference tourney to have a shot at the dance this year. Another February swoon left us on the outside looking in. There's some talk of a possible conference shuffle starting as early as next year, but there's a fear of leaving a league with an auto-bid for one without one even if it might be better for us competitively.

In the meantime, we'll see how the conference tourney goes.

[Young Drachma]

Another bubble team, Northwest Missouri took us out and with it, a likely chance at a bid to the tourney -- especially since #1 Central Missouri had lost in their game against 9th seeded Fort Hays.


Northwest Missouri 85, Lindenwood 67

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Lindenwood (18-13, 11-9):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Alex Jacinto C 32 2-4 3-4 4 15 5 2 7
Kevin Vanhoose PF 29 6-11 2-3 1 4 0 2 14
Warren Cardoso SF 31 4-13 2-4 0 3 0 3 13
Freddie Brown SG 33 2-6 2-2 1 3 0 2 8
Marcos Lail PG 25 2-5 1-1 0 1 6 5 5
Paul Napoli PG 21 5-15 4-5 0 4 1 1 16
Henry Starks SG 6 0-4 0-0 0 0 0 3 0
Rohan Thompson SF 2 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 1 0
Dorsey Brayton C 12 1-1 2-2 2 4 2 1 4
Levi Wells PF 6 0-1 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
Joshua Kulp SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 12 (A.Jacinto 1, K.Vanhoose 3, W.Cardoso 1,
F.Brown 2, M.Lail 2, P.Napoli 1, H.Starks 1,
R.Thompson 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (W.Cardoso 1)
Steals: 1 (P.Napoli 1)
3P FGs: 7-32 (W.Cardoso 3-10, F.Brown 2-6, M.Lail 0-2,
P.Napoli 2-9, H.Starks 0-4, L.Wells 0-1)

Northwest Missouri (20-10, 12-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Kurtis Mears C 35 6-9 0-0 1 8 0 3 12
Brian Reedy PF 22 2-7 2-2 2 5 1 4 6
Charles Javier SF 24 5-11 2-4 0 3 3 4 14
Roger Bennett SG 33 9-12 2-4 0 3 2 3 23
Arthur Wolfgang PG 32 1-7 0-0 0 6 13 0 2
Quintin Farias SG 19 5-5 4-7 0 3 0 2 17
Darnell Hoang PG 7 1-1 2-2 0 2 1 0 5
Dee Bryan PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
David Govea SF 5 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Arthur Gordon PF 16 2-3 0-1 0 2 0 1 4
Hector Reagan C 6 0-1 0-0 0 3 0 1 0
Robert Cutshall PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 10 (K.Mears 1, B.Reedy 2, C.Javier 1,
R.Bennett 3, A.Wolfgang 2, Q.Farias 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (Q.Farias 1)
Steals: 3 (K.Mears 1, B.Reedy 1, C.Javier 1)
3P FGs: 9-17 (C.Javier 2-6, R.Bennett 3-5, A.Wolfgang
0-1, Q.Farias 3-3, D.Hoang 1-1, D.Govea 0-1)

Player of Game: SG Roger Bennett (NWMO)

[Young Drachma]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/GMAC_Wordmark_Descriptor_Shield.png/600px-GMAC_Wordmark_Descriptor_Shield.png

Lindenwood has been invited to join the Great Midwest Athletic Conference and has accepted the invitation beginning next season. The fledgling league is comprised of schools from Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and added a western division of six schools from the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

According to NCAA rules, there is no two-year waiting period for an automatic bid if six of the teams forming the new conference have played together in a previous auto-bid league. The addition of the GLVC schools clinched it for the newer schools, who have petitioned for a separate eastern/western division setup in the league.

"We're excited about this new opportunity to compete with schools within our geographic footprint. We'll create and sustain new rivalries, establish relationships and renew the spirit of Lions basketball," said Athletic Director Cole Hamelsson.

The G-MAC alignment will look like this:


EASTERN DIVISION
Cedarville University
Central State (From Independents)
Georgetown College
Kentucky Wesleyan (moves from GLVC)
Trevecca Nazarene
UVA-Wise
Urbana (from Independents)

WESTERN DIVISION
Lindenwood
McKendree
Maryville
Lewis
UMSL
Illinois-Springfield
Quincy


The MIAA, the current conference of Lindenwood has invited the University of Nebraska-Scottsbluff to replace Lindenwood for next season. UNS currently plays as an independent.

The move is a good competitive decision and it's also a good financial one as the schools in our division are way closer than the ones in our old league and I think schools we can establish a relationship with. I toyed with the idea of a separate conference for all six (with a few other schools considering joining us) but opted against it, mostly because it seemed there's power in numbers and having schools who are transitioning, new or at our level will make it easier for scheduling purposes.

[Young Drachma]

We lost two players to transfer (Thad Major and Garth Latham) and we got three commits for next year at the end of April. So things are a bit of an empty cupboard and we're going to have to push hard to get transfers to fill the gap.


PLAYER DETAILS

#1 SG Alvin Brooks - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-4
Weight: 199
High School: Memorial High School
Hometown: St Marys, OH

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 49 20 28 43 20 44 10 20 12 23 26 29 86 35 93 25
Potential: C D D C D B F D D D C D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 59

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1995 High School: Rated * and #988 overall by the FBCB scouting service.



PLAYER DETAILS

#20 C Michael Barnes - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 7-0
Weight: 219
High School: Aransas Pass High School
Hometown: Aransas Pass, TX

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 35 22 42 40 20 4 20 35 20 17 25 70 13 72 39 47
Potential: C D C C D F D C D D C A

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 25

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1995 High School: Rated * and #1206 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
PLAYER DETAILS

#22 PG Davis Wilson - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 195
High School: Loreauville High School
Hometown: Loreauville, LA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 21 44 27 48 41 35 21 8 27 18 24 16 78 26 43 43
Potential: D B D C C C D F D D C D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 35

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1995 High School: Rated * and #893 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


I didn't get this kid, but he's the first Freshman 1-star I'd ever seen who had a blue potential after we scouted him. The coaches in his current program aren't going to be able to tease that out of him, but...it was still quite a sight to see.


PLAYER DETAILS

#21 PG Willy Clark - Le Moyne - Freshman
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Height: 6-3
Weight: 190
High School: Winton Woods High School
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 38 23 22 47 41 28 23 45 36 27 15 27 75 34 61 17
Potential: B C D B C C D A C C D C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 65

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
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1995 High School: Rated * and #710 overall by the FBCB scouting service.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the status of things after six years.


COACH DETAILS

G.D. Darnell - Head Coach - Lindenwood
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Age: 45
High School: Belleville West High School
Hometown: Belleville, IL
Alma Mater: St. Louis University

Current Level: 15
Career Record: 89 - 97

Recruiting: 100
Scouting: 100
Offense: 100
Defense: 100


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1995 Lindenwood Head Coach 18 13 11 9 No Postseason
1994 Lindenwood Head Coach 20 13 11 9 No Postseason
1993 Lindenwood Head Coach 16 14 12 8 No Postseason
1992 Lindenwood Head Coach 19 13 13 7 Loss in NCAA Round 1
1991 Lindenwood Head Coach 9 21 5 15 No Postseason
1990 Lindenwood Head Coach 7 23 5 15 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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No awards won.

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1990 Hired by Lindenwood (Head Coach)



Before you howl at the 100s, I reminded you in the beginning that there was really no other way to do a one-star dynasty, so your coaches have to be good so they can uncover talent and the theory is to see whether you can overcome the lack of talent with great coaching. Which is essentially what real life teams have to do. So far, weak scheduling and a tough conference schedule hasn't really led to much in that regard. My guy would've probably been fired by now had I had that on, because they've been expecting a Sweet 16 appearance for a few years and as you can see, save for our fluke season in the Dance, we've never sniffed it save for a few years on the bubble.

This coming season will be no better in that regard, either. We've got too many spaces to fill and I'm sort of loathe to fill the team with a bunch of transfers who aren't any good. On the flipside, I'd love to usher in a new era in our new conference by just bringing in a team that wins. But I think we're just going to have to postpone that ascent for a year.

At least now we can win division titles. Here's the overview of the new conference in the flesh.


1996 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Standings

EASTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 75 48
Central State Marauders 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 117 28
Urbana Blue Knights 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 123 23
Cedarville Yellow Jackets 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 286 64
Georgetown College Tigers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 287 77
Trevecca Nazarene Trojans 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 288 42
UVA-Wise Highland Cavaliers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 289 58

WESTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 73 55
Lewis Flyers 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 76 39
Maryville Saints 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 77 35
Missouri-St. Louis Tritons 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 78 42
Quincy Hawks 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 81 54
Lindenwood Lions 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 281 46
McKendree Bears 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 282 26



I used random.org to figure out the prestige levels for the new programs. It's really just to establish their budgets anyway, since their entire 1st year teams are all going to be walk-ons and transfers.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the transfers we managed to bring in this year. I intentionally got a few older ones, because I didn't want anyone clogging up scholarships for several years when there just weren't as many good transfers out there with so many new programs coming on board and needing players.

Except the point guard, because he seemed to have some value.


PLAYER DETAILS

#41 PG Levi Twigg - Lindenwood - Senior
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Height: 6-3
Weight: 198
High School: Sprayberry High School
Hometown: Marietta, GA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 28 34 33 65 48 21 33 6 37 16 27 29 77 31 78 65
1995: 27 33 32 63 47 20 32 6 36 15 26 28 76 29 77 59
1994: 26 32 31 61 45 19 31 6 35 14 25 27 76 27 75 53
1993: 24 30 29 57 41 17 29 6 33 14 23 25 73 23 74 39
Potential: C D D B C D D F C D D C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 84

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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1993 2 0 1.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0
Career 2 0 1.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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1993 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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1993 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Career 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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1993 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1993 High School: Rated * and #1475 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1993 Walked on at Clayton State
1995 Transfered from Clayton State


PLAYER DETAILS

#23 PF Matthew Birdsong - Lindenwood - Senior
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Height: 6-7
Weight: 207
High School: Pierce County High School
Hometown: Blackshear, GA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 24 35 34 5 8 4 61 25 28 18 73 23 30 75 45 69
1995: 23 34 33 5 8 4 57 24 27 17 71 22 29 73 44 61
1994: 22 33 32 5 8 4 54 23 26 16 69 21 28 71 43 52
1993: 20 31 30 5 8 4 46 21 24 14 65 19 26 65 41 26
Potential: D C C F F F B C D D A D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 23

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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1993 2 0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0
1994 7 0 1.4 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.00 0.0 0.1 0.1
Career 9 0 1.8 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.00 0.0 0.1 0.1

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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1993 0.0 1.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 -5.50
1994 0.1 0.1 1.000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 2.00 0.43
Career 0.1 0.3 .333 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.67 -0.89

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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1993 2 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1994 7 0 10 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1
Career 9 0 16 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 1

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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1993 0 2 0 0 0 0 -11
1994 1 1 0 0 0 0 3
Career 1 3 0 0 0 0 -8

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1992 High School: Rated * and #1494 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1995 Transfered from West Florida


I cut two walk-ons, so we'll be running a skeleton crew this year. My hope is we can recruit some quality talent though in the place of all of it and bring in our best freshman class yet. It's hard when you don't officially start recruiting until February, though, as a lot of better players are gone. What works nicely about it though from a competitiveness standpoint is that it's when those smaller programs start really hitting those 1-star guys hard and attempt to bring them in and so, we find ourselves in real competitions then.

I might relax my rule on recruiting a bit since its putting us at such a huge disadvantage. Instead of not being able to do any recruiting until February, I think the rule will be to allow me to recruit players before February. I just won't be able to make any scholarship offers until February as has been the case.

So at least we can start talking to guys and initiating interest, rather than being behind the ball on guys who we could probably get and then being too late to get to them. Especially since 1-star talent quality isn't exactly great to begin with.


SCHEDULING

In the past it seems that our problem was a weak SOS and not scheduling better teams, so our record has always been inflated by poor scheduling. I'm not entirely sure I want to mess with that this year. But I'm going to go out and see if we can't get a few games that are better than we have in the past, especially since a lot of teams that I used to schedule regularly (McKendree, et. al.) are now in our conference.

I mostly let the computer do our scheduling this year, because there were some issues that kept causing things to crash when I did it and I just wanted to get past it.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/10/96 at Missouri S&T 0-0 79
11/14/96 at Upper Iowa 0-0 179
11/17/96 Saginaw Valley 0-0 68
11/22/96 at Truman 0-0 150
11/24/96 Drury 0-0 72
11/29/96 West Virginia Wesleyan 0-0 279
12/02/96 Missouri S&T 0-0 79
12/06/96 at Southwest Minnesota 0-0 177
12/14/96 at #12 Harding 0-0 100
12/16/96 at Northern Michigan 0-0 65
12/26/96 Maryville 0-0 77
12/28/96 Lewis 0-0 76
12/29/96 Drury 0-0 72
12/30/96 at Arkansas-Fort Smith 0-0 109
01/09/97 Urbana 0-0 123
01/11/97 Illinois-Springfield 0-0 73
01/16/97 Cedarville 0-0 286
01/25/97 McKendree 0-0 282
01/30/97 at Kentucky Wesleyan 0-0 75
02/01/97 at Lewis 0-0 76
02/06/97 at Illinois-Springfield 0-0 73
02/08/97 UVA-Wise 0-0 289
02/13/97 at Maryville 0-0 77
02/15/97 at Georgetown College 0-0 287
02/20/97 Missouri-St. Louis 0-0 78
02/22/97 at Missouri-St. Louis 0-0 78
02/27/97 at Trevecca Nazarene 0-0 288
03/01/97 at Quincy 0-0 81
03/06/97 at McKendree 0-0 282
03/08/97 Quincy 0-0 81

[Young Drachma]

So with the conference tournament upcoming, that stronger schedule didn't really result in a high SOS because we didn't win much. Still the league is a two-bid league and so, at least we didn't take a nose-dive in terms of competitiveness though I feel like if we can start to build a competitive team we'll be right in the thick of things.


GREAT MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE BUBBLE WATCH

Team Record RPI vs. 1-50 vs. 51-100 vs. 101-200 vs. 200+ SOS Projected
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Quincy 19-10 .577 (27) 4-4 3-0 6-5 6-1 24 In
Illinois-Springfield 21-8 .555 (49) 1-4 1-2 10-2 9-0 134 In
Missouri-St. Louis 20-9 .511 (112) 0-4 0-0 11-2 9-3 268 Out
Kentucky Wesleyan 17-12 .480 (187) 2-1 0-3 2-6 13-2 282 Out
Central State 16-13 .481 (181) 1-2 0-4 6-3 9-4 248 Out
Maryville 15-14 .461 (221) 1-4 0-0 7-6 7-4 270 Out
Lindenwood 15-15 .488 (161) 3-2 0-2 7-7 5-4 216 Out
UVA-Wise 14-16 .437 (260) 0-2 0-5 4-6 10-3 283 Out
McKendree 12-17 .497 (137) 0-6 0-1 4-6 8-4 81 Out
Urbana 12-17 .443 (250) 0-2 1-0 6-8 5-7 279 Out
Lewis 11-18 .501 (128) 4-4 0-1 4-8 3-5 36 Out
Georgetown College 8-21 .390 (286) 0-6 0-0 1-7 7-8 284 Out
Trevecca Nazarene 5-25 .409 (279) 0-5 0-3 1-9 4-8 168 Out
Cedarville 4-25 .346 (289) 0-1 0-1 0-12 4-11 288 Out

[Young Drachma]

1996 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Standings

EASTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Central State Marauders 12 6 .667 17 14 .548 188 28
Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers 12 6 .667 18 13 .581 156 48
UVA-Wise Highland Cavaliers 10 8 .556 14 17 .452 263 58
Urbana Blue Knights 6 12 .333 12 18 .400 252 23
Georgetown College Tigers 5 13 .278 9 22 .290 286 77
Trevecca Nazarene Trojans 5 13 .278 5 26 .161 278 42
Cedarville Yellow Jackets 2 16 .111 4 25 .138 289 64

WESTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars 15 3 .833 21 9 .700 57 55
Missouri-St. Louis Tritons 13 5 .722 22 9 .710 110 42
Quincy Hawks 11 7 .611 20 11 .645 33 54
Maryville Saints 11 7 .611 15 15 .500 235 35
Lindenwood Lions 10 8 .556 18 15 .545 138 46
Lewis Flyers 7 11 .389 12 19 .387 127 39
McKendree Bears 7 11 .389 12 17 .414 137 26



1997 G-MAC Conference Tournament
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We come into the conference tournament as the 9th seed and face Urbana in the 1st round.


Lindenwood 73, Urbana 51

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Lindenwood (16-15, 10-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 33 5-8 2-2 2 8 0 2 12
Dorsey Brayton PF 33 2-7 2-5 2 11 2 4 6
Rohan Thompson SF 33 11-16 0-0 5 9 3 3 29
Henry Starks SG 31 3-11 0-1 0 2 3 2 7
Paul Napoli PG 26 4-9 3-3 1 7 5 5 11
Levi Twigg SG 15 0-1 2-2 0 2 0 1 2
Joshua Kulp SF 7 2-6 1-1 1 4 0 0 5
Davis Wilson PG 8 0-1 1-2 0 0 0 0 1
Alvin Brooks SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Michael Barnes C 12 0-4 0-2 2 4 3 1 0
Tony Koller PF 3 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 11 (J.Fitzgerald 1, D.Brayton 1, R.Thompson
1, H.Starks 3, P.Napoli 1, L.Twigg 2, J.Kulp 1,
M.Barnes 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (J.Fitzgerald 1, D.Brayton 1, H.Starks
2, P.Napoli 1)
Steals: 5 (R.Thompson 1, H.Starks 2, J.Kulp 1, D.Wilson
1)
3P FGs: 8-24 (R.Thompson 7-9, H.Starks 1-7, P.Napoli
0-4, J.Kulp 0-2, M.Barnes 0-2)

Urbana (12-18, 6-12):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Jason Gayton C 26 3-9 2-2 2 5 1 3 8
Wilmer Nelson PF 25 4-9 3-6 1 9 0 1 11
Manuel Fendley SF 30 2-8 2-2 4 4 1 4 7
David Horning SG 27 1-6 1-2 0 4 2 4 4
Steven Moran PG 27 2-12 3-5 1 5 4 3 7
Carroll Hetrick SG 18 2-4 0-0 1 3 2 1 6
N. Bourgeois C 25 1-4 1-2 2 6 2 3 3
Mark Cohen PG 10 1-4 0-0 0 0 1 1 3
Jere Lott SF 7 0-1 2-2 0 1 0 0 2
Oscar Straub PF 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Casey Barnes PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 14 (J.Gayton 1, W.Nelson 1, M.Fendley 1,
D.Horning 4, S.Moran 1, C.Hetrick 4, N.Bourgeois 1,
J.Lott 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (D.Horning 1)
Steals: 6 (J.Gayton 1, D.Horning 2, N.Bourgeois 2,
M.Cohen 1)
3P FGs: 5-24 (J.Gayton 0-1, M.Fendley 1-5, D.Horning
1-5, S.Moran 0-6, C.Hetrick 2-3, M.Cohen 1-4)

Player of Game: SF Rohan Thompson (LINDENWOOD)



Now onto the 2nd round where we face #1 seed Illinois-Springfield who won the Western Division title.


Lindenwood 104, Illinois-Springfield 98

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Lindenwood (17-15, 10-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 31 3-7 6-8 2 9 2 4 12
Dorsey Brayton PF 15 2-2 1-1 1 4 0 5 5
Rohan Thompson SF 37 6-12 5-11 3 8 2 2 19
Henry Starks SG 35 1-4 3-4 1 4 3 3 6
Paul Napoli PG 38 15-26 6-9 1 8 5 1 38
Levi Twigg SG 14 1-2 1-2 0 1 0 1 4
Joshua Kulp SF 7 3-3 0-0 0 1 2 0 6
Davis Wilson PG 4 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 2
Michael Barnes C 28 3-9 3-4 1 6 2 1 10
Tony Koller PF 14 1-1 0-0 1 4 0 3 2
Matthew Birdsong C 2 0-0 0-0 1 2 1 1 0

Turnovers: 14 (J.Fitzgerald 1, D.Brayton 1, R.Thompson
3, H.Starks 1, P.Napoli 3, L.Twigg 1, J.Kulp 1,
D.Wilson 1, M.Barnes 1, T.Koller 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (J.Fitzgerald 1, D.Brayton 1, M.Barnes
1)
Steals: 2 (R.Thompson 1, M.Barnes 1)
3P FGs: 7-20 (R.Thompson 2-5, H.Starks 1-4, P.Napoli
2-5, L.Twigg 1-2, M.Barnes 1-4)

Illinois-Springfield (21-9, 15-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Sanford Batton C 25 0-1 3-6 1 8 4 5 3
Titus Zuniga PF 37 8-18 9-18 5 10 0 3 26
Cosmo Kanier SF 30 10-16 2-4 0 2 4 4 27
Charles Toy SG 34 5-12 0-0 1 7 2 5 13
William Buzzell PG 32 4-8 2-2 1 3 7 4 12
Larry Olmos SF 22 4-10 0-0 1 1 0 2 11
Fred Henninger C 21 0-3 0-0 2 6 1 4 0
James Sibert SG 13 2-4 0-0 0 1 3 1 4
Seymour Snyder PF 7 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 1 0
Edmund McCrory SG 2 0-1 0-0 1 1 1 0 0
Terrance Barbosa SF 2 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2

Turnovers: 13 (T.Zuniga 1, C.Kanier 2, C.Toy 2,
W.Buzzell 3, L.Olmos 1, F.Henninger 1, J.Sibert 1,
S.Snyder 1, E.McCrory 1)
Blocked Shots: 8 (S.Batton 2, T.Zuniga 1, C.Toy 1,
L.Olmos 1, F.Henninger 2, J.Sibert 1)
Steals: 6 (S.Batton 1, C.Kanier 2, W.Buzzell 1, L.Olmos
2)
3P FGs: 14-32 (T.Zuniga 1-1, C.Kanier 5-9, C.Toy 3-8,
W.Buzzell 2-3, L.Olmos 3-9, J.Sibert 0-1, S.Snyder 0-1)

Player of Game: PG Paul Napoli (LINDENWOOD)



Look at the upset special!


Now in the semis, we get another test in the form of Kentucky Wesleyan.


Lindenwood 90, Kentucky Wesleyan 69

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Kentucky Wesleyan (18-13, 12-6):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Irwin Hill C 30 2-5 0-1 2 4 1 2 5
Dannie Clark PF 33 2-7 1-2 4 7 0 4 5
Jose Garcia SF 28 4-18 2-3 4 6 2 5 11
Andrew Viola SG 32 9-18 1-2 2 4 3 5 23
Don Witmer PG 34 5-9 0-0 3 6 3 2 10
Jamar Bolt SG 15 6-10 0-2 6 7 2 2 14
Ronald Coker PG 6 0-3 1-2 0 0 0 1 1
Wayne Fountain PF 11 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
Sam Sizemore C 6 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 3 0
Lyndon Pegram SF 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0

Turnovers: 15 (I.Hill 1, D.Clark 3, J.Garcia 3, A.Viola
2, D.Witmer 1, J.Bolt 3, W.Fountain 1, S.Sizemore 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (I.Hill 1, D.Clark 1, J.Garcia 1,
W.Fountain 1, S.Sizemore 1, L.Pegram 1)
Steals: 6 (J.Garcia 2, A.Viola 2, J.Bolt 1, L.Pegram 1)
3P FGs: 8-30 (I.Hill 1-1, D.Clark 0-3, J.Garcia 1-5,
A.Viola 4-10, D.Witmer 0-3, J.Bolt 2-5, R.Coker 0-3)

Lindenwood (18-15, 10-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 32 7-10 0-0 1 6 3 4 14
Dorsey Brayton PF 33 4-5 2-3 4 11 1 1 10
Rohan Thompson SF 32 6-11 6-9 4 9 1 2 22
Henry Starks PG 30 5-10 4-4 1 1 3 2 15
Paul Napoli PG 26 5-11 5-6 0 2 4 4 16
Levi Twigg SG 18 0-1 3-6 2 4 0 2 3
Joshua Kulp SF 7 1-1 0-2 0 1 0 0 2
Davis Wilson PG 7 2-4 0-0 1 1 1 0 4
Michael Barnes C 11 0-3 2-2 1 2 0 0 2
Tony Koller PF 5 0-0 2-2 1 2 0 0 2

Turnovers: 16 (J.Fitzgerald 4, D.Brayton 2, R.Thompson
1, H.Starks 2, P.Napoli 5, L.Twigg 1, J.Kulp 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Barnes 1)
Steals: 4 (H.Starks 1, P.Napoli 1, D.Wilson 2)
3P FGs: 6-15 (R.Thompson 4-7, H.Starks 1-2, P.Napoli
1-2, L.Twigg 0-1, D.Wilson 0-1, M.Barnes 0-2)

Player of Game: SF Rohan Thompson (LINDENWOOD)



Seems our boys are firing on all cylinders!

Now in the final, with a chance to return to the Big Dance for the 2nd time in school history, we get to face off against Western division rivals UM-St. Louis.

At 22-9, UMSL is on the bubble outside and aren't certain if they'll manage to snag an at-large bid. So they'd much prefer to just blow out of the gym and ensure their spot in the tournament for the first time since 1986.

We've played UMSL six times and we've only beaten them once.


Lindenwood 92, Missouri-St. Louis 62

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Missouri-St. Louis (22-10, 13-5):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Michael Roberts C 31 5-13 1-2 2 7 0 1 11
Arnold Helmuth PF 31 4-9 8-9 2 7 2 4 16
Simon Willey SF 27 2-7 0-0 4 7 3 3 5
Daniel Beckley SG 28 3-9 0-1 1 5 4 2 7
Noe Till PG 27 1-5 0-0 0 1 1 2 3
George Deweese SG 19 6-10 0-0 1 2 0 4 14
Carl Padilla C 12 1-4 0-0 2 3 0 1 2
James Hostetter PG 10 1-4 0-0 1 2 1 1 3
Arden Brown SF 7 0-3 1-2 0 1 1 0 1
Jarrett Temple PF 5 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 2 0
James Woody PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Douglas Goodwin SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (M.Roberts 2, S.Willey 2, D.Beckley 2,
N.Till 2, G.Deweese 2, C.Padilla 1, A.Brown 1, J.Woody
1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Roberts 1)
Steals: 2 (C.Padilla 1, A.Brown 1)
3P FGs: 6-24 (M.Roberts 0-1, S.Willey 1-1, D.Beckley
1-7, N.Till 1-3, G.Deweese 2-5, C.Padilla 0-2,
J.Hostetter 1-4, A.Brown 0-1)

Lindenwood (19-15, 10-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 30 2-6 0-0 1 8 5 2 4
Dorsey Brayton PF 25 5-7 1-1 2 8 3 4 12
Rohan Thompson SF 25 7-12 1-1 1 6 0 3 21
Henry Starks SG 28 3-7 5-6 2 3 3 1 12
Paul Napoli PG 30 8-18 2-2 0 1 1 1 20
Levi Twigg SG 20 5-6 2-2 1 3 4 3 13
Joshua Kulp SF 9 0-1 3-4 0 0 1 1 3
Davis Wilson PG 7 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Alvin Brooks PG 2 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 0 0
Michael Barnes C 18 0-0 3-4 0 3 2 0 3
Tony Koller PF 6 0-0 4-4 0 3 1 0 4
Gary Cockrell SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 8 (J.Fitzgerald 1, D.Brayton 1, R.Thompson
2, P.Napoli 1, L.Twigg 1, J.Kulp 1, A.Brooks 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (J.Fitzgerald 2, D.Brayton 1, A.Brooks
1, M.Barnes 1)
Steals: 6 (J.Fitzgerald 2, D.Brayton 1, H.Starks 1,
L.Twigg 1, J.Kulp 1)
3P FGs: 11-20 (D.Brayton 1-1, R.Thompson 6-8, H.Starks
1-2, P.Napoli 2-7, L.Twigg 1-2)

Player of Game: SF Rohan Thompson (LINDENWOOD)



Make that twice. Lindenwood is going dancing!

3-pointers were the difference maker in that game, we shot 55% from the arc, while they went 6 of 24 from 3-pt range. That coupled with shooting 80% from the line (to their 71%) and forcing more turnovers, ended up being the difference maker in this one.

These are the kids from my first big recruiting haul, so it's good to see them finish out like this.

We claim the first-ever G-MAC Conference Tournament title in dominating fashion. Now it's off to see what sort of seed we get (I imagine low) in the NCAAs.

[Young Drachma]

We've been given a 16-seed (I'm just going to stick to the format you all know...) in the East Region. We'll be given the task of facing off against 1-seed Chaminade in the 1st round.

[Young Drachma]

One and done for us against the top-seeded club from Hawai'i.


Chaminade 103, Lindenwood 79

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Lindenwood (19-16, 10-8):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 29 6-11 1-1 1 3 3 2 13
Dorsey Brayton PF 27 6-7 2-2 2 8 3 2 14
Rohan Thompson SF 29 6-15 1-1 2 9 4 3 15
Henry Starks SG 20 0-4 0-0 0 2 0 4 0
Paul Napoli PG 29 6-12 4-4 0 3 2 2 18
Levi Twigg SG 22 3-8 0-2 1 1 0 1 7
Joshua Kulp SF 10 3-6 0-0 0 0 0 1 8
Davis Wilson PG 10 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 1 0
Alvin Brooks PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Michael Barnes C 20 1-4 1-2 0 2 2 3 4
Tony Koller PF 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0
Gary Cockrell SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 12 (D.Brayton 1, R.Thompson 3, H.Starks 2,
P.Napoli 4, M.Barnes 2)
Blocked Shots: 4 (D.Brayton 1, H.Starks 1, M.Barnes 2)
Steals: 5 (R.Thompson 2, P.Napoli 1, L.Twigg 1,
D.Wilson 1)
3P FGs: 8-21 (R.Thompson 2-5, H.Starks 0-3, P.Napoli
2-4, L.Twigg 1-2, J.Kulp 2-4, M.Barnes 1-3)

Chaminade (29-4, 14-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Charles Gainer C 32 1-2 1-2 1 5 2 0 3
Derrick Ake C 26 1-3 4-4 5 14 2 1 6
Nelson Johnson SF 28 5-10 3-4 2 11 4 1 14
Jerry Barber SG 31 17-30 5-6 3 6 2 2 46
Jordon Geis PG 25 6-11 0-1 2 2 5 4 16
Emile Wertz PF 20 3-7 3-4 1 3 0 4 9
Walter Brooks SG 21 2-5 2-3 0 1 3 3 7
Boris Campbell PG 6 0-0 2-2 0 0 2 0 2
Libor Kovarik SF 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Adalberto Lopez PF 6 0-2 0-0 1 3 0 0 0

Turnovers: 9 (C.Gainer 2, J.Barber 3, J.Geis 1,
W.Brooks 1, B.Campbell 1, L.Kovarik 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (C.Gainer 3, D.Ake 1)
Steals: 6 (C.Gainer 1, N.Johnson 1, J.Barber 2, E.Wertz
1, W.Brooks 1)
3P FGs: 13-24 (N.Johnson 1-1, J.Barber 7-13, J.Geis
4-7, W.Brooks 1-3)

Player of Game: SG Jerry Barber (CHAM)



Still, you can't argue with a surprise trip to the Big Dance. We end the year at 19-16 with a trophy to put in the case and now we need to see what the recruiting season brings us.

Here's the incoming freshman class. We've kept one of the five schollies aside for a transfer.



RECRUIT DETAILS

#2 C Ronald Nash
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Height: 6-11
Weight: 257
High School: Pearl River Central High School
Hometown: Carriere, MS
GPA: 3.04
Test Score: 1050
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 26 31 49 0 19 21 22 35 32 44 16 42 21 72 37 0
Potential: C C C F D D C C C C D A

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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22.8 2.6 9.1 0.3 1.9 0.16 1.3 2.5 1.8

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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8.7 16.0 .541 5.5 8.1 .679 0.0 0.0 .000

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood




RECRUIT DETAILS

#32 C Murray Benefield
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Height: 7-2
Weight: 234
High School: William G. Enloe High School
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
GPA: 2.70
Test Score: 1170
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 21 7 24 0 43 18 37 67 23 1 33 19 31 75 40 97
Potential: D D D F B C C A C F C D

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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18.3 3.3 14.0 1.3 1.2 1.08 1.8 1.7 2.6

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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7.8 14.9 .522 2.8 5.0 .560 0.0 0.0 .000

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Shaw



RECRUIT DETAILS

#35 PF Gerald Nadeau
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Height: 6-11
Weight: 294
High School: Jefferson High School
Hometown: Dayton, OH
GPA: 2.97
Test Score: 1170
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 36 19 47 0 5 40 20 25 27 9 33 26 39 72 31 0
Potential: B F C F F C D C C F B B

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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24.1 1.6 6.5 2.7 3.3 0.83 2.7 2.6 3.1

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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9.8 16.4 .596 4.6 7.9 .580 0.0 0.0 .000

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood




RECRUIT DETAILS

#2 SG Jeremy Hertel
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 186
High School: Bastrop High School
Hometown: Bastrop, TX
GPA: 2.64
Test Score: 920
Rating: *

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 32 71 57 24 23 6 10 48 35 7 64 27 61 55 91 59
Potential: D A B D D F C C D F A D

Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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26.5 2.0 5.8 0.9 2.8 0.30 2.8 1.0 3.1

Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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11.7 23.0 .510 2.0 2.8 .714 1.1 3.8 .280

Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Lindenwood
Rankings: None
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Lindenwood, Angelo State



I intentionally (over)recruited on size this time. I felt like it would help us down the stretch, though I wish this year's class had more raw talent we could develop. Those guys as in real life can be very hard to find though.

[Young Drachma]

Here's our one transfer for this season:


PLAYER DETAILS

#4 SF Landon Jefferies - Lindenwood - Sophomore
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 234
High School: Sierra High School
Hometown: Tollhouse, CA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 18 23 44 32 31 29 25 33 19 59 27 28 54 54 68 61
1996: 18 21 40 30 29 27 23 31 17 51 25 26 51 47 66 35
Potential: D D C C C C D C D A D C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 41

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1996 High School: Rated * and #901 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
1996 Walked on at Cal State Monterey Bay
1996 Transfered from Cal State Monterey Bay

[Young Drachma]

Scheduling has obviously been a bit of an issue for us over the years, because I've opted for cheap-o wins over challenging our team. I don't see changing this in the upcoming year, though I try to get us a game or two like that. The low SOS is bad for business, but we need wins when you're in a conference where there aren't going to be more than 2-3 bids.

So until I feel like we've reached past that hump -- I doubt we'll get there in this dynasty -- I'm going to opt for games that we can win. Of course, if we lose winnable games, it doesn't do anyone any good.


LINDENWOOD LIONS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/09/97 Missouri S&T 0-0 225
11/11/97 Massachusetts-Lowell 0-0 275
11/18/97 Lincoln (MO) 0-0 51
11/23/97 at Hillsdale 0-0 215
11/25/97 at Georgia Southwestern 0-0 230
11/29/97 at Malone 0-0 287
12/05/97 at Washburn 0-0 38
12/10/97 Wisconsin-Parkside 0-0 45
12/15/97 at Rockhurst 0-0 244
12/17/97 Metropolitan State 0-0 87
12/25/97 at Lewis 0-0 133
12/27/97 McKendree 0-0 141
12/29/97 vs. District of Columbia 0-0 196
12/30/97 vs. New York Tech 0-0 56
01/03/98 Quincy 0-0 36
01/08/98 at Maryville 0-0 237
01/10/98 at McKendree 0-0 141
01/15/98 Missouri-St. Louis 0-0 107
01/17/98 Georgetown College 0-0 285
01/24/98 Lewis 0-0 133
01/29/98 Illinois-Springfield 0-0 57
02/05/98 at Central State 0-0 186
02/07/98 at Urbana 0-0 251
02/14/98 UVA-Wise 0-0 264
02/19/98 at Quincy 0-0 36
02/21/98 at Cedarville 0-0 289
02/26/98 Trevecca Nazarene 0-0 279
02/28/98 at Missouri-St. Louis 0-0 107
03/05/98 Maryville 0-0 237
03/07/98 at Illinois-Springfield 0-0 57

[Young Drachma]

Recruiting 1-star players exclusively is hard work. You're always having to mine for some kid that might give you an edge someone else who looks just like him. Stats help a lot, but they're not really going to tease out the best amongst kids. I notice kids who were all-state can often be more helpful in bad states (and even in good ones, sometimes) than in states where they weren't even if the place isn't a hotbed of talent.

Most of all, the recruiting ranks tend to be very instructive. Once you get out of the top 750 and for sure, the Top 1000 then it's really a crapshoot (pun intended) and so, I try to mine those numbers to figure out where we ought to spend our time.

After that, it's really about honing in on the positions you need. We know we can develop talent, so it's looking for kids with the potential in a particular area we need. I'm still trying to figure out how to recruit more balanced. Still doing a bad job of using JUCO recruits to balance out my freshman recruits and I think it's holding us back.

I've learned a lot about the possibilities though and it's clearly possible to play this level. Not to win national titles or even do tournament runs. Teams are too subsistence level. But if you can spend a bit of time looking for what your program needs, you can win.

This is the most "realistic" the game has ever felt to me, so it's sort of neat. I'm still working out the kinks though. I think for instance, I need a mechanism for inserting recruits into the future recruits pool. The game doesn't do a very good job right now of creating the kinds of realistic one-star kids who go lightly regarded (or have problems) and end up becoming really productive college players.

So I think version two of this dynasty will focus more on that angle of things. But we're not quite done at Lindenwood yet.

[Young Drachma]

It was generally expected after losing our Fab 5 recruiting class that we'd take a big step back this year since future classes haven't been as good as that one was.


1997 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Standings

EASTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers 14 4 .778 23 6 .793 85 44
Central State Marauders 11 7 .611 15 14 .517 135 27
Urbana Blue Knights 10 8 .556 14 15 .483 256 20
Cedarville Yellow Jackets 6 12 .333 9 20 .310 250 53
UVA-Wise Highland Cavaliers 6 12 .333 11 19 .367 258 49
Trevecca Nazarene Trojans 5 13 .278 8 22 .267 284 35
Georgetown College Tigers 5 13 .278 8 21 .276 269 64

WESTERN CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Quincy Hawks 14 4 .778 21 8 .724 35 55
Missouri-St. Louis Tritons 12 6 .667 19 10 .655 163 40
Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars 11 7 .611 18 11 .621 54 56
Lewis Flyers 10 8 .556 14 15 .483 98 35
Lindenwood Lions 9 9 .500 15 15 .500 254 48
McKendree Bears 8 10 .444 10 19 .345 221 24
Maryville Saints 5 13 .278 10 19 .345 226 32




LINDENWOOD LIONS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 48 Record Vs 1-50: 0-4 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 15-15 Record Vs 51-100: 2-3 RPI Rank: #254
Conference Record: 9-9 Record Vs 101-200: 3-4
Home Record: 7-7 Record Vs 200+: 10-4


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 69.5 5 147 Points 67.2 6 76 Points 2.3 4 89
O.Reb 10.0 8 199 O.Reb 8.7 2 12 O.Reb 1.2 3 80
D.Reb 26.5 2 56 D.Reb 24.8 9 126 D.Reb 1.7 2 52
Rebounds 36.5 4 117 Rebounds 33.5 4 48 Rebounds 3.0 3 48
Assists 14.7 3 91 Assists 12.6 6 55 Assists 2.1 3 50
Steals 6.1 3 102 Steals 5.3 8 95 Steals 0.8 4 92
Blocks 3.3 7 142 Blocks 3.3 8 146 Blocks -0.1 5 134
Turnovers 13.2 5 88 Turnovers 13.8 6 124 Turnovers -0.6 6 112
Fouls 19.9 10 176 Fouls 19.1 10 187 Fouls 0.8 11 192
FG% .448 3 74 FG% .417 4 59 FG% .031 2 53
FT% .686 5 114 FT% .698 12 245 FT% -.012 8 183
3P% .329 10 201 3P% .340 7 108 3P% -.011 8 165
PPS 1.24 6 148 PPS 1.27 10 171 PPS -.028 9 166
Adj. FG% .496 7 128 Adj. FG% .484 6 96 Adj. FG% .012 6 106



Just to give you an idea of what a roster of entirely 1-star players with top coaching can produce in a semi-competitive league.

Back in the conference tournament for the 2nd straight year as a 9-seed. I doubt this year's team will fare as well as last year's did, shocking the entire conference en-route to an NCAA bid. But despite the seemingly step back, I feel like we'll get the ship back on course next year with the recruits we're targeting.

We beat Cedarville in the 8/9 game 66-53, to go (16-15) on the year and ensure that even with a loss in our next game, we'll end the year at least .500 which is good considering our streak of winning seasons was in jeopardy.


Quincy 67, Lindenwood 66

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Lindenwood (16-16, 9-9):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Joshua Fitzgerald C 32 5-12 2-8 3 8 1 0 12
Dorsey Brayton PF 35 5-8 4-5 3 18 3 3 14
Jeremy Hertel SF 27 2-9 3-6 0 1 1 1 7
Henry Starks SG 28 4-7 3-3 0 4 1 5 13
Davis Wilson PG 32 1-4 0-0 0 0 4 2 2
Joshua Kulp SG 15 1-4 0-1 3 3 2 0 2
Alvin Brooks PG 14 3-4 0-1 1 1 1 2 7
Michael Barnes C 12 1-1 3-4 0 6 0 1 6
Tony Koller PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Gary Cockrell SF 4 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 3

Turnovers: 17 (J.Fitzgerald 2, D.Brayton 3, J.Hertel 3,
H.Starks 4, D.Wilson 3, M.Barnes 1, G.Cockrell 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (J.Fitzgerald 1, M.Barnes 1)
Steals: 4 (J.Hertel 2, D.Wilson 1, A.Brooks 1)
3P FGs: 5-15 (D.Brayton 0-1, J.Hertel 0-3, H.Starks
2-3, D.Wilson 0-2, J.Kulp 0-2, A.Brooks 1-2, M.Barnes
1-1, G.Cockrell 1-1)

Quincy (22-8, 14-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clement Begin C 31 3-8 1-1 3 8 2 4 7
David Bronson PF 25 2-4 3-4 1 3 1 2 8
Mark Salcido SF 27 6-16 1-2 3 3 1 0 14
Richard Derrick SG 34 4-9 0-0 0 7 9 3 12
John Jones PG 28 4-11 1-2 0 4 2 4 12
Tyrone Otto PG 8 2-3 2-2 0 1 1 3 7
Manuel Stepp PF 22 1-3 0-0 2 5 2 2 3
Michael Blum PG 6 1-4 0-1 0 1 0 0 2
Joseph Lewis SF 13 1-6 0-0 2 2 1 2 2
Johnny Ellis C 4 0-1 0-0 1 3 0 3 0
Jeffrey Sheehan SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Gearhart C 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Sal Millner PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 11 (C.Begin 1, D.Bronson 2, M.Salcido 3,
R.Derrick 2, J.Jones 1, J.Lewis 1, J.Ellis 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (C.Begin 1, D.Bronson 1)
Steals: 8 (C.Begin 1, R.Derrick 3, J.Jones 1, T.Otto 2,
J.Lewis 1)
3P FGs: 11-34 (C.Begin 0-3, D.Bronson 1-1, M.Salcido
1-8, R.Derrick 4-8, J.Jones 3-8, T.Otto 1-2, M.Stepp
1-1, M.Blum 0-1, J.Lewis 0-2)

Player of Game: SG Richard Derrick (QILL)



We almost did the unthinkable two years in a row, in taking out the top seed of the conference tournament, but this year it wasn't meant to be and we end the year at 16-16.

[Young Drachma]

NCAA Champs

Season Team Record Opponent Score
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1997 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 34-4 Central Washington Wildcats 80-74
1996 Saint Mary's Rattlers 34-3 Benedict Panthers 70-63
1995 Christian Brothers Bucs 33-4 C.W. Post Pioneers 71-69
1994 Philadelphia Rams 35-3 Winona State Warriors 89-79
1993 Augusta State Jaguars 37-1 Benedict Panthers 80-62
1992 C.W. Post Pioneers 34-4 Central Missouri Mules 63-52
1991 Augusta State Jaguars 37-0 Winona State Warriors 106-86
1990 Fort Lewis Skyhawks 34-3 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 72-60
1989 Saint Mary's Rattlers 35-2 Philadelphia Rams 73-63
1988 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 37-0 Philadelphia Rams 95-87
1987 C.W. Post Pioneers 34-2 Findlay Oilers 82-56
1986 C.W. Post Pioneers 35-1 Augusta State Jaguars 57-48
1985 Augusta State Jaguars 37-0 Bentley Falcons 60-58
1984 Tarleton State Texans 36-1 Findlay Oilers 88-73
1983 Findlay Oilers 33-4 Winona State Warriors 82-66
1982 Augusta State Jaguars 32-4 Bellarmine Knights 78-65
1981 West Liberty Hilltoppers 36-2 Bentley Falcons 95-86
1980 Philadelphia Rams 36-1 Central Washington Wildcats 78-72
1979 Findlay Oilers 37-0 Philadelphia Rams 94-55
1978 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Bentley Falcons 74-59
1977 Winona State Warriors 33-4 Findlay Oilers 72-71
1976 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Bentley Falcons 62-50
1975 Augusta State Jaguars 34-3 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 91-58
1974 Central Missouri Mules 34-1 Augusta State Jaguars 97-87
1973 West Liberty Hilltoppers 34-3 Bellarmine Knights 97-67
1972 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Winona State Warriors 89-58
1971 Bentley Falcons 32-3 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 93-88
1970 Central Missouri Mules 35-2 Central Washington Wildcats 81-54


Looking at this year's Elite 8:

West: 4-seed Central Washington v. 3-seed St. Mary's

Midwest: 4-seed C.W. Post v. 2-seed Central Missouri

South: 1-Tarleton State v. 14-seed Christian Brothers

East: 4-seed Augusta State v. 3-Pitt-Johnstown

All of them have at least one "star" player (I use the color black, the default is blue I think) and most have at least two with a ton of role players that on my roster would be star players. So that's the real gap between "us" and "them."

The difference is what I like to call the Jameer Nelson factor. College basketball has always had teams that manage to bring a guy or two into the folder who otherwise would never star at a high level, but manage to have successful careers. Seems that in this game, that's guys who are at least 2-star and higher, but probably more like 3-star. I doubt if I moved this a 2-star and under dynasty that we'd do any better and doing it at the 3-star level would almost feel like it's defeating the purpose.

Still, I'm tempted to see whether it's possible or not to build a regional power in the vein of a Gonzaga-type program or even a Belmont or Davidson of a lower-level conference by recruiting solely from the under-recruited talent the game has to offer. I was thinking I'd like to move to D1, but rather than go straight to D1, my thinking is I'll toil down here in D2 for a while longer and when I find a program that's successfully managed to do this; then I'll go with that program to D1 and we'll do it again.

So I'm going to switch schools now and begin again. I think after a few years of no longer being a "new" program, the whole experiment loses its shine because the idea is to really start out of the chute with talent using this method, evolve the program in a Boise State-esque kind of ascent and then see if you can maintain it. Given that 1-star talent isn't good enough, I'm going to modify the rules a bit and see how it works then.

I'm going to look at this year's tournament bracket and see which program(s) were able to get the furthest with the least amount of talent. Then I'm going to sim three years ahead without playing and test the same thing in each one of those tournaments. I'm just curious to see what the game engine does unfettered, realizing that a human has a bigger advantage if it knows what it wants to do.

[Young Drachma]

There wasn't one team in the Sweet 16 this year that had less than 2 former 4-star recruits. I think the 3-star IOMT experiment will certainly put us at least notionally on some kind of playing field (not a level one. But at least the same court) as these programs we're going up against.

The National All-Freshman team does offer some hope. It was comprised of two 5-star recruits (the guards) two 3-stars and a 2-star.

The other possibility is to create a human-controlled "Ivy" type league where all of the programs are restricted to 3-star and under talent. (Hell or 2 or 1) and then at least you know each year you're 1) going up against programs like you and 2) you're guaranteed an automatic bid after all of that madness.

[Young Drachma]

Here's Lindenwood's upcoming recruiting class.



PLAYER DETAILS

#50 SF Harvey Long - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-8
Weight: 222
High School: Chester High School
Hometown: Chester, IL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 33 19 17 48 51 28 31 43 12 38 4 14 54 49 45 39
Potential: C D D C B C C B F C F D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 12

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1997 High School: Rated * and #880 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


PLAYER DETAILS

#5 SG Paul Faber - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-4
Weight: 188
High School: O'Connell High School
Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 60 36 35 22 23 34 23 17 7 16 17 16 74 45 97 45
Potential: A C C D D C D D F D D D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 98

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1997 High School: Rated * and #676 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


PLAYER DETAILS

#21 SG Benedetto Bechelli - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-0
Weight: 177
High School:
Hometown: Parma, Italy

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 4 62 45 43 9 12 28 5 36 41 15 27 71 33 89 35
Potential: F B C C F F C F B B D C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 33

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1997 High School: Rated * and #694 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


PLAYER DETAILS

#32 SF Gautier de Meleun - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 204
High School:
Hometown: Menton, France

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 21 21 15 48 13 35 33 40 23 24 32 54 45 53 53 14
Potential: D D F C F C C C C C B B

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 64

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season Award
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1997 High School: Rated * and #937 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


PLAYER DETAILS

#15 SG Delmer Alston - Lindenwood - Freshman
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 178
High School: Central High School
Hometown: Champaign, IL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current: 36 63 57 35 6 40 18 6 23 4 8 8 61 56 78 9
Potential: B A B C F C D F C F F F

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 73

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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Career 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 A/T 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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Career 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 0.00 0.00

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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1997 High School: Rated * and #608 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


Tried to go foreign, thinking that might help. Realized there wasn't the kind of size coupled with talent out there that I decided that we could just go little and try to do an up-tempo deal. Not sure that it'll really work as I intend, but that's my thinking with this class.

[Young Drachma]

I'm kicking around this new idea to create a new conference in the vein of FOF's Solecismic Eight where all of the teams are in the same state and have to recruit using only one-star talent a la the way Lindenwood was forced to when I was simming.

It'd be interesting to see one-star talent competing against each other in the same league under the same constraints, budgetary and otherwise.

Not sure what state I'd use. Probably Wyoming, because it's the only state with one four-year school and alas, no D2 or D3 schools in its midst. There are 8 teams in the Wyoming CC Athletic Conference, so those would automatically be the 8 of I did it that way.

http://www.communitycolleges.wy.edu/Data/Sites/1/commissionFiles/Home/_images/map.png

Plus, Wyoming has no real in-state talent to speak of -- in real life and in-game -- so it'd make it interesting to see them fight over scraps and surrounding state 1-star talent.

I think this is going to be the new direction of this dynasty.

The ten members of the newly created Wyoming College Athletic League (WyCAL) are:


Central Wyoming
Eastern Wyoming
Western Wyoming
Cheyenne State
Gillette
Sheridan
Northwest Wyoming
Casper
Wyoming Catholic
Snowy Range


In real life, Cheyenne State is Laramie County. Wyoming Catholic is an unaccredited private school with no sports teams and Snowy Range is a spinoff of Cheyenne State's Laramie branch campus. So yeah, there's the rundown of the landscape. All of the teams will be human controlled for recruiting only and we'll focus more on the conference rather than individual teams, except to see how well teams can do against other teams in other conferences, etc.

Teams play 18 games in-conference and there will be no auto-bid for this league for five years.

[Young Drachma]

Seems a lot of the strategy out there for FBCB isn't being shared because so many people who play religiously do so in online leagues. My thinking is that we'll try to use this new conference as a laboratory for different schemes and recruiting tactics of low-level players.

Each will be set to have the types of scouting/recruiting/assistant situation as I was doing with Lindenwood, because I feel like it's the best way to play is without a fog of war and providing the maximum environment for player development.

I think we're also going to increase the limit from only one-star players to two-star players and below. This will enable us to widen the pool of recruits we can get and will also allow me to see what the differentiation is between a 1 or a 2 star player. There have been reports that 2-star kids can actually develop into useful cogs on teams.

There might be an eventual DP situation like in MLS where teams can have one 3-star player on their roster at a time, but I haven't decided yet. It might not be in the same as the Island of Misfit Toys (and hence, perhaps I need to start the dynasty from scratch/reboot) but...since we're talking about bottom-feeding D1 basketball programs, the spirit seems the same even if we have to be flexible about quality in FBCB.

My goal is to really see lightly recruited, etc. players develop into fixtures and how to do that.

So that's the direction we're headed.

[britrock88]

Just by bringing up the MLS DP, you're making me wonder if there's a good FM mod out there that bringing North America into line with Europe (promotion/relegation, no confusing MLS payroll rules, maybe a fall-spring season and no playoffs). Any way, carry on in Wyoming!

[Young Drachma]

Just by bringing up the MLS DP, you're making me wonder if there's a good FM mod out there that bringing North America into line with Europe (promotion/relegation, no confusing MLS payroll rules, maybe a fall-spring season and no playoffs). Any way, carry on in Wyoming!

Alternate MLS North America to Level 8 (http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/301080-MikeMagnum-s-Alternate-MLS-North-America-2.0-Level-8?p=7645269&viewfull=1#post7645269) (this is a bit more modern, focuses on present day MLS, puts Cosmos in MLS and is promo/relegation to 8 levels.)

Alternate Reality America (http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/295961-Back-to-the-Future-Alternate-Reality-America?daysprune=365) (This one takes old American teams from history and is a massive db.)

[Young Drachma]

So I decided my current approach will be to fast-sim the next ten years. I want to see what sort of talent flows through the conference over that time. I'll be steering the recruiting ship for one program specifically, while the others will be human controlled for recruiting but they'll just be taking on walkons or whatever fodder they get as I don't have the patience to recruit for 10 programs.

With a likely dominant program to rise in the league, it'll be interesting to see how far they can go and how it affects their prospects or whether there's a big difference between a team of one + two star recruits versus a league of walkons.

We'll check in with the top players, report on a all-conference decade team and see if I can't get immersed with a bit of history playing the way I like to play -- fast.

[Young Drachma]

So after the 1st year, here's what a team of walkons going up against other walkons will do. Add a few transfers to the mix (as I did at Snowy Range) and well, you dominate in the regular season in conference play:


1998 Wyoming College Athletic League Standings

TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Snowy Range Grey Wolves 16 2 .889 20 11 .645 228 30
Central Wyoming Rustlers 12 6 .667 16 15 .516 270 25
Western Wyoming Mustangs 12 6 .667 13 17 .433 279 25
Northwest Wyoming Trappers 9 9 .500 11 19 .367 292 25
Eastern Wyoming Lancers 9 9 .500 11 21 .344 286 25
Wyoming Catholic Believers 8 10 .444 8 22 .267 293 5
Sheridan Generals 8 10 .444 11 21 .344 294 25
Casper Thunderbirds 7 11 .389 8 22 .267 298 25
Gillette Pronghorns 6 12 .333 6 23 .207 295 25
Cheyenne State Golden Eagles 3 15 .167 3 26 .103 299 25



Despite that, we lost in the conference tourney final to Central Wyoming. No post-season for us, since there's no auto-bid for this league for 4 more seasons after this one. But a regular season title is a good way to start things.

[Young Drachma]

Year Two shows how the AI has the advantage if you give a program a superior coach and do nothing else, he'll manage to squeeze the best out of whatever he's given.


1999 Wyoming College Athletic League Standings

TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Western Wyoming Mustangs 15 3 .833 19 11 .633 172 26
Snowy Range Grey Wolves 12 6 .667 19 11 .633 196 31
Northwest Wyoming Trappers 11 7 .611 15 17 .469 262 24
Eastern Wyoming Lancers 10 8 .556 14 18 .438 287 25
Casper Thunderbirds 9 9 .500 11 20 .355 286 22
Central Wyoming Rustlers 9 9 .500 10 20 .333 297 26
Sheridan Generals 8 10 .444 11 20 .355 294 23
Wyoming Catholic Believers 7 11 .389 9 21 .300 271 7
Cheyenne State Golden Eagles 6 12 .333 7 23 .233 296 21
Gillette Pronghorns 3 15 .167 6 23 .207 299 21



Didn't even win the conference this year. 3rd seed NW Wyoming won the Conference tourney title. For a bit, we were on the bubble but crashed back to earth through a bad February.

[Young Drachma]

Learned my lesson for Year 3. Schedule easy and keep those Top 50 programs out of your schedule, even as a test. Just pile up wins as much as you can and hope the team can roll through the conference schedule in the same stead.

[Young Drachma]

Snowy Range goes 26-6 in Year 3. Weak SOS kept them out of the tournament, they needed to basically go undefeated to do that in the conference and they didn't. So missed out another year.

Expanded the D2 tourney to 68, because why not?

There are current 299 programs in D2. Need to add a 300th school at some point, but not this coming year. Going to add some more recruits for Wyoming, because right now there are no in-state kids coming through at all for whatever reason and I don't know how to fix the game to have it generate more recruits from a particular state or anything.

So far, no real standouts have emerged from the one-star class. I have seen at least one kid who was originally a one-star player who came in with potential at the highest level. I'd never seen that before, but he didn't end up qualifying.

[Young Drachma]

So now we're in Year 4. Clearly the "dominant team" in the WyCAL...which doesn't mean much. But we'll take it. Still two seasons away (Year 6 will be the first year) that the league will receive an auto-bid.

But if nothing else, I've figured out how to schedule finally. To be fair, I just used the scheduling module to find the games I wanted rather than waiting month by month to do it. After a early-season "tournament" setup, I sent us on the road a bit against teams and then played some regional games that make it more realistic and well, our RPI heading into the February swoon is 28.

If we manage to make it out of Frantic February doing well, we should have an outside chance -- again, providing we can win the conference tourney -- of making the NCAAs as an at-large team.

But that's saying a lot and we still have a lot of work to do for that possibility to unfold.


SNOWY RANGE GREY WOLVES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/15/01 vs. #16 Northwest Missouri 16-3 12 W 85-82 1-0
11/16/01 vs. #4 Saint Mary's 19-2 5 L 90-67 1-1
11/17/01 vs. #18 Southern Indiana 16-5 18 L 92-83 1-2
11/18/01 at Bemidji State 7-12 173 W 72-48 2-2
11/24/01 at Bellarmine 12-8 45 L 76-63 2-3
11/30/01 Cedarville 8-11 148 W 68-51 3-3
12/01/01 at #8 Cal State San Bernardino 14-4 15 L 85-78 3-4
12/08/01 Colorado Christian 5-13 201 W 88-80 4-4
12/09/01 Colorado-Colorado Springs 9-10 94 W 65-52 5-4
12/14/01 Nebraska-Kearney 9-10 127 W 80-62 6-4
12/15/01 Montana State-Billings 11-7 96 L 67-66 6-5
12/16/01 Missouri Western 6-12 255 W 85-62 7-5
01/02/02 Sheridan 8-10 236 L 78-75 7-6 (0-1)
01/04/02 Gillette 8-10 207 W 95-92 8-6 (1-1)
01/09/02 at Central Wyoming 8-11 250 W 93-88 9-6 (2-1)
01/11/02 at Western Wyoming 13-6 139 W 90-82 10-6 (3-1)
01/16/02 Cheyenne State 2-16 296 W 64-55 11-6 (4-1)
01/18/02 Eastern Wyoming 10-8 109 W 81-73 12-6 (5-1)
01/23/02 at Northwest Wyoming 10-8 146 W 96-63 13-6 (6-1)
01/25/02 at Casper 10-8 126 W 63-53 14-6 (7-1)
01/30/02 at Wyoming Catholic 8-10 180 W 84-79 15-6 (8-1)
02/06/02 Western Wyoming 13-6 139
02/08/02 Central Wyoming 8-11 250
02/13/02 at Eastern Wyoming 10-8 109
02/15/02 at Cheyenne State 2-16 296
02/20/02 Casper 10-8 126
02/22/02 Northwest Wyoming 10-8 146
02/27/02 Wyoming Catholic 8-10 180
03/06/02 at Sheridan 8-10 236
03/08/02 at Gillette 8-10 207




SNOWY RANGE GREY WOLVES Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Delbert Thomas SG 21 21 25.1 16.5 1.9 5.9 2.3 2.0 0.1 2.1 2.5 8.0
Charles Baker PG 21 19 18.9 11.0 0.9 3.1 1.4 0.8 0.0 1.5 2.7 4.7
Archie Winfield SF 21 20 25.0 10.7 0.7 3.0 1.6 1.2 0.2 2.3 3.2 5.5
Larry Penland SG 21 0 17.5 8.7 0.9 2.0 1.7 1.2 0.1 1.4 2.2 2.8
James Orourke PF 21 21 30.2 7.4 1.2 5.3 1.3 0.9 0.1 1.4 2.4 6.4
Lambert Plateau PG 21 2 15.5 6.3 0.3 2.1 1.5 1.2 0.1 1.4 1.5 0.3
Sergio Gomez C 21 21 30.8 5.8 3.1 8.1 1.8 0.7 1.6 1.2 2.0 6.6
Dustin Nickels SF 20 0 12.9 5.5 0.5 2.5 0.8 0.5 0.1 1.0 1.1 -0.9
Renato Moreno C 21 1 15.8 3.8 1.3 3.3 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.8 1.7 1.1
Nelson Mix PG 5 0 7.0 3.4 0.0 0.8 1.2 0.6 0.0 0.2 0.8 -0.2
Boyd Moreno SG 16 0 4.3 1.5 0.3 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.4 -1.3
Richard Strange PF 20 0 4.4 0.9 0.5 1.5 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.3
John Aubrey SF 5 0 1.8 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 -1.0
David Runion SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Archie Basso C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



My goal so far was/is to find a standout star from this league. It hasn't happened yet. But at least we're a solid ballclub. That's progress. We might be simming a bit before one of those standouts manages to show up here. I could manage to recruit someone outside of the 3-star realm to be that for us in perhaps some miracle, but...in reality, I'd much prefer to see a 3-star or lower kid just evolve into a 5-star type player like in real life. But like in real life, that sort of thing isn't happening overnight and we haven't seen it yet.

[Young Drachma]

As of March 1st, we're actually listed as an in.


WYOMING COLLEGE ATHLETIC LEAGUE BUBBLE WATCH

Team Record RPI vs. 1-50 vs. 51-100 vs. 101-200 vs. 200+ SOS Projected
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Snowy Range 19-9 .560 (35) 1-3 2-1 10-1 6-4 50 In
Western Wyoming 18-8 .498 (145) 0-2 2-2 6-2 10-2 294 Out
Eastern Wyoming 15-11 .529 (85) 1-3 0-0 6-4 8-4 130 Out
Northwest Wyoming 14-12 .487 (178) 0-2 2-2 4-4 8-4 265 Out
Casper 13-13 .495 (156) 1-4 2-2 3-3 7-4 174 Out
Gillette 13-13 .482 (188) 0-1 1-4 5-5 7-3 246 Out
Central Wyoming 12-14 .475 (210) 1-1 1-3 3-6 7-4 231 Out
Sheridan 12-14 .470 (220) 2-0 1-3 4-8 5-3 269 Out
Wyoming Catholic 11-15 .474 (212) 1-1 3-1 4-8 3-5 194 Out
Cheyenne State 4-22 .413 (292) 1-2 0-4 2-7 1-9 142 Out


With an SOS of 50 right now and an RPI of 35, that's clearly helping us out considerably. We'll see what the conference tournament has in store.

[Young Drachma]

As for March 15th, the WyCAL is a two-bid league.


WYOMING COLLEGE ATHLETIC LEAGUE BUBBLE WATCH

Team Record RPI vs. 1-50 vs. 51-100 vs. 101-200 vs. 200+ SOS Projected
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Snowy Range 21-9 .563 (33) 1-3 0-1 12-2 8-3 68 In
Western Wyoming 21-8 .514 (107) 0-2 0-1 10-4 11-1 295 In
Northwest Wyoming 18-13 .508 (119) 0-2 0-1 9-7 9-3 237 Out
Eastern Wyoming 17-13 .518 (101) 1-3 0-0 7-6 9-4 152 Out
Sheridan 15-15 .482 (195) 2-2 0-0 6-8 7-5 255 Out
Gillette 14-16 .476 (206) 0-3 0-2 7-7 7-4 234 Out
Casper 13-16 .485 (183) 1-5 0-0 5-5 7-6 161 Out
Central Wyoming 14-17 .463 (224) 1-1 0-1 5-10 8-5 262 Out
Wyoming Catholic 11-19 .451 (247) 1-1 1-0 6-11 3-7 247 Out
Cheyenne State 5-24 .412 (291) 1-3 0-1 1-12 3-8 146 Out


Western Wyoming is on the bubble, so one figures they have to win the conference tournament. On the flip, it seems like our RPI and SOS should manage to get us in either way, but it'll affect seeding based on how well we do. Even still, I can't imagine us as an especially high seed no matter what.

The fact is, Western Wyoming is a team entirely comprised of walk-ons. So the whole thing is impressive by any measure.

[Young Drachma]

WyCAL Conference Tournament Championship game.


Snowy Range 85, Western Wyoming 74

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Western Wyoming (22-9, 13-5):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Matthew Whitlow C 31 3-8 0-1 1 6 2 2 6
A. Delespierre PF 24 2-3 0-0 3 7 0 4 6
Denis Koski SF 23 6-12 3-3 2 5 2 3 17
Brian Thorson SG 30 3-7 2-2 4 4 2 3 10
Peter McGhee PG 26 4-15 0-1 3 6 4 1 11
George Munoz PG 14 2-4 0-1 2 4 2 0 5
Brian Valente SF 12 3-3 0-0 0 2 1 3 7
Bart Collins PF 16 1-1 0-0 0 3 0 1 3
Frances Benson SG 8 3-3 2-2 0 0 0 1 9
Alain Spencer SG 2 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Stanford Criss C 7 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Thomas Stephens SF 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Thomas Tait PF 3 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0

Turnovers: 25 (M.Whitlow 3, A.Delespierre 3, D.Koski 4,
B.Thorson 3, P.McGhee 1, G.Munoz 2, B.Valente 5,
B.Collins 1, F.Benson 2, A.Spencer 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (M.Whitlow 3)
Steals: 7 (M.Whitlow 1, D.Koski 1, P.McGhee 2, G.Munoz
1, B.Valente 2)
3P FGs: 13-26 (M.Whitlow 0-1, A.Delespierre 2-2,
D.Koski 2-7, B.Thorson 2-5, P.McGhee 3-7, G.Munoz 1-1,
B.Valente 1-1, B.Collins 1-1, F.Benson 1-1)

Snowy Range (23-9, 14-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Sergio Gomez C 31 2-3 1-4 3 6 3 1 5
James Orourke PF 18 2-2 0-0 1 3 0 4 5
Archie Winfield SF 32 5-15 5-5 1 4 5 3 18
Delbert Thomas SG 26 6-16 3-4 1 6 0 3 18
Charles Baker PG 23 4-7 1-1 0 0 4 1 11
Larry Penland SG 19 6-9 0-0 0 2 2 2 16
Lambert Plateau PG 11 1-2 0-0 0 0 2 0 2
Dustin Nickels SF 8 2-2 0-0 0 0 1 2 5
Renato Moreno PF 23 1-2 0-0 2 5 2 0 3
Richard Strange PF 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 2
John Aubrey C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (S.Gomez 1, J.Orourke 1, A.Winfield 5,
D.Thomas 1, C.Baker 2, L.Penland 1, D.Nickels 1,
R.Moreno 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (S.Gomez 3, A.Winfield 1, R.Moreno 2)
Steals: 10 (S.Gomez 1, A.Winfield 1, D.Thomas 2,
C.Baker 2, L.Penland 4)
3P FGs: 15-34 (J.Orourke 1-1, A.Winfield 3-10, D.Thomas
3-12, C.Baker 2-3, L.Penland 4-5, D.Nickels 1-1,
R.Moreno 1-2)

Player of Game: SG Larry Penland (SNOWY)



I watched the selection show. In the end, Western Wyoming really needed to beat us to get that at-large bid which probably would've been a play-in bid to begin with. Instead, we enter the tournament as a 12-seed in the East region and will face Eckerd (24-8) in the first round.

[Young Drachma]

Eckerd 88, Snowy Range 76

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Snowy Range (23-10, 14-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Sergio Gomez C 31 3-4 0-0 6 7 2 1 6
James Orourke PF 30 3-5 4-8 1 5 0 1 10
Archie Winfield SF 28 3-14 0-0 1 5 3 4 8
Delbert Thomas SG 24 4-10 2-4 0 4 3 2 13
Charles Baker PG 19 2-5 3-4 0 3 3 3 9
Larry Penland SG 18 4-7 0-0 0 0 1 2 10
Lambert Plateau PG 12 3-6 0-1 1 4 2 2 7
Dustin Nickels SF 12 3-3 0-0 1 2 1 2 9
Boyd Moreno SG 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Renato Moreno PF 18 2-3 0-0 0 3 0 1 4
Richard Strange PF 5 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
John Aubrey C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 18 (S.Gomez 2, A.Winfield 3, D.Thomas 3,
C.Baker 3, L.Penland 2, D.Nickels 1, R.Moreno 3,
R.Strange 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (S.Gomez 1, J.Orourke 1)
Steals: 8 (S.Gomez 1, J.Orourke 1, A.Winfield 1,
D.Thomas 1, C.Baker 1, L.Penland 2, L.Plateau 1)
3P FGs: 13-32 (J.Orourke 0-1, A.Winfield 2-8, D.Thomas
3-7, C.Baker 2-4, L.Penland 2-5, L.Plateau 1-3,
D.Nickels 3-3, R.Moreno 0-1)

Eckerd (25-8, 12-4):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Danial Cox C 23 5-7 1-1 2 7 2 3 11
Nathan Bennett PF 24 4-16 0-0 4 7 1 4 8
Fletcher Dashiell SF 22 5-6 2-2 2 5 2 4 14
Nathan O'Neil SG 24 3-7 2-2 0 2 4 2 10
James McCluskey PG 32 8-12 5-6 2 3 4 2 25
B. Stringer PF 26 4-9 0-0 2 8 5 1 8
Bobbie Stapleton PF 13 2-4 0-0 0 1 2 1 4
Jonathan Hovis SG 16 1-3 2-2 0 3 2 1 4
Ronald Lee C 6 1-1 0-0 1 2 0 0 2
Jerry Hernandez SF 6 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Dennis Ruiz SG 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 0 2

Turnovers: 12 (N.Bennett 2, F.Dashiell 2, N.O'Neil 1,
J.McCluskey 1, J.Hovis 6)
Blocked Shots: 5 (B.Stringer 4, B.Stapleton 1)
Steals: 6 (N.O'Neil 2, B.Stringer 1, B.Stapleton 1,
J.Hovis 2)
3P FGs: 8-17 (F.Dashiell 2-3, N.O'Neil 2-4, J.McCluskey
4-7, J.Hovis 0-1, J.Hernandez 0-2)

Player of Game: PG James McCluskey (ECK)


No shock at the end result, but still a heck of a season and a milestone by the Snowy Range club making its mark on WyCAL history with an at-large tourney bid and establishing its dominance in the conference for another year.

[Young Drachma]

I'm going to close this dynasty down here. I think I might continue in D2, by now trying to create a D2 juggernaut program as I've never truly seen a program that was super dominant in any of my past solo iterations and I'm curious to see what that would look like, especially for recruiting and looking at an all-star cast of players.

Plus, there's a possibility that if it works we'll eventually elevate the program to D1 since we'd be starting now in 2002-03 so we'd have at least a decade or so to establish some kind of D2 dominance.

Not sure if I'll dynasty about it or not, but...that's the path I have next.

[Young Drachma]

So like I said I would...I created a D2 powerhouse school. I asked around and someone suggested I create East Arkansas University and place it in West Memphis, AR. I liked this because I saw it as a realistic situation of a school in a metro area on the other side of the border establishing itself at the 2nd tier.

The first season for the River Dogs in D2 (from fictional NAIA) was 2002. They hired former Lindenwood and Snowy Range head coach G.D. Darnell as their first head coach and the program began hitting the ground running.

They began their existence in the Heartland Conference of D2. In 2007, they moved to the more competitive Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Conference where they've maintained their success.



EAST ARKANSAS TROPHY CASE

Season Team Trophy
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2010 East Arkansas NCAA Champion
2010 East Arkansas Mid-America Intercollegiate Athleti Champion
2009 East Arkansas Mid-America Intercollegiate Athleti Champion
2008 East Arkansas Mid-America Intercollegiate Athleti Tourney Champion
2007 East Arkansas NCAA Champion
2007 East Arkansas Mid-America Intercollegiate Athleti Champion
2007 East Arkansas Mid-America Intercollegiate Athleti Tourney Champion
2006 East Arkansas NCAA Champion
2006 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Champion
2006 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Tourney Champion
2005 East Arkansas NCAA Champion
2005 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Champion
2005 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Tourney Champion
2004 East Arkansas NCAA Champion
2004 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Champion
2003 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Champion
2002 East Arkansas Heartland Conference Champion


Remember, this is D2 basketball. So we're not competing with the best of the best except at our level.


EAST ARKANSAS TEAM PERFORMANCE

Season Team W L CW CL Rank RPI PRS Result
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2010 East Arkansas 35 4 18 2 3 2 100 NCAA Champion
2009 East Arkansas 31 4 19 1 1 1 100 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
2008 East Arkansas 31 6 16 4 1 1 100 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2007 East Arkansas 37 3 18 2 2 2 100 NCAA Champion
2006 East Arkansas 37 2 13 1 1 1 100 NCAA Champion
2005 East Arkansas 39 0 14 0 1 1 100 NCAA Champion
2004 East Arkansas 36 4 12 2 2 1 100 NCAA Champion
2003 East Arkansas 31 5 13 1 4 3 97 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2002 East Arkansas 30 5 13 1 12 10 98 Loss in NCAA Round of 32



Here are the teams that have won titles since I moved the dynasty to this focus.


NCAA Champs

Season Team Record Opponent Score
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2010 East Arkansas River Dogs 35-4 Barton Bulldogs 77-61
2009 Lincoln (MO) Blue Tigers 32-5 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 81-66
2008 Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes 28-9 Goldey-Beacom Lightning 76-58
2007 East Arkansas River Dogs 37-3 New York Tech Bears 84-74
2006 East Arkansas River Dogs 37-2 C.W. Post Pioneers 68-59
2005 East Arkansas River Dogs 39-0 Rollins Tars 110-69
2004 East Arkansas River Dogs 36-4 Humboldt State Jacks 98-79
2003 Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes 38-0 C.W. Post Pioneers 76-67
2002 C.W. Post Pioneers 38-0 Lincoln (MO) Blue Tigers 86-77
2001 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos 33-5 C.W. Post Pioneers 97-91
2000 C.W. Post Pioneers 34-3 Bellarmine Knights 89-78
1999 Albany State Rams 34-4 C.W. Post Pioneers 84-63
1998 Grand Valley State Lakers 33-4 Bellarmine Knights 85-75
1997 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 34-4 Central Washington Wildcats 80-74
1996 Saint Mary's Rattlers 34-3 Benedict Panthers 70-63
1995 Christian Brothers Bucs 33-4 C.W. Post Pioneers 71-69
1994 Philadelphia Rams 35-3 Winona State Warriors 89-79
1993 Augusta State Jaguars 37-1 Benedict Panthers 80-62
1992 C.W. Post Pioneers 34-4 Central Missouri Mules 63-52
1991 Augusta State Jaguars 37-0 Winona State Warriors 106-86
1990 Fort Lewis Skyhawks 34-3 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 72-60
1989 Saint Mary's Rattlers 35-2 Philadelphia Rams 73-63
1988 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 37-0 Philadelphia Rams 95-87
1987 C.W. Post Pioneers 34-2 Findlay Oilers 82-56
1986 C.W. Post Pioneers 35-1 Augusta State Jaguars 57-48
1985 Augusta State Jaguars 37-0 Bentley Falcons 60-58
1984 Tarleton State Texans 36-1 Findlay Oilers 88-73
1983 Findlay Oilers 33-4 Winona State Warriors 82-66
1982 Augusta State Jaguars 32-4 Bellarmine Knights 78-65
1981 West Liberty Hilltoppers 36-2 Bentley Falcons 95-86
1980 Philadelphia Rams 36-1 Central Washington Wildcats 78-72
1979 Findlay Oilers 37-0 Philadelphia Rams 94-55
1978 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Bentley Falcons 74-59
1977 Winona State Warriors 33-4 Findlay Oilers 72-71
1976 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Bentley Falcons 62-50
1975 Augusta State Jaguars 34-3 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 91-58
1974 Central Missouri Mules 34-1 Augusta State Jaguars 97-87
1973 West Liberty Hilltoppers 34-3 Bellarmine Knights 97-67
1972 Findlay Oilers 36-1 Winona State Warriors 89-58

Season Team Record Opponent Score
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1971 Bentley Falcons 32-3 Pittsburgh-Johnstown Mountain Cats 93-88
1970 Central Missouri Mules 35-2 Central Washington Wildcats 81-54


For what it's worth Lindenwood and Snowy Range haven't exactly set the earth on fire since we left them, Lindenwood still hasn't made it back to the Big Dance and Snowy Range has, but hasn't become a power team in the WyCAL conference which added Nebraska-Scottsbluff to its ranks and is now a much more competitive (though bottom tier) league in D2.

But here's the real reason we're posting. The board of trustees and some boosters at East Arkansas are of the belief that the program needs to transition to Division 1. This is a controversial opinion, truthfully.

Boosters and the President are the ones pushing this, the department and even the coaches are more skeptical. No one is sure that we ought to stop dominating D2 and go off to D1. On the flip side, no one cares how many national championships you win in Division 2. Especially when Memphis is announcing up the road that it's going to the Big East and even Arkansas State plays in D1.

So what's a program to do?

We'll keep chugging along. At the end of this year, there will be a study released to let the institution know whether it ought to move to D1. From there, there will be more meetings and so forth. The earliest the move would take place, after the school left transition would be 2016.

On the flip side, they might just continue in D2.

We'll use this thread to update the process of the program in D2 and whether it makes its ascent to D1 or not.

[Young Drachma]

The 2011-12 season is on the edge of being complete. The River Dogs are competing for their 6th D2 national championship against their nemesis from the East Coast Conference C.W. Post who have appeared in the Elite 8 more times than any other team (20), 15 times in the final four and 11 times in the national championship game. C.W. Post along with three other programs (including EAU) has claimed 5 national championships.

The two programs have a friendly rivalry going and seem to enjoy meeting in these finals. "It's really the best of what D2 has to offer," said C.W. Post head coach Issac Norris who is the career D2 leader in wins with 1032, but only joined C.W. Post four years ago after an illustrious career which includes two national titles at St. Mary's in San Antonio.



#1 EAST ARKANSAS RIVER DOGS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/14/11 vs. Stonehill 16-14 96 W 91-59 1-0
11/15/11 vs. Wisconsin-Parkside 19-14 24 W 100-53 2-0
11/16/11 vs. #17 Dallas Baptist 26-9 9 W 85-78 3-0
11/24/11 at Eastern Wyoming 4-25 290 W 70-27 4-0
11/25/11 at Fort Lewis 24-9 55 W 119-85 5-0
11/30/11 Georgetown College 15-17 138 W 102-79 6-0
12/02/11 #9 Limestone 27-8 7 W 78-61 7-0
12/08/11 Molloy 15-15 30 W 112-71 8-0
12/16/11 Grand Canyon 9-21 214 W 99-70 9-0
12/24/11 at Truman 20-12 65 L 82-69 9-1 (0-1)
12/28/11 Emporia State 14-17 164 W 97-50 10-1 (1-1)
12/31/11 at #22 Fort Hays 23-10 18 W 73-63 11-1 (2-1)
01/04/12 Northwest Missouri 10-20 249 W 110-78 12-1 (3-1)
01/07/12 Pittsburg State 16-15 62 W 66-61 13-1 (4-1)
01/11/12 Southwest Baptist 21-13 28 W 103-66 14-1 (5-1)
01/14/12 at Washburn 7-23 248 W 90-86 15-1 (6-1)
01/18/12 at Lincoln (MO) 9-23 143 W 80-67 16-1 (7-1)
01/21/12 Missouri Western 6-24 208 W 89-41 17-1 (8-1)
01/23/12 vs. #21 Eckerd 22-11 14 W 95-84 18-1
01/25/12 #22 Fort Hays 23-10 18 W 84-62 19-1 (9-1)
01/28/12 at Pittsburg State 16-15 62 W 86-62 20-1 (10-1)
02/01/12 at Northwest Missouri 10-20 249 W 90-51 21-1 (11-1)
02/04/12 Lincoln (MO) 9-23 143 W 77-63 22-1 (12-1)
02/08/12 at Southwest Baptist 21-13 28 W 96-88 23-1 (13-1)
02/11/12 at Emporia State 14-17 164 W 79-44 24-1 (14-1)
02/15/12 #11 Central Missouri 25-8 19 W 75-47 25-1 (15-1)
02/18/12 at Missouri Western 6-24 208 W 68-53 26-1 (16-1)
02/22/12 Truman 20-12 65 W 101-71 27-1 (17-1)
02/25/12 Washburn 7-23 248 W 96-60 28-1 (18-1)
02/29/12 at Missouri Southern 19-12 60 W 76-65 29-1 (19-1)
03/05/12 vs. Pittsburg State 16-15 62 W 81-68 30-1
03/06/12 vs. #22 Fort Hays 23-10 18 W 67-47 31-1
03/07/12 vs. #11 Central Missouri 25-8 19 W 89-75 32-1
03/16/12 vs. Central Washington 20-13 146 W 80-59 33-1
03/18/12 vs. Shippensburg 24-11 36 W 63-49 34-1
03/22/12 vs. #9 Limestone 27-8 7 W 89-57 35-1
03/24/12 vs. #10 San Francisco State 27-9 12 W 91-67 36-1
03/31/12 vs. #3 Cal State San Bernardino 31-6 3 W 88-80 37-1
04/02/12 vs. #2 C.W. Post 35-2 1



The two teams are evenly matched.

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So really, anyone could pull it out. We duel back and forth a lot, between the two. There was no neutral site regular season meeting between us this year (we do that every few years) and so, it's hard to know precisely how well we match up.

What I did for gameplanning in this game was slow the pace of the game down relative to how we usually play, cut down on our 3-point play even though we're good at that (I didn't want to live and die by the 3 in such a pivotal game) and instead, focused on ball movement. tight defense and rather than let any one guy take over the game; I've opted to let that be a free-for-all approach. I find that with highlighting a few guys to run the offense through, you are subject to a bad night by a guy and end up losing.

I realize that the only reason we can eschew this playing style is because of how much talent we have. But hey...just think of it as D2 talent. The game still uses my D3 height file, so the guys are shorter than they'd otherwise be, anyway.

Moving on to the game...


East Arkansas 74, C.W. Post 62

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C.W. Post (35-3, 13-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Tony McLain C 32 4-7 1-2 4 7 2 3 9
Jonathan Champlin PF 34 1-9 0-0 1 7 1 2 2
William Nevarez SF 33 7-11 5-6 1 3 1 3 22
Andre Baker SG 29 3-6 2-2 1 5 4 4 8
Lanny Evans PG 27 3-6 0-0 0 1 3 2 8
Erick Hunter PG 13 1-4 1-2 0 0 1 1 4
Derek Edgerton C 19 2-4 2-2 1 4 2 0 6
Randal Wolfe SG 9 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 1 3
Oren Lanier PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Gerald Clifton SF 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0

Turnovers: 24 (T.McLain 3, J.Champlin 2, W.Nevarez 5,
A.Baker 3, L.Evans 7, E.Hunter 1, R.Wolfe 2, G.Clifton
1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (T.McLain 4, J.Champlin 1)
Steals: 10 (T.McLain 2, W.Nevarez 4, A.Baker 2, L.Evans
1, E.Hunter 1)
3P FGs: 7-18 (W.Nevarez 3-6, A.Baker 0-3, L.Evans 2-4,
E.Hunter 1-2, R.Wolfe 1-2, G.Clifton 0-1)

East Arkansas (38-1, 19-1):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Tyree Stearns C 33 3-6 0-0 3 12 2 3 6
Ronald Wu PF 34 2-5 2-2 1 5 1 1 6
Ronnie Reichard SF 32 13-23 0-0 1 4 2 3 26
Elliot Keen SG 21 7-12 4-4 1 2 3 4 18
Terry Shill SG 33 1-4 2-2 1 3 3 3 4
Charles Eason PG 18 3-4 3-4 0 0 7 0 10
Ronnie Mize PG 11 0-0 0-0 0 3 3 1 0
C. Hildebrandt C 8 2-3 0-0 1 2 0 1 4
Vespasien Bauvet SG 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Napoleon Haith PF 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 18 (T.Stearns 1, R.Reichard 2, E.Keen 5,
T.Shill 5, C.Eason 4, R.Mize 1)
Blocked Shots: 10 (T.Stearns 1, R.Wu 7, R.Reichard 1,
C.Eason 1)
Steals: 13 (R.Wu 1, R.Reichard 3, E.Keen 3, T.Shill 2,
C.Eason 3, R.Mize 1)
3P FGs: 1-6 (E.Keen 0-4, T.Shill 0-1, C.Eason 1-1)

Player of Game: SF Ronnie Reichard (EASTARK)


Well, the gameplan worked. We're so closely matched with these guys that literally every game could go either way. But it's nice to see the gameplan worked and in the process, make EAU the first program to reach six national titles. What's odd about this particular team is that while it was chock full of talent, it might have been the most complete program we've had since earlier title teams.

SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO

The EAU to D1 rumors are fueling. No one has any illusions that you can have the kind of success going from D2 to D1 as we have had from NAIA to D2. It's just a different kind of thing. First off, it takes money that East Arkansas won't have to compete with the big boys at the top of the ranks.

On the flip side, there's a kind of irrelevance that comes from dominating at a lower level and there's a clamoring amongst our boosters and specifically, our President that wants to elevate the program to a higher level.

EAU doesn't have football at the moment, but with me having NCAA13, that's a possibility. :)

Still, at this point, I haven't decided how to decide whether to move the program up or not. It just remains a possibility. We know for sure that next year at least, EAU will play in D2 and remain in the MIAA.

[Young Drachma]

The consensus on this after talking to a few folks is that you have Mt. Union in football (a team that's won 10 D3 national titles and has been in every D3 national title game but two since 1996. The last 7 D3 national title games have been between UW-Whitewater and Mt. Union) where you can be dominant at a level so far beyond everyone else versus the natural trajectory where you win a title or two at the lower level or do a Boise State where they won at pretty much every level they played at and then elevated to the top level where they've had success too.

And that's the debate. Football isn't getting added at EAU, because it doesn't make financial sense in a state with a dominant SEC team and a Sun Belt club. So then the debate is moving up and whether or not doing so makes a bunch of a sense.

So we're still debating our next move for the program. At this point, all signs point to remaining -- at least for now -- in D2. Which means I move on with another story/program in the meantime, while keeping this one incubated. Not sure yet.

[britrock88]

Find a school in Minnesota, maybe? Decent population and only the one D-1 school to compete with.

[Young Drachma]

Find a school in Minnesota, maybe? Decent population and only the one D-1 school to compete with.

Ooh. I didn't realize that until you said it. Vermont, Wyoming, Maine & Minnesota are the only ones with just one D1 school. Crazy.

I think that's a great idea.

We'll make it a private school with a large endowment, because then it'd make sense that they'd want to be D1 for publicity or whatever. I could create a fictional school that'd be a merger of St. Olaf and Carleton (two private D3 schools) that together would have a billion-dollar endowment.

I'll plot this and come up with a storyline. Thanks for chiming in, this was super helpful.

[Young Drachma]

I needed to come up with a fictional FCS school for a FCS fantasy league on another board and so..this was a good opportunity to figure out my Minnesota school.

Decided on Minnesota A&M University in Austin, MN about 45 minutes away from Rochester. (It's home to where they make SPAM)

The Minnesota A&M Redhorse. Which is a fish, not a horse. We'll insert them into D1. I'm simming with the 2014 setup starting in the 1930s and going all the way to 2014 or so, then we'll bring the program into D1. Not sure if they'll start as an independent or in a conference yet...(probably the latter)

[Young Drachma]

East Arkansas is going to move to Division 1 starting in the 2016-17 season.