FBCB - Bombs Away!

[Radii]

So awhile back we learned how easy it is to dominate FBCB in single player by building a pressing/trapping team based on forcing turnovers:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=59648


But are there other ways to achieve overwhelming success? The credit for the first dynasty goes entirely to AlHill in FOBL land. The credit for this dynasty goes to him as well. When I was first learning the system he was running that owned us all in our online league, he mentioned the possibility of other focused systems, and we're going to try one out here. I've never tried this and really don't know what to expect.

Details(many copied from the previous thread):

I'm going to start at a small school in a prestige 1 conference, using the old, default conference alignments that existed when the game came out. I'll create a level 0 coach and try to claw my way up.

Human coach firing will be turned on, and conference movement is turned off. The goal for this career is to work my way up to the top as a coach, not to take a specific team up to the top. Coach firing is on b/c, if I suck at implementing the system, I want to get kicked back down to the bottom until I get it right.


House Rules


I only have two rules that I'm going to use to limit my play in any way. One is that I will space out my scheduling. We know there is no fatigue in between games, and there are some advantages to playing all your non conference games in the first 2 weeks of November, I'm going to avoid that and force myself to schedule at least two days between games, preferably three.

The other rule is with recruiting. I will not take advantage of the ease of recruiting foreign players. I will not offer any blind scholarships to foreign players in the hopes of landing players that the CPU fails to recruit properly that I would normally not have a chance at. If I find foreign talent through the 'normal' methods I use to search for players(searching based on stats primarily), I must spend money on them every month if I wish to recruit them.


The System


We're going to rain 3 pointers relentlessly upon our opponents. We're going to get 3 great 3 point shooters on the court at all times, and any time they're open, they shoot. We'll try to not turn the ball over, and we'll try to be a good rebounding team. But most importantly, we want to shoot a LOT of 3 pointers and just try to outscore our opponents.

Recruiting

Big Men: This is a little different than normal. Normally I just focus on solid big men, INS/DRB/PSD. If I'm going to be shooting 3s non stop, I really don't care if my big men can score. The focus is *entirely* on Rebounding and Defense.

Perimeter Players: In our "Steals System" we care about Steals, Ball Handling, and Defense, in that order. In this System, we care about 3 point shooting, Ball Handling, and I'm actually not sure where to go for the 3rd attribute. Defense and Rebounding both have their merits. Defense probably makes the most sense though.


Scheduling


I don't ever want to have a losing season. Keeping the prestige going up is the most important thing. I will not schedule a single non conference opponent with a prestige above 10 until I am 100% sure my team can handle it. I don't care about my RPI until I'm ready to compete for at large NCAA bids. One exception is that as I improve I will find a bigger team to pick on, most likely Duke if they remain a top program, that I try to schedule every year.


Redshirting

Unless my job is on the line and I have a stud freshman coming in, I will redshirt everyone.


Gameplanning

I will rely on the recommend button a lot early in my career, and will eventually force my depth chart to support my system. Later on, the goal is to use the recommend button, set 3 point shooting to 10, pace probably 8 or so, and to make sure our "go to players" are all of our 3 point shooters.


With that, lets roll and see what happens!

[Radii]

Initial Team

I'm taking over Grambling in the Southwestern Athletic Conference(SWAC). Grambling's prestige is 6. The SWAC is pretty poor overall. Alcorn State has a prestige of 35 and is tops in the league. Alabama A&M, Alabama State, and Mississippi Valley State also have prestige over 20.


The Coach


COACH DETAILS

Richard Dixon - Head Coach - Grambling
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Age: 31
High School: Wake Forest Rolesville
Hometown: Wake Forest, NC
Alma Mater: North Carolina

Current Level: 0
Career Record: 0 - 0

Recruiting: 30
Scouting: 0
Offense: 70
Defense: 0


Recruiting and Offense are obviously the big factors here. I actually went to Georgia Tech but I'd rather end up at UNC in the end so setting them as my alma mater maximizes the chances.



Assistants

We've got a recommended 99,000 to spend on coaches.

We snag a recruiting coordinator rated 28, a scout rated 30, and an assistant rated 30 on offense/28 on defense. We pay the minimum 30k for the first two, and $35,000 for the assistant.

[korme]

lookin forward to this

[Radii]

2003/04 Season

Our team sucks, suprise suprise. We schedule a bunch of teams w/ a prestige under 5.

Recruiting

We've got 3 scholarships and a 7k/mo recruting budget. I target players who shoot 32% of higher from 3 and hope they turn out ok, low budgets kinda suck!


We can only afford to go after two targets. One falls off the radar pretty fast, but I land the other at the end of November:



RECRUIT DETAILS

#3 PG Justin Ellis
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Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 173
High School: Quitman High School
Hometown: Quitman, TX
GPA: 2.42
Test Score: 1010
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 61 32 67 90 60 46 14 0 7 36 21 12 1 95 32 62 14
Potential: B D B A C C C D D D D D



I have no other contacts who don't already have offers from better schools, so I find a couple other suitable guys to go after. going into January we have the lead on another guy who scouts as an 'A' in 3PS, and absolutely no backup targets.


Going into February we land our second recruit:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#11 PG Tony Houchens
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 154
High School: Washington Irving High School
Hometown: New York, NY
GPA: 2.75
Test Score: 1070
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 39 65 39 56 40 18 1 5 21 22 53 42 0 77 34 40 60
Potential: D B C A D D F F C D B B



Hopefully these guys at least somewhat resemble the way they've been scouted.

There's really nothing else out there and we get 2 recruits this year.


We have a solid season, thanks to scheduling the worst teams imaginable:


2003 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alabama A&M 13 5 .722 17 14 .548
Alcorn State 13 5 .722 15 15 .500
Mississippi Valley State 11 7 .611 18 14 .563
Alabama State 11 7 .611 14 16 .467
Grambling 9 9 .500 14 15 .483
Jackson State 8 10 .444 12 17 .414
Prairie View A&M 7 11 .389 10 20 .333
Texas Southern 7 11 .389 8 21 .276
Southern 6 12 .333 10 18 .357
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 5 13 .278 8 21 .276




Grambling 2003 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 6 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 14-15 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 9-9 Record Vs 101-200: 0-0
Home Record: 6-6 Record Vs 200+: 14-15
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 304

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 57.5 National Rank: 270 Conference Rank: 7
Points Allowed: 55.8 National Rank: 5 Conference Rank: 2
Rebounds: 29.2 National Rank: 321 Conference Rank: 10
Assists: 10.3 National Rank: 308 Conference Rank: 7
Steals: 7.4 National Rank: 142 Conference Rank: 1
Blocks: 2.2 National Rank: 192 Conference Rank: 4
Turnovers: 16.6 National Rank: 113 Conference Rank: 4
Fouls: 19.6 National Rank: 236 Conference Rank: 6
FG%: .431 National Rank: 156 Conference Rank: 4
FT%: .689 National Rank: 120 Conference Rank: 3
3P%: .276 National Rank: 273 Conference Rank: 5




Grambling 2003 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/16/03 Savannah State (7-22) W 62-48 1-0
11/19/03 at Sacramento State (10-21) L 63-46 1-1
11/22/03 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (7-21) W 56-39 2-1
11/26/03 at Morris Brown (7-21) L 57-41 2-2
11/30/03 at Birmingham Southern (10-19) L 68-67 2-3
12/04/03 at Lipscomb (5-23) W 35-27 3-3
12/08/03 at Binghamton (7-21) W 78-50 4-3
12/12/03 Gardner Webb (6-22) W 64-42 5-3
12/15/03 at IPFW (6-23) L 70-60 5-4
12/20/03 at Jackson State (12-17) W 63-37 6-4 (1-0)
12/22/03 at Mississippi Valley State (18-14) W 52-50 7-4 (2-0)
12/27/03 at Morgan State (14-18) L 70-48 7-5
01/10/04 at Texas Southern (8-21) W 47-35 8-5 (3-0)
01/12/04 Prairie View A&M (10-20) W 77-58 9-5 (4-0)
01/17/04 at Prairie View A&M (10-20) L 71-41 9-6 (4-1)
01/19/04 Alcorn State (15-15) L 77-70 9-7 (4-2)
01/24/04 at Southern (10-18) L 50-49 9-8 (4-3)
01/26/04 at Alabama A&M (17-14) L 64-62 9-9 (4-4)
01/31/04 Jackson State (12-17) L 63-58 9-10 (4-5)
02/02/04 Texas Southern (8-21) W 69-45 10-10 (5-5)
02/07/04 at Alabama State (14-16) W 60-51 11-10 (6-5)
02/14/04 Mississippi Valley State (18-14) L 60-56 11-11 (6-6)
02/16/04 at Alcorn State (15-15) W 68-55 12-11 (7-6)
02/21/04 Alabama A&M (17-14) W 72-55 13-11 (8-6)
02/23/04 Alabama State (14-16) L 51-43 13-12 (8-7)
02/28/04 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (8-21) W 56-45 14-12 (9-7)
03/03/04 Southern (10-18) L 70-38 14-13 (9-8)
03/06/04 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (8-21) L 70-58 14-14 (9-9)
03/09/04 vs. Alabama State (14-16) L 78-71 14-15


On to the next year!

[Balldog]

Cool idea, I've thought about similar concepts. Just recruting gaurds to run and gun, and jack up 3s.

[Buccaneer]

Cool. I had missed Radii's dynasty and had not known about extreming out turnovers. I have always emphasized fundamentals over everything else and found I could take a team to close to the top by minimizing turnovers.

[Radii]

2004 Offseason

Our prestige begins the slow climb upward, going from 6 to 8.

Our goal for this year is to avoid last place, and our AD is delighted in our ability to not be last so far.

Roster Overview

We still suck, and we're going to redshirt our freshmen so we'll breeze through this year too.

Incoming Recruits


PLAYER DETAILS

#42 PG Tony Houchens - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 154
High School: Washington Irving High School
Hometown: New York, NY

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 39 58 39 63 40 18 15 17 21 32 48 42 3 72 34 47 73
Potential: B B C B D D D D C C B C

Academics: 75

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2003 High School: Rated *** and #228 overall by the FBCB scouting service.




PLAYER DETAILS

#20 PG Justin Ellis - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 173
High School: Quitman High School
Hometown: Quitman, TX

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 48 42 67 79 46 36 27 4 16 20 6 12 1 95 36 74 14
Potential: C C B A C C C F D D F D

Academics: 37

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2003 High School: Rated *** and #215 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


Well that's pretty dang good. Both will redshirt and will begin playing next year.


Coaching

We don't lose any coaches this year.

Scheduling

And we generate the easiest possible schedule again like last year.

[Radii]

2004/05 Season

Recruiting

We've got 4 scholarships, and $7,500/mo to fill them. I remember from my last dynasty how difficult it is at these levels to recruit both guards and post players in the same year, so I'm going to be willing to give in and grab 2 3-point shooters this season and nothing else if I don't have any early luck.

One thing I'm noticing very early is that there do not seem to be nearly as many 3 point specialist as there are guys who are ball hawks who force steals. Many of the top 3-point shooters are simply SGs in the top 100, at least when you look through the players and look at 3P% to decide who to contact. I do find and scout a very low rated SG this year who shot 40% from 3 in high school, but there just isn't the wealth of guys like in steals.

I go after 3 guys that were good 3 point shooters in HS who scouted A or B in long range shooting. Unfortunately, I don't land any of the 3 before training camps... and, that goes HORRIBLY. We lose 2 of our guys in to begin December, one of whom was Very High on us.

We do finally land a recruit in January:


#1 SG Leon Champion
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Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 180
High School: Choctawhatchee Senior High School
Hometown: Fort Walton Beach, FL
GPA: 2.37
Test Score: 900
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 49 40 37 74 11 17 21 23 0 6 54 33 30 76 47 92 28
Potential: A B A B D D B D C F A B



And he looks very very good overall, he can't play defense of course, and we'll see how he comes in.

Yeah... the rest of the recruiting season goes horribly, and we are unable to land a second recruit to go along with Champion. But hopefully we've landed 3 3 point specialists to field a starting lineup these last two years.


Results


Not suprisingly, we suck more this year than last year. Even if the 3P thing doesn't work we're adding two scorers to the roster next year so this should improve:


2004 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alcorn State 14 4 .778 20 12 .625
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 12 6 .667 18 13 .581
Alabama State 12 6 .667 16 14 .533
Jackson State 11 7 .611 18 12 .600
Mississippi Valley State 10 8 .556 13 16 .448
Southern 8 10 .444 14 15 .483
Alabama A&M 8 10 .444 10 19 .345
Texas Southern 6 12 .333 7 22 .241
Prairie View A&M 5 13 .278 10 20 .333
Grambling 4 14 .222 8 20 .286





Grambling 2004 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 8 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 8-20 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 4-14 Record Vs 101-200: 0-4
Home Record: 3-9 Record Vs 200+: 8-16
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 321

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 53.1 National Rank: 313 Conference Rank: 9
Points Allowed: 58.9 National Rank: 16 Conference Rank: 4
Rebounds: 31.5 National Rank: 284 Conference Rank: 8
Assists: 10.0 National Rank: 321 Conference Rank: 9
Steals: 5.4 National Rank: 314 Conference Rank: 9
Blocks: 3.4 National Rank: 82 Conference Rank: 1
Turnovers: 19.3 National Rank: 258 Conference Rank: 8
Fouls: 17.9 National Rank: 81 Conference Rank: 2
FG%: .419 National Rank: 229 Conference Rank: 5
FT%: .627 National Rank: 297 Conference Rank: 8
3P%: .228 National Rank: 319 Conference Rank: 10




Grambling 2004 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/14/04 at Lipscomb (5-23) W 63-51 1-0
11/18/04 at Gardner Webb (9-22) L 48-46 1-1
11/22/04 at Savannah State (13-16) L 70-58 1-2
11/26/04 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (6-22) W 62-54 2-2
11/30/04 at Southeastern Louisiana (10-18) L 56-47 2-3
12/04/04 at IPFW (12-16) W 41-38 3-3
12/08/04 UC Riverside (2-26) W 55-47 4-3
12/12/04 at VMI (8-23) L 70-63 4-4
12/15/04 Morris Brown (10-18) L 52-51 4-5
12/18/04 at Alcorn State (20-12) L 74-59 4-6 (0-1)
12/20/04 Southern (14-15) L 49-43 4-7 (0-2)
12/23/04 at Binghamton (13-16) L 70-41 4-8
12/27/04 Prairie View A&M (10-20) L 69-59 4-9 (0-3)
01/03/05 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (18-13) L 66-58 4-10 (0-4)
01/08/05 at Texas Southern (7-22) W 62-40 5-10 (1-4)
01/15/05 at Prairie View A&M (10-20) L 75-49 5-11 (1-5)
01/17/05 at Jackson State (18-12) L 64-60 5-12 (1-6)
01/29/05 Alabama A&M (10-19) L 58-50 5-13 (1-7)
01/31/05 at Mississippi Valley State (13-16) W 56-55 6-13 (2-7)
02/05/05 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (18-13) W 51-49 7-13 (3-7)
02/07/05 Jackson State (18-12) L 54-51 7-14 (3-8)
02/12/05 at Southern (14-15) L 59-44 7-15 (3-9)
02/14/05 Alcorn State (20-12) L 68-64 7-16 (3-10)
02/21/05 Texas Southern (7-22) L 50-48 7-17 (3-11)
02/26/05 at Alabama A&M (10-19) W 73-66 8-17 (4-11)
02/28/05 at Alabama State (16-14) L 66-46 8-18 (4-12)
03/02/05 Alabama State (16-14) L 75-40 8-19 (4-13)
03/05/05 Mississippi Valley State (13-16) L 57-46 8-20 (4-14)



Ending this season, I'm disappointed in the recruiting results big time, but its a start.

[Radii]

2005 Offseason

Our prestige falls back to 6 from 8. As we failed to finish last place last season, our AD is only satisfied with us, no longer delighted. Hopefully the freshmen help out enough to get us back to .500 this year.


Roster Overview


Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 223 62 9 21 9 23 12 35 71 40 22
John Halloran PF 6' 6" 228 15 47 0 32 5 36 44 68 47 63
David Bonin SG 6' 5" 212 26 49 40 35 17 12 67 52 67 51
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 157 42 65 70 40 20 16 72 35 47 82
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 174 50 45 84 46 38 28 95 38 74 30

Larry Weatherspoon SF 6' 6" 212 34 40 10 53 32 18 47 58 70 47
Nickolas Ryan SG 6' 4" 210 22 49 6 25 15 30 86 61 63 73
James Gibson PG 5'11" 196 11 11 10 61 10 5 82 25 50 70
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 268 33 13 14 37 19 29 29 54 41 53



Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 223 19 20 30 29 17 35 35 71 40 22
John Halloran PF 6' 6" 228 48 10 22 53 42 99 44 68 47 63
David Bonin SG 6' 5" 212 15 32 26 20 21 37 67 52 67 51
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 157 22 34 54 43 18 11 72 35 47 82
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 174 17 21 7 12 4 10 95 38 74 30


Larry Weatherspoon SF 6' 6" 212 35 20 5 12 39 79 47 58 70 47
Nickolas Ryan SG 6' 4" 210 26 49 42 35 17 100 86 61 63 73
James Gibson PG 5'11" 196 12 52 15 10 15 42 82 25 50 70
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 268 17 31 8 24 31 57 29 54 41 53



Our starting center lopez is actually a walkon with an 'A' INS skill. That will help as we build our backcourt and don't really have any post players.


Incoming Recruits

Champion is good for the #178 recruiting class ranking in the nation.


Our one recruit doesn't disappoint. After a redshirt year we'll have 3 full seasons of Champion, Houchens, and Ellis. All out 3 point shooting won't be truly effective until we have backups that can shoot too but we'll definitely be shooting it a ton more this year.


PLAYER DETAILS

#1 SG Leon Champion - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 180
High School: Choctawhatchee Senior High School
Hometown: Fort Walton Beach, FL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 54 40 40 77 5 27 21 23 9 6 67 22 24 76 47 74 38
Potential: B C C A F D D D F F A C

Academics: 24

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2004 High School: Rated *** and #298 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2004 High School: All-State (Florida)



Coaching

Again we don't lose any of our crappy assistants.

Scheduling

And again we'll schedule easy.

[Radii]

2005/2006 Season

We've got 4 scholarships available this year and might want to consider recruiting a big man.

We take a fairly huge chance this year in recruiting, but one that i thought had a fairly high chance of paying off. We found a SG from Germany who shoots 36% from 3, which is usually good to guarentee a high rating, and he's only the 28th best SG, so I thought if I went after him early I might have a shot. And, I did indeed luck out:



RECRUIT DETAILS

#30 SG Andreas Oberle
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 181
High School:
Hometown: Weimar, Germany
GPA: 2.81
Test Score: 930
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 20 50 44 55 23 26 16 22 43 17 22 12 90 63 23 86 18
Potential: D A C A D C F B C C D F


Oberle signs in the first signing period.

We also land a good shooting SF in the early period:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#25 SF Freeman Messer
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Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 225
High School: Branchville High School
Hometown: Branchville, SC
GPA: 2.58
Test Score: 920
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 31 60 56 68 26 20 22 33 22 17 6 55 76 41 41 62 30
Potential: C A B A D B B C C D F C



Muuuuch better than last season! This is before training camps.



RECRUIT DETAILS

#25 SF Karl Hill
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Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 215
High School: Greeley Central High School
Hometown: Greeley, CO
GPA: 2.77
Test Score: 1290
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 13 75 41 72 21 44 2 18 30 30 29 26 2 80 42 35 29
Potential: B B C B B C D F D C B C


A 3rd recruit signs Dec 1. I have the lead on a 4th 3 point shooter, and am debating whether to grab him or go for a post player.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#1 PG Darron Lancaster
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 152
High School: Katy High School
Hometown: Katy, TX
GPA: 2.65
Test Score: 920
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 32 74 52 68 50 46 36 15 33 42 4 50 79 63 37 44 15
Potential: D B C B B A A F B C F B


I scouted a bunch of big men just in case I lost this guy but wasn't going to drop a good recruit that I had the lead on. This looks like a stellar recruiting class for our system. Next year we'll focus entirely on big men, and hope that we can raise our prestige up enough that we have the budget to focus on both bigs and shooters some years.



Results

We're much improved this year, finishing 5th in the conference. We win in the conference quarterfinals before losing to Alcorn State(top seed) in the confrence semis.



2005 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alcorn State 13 5 .722 19 12 .613
Alabama State 13 5 .722 19 13 .594
Southern 13 5 .722 17 13 .567
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 11 7 .611 14 15 .483
Grambling 10 8 .556 17 13 .567
Jackson State 9 9 .500 16 13 .552
Mississippi Valley State 9 9 .500 13 16 .448
Alabama A&M 6 12 .333 8 21 .276
Prairie View A&M 5 13 .278 8 21 .276
Texas Southern 1 17 .056 5 24 .172




Grambling 2005 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 6 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 17-13 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 10-8 Record Vs 101-200: 2-5
Home Record: 7-5 Record Vs 200+: 15-8
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 247

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 67.3 National Rank: 140 Conference Rank: 2
Points Allowed: 66.0 National Rank: 158 Conference Rank: 9
Rebounds: 31.5 National Rank: 292 Conference Rank: 9
Assists: 11.8 National Rank: 263 Conference Rank: 5
Steals: 6.4 National Rank: 236 Conference Rank: 5
Blocks: 1.2 National Rank: 313 Conference Rank: 10
Turnovers: 14.3 National Rank: 12 Conference Rank: 2
Fouls: 21.2 National Rank: 316 Conference Rank: 10
FG%: .418 National Rank: 245 Conference Rank: 5
FT%: .691 National Rank: 120 Conference Rank: 3
3P%: .383 National Rank: 18 Conference Rank: 1



We score more this year than in the past, but our points allowed goes up right with it. We're ridiculously bad on the boards.



Grambling 2005 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/13/05 at Lipscomb (5-23) W 61-55 1-0
11/17/05 at Gardner Webb (5-24) W 65-59 2-0
11/20/05 Mount St. Mary's (11-19) W 63-51 3-0
11/24/05 at Morgan State (6-26) W 75-60 4-0
11/28/05 at Birmingham Southern (9-19) L 78-74 4-1
12/02/05 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (7-21) L 71-61 4-2
12/06/05 Chicago State (5-24) W 91-71 5-2
12/10/05 at UC Riverside (5-23) W 96-79 6-2
12/13/05 Stephen F. Austin (10-18) L 72-58 6-3
12/17/05 at Southern (17-13) L 62-50 6-4 (0-1)
12/19/05 Southern (17-13) W 71-51 7-4 (1-1)
12/22/05 at Charleston Southern (10-19) L 77-61 7-5
12/26/05 at Texas Southern (5-24) W 71-63 8-5 (2-1)
01/07/06 at Mississippi Valley State (13-16) W 74-55 9-5 (3-1)
01/09/06 Mississippi Valley State (13-16) L 91-68 9-6 (3-2)
01/16/06 at Alabama A&M (8-21) W 69-60 10-6 (4-2)
01/23/06 Prairie View A&M (8-21) L 77-59 10-7 (4-3)
01/28/06 at Prairie View A&M (8-21) L 80-53 10-8 (4-4)
01/30/06 at Alabama State (19-13) W 68-64 11-8 (5-4)
02/06/06 at Alcorn State (19-12) L 80-45 11-9 (5-5)
02/11/06 Jackson State (16-13) W 80-59 12-9 (6-5)
02/13/06 Texas Southern (5-24) W 78-55 13-9 (7-5)
02/18/06 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (14-15) L 72-64 13-10 (7-6)
02/20/06 Alcorn State (19-12) L 83-71 13-11 (7-7)
02/25/06 at Jackson State (16-13) W 51-46 14-11 (8-7)
02/27/06 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (14-15) W 55-37 15-11 (9-7)
03/01/06 Alabama State (19-13) L 87-74 15-12 (9-8)
03/04/06 Alabama A&M (8-21) W 90-56 16-12 (10-8)
03/07/06 vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (14-15) W 59-54 17-12
03/10/06 vs. Alcorn State (19-12) L 76-65 17-13



Here are our team stats this year:


Grambling Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Adrián Lopez C 30 30 25.6 8.2 1.2 4.2 1.1 0.5 0.1 1.4 3.2
John Halloran PF 30 30 27.4 3.7 1.7 7.0 1.3 0.4 0.7 1.8 3.2
David Bonin SG 30 30 24.6 6.9 0.9 4.1 1.3 1.1 0.1 1.6 2.9
Tony Houchens PG 30 30 31.4 17.4 1.0 3.7 1.8 1.2 0.1 2.2 2.8
Justin Ellis PG 30 30 27.2 17.3 0.8 1.7 2.3 1.0 0.0 3.3 2.9
Larry Weatherspoon SF 30 0 21.7 3.0 1.2 5.0 1.1 0.4 0.1 1.0 2.5
Nickolas Ryan SG 30 0 27.1 7.4 1.6 4.4 1.4 1.2 0.1 2.1 2.0
James Gibson PG 30 0 12.4 2.6 0.2 0.8 1.3 0.5 0.0 0.7 1.4
Richard Keener PF 11 0 4.1 1.5 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.5 0.6
Andy Kinsella SF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
James Colson SF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Kenton Peterson C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Michel Cintron SG 8 0 3.9 0.8 0.1 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.1
Leon Champion SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0




Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Adrián Lopez C 94 192 .490 59 102 .578 0 1 .000
John Halloran PF 42 110 .382 28 47 .596 0 2 .000
David Bonin SG 70 179 .391 37 55 .673 31 86 .360
Tony Houchens PG 171 406 .421 87 114 .763 94 240 .392
Justin Ellis PG 161 401 .401 102 120 .850 96 232 .414
Larry Weatherspoon SF 37 108 .343 16 29 .552 0 11 .000
Nickolas Ryan SG 94 188 .500 33 48 .688 0 1 .000
James Gibson PG 27 82 .329 22 42 .524 1 4 .250
Richard Keener PF 6 10 .600 4 6 .667 0 0 .000
Andy Kinsella SF 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000
James Colson SF 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000
Kenton Peterson C 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000
Michel Cintron SG 1 5 .200 4 4 1.000 0 2 .000
Leon Champion SG 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000



We've got 40 minutes a game out of our backups at SF/SG/PG, and you can see that our backups only shot 1-17 from 3. Getting a full stable of shooters in place is pretty key. Things are certainly moving in the right direction!

[Radii]

2006 Offseason

Prestige only goes up 1 from 6 to 7.


Incoming Recruits

Our class is good for the 31st best recruiting class this season, pretty damn solid.


PLAYER DETAILS

#2 SG Andreas Oberle - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 181
High School:
Hometown: Weimar, Germany

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 31 63 33 63 23 27 16 27 43 25 27 17 90 75 32 93 24
Potential: D B C A D C D D B C C D

Academics: 77

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2005 High School: Rated *** and #110 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


Aberle is great looking. Not awful defense even, and his academics are solid so he'll be able to maximize his training.



PLAYER DETAILS

#4 PG Darron Lancaster - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 152
High School: Katy High School
Hometown: Katy, TX

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 32 56 47 70 50 46 40 18 33 26 4 38 73 72 31 48 23
Potential: C B C A D A B D C D F C

Academics: 48

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2005 High School: Rated *** and #158 overall by the FBCB scouting service.



2 for 2! 50 handling will probably be good for a starting PG in this league as well.



PLAYER DETAILS

#25 SF Karl Hill - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 215
High School: Greeley Central High School
Hometown: Greeley, CO

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 25 63 41 55 22 35 17 5 20 40 36 15 6 68 42 42 38
Potential: D A C B D C D F D C B D

Academics: 76

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2005 High School: Rated *** and #188 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2005 High School: All-State (Colorado)
2005 High School: Mr. Basketball (Colorado)


3 for 3! Good perimeter D as well, and good academics.


PLAYER DETAILS

#11 SF Freeman Messer - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 225
High School: Branchville High School
Hometown: Branchville, SC

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 25 60 56 54 15 20 35 33 24 24 6 44 65 41 41 62 25
Potential: C A B C F D C C C D F C

Academics: 51

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2005 High School: Rated *** and #296 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2005 High School: All-State (South Carolina)


Well, 3 out of 4 ain't bad.



Roster Overview


Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 226 70 9 21 9 24 13 36 71 40 32
Larry Weatherspoon SF 6' 6" 214 35 43 11 57 35 19 48 60 70 54
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 182 58 43 82 6 29 22 77 50 75 53
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 164 45 72 77 40 22 17 73 36 48 91
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 175 52 47 89 46 40 29 97 40 77 46

Michel Cintron SG 6' 5" 202 23 20 57 21 6 7 61 58 87 38
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 269 37 13 14 39 20 31 29 57 42 57
Andy Kinsella SF 6' 8" 233 22 35 29 25 22 21 46 54 42 55


Not great, but a much better 3 point shooting roster. Next year is when we'll really start to shine offensively, but this will be better than last year.



Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 226 21 21 31 31 19 41 36 71 40 32
Larry Weatherspoon SF 6' 6" 214 37 21 5 12 41 84 48 60 70 54
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 182 9 7 73 23 24 29 77 50 75 53
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 164 23 36 60 44 19 23 73 36 48 91
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 175 18 22 8 12 4 15 97 40 77 46

Michel Cintron SG 6' 5" 202 30 7 38 37 26 68 61 58 87 38
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 269 19 32 8 28 35 64 29 57 42 57
Andy Kinsella SF 6' 8" 233 32 21 16 26 9 62 46 54 42 55


Unfortunately, defense is not something we do.



Coaches

We again don't lose any assistants.

Schedule

And again we schedule the easiest possible thing we can find.

[Radii]

Played a couple seasons through while the internet was out during a storm here:

2006/2007 Season

We get an AD request approved, our training facilities will be improved next year.

Recruiting

We've got 4 scholarships this year. We have to land a big man or two this year and most of our early focus will be to do that. If we see a local, lowish ranked(and hopefuly easy to land) 3 point shooter we'll contact him but we have to get big men this year.

We find two big men that I think we have a good shot at, and it takes our entire budget to go after them both fully. Unfortunately, we don't land either by training camp time. On Dec 1, we lose one of our targets to a Southern Miss team that swooped in, we were Very High and in the lead until the end there.

On Jan 1 we finally land our first big man:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#35 PF Lincoln Garman
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Height: 6' 9"
Weight: 212
High School: Mccutcheon High School
Hometown: Lafayette, IN
GPA: 3.17
Test Score: 1290
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 36 40 35 0 19 30 33 58 28 9 43 68 76 36 43 29 64
Potential: D D C F D C D A B F B A


Defensive Rebounding and Post D, I'm definitely concerned that his defense will come in much worse than scouted, the 28 current/B potential has been a problem sign to me for a long time. I won't be suprised to see something like 31/D when he comes in. But just rebounding would be an edge over what we have now.


And we get our second big man on Feb 1, this may well complete our class.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#15 C Daniel Jarrett
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Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 216
High School: Parsippany High School
Hometown: Parsippany, NJ
GPA: 2.87
Test Score: 1140
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 36 30 17 32 0 4 33 53 33 12 23 46 31 21 75 28 27
Potential: A C D B F F D A D F D C


I'd prefer better defense but we will take what we can get at this point.


yeah, that closes out our recruiting class this year.


Results

Our horrible defense is evident, but we can score, and we have some talent in the backcourt. We start out 2-2 vs the crap we scheduled in our non conference schedule, but get hot from 3 and win 10 out of 11 to get to 12-3, and we get our first 20 win season. We earn the 2nd seed in our conference, and of course, lose to the 7 seed Mississippi Valley State, 75-64, in the first round.



2006 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alabama State 15 3 .833 23 9 .719
Grambling 13 5 .722 20 9 .690
Alcorn State 11 7 .611 13 16 .448
Prairie View A&M 10 8 .556 16 15 .516
Jackson State 9 9 .500 11 18 .379
Alabama A&M 9 9 .500 11 19 .367
Mississippi Valley State 8 10 .444 12 19 .387
Southern 8 10 .444 9 20 .310
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7 11 .389 11 17 .393
Texas Southern 0 18 .000 0 29 .000





Grambling 2006 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 7 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 20-9 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 13-5 Record Vs 101-200: 1-1
Home Record: 11-1 Record Vs 200+: 19-8
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 218

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 76.8 National Rank: 16 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 72.6 National Rank: 280 Conference Rank: 9
Rebounds: 34.0 National Rank: 225 Conference Rank: 6
Assists: 14.8 National Rank: 94 Conference Rank: 1
Steals: 7.6 National Rank: 149 Conference Rank: 4
Blocks: 1.2 National Rank: 313 Conference Rank: 9
Turnovers: 16.7 National Rank: 98 Conference Rank: 3
Fouls: 20.5 National Rank: 285 Conference Rank: 6
FG%: .462 National Rank: 11 Conference Rank: 1
FT%: .697 National Rank: 102 Conference Rank: 2
3P%: .409 National Rank: 2 Conference Rank: 1


As you can see, we score a lot more this year but give up a lot more too, and we still suck at rebounding. We're second in the nation, over 40% as a team, from 3, so we're right where we want to be there.



Grambling 2006 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/12/06 at Lipscomb (2-27) W 67-54 1-0
11/16/06 at Morgan State (14-15) L 83-65 1-1
11/20/06 at Gardner Webb (9-21) L 77-69 1-2
11/24/06 Mount St. Mary's (8-20) W 74-56 2-2
11/28/06 at Birmingham Southern (9-20) W 86-80 3-2
12/02/06 at Chicago State (5-24) W 89-86 4-2
12/06/06 at Sacred Heart (13-15) L 95-60 4-3
12/10/06 Western Illinois (11-18) W 88-86 5-3
12/16/06 Mississippi Valley State (12-19) W 98-64 6-3 (1-0)
12/19/06 at Florida A&M (10-19) W 69-66 7-3
12/22/06 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (7-21) W 88-86 8-3
12/25/06 Prairie View A&M (16-15) W 80-63 9-3 (2-0)
01/01/07 Alabama State (23-9) W 71-61 10-3 (3-0)
01/06/07 at Alabama A&M (11-19) W 79-61 11-3 (4-0)
01/08/07 Texas Southern (0-29) W 95-69 12-3 (5-0)
01/13/07 at Alabama State (23-9) L 93-70 12-4 (5-1)
01/15/07 Southern (9-20) W 73-59 13-4 (6-1)
01/20/07 at Mississippi Valley State (12-19) L 87-73 13-5 (6-2)
01/22/07 at Alcorn State (13-16) L 82-80 13-6 (6-3)
01/27/07 at Prairie View A&M (16-15) L 61-46 13-7 (6-4)
01/29/07 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11-17) W 73-71 14-7 (7-4)
02/05/07 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11-17) W 89-82 15-7 (8-4)
02/10/07 Alcorn State (13-16) L 95-85 15-8 (8-5)
02/17/07 at Southern (9-20) W 74-63 16-8 (9-5)
02/19/07 Alabama A&M (11-19) W 77-53 17-8 (10-5)
02/24/07 at Texas Southern (0-29) W 103-70 18-8 (11-5)
02/26/07 at Jackson State (11-18) W 63-55 19-8 (12-5)
02/28/07 Jackson State (11-18) W 80-72 20-8 (13-5)
03/06/07 vs. Mississippi Valley State (12-19) L 75-64 20-9




Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Adrián Lopez C 90 181 .497 65 121 .537 0 0 .000
Larry Weatherspoon SF 53 106 .500 18 29 .621 0 6 .000
Leon Champion SG 155 355 .437 76 109 .697 80 186 .430
Tony Houchens PG 173 387 .447 59 89 .663 91 241 .378
Justin Ellis PG 169 377 .448 112 132 .848 88 208 .423
Michel Cintron SG 56 110 .509 40 50 .800 24 47 .511
Richard Keener PF 41 85 .482 20 33 .606 0 0 .000
Andy Kinsella SF 27 55 .491 13 16 .813 8 24 .333
James Gibson PG 1 1 1.000 2 2 1.000 0 0 .000
Kenton Peterson C 1 1 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000


Having Cintron off the bench who actually shot over 50% from 3 is a big help, being able to stick with the game plan effectively when the reserves are in is a huge help. Next year Houchens and Ellis will be juniors and we'll have 4 sharpshooting freshmen available to us. We'll hopefully be a bit better next year but having some actual recruited big men two seasons from now is when I expect us to really take off.

In my steals dynasty, we set all kinds of records. Since we have 3 go-to scorers, and expect to always have that, I doubt we'll do the same here. Houchens and Ellis made about 90 3's last year as well, but the single season record(only 4 years into the career) is 150 out of 354 by a guy from Navy. The career 3 point record is 416 made early on. Maybe when we play better D we'll get more possessions and might be able to challenge that(or when we get more games b/c of preseason tourneys and postseason games)


Awards

I am the SWAC coach of the year!

Leon Champion is named to the Freshman All-American team, and is the SWAC Freshman of the year

Larry Weatherspoon is 2nd team all conference (I didn't recruit him)

Justin Ellis is 2nd team all conference

Tony Houchens is the SWAC player of the year!


That's all for this year!

[Radii]

2007 Offseason

We get a big prestige jump, from 7->12. This will help a good bit with recruiting dollars.

Our AD quickly changes his tune, last year we were expected to avoid last place. This year we are expected to compete for the conference championship.

Our training facilities are up to a 13 rating, actually good for 6th(ie not last) in the conference.

And, lastly, we lose an assistant to retirement so for the first time we'll be hiring assistants.

Incoming Recruits

Our recruiting class is rated 119th this year.


PLAYER DETAILS

#15 C Daniel Jarrett - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 216
High School: Parsippany High School
Hometown: Parsippany, NJ

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 36 30 27 37 4 7 36 55 43 12 23 28 38 29 75 28 16
Potential: C D C C F F C B B F C D

Academics: 70

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2006 High School: Rated *** and #275 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2006 High School: All-State (New Jersey)


I'm absolutely thrilled with Jarrett, he'll be a 4 year starter most likely.


PLAYER DETAILS

#35 PF Lincoln Garman - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 9"
Weight: 212
High School: Mccutcheon High School
Hometown: Lafayette, IN

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 43 27 39 0 29 17 27 59 28 15 37 63 65 30 58 34 64
Potential: B D C F D D D B C D C A

Academics: 94

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2006 High School: Rated *** and #194 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2006 High School: All-State (Indiana)



94 Academic rating, this guy could have gotten a schoarship to Harvard... yet here he is.

So I was right about the post D, but a 'C' isn't that bad, he'll improve some. The INS rating is a pleasant suprise, as are the blocked shots.


Roster Overview


Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 230 79 10 22 10 25 14 38 71 41 43
Freeman Messer SF 6' 7" 225 27 64 56 16 21 37 43 45 64 43
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 184 62 45 87 7 30 24 77 52 75 64
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 167 49 78 83 40 24 19 73 37 49 100
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 176 54 50 94 46 43 30 98 42 78 61

Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 223 27 68 59 24 37 18 69 46 43 43
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 183 32 67 68 25 29 17 76 35 93 34
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 154 33 60 75 50 51 42 74 32 49 40
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 270 41 13 14 41 21 33 29 60 43 60




Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 230 23 22 33 33 21 46 38 71 41 43
Freeman Messer SF 6' 7" 225 25 26 7 46 35 70 43 45 64 43
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 184 9 7 77 24 25 32 77 52 75 64
Tony Houchens PG 5'11" 167 24 39 67 46 20 33 73 37 49 100
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 176 19 23 9 12 4 21 98 42 78 61

Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 223 21 44 41 16 5 13 69 46 43 43
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 183 45 27 31 18 28 97 76 35 93 34
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 154 34 28 5 39 19 84 74 32 49 40
Richard Keener PF 6' 8" 270 21 33 8 32 39 71 29 60 43 60



I hope to see our victory margin increase a bit this year, not b/c we can defend or rebound, but because we are so much more deadly offensively this season.

Coaches

We hire a new assistant coach for 30k, 70 offense/12 defense.

Schedule

And again we schedule the easiest possible thing we can find.

[Radii]

2007/2008 Season


Recruiting

We've got two scholarships this year. we're only graduating a walk-on who isn't on the depth chart. Ideally, we would land one shooter and one big man this year. I'll focus on the shooter primarily. With the prestige increase and keeping our coaches to the 30k our recruiting budget is up to 9k/mo(it was 7,250 last year).

Sheesh... well we messed that up. I find the 40th ranked PG and 37th ranked PF, both look good to me, and I spend two months on them, only to find that Miami Ohio is after the PF, and Wisconsin is after the PG, so we have to start over in October.

It takes a couple months to catch up, but we do get a solid recruit in January:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#52 SG Calvin Giles
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 200
High School: Haleyville High School
Hometown: Haleyville, AL
GPA: 2.71
Test Score: 1290
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 25 55 57 43 15 45 10 19 32 36 29 49 26 71 46 74 27
Potential: C B C A F A F C A C C A


We lost our big man target though and finding someone new this late is always difficult. I scout some stuff out and offer a scholaship that gets declined, so this is our only recruit this season.


Results

We again start slow, in fact only shooting 32% from 3-point range in November. We heat up in December and are up to 39% after 2 months. After going 3-0 in conference play we take some hits in January, going 2-5 in the month and sitting at 5-5 in the middle of the pack going into the stretch run. We lose 1 and 3 point games vs Alabama State and Alabama A&M and get destroyed 107-83 in our 2nd meeting with Alabama State. February turns out to be great for us, we go 5-1 and can't win the conference but can finish 2nd.

We end up 18-10, and 3rd in the SWAC. We get Alabama A&M in the first round, shoot 3-24 from 3, 16-56 from the floor overall, and take what is by far our worst defeat of the season... 81-42.



2007 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Mississippi Valley State 14 4 .778 21 11 .656
Alabama State 14 4 .778 19 13 .594
Grambling 11 7 .611 18 11 .621
Alcorn State 11 7 .611 14 16 .467
Southern 9 9 .500 11 18 .379
Alabama A&M 8 10 .444 11 19 .367
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7 11 .389 11 18 .379
Prairie View A&M 7 11 .389 11 20 .355
Jackson State 6 12 .333 9 19 .321
Texas Southern 3 15 .167 3 26 .103




Grambling 2007 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 12 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 18-11 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 11-7 Record Vs 101-200: 2-2
Home Record: 9-3 Record Vs 200+: 16-9
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 242

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 80.1 National Rank: 9 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 75.8 National Rank: 302 Conference Rank: 10
Rebounds: 32.4 National Rank: 299 Conference Rank: 9
Assists: 17.2 National Rank: 31 Conference Rank: 2
Steals: 8.0 National Rank: 104 Conference Rank: 3
Blocks: 1.2 National Rank: 313 Conference Rank: 8
Turnovers: 15.5 National Rank: 42 Conference Rank: 2
Fouls: 22.3 National Rank: 325 Conference Rank: 10
FG%: .464 National Rank: 15 Conference Rank: 1
FT%: .674 National Rank: 152 Conference Rank: 6
3P%: .388 National Rank: 22 Conference Rank: 1


We actualy rebound worse this year, and our 3 point shooting is a bit down this year from last


Grambling 2007 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/18/07 at Lipscomb (6-22) W 70-65 1-0
11/22/07 at Stephen F. Austin (11-18) W 73-69 2-0
11/26/07 at Mount St. Mary's (8-20) W 65-57 3-0
11/30/07 at Chicago State (8-21) L 79-65 3-1
12/04/07 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (11-17) L 74-61 3-2
12/08/07 Gardner Webb (7-21) W 100-69 4-2
12/12/07 at Army (14-16) W 85-76 5-2
12/16/07 at Fairleigh Dickinson (10-20) L 93-78 5-3
12/19/07 Southeastern Louisiana (15-14) W 79-70 6-3
12/22/07 Prairie View A&M (11-20) W 100-79 7-3 (1-0)
12/24/07 Alabama A&M (11-19) W 76-44 8-3 (2-0)
12/27/07 Birmingham Southern (13-19) W 84-64 9-3
12/31/07 Jackson State (9-19) W 87-68 10-3 (3-0)
01/07/08 at Southern (11-18) L 88-81 10-4 (3-1)
01/12/08 Alabama State (19-13) L 77-76 10-5 (3-2)
01/14/08 at Alabama A&M (11-19) L 72-69 10-6 (3-3)
01/19/08 Texas Southern (3-26) W 99-68 11-6 (4-3)
01/21/08 at Alabama State (19-13) L 107-83 11-7 (4-4)
01/26/08 at Alcorn State (14-16) L 89-79 11-8 (4-5)
01/28/08 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11-18) W 79-65 12-8 (5-5)
02/02/08 Alcorn State (14-16) W 90-85 13-8 (6-5)
02/04/08 at Jackson State (9-19) W 77-71 14-8 (7-5)
02/16/08 at Mississippi Valley State (21-11) W 100-87 15-8 (8-5)
02/18/08 Mississippi Valley State (21-11) W 95-92 16-8 (9-5)
02/23/08 at Texas Southern (3-26) W 76-50 17-8 (10-5)
02/25/08 Southern (11-18) L 94-93 17-9 (10-6)
03/01/08 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (11-18) L 83-80 17-10 (10-7)
03/05/08 at Prairie View A&M (11-20) W 82-81 18-10 (11-7)
03/11/08 vs. Alabama A&M (11-19) L 81-42 18-11




Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Adrián Lopez C 113 187 .604 64 132 .485 0 2 .000
Freeman Messer SF 51 112 .455 30 36 .833 15 45 .333
Leon Champion SG 152 326 .466 69 100 .690 57 137 .416
Tony Houchens PG 190 419 .453 71 97 .732 106 254 .417
Justin Ellis PG 143 318 .450 82 94 .872 69 168 .411
Andreas Oberle SG 39 100 .390 11 19 .579 19 66 .288
Darron Lancaster PG 34 92 .370 23 30 .767 12 46 .261
Karl Hill SF 54 114 .474 22 31 .710 31 78 .397
Richard Keener PF 34 76 .447 18 39 .462 0 0 .000


Interesting, the backups shot more 3s alright, but they missed, lots. They'll be sophs next year and will be more prepared.

With 106 3's this year, Tony Houchens now has 291 3's for his career, 17th all time. He'd need even more next year(325) to set the career record.

Awards

Freeman Messer is Freshman all-conference.

Justin Ellis is 2nd team all conference for the 2nd year in a row.

Tony Houchens is the SWAC player of the year for the 2nd year in a row.


A good year, but not as good as I'd hoped.

[Radii]

2008 Offseason

Another prestige jump from 12 to 15, so things are moving in the right direction.

Our goals remain to compete for the conference championship, and our AD is delighted. My personal goal

Incoming Recruits

Our recruiting class is rated 116th this year.


PLAYER DETAILS

#52 SG Calvin Giles - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 200
High School: Haleyville High School
Hometown: Haleyville, AL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 25 64 42 58 26 45 15 19 32 22 36 41 26 79 46 60 21
Potential: C B C B C C D D C D C B

Academics: 66

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2007 High School: Rated *** and #125 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2007 High School: All-State (Alabama)


Giles is fine but is unlikely to ever start for us.



Roster Overview


Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 212 49 28 0 30 18 29 32 61 35 69
Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 218 40 31 39 5 8 40 30 79 29 33
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 185 67 49 89 8 31 26 78 54 75 74
Tony Houchens PG 6' 0" 168 54 79 84 40 27 21 74 38 49 100
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 177 56 53 95 46 46 31 98 44 78 76

Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 233 88 11 23 11 26 15 38 71 42 54
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 33 71 73 27 31 18 78 38 95 45
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 223 29 73 63 26 39 19 70 50 43 49
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 158 34 63 79 50 57 45 75 33 49 54




Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 212 30 16 38 71 67 78 32 61 35 69
Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 218 49 12 24 30 61 49 30 79 29 33
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 185 9 8 84 25 27 36 78 54 75 74
Tony Houchens PG 6' 0" 168 25 42 69 48 21 42 74 38 49 100
Justin Ellis PG 6' 0" 177 20 24 10 12 4 28 98 44 78 76

Adrián Lopez C 6'11" 233 25 23 35 35 23 52 38 71 42 54
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 47 29 35 19 29 100 78 38 95 45
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 223 22 47 46 17 5 21 70 50 43 49
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 158 35 30 6 40 20 91 75 33 49 54


we now have some players who play something that at least marginally resembles defense, and, our starting front court can rebound. I'm also expecting to get more out of our backups this year.

Coaches

We lose our assistant and hire a 61 offense/6 defense replacement.

Schedule

And again we schedule the easiest possible thing we can find. We're getting closer to the point that we could look to schedule a bit tougher, but really at a prestige 1 conference school, we have to win the conference tourney to go anywhere for awhile, so I'm not feeling any urgency to schedule tougher.

One thing I do change is that I schedule my home games first. We get 7 road games, 3 home games... I had been playing road games against the worst possible teams I could find to open the season, saving my home games for the top end of our scheduling range in December. But this year I'm trying to get some easy wins early to prevent the bad starts we've been having.

[RPI-Fan]

Can you post the general season stats (PPG, RPG, etc.) also in the future?

Keep it up!

[Radii]

Can you post the general season stats (PPG, RPG, etc.) also in the future?

Keep it up!

Thanks! And yeah, I think I did that one year and stopped, not sure why, I'll definitely start getting those stats in the season reports again

[rjolley]

Good luck, Radii. You're making me want to fire up FBCB. What a classic game Brian created with that one. Shame he hasn't been able to continue making games.

[Radii]

2008/2009 Season

We get an AD request approved, our training facilities will be improved next year.

Recruiting

This is a tough year. We didn't fill all our scholarships last year and are graduating our first recruiting class. We actually have 5 scholarships available. I'm looking to find 3 backcourt players. We're up to $9750/mo for our recruiting budget, so if we can find some solid targets we can pull in a pretty good class here.

We have 3 targets as of training camps but don't land anyone in the initial signing period. I'm hoping to snag 2 of the 3 guys we're looking at, 1 would put me a bit behind and 3 would be stellar.

We land our first recruit Dec 1. This one was one we expected, a rare 2* guy:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#35 PG Frank Halter
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 172
High School: Indian River High School
Hometown: Frankford, DE
GPA: 2.61
Test Score: 840
Rating: **

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 37 64 57 84 61 27 23 14 32 30 39 18 31 86 24 70 42
Potential: D B B A B D D F D D D D


A 38% 3-point shooter in high school.

We still have the lead on our two remaining targets.

January pretty much ends our recruiting season as we land our last two targets.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#41 SG Andrew Hall
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 193
High School: East High School
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
GPA: 2.97
Test Score: 1230
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 2 70 41 66 29 23 36 29 18 42 17 5 46 66 25 94 91
Potential: C B A A C D C D F C C F


Hall can shoot, and he appears to have average defensive skills(which will be a huge upgrade for us).


RECRUIT DETAILS

#11 PG Garth Arenas
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 205
High School: South Fayette Twp High School
Hometown: Mc Donald, PA
GPA: 2.92
Test Score: 1270
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 20 40 29 92 50 26 29 44 28 19 24 29 17 98 35 44 94
Potential: F A B A C B A C D A C D


Arenas looks like a great pickup as well. The handling is solid. The 19/A PRD will be interesting. If he can defend this guy is a stud, but I don't really expect it.

I do find a 2* big man from Germany who, while not great, would fit in to give me some depth until I can find better. Texas Tech finds him too, so we're done w/ our recruiting class.


Results

We start out 3-1, so we're better off than the last two years in November. Starting PF Daniel Jarrett gets an academic suspension for December. We roll right along in December, even without Jarret, and are 10-2, scoring a ton without giving up any more points than last year, shooting over 40% from 3 once again. We roll through January with only 1 loss, and are tied w/ Alcorn State for the conference lead at the midpoint. We lose a few games in February and with 3 games to go Grambling, Alabama State, and Alcorn State are all tied at the top at 11-4 in conference play. We win 2 of our last 3 to finish 13-5 in conference play. Alabama State wins out, and we're the 2 seed.

We finally get a win in the conference tourney, 101-71 over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, hitting 13 3's. We fall short again though, losing to the 3 seed 96-77 to Alcorn State in the semis.


2008 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alabama State 14 4 .778 20 9 .690
Grambling 13 5 .722 22 8 .733
Alcorn State 12 6 .667 15 16 .484
Alabama A&M 10 8 .556 14 16 .467
Texas Southern 9 9 .500 9 22 .290
Southern 8 10 .444 9 20 .310
Prairie View A&M 7 11 .389 13 21 .382
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7 11 .389 9 20 .310
Mississippi Valley State 5 13 .278 10 18 .357
Jackson State 5 13 .278 6 22 .214





Grambling 2008 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 15 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 22-8 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 13-5 Record Vs 101-200: 1-1
Home Record: 8-4 Record Vs 200+: 21-7
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 214

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 82.9 National Rank: 3 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 74.0 National Rank: 283 Conference Rank: 10
Rebounds: 34.6 National Rank: 226 Conference Rank: 6
Assists: 18.1 National Rank: 12 Conference Rank: 1
Steals: 9.5 National Rank: 29 Conference Rank: 1
Blocks: 2.3 National Rank: 226 Conference Rank: 5
Turnovers: 16.3 National Rank: 88 Conference Rank: 3
Fouls: 21.9 National Rank: 322 Conference Rank: 10
FG%: .470 National Rank: 8 Conference Rank: 1
FT%: .664 National Rank: 178 Conference Rank: 5
3P%: .411 National Rank: 2 Conference Rank: 1


We really weren't much better on the boards, we scored a ton and shot well though!


Grambling 2008 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/16/08 Mount St. Mary's (4-24) W 99-67 1-0
11/20/08 Lipscomb (1-28) W 70-57 2-0
11/24/08 North Carolina A&T (12-17) L 85-74 2-1
11/28/08 at Chicago State (5-24) W 111-97 3-1
12/02/08 at Nicholls State (2-26) W 89-58 4-1
12/06/08 at Coastal Carolina (13-16) W 86-59 5-1
12/10/08 at Gardner Webb (10-18) L 88-79 5-2
12/14/08 at Liberty (6-23) W 76-65 6-2
12/17/08 at Texas State (11-17) W 84-74 7-2
12/20/08 at Jackson State (6-22) W 78-55 8-2 (1-0)
12/22/08 Alabama State (20-9) W 80-76 9-2 (2-0)
12/26/08 at Sacred Heart (14-17) W 88-80 10-2
01/05/09 at Mississippi Valley State (10-18) W 90-86 11-2 (3-0)
01/10/09 Mississippi Valley State (10-18) W 87-65 12-2 (4-0)
01/12/09 at Prairie View A&M (13-21) W 71-48 13-2 (5-0)
01/17/09 Southern (9-20) L 76-72 13-3 (5-1)
01/24/09 at Southern (9-20) W 78-72 14-3 (6-1)
01/31/09 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9-20) W 72-70 15-3 (7-1)
02/02/09 at Alabama A&M (14-16) W 88-76 16-3 (8-1)
02/07/09 at Alabama State (20-9) L 81-58 16-4 (8-2)
02/09/09 Texas Southern (9-22) W 74-68 17-4 (9-2)
02/14/09 at Texas Southern (9-22) W 83-61 18-4 (10-2)
02/16/09 at Alcorn State (15-16) L 92-84 18-5 (10-3)
02/21/09 Prairie View A&M (13-21) L 87-85 18-6 (10-4)
02/28/09 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9-20) W 85-73 19-6 (11-4)
03/02/09 Alcorn State (15-16) W 95-87 20-6 (12-4)
03/04/09 Jackson State (6-22) W 104-72 21-6 (13-4)
03/07/09 Alabama A&M (14-16) L 79-70 21-7 (13-5)
03/10/09 vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9-20) W 101-71 22-7
03/13/09 vs. Alcorn State (15-16) L 96-77 22-8




Grambling Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Lincoln Garman PF 30 30 29.3 4.7 1.5 8.8 1.7 1.0 1.4 1.9 3.1
Daniel Jarrett C 22 22 26.5 5.0 2.0 7.9 1.5 0.7 0.4 1.3 3.0
Leon Champion SG 30 30 28.9 17.4 1.3 4.8 2.6 2.0 0.1 4.2 3.0
Tony Houchens PG 30 30 30.3 14.9 1.2 3.4 2.6 2.3 0.1 1.7 3.1
Justin Ellis PG 30 30 29.5 18.3 1.1 2.2 4.6 1.1 0.1 2.9 3.1
Adrián Lopez C 30 8 20.4 8.1 0.7 3.4 1.3 0.7 0.2 2.1 3.3
Andreas Oberle SG 30 0 9.9 5.4 0.1 1.2 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.9
Darron Lancaster PG 30 0 10.1 4.4 0.7 1.3 1.8 0.4 0.0 0.9 0.8
Karl Hill SF 30 0 11.5 4.4 0.6 1.4 0.8 0.8 0.0 0.7 0.9
Freeman Messer SF 12 0 4.6 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.8
Richard Keener PF 24 0 10.1 1.4 0.6 2.4 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.4 1.4



Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Lincoln Garman PF 56 129 .434 30 54 .556 0 1 .000
Daniel Jarrett C 40 89 .449 17 34 .500 12 32 .375
Leon Champion SG 187 410 .456 69 106 .651 79 190 .416
Tony Houchens PG 158 370 .427 68 95 .716 64 185 .346
Justin Ellis PG 166 341 .487 135 151 .894 82 182 .451
Adrián Lopez C 94 158 .595 56 116 .483 0 0 .000
Andreas Oberle SG 56 124 .452 15 26 .577 36 84 .429
Darron Lancaster PG 48 84 .571 13 23 .565 24 46 .522
Karl Hill SF 46 107 .430 15 23 .652 25 67 .373
Freeman Messer SF 2 6 .333 0 0 .000 2 2 1.000
Richard Keener PF 14 26 .538 6 12 .500 0 0 .000


And there we go, Ellis and Houchens are done w/ their college careers now.

Awards

I am the SWAC coach of the year!

PF Lincoln Garman is the SWAC Freshman of the year, and 1st team all conference

C Daniel Jarrett is Freshamn All-Conference

PG Juston Ellis is the SWAC Player of the Year

Tony Houchens is 2nd team all conference

[korme]

Which school is it that actually employs this type of gameplan- I think it's a D2 school, annually chucking 50 threes a game

[rjolley]

Grinnell in Iowa, I believe.

[Radii]

Grinnell in Iowa, I believe.

yup

[Radii]

2009 Offseason

Coaching Skill Increase

I am now a level 1 coach! I add 5 points to recruiting, 10 to offense, and 5 to defense:


Richard Dixon - Head Coach - Grambling
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Age: 37
High School: Wake Forest Rolesville
Hometown: Wake Forest, NC
Alma Mater: North Carolina

Current Level: 1
Career Record: 99 - 76

Recruiting: 35
Scouting: 0
Offense: 80
Defense: 5



Prestige jumps from 15->19, another solid positive bump.

In the SWAC, Alabama State has a prestige of 44, Alcorn State is at 31, and Alabama A&M is at 19, tied with us. Mississippi Valley State is at 14, and all other teams are below 10. We have a ways to go to catch the top schools but we have a big edge on much of the conference now.

Our goals change from "Compete for the Conference Championship" to "Win the Conference Championship", and our AD is still delighted.

Incoming Recruits

Our recruiting class is rated 60th this year.


PLAYER DETAILS

#34 PG Garth Arenas - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 205
High School: South Fayette Twp High School
Hometown: Mc Donald, PA

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 21 46 29 77 50 35 29 31 22 32 24 14 27 83 48 44 80
Potential: D C C A B C C C C B C D

Academics: 74

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2008 High School: Rated *** and #126 overall by the FBCB scouting service.


Arenas can already shoot, can handle the ball and has high potential defense. This is a really, really good recruit for us who has a legit shot at being a 4-year starter at PG.


PLAYER DETAILS

#41 SG Andrew Hall - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 193
High School: East High School
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 14 79 54 74 18 23 25 19 18 29 17 18 51 66 38 98 78
Potential: D A C A D D C D D C D D

Academics: 80

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2008 High School: Rated *** and #150 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2008 High School: All-State (Utah)
2008 High School: Mr. Basketball (Utah)


Hall can shoot as well, and has the advantage of having a good jump shot inside the 3 point line as well, but doesn't have any good peripheral skills. His 'C' in PRD though will be better than what we had out there the last few seasons I believe.


PLAYER DETAILS

#23 PG Frank Halter - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 172
High School: Indian River High School
Hometown: Frankford, DE

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 24 50 43 84 41 21 29 8 37 18 29 7 38 86 24 70 42
Potential: D C C A C D D F C D C F

Academics: 49

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2008 High School: Rated ** and #415 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2008 High School: All-State (Delaware)


Halter is a worse defender but an acceptable ball handler.


Also, given my lack of big men, this is somewhat interesting:


#31 C Williams Garvin - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6'10"
Weight: 262
High School: Spalding High School
Hometown: Chicago, IL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 7 13 24 0 7 18 44 59 6 37 4 41 50 19 90 21 17
Potential: F D D F F D C A F C F B


Garvin is a walkon. He is a horrible defender but given my lack of depth he might get some playing time for his rebounding ability.



Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 220 44 32 41 6 9 44 31 83 29 48
Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 213 55 29 0 31 19 31 33 63 35 73
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 34 75 78 29 33 19 80 41 96 56
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 186 69 53 91 8 32 28 78 56 75 82
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 158 35 67 84 50 63 48 76 34 49 68

Calvin Giles SG 6' 5" 209 27 68 61 29 48 17 81 50 61 30
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 232 31 78 67 28 41 20 72 54 43 55
Freeman Messer SF 6' 7" 227 31 72 59 18 24 41 46 51 65 71
Joe Bearden PF 6' 7" 205 58 10 11 34 6 18 31 52 36 91
Williams Garvin C 6'10" 262 7 13 0 7 18 44 19 90 21 17


This is, as always, before training camp, so the backups will be a bit better from 3.


Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 220 55 12 25 32 67 58 31 83 29 48
Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 213 32 17 39 79 75 91 33 63 35 73
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 49 31 39 20 30 100 80 41 96 56
Leon Champion SG 6' 4" 186 10 8 88 27 29 41 78 56 75 82
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 158 36 32 7 42 21 98 76 34 49 68

Calvin Giles SG 6' 5" 209 34 23 39 43 21 30 81 50 61 30
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 232 23 51 52 18 6 28 72 54 43 55
Freeman Messer SF 6' 7" 227 27 30 9 51 39 80 46 51 65 71
Joe Bearden PF 6' 7" 205 44 8 12 42 30 81 31 52 36 91
Williams Garvin C 6'10" 262 6 37 4 41 59 50 19 90 21 17


Still pretty terrible on D. But we've had worse.

Coaches

We don't lose any of our assistants this year.

Schedule

Same as always.

[Radii]

2009/2010 Season

Recruiting

We have 3 scholarships this year. This is a pretty big recruiting class for us, as these guys will be replacing a huge class in 2 years. This season we lose Leon Champion, our starting SG, but next year we lose our PG and SF, Lancaster and Oberle, as well as reserves Hill and Messer.

We really need to start getting in more big men though b/c we have 3 solid 3-point shooters redshirting right now. 1 big/2 shooters would be the ideal, as always.

We crack the $10k/mo mark for recruiting budget, with $10,750/mo right now.

We find a number of targets right away, but we *really* focus on two, hoping we have a prayer of landing at least one, if not both, before training camps. And, we get no one before training camps. Our big man target actually falls from "Very High" to "High" interest, which has me worried that a bigger school is swooping in.

We lose the recruit we weren't pursuing very hard. We still have the lead on our top two. Our SG contact, who I thought we had *easily*, is still very high, but hasn't signed yet, and Louisiana Tech has crept up and offered a scholarship.

CRAP. We lose our SG target to La Tech. But, we land our big.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#44 C Carl Lemke
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Height: 6'10"
Weight: 222
High School: Basic High School
Hometown: Henderson, NV
GPA: 2.34
Test Score: 990
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 60 30 15 0 24 9 57 55 42 19 26 25 59 21 100 54 0
Potential: A B F F D F C B B D C D


The #37 C in the nation, his stats give some hope that his ratings are as advertised(20ppg, 65% FG, 9 rebounds/game).

Yeah. We're screwed here. This is our only recruit, a HUGE disappointment.

Results

Errm. We are ranked #17 in the preseason poll.... heh. We crush Chicago State and move up to #13. Win another game and fall to #18. Finally we lose to Lipscomb in our first road contest.

November proves interesting. Check it out after only 4 games:


FG%: .469 National Rank: 77 Conference Rank: 4
3P%: .451 National Rank: 20 Conference Rank: 1


Hah!

We lose another non-conference game to Liberty, and another to Colgate, ending up 7-3 going into conference play. The road splits for a team rated this low are very difficult. 3 home/7 road games makes for a tough non-conference schedule no matter who you play.

After a 1-2 start in conference play, we roll off some wins, and at the end of January we're 5-3 in conference play. Alabama A&M is 7-0, and Alabama State is 8-1, so we need a huge run and some luck to win the conference regular season crown.

We open February beating 7-0 Alabama A&M, so that's good. But we lose to Alabama State and are probably playing for 3rd. A win over Texas Southern in our very last regular season game gets us to 20 wins, and we actually end up only 1 game behind Alabama A&M and Alabama State, who tie for the regular season title.

We shoot 53% from 3(10-19) in a 81-72 win over 6 seed Mississippi Valley State in the conference quarterfinals, setting up a matchup w/ 2 seed Alabama State in the semis. We pull off an 83-70 win and are off to our first conference finals. We get the 5 seed, Alcorn State, in the finals, a team we swept in the regular season. HAH. Yeah. Alcorn State 84, Grambling 43. Good job fellas.


2009 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Alabama A&M 14 4 .778 20 10 .667
Alabama State 14 4 .778 20 12 .625
Grambling 13 5 .722 22 9 .710
Southern 11 7 .611 14 15 .483
Alcorn State 10 8 .556 17 15 .531
Mississippi Valley State 9 9 .500 12 17 .414
Prairie View A&M 6 12 .333 8 23 .258
Texas Southern 6 12 .333 7 22 .241
Jackson State 4 14 .222 6 22 .214
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3 15 .167 6 22 .214



Grambling 2009 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 19 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 22-9 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 13-5 Record Vs 101-200: 5-3
Home Record: 9-3 Record Vs 200+: 17-6
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 210

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 75.7 National Rank: 31 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 66.5 National Rank: 102 Conference Rank: 2
Rebounds: 36.2 National Rank: 122 Conference Rank: 2
Assists: 17.5 National Rank: 17 Conference Rank: 1
Steals: 8.2 National Rank: 95 Conference Rank: 1
Blocks: 2.9 National Rank: 155 Conference Rank: 2
Turnovers: 16.7 National Rank: 90 Conference Rank: 4
Fouls: 18.5 National Rank: 68 Conference Rank: 3
FG%: .459 National Rank: 27 Conference Rank: 1
FT%: .651 National Rank: 222 Conference Rank: 5
3P%: .409 National Rank: 2 Conference Rank: 1


2nd in the country from 3 this year, and 27th from the field. We're improving on the boards, and are slowly increasing our scoring margin.


Grambling 2009 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/15/09 Chicago State (6-24) W 87-58 1-0
11/19/09 Nicholls State (3-25) W 118-76 2-0
11/23/09 Long Island (9-20) W 67-52 3-0
11/27/09 at Lipscomb (9-20) L 74-64 3-1
12/01/09 at Mount St. Mary's (5-24) W 68-55 4-1
12/05/09 at Liberty (8-23) L 73-64 4-2
12/09/09 at Western Illinois (5-25) W 87-79 5-2
12/13/09 at Colgate (11-19) L 64-51 5-3
12/17/09 at Southeastern Louisiana (10-18) W 85-38 6-3
12/21/09 at Morgan State (10-23) W 85-73 7-3
01/04/10 Southern (14-15) L 72-60 7-4 (0-1)
01/09/10 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (6-22) W 92-62 8-4 (1-1)
01/11/10 at Alabama A&M (20-10) L 69-61 8-5 (1-2)
01/16/10 at Alabama State (20-12) W 95-76 9-5 (2-2)
01/18/10 Alcorn State (17-15) W 79-59 10-5 (3-2)
01/23/10 at Alcorn State (17-15) W 90-72 11-5 (4-2)
01/25/10 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (6-22) W 68-53 12-5 (5-2)
01/30/10 Texas Southern (7-22) L 79-69 12-6 (5-3)
02/01/10 Alabama A&M (20-10) W 66-58 13-6 (6-3)
02/06/10 Alabama State (20-12) L 83-63 13-7 (6-4)
02/08/10 at Jackson State (6-22) W 74-58 14-7 (7-4)
02/13/10 Jackson State (6-22) W 91-87 15-7 (8-4)
02/15/10 at Southern (14-15) L 66-53 15-8 (8-5)
02/20/10 Prairie View A&M (8-23) W 74-41 16-8 (9-5)
02/27/10 at Mississippi Valley State (12-17) W 84-72 17-8 (10-5)
03/01/10 at Prairie View A&M (8-23) W 105-69 18-8 (11-5)
03/03/10 Mississippi Valley State (12-17) W 54-45 19-8 (12-5)
03/06/10 at Texas Southern (7-22) W 86-71 20-8 (13-5)
03/09/10 vs. Mississippi Valley State (12-17) W 81-72 21-8
03/12/10 vs. Alabama State (20-12) W 83-70 22-8
03/13/10 vs. Alcorn State (17-15) L 84-43 22-9




Grambling Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Lincoln Garman PF 31 31 28.3 5.1 1.1 9.2 1.5 1.0 1.9 2.1 2.5
Daniel Jarrett C 31 31 29.3 5.9 1.8 8.0 1.5 0.7 0.2 2.2 2.5
Andreas Oberle SG 31 31 30.7 17.3 1.0 4.2 2.3 1.7 0.0 2.5 2.6
Leon Champion SG 31 31 30.6 20.7 1.2 4.3 2.8 2.5 0.2 3.2 2.8
Darron Lancaster PG 27 27 31.0 8.7 1.3 2.9 5.5 0.5 0.1 2.6 2.3
Calvin Giles SG 31 4 12.6 5.4 0.4 1.3 2.3 0.6 0.1 1.7 1.5
Karl Hill SF 31 0 13.5 7.4 0.8 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.0 0.9 1.4
Freeman Messer SF 15 0 10.1 4.0 0.6 1.9 0.9 0.2 0.1 1.0 0.7
Joe Bearden PF 31 0 14.9 3.0 0.5 2.1 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.8 2.1
Williams Garvin C 31 0 8.1 1.5 0.7 2.4 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.7




Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Andreas Oberle SG 193 422 .457 37 64 .578 113 254 .445
Leon Champion SG 235 481 .489 84 121 .694 88 213 .413
Daniel Jarrett C 66 139 .475 41 68 .603 9 40 .225
Lincoln Garman PF 59 130 .454 41 70 .586 0 3 .000
Darron Lancaster PG 79 214 .369 38 49 .776 38 125 .304
Calvin Giles SG 56 119 .471 20 30 .667 34 76 .447
Joe Bearden PF 34 87 .391 25 45 .556 0 0 .000
Karl Hill SF 77 150 .513 27 39 .692 47 93 .505
Freeman Messer SF 20 48 .417 11 13 .846 9 22 .409
Williams Garvin C 16 29 .552 15 22 .682 0 1 .000


Oberle is simply a monster this year, 113 3's at a 44.5% clip!

Awards

Leon Champion is Conference Player of the Year

Andreas Oberle is 2nd team All-SWAC

Lincoln Garman is 2nd team All-SWAC

Calvin Giles is named to the SWAC all-Freshman Team



Graduating Seniors


Just 1 this year:


PLAYER DETAILS

#1 SG Leon Champion - Grambling - Senior
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Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 187
High School: Choctawhatchee Senior High School
Hometown: Fort Walton Beach, FL

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 71 56 54 92 8 33 30 31 11 8 89 29 46 79 58 76 92
2008: 69 53 53 91 8 32 28 29 10 8 88 27 41 78 56 75 82
2007: 67 49 49 89 8 31 26 27 9 8 84 25 36 78 54 75 74
2006: 62 45 45 87 7 30 24 25 9 7 77 24 32 77 52 75 64
2005: 58 43 43 82 6 29 22 24 9 7 73 23 29 77 50 75 53
2004: 54 40 40 77 5 27 21 23 9 6 67 22 24 76 47 74 38
Potential: B C C A F D D D F F A C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 24

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2006 29 29 27.5 16.1 1.4 5.1 1.9 3.5 0.55 1.8 0.1 3.2
2007 29 29 28.6 14.8 1.2 4.7 2.3 2.9 0.81 2.2 0.2 3.0
2008 30 30 28.9 17.4 1.3 4.8 2.6 4.2 0.61 2.0 0.1 3.0
2009 31 31 30.6 20.7 1.2 4.3 2.8 3.2 0.88 2.5 0.2 2.8
Career 119 119 28.9 17.3 1.3 4.7 2.4 3.5 0.88 2.1 0.1 3.0

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2006 5.3 12.2 .437 2.6 3.8 .697 2.8 6.4 .430 1.31 6.41
2007 5.2 11.2 .466 2.4 3.4 .690 2.0 4.7 .416 1.32 2.79
2008 6.2 13.7 .456 2.3 3.5 .651 2.6 6.3 .416 1.27 7.70
2009 7.6 15.5 .489 2.7 3.9 .694 2.8 6.9 .413 1.33 7.77
Career 6.1 13.2 .464 2.5 3.7 .683 2.6 6.1 .419 1.31 6.21

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2006 29 29 797 466 40 147 56 102 51 3 92
2007 29 29 828 430 35 137 68 84 64 5 87
2008 30 30 868 522 39 145 77 126 61 3 90
2009 31 31 950 642 38 134 88 100 77 5 88
Career 119 119 3443 2060 152 563 289 412 253 16 357

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2006 155 355 76 109 80 186 186
2007 152 326 69 100 57 137 81
2008 187 410 69 106 79 190 231
2009 235 481 84 121 88 213 241
Career 729 1572 298 436 304 726 739

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 45 4 9 7 8 1 7 16 24 9 13 8 12
Career 45 5 10 7 8 2 8 16 24 9 14 8 13

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 24
2004 High School: Rated *** and #298 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2004 High School: All-State (Florida)
2006 Freshman All-American
2006 Freshman All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2006 Conference Freshman of the Year (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2008 1st Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2009 1st Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2009 Conference Player of the Year (Southwestern Athletic Conference)



Champion leaves as our all time leading scorer with 2060 points. Hah, for now, he's our all time leading rebounder as well(Garman will break that next year). His 304 3 pointers is 3rd, behind last year's graduates Houchens and Ellis.

champion's 2060 points is good for 12th all time so far, and his 304 3 pointers is 20th all time.

That's all for this year, maybe next year we can break through with a conference tournament championship.

[whomario]

nice read, keep it up !
FBCB is just an awesome game, there´s still periods where i spend almost every available time playing it, just great.

Maybe you should create a tougher schedule so it´s not that straightforward ? What i like to do is either let the CPU handle the schedule or take offers instead of offering.

Anyway, interesting approach. That´s the great thing about FBCB, you really have control over the philosophy you play with and you can really have a lot of strategies. If you choose to play 3 guard lineup or even play with no real big, or play 3 big guys you really have the advantages and disadvantages that you´d have in real basketball, it´s great.

And don´t hesitate screening through 1* and 2* players searching for pure shooters, i had great success with those players especially SFs. I even had 2* star shooting SFs starting at big programs for me.

[cubboyroy1826]

Once again great thread. This caused me to fire up my old uni that i started with Western Illinois. Man as dated as this game is it is amazing how well it still plays.

[Barkeep49]

Has one team been consistently beating you in 3 PT % or has the string of #2s just been a coincidence?

[Radii]

Maybe you should create a tougher schedule so it´s not that straightforward ? What i like to do is either let the CPU handle the schedule or take offers instead of offering.

The scheduling is fairly strategic. Basic strategy, but pretty integral. I don't want losing seasons, and I want my prestige going up every year. Eventually, I'll care about my RPI a little bit, and I'll have a team w/ enough talent to beat better teams. That might not happen until I start getting job offers and take another job, likely at a prestige 3 conference. Once that happens I'll schedule the weak teams until I get a couple recruiting classes in, then I'll start upping the difficulty of teams that I'm scheduling so that I can try to get at-large tournament bids.

When I have a top flight program I schedule mostly prestige 45-55 teams(good mid-majors and lower tier big 6 conference members) and then pick out like 3 Prestige 100 teams to pick on every year to make sure I can get a 1 seed if I'm good enough.

[Radii]

Has one team been consistently beating you in 3 PT % or has the string of #2s just been a coincidence?

You know, I haven't even checked, I'll poke around next time I'm in the game to see. I've been going w/ the CPU recommended pace and motion most of the time too. I'll probably screw around in the exhibition engine some and see if I can find a combination that results in the most 3 pointers per game. Last season there were games where I was only taking 15 or so like a normal team, despite outside shooting, 3-point setting at 10, and my go to scorers all my 3 point shooters.

[Radii]

2010 Offseason

Our facilities will be upgraded next season, the AD keeps declining my requests but finally sees the need now.

Only a small prestige jump from 19-21 this year. We need a tournament bid.

Incoming Recruits

Our recruiting class is rated 126th this year, no suprise with just 1 recruit.


PLAYER DETAILS

#44 C Carl Lemke - Grambling - Freshman
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Height: 6'10"
Weight: 222
High School: Basic High School
Hometown: Henderson, NV

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 72 19 6 0 4 9 57 49 28 19 11 25 54 21 86 40 7
Potential: A D F F F F B A C D D D

Academics: 20

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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2009 High School: Rated *** and #193 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2009 High School: All-State (Nevada)


Solid, though the academics will cause some problems.



Grambling Player Offense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt Ins Jps 3ps Hnd Pas Reb Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 221 49 34 44 7 10 49 31 87 29 63
Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 215 63 31 0 33 21 34 34 65 35 77
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 234 33 83 71 30 43 21 73 58 44 61
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 36 76 83 31 35 21 81 44 98 66
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 161 36 71 89 50 71 51 78 35 50 79

Garth Arenas PG 6' 5" 210 22 50 84 57 39 31 83 50 45 84
Andrew Hall SG 6' 6" 203 16 83 78 20 25 27 66 40 99 86
Frank Halter PG 5'11" 174 25 52 88 45 23 30 86 25 70 48
Joe Bearden PF 6' 7" 207 63 11 11 36 6 20 31 54 36 97
Williams Garvin C 6'10" 267 8 14 0 8 19 47 19 94 21 29


Again this is before training camp. We're going to have 3, maybe 4 guys rated 90 in 3 point shooting here.


Grambling Player Defense Attributes

Name Pos Ht Wt PsD PrD Stl Blk Reb PFs Qkn Str Jmp Sta
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Daniel Jarrett C 6' 8" 221 62 12 26 34 74 68 31 87 29 63
Lincoln Garman PF 6' 9" 215 35 18 41 89 85 100 34 65 35 77
Karl Hill SF 6' 8" 234 24 55 58 19 7 34 73 58 44 61
Andreas Oberle SG 6' 5" 184 51 33 43 21 31 100 81 44 98 66
Darron Lancaster PG 5'11" 161 37 34 7 44 22 100 78 35 50 79

Garth Arenas PG 6' 5" 210 23 38 26 14 32 38 83 50 45 84
Andrew Hall SG 6' 6" 203 19 31 19 19 21 60 66 40 99 86
Frank Halter PG 5'11" 174 38 20 33 7 8 47 86 25 70 48
Williams Garvin C 6'10" 267 7 38 4 47 65 59 19 94 21 29
Joe Bearden PF 6' 7" 207 48 8 12 46 32 87 31 54 36 97


Coaches

We lose our recruit coordinator and hire a 35 skilled coach for $30,000. We have the coaching budget for better now but the best coach we could get for $50,000 is 39 rated... not worth it.

Schedule

Same as always.

[Radii]

2010/2011 Season


Recruiting

Between our struggles last year, and the fact that we're losing so many players this year, we have a full 5 scholarships avaialble. Our goal is to fill 3 of them.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#0 SG Scotty Green
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Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 177
High School: Malad Senior High School
Hometown: Malad City, ID
GPA: 2.69
Test Score: 860
Rating: **

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 33 52 21 45 34 0 21 27 19 36 17 26 79 72 54 60 12
Potential: C B D A D F C D F A F D


Green I'm not sure about, he was easy to get, but do I really think he'll actually come in A/3Ps A/PRD? Not really.

The first target i went after this year was a canadian sharpshooter. I've spent half my recruiting budget on him every month, and finally in January, he signs with us:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#13 PG Donn Antoine
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Height: 5'10"
Weight: 156
High School:
Hometown: Cap-des-Rosiers, Canada
GPA: 2.73
Test Score: 960
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 26 76 45 54 41 9 32 5 12 35 49 25 1 97 30 39 63
Potential: B B B B C F D F D D A D


extremely quick, good shooter, decent ball handler. The steals are awesome though I swear I wasn't looking for that!

we can't find another shooter, but we do land a decent big man:


RECRUIT DETAILS

#10 C Matthew McCrory
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Height: 6'11"
Weight: 238
High School: Fort Carson High School
Hometown: Fountain, CO
GPA: 2.77
Test Score: 1100
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 40 32 44 0 24 14 26 59 42 17 37 53 35 1 72 32 26
Potential: C D A F D F D B C D D B



Results

This year we are the #9 team in the country in the first poll. We win early and move up to #5, where we stay through an undefeated November. We shoot 51% from 3 in our first 5 games, and don't lose a game until December 15th, when we lose to NC A&T. A week later we lose our 1st conference game as well.

We hope to get off to a better start in conference play this year, but lose a 2nd conference game to Alabama A&M. We lose again to them later in January, AND drop a game to Alabama State... *sigh*. Dear lord, we drop one to Alcorn State as well. We're 5-5 in conference play after January. February is much better for us. We go 6-0 and actually tie Alcorn State for 1st in the conference with 2 games left. We're 20-6 and have another 20 win season.

We beat Arkansas Pine-Bluff, and our final conference game is vs Alcorn State, with whom we are tied for the regular season lead. We grab the 77-59 home win and will be the 1 seed in the conference going into the conference tourney.

Conference Tournament

SWAC First Round: (1) Grambling 89, (8 ) Jackson State 76 - We shoot 15-28 from 3 in the win.

SWAC Semifinals: (1) Grambling 99, (4) Alabama A&M 83 - 17-32 from 3, Oberle scores 30.

SWAC Finals: (1) Grambling 60, (2) Alcorn State 52 - WOOHOO, we are finally going dancing.


NCAA Tournament

We earn a 14 seed in the tournament, and will play 3 seed Florida out of the SEC.

And, we're completely outclassed as expected.


Florida 98, Grambling 83

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Grambling (25-7):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Daniel Jarrett C 30 5-10 6-8 2 5 3 4 18
Lincoln Garman PF 27 4-8 0-0 3 11 1 4 8
Karl Hill SF 30 4-12 1-4 1 5 4 1 11
Andreas Oberle SG 11 1-3 2-2 0 1 0 4 5
Darron Lancaster PG 35 3-7 7-8 0 0 6 1 15
Garth Arenas PG 5 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0
Andrew Hall SF 10 2-6 0-1 0 1 1 1 5
Frank Halter SG 26 3-6 2-2 1 1 3 2 9
Joe Bearden C 16 3-8 0-0 1 2 0 3 6
Calvin Giles SG 3 0-1 1-2 0 2 0 1 1
Freeman Messer PF 8 1-1 2-2 0 2 0 2 5

Turnovers: 13 (D.Jarrett 2, L.Garman 3, K.Hill 3,
A.Oberle 2, D.Lancaster 2, G.Arenas 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (L.Garman 3)
Steals: 2 (K.Hill 2)
3P FGs: 10-26 (D.Jarrett 2-2, L.Garman 0-1, K.Hill 2-8,
A.Oberle 1-2, D.Lancaster 2-4, A.Hall 1-4, F.Halter
1-3, C.Giles 0-1, F.Messer 1-1)

Florida (26-10):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Daniel Ortiz C 22 3-7 3-3 2 10 0 4 9
David Barreto PF 26 9-12 2-7 2 6 0 4 20
Derick Hemphill SF 31 6-9 6-6 5 11 3 4 19
Harry Tallman SG 35 8-24 3-4 1 4 4 4 22
Thomas Roesch PG 32 2-6 0-2 2 2 7 2 4
Hector Flack C 23 4-5 0-3 4 9 1 1 8
Charles Sikora SF 17 4-6 0-0 3 7 2 2 10
Jeffrey Szymanski PG 13 2-5 1-2 0 1 4 2 5
Carl Abel PF 2 0-0 1-2 1 2 0 0 1

Turnovers: 14 (D.Ortiz 1, D.Barreto 2, D.Hemphill 3,
H.Tallman 3, T.Roesch 3, H.Flack 1, C.Sikora 1)
Blocked Shots: 12 (D.Ortiz 3, D.Barreto 3, H.Flack 5,
J.Szymanski 1)
Steals: 5 (D.Barreto 1, T.Roesch 3, H.Flack 1)
3P FGs: 6-20 (D.Hemphill 1-3, H.Tallman 3-8, T.Roesch
0-4, C.Sikora 2-4, J.Szymanski 0-1)

Player of Game: SF Derick Hemphill (FL)

Game Summary:

Game Stats GRMBL FL
Halftime Score 35 47
FGM-FGA 26-62 38-74
FG% .419 .514
FTM-FTA 21-29 16-29
FT% .724 .552
3PM-3PA 10-26 6-20
3P% .385 .300
Rebounds 31 52
Assists 18 21
Steals 2 5
Blocks 3 12
Turnovers 13 14
Team Fouls 24 23





2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Grambling 13 5 .722 25 7 .781
Alcorn State 12 6 .667 19 12 .613
Alabama State 12 6 .667 14 15 .483
Alabama A&M 11 7 .611 17 13 .567
Texas Southern 9 9 .500 13 18 .419
Prairie View A&M 8 10 .444 15 16 .484
Mississippi Valley State 8 10 .444 9 20 .310
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7 11 .389 9 19 .321
Jackson State 7 11 .389 9 20 .310
Southern 3 15 .167 3 25 .107



Grambling 2010 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 21 Record Vs 1-50: 0-1
Season Record: 25-7 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0
Conference Record: 13-5 Record Vs 101-200: 3-3
Home Record: 11-1 Record Vs 200+: 22-3
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 120

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 78.8 National Rank: 14 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 65.8 National Rank: 88 Conference Rank: 4
Rebounds: 36.0 National Rank: 146 Conference Rank: 3
Assists: 18.1 National Rank: 10 Conference Rank: 1
Steals: 6.7 National Rank: 219 Conference Rank: 6
Blocks: 3.1 National Rank: 134 Conference Rank: 5
Turnovers: 14.6 National Rank: 11 Conference Rank: 1
Fouls: 19.1 National Rank: 134 Conference Rank: 8
FG%: .452 National Rank: 45 Conference Rank: 1
FT%: .648 National Rank: 242 Conference Rank: 6
3P%: .404 National Rank: 2 Conference Rank: 1


Butler shoots .405. We're the only other team over 40%. We do make 50 more 3's than any other team in the country.



Grambling 2010 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/14/10 Southeastern Louisiana (12-16) W 95-89 1-0
11/18/10 Army (13-16) W 103-66 2-0
11/22/10 Lipscomb (11-17) W 73-60 3-0
11/26/10 at Mount St. Mary's (7-21) W 76-54 4-0
11/30/10 at Nicholls State (7-21) W 78-56 5-0
12/04/10 at Western Illinois (7-22) W 70-58 6-0
12/08/10 at Chicago State (8-22) W 73-71 7-0
12/12/10 at Lehigh (8-22) W 85-55 8-0
12/15/10 at North Carolina A&T (10-19) L 77-65 8-1
12/18/10 at Jackson State (9-20) W 97-75 9-1 (1-0)
12/20/10 at Mississippi Valley State (9-20) L 68-60 9-2 (1-1)
12/24/10 at Birmingham Southern (8-21) W 75-42 10-2
01/03/11 at Alabama A&M (17-13) L 83-82 10-3 (1-2)
01/08/11 Prairie View A&M (15-16) W 102-61 11-3 (2-2)
01/10/11 Alabama A&M (17-13) L 76-74 11-4 (2-3)
01/15/11 at Alabama State (14-15) L 70-51 11-5 (2-4)
01/22/11 at Prairie View A&M (15-16) W 81-64 12-5 (3-4)
01/24/11 at Alcorn State (19-12) L 75-70 12-6 (3-5)
01/29/11 Texas Southern (13-18) W 53-52 13-6 (4-5)
01/31/11 Alabama State (14-15) W 102-99 14-6 (5-5)
02/05/11 Mississippi Valley State (9-20) W 69-61 15-6 (6-5)
02/07/11 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9-19) W 90-50 16-6 (7-5)
02/12/11 at Southern (3-25) W 77-69 17-6 (8-5)
02/14/11 Southern (3-25) W 69-39 18-6 (9-5)
02/19/11 at Texas Southern (13-18) W 72-63 19-6 (10-5)
02/28/11 Jackson State (9-20) W 91-57 20-6 (11-5)
03/02/11 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (9-19) W 81-49 21-6 (12-5)
03/05/11 Alcorn State (19-12) W 77-59 22-6 (13-5)
03/08/11 vs. Jackson State (9-20) W 89-76 23-6
03/11/11 vs. Alabama A&M (17-13) W 99-83 24-6
03/12/11 vs. Alcorn State (19-12) W 60-52 25-6
03/18/11 vs. Florida (26-10) L 98-83 25-7



Grambling Player Averages

Name Pos G GS Min Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO Fl
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Daniel Jarrett C 32 32 29.7 7.3 2.3 10.1 1.4 0.6 0.1 2.6 2.7
Lincoln Garman PF 32 32 29.9 8.2 1.8 8.9 1.8 0.6 2.3 1.7 2.5
Karl Hill SF 30 30 28.7 13.5 1.2 2.7 2.5 1.6 0.1 2.4 2.6
Andreas Oberle SG 32 32 30.0 17.5 1.0 3.7 1.9 1.5 0.1 2.6 2.5
Darron Lancaster PG 29 29 32.3 12.9 1.3 2.8 6.8 0.9 0.2 2.4 2.5
Garth Arenas PG 27 3 10.7 3.5 0.3 1.1 1.9 0.4 0.0 0.9 1.2
Andrew Hall SG 32 2 12.7 7.8 0.6 1.8 0.8 0.4 0.0 1.1 1.6
Frank Halter PG 31 0 11.2 5.8 0.4 0.7 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.5 1.1
Joe Bearden PF 32 0 13.8 2.7 0.4 2.4 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.5 1.7
Williams Garvin C 26 0 7.7 1.2 0.7 2.5 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.4 1.3
Calvin Giles SG 10 0 6.8 3.0 0.3 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.6
Freeman Messer SF 8 0 4.5 1.8 0.1 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.6
Carl Lemke C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0




Grambling Player Shooting Stats

Name Pos FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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Daniel Jarrett C 85 193 .440 48 74 .649 17 53 .321
Lincoln Garman PF 101 194 .521 60 100 .600 0 2 .000
Karl Hill SF 141 327 .431 53 81 .654 70 200 .350
Andreas Oberle SG 192 436 .440 58 93 .624 119 291 .409
Darron Lancaster PG 122 283 .431 64 91 .703 66 174 .379
Garth Arenas PG 35 74 .473 4 9 .444 21 40 .525
Andrew Hall SG 84 158 .532 33 41 .805 48 97 .495
Frank Halter PG 62 141 .440 15 24 .625 41 90 .456
Joe Bearden PF 32 93 .344 23 40 .575 0 2 .000
Williams Garvin C 14 25 .560 2 3 .667 0 0 .000
Calvin Giles SG 11 22 .500 2 4 .500 6 13 .462
Freeman Messer SF 5 8 .625 3 3 1.000 1 2 .500
Carl Lemke C 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000


119 3's for our team leader this year!


Awards

I am the SWAC Coach of the year

Darron Lancaster is the SWAC Player of the year!

Andreas Oberle is 2nd team all SWAC

Karl Hill is 1st team all SWAC

Lincoln Garman is 1st team all SWAC




Graduating Seniors


We're losing quite a lot this year:


PLAYER DETAILS

#2 SG Andreas Oberle - Grambling - Senior
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 186
High School:
Hometown: Weimar, Germany

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 38 77 40 84 33 37 23 32 54 36 48 22 100 82 47 98 76
2009: 36 76 38 83 31 35 21 31 51 33 43 21 100 81 44 98 66
2008: 34 75 37 78 29 33 19 30 49 31 39 20 100 80 41 96 56
2007: 33 71 35 73 27 31 18 29 47 29 35 19 100 78 38 95 45
2006: 32 67 34 68 25 29 17 28 45 27 31 18 97 76 35 93 34
2005: 31 63 33 63 23 27 16 27 43 25 27 17 90 75 32 93 24
Potential: D B C A D C D D B C C D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 77

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 10.0 3.7 0.3 1.8 0.6 0.9 0.68 0.6 0.0 0.9
2008 30 0 9.9 5.4 0.1 1.2 1.0 0.6 1.61 0.5 0.0 0.9
2009 31 31 30.7 17.3 1.0 4.2 2.3 2.5 0.92 1.7 0.0 2.6
2010 32 32 30.0 17.5 1.0 3.7 1.9 2.6 0.73 1.5 0.1 2.5
Career 122 63 20.5 11.2 0.6 2.8 1.5 1.7 0.73 1.1 0.0 1.8

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2007 1.3 3.4 .390 0.4 0.7 .579 0.7 2.3 .288 1.08 1.03
2008 1.9 4.1 .452 0.5 0.9 .577 1.2 2.8 .429 1.31 2.03
2009 6.2 13.6 .457 1.2 2.1 .578 3.6 8.2 .445 1.27 8.65
2010 6.0 13.6 .440 1.8 2.9 .624 3.7 9.1 .409 1.29 10.66
Career 3.9 8.9 .444 1.0 1.7 .599 2.4 5.7 .413 1.26 5.74

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 290 108 8 51 17 25 17 1 26
2008 30 0 296 163 4 36 29 18 15 1 28
2009 31 31 953 536 31 130 70 76 53 0 81
2010 32 32 961 561 33 119 61 83 48 2 79
Career 122 63 2500 1368 76 336 177 202 133 4 214

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2007 39 100 11 19 19 66 30
2008 56 124 15 26 36 84 61
2009 193 422 37 64 113 254 268
2010 192 436 58 93 119 291 341
Career 480 1082 121 202 287 695 700

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 40 5 9 5 4 1 10 14 22 6 9 9 17
Career 40 5 10 5 4 1 10 14 24 6 9 9 17

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 19
2005 High School: Rated *** and #110 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2009 2nd Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2010 2nd Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)


2 great seasons as a junior and senior for Oberle.



PLAYER DETAILS

#4 PG Darron Lancaster - Grambling - Senior
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Height: 5'11"
Weight: 162
High School: Katy High School
Hometown: Katy, TX

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 37 74 54 93 50 80 54 23 38 36 7 46 100 79 36 50 92
2009: 36 71 53 89 50 71 51 22 37 34 7 44 100 78 35 50 79
2008: 35 67 52 84 50 63 48 21 36 32 7 42 98 76 34 49 68
2007: 34 63 51 79 50 57 45 20 35 30 6 40 91 75 33 49 54
2006: 33 60 49 75 50 51 42 19 34 28 5 39 84 74 32 49 40
2005: 32 56 47 70 50 46 40 18 33 26 4 38 73 72 31 48 23
Potential: C B C A D A B D C D F C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 48

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 11.9 3.6 0.7 1.3 2.5 1.5 1.64 0.4 0.0 1.0
2008 30 0 10.1 4.4 0.7 1.3 1.8 0.9 2.08 0.4 0.0 0.8
2009 27 27 31.0 8.7 1.3 2.9 5.5 2.6 2.14 0.5 0.1 2.3
2010 29 29 32.3 12.9 1.3 2.8 6.8 2.4 2.77 0.9 0.2 2.5
Career 115 56 21.1 7.3 1.0 2.1 4.1 1.8 2.77 0.5 0.1 1.6

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2007 1.2 3.2 .370 0.8 1.0 .767 0.4 1.6 .261 1.12 2.38
2008 1.6 2.8 .571 0.4 0.8 .565 0.8 1.5 .522 1.58 2.30
2009 2.9 7.9 .369 1.4 1.8 .776 1.4 4.6 .304 1.09 9.44
2010 4.2 9.8 .431 2.2 3.1 .703 2.3 6.0 .379 1.32 9.00
Career 2.5 5.9 .421 1.2 1.7 .715 1.2 3.4 .358 1.25 5.69

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 346 103 20 39 72 44 12 0 29
2008 30 0 303 133 20 39 54 26 11 0 25
2009 27 27 837 234 35 78 148 69 14 4 62
2010 29 29 936 374 38 82 197 71 25 5 73
Career 115 56 2422 844 113 238 471 210 62 9 189

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2007 34 92 23 30 12 46 69
2008 48 84 13 23 24 46 69
2009 79 214 38 49 38 125 255
2010 122 283 64 91 66 174 261
Career 283 673 138 193 140 391 654

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 25 3 6 12 3 1 6 9 18 9 11 5 10
Career 25 4 6 12 3 1 6 9 18 9 11 5 10

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 8
2005 High School: Rated *** and #158 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2010 1st Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)
2010 Conference Player of the Year (Southwestern Athletic Conference)


Same for Lancaster. A solid A/T ratio, conference player of the year as a senior, helping lead Grambling to its first tournament appearance.



PLAYER DETAILS

#25 SF Karl Hill - Grambling - Senior
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Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 234
High School: Greeley Central High School
Hometown: Greeley, CO

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 35 87 53 72 32 45 22 8 25 59 63 20 39 74 63 46 67
2009: 33 83 51 71 30 43 21 7 24 55 58 19 34 73 58 44 61
2008: 31 78 49 67 28 41 20 6 23 51 52 18 28 72 54 43 55
2007: 29 73 46 63 26 39 19 5 22 47 46 17 21 70 50 43 49
2006: 27 68 43 59 24 37 18 5 21 44 41 16 13 69 46 43 43
2005: 25 63 41 55 22 35 17 5 20 40 36 15 6 68 42 42 38
Potential: D A C B D C D F D C B D

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 76

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 12.7 5.6 0.8 1.7 0.8 1.3 0.62 0.8 0.0 1.4
2008 30 0 11.5 4.4 0.6 1.4 0.8 0.7 1.14 0.8 0.0 0.9
2009 31 0 13.5 7.4 0.8 1.3 1.0 0.9 1.10 0.7 0.0 1.4
2010 30 30 28.7 13.5 1.2 2.7 2.5 2.4 1.03 1.6 0.1 2.6
Career 120 30 16.6 7.7 0.9 1.8 1.3 1.3 1.03 1.0 0.0 1.6

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2007 1.9 3.9 .474 0.8 1.1 .710 1.1 2.7 .397 1.41 1.34
2008 1.5 3.6 .430 0.5 0.8 .652 0.8 2.2 .373 1.23 1.93
2009 2.5 4.8 .513 0.9 1.3 .692 1.5 3.0 .505 1.52 1.55
2010 4.7 10.9 .431 1.8 2.7 .654 2.3 6.7 .350 1.24 8.43
Career 2.7 5.8 .456 1.0 1.5 .672 1.4 3.7 .395 1.33 3.32

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2007 29 0 367 161 23 50 23 37 22 1 41
2008 30 0 346 132 18 41 24 21 23 0 28
2009 31 0 419 228 24 40 32 29 21 1 42
2010 30 30 862 405 37 80 74 72 48 2 77
Career 120 30 1994 926 102 211 153 159 114 4 188

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2007 54 114 22 31 31 78 39
2008 46 107 15 23 25 67 58
2009 77 150 27 39 47 93 48
2010 141 327 53 81 70 200 253
Career 318 698 117 174 173 438 398

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 24 4 7 6 4 1 5 8 19 9 10 5 12
Career 24 4 7 6 4 1 6 9 19 9 10 6 12

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 3
2005 High School: Rated *** and #188 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2005 High School: All-State (Colorado)
2005 High School: Mr. Basketball (Colorado)
2010 1st Team All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)


Hill only got 1 year as a starter after Champion graduated last year.



PLAYER DETAILS

#11 SF Freeman Messer - Grambling - Senior
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Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 228
High School: Branchville High School
Hometown: Branchville, SC

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 35 80 67 61 19 27 45 43 30 32 9 57 90 48 55 65 88
2009: 33 76 66 60 19 26 43 41 28 31 9 54 85 47 53 65 80
2008: 31 72 65 59 18 24 41 39 27 30 9 51 80 46 51 65 71
2007: 29 68 62 58 17 22 39 37 26 28 8 48 75 44 48 64 56
2006: 27 64 59 56 16 21 37 35 25 26 7 46 70 43 45 64 43
2005: 25 60 56 54 15 20 35 33 24 24 6 44 65 41 41 62 25
Potential: C A B C F D C C C D F C

Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 51

Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2007 29 29 26.8 5.1 1.7 6.0 1.4 1.7 0.88 0.4 0.3 3.3
2008 12 0 4.6 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.3 1.67 0.3 0.0 0.8
2009 15 0 10.1 4.0 0.6 1.9 0.9 1.0 0.87 0.2 0.1 0.7
2010 8 0 4.5 1.8 0.1 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.6
Career 64 29 15.9 3.5 0.9 3.4 0.9 1.1 0.00 0.3 0.2 1.9

Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2007 1.8 3.9 .455 1.0 1.2 .833 0.5 1.6 .333 1.31 3.34
2008 0.2 0.5 .333 0.0 0.0 .000 0.2 0.2 1.000 1.00 0.83
2009 1.3 3.2 .417 0.7 0.9 .846 0.6 1.5 .409 1.25 1.87
2010 0.6 1.0 .625 0.4 0.4 1.000 0.1 0.3 .500 1.75 1.63
Career 1.2 2.7 .448 0.7 0.8 .846 0.4 1.1 .380 1.30 2.31

Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2007 29 29 776 147 49 175 42 48 11 9 96
2008 12 0 55 6 0 7 5 3 3 0 10
2009 15 0 152 60 9 28 13 15 3 1 11
2010 8 0 36 14 1 5 0 2 0 0 5
Career 64 29 1019 227 59 215 60 68 17 10 122

Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2007 51 112 30 36 15 45 97
2008 2 6 0 0 2 2 10
2009 20 48 11 13 9 22 28
2010 5 8 3 3 1 2 13
Career 78 174 44 52 27 71 148

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 5 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 1
Career 19 8 15 5 2 2 5 6 13 6 7 3 7

Awards & Acheivements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 2
2005 High School: Rated *** and #296 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2005 High School: All-State (South Carolina)
2007 Freshman All-Conference (Southwestern Athletic Conference)


Messer was quickly replaced by better shooters after starting his freshman year.



Lancaster leaves as Grambling's all time leading assist man. that's the only record held by any of our graduating seniors.


Hopefully the tournament appearance will be a good springboard for us. The problem with this strategy so far seems to be simply generating the number of 3's that we want. I watched our game vs Florida, in the first 8 minutes we only attempted 1 3-pointer. I'm not sure if there's a way to rectify that.

[Radii]

2011 Offseason

The tournament bid last year is what we needed. Prestige jumps from 21->28, a huge boost that will *really* help us out.

Coaching Skill Increase

I'm now a level 2 coach, woohoo. 5 more to recruiting, 10 more to offense, and 5 more to defense.



Richard Dixon - Head Coach - Grambling
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Age: 39
High School: Wake Forest Rolesville
Hometown: Wake Forest, NC
Alma Mater: North Carolina

Current Level: 2
Career Record: 146 - 92

Recruiting: 40
Scouting: 0
Offense: 90
Defense: 10


Job Offers

I get an offer from Radford. They have a prestige of 30 and had a smaller budget than us last year.

Later we get offers from CS Northridge(Prestige 47) and UC Santa Barbara (Prestige 36) in the Big West and Stony Brook(Prestige 40) in the America East conference.

I'm tempted by a prestige 47 team in a level 2 conference, but, I pass.

Ok, crossing the '50' mark is enough for me. We get an offer from Montana. They ahve a top 50 recruiting class, won 20 games last year, have a prestige of 51, 2nd in the Big Sky only to Weber State at 55.


I am now the head coach of the Montana Grizzlies

[Radii]

Here's Grambling's History while I was coach:


Grambling Historical Performances

Season W L CW CL Rank RPI Prs Result
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2010 25 7 13 5 86 122 28 Loss in FBCA Tourney Round 1
2009 22 9 13 5 125 209 21 No Postseason
2008 22 8 13 5 143 213 19 No Postseason
2007 18 11 11 7 171 245 15 No Postseason
2006 20 9 13 5 150 218 12 No Postseason
2005 17 13 10 8 191 250 7 No Postseason
2004 8 20 4 14 321 321 6 No Postseason
2003 14 15 9 9 305 305 8 No Postseason



Grambling is in very good shape in the SWAC for awhile with the team I have left them.


And Montana's history up til now:

Montana Historical Performances

Season W L CW CL Rank RPI Prs Result
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2010 21 11 9 5 73 87 51 Loss in FBIT Round 1
2009 15 14 8 6 145 155 49 No Postseason
2008 14 15 8 6 205 195 49 No Postseason
2007 14 15 5 9 206 200 51 No Postseason
2006 27 5 12 2 43 48 54 Loss in FBCA Tourney Round 1
2005 27 7 11 3 43 57 51 Loss in FBCA Sweet Sixteen
2004 18 11 11 3 150 182 47 No Postseason
2003 19 12 7 7 127 180 45 No Postseason


And this is one of the big reasons I took this job, a team that has been to the sweet 16, and that has a profile to make the NIT if they don't earn the conference's automatic bid on occasion.


With the bigger budget I upgrade my coaches

For 70k I bring in Gerard Gomez, a 55 rated recruiting coach
For 90k I bring in Gery Fishman, 80 offense/20 defense as my assistant.

My scout is still a 30k scout rated 42.

Scheduling

A huge difference in this team is that we have 14 games, and 7 of them are home games. I schedule some terrible teams on the road, some terrible teams at home and a few teams with prestige in the 20s. Very conservative until I get a feel for my team and get my own recruits playing.

Not going to worry about the roster this year, except to point out that the freshman class is five large.

[Radii]

2011/2012 Season


Recruiting

We've only got 2 scholarships this year. The big freshman class has 3 big men, so we are going all out ofr 3 point shooters.

We have a $14,500/mo budget. I take a flyer on the #100 recruit in the nation, and it doesn't work, UConn comes in and we get laughed at. I do land two guys in the initial signing period anyway.


RECRUIT DETAILS

#25 SG Russ Seabrook
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Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 195
High School: Muncie Central High School
Hometown: Muncie, IN
GPA: 2.79
Test Score: 1230
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 32 74 66 69 24 0 35 25 21 30 59 29 58 71 50 61 3
Potential: D A B B C F D D B C C D


Seabrook is rated fairly low but had a 44% 3 point shooting rate and I want some guarenteed good shooters early on.



#53 SF Andrew McKnight
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Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 212
High School:
Hometown: Dunmore, Canada
GPA: 2.65
Test Score: 850
Rating: ***

Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK PFS QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 43 44 36 90 45 30 31 12 27 0 53 16 23 50 57 78 20
Potential: B C D A B D C C D F A D


O Canada. The defense is zero. Which is interesting. But a great 3 point shooter who can hopefully handle the ball is someone I'm glad to have as well.



Results

I put the team on auto and am just simming through quickly these first two seasons.

Montana goes 10-4 in non-conference play, and then 10-4 in conference play, tying for the conference title with Northern Arizona, winning a tiebreaker for the 1 seed. We're upset early in the conference tourney.

20-9 is good for the NIT, where we earn a 10 seed, but lose to Georgetown in the first round. More details here in seasons where its my players of course.




2011 Big Sky Standings

CW CL Pct W L Pct
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Montana 10 4 .714 20 10 .667
Northern Arizona 10 4 .714 19 13 .594
Portland State 9 5 .643 20 11 .645
Idaho State 8 6 .571 16 13 .552
Weber State 7 7 .500 21 12 .636
Eastern Washington 5 9 .357 10 19 .345
Montana State 4 10 .286 11 18 .379
Sacramento State 3 11 .214 11 20 .355



Montana 2011 Season Info

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 51 Record Vs 1-50: 0-0
Season Record: 20-10 Record Vs 51-100: 4-3
Conference Record: 10-4 Record Vs 101-200: 6-2
Home Record: 12-2 Record Vs 200+: 10-5
Current Poll Rank: NR Current RPI Rank: 129

Stat Rankings:
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Points: 72.3 National Rank: 82 Conference Rank: 1
Points Allowed: 66.7 National Rank: 107 Conference Rank: 3
Rebounds: 33.9 National Rank: 244 Conference Rank: 7
Assists: 13.7 National Rank: 191 Conference Rank: 4
Steals: 7.3 National Rank: 157 Conference Rank: 5
Blocks: 1.2 National Rank: 316 Conference Rank: 8
Turnovers: 14.0 National Rank: 12 Conference Rank: 1
Fouls: 21.1 National Rank: 302 Conference Rank: 8
FG%: .445 National Rank: 77 Conference Rank: 3
FT%: .669 National Rank: 165 Conference Rank: 4
3P%: .343 National Rank: 141 Conference Rank: 3




Montana 2011 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Result Record
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11/13/11 at Liberty (13-16) L 83-77 0-1
11/16/11 at Savannah State (7-21) W 72-58 1-1
11/20/11 Fairleigh Dickinson (7-21) W 73-62 2-1
11/24/11 St. Francis-PA (9-19) W 95-49 3-1
11/27/11 at Stephen F. Austin (5-24) W 80-76 4-1
11/30/11 at Lipscomb (7-22) W 59-56 5-1
12/04/11 Yale (11-18) W 90-80 6-1
12/07/11 Albany (8-21) L 87-86 6-2
12/10/11 Alabama A&M (11-18) W 87-57 7-2
12/14/11 Grambling (20-10) L 61-42 7-3
12/18/11 at Appalachian State (13-18) L 74-58 7-4
12/21/11 at Army (15-15) W 65-57 8-4
12/24/11 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff (7-21) W 78-63 9-4
12/27/11 Air Force (12-17) W 85-77 10-4
01/07/12 Sacramento State (11-20) W 85-64 11-4 (1-0)
01/13/12 Idaho State (16-13) W 90-75 12-4 (2-0)
01/14/12 at Portland State (20-11) L 85-81 12-5 (2-1)
01/21/12 Montana State (11-18) W 64-49 13-5 (3-1)
01/27/12 Portland State (20-11) W 70-65 14-5 (4-1)
01/28/12 at Sacramento State (11-20) L 64-62 14-6 (4-2)
02/03/12 Northern Arizona (19-13) W 57-52 15-6 (5-2)
02/04/12 at Eastern Washington (10-19) W 91-85 16-6 (6-2)
02/10/12 at Weber State (21-12) W 69-47 17-6 (7-2)
02/11/12 at Idaho State (16-13) W 79-57 18-6 (8-2)
02/17/12 Weber State (21-12) W 62-54 19-6 (9-2)
02/18/12 at Montana State (11-18) L 74-56 19-7 (9-3)
02/25/12 at Northern Arizona (19-13) L 73-63 19-8 (9-4)
03/03/12 Eastern Washington (10-19) W 62-50 20-8 (10-4)
03/08/12 vs. Sacramento State (11-20) L 78-73 20-9
03/13/12 at Georgetown (20-16) L 88-59 20-10





Good to see I did pick a team that was talented already and will hopefully get us off to a fast start.

[Radii]

I'm in college basketball overload during the tournament. I am finding myself torn between trying to learn/get into DDS:CB, giving College Hoops 2k8 another serious shot(if you've read my dynasties in the past you may know that I absolutely suck at that game and lose almost every game I play with any realistic slider set, which just got frustrating)... and this dynasty. So I haven't been updating much lately.

I think I've seen enough to say that the steals strategy is just special in this game and having a run and gun 3 point style isn't as easy to recruit for reliably at the low levels(there are probably 3 times as many 'A' steals recruits as their are 'A' 3 point recruits, maybe more, and too many of them are in the top 100). I do kinda want to get to a prestige 5 conference school where i have access to the top 100 recruit pool with regularity and see how it goes, but at this point this kinda feels like any other FBCB rise to the top dynasty which kinda went out of style 3-4 years ago :)

[cubboyroy1826]

Say it ain't so Radii, say it ain't so.

[Balldog]

I'm in college basketball overload during the tournament. I am finding myself torn between trying to learn/get into DDS:CB, giving College Hoops 2k8 another serious shot(if you've read my dynasties in the past you may know that I absolutely suck at that game and lose almost every game I play with any realistic slider set, which just got frustrating)... and this dynasty. So I haven't been updating much lately.


Any luck getting into DDS:CB? I've never given it much of a shot.

For CH2k8 I'd recommend playing some coach mode!

[Radii]

Any luck getting into DDS:CB? I've never given it much of a shot.

Nope, I tried a couple more times to get games started with DDS: CB, despite it being my favorite sport, and a newer, more up to date game, it just doesn't do it for me. Its shelved for awhile by now, perhaps when college basketball season starts up again in November/December I'll get the itch and give it another shot.

[RealDeal]

Shame this one wasn't completed. To me, it looks like the three point strat was promising. To get those kind of numbers with poor talent and a poor staff; I wouldn't be surprised if a good team couldn't end up shooting 40%+, which is the equivalent of a 60% FG%.

I think this could be a dominating system in FBCB.