Being the AD 2: Another FBCB adventure

[Young Drachma]

My first go at this crashed. The good thing in a sense is that I can completely restart this from scratch and customize the dynasty to work for these purposes.

The basic premise of this dynasty is essentially where I serve as the athletic director at schools. I hire the coaches and we assess their performance and the idea is to hire as many successful coaches as possible within the constraints of the individual school's budget and so forth.

RESULTS

WYOMING
1920: 16-15
1921: 22-11 (NCAA Rd 1)
1922: 16-15

COLORADO
1923: 9-23
1924: 12-18
1925: 14-16
1926: 11-20
1927: 22-12 (NCAA Rd 2)
1928: 24-14 (NIT 4th Place)
1929: 32-7 (National Champions)

MARQUETTE
1930: 30-7 (NCAA Rd 2)


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[Young Drachma]

Here's the basic setup:


The NCAA tournament is just 64 teams to start. We'll eventually get to 68, but not initially.

I've only turned on the NIT, the CBI and CIT are off for now and they won't be added for a while. NIT has 40 teams.

I've decided to random prestige, but conference movement is still off (I do it manually) and conference prestige changes are on.

Transfers are still on and play immediately at their new school.

Players cannot turn pro until their junior year. In the past, it was always four years they had to stay. I've changed it no to equalize things a bit between big programs and smaller ones.

I play with injuries off and academic suspensions off as well. I'm the godfather of fast-sim, what can I say?


I'm going to go through the tediousness of editing conferences and then we'll get started from there. I'm not sure what schools I'll add this time, mostly because it's tedious...but I usually like to do it, so suffice to say there will be some. I'll recap all of that in the next post. Then we'll sim ahead 10-20 years and get started. (Can't fix programs if we don't have any history.)


All of the Great West schools are now independents and I deleted that conference.

The Big XII invited Houston and SMU. C-USA invited Charlotte and UMass to replace Houston and SMU.

I added Nebraska-Omaha to the Summit League which replaced Centenary which is moving to D3 in real life, but in this game will become an independent for the time being, along with New Orleans who are moving to D2 in real life.

Nebraska to the Big XII, Utah and Colorado to the Pac-12, Boise St, Nevada and Fresno State to the MWC and TCU to the Big East. Hawaii to the Big West, BYU to the WCC.

UT-Pan American to the Southland Conference. NJIT to the Northeast Conference


In the ashes of the Great West, I created one new conference called the Major Collegiate Athletic League (MCAL) or The Major Conference. (Gotta be ambitious....)

It's comprised of a few hockey schools and a few independent refugees, coupled with some random schools I just felt like adding:

Alaska-Anchorage
Alaska-Fairbanks
Colorado College
Seattle
Cal State-Bakersfield
Cal State-Monterey Bay
Utah Valley
SIU-Edwardsville
DePauw University
Kenyon College
Denver Metropolitan (former Metro State College of Denver)


Finally, the 12th member of the MAJOR conference is a created school. I usually like to keep my created schools away from real ones, but in this particular dynasty I just won't be creating as many. Great Plains University is our fictional school located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

It'll easily vault to the top of the list of anything to do in that town and the places around it.

I added a few random schools to the independent ranks to get them to 10 teams and upped how many games they play against each other to ensure they won't be making the tournament anytime soon. Or at least, that's the idea.

The MCAL won't get an automatic bid for ten years, trying to keep it sort of like actual NCAA rules. Helps we're simming past the first 20 years anyway.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so I've simmed through the 1918-19 season. Here are the champions of the NCAA tourney through now.


NCAA Champs

Season Team Record Opponent Score
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1918 Georgetown Hoyas 36-4 North Carolina State Wolfpack 68-52
1917 Syracuse Orange 33-5 Missouri Tigers 69-58
1916 California Golden Bears 33-6 Louisiana State Tigers 93-72
1915 Cincinnati Bearcats 37-3 Arizona Wildcats 85-77
1914 Missouri Tigers 34-5 Marquette Golden Eagles 82-76
1913 Virginia Cavaliers 33-7 Louisiana State Tigers 71-69
1912 Georgetown Hoyas 34-5 Ohio State Buckeyes 66-64
1911 Marquette Golden Eagles 32-9 Louisiana State Tigers 72-66
1910 Baylor Bears 38-2 Duke Blue Devils 60-49
1909 Missouri Tigers 35-6 Minnesota Golden Gophers 63-60
1908 Stanford Cardinal 36-6 Michigan State Spartans 60-53
1907 Louisiana State Tigers 38-3 Cincinnati Bearcats 81-71
1906 Syracuse Orange 31-6 Texas Longhorns 65-57
1905 Ohio State Buckeyes 33-8 North Carolina Tar Heels 64-53
1904 Michigan State Spartans 34-4 Louisville Cardinals 75-67
1903 Louisiana State Tigers 36-3 North Carolina Tar Heels 81-53
1902 Stanford Cardinal 37-2 Cincinnati Bearcats 106-74
1901 Louisiana State Tigers 30-9 Nevada Wolf Pack 74-56
1900 Ohio State Buckeyes 38-2 VCU Rams 98-77
1899 Oregon State Beavers 38-2 Tennessee Volunteers 64-51




Since this is a coaching dynasty, here is the list of all-time winningest coaches at the moment:


Coach Wins Records

# NAME SEASON RECORD CURRENT TEAM
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1. James Dambrosio 1919 605 Stanford
2. Bernard Kratz 1919 589 Ohio State
3. John Hill 1919 574 Louisiana State
4. Larry Irons 1917 569 Retired
5. Paul Furst 1917 562 Retired
6. Broderick Bischoff 1919 551 Syracuse
7. Donnie Ward 1919 546 Marquette
8. Randal Ewald 1919 540 Baylor
9. Cary Martinez 1917 535 Retired
10. Douglas Traynor 1919 531 Kansas
11. Elijah Mathias 1919 526 Florida State
12. Luis Collette 1919 522 Cincinnati
13. Don Payton 1919 519 California
14. Jeffrey Albritton 1918 512 Retired
15. Ronald Nolan 1919 505 North Carolina State
16. Ralph Scott 1918 500 Retired
17. Emmett Hadfield 1918 480 Retired
18. Isaiah Mitchell 1919 470 Georgia
19. Jeremiah Sullivan 1919 467 Virginia
20. John Johnson 1919 462 Penn State
21. Christoper Anderson 1919 447 Charlotte
22. Trevor Cruz 1919 446 South Florida
23. Edward Cantor 1919 427 Arizona
24. Jerry Desantis 1918 425 Retired
25. Noble Byrne 1914 423 Retired
26. Ronald Clyburn 1919 418 Oregon State
27. Chris Mathew 1919 417 Boston College
28. Stephen Westcott 1919 416 Nebraska
29. John Park 1919 415 Wake Forest
30. Jerry Quirk 1919 413 Providence
31. Cortez Carpenter 1919 408 Houston
32. Richard Mathew 1919 404 Missouri
33. Ty Messinger 1919 400 Stony Brook
34. Ellsworth Benson 1914 399 Retired
35. Alvaro Stocker 1919 396 Maryland
36. Chris Nash 1919 393 California
37. Merlin Bridge 1919 393 UCLA
38. Thomas Deans 1919 392 Tulsa
39. Edwin Leveille 1919 390 Dayton

# NAME SEASON RECORD CURRENT TEAM
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40. Frederick Krug 1919 382 Clemson
41. Lemuel Cook 1919 380 Richmond
42. Antwan Thornton 1912 376 Retired
43. Douglas Lee 1914 375 Retired
44. Kory Rudy 1919 375 Alabama A&M
45. Richard Nix 1915 374 Retired
46. Robert Janson 1919 373 Michigan
47. Thomas Lampley 1919 371 Illinois
48. Jospeh Albaugh 1919 369 Kentucky
49. Tad Adams 1916 367 Retired
50. Stephen Wilkey 1914 366 Retired

[Young Drachma]

The first school we're going to AD at is Wyoming. We'll just begin this adventure with one school and then add others as we go along.

Wyoming has had some success in the past, but hasn't made an NCAA tournament in a while. Here's the past results of the program:


WYOMING TEAM PERFORMANCE

Season Team W L CW CL Rank RPI PRS Result
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1918 Wyoming 16 15 9 7 172 201 61 No Postseason
1917 Wyoming 18 13 8 8 73 70 60 Loss in NIT Round 1
1916 Wyoming 20 11 12 4 54 64 62 Loss in NIT Round 2
1915 Wyoming 20 14 8 8 68 77 62 Loss in NIT Round 1
1914 Wyoming 23 13 9 7 53 55 65 NIT 2nd Place
1913 Wyoming 20 12 8 8 48 98 66 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1912 Wyoming 15 16 6 10 121 149 67 No Postseason
1911 Wyoming 23 13 10 6 73 68 72 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1910 Wyoming 23 12 10 6 49 52 70 Loss in NIT Round 2
1909 Wyoming 18 13 9 7 105 108 68 No Postseason
1908 Wyoming 20 15 8 8 60 83 69 Loss in NIT Round 3
1907 Wyoming 21 11 12 4 49 44 73 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1906 Wyoming 27 10 11 5 44 57 73 NIT 3rd Place
1905 Wyoming 20 14 9 7 65 71 73 Loss in NIT Round 2
1904 Wyoming 23 8 11 5 36 65 75 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1903 Wyoming 22 10 10 6 34 43 74 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1902 Wyoming 27 8 12 4 21 23 75 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1901 Wyoming 27 8 11 5 31 34 74 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1900 Wyoming 23 9 11 5 57 75 73 Loss in NIT Round 2
1899 Wyoming 20 12 11 5 75 95 75 Loss in NIT Round 1


Here's the coach we are firing. He's gotten worse each season he's been here.


COACH DETAILS

Jeffrey Hynes - Head Coach - Wyoming
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Age: 55
High School: Alta High School
Hometown: Sandy, UT
Alma Mater: McNeese State

Current Level: 10
Career Record: 244 - 216

Recruiting: 89
Scouting: 41
Offense: 72
Defense: 98


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1918 Wyoming Head Coach 16 15 9 7 No Postseason
1917 Wyoming Head Coach 18 13 8 8 Loss in NIT Round 1
1916 Wyoming Head Coach 20 11 12 4 Loss in NIT Round 2
1915 UTEP Head Coach 12 21 5 9 No Postseason
1914 UTEP Head Coach 21 11 10 4 No Postseason
1913 UTEP Head Coach 21 11 11 3 Loss in NIT Round 1
1912 UTEP Head Coach 14 16 6 8 No Postseason
1911 Harvard Head Coach 17 14 6 8 No Postseason
1910 Harvard Head Coach 14 14 5 9 No Postseason
1909 Harvard Head Coach 17 12 8 6 No Postseason
1908 Harvard Head Coach 17 12 8 6 No Postseason
1907 Ohio State Assistant 32 4 12 2 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1906 Ohio State Assistant 29 8 9 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1905 Hawaii Head Coach 9 20 6 10 No Postseason
1904 Hawaii Head Coach 17 14 7 9 No Postseason
1903 Stanford Assistant 28 8 10 4 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1902 Stanford Assistant 37 2 14 0 NCAA Champion
1901 Stanford Assistant 34 5 12 2 Loss in NCAA Final Four
1900 Oregon Head Coach 17 15 5 9 No Postseason
1899 Oregon Head Coach 14 17 5 13 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1913 Conference Coach of the Year (Conference USA)

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1916 Hired by Wyoming (Head Coach)
1916 Quit job with UTEP to pursue a higher position
1912 Hired by UTEP (Head Coach)
1912 Quit job with Harvard to pursue a higher position
1908 Hired by Harvard (Head Coach)
1908 Quit job with Ohio State to pursue a higher position
1906 Hired by Ohio State (Assistant Coach)
1906 Fired by Hawaii
1904 Hired by Hawaii (Head Coach)
1904 Quit job with Stanford to pursue a higher position
1901 Hired by Stanford (Assistant Coach)
1901 Fired by Oregon
1899 Hired by Oregon (Head Coach)


His most recent recruiting class was 179th in the country and next to last in the entire conference. Time for him go to, I think.

Using the CoachCalc system to figure out how much we can pay a new coach, we're able to pay $2.265 million. Which is a lot more than I anticipated. But Wyoming's prestige is 61 and the conference is a 5 prestige, so it worked out that we ended up getting more from boosters to pay a coach.

With that, we'll start our national search for a replacement.

[lcjjdnh]

Glad you restarted this. Look forward to reading. Seems like a neat idea.

[Young Drachma]

Well given that it's clear I have a bias towards younger coaches on the whole, it's no surprise that I went searching immediately towards the younger coaches I could find.

Our first candidate is the head coach at San Francisco heading into his 3rd season. As an assistant at Syracuse and Missouri, he had a very successful couple of years including two Final Fours.


COACH DETAILS

Cliff Gendron - Head Coach - San Francisco
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Age: 40
High School: Permian High School
Hometown: Odessa, TX
Alma Mater: Arkansas

Current Level: 5
Career Record: 38 - 30

Recruiting: 100
Scouting: 15
Offense: 61
Defense: 24


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1918 San Francisco Head Coach 18 17 6 8 No Postseason
1917 San Francisco Head Coach 20 13 12 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1916 Syracuse Assistant 31 6 13 3 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1915 Syracuse Assistant 29 10 10 6 Loss in NCAA Final Four
1914 Syracuse Assistant 23 12 6 10 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1913 Syracuse Assistant 34 4 14 2 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1912 Syracuse Assistant 28 8 12 4 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1911 Missouri Assistant 31 4 12 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1910 Missouri Assistant 37 3 14 0 Loss in NCAA Final Four
1909 Missouri Assistant 35 6 10 4 NCAA Champion

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1917 Conference Coach of the Year (West Coast Conference)
1917 West Coast Conference Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1917 Hired by San Francisco (Head Coach)
1917 Quit job with Syracuse to pursue a higher position
1912 Hired by Syracuse (Recruiting Coordinator)
1912 Resigned to look for a higher paying position
1909 Hired by Missouri (Recruiting Coordinator)


Best of all, he's only making $412,221 at San Francisco and so, getting him to our squad won't be that difficult financially if we make the offer.

One of the good things about doing this kind of dynasty when the game first starts is there are entirely too many good coaches to start with on the market or available as assistants. In any case, it benefits us.

Our next candidate is currently the 2nd assistant at Arizona. He's got head coaching experience in the past including stints at Iowa and UConn. He's currently helping Arizona on their run of pretty successful years.


COACH DETAILS

Edward Broadus - Lead Scout - Arizona
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Age: 52
High School: Edna Karr High School
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Alma Mater: Charleston

Current Level: 9
Career Record: 301 - 216
Salary: $217,016

Recruiting: 19
Scouting: 100
Offense: 100
Defense: 61

Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1918 Arizona Assistant 28 8 12 2 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1917 Arizona Assistant 22 10 9 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1916 Arizona Assistant 29 9 8 6 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1915 Arizona Assistant 33 4 13 1 Loss in NCAA Championship Game
1914 Iowa Head Coach 12 18 1 13 No Postseason
1913 Iowa Head Coach 14 17 5 9 No Postseason
1912 Iowa Head Coach 12 18 4 10 No Postseason
1911 Connecticut Head Coach 10 22 4 12 No Postseason
1910 Connecticut Head Coach 20 15 8 8 Loss in NIT Round 3
1909 Connecticut Head Coach 22 10 11 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1908 Connecticut Head Coach 23 13 8 8 Loss in NIT Round 3
1907 Connecticut Head Coach 25 8 12 4 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1906 Connecticut Head Coach 26 7 12 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1905 Bradley Head Coach 15 15 11 7 No Postseason
1904 Bradley Head Coach 14 18 8 10 No Postseason
1903 Bradley Head Coach 20 13 11 7 Loss in NIT Round 1
1902 Bradley Head Coach 15 16 8 10 No Postseason
1901 Rider Head Coach 25 7 15 3 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1900 Rider Head Coach 26 9 14 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1899 Rider Head Coach 22 10 14 4 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1907 Conference Coach of the Year (Big East Conference)
1901 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champion
1900 Conference Coach of the Year (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
1900 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1915 Hired by Arizona (Lead Scout)
1915 Fired by Iowa
1912 Hired by Iowa (Head Coach)
1912 Fired by Connecticut
1906 Hired by Connecticut (Head Coach)
1906 Quit job with Bradley to pursue a higher position
1902 Hired by Bradley (Head Coach)
1902 Quit job with Rider to pursue a higher position
1899 Hired by Rider (Head Coach)


My third and final candidate is another assistant coach. Least amount of head coaching experience of the three, but is currently an assistant at LSU, which is a powerhouse program.


COACH DETAILS

Darnell James - Recruiting Coordinator - Louisiana State
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Age: 51
High School: Pennridge High School
Hometown: Perkasie, PA
Alma Mater: Alabama A&M

Current Level: 6
Career Record: 61 - 65
Salary: $180,400

Recruiting: 100
Scouting: 12
Offense: 100
Defense: 8

Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1918 Louisiana State Assistant 32 5 11 3 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1917 Louisiana State Assistant 28 8 10 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1909 Alabama Assistant 10 21 1 13 No Postseason
1908 Alabama Assistant 15 16 6 8 No Postseason
1906 Cincinnati Assistant 32 4 15 1 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1904 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 11 20 3 7 No Postseason
1903 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 14 18 4 6 No Postseason
1902 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 15 14 6 4 No Postseason
1901 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 21 13 8 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1900 Mississippi Assistant 34 3 14 0 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1899 Mississippi Assistant 31 5 15 1 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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No awards won.

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1917 Hired by Louisiana State (Recruiting Coordinator)
1910 Staff fired by Alabama
1908 Hired by Alabama (Recruiting Coordinator)
1907 Fired by Cincinnati
1906 Hired by Cincinnati (Recruiting Coordinator)
1905 Fired by Louisiana-Monroe
1901 Hired by Louisiana-Monroe (Head Coach)
1901 Quit job with Mississippi to pursue a higher position
1899 Hired by Mississippi (Recruiting Coordinator)


Three very good candidates in my opinion, each with their own strengths and advantages. Now to make a decision...

[Young Drachma]

Glad you restarted this. Look forward to reading. Seems like a neat idea.

Thank you for checking it out!

Too bad you can't hire away assistants in the game to be assistants. That said, each of these guys comes with their own set of advantages and disadvantages.

Cliff Gendron (USF): I love that he's only 40. Of course, it might mean he'd leave for a higher paying job once the team was successful and that's problematic. Also, he doesn't have an extensive head coaching body of work. Still, love that he's got the aptitude to recruit. Probably have to say that with him, it'd be about upside and letting him grow into the job.

Darnell James (LSU): I love that this guy would be able to recruit and run an offense, as it's the style I prefer to see. Also, LSU is a powerhouse program and the fact that I can pry him from a staff like that would be great with the boosters. Problems? Well, mostly that he's thin on head coaching experience and he's woefully weak in the other areas.

Edward Broadus (Arizona): He was very, very good at UConn and pretty woeful at Iowa. I don't really know what to make of that. Still, in terms of resume he's the most accomplished guy of our three. I like that he's close in age to James, so it's not like we're going after a guy who is in his 60s or something, with an eye on retiring. My real issue with him is whether his stint with us would be more like his Big East days or if he'll struggle to adapt to the Mountain West.

Any of these three would be good, I think. But we can only pick one. I try not to let ratings factor into the decision making too much, rather letting their resume and other intangibles factor in. For me, the ratings are like their interview. But remember that Gendron is only 40 and can still develop considerably and that Broadus' advantage is a long history on the sideline.

I could make a case for any of them, but...I need to think about it for a minute and then decide on who will lead our program going forward.

[Young Drachma]

It was a tough decision, but in the end, Wyoming has hired Arizona assistant Edward Broadus as their new head coach. The 1907 Big East Coach of the Year has won over 300 games as a head coach and has spent the past four years as an assistant under Edward Cantor who's 427 wins are Top-25 all time in D1 college basketball.

He's assembled a staff that includes two former D1 head coaches in former Marshall HC Rory Ramsdell and former Akron HC Gerald Weaver. With this new regime in place, big things are expected in Laramie this season and into the future.

[Young Drachma]

1919-20 SEASON RESULTS

Here's how Coach Broadus' first season went down. No postseason, but the MWC had an especially down year. The lone postseason representative was conference tournament champ Nevada who earned an 11-seed in the NCAAs. The Pokes made the semis of the conference tournament before falling short.


WYOMING COWBOYS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 61 Record Vs 1-50: 0-1 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 19-14 Record Vs 51-100: 1-3 RPI Rank: #164
Conference Record: 9-7 Record Vs 101-200: 8-4
Home Record: 11-4 Record Vs 200+: 10-6


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 70.2 2 63 Points 66.4 5 213 Points 3.7 2 78
O.Reb 12.2 2 71 O.Reb 12.3 7 296 O.Reb -0.1 6 178
D.Reb 26.7 1 10 D.Reb 22.2 2 78 D.Reb 4.4 1 8
Rebounds 38.8 1 15 Rebounds 34.5 4 173 Rebounds 4.3 1 34
Assists 16.9 2 37 Assists 13.5 2 115 Assists 3.4 1 35
Steals 3.9 9 326 Steals 6.7 7 326 Steals -2.7 9 351
Blocks 3.8 5 83 Blocks 2.5 2 73 Blocks 1.2 2 56
Turnovers 14.9 7 275 Turnovers 12.3 7 306 Turnovers 2.6 8 312
Fouls 18.7 6 160 Fouls 19.1 5 151 Fouls -0.5 6 143
FG% .479 2 41 FG% .436 1 44 FG% .043 1 29
FT% .701 2 91 FT% .656 1 66 FT% .044 1 42
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.20 2 65 PPS 1.09 1 29 PPS .119 1 28
Adj. FG% .479 2 41 Adj. FG% .436 1 44 Adj. FG% .043 1 29



1919-20 FINAL FOUR
1 Missouri v. 5 Kansas (65-64)
3 Cincinnati v. 3 Charlotte (86-76)

Missouri 74, Cincinnati 57

[Young Drachma]

Heading into Year 2 with Wyoming and I think I'm just going to do one school at at a time. Might be easier to read and a lot easier to manage.

16-14 this year. Again lost in the MWC semis, this time to Boise State. San Diego State (17-18 won the conference tournament and the MWC autobid.)

1920-21 SEASON

WYOMING COWBOYS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 62 Record Vs 1-50: 2-3 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 16-14 Record Vs 51-100: 6-4 RPI Rank: #152
Conference Record: 7-9 Record Vs 101-200: 2-5
Home Record: 11-4 Record Vs 200+: 6-2


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 64.0 8 204 Points 67.1 5 238 Points -3.1 9 248
O.Reb 12.0 5 79 O.Reb 11.2 5 203 O.Reb 0.9 5 120
D.Reb 25.1 3 67 D.Reb 22.2 2 79 D.Reb 2.9 1 28
Rebounds 37.1 4 54 Rebounds 33.4 2 111 Rebounds 3.8 1 48
Assists 17.7 2 28 Assists 14.2 3 224 Assists 3.5 1 26
Steals 3.6 9 343 Steals 6.9 9 352 Steals -3.2 9 357
Blocks 2.8 7 176 Blocks 3.4 6 256 Blocks -0.6 6 225
Turnovers 15.5 9 317 Turnovers 11.4 9 342 Turnovers 4.1 9 349
Fouls 19.0 4 198 Fouls 16.8 9 338 Fouls 2.2 8 327
FG% .468 6 79 FG% .454 4 157 FG% .014 4 99
FT% .641 8 316 FT% .685 9 229 FT% -.045 9 328
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.13 6 242 PPS 1.14 4 119 PPS -.004 4 181
Adj. FG% .468 6 79 Adj. FG% .454 4 157 Adj. FG% .014 4 99



I'm not sure the problem here is solely one of coaching, but perhaps the lack of a recruiting base. Still, we're getting anxious. He'll get at least two more years though to ply his trade.

1920-21 FINAL FOUR
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4 Maryland v. 1 Virginia (91-67)
1 Marquette v. 2 Syracuse (68-55)

Marquette v. Maryland (53-71)

[Young Drachma]

FYI: If a coach is fired before we can fire him ourselves, it means we've been fired as AD and the next job I take has to be at a lower prestige school in a lower prestige conference than the one I just worked in, unless I'm already at level 1.

Well how about THIS for a breakthrough?! The Pokes started off this year 13-3 and ranked in the Top 25. The ended January ranked #21 in the poll with a record of 17-4. Three other MWC teams were ranked at that time including Nevada (#7) rival Colorado State (#17) and Air Force (#23).

One would think that this would ensure the end of the Pokes five-year postseason drought, right? The team ended February 19-9 and out of the Top 25, but...still, what an improvement.

The team was blown out in the MWC semis, 91-55 to rival CSU, who will face #2 seed Nevada to determine who gets the auto bid.

1921-22 SEASON
(YEAR 3 AT WYOMING)


WYOMING COWBOYS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 60 Record Vs 1-50: 4-8 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 22-10 Record Vs 51-100: 1-1 RPI Rank: #48
Conference Record: 8-8 Record Vs 101-200: 9-1
Home Record: 12-3 Record Vs 200+: 8-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 69.3 2 79 Points 66.3 6 209 Points 3.1 5 96
O.Reb 13.5 1 24 O.Reb 10.1 4 86 O.Reb 3.4 2 25
D.Reb 25.6 1 53 D.Reb 21.7 2 28 D.Reb 3.9 1 3
Rebounds 39.1 1 20 Rebounds 31.8 3 36 Rebounds 7.3 1 5
Assists 15.1 3 93 Assists 13.7 3 137 Assists 1.5 3 81
Steals 5.4 8 169 Steals 6.2 5 292 Steals -0.7 9 239
Blocks 2.9 7 169 Blocks 3.5 5 273 Blocks -0.6 7 224
Turnovers 15.0 8 295 Turnovers 12.9 9 243 Turnovers 2.1 9 306
Fouls 19.4 6 241 Fouls 20.4 1 32 Fouls -1.0 2 100
FG% .460 6 117 FG% .452 4 157 FG% .008 5 128
FT% .703 2 82 FT% .678 5 183 FT% .025 2 97
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.20 3 56 PPS 1.16 4 170 PPS .049 3 94
Adj. FG% .460 6 117 Adj. FG% .452 4 157 Adj. FG% .008 5 128

[Young Drachma]

Here's the schedule from the 1921-22 season.


WYOMING COWBOYS Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/13/21 at Loyola (IL) 13-17 291 W 87-70 1-0
11/21/21 Utah Valley 18-13 153 W 70-57 2-0
11/27/21 Denver 14-16 126 W 78-63 3-0
12/02/21 Colorado 6-23 240 W 86-53 4-0
12/05/21 vs. Alabama A&M 13-19 310 W 77-72 5-0
12/06/21 vs. Duquesne 15-16 167 W 58-49 6-0
12/08/21 vs. DePaul 23-10 24 L 76-67 6-1
12/13/21 at Utah 12-19 188 W 72-69 7-1
12/16/21 Northern Arizona 17-13 234 W 90-83 8-1
12/18/21 at Arizona State 20-13 37 W 70-58 9-1
12/20/21 Brigham Young 8-21 338 W 76-54 10-1
12/28/21 Idaho State 8-22 325 W 85-67 11-1
12/30/21 Montana 13-19 257 W 65-58 12-1
01/03/22 #9 Colorado State 26-6 11 W 64-59 13-1 (1-0)
01/07/22 at San Diego State 15-14 47 L 73-43 13-2 (1-1)
01/10/22 at Air Force 21-10 29 L 55-39 13-3 (1-2)
01/14/22 #14 Nevada 25-6 12 L 72-65 13-4 (1-3)
01/17/22 at UNLV 14-18 130 W 81-67 14-4 (2-3)
01/21/22 Fresno State 17-15 62 W 82-79 15-4 (3-3)
01/26/22 at North Dakota State 9-21 318 W 87-77 16-4
01/28/22 at New Mexico 13-19 150 W 76-68 17-4 (4-3)
02/01/22 Boise State 14-17 145 W 56-53 18-4 (5-3)
02/04/22 at #9 Colorado State 26-6 11 L 72-60 18-5 (5-4)
02/08/22 San Diego State 15-14 47 W 62-50 19-5 (6-4)
02/11/22 Air Force 21-10 29 L 67-57 19-6 (6-5)
02/14/22 at #14 Nevada 25-6 12 L 87-62 19-7 (6-6)
02/18/22 UNLV 14-18 130 L 81-72 19-8 (6-7)
02/22/22 at Fresno State 17-15 62 L 71-65 19-9 (6-8)
02/28/22 New Mexico 13-19 150 W 76-65 20-9 (7-8)
03/04/22 at Boise State 14-17 145 W 71-46 21-9 (8-8)
03/09/22 vs. San Diego State 15-14 47 W 64-58 22-9
03/10/22 vs. #9 Colorado State 26-6 11 L 91-55 22-10


Bubble Watch has the MWC as a three-bid league with Nevada, Air Force and CSU all locks.


OVERALL BUBBLE WATCH

Team Record RPI vs. 1-50 vs. 51-100 vs. 101-200 vs. 200+ SOS Projected
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Arizona 19-12 .583 (36) 4-7 8-4 5-1 2-0 5 In
UNC Wilmington 26-6 .584 (35) 2-2 6-2 7-2 11-0 156 In
Kansas 20-11 .555 (63) 4-7 7-3 3-1 6-0 83 In
Nebraska 21-12 .607 (21) 4-4 6-3 9-3 2-1 17 In
Illinois 22-10 .588 (31) 4-5 6-0 8-3 4-1 64 In
Miami 21-11 .606 (22) 2-8 9-1 5-0 4-2 4 In
DePaul 23-10 .602 (24) 5-7 3-1 7-2 7-0 23 In
Texas Christian 20-12 .569 (46) 5-7 2-3 6-2 7-0 39 In
Mississippi State 22-9 .580 (38) 4-3 6-5 4-1 7-0 77 Out
Wyoming 22-10 .569 (48) 4-7 1-1 9-1 8-0 111 Out
Florida 19-12 .584 (34) 2-5 7-3 5-3 5-0 30 Out
Wake Forest 22-10 .570 (44) 4-5 3-3 6-1 8-1 60 Out
Connecticut 20-11 .573 (42) 5-6 4-1 5-4 6-0 51 Out
Virginia Tech 20-11 .566 (54) 2-10 3-0 4-1 11-0 59 Out
Washington State 20-11 .566 (53) 5-4 5-3 3-3 7-0 74 Out


I'm inclined to believe that a SOS of 111 is going to be the death knell in our chances of making the NCAAs however. It might be catalyst for me expanding the tournament next year. Mostly because some pretty bad conference champs are taking up valuable spots and having four more at-large bids would be useful even if we don't benefit.

In any case, I'll report back and let you know how it all flops out.

[Young Drachma]

Holy shit we got in. #9 seed in the Midwest Region. We'll be playing #8 Kansas (20-11) with the winner facing off against the winner of #1 Marquette (28-5) and #16 Gardner-Webb (14-17).

Pretty pumped. Totally though we'd be on the outside looking in!

[Young Drachma]

Oh well. I don't know that this ought to be all that surprising.


Kansas 67, Wyoming 50

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Andrew Peters C 36 0-5 7-9 1 3 1 4 7
Augustus Brophy PF 33 3-7 2-2 3 11 2 3 8
Brian Torres SF 32 4-13 2-2 2 5 1 4 10
Arnold Barta SG 35 1-8 1-2 0 8 3 1 3
Luciano Merino PG 34 5-15 5-6 0 1 0 1 15
Joe Tomblin PG 8 1-4 0-0 1 4 1 0 2
Shawn Daigle SF 10 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 1 2
Ben Alvey PF 6 0-1 0-0 2 2 0 0 0
Devon Hickox PF 5 1-1 1-1 0 0 0 1 3

Turnovers: 10 (A.Peters 1, A.Brophy 2, B.Torres 1,
A.Barta 1, L.Merino 3, S.Daigle 1, B.Alvey 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (B.Alvey 1)
Steals: 2 (L.Merino 1, S.Daigle 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Kansas Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
H. Huddleston C 24 1-5 2-2 2 11 1 2 4
Hugh Sthilaire PF 23 3-7 0-1 1 6 2 5 6
Jessie Shipley SF 35 6-12 2-6 0 3 1 3 14
Ben Sells PG 35 9-15 0-0 3 3 2 3 18
Domenic Finger PG 36 5-8 2-3 0 4 5 2 12
Joaquin Dittman SG 10 2-5 0-0 1 1 0 2 4
Anacleto Soler SG 2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Gregory Hopkins PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Carlos Parmer C 24 3-6 1-1 0 7 4 2 7
Ed Piercy PF 8 1-1 0-0 1 5 2 0 2
Lowell Pittman C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 0

Turnovers: 8 (H.Huddleston 1, J.Shipley 3, B.Sells 1,
J.Dittman 1, C.Parmer 2)
Blocked Shots: 4 (H.Huddleston 1, H.Sthilaire 1,
J.Shipley 1, D.Finger 1)
Steals: 3 (J.Shipley 1, D.Finger 1, J.Dittman 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: PG Domenic Finger (KAN)

[Young Drachma]

1921-22 FINAL FOUR
4 Nevada v. 4 Syracuse (70-90)
2 Texas A&M v. 2 Alabama (70-60)

Syracuse 75, Texas A&M 61

Now that we have another season in the books, I think we'll give it one more year in Wyoming before deciding what's next in the AD world. That was Wyoming's first NCAA appearance since 1913 though, so...not a bad year at all.

Last year's recruiting class was #85, but for once it was middle of the pack in the league rather than rock bottom.

[Young Drachma]

Welp, it was not to be this season. 16-16 and we regress back to the earth. What to do now? Stick it out another year? Find a less competitive school? I'm not exactly sure yet.

1922-23 SEASON
Wyoming Cowboys (4th season)


WYOMING COWBOYS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 63 Record Vs 1-50: 4-10 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 16-16 Record Vs 51-100: 0-0 RPI Rank: #117
Conference Record: 4-12 Record Vs 101-200: 5-4
Home Record: 9-7 Record Vs 200+: 7-2


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 63.3 6 247 Points 64.9 6 144 Points -1.7 6 203
O.Reb 11.3 5 159 O.Reb 10.4 3 135 O.Reb 0.9 6 123
D.Reb 22.9 8 254 D.Reb 24.2 7 192 D.Reb -1.3 9 260
Rebounds 34.3 6 219 Rebounds 34.6 6 154 Rebounds -0.3 8 199
Assists 13.7 5 179 Assists 13.6 6 123 Assists 0.1 5 145
Steals 5.9 6 134 Steals 4.9 1 60 Steals 0.9 4 84
Blocks 2.6 9 187 Blocks 3.9 5 333 Blocks -1.3 9 296
Turnovers 12.8 4 70 Turnovers 13.8 6 166 Turnovers -1.0 6 108
Fouls 19.1 8 188 Fouls 18.5 7 242 Fouls 0.6 6 227
FG% .440 6 282 FG% .462 9 222 FG% -.022 8 280
FT% .701 3 73 FT% .683 4 227 FT% .018 3 106
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.11 8 304 PPS 1.19 8 247 PPS -.085 8 309
Adj. FG% .440 6 282 Adj. FG% .462 9 222 Adj. FG% -.022 8 280



1922-23 FINAL FOUR
5 Virginia def. 1 Air Force 76-75
2 NC State def. Baylor 83-77

Virginia def. NC State 91-89

[Young Drachma]

I decided to share the spreadsheet I use to calculate coach salaries in case it'd be of interest to you. It's just an Excel spreadsheet that you can use in Excel, OpenOffice Calc and probably Google Spreadsheets too.

I just realized that all you have to do is go to the A.D. tab and get the total budget number there. If you do that, then you don't have to bother putting in the assistant salaries at all and it'll have the same effect.

[Young Drachma]

After four years at the helm at the University of Wyoming, athletic director D.C. Morris is taking on a new challenge. This time at Pac-12 cellar dweller Colorado.

"This is a task I don't take lightly," said the AD who in four years at Wyoming was responsible for helping the school's athletic program reach new heights including their first NCAA appearance in basketball in eight years, two bowl games and fundraising nearly $25 million to start an NCAA men's and women's hockey program at the school.

His task at Colorado will be to help the school's men's basketball program, who have a lone NIT appearance to their postseason credit in school history. Current head coach Rex Carroll has spent just one season in Boulder and is rumored to be on the chopping block with the new regime heading into town.

"We haven't made any decisions about anything yet. It's my first day on the job. We're just going to take a look at things, assess them and figure out the best way to move Buffaloes athletics forward," said the new AD.


COACH DETAILS

Rex Carroll - Head Coach - Colorado
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Age: 57
High School: West High School
Hometown: West Seneca, NY
Alma Mater: Harvard

Current Level: 5
Career Record: 275 - 422

Recruiting: 67
Scouting: 45
Offense: 22
Defense: 66


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1922 Colorado Head Coach 8 22 4 10 No Postseason
1920 Miami Head Coach 17 14 5 6 No Postseason
1919 Miami Head Coach 11 20 3 8 No Postseason
1918 Miami Head Coach 11 20 0 11 No Postseason
1917 Northern Iowa Head Coach 17 16 9 9 No Postseason
1916 Northern Iowa Head Coach 16 15 10 8 No Postseason
1915 Northern Iowa Head Coach 15 17 11 7 No Postseason
1914 Northern Iowa Head Coach 14 18 9 9 No Postseason
1913 Oakland Head Coach 19 12 11 3 No Postseason
1912 Oakland Head Coach 18 14 8 6 No Postseason
1911 Oakland Head Coach 14 18 7 7 No Postseason
1910 Oakland Head Coach 12 19 5 9 No Postseason
1909 Oakland Head Coach 12 18 7 7 No Postseason
1908 Oakland Head Coach 11 19 4 10 No Postseason
1907 Oakland Head Coach 6 23 3 11 No Postseason
1906 Oakland Head Coach 13 17 6 8 No Postseason
1905 Oakland Head Coach 6 23 3 11 No Postseason
1904 Oakland Head Coach 5 24 1 13 No Postseason
1903 Oakland Head Coach 11 18 5 9 No Postseason
1902 Oakland Head Coach 10 18 4 10 No Postseason
1901 Oakland Head Coach 14 15 8 6 No Postseason
1900 Oakland Head Coach 9 19 3 11 No Postseason
1899 Oakland Head Coach 6 23 4 14 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1913 Conference Coach of the Year (Summit League)

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1922 Hired by Colorado (Head Coach)
1921 Fired by Miami
1918 Hired by Miami (Head Coach)
1918 Quit job with Northern Iowa to pursue a higher position
1914 Hired by Northern Iowa (Head Coach)
1914 Quit job with Oakland to pursue a higher position
1899 Hired by Oakland (Head Coach)

[Young Drachma]

Colorado is a 51 prestige program in a 5 prestige conference. Since I wasn't fired, but the team didn't demonstrably improve, I couldn't sell taking over a more prestigious program. But since I managed to stay for four years, I could stay at the same prestige level conference wise, which is important because if we're fired, then I have to start from a lower level. There were jobs with more success possibly at lower levels with open head coach jobs waiting for me to come in and make the hire, but...too much risk to go down to a 3-level conference and not make it work because then we'd have to go lower.

I think making the tournament in Year 3 at Wyoming is what we'd call a success. Not sure what this year will look like there, but we'll obviously monitor it and see how Coach Broadus does for the rest of his duration at Wyoming since he was our hire.

I hate to fire this guy after just one year in Colorado. They did improve relative to the year before (6-23 in '21, 8-22 in '22) but I'm just not sure if I can justify keeping him around either.

Plus, I already know who I'd like to hire. So we're going to fire this guy after one year. Hope I end up being right on this move, though.

[Young Drachma]

Remember my finalist search from last time? Well, I'm not even dipping into the well to go out and search because I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Cliff Gendron is now at George Mason. Even if I wanted to hire him, I couldn't because they are a 70 prestige program and that's higher than us.

I won't be stealing Wyoming's coach either, even if I could (I can't...same reason) and so...that leaves the 3rd guy in our search, Darnell James.


COACH DETAILS

Darnell James - Head Coach - Ohio
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Age: 55
High School: Pennridge High School
Hometown: Perkasie, PA
Alma Mater: Alabama A&M

Current Level: 7
Career Record: 98 - 91

Recruiting: 100
Scouting: 23
Offense: 100
Defense: 17


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1922 Ohio Head Coach 18 13 6 8 No Postseason
1921 Ohio Head Coach 19 13 8 6 No Postseason
1920 Louisiana State Assistant 18 14 5 9 No Postseason
1919 Louisiana State Assistant 29 8 9 5 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1918 Louisiana State Assistant 32 5 11 3 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1917 Louisiana State Assistant 28 8 10 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1909 Alabama Assistant 10 21 1 13 No Postseason
1908 Alabama Assistant 15 16 6 8 No Postseason
1906 Cincinnati Assistant 32 4 15 1 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1904 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 11 20 3 7 No Postseason
1903 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 14 18 4 6 No Postseason
1902 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 15 14 6 4 No Postseason
1901 Louisiana-Monroe Head Coach 21 13 8 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1900 Mississippi Assistant 34 3 14 0 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1899 Mississippi Assistant 31 5 15 1 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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No awards won.

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1921 Hired by Ohio (Head Coach)
1921 Quit job with Louisiana State to pursue a higher position
1917 Hired by Louisiana State (Recruiting Coordinator)
1910 Staff fired by Alabama
1908 Hired by Alabama (Recruiting Coordinator)
1907 Fired by Cincinnati
1906 Hired by Cincinnati (Recruiting Coordinator)
1905 Fired by Louisiana-Monroe
1901 Hired by Louisiana-Monroe (Head Coach)
1901 Quit job with Mississippi to pursue a higher position
1899 Hired by Mississippi (Recruiting Coordinator)



After his success at LSU, he earned the head job at Ohio University. He's doing well there despite the fact that they're in the MAC. Best of all, with a 33 prestige in a 2-star league, he's only making $340,812. We can pay him over $2.5 million at CU, should he make the move.

Alas, we're going to hire Coach James and see if he can turn things around at Colorado.

[Young Drachma]

First off, I should mention that Wyoming fired Edward Broadus just after I left. He's now the HC at Virginia Tech. I guess it's probably good I got out of there when I did.

1923-24 SEASON
First year at Colorado. Let's see how it went down.

Coach James has a difficult task ahead of him trying to right the ship at a program that's never had sustained success. So our expectations for Year One are not that high. We just want to get through the season.


COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 51 Record Vs 1-50: 2-6 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 8-23 Record Vs 51-100: 0-7 RPI Rank: #304
Conference Record: 4-10 Record Vs 101-200: 2-5
Home Record: 4-10 Record Vs 200+: 4-5


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 53.4 11 357 Points 61.5 3 55 Points -8.1 12 339
O.Reb 8.9 11 332 O.Reb 10.6 10 144 O.Reb -1.8 12 289
D.Reb 23.6 9 189 D.Reb 22.9 2 117 D.Reb 0.7 5 122
Rebounds 32.5 10 294 Rebounds 33.6 5 119 Rebounds -1.1 9 225
Assists 11.1 12 340 Assists 13.7 3 142 Assists -2.6 12 328
Steals 5.2 6 213 Steals 6.6 11 330 Steals -1.4 10 302
Blocks 2.5 10 207 Blocks 3.1 4 207 Blocks -0.5 10 217
Turnovers 16.6 12 353 Turnovers 12.4 12 313 Turnovers 4.2 12 352
Fouls 16.5 3 15 Fouls 17.4 11 322 Fouls -0.9 5 107
FG% .432 12 328 FG% .456 7 161 FG% -.024 11 285
FT% .644 11 299 FT% .650 1 33 FT% -.006 5 203
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.09 11 335 PPS 1.09 4 39 PPS -.009 7 187
Adj. FG% .432 12 328 Adj. FG% .456 7 161 Adj. FG% -.024 11 285



Eight wins matches last season's total. We'll need a few years to really get a sense of how this is going to here, I believe. So onward to next season.

FINAL FOUR
1 Syracuse def. 4 Louisville (74-67)
2 Virginia def. 7 Wake Forest (69-59)

Virginia def. Syracuse (81-77)

[Young Drachma]

I screwed up and simmed past 1924-25 before I could give you an account of it. But our record was 12-18 (7-7 in the Pac-12).

1925-26 SEASON

We danced around .500 all year and naturally wanted the club to finish the year on a higher note, as the school's last winning season came seven years ago. But it wasn't to be. Still, a two win improvement over last year shows progress.


COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 53 Record Vs 1-50: 2-6 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 14-16 Record Vs 51-100: 2-6 RPI Rank: #168
Conference Record: 6-8 Record Vs 101-200: 5-0
Home Record: 10-5 Record Vs 200+: 5-4


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 64.3 9 199 Points 63.4 7 105 Points 0.9 9 135
O.Reb 10.6 8 210 O.Reb 10.1 5 85 O.Reb 0.5 7 147
D.Reb 24.2 6 133 D.Reb 21.5 2 33 D.Reb 2.7 2 26
Rebounds 34.8 8 171 Rebounds 31.7 2 40 Rebounds 3.2 2 54
Assists 12.8 10 255 Assists 13.8 8 150 Assists -1.0 10 235
Steals 5.1 11 223 Steals 5.5 6 164 Steals -0.4 9 209
Blocks 2.4 12 226 Blocks 2.8 1 126 Blocks -0.4 9 193
Turnovers 14.1 9 202 Turnovers 11.8 12 342 Turnovers 2.3 12 318
Fouls 15.9 2 6 Fouls 19.8 2 66 Fouls -3.9 1 6
FG% .462 5 131 FG% .455 9 159 FG% .006 7 132
FT% .731 1 22 FT% .682 5 210 FT% .049 1 33
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.21 1 62 PPS 1.10 6 62 PPS .104 3 37
Adj. FG% .462 5 131 Adj. FG% .455 9 159 Adj. FG% .006 7 132

[Young Drachma]

It's our 5th season and we're 10-18 at the end of February. I'm really disappointed. But we're going to give Coach James one more season. For what it's worth, I still haven't turned on the 3 point shot yet and the tournment remains at 64 teams.

As expected, we lose in the first round of the Pac-10 tournament and end the year 11-20.

Sigh.

Like I said, he gets one more year. But we're firing his entire staff as a sacrifice. They're just not getting it done. Or maybe you can tell me what you think as a faux fan...keep him or dump him? No real pressure on my job here at Colorado, yet. They've been bad forever. This isn't new to them.


COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 55 Record Vs 1-50: 2-7 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 11-20 Record Vs 51-100: 2-8 RPI Rank: #198
Conference Record: 4-10 Record Vs 101-200: 2-3
Home Record: 7-7 Record Vs 200+: 5-2


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 60.9 11 269 Points 70.3 12 327 Points -9.4 12 350
O.Reb 10.0 11 261 O.Reb 12.6 12 308 O.Reb -2.6 12 320
D.Reb 23.0 10 241 D.Reb 22.4 5 72 D.Reb 0.6 8 128
Rebounds 33.0 11 271 Rebounds 35.0 10 199 Rebounds -2.0 12 266
Assists 12.5 10 252 Assists 15.6 12 344 Assists -3.1 11 347
Steals 5.0 10 213 Steals 6.8 11 347 Steals -1.8 11 325
Blocks 2.6 11 212 Blocks 2.9 3 133 Blocks -0.3 7 179
Turnovers 16.2 12 341 Turnovers 11.1 12 355 Turnovers 5.1 12 357
Fouls 17.7 4 74 Fouls 18.3 6 246 Fouls -0.5 6 129
FG% .459 9 126 FG% .474 10 314 FG% -.015 11 244
FT% .676 9 189 FT% .691 5 259 FT% -.015 10 236
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.16 8 152 PPS 1.18 10 237 PPS -.024 10 215
Adj. FG% .459 9 126 Adj. FG% .474 10 314 Adj. FG% -.015 11 244




Here's this year's schedule


COLORADO BUFFALOES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/07/26 vs. Memphis 15-18 79 L 63-48 0-1
11/08/26 vs. Illinois-Chicago 8-24 224 L 70-50 0-2
11/14/26 vs. Jacksonville State 12-20 274 W 71-61 1-2
11/21/26 at Fresno State 20-13 91 L 67-36 1-3
11/26/26 at Oral Roberts 11-18 278 W 82-72 2-3
11/28/26 at UC Riverside 21-12 166 L 91-54 2-4
12/05/26 at Oklahoma 16-15 92 L 64-42 2-5
12/13/26 Boise State 11-20 129 W 59-54 3-5
12/20/26 Brigham Young 17-15 131 L 70-57 3-6
12/22/26 at New Mexico 13-19 193 L 73-57 3-7
12/24/26 Kansas State 7-23 283 W 83-73 4-7
12/26/26 at Colorado State 18-14 87 L 74-59 4-8
12/28/26 Wyoming 19-14 82 W 73-68 5-8
01/08/27 Denver 13-18 209 W 68-59 6-8
01/10/27 Idaho State 10-24 322 W 75-72 7-8
01/14/27 Montana State 7-23 352 L 60-47 7-9
01/20/27 Arizona 18-13 52 L 75-64 7-10 (0-1)
01/22/27 at #21 Washington State 26-9 24 L 77-72 7-11 (0-2)
01/27/27 #21 Washington State 26-9 24 W 75-67 8-11 (1-2)
01/29/27 at #23 California 24-10 14 L 85-72 8-12 (1-3)
02/03/27 at Oregon State 17-14 77 L 62-48 8-13 (1-4)
02/05/27 at Arizona 18-13 52 W 72-67 9-13 (2-4)
02/10/27 Washington 10-18 124 W 88-81 10-13 (3-4)
02/12/27 #4 Stanford 32-3 3 L 71-51 10-14 (3-5)
02/17/27 Oregon 21-12 85 L 54-46 10-15 (3-6)
02/19/27 at Arizona State 16-16 62 L 75-64 10-16 (3-7)
02/24/27 #23 California 24-10 14 L 91-55 10-17 (3-8)
02/26/27 Utah 23-11 15 L 74-54 10-18 (3-9)
03/03/27 at UCLA 20-16 39 W 79-70 11-18 (4-9)
03/05/27 at #16 Southern California 27-8 9 L 75-43 11-19 (4-10)
03/09/27 vs. #23 California 24-10 14 L 65-45 11-20

[chesapeake]

5 seasons and no winning records? It is hard to justify keeping him.

[Marmel]

How is his recruiting? Does he have a big class or two that are going to be upper-classmen in the next year or two? If so, I'd keep him and see how that pans out.

[Young Drachma]

1926-27 FINAL FOUR
1 Stanford def. 1 Virginia 64-58
3 Georgetown def. 1 Nevada 71-64

3 Georgetown 83 def. 1 Stanford 75


How is his recruiting? Does he have a big class or two that are going to be upper-classmen in the next year or two? If so, I'd keep him and see how that pans out.

He's been a pretty big recruiting bust. This year was easily his best year in the five years he's been with us, he picked up a 4-star kid for the first time ever, but the classes have been quite small each year, usually no more than two kids.


1926: 50th
1925: 180th
1924: 137th
1923: 161st


I'd be tempted to give him a 6th year if he fired all of his assistants. But it might be worthwhile to clean the whole cupboard and start over again, as he's not getting younger and clearly they're all failing to get it done.

[Young Drachma]

I did the next best thing. I asked him to resign. He's now the head coach at Nebraska-Omaha, an open job with a lower prestige/conference program that's actually had more success than us lately. (Made the Sweet 16 last year) Their coach retired and the AD was the same guy from LSU that he knew. So it worked out and he's out of our hair now.

Now that he's gone, we've got to get out there and see what we can find to replace him, of course. We have about $2.65 million to pay a coach, which is solid enough to entice a mid-major to move up. I'm not going to focus on guys who are assistants in this search. Too much risk. I'm going straight for head coaches, hopefully who've had success and are looking to move up.

That said, there aren't exactly a ton of those kinds of programs out there -- I've found barely any, in fact -- so I might be forced to dip into the "assistant coach with success" well again.

In any case, here are our candidates.

Joe Peebles is the head coach at Memphis. Had a great run at Bradley some years back, so I knew who he was anyway. Not exactly tearing up the airwaves at Memphis, but he seems like a solid coach and we can afford him. ($1.9 million)


COACH DETAILS

Joe Peebles - Head Coach - Memphis
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Age: 51
High School: Bucksport High School
Hometown: Bucksport, ME
Alma Mater: Citadel

Current Level: 6
Career Record: 178 - 145

Recruiting: 25
Scouting: 13
Offense: 82
Defense: 100


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1926 Memphis Head Coach 15 18 8 6 No Postseason
1925 Memphis Head Coach 17 15 7 7 No Postseason
1924 Butler Head Coach 21 11 13 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1923 Butler Head Coach 22 11 14 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1922 Butler Head Coach 19 14 12 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1921 Butler Head Coach 24 10 15 3 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1920 Louisville Assistant 20 13 9 7 Loss in NIT Round 3
1919 Louisville Assistant 25 8 11 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1918 Louisville Assistant 21 12 8 8 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1917 Louisville Assistant 13 18 6 10 No Postseason
1916 Oklahoma Assistant 25 10 8 6 Loss in NCAA Elite Eight
1915 Kennesaw State Head Coach 13 17 4 6 No Postseason
1914 Kennesaw State Head Coach 12 17 4 6 No Postseason
1913 Kennesaw State Head Coach 22 13 9 1 Loss in NIT Round 2
1912 Kennesaw State Head Coach 13 19 4 6 No Postseason
1911 San Francisco Assistant 23 11 10 4 NIT 4th Place
1910 San Francisco Assistant 17 14 9 5 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
1909 San Francisco Assistant 18 15 7 7 No Postseason
1908 San Francisco Assistant 15 15 6 8 No Postseason
1907 Tulsa Assistant 15 17 7 7 No Postseason
1906 Wofford Assistant 10 21 3 8 No Postseason
1905 Wofford Assistant 11 20 2 9 No Postseason
1904 Wofford Assistant 15 15 7 4 No Postseason
1903 Penn State Assistant 18 13 6 8 No Postseason
1902 Temple Assistant 24 11 5 6 NIT Champion
1901 Louisiana Tech Assistant 15 19 6 8 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1923 Conference Coach of the Year (Horizon League)
1923 Horizon League Champion
1921 Conference Coach of the Year (Horizon League)
1921 Horizon League Champion
1913 Conference Coach of the Year (Atlantic Sun Conference)
1913 Atlantic Sun Conference Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1925 Hired by Memphis (Head Coach)
1925 Quit job with Butler to pursue a higher position
1921 Hired by Butler (Head Coach)
1921 Quit job with Louisville to pursue a higher position
1917 Hired by Louisville (Assistant Coach)
1917 Fired by Oklahoma
1916 Hired by Oklahoma (Assistant Coach)
1916 Fired by Kennesaw State
1912 Hired by Kennesaw State (Head Coach)
1912 Quit job with San Francisco to pursue a higher position
1908 Hired by San Francisco (Assistant Coach)
1908 Fired by Tulsa
1907 Hired by Tulsa (Assistant Coach)
1907 Fired by Wofford
1904 Hired by Wofford (Assistant Coach)
1904 Fired by Penn State
1903 Hired by Penn State (Assistant Coach)
1903 Fired by Temple
1902 Hired by Temple (Assistant Coach)
1902 Fired by Louisiana Tech
1901 Hired by Louisiana Tech (Assistant Coach)


Here's our second candidate, Ruben Owen just coming off a Final Four as an assistant with Virginia. Older than I'd like, but I'll find a young assistant that he can mentor if we hired him with the idea that we'd promote the other guy once he's ready to retire. If we went in this direction.


COACH DETAILS

Ruben Owen - Recruiting Coordinator - Virginia
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Age: 65
High School: Liberty High School
Hometown: Liberty, IL
Alma Mater: Army

Current Level: 5
Career Record: 115 - 103
Salary: $104,000

Recruiting: 83
Scouting: 9
Offense: 8
Defense: 100

Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1926 Virginia Assistant 34 5 9 2 Loss in NCAA Final Four
1925 Air Force Assistant 15 15 6 10 No Postseason
1924 Air Force Assistant 12 18 5 11 No Postseason
1923 Clemson Assistant 21 14 5 6 Loss in NIT Round 3
1922 Clemson Assistant 21 13 3 8 Loss in NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1921 Clemson Assistant 17 15 1 10 Loss in NIT Round 1
1920 Clemson Assistant 22 12 4 7 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1919 St. John's Assistant 12 19 4 12 No Postseason
1918 St. John's Assistant 12 18 3 13 No Postseason
1917 Army Head Coach 15 16 7 7 No Postseason
1916 Army Head Coach 16 16 8 6 No Postseason
1915 Army Head Coach 17 14 8 6 No Postseason
1914 Army Head Coach 14 15 9 5 No Postseason
1913 Army Head Coach 13 17 6 8 No Postseason
1912 Army Head Coach 21 12 10 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1911 Army Head Coach 19 13 10 4 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
1910 Gonzaga Assistant 12 19 8 6 No Postseason
1909 Gonzaga Assistant 17 13 10 4 No Postseason
1908 Gonzaga Assistant 18 16 7 7 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1907 Gonzaga Assistant 10 20 5 9 No Postseason
1906 Gonzaga Assistant 14 18 7 7 No Postseason
1905 Texas Tech Assistant 10 22 3 11 No Postseason
1904 Texas Tech Assistant 11 19 4 10 No Postseason
1903 Elon Assistant 27 5 9 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1902 Elon Assistant 21 10 9 2 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
1901 Elon Assistant 21 12 6 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1912 Conference Coach of the Year (Patriot League)
1911 Conference Coach of the Year (Patriot League)
1911 Patriot League Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1926 Hired by Virginia (Recruiting Coordinator)
1926 Staff fired by Air Force
1924 Moved with head coach from Clemson to Air Force
1920 Moved with head coach from St. John's to Clemson
1918 Hired by St. John's (Recruiting Coordinator)
1918 Fired by Army
1911 Hired by Army (Head Coach)
1911 Fired by Gonzaga
1906 Hired by Gonzaga (Recruiting Coordinator)
1906 Fired by Texas Tech
1905 Hired by Texas Tech (Recruiting Coordinator)
1905 Fired by Texas Tech
1904 Hired by Texas Tech (Recruiting Coordinator)
1904 Resigned to look for a higher paying position
1901 Hired by Elon (Recruiting Coordinator)


Here's our third candidate. Rusty Woods is the head coach at New Mexico State.


COACH DETAILS

Rusty Woods - Head Coach - New Mexico State
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Age: 55
High School: Nestucca High School
Hometown: Cloverdale, OR
Alma Mater: Montana

Current Level: 6
Career Record: 87 - 101

Recruiting: 23
Scouting: 9
Offense: 99
Defense: 89


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1926 New Mexico State Head Coach 16 16 10 4 Loss in NIT Round 1
1925 New Mexico State Head Coach 12 20 4 10 No Postseason
1924 Northwestern Assistant 32 5 12 2 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1923 Northwestern Assistant 20 12 6 8 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1922 Northwestern Assistant 23 11 8 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1921 Cleveland State Head Coach 10 20 6 12 No Postseason
1920 Cleveland State Head Coach 11 19 8 10 No Postseason
1919 Cleveland State Head Coach 20 12 14 4 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
1918 Cleveland State Head Coach 18 14 11 7 No Postseason
1917 Kentucky Assistant 26 8 10 4 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1916 Kentucky Assistant 21 13 8 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1915 Kentucky Assistant 20 12 5 9 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1914 Kentucky Assistant 16 15 4 10 No Postseason
1913 Kentucky Assistant 19 13 7 7 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1912 Kentucky Assistant 22 11 8 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1911 Nevada Assistant 22 11 10 6 Loss in NIT Round 2
1910 Nevada Assistant 18 13 7 9 No Postseason
1909 Nevada Assistant 24 8 10 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1908 UC Irvine Assistant 5 24 3 13 No Postseason
1907 San Francisco Assistant 13 16 10 4 No Postseason
1906 San Francisco Assistant 20 12 11 3 Loss in NIT Preliminary Round
1905 San Francisco Assistant 17 14 10 4 No Postseason
1904 San Francisco Assistant 14 20 7 7 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 1
1903 Virginia Tech Assistant 12 19 1 10 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1926 Conference Coach of the Year (Western Athletic Conference)
1926 Western Athletic Conference Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1925 Hired by New Mexico State (Head Coach)
1925 Quit job with Northwestern to pursue a higher position
1922 Hired by Northwestern (Assistant Coach)
1922 Fired by Cleveland State
1918 Hired by Cleveland State (Head Coach)
1918 Quit job with Kentucky to pursue a higher position
1912 Hired by Kentucky (Assistant Coach)
1912 Staff fired by Nevada
1909 Hired by Nevada (Assistant Coach)
1909 Fired by UC Irvine
1908 Moved with head coach from San Francisco to UC Irvine
1904 Hired by San Francisco (Assistant Coach)
1904 Fired by Virginia Tech
1903 Hired by Virginia Tech (Assistant Coach)


I haven't decided which one of these I'd like to go with yet. Torn on all three, though not like when I was in Wyoming and torn. This is about finding a guy to right the ship and all three of them have their flaws and I'll be more interested in the assistant hiring process this time compared with last for that reason. Feel free to chime in, if you like.

[Marmel]

In game, how do you actually go about searching for coaches? Is it just clicking on team after team and looking at their coaches? That seems pretty time intensive and boring. I hope there is an easier way, I'd like to try something like this...

[Young Drachma]

In game, how do you actually go about searching for coaches? Is it just clicking on team after team and looking at their coaches? That seems pretty time intensive and boring. I hope there is an easier way, I'd like to try something like this...

Well, not quite clicking but something like that. You can go to a school, click on coaches and the coach and once you've done that, you can scroll and see the various coaching records.

It's sort of time intensive in a sense, but...the thing is, at any given time most coaches are entirely out of your range. Like, you're not going to hire a guy from a 1-level prestige program to coach at your Pac-12 school. So that rules out a lot of people. On the flip, if you're at a school that can't pay much, it's straight assistants and same deal...you want to search for someone with decent ratings from a good school.

If you're just searching for the best ratings, then yeah...it'd be time consuming and boring. But if you do it a different way, it's sort of fun and addictive to find the best guys that have decent ratings but more importantly that you can judge based on performance.

As far as display, the game doesn't have a particularly elegant way of dealing with it, no. But it doesn't end up being that tedious I've found.

[Young Drachma]

Here at Colorado, we've hired Joe Peebles as our new head coach. Let's hope he has more success than his predecessor and that we can truly get CU into a new echelon.

This is my 6th season in Boulder. I expect this season will be better than the previous ones mostly due to our star recruit PG Alphonso Jackson. Still, this is a program that's had two winning seasons ever (1919, 1907) and that first winning season (both seasons 16-15) was where we made the NIT and lost in the first round.

Our coaching staff is much improved over what we had with Coach James, though, so I have fairly high hopes for this year.

[Young Drachma]

Well, my enthusiasm wasn't unwarranted. This could be a typical case of "winning with another coach's players" but...this is one hell of a turnaround in any case.

Ladies and gentleman, no matter what happens here this indeed the best season so far in Colorado basketball history.


COLORADO BUFFALOES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/15/27 at DePaul 16-14 35 W 98-76 1-0
11/18/27 Denver 8-21 269 W 93-68 2-0
11/22/27 New Mexico State 21-8 90 L 80-76 2-1
11/25/27 at #2 Colorado State 29-1 2 L 86-54 2-2
12/01/27 Brigham Young 17-12 69 W 78-69 3-2
12/05/27 vs. Villanova 13-17 117 L 73-62 3-3
12/06/27 vs. Nebraska 17-13 61 W 67-57 4-3
12/07/27 vs. Eastern Illinois 9-22 252 W 80-70 5-3
12/12/27 at Texas Tech 19-11 39 W 81-80 6-3
12/15/27 Oral Roberts 13-17 284 W 78-74 7-3
12/18/27 Northern Colorado 14-16 328 W 83-48 8-3
12/21/27 Southern Utah 17-12 191 W 79-67 9-3
12/23/27 New Mexico 11-17 189 W 99-66 10-3
12/25/27 at Boise State 9-19 175 W 78-59 11-3
01/01/28 at Wyoming 18-12 94 W 76-68 12-3
01/10/28 at Saint Joseph's 22-8 62 L 80-74 12-4
01/19/28 UCLA 14-16 98 L 75-66 12-5 (0-1)
01/21/28 at Utah 16-14 97 L 80-61 12-6 (0-2)
01/26/28 California 18-10 25 W 88-79 13-6 (1-2)
01/28/28 at California 18-10 25 W 73-66 14-6 (2-2)
02/02/28 Arizona State 13-17 104 W 93-75 15-6 (3-2)
02/04/28 Utah 16-14 97 W 83-59 16-6 (4-2)
02/09/28 at UCLA 14-16 98 L 67-66 16-7 (4-3)
02/11/28 at Oregon State 16-14 88 W 90-82 17-7 (5-3)
02/16/28 Arizona 14-16 74 L 67-66 17-8 (5-4)
02/18/28 at Washington 9-21 143 W 93-68 18-8 (6-4)
02/23/28 at #14 Southern California 24-7 17 W 83-65 19-8 (7-4)
02/25/28 Washington State 19-12 33 L 68-55 19-9 (7-5)
03/01/28 #1 Stanford 33-0 1 L 94-85 19-10 (7-6)
03/03/28 at #18 Oregon 23-7 36 W 58-45 20-10 (8-6)




COLORADO BUFFALOES Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Alphonso Jackson PG 30 30 32.8 19.3 1.6 5.4 6.3 2.1 0.4 2.8 2.8 8.9
Micheal Roeder SG 30 30 31.4 15.9 1.9 4.6 2.7 0.8 0.1 2.3 3.2 7.5
Dannie Endicott SF 30 30 30.6 12.4 1.4 5.3 1.8 1.7 0.1 1.8 2.5 5.1
Dennis Daniels C 30 30 26.0 5.8 1.5 7.1 1.9 0.3 1.3 1.5 2.3 5.8
Reuben Fox PF 30 30 25.7 8.5 2.3 6.1 1.7 0.4 0.4 2.3 2.6 4.4
Edward Daniels C 30 0 20.6 3.6 1.9 5.9 1.0 0.2 0.8 1.2 2.0 2.2
Carlos Wolfgang SG 30 0 11.5 3.7 0.7 2.0 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.8 1.1 0.2
Siegmund Kriegers PG 30 0 7.7 3.0 0.3 1.0 1.4 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.8 -0.5
James Highsmith PF 30 0 7.6 2.7 0.9 1.8 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.7 1.2
James Johnson SF 29 0 5.1 1.9 0.2 0.8 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.2
Matthew Felton SG 17 0 2.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1 -1.8
Henry Mellon C 12 0 2.3 0.3 0.1 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 -0.5
Jules Moore PG 11 0 3.2 0.7 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.5 0.6 -0.5
Silas Clements C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 54 Record Vs 1-50: 7-5 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 21-11 Record Vs 51-100: 5-2 RPI Rank: #21
Conference Record: 8-6 Record Vs 101-200: 4-4
Home Record: 9-5 Record Vs 200+: 5-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 77.6 2 2 Points 71.0 12 336 Points 6.6 4 35
O.Reb 12.6 4 53 O.Reb 10.7 10 151 O.Reb 1.9 5 69
D.Reb 27.3 1 3 D.Reb 24.9 11 275 D.Reb 2.4 1 35
Rebounds 39.9 1 4 Rebounds 35.6 11 233 Rebounds 4.3 3 33
Assists 18.6 2 9 Assists 15.8 12 346 Assists 2.8 2 34
Steals 7.0 4 33 Steals 6.0 8 261 Steals 1.0 5 84
Blocks 3.8 5 81 Blocks 3.3 3 253 Blocks 0.5 4 105
Turnovers 14.2 6 198 Turnovers 15.1 6 70 Turnovers -1.0 7 113
Fouls 18.5 5 130 Fouls 19.2 5 135 Fouls -0.8 4 118
FG% .484 2 25 FG% .451 4 139 FG% .033 2 37
FT% .687 8 141 FT% .710 9 340 FT% -.022 9 259
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.19 3 79 PPS 1.14 5 121 PPS .054 4 82
Adj. FG% .484 2 25 Adj. FG% .451 4 139 Adj. FG% .033 2 37



Bubble Watch has us in the tournament as the 5th Pac-12 team, with the other four as locks. We lost to Stanford 81-73 in the Pac-12 semis, but beat Cal in the quarters to end the regular season at 21-11.

Now...we wait for the outcome of Selection Sunday.

[Young Drachma]

First NCAA appearance is secured. We are the #9 seed in the Midwest region. Our first matchup is a date against Purdue. If we win? We get the winner of rival #1 seed Colorado State and Eastern Washington.

Bleh, they are stacked if we got that far. But having never been here, we'll soak it all in. Purdue went 22-12 this year and were 7th in the B10. They lost in the conference tournament finals to Ohio State.

[Young Drachma]

First an appearance, now...a tournament win! Next up, a date with rival CSU.


Colorado 78, Purdue 67

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Dennis Daniels C 28 3-6 1-2 0 7 1 2 7
Reuben Fox PF 27 6-11 1-2 4 11 2 1 13
Dannie Endicott SF 23 4-8 0-0 0 2 1 3 8
Micheal Roeder SG 29 6-14 0-0 1 4 0 4 12
Alphonso Jackson PG 34 7-16 6-8 4 8 13 4 20
Edward Daniels C 16 0-1 0-0 0 6 1 0 0
James Highsmith PF 9 4-5 0-0 2 5 0 0 8
Carlos Wolfgang SF 12 1-2 1-2 1 2 1 2 3
James Johnson SF 10 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 2
Siegmund Kriegers PG 7 1-2 1-2 0 1 1 0 3
Jules Moore PG 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 1 2
Matthew Felton SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 12 (D.Daniels 2, R.Fox 3, D.Endicott 1,
A.Jackson 4, J.Johnson 1, J.Moore 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (E.Daniels 1, J.Highsmith 2)
Steals: 3 (M.Roeder 1, A.Jackson 1, J.Johnson 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Purdue Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
John Atwood C 34 9-17 0-1 8 12 3 2 18
Dustin Isom PF 36 3-6 0-0 0 6 1 0 6
Darrell Frisbee SF 25 0-11 0-0 1 3 2 3 0
Johnathan Kocher PG 30 5-9 0-0 0 6 4 2 10
Joseph Henderson SG 25 2-7 2-2 1 3 2 5 6
Claud Kovach PG 25 4-12 1-2 0 1 1 2 9
Chris Dewar C 7 2-4 0-1 1 2 0 1 4
Diethelm Schaffer SG 6 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 2
Bertram Rivera PG 3 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 4
Cecil Angeles SF 9 4-6 0-0 2 3 1 1 8

Turnovers: 11 (J.Atwood 1, D.Isom 3, D.Frisbee 1,
J.Kocher 3, C.Kovach 2, C.Dewar 1)
Blocked Shots: 7 (J.Atwood 1, D.Isom 3, D.Frisbee 1,
C.Kovach 1, C.Angeles 1)
Steals: 2 (J.Atwood 1, J.Henderson 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)

[Young Drachma]

Frankly, the outcome was much better than I anticipated.


Colorado State 71, Colorado 68

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Dennis Daniels C 27 1-3 0-0 1 7 0 3 2
Reuben Fox C 23 3-10 1-2 1 2 1 3 7
Dannie Endicott SF 34 5-10 2-4 2 3 1 2 12
Micheal Roeder SG 35 5-11 4-4 1 6 2 1 14
Alphonso Jackson PG 32 6-19 7-8 1 1 9 3 19
Edward Daniels PF 25 3-5 0-0 2 6 0 1 6
James Highsmith PF 4 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Carlos Wolfgang SG 11 2-3 0-0 2 2 1 0 4
James Johnson SF 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Siegmund Kriegers PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Jules Moore PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Henry Mellon C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Matthew Felton SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 10 (R.Fox 2, D.Endicott 3, M.Roeder 2,
A.Jackson 1, E.Daniels 1, C.Wolfgang 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (D.Daniels 1, E.Daniels 2)
Steals: 9 (D.Daniels 1, R.Fox 1, D.Endicott 3, M.Roeder
2, A.Jackson 1, C.Wolfgang 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Colorado State Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Alberto Ramos C 36 4-6 0-0 4 14 1 0 8
Scott Robertson PF 30 4-9 10-11 1 3 3 1 18
Rodrigo Gomez SF 30 5-14 3-4 1 7 2 2 13
Chris Ortiz SG 36 9-12 0-0 1 6 1 3 18
Kenny Rodriguez PG 35 1-6 0-0 4 9 11 3 2
Ronald King SF 13 2-4 0-0 0 1 2 2 4
Elliott Barrett PF 10 3-5 2-2 1 3 0 1 8
Johnny Pridemore PG 6 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Wesley Via SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Joseph Hassan SF 3 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 0

Turnovers: 20 (S.Robertson 2, R.Gomez 4, C.Ortiz 7,
K.Rodriguez 4, R.King 1, E.Barrett 1, J.Pridemore 1)
Blocked Shots: 12 (A.Ramos 7, S.Robertson 1, R.Gomez 1,
C.Ortiz 1, E.Barrett 2)
Steals: 2 (C.Ortiz 1, K.Rodriguez 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: C Alberto Ramos (CSU)


Still, an fantastic year for the Buffs. Just hope this wasn't a flash in the pan. No four-star recruits coming next year, this much I know.

1927-28 FINAL FOUR
4 Michigan State def. 4 USC 86-68
1 Colorado State def. 4 Minnesota 63-46

Michigan State def. Colorado State 61-54

[Young Drachma]

CONFERENCE CHANGES
UMass goes from C-USA to the Big East
Pacific goes from the Big West to the WCC
Cal Tech goes from Independent to Big West
Louisiana Tech goes from WAC to C-USA
San Jose State goes from WAC to MWC
BYU goes from WCC to WAC
Utah Valley goes from MAJOR to WAC
Cal State Bakersfield goes from MAJOR to WAC

[Young Drachma]

Rather than allow people to create recruits right now, I've come up with a different idea. I'll create a custom conference of user teams that we can follow and see their success over time, in addition to watching me job hop.

The Continental League will need to exist for ten years before it can get an autobid to the NCAA tournament. I'll start the conference with some teams to get it going and then you all can submit an "application" to join the league with your school. Schools can be from anywhere.

Here's the application:

School Name:
Mascot:
City/State:
Academics: Normal/High/Ivy

They can be real life non-Division 1 schools if you'd like, defunct universities or if you want to create one as I probably will...all the better. The only real hitch is that the names of the teams can't be Dickwad State or something. They have to sound like real school names (public or private, doesn't matter to me) but other than that, feel free if you're interested.

1928-29 INAUGURAL MEMBERS
University of New Orleans
Longwood University
UConn-Torrington
Oregon A&M University (Hermiston, OR)
University of California at Anaheim
University of Texas-Wichita Falls
Chicago State University
Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)

[Young Drachma]

Colorado's 1927 recruiting class was ranked 63rd in the nation and 8th in the Pac-12.

Not sure what to expect this upcoming season. Suffice to say after last year, there are actual expectations that we might have turned some kind of corner. We lost two seniors, but we get a redshirt to replace one of them at the center position and otherwise...it'll just be opaque.

[Young Drachma]

(7th season)

We went 10-6 through the non-conference schedule. And ended January 13-6, undefeated in the Pac-12.

End the regular season 19-11. Second straight winning season. #3 seed in the conference tournament.


COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 60 Record Vs 1-50: 5-6 Poll Rank: NR
Season Record: 19-11 Record Vs 51-100: 2-2 RPI Rank: #31
Conference Record: 9-5 Record Vs 101-200: 6-3
Home Record: 13-2 Record Vs 200+: 6-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 76.2 1 9 Points 67.4 10 265 Points 8.8 4 28
O.Reb 15.1 3 4 O.Reb 11.0 11 197 O.Reb 4.0 4 14
D.Reb 25.8 3 25 D.Reb 25.0 10 287 D.Reb 0.8 7 125
Rebounds 40.9 2 6 Rebounds 36.0 10 261 Rebounds 4.8 5 31
Assists 18.4 3 18 Assists 15.8 11 343 Assists 2.6 3 43
Steals 7.7 2 20 Steals 4.6 3 29 Steals 3.1 1 9
Blocks 4.8 5 41 Blocks 4.7 12 362 Blocks 0.2 5 142
Turnovers 12.4 4 37 Turnovers 16.0 3 34 Turnovers -3.7 3 26
Fouls 17.0 4 29 Fouls 18.7 6 207 Fouls -1.7 3 53
FG% .462 4 128 FG% .457 8 181 FG% .006 8 141
FT% .677 10 181 FT% .678 4 212 FT% -.001 6 192
3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1 3P% .000 1 1
PPS 1.13 9 245 PPS 1.11 4 66 PPS .028 5 129
Adj. FG% .462 4 128 Adj. FG% .457 8 181 Adj. FG% .006 8 141



COLORADO BUFFALOES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/19/28 vs. Wake Forest 21-9 23 L 77-52 0-1
11/20/28 vs. Southern 21-10 58 W 76-50 1-1
11/21/28 vs. Duquesne 21-9 60 L 84-78 1-2
11/30/28 Oklahoma State 10-19 170 W 71-51 2-2
12/03/28 at New Mexico 14-16 109 L 89-73 2-3
12/07/28 Hampton 14-14 194 W 87-70 3-3
12/14/28 Idaho State 12-18 321 W 75-48 4-3
12/16/28 at #5 Colorado State 27-4 3 L 63-53 4-4
12/19/28 Kansas State 18-14 44 W 83-53 5-4
12/22/28 at Hawaii 14-16 131 L 62-59 5-5
12/28/28 Northern Colorado 13-17 240 W 74-67 6-5
01/01/29 Denver 12-17 307 W 105-68 7-5
01/05/29 Utah Valley 12-17 309 W 86-55 8-5
01/08/29 Wyoming 14-16 155 W 95-70 9-5
01/10/29 at Air Force 20-10 21 L 74-68 9-6
01/18/29 at Saint Joseph's 19-10 83 W 77-60 10-6
01/24/29 Washington State 20-11 35 W 100-86 11-6 (1-0)
01/26/29 at Utah 11-17 235 W 78-62 12-6 (2-0)
01/31/29 at Washington 11-18 196 W 85-57 13-6 (3-0)
02/02/29 Washington 11-18 196 W 73-52 14-6 (4-0)
02/07/29 at Washington State 20-11 35 W 81-65 15-6 (5-0)
02/09/29 Oregon 21-10 26 L 49-40 15-7 (5-1)
02/14/29 at UCLA 12-18 156 W 95-91 16-7 (6-1)
02/16/29 #17 Southern California 24-6 24 W 74-64 17-7 (7-1)
02/21/29 Arizona 19-11 27 W 80-44 18-7 (8-1)
02/23/29 Utah 11-17 235 W 84-78 19-7 (9-1)
02/28/29 at Arizona State 21-8 12 L 101-84 19-8 (9-2)
03/02/29 at Oregon State 16-14 114 L 72-61 19-9 (9-3)
03/07/29 at California 21-9 61 L 84-71 19-10 (9-4)
03/09/29 #8 Stanford 27-5 14 L 76-69 19-11 (9-5)

[Young Drachma]

Bubblewatch says the Pac-12 is a six-bid league with us "In" after four locks ahead of us. (Stanford, Arizona State, USC, Washington State)

We beat Oregon 77-56 in the Pac-12 Quarters and face Arizona State in the semis. We beat them handily 85-69, which shocked me since we lost to them earlier in the month. In the finals, we take on 4th seeded USC who edged out top seeded Stanford 57-56 in the other semi.

Suffice to say, this is CU's first-ever appearance in the conference tourney title game. Unfortunately, our boys couldn't get it done falling 79-69 to USC. Still, I suspect we've done enough to solidify our case for a 2nd straight NCAA appearance.

Have I turned things around here yet? :)

[Young Drachma]

Shows you what I know. We were apparently one of the first four out, as we earned a #1 seed in the NIT. On one hand, it's disappointing and on another, the fact that we might be able to win something if we go on a run is more exciting to me anyway in a sense.

Still, a Vermont team that won it's conference with a losing record managed to get a #14 seed, because there were indeed worse teams in the field than that. I think it's probably time to tournament expansion to 68 for that reason, because it's not a new trend.

In any case, we're going to see how this NIT thing goes.

NIT 2nd Round (Colorado v. Lehigh)


Colorado 84, Lehigh 51

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Brendan Sheridan C 36 5-14 2-2 2 4 0 2 12
Mitch Northrup PF 34 5-14 2-4 3 6 0 2 12
Winford Fehr SF 26 3-10 0-0 1 4 1 1 6
Tyler Pina SG 11 0-5 2-2 0 0 2 4 2
Simon Roderick PG 25 2-7 0-0 0 3 1 5 4
Carl Perrine C 21 1-2 3-5 2 10 4 3 5
Millard Ward SG 28 3-6 0-0 0 5 4 3 6
James Saul PG 17 1-5 2-4 1 1 1 1 4
Michael Hoyt PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (B.Sheridan 1, W.Fehr 1, T.Pina 1,
S.Roderick 5, M.Ward 1, J.Saul 3, M.Hoyt 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (B.Sheridan 1, C.Perrine 4)
Steals: 4 (B.Sheridan 1, W.Fehr 1, S.Roderick 1, M.Ward
1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 36 5-6 4-10 0 6 3 4 14
Silas Clements PF 21 2-4 0-0 1 8 0 4 4
Dannie Endicott SF 34 11-17 0-1 3 5 2 2 22
Micheal Roeder SG 35 6-11 3-3 1 8 4 3 15
Alphonso Jackson PG 36 4-10 8-8 0 8 11 3 16
James Highsmith PF 17 3-5 1-3 3 7 0 1 7
Carlos Wolfgang SF 11 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 4
R. Treadwell PG 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Henry Mellon C 6 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 2 0
Matthew Felton SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (R.Fox 4, S.Clements 1, D.Endicott 2,
M.Roeder 4, A.Jackson 1, J.Highsmith 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (S.Clements 1, J.Highsmith 1, H.Mellon
1)
Steals: 9 (D.Endicott 2, M.Roeder 2, A.Jackson 2,
C.Wolfgang 2, R.Treadwell 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)



NIT 3rd Round (Colorado v. Duquesne)


Colorado 69, Duquesne 55

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Gerard Hammond C 30 2-8 0-0 0 4 0 2 4
Kevin Aube C 33 5-16 2-3 1 12 1 1 12
Jack Black SF 30 5-8 4-4 4 9 2 2 14
Hilton Musselman SG 30 5-8 1-2 1 3 0 3 11
Erwin Randazzo PG 32 2-9 2-4 1 6 6 4 6
Dwayne Bauer PG 16 0-3 4-4 1 1 4 2 4
Marlon Perez SG 2 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 2
Wayne Angell SF 10 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 2
Oscar Blair PF 16 0-3 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
Martin Liles SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Brian Brown C 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 17 (G.Hammond 1, K.Aube 3, J.Black 2,
H.Musselman 3, E.Randazzo 4, D.Bauer 1, M.Perez 1,
W.Angell 2)
Blocked Shots: 10 (G.Hammond 5, H.Musselman 2, W.Angell
2, O.Blair 1)
Steals: 5 (G.Hammond 1, K.Aube 1, J.Black 1,
H.Musselman 2)
3P FGs: 0-0

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 34 7-11 2-7 3 8 5 1 16
Silas Clements PF 30 2-10 0-2 0 5 4 3 4
Dannie Endicott SF 33 6-13 1-2 3 6 1 1 13
Micheal Roeder SG 33 4-14 1-1 3 5 5 3 9
Alphonso Jackson PG 29 6-16 1-2 3 9 3 3 13
James Highsmith PF 13 2-2 0-0 2 6 0 0 4
Carlos Wolfgang SG 10 1-2 0-0 1 5 1 1 2
Claude Adkins SF 4 2-3 0-0 1 2 0 0 4
R. Treadwell PG 10 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Henry Mellon C 4 2-2 0-0 1 1 0 2 4
Matthew Felton SG 1 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 0

Turnovers: 9 (R.Fox 2, S.Clements 1, M.Roeder 4,
A.Jackson 2)
Blocked Shots: 8 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 6, M.Roeder 1)
Steals: 10 (S.Clements 1, D.Endicott 2, M.Roeder 2,
A.Jackson 3, C.Wolfgang 1, C.Adkins 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: C Reuben Fox (COL)




I figure this thing is cluttered enough and I don't know how readable it is, so I put the box scores in spoiler tags, not for suspense.

NIT Quarterfinals (Colorado v. UW-Milwaukee)


Colorado 63, Milwaukee 41

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Carl Ard C 34 1-6 0-0 2 6 3 1 2
Terry Werth PF 30 4-9 1-2 3 9 0 3 9
Charles Gill SF 29 4-9 0-0 1 7 2 3 8
Jame Beverly SG 29 3-9 1-3 2 6 1 3 7
Melvin Henshaw PG 35 2-8 0-1 1 1 3 1 4
Stacey McLaughlin PG 12 1-3 0-0 1 1 0 3 2
Colin Brown SF 6 1-2 1-2 0 0 1 4 3
Randell McKenzie SG 8 1-3 0-0 0 3 2 0 2
B. Delatorre PF 8 1-1 0-0 0 2 1 2 2
Brendan Fay C 6 1-1 0-0 2 3 0 0 2
Lynn Gibson PF 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Huey Harr SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 26 (C.Ard 2, T.Werth 3, C.Gill 5, J.Beverly
4, M.Henshaw 4, S.McLaughlin 3, C.Brown 2, R.McKenzie
1, B.Delatorre 1, B.Fay 1)
Blocked Shots: 1 (C.Ard 1)
Steals: 5 (T.Werth 2, J.Beverly 1, M.Henshaw 1, C.Brown
1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 30 5-10 0-0 3 7 3 2 10
Silas Clements PF 33 5-11 3-5 2 3 0 2 13
Dannie Endicott SF 34 4-8 0-1 1 5 4 1 8
Micheal Roeder PG 29 4-12 2-2 1 3 1 4 10
Alphonso Jackson SG 36 8-17 2-4 4 11 7 2 18
James Highsmith PF 11 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 0 1
Carlos Wolfgang SG 12 1-1 1-2 1 3 1 3 3
Claude Adkins SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
R. Treadwell PG 8 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Henry Mellon C 5 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 1 0

Turnovers: 12 (R.Fox 2, S.Clements 2, D.Endicott 1,
M.Roeder 2, A.Jackson 3, C.Wolfgang 1, H.Mellon 1)
Blocked Shots: 8 (R.Fox 2, S.Clements 3, A.Jackson 1,
J.Highsmith 1, H.Mellon 1)
Steals: 10 (S.Clements 1, M.Roeder 2, A.Jackson 4,
J.Highsmith 1, C.Wolfgang 1, R.Treadwell 1)
3P FGs: 0-0

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)

[Young Drachma]

NIT SEMI-FINALS
Wake Forest 75, Colorado 64

NIT 3rd Place
Georgia 84, Colorado 70

Despite the letdown of a 4th place finish in the NIT, I still say it was a heck of a year. I thought after last year, we'd have a hard time coming back and I was wrong. The team responded well and in terms of win total this is the best season in school history. This class is no doubt going to go down in history as the best to date. It's pretty excellent stuff.

After seven seasons in Colorado, turning around a program that had exactly one postseason appearance in it's history prior to our arrival, I think it's time to move on now. Not sure to where though. Plus, I'll stop posting for a while and let you all get caught up. ;)

1928-29 FINAL FOUR
1 Colorado State def. 2 Virginia 75-66
2 Georgetown def. 1 Missouri 73-64

1 Colorado State def. Missouri 60-51

[Young Drachma]

First off, I changed my mind. We're going to do at least another season at CU. Dunno why, just decided I wasn't quite ready to leave yet.

Second, I've finally expanded the tournament to 68 teams and I'll be turning on the 3 point shot this year.

[Young Drachma]

We ended February 22-5 ranked 19th in the country. We've never done that before, so it was quite pleasant to see.

Ended the regular season 24-6 and (11-3) in the Pac-12. What this will do for us in the tournament and beyond, remains to be seen.


#19 COLORADO BUFFALOES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/25/29 South Carolina 9-19 231 W 98-66 1-0
11/27/29 Brigham Young 10-18 207 W 100-55 2-0
11/30/29 at Texas Tech 14-16 103 W 90-71 3-0
12/07/29 Idaho State 8-22 329 W 85-43 4-0
12/09/29 vs. Bowling Green 19-11 47 L 77-56 4-1
12/10/29 vs. Rutgers 14-16 104 W 65-63 5-1
12/12/29 vs. Utah State 13-17 255 W 79-61 6-1
12/16/29 Utah Valley 9-20 311 W 94-52 7-1
12/18/29 Denver 8-22 335 W 88-68 8-1
12/21/29 at #2 Colorado State 30-2 1 L 92-58 8-2
12/23/29 Wyoming 14-16 176 W 107-66 9-2
12/25/29 at Kansas State 17-14 31 W 82-56 10-2
12/30/29 at Air Force 16-13 59 W 60-52 11-2
01/04/30 Boise State 10-19 155 W 86-76 12-2
01/10/30 Hawaii 18-11 97 W 102-87 13-2
01/14/30 Northern Colorado 12-18 279 L 78-61 13-3
01/23/30 Washington State 21-9 22 L 77-69 13-4 (0-1)
01/25/30 at Utah 21-10 88 W 94-79 14-4 (1-1)
01/30/30 at Washington 16-13 84 W 81-76 15-4 (2-1)
02/01/30 Washington 16-13 84 W 100-52 16-4 (3-1)
02/06/30 at Washington State 21-9 22 L 77-74 16-5 (3-2)
02/08/30 Oregon 11-18 137 W 76-51 17-5 (4-2)
02/13/30 at UCLA 12-20 127 W 92-80 18-5 (5-2)
02/15/30 Southern California 20-10 37 W 83-81 19-5 (6-2)
02/20/30 Arizona 20-10 28 W 95-90 20-5 (7-2)
02/22/30 Utah 21-10 88 W 85-77 21-5 (8-2)
02/27/30 at Arizona State 15-15 50 W 93-76 22-5 (9-2)
03/01/30 at #24 Oregon State 23-7 39 W 76-67 23-5 (10-2)
03/06/30 at #22 California 23-8 15 W 100-99 24-5 (11-2)
03/08/30 #23 Stanford 23-7 30 L 86-68 24-6 (11-3)




#19 COLORADO BUFFALOES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 65 Record Vs 1-50: 6-5 Poll Rank: #19
Season Record: 24-6 Record Vs 51-100: 6-0 RPI Rank: #20
Conference Record: 11-3 Record Vs 101-200: 6-0
Home Record: 13-3 Record Vs 200+: 6-1


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 83.2 2 6 Points 71.0 6 229 Points 12.2 2 18
O.Reb 11.5 9 149 O.Reb 10.7 5 127 O.Reb 0.8 7 125
D.Reb 27.7 2 7 D.Reb 27.0 12 346 D.Reb 0.8 6 120
Rebounds 39.2 2 22 Rebounds 37.6 11 285 Rebounds 1.6 7 119
Assists 20.2 2 4 Assists 15.1 10 341 Assists 5.1 3 13
Steals 10.3 1 2 Steals 5.5 7 158 Steals 4.8 1 3
Blocks 4.7 3 39 Blocks 4.6 12 359 Blocks 0.1 7 148
Turnovers 13.4 8 109 Turnovers 18.9 1 4 Turnovers -5.6 1 7
Fouls 18.1 6 119 Fouls 20.7 1 16 Fouls -2.6 2 19
FG% .495 1 5 FG% .422 3 68 FG% .073 2 7
FT% .605 12 351 FT% .729 12 360 FT% -.124 12 362
3P% .343 11 176 3P% .334 4 116 3P% .009 7 134
PPS 1.29 3 45 PPS 1.17 3 49 PPS .120 3 30
Adj. FG% .527 3 34 Adj. FG% .473 2 55 Adj. FG% .055 3 23



Superstar recruit Alphonso Jackson will almost surely leave, as this is his junior year and that's the earliest I have players able to leave for the draft. He's the reason I hung around another year, just to see what they'd do.


#19 COLORADO BUFFALOES Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Alphonso Jackson PG 30 30 33.3 19.4 2.2 6.9 7.0 3.2 0.6 1.8 2.4 15.3
Silas Clements PF 30 30 32.4 18.2 1.6 6.6 1.8 0.6 2.5 1.8 2.5 11.8
Reuben Fox C 30 30 32.3 12.8 3.6 9.7 4.8 0.7 0.4 2.6 2.8 13.2
Carlos Wolfgang SG 30 30 32.0 10.3 1.4 5.3 1.5 2.0 0.2 1.6 2.9 10.6
Claude Adkins SF 30 30 25.8 9.8 1.0 3.6 1.8 1.5 0.2 2.4 2.5 8.1
Reginald Treadwell PG 30 0 19.4 5.7 0.4 1.5 1.8 1.6 0.1 1.5 2.2 4.0
Henry Mellon PF 30 0 12.4 2.8 1.0 3.3 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.5 1.2 -0.1
Jules Moore PG 29 0 4.9 2.2 0.0 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.4 -0.1
Jordan Carrigan SF 30 0 4.1 1.3 0.2 0.8 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 -1.7
Brian Hyde PF 24 0 3.6 0.5 0.1 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.5 -1.0
Siegmund Kriegers PG 16 0 2.2 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3
Enoch Decosta PF 6 0 2.7 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 1.7
Matthew Felton SG 9 0 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4
Seamus Willmott PF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Todd Sanderlin SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

[Young Drachma]

1929-30 POSTSEASON
The #1 seed in the Pac-12 tourney for the first time. Taking on Stanford for the conference tourney title, after claiming our first-ever Pac-12 regular season title. We lose 86-75, but we're virtually assured of a high seed in the NCAA tourney, our second bid in three years. The Pac-12 is having another strong year with an apparent six lock bids in the tournament headed by us, the regular season champs.

We claim the #3 seed in the South Region.

(In case you were wondering, former CU Coach Darnell James has led Nebraska-Omaha to the tournament after winning the Summit League this year with a 22-win season. They're a 14-seed in the Midwest region)

NCAA FIRST ROUND (vs. 14-seed Bethune-Cookman)
Colorado 81, Bethune-Cookman 62


Colorado 81, Bethune-Cookman 62

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Kraig Estrada C 20 5-7 4-6 0 5 0 4 14
Warner Alvey PF 16 1-2 0-0 1 9 0 4 2
Jeffrey Lasky SF 20 0-6 2-2 0 1 0 2 2
Larry Crumley SG 29 6-12 2-2 1 3 3 2 19
Andre Ford PG 21 1-5 2-2 1 3 1 3 4
Erwin Lopez SF 26 2-3 3-4 0 1 4 3 7
Roderick Odle PG 19 2-3 0-0 0 2 2 3 6
Robert Aaron PG 4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Avery Gardner C 23 2-7 0-0 0 4 1 4 4
Charles Sarmiento PF 15 2-4 0-0 0 0 0 2 4
Riley Hall SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Darnell Patterson PF 5 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
Timothy Germany C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 23 (K.Estrada 2, W.Alvey 2, J.Lasky 3,
L.Crumley 6, A.Ford 3, E.Lopez 2, R.Odle 2, R.Aaron 1,
A.Gardner 1, C.Sarmiento 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (J.Lasky 1, L.Crumley 1)
Steals: 5 (K.Estrada 1, A.Ford 1, E.Lopez 1, R.Odle 1,
A.Gardner 1)
3P FGs: 7-21 (J.Lasky 0-2, L.Crumley 5-10, A.Ford 0-3,
E.Lopez 0-1, R.Odle 2-3, C.Sarmiento 0-2)

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox PF 36 5-12 1-7 3 11 4 1 11
Silas Clements C 32 3-6 4-10 3 9 0 5 10
Claude Adkins SF 27 4-8 4-4 2 3 1 3 12
Carlos Wolfgang SG 36 6-12 3-4 0 2 2 1 17
Alphonso Jackson PG 36 6-14 4-4 1 3 7 4 16
R. Treadwell PG 14 4-6 3-4 1 3 1 0 11
Jules Moore PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Henry Mellon C 9 1-1 2-2 0 4 0 2 4
Brian Hyde PF 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Jordan Carrigan SF 2 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 0 0

Turnovers: 12 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 1, C.Adkins 4,
C.Wolfgang 1, A.Jackson 1, R.Treadwell 2, H.Mellon 1,
J.Carrigan 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (S.Clements 3)
Steals: 10 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 1, C.Adkins 2,
C.Wolfgang 3, A.Jackson 1, R.Treadwell 2)
3P FGs: 2-9 (C.Adkins 0-1, C.Wolfgang 2-4, A.Jackson
0-2, R.Treadwell 0-2)

Player of Game: SG Carlos Wolfgang (COL)



NCAA SECOND ROUND (vs. 6-seed Texas)
Colorado 74, Texas 61


Colorado 74, Texas 61

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Brian Blouin PF 23 2-7 4-6 2 4 0 5 8
James Nelson C 28 2-7 1-2 3 6 1 5 5
Chad Castro SF 35 3-12 0-1 3 15 9 2 6
C. Somerville SG 31 7-15 1-2 3 6 2 1 18
Tony Rosas PG 32 4-8 4-6 0 0 3 1 12
Kyle Khoury SF 17 2-3 0-0 0 2 3 1 5
Mark Contreras C 20 3-5 1-3 0 6 0 5 7
Michael Young SG 5 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0
Jeffrey Krause PF 9 0-2 0-0 0 2 0 2 0
E. Schindler C 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0

Turnovers: 17 (B.Blouin 2, J.Nelson 2, C.Castro 2,
C.Somerville 2, T.Rosas 3, K.Khoury 2, M.Contreras 1,
M.Young 1, J.Krause 1, E.Schindler 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (J.Nelson 3, M.Contreras 1)
Steals: 4 (B.Blouin 1, C.Castro 2, C.Somerville 1)
3P FGs: 4-11 (C.Castro 0-1, C.Somerville 3-4, T.Rosas
0-3, K.Khoury 1-2, J.Krause 0-1)

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 34 9-14 7-14 4 12 7 2 25
Silas Clements PF 33 6-15 5-12 1 8 0 3 17
Claude Adkins SF 26 1-4 0-0 2 5 3 0 2
Carlos Wolfgang SG 28 1-5 2-2 2 7 2 4 4
Alphonso Jackson PG 34 3-14 2-2 3 5 5 3 10
R. Treadwell PG 20 2-6 4-5 3 5 1 3 8
Jules Moore PG 6 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 1 2
Siegmund Kriegers PG 3 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Henry Mellon C 11 1-3 2-2 1 4 1 1 4
Brian Hyde PF 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Jordan Carrigan SF 3 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 12 (R.Fox 2, C.Adkins 2, C.Wolfgang 1,
A.Jackson 1, R.Treadwell 4, J.Moore 1, S.Kriegers 1)
Blocked Shots: 7 (S.Clements 4, H.Mellon 3)
Steals: 10 (R.Fox 1, C.Wolfgang 1, A.Jackson 2,
R.Treadwell 4, H.Mellon 1, J.Carrigan 1)
3P FGs: 2-14 (C.Adkins 0-1, C.Wolfgang 0-3, A.Jackson
2-8, R.Treadwell 0-1, S.Kriegers 0-1)

Player of Game: C Reuben Fox (COL)




Notice the emergence of one senior Carlos Wolfgang. He was a ONE STAR RECRUIT out of Utah. And he is just absolutely going off in this tournament. I had no idea who he was until I just looked after seeing his ridiculous numbers in this tournament. First Sweet 16, here we come.

NCAA SWEET 16 (vs. 7-seed Illinois-Chicago)
Colorado 89, UIC 80


Colorado 89, Illinois-Chicago 80

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 16 1-4 0-0 0 5 3 5 2
Silas Clements C 32 2-12 5-7 2 12 4 4 9
Claude Adkins SF 25 7-10 0-3 1 2 0 2 15
Carlos Wolfgang SG 35 9-14 7-7 4 6 0 3 29
Alphonso Jackson PG 34 8-15 2-3 2 6 7 3 22
R. Treadwell PG 12 0-1 0-0 1 2 2 4 0
Jules Moore PG 6 1-3 1-1 1 2 2 1 3
Siegmund Kriegers PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Henry Mellon PF 14 1-3 1-2 0 4 1 4 3
Brian Hyde PF 12 0-2 0-0 0 2 0 2 0
Jordan Carrigan SF 4 1-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 2
Matthew Felton SG 3 2-3 0-0 1 1 0 1 4
Enoch Decosta PF 6 0-3 0-0 1 2 0 1 0

Turnovers: 14 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 3, C.Adkins 3,
C.Wolfgang 3, A.Jackson 1, R.Treadwell 2, H.Mellon 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (S.Clements 4, C.Adkins 1, E.Decosta 1)
Steals: 7 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 1, A.Jackson 4,
J.Carrigan 1)
3P FGs: 9-18 (C.Adkins 1-2, C.Wolfgang 4-8, A.Jackson
4-6, J.Moore 0-1, E.Decosta 0-1)

Illinois-Chicago Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Leo McBride C 32 5-7 12-18 3 12 1 3 22
David Kidder C 31 3-9 2-4 2 7 0 1 8
Earnest Somers SF 23 2-10 3-5 3 7 5 1 9
Colby Hall SG 22 4-5 4-6 1 3 1 3 12
Palmer Huebner PG 33 6-16 2-2 0 2 4 0 16
Lance Johnson SF 16 2-4 1-2 0 1 0 1 5
Rex Hall SG 22 1-6 2-2 1 2 5 2 4
Chris Hatley C 13 1-1 0-2 2 7 0 5 2
Stefan Macias PF 4 0-1 0-0 0 2 0 2 0
George Ladner SF 3 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 0
Paul Green PF 1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Andrew Laney SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 15 (L.McBride 2, D.Kidder 3, E.Somers 1,
C.Hall 2, P.Huebner 3, R.Hall 2, C.Hatley 2)
Blocked Shots: 5 (D.Kidder 1, E.Somers 1, P.Huebner 1,
C.Hatley 1, S.Macias 1)
Steals: 6 (L.McBride 2, D.Kidder 1, P.Huebner 3)
3P FGs: 4-19 (L.McBride 0-1, E.Somers 2-6, P.Huebner
2-8, R.Hall 0-4)

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)



Hello? Elite Eight? Is that YOU?! Wow, these guys are crazy. In a good way!

[Young Drachma]

1929-30 POSTSEASON
So pumped for this. We were so bad for so long that I can honestly say I never, ever anticipated a scenario where 1) this would happen and 2) that I'd be hanging around to see it. I was contemplating making championship banners and posting them in the first post as we do things just for those NCAA appearances. Now? I might really have to, because we're literally a win away from the FINAL FOUR.

This has been an upset-laden tournament across the bracket. Here are the Elite Eight teams so you know who is still left:

WEST REGIONAL FINAL
3 Stanford (beat 2 LSU 79-74) v. 8 North Carolina (beat 4 Cincinnati 72-70)

MIDWEST REGIONAL FINAL
2 Minnesota (beat 6 Oregon State 101-82) v. 4 Wake Forest (beat 3 Washington State 58-38)

SOUTH REGIONAL FINAL
3 Colorado v. 4 Baylor (beat 1 NC State 71-69)

EAST REGIONAL FINAL
1 Syracuse (beat 13 Maine 80-61) v. 10 Albany (beat 11 Utah 84-75)

It's game time now. I'm literally nervous to push the button, because I can't even believe it's here and I don't want the run to end. What a crazy, crazy year.

Ok...here we go.

[Young Drachma]

1930 ELITE EIGHT
SOUTH REGIONAL FINAL
Colorado v. Baylor


Colorado 86, Baylor 74

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 35 8-14 0-0 2 4 5 3 16
Silas Clements PF 36 8-16 6-8 0 9 1 1 22
Claude Adkins SF 27 2-4 0-0 1 7 1 1 4
Carlos Wolfgang SG 30 6-11 2-2 0 3 2 4 16
Alphonso Jackson PG 35 10-18 1-2 4 10 6 4 22
R. Treadwell SG 19 1-3 0-0 2 2 3 3 2
Jules Moore PG 7 0-0 0-0 0 2 3 0 0
Siegmund Kriegers PG 2 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 2 2
Henry Mellon C 7 1-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 2
Brian Hyde PF 2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Jordan Carrigan SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 13 (R.Fox 2, S.Clements 3, C.Adkins 1,
C.Wolfgang 2, A.Jackson 4, R.Treadwell 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (S.Clements 2, H.Mellon 1)
Steals: 11 (R.Fox 1, C.Adkins 2, C.Wolfgang 4,
A.Jackson 3, J.Moore 1)
3P FGs: 3-13 (C.Wolfgang 2-5, A.Jackson 1-6,
R.Treadwell 0-2)

Baylor Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Sandy Augustine C 33 3-10 2-6 6 18 1 1 8
David Puga PF 14 2-3 0-0 0 2 1 5 4
Bruno Renn SF 32 4-8 3-3 0 5 4 0 11
Byron Jeffries SG 30 10-17 5-5 0 2 4 3 25
Joseph Terrazas PG 34 5-11 0-0 0 1 3 2 11
Wilson Love PF 26 2-4 0-2 0 2 0 3 4
Newton Bobbitt PF 6 1-1 0-0 0 2 1 0 2
Wilbur Boddie SF 13 1-3 2-2 0 2 2 0 4
Jay Armstrong SG 11 1-3 2-5 0 0 0 1 5
Anibal Holley PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 18 (S.Augustine 2, D.Puga 1, B.Renn 3,
B.Jeffries 3, J.Terrazas 5, W.Boddie 2, J.Armstrong 2)
Blocked Shots: 12 (S.Augustine 5, D.Puga 2, B.Renn 1,
W.Love 4)
Steals: 6 (B.Renn 2, B.Jeffries 1, J.Terrazas 1, W.Love
2)
3P FGs: 2-10 (B.Renn 0-1, J.Terrazas 1-5, W.Boddie 0-1,
J.Armstrong 1-3)

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)


FINAL. FOUR.

Other winners:

East region: Syracuse 91, Albany 84
Midwest region: Minnesota 92, Wake Forest 86
West region: North Carolina 80, Stanford 77

1930 FINAL FOUR

3 Colorado v. 8 North Carolina
1 Syracuse v. 2 Minnesota

[Young Drachma]

1930 FINAL FOUR
COLORADO V. NORTH CAROLINA

I didn't have high hopes for us in this game, mostly because 1) I obviously have nothing to do with game management. I don't even watch these games. I just push the sim day button and hope for the best outcome.

That said...I worried because UNC has more blue chippers obviously, but also because they beat a conference rival that beat us during the regular season. It made me think we couldn't beat them when it mattered.



Colorado 88, North Carolina 69

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 27 2-3 1-3 3 11 8 4 5
Silas Clements PF 35 10-14 5-8 0 8 0 3 25
Claude Adkins SF 25 3-11 0-2 1 3 0 2 6
Carlos Wolfgang SG 35 7-10 0-0 0 8 3 2 15
Alphonso Jackson PG 33 8-15 3-4 1 3 11 3 20
R. Treadwell PG 20 3-6 1-1 0 1 0 2 8
Jules Moore PG 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 2 0 3
Henry Mellon PF 13 2-4 0-0 0 2 1 1 4
Brian Hyde PF 3 0-0 0-0 2 5 1 0 0
Jordan Carrigan SF 2 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Enoch Decosta PF 1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2

Turnovers: 14 (R.Fox 2, S.Clements 4, C.Adkins 3,
C.Wolfgang 2, A.Jackson 1, H.Mellon 2)
Blocked Shots: 7 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 5, H.Mellon 1)
Steals: 13 (R.Fox 1, C.Adkins 2, C.Wolfgang 1,
A.Jackson 7, R.Treadwell 2)
3P FGs: 4-13 (C.Adkins 0-1, C.Wolfgang 1-2, A.Jackson
1-6, R.Treadwell 1-3, J.Moore 1-1)

North Carolina Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Charles Jenks C 16 1-1 0-0 0 4 0 5 2
Joe Sales C 32 4-14 2-2 7 17 3 2 10
Doug Rohr SF 32 5-10 3-4 4 5 3 2 14
Russell McCarley SG 24 7-20 3-4 2 3 0 3 20
Kenneth Young PG 35 3-9 3-4 0 2 6 3 11
Hugh Donovan SG 15 1-4 0-0 0 2 0 0 2
Ty Hawes SF 7 0-2 0-0 1 1 1 0 0
Jesse Beaudette PG 7 1-5 0-0 1 1 1 0 3
Sam Bearden PF 13 1-7 0-1 2 5 0 1 2
Jess Berrios PF 11 0-1 0-0 1 4 0 0 0
Brian Caballero PF 8 2-4 0-0 1 1 0 0 5

Turnovers: 15 (J.Sales 1, D.Rohr 2, R.McCarley 5,
K.Young 5, J.Beaudette 1, B.Caballero 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (T.Hawes 1, J.Berrios 2, B.Caballero 1)
Steals: 5 (C.Jenks 1, K.Young 4)
3P FGs: 8-23 (D.Rohr 1-2, R.McCarley 3-10, K.Young 2-3,
H.Donovan 0-1, T.Hawes 0-2, J.Beaudette 1-2, S.Bearden
0-1, B.Caballero 1-2)

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)


Shows you what I get for thinking, huh?

[Young Drachma]

1930 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Colorado v. Minnesota

Wow. I don't even have words for this one. Minnesota (32-5) beat Syracuse 83-63 to earn their spot here with the winner claiming their first title. But before you look at ol' Minny as an underdog, consider this:

Since the inception of this universe in 1899, Minnesota has 26 NCAA tournament appearances. sixteen other schools have more, but the most of any of them is a three way tie for 31 total (Marquette, Virginia, UNC) so they're not far behind. This is their 3rd Final Four (2nd in three years, interrupted by a Sweet 16 appearance last year)

Point being? These guys are not cuddly gophers, but mad beavers ready to get over their blue blooded hump.

I have no idea whether we can beat them and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time analyzing the numbers because it'll depress me. Our guys made a hell of an inspired run to even be here, but I don't think any of us would be satisfied to go home now with a "well, at least we made it." So...I'm going to push the button and hope for the best. After all, I didn't anticipate any of this and that's what makes it all the more awesome.

[Young Drachma]

1930 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP


Colorado 103, Minnesota 88

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Jose Chamblee C 27 1-4 3-5 2 5 2 4 5
Willie Canales PF 27 9-15 5-5 2 3 2 3 23
Z. Applewhite SF 30 2-8 3-4 1 7 3 3 8
Nick Calvert SG 26 4-10 6-6 2 2 4 2 15
Matthew Geisler PG 31 4-10 0-2 2 10 12 4 11
David Ross SG 18 2-7 0-0 0 0 0 1 6
Jame Price PG 10 0-2 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Ruben Nelson C 13 6-8 0-0 0 5 2 0 12
Chris Freeman PF 11 2-8 0-0 4 10 0 1 4
James Sparkman SF 4 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 4
Beau Emmett PF 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 14 (J.Chamblee 1, Z.Applewhite 2, N.Calvert
4, M.Geisler 3, D.Ross 3, C.Freeman 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (J.Chamblee 1, N.Calvert 1, M.Geisler
1, D.Ross 1)
Steals: 3 (W.Canales 1, M.Geisler 1, J.Sparkman 1)
3P FGs: 7-26 (W.Canales 0-1, Z.Applewhite 1-5,
N.Calvert 1-3, M.Geisler 3-9, D.Ross 2-5, J.Price 0-2,
J.Sparkman 0-1)

Colorado Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Reuben Fox C 35 10-19 0-0 3 13 5 3 20
Silas Clements PF 32 8-17 0-1 3 7 2 2 16
Claude Adkins SF 24 5-14 2-2 1 7 3 2 13
Carlos Wolfgang SG 12 3-3 2-2 0 1 0 4 10
Alphonso Jackson SG 32 12-17 4-4 3 5 9 3 30
R. Treadwell PG 25 1-2 2-2 0 2 3 1 4
Jules Moore PG 10 2-2 2-2 1 4 3 1 8
Siegmund Kriegers PG 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 0
Henry Mellon PF 11 0-2 0-0 1 2 1 3 0
Brian Hyde PF 2 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Jordan Carrigan SF 11 0-6 0-0 0 5 1 1 0
Matthew Felton SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 11 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 3, C.Adkins 1,
C.Wolfgang 1, R.Treadwell 1, J.Moore 1, H.Mellon 1,
J.Carrigan 2)
Blocked Shots: 8 (R.Fox 1, S.Clements 4, H.Mellon 3)
Steals: 6 (R.Fox 1, C.Adkins 2, A.Jackson 2,
R.Treadwell 1)
3P FGs: 7-17 (C.Adkins 1-2, C.Wolfgang 2-2, A.Jackson
2-7, J.Moore 2-2, J.Carrigan 0-4)

Player of Game: PG Alphonso Jackson (COL)

[Young Drachma]

Well after that, I'm really leaving Colorado now. One of the things I tried to figure out was HOW to assess where I could go when it was time to leave.

Same rule applies as before, that if the head coach gets fired by the trustees before I can fire him, it means I'm fired too and I have to go down a level in conference prestige (and lower team prestige than where I was)

What I did was add a section of coach calc called Prestige Bank. Basically at each school I go to, I get prestige points leftover from whatever the difference is between what it was when I got there and what it was when I left.

So at Wyoming, it was the same when I got there as it was when I left so we gained zilch. (62-62)

At Colorado, we began at 51. Seven years later, we're at 79. I can go up 28 prestige points. Which of course, means I can take over any program I want.

I'm tempted to stay in the five-prestige conference boat and take over another struggling program looking to gain a foothold, since there's nothing to gain at a school that's already in the 90s, just lots to lose. But...I think I've earned a bit of a respite from the rebuilding game for a minute and I'd like to see what it's like when you have money to spend and just have to hire wisely.

I try to stick with programs that have fired or retired a coach, so I don't have to get rid of someone prematurely in this instance and so, the finalist programs were Stanford (99), Marquette (98), North Carolina (93) and Texas (86).

I couldn't do Stanford because I'd hate to leave for an inter-conference competitor and Texas didn't appeal to me for other reasons. It left me with UNC -- who still haven't won a title, but are perennial tournament visitors -- and Marquette. I have no interest in relocating virtually to Milwaukee, but the situation there is mondo interesting.

In 30 years, they've had just two head coaches. The second one has now retired. Donnie Ward coached there from 1899-1922 and is currently 9th all-time in coaching wins (677) and Glenn Weaver is 12th all-time in coaching wins (652) and came to Marquette after taking Air Force to a national title in 1922 and won it the next year with Marquette in 1923. So far, he's the only coach to take two teams to a title.

(Current Syracuse HC Bernard Kratz might be the 2nd, he's already gotten them to a Final Four since he got there. He won two titles with Ohio State earlier in his career.)

Anyway, Marquette and three other programs (Georgetown, Missouri, LSU) are tied behind Syracuse (4) for the most titles so far. They've made the sweet 16 sixteen times, boast 11 Elite 8 appearances and have five Final Fours in this history.

The task is not to go through a flurry of hiring and firing coaches, but to find a steady guy who can take over the job, grow into it and hopefully build a legacy of championships.

I find this intriguing and so, we're going to risk prestige points and try our hand at Marquette. What is it with me and teams that wear gold?

[Young Drachma]

Hiring for Marquette wasn't the easiest task in the world. This wasn't a job I could go out and get an assistant to do. We needed a proven coach, but I wanted a guy who was young enough that he'd inhabit the job for a long time, to maintain the stability of the program.

I knew I wanted to come up with a storyline of bringing a "Marquette guy" into the fold to coach and since the game doesn't automatically generate former players as coaches, I was committed to changing the name of whoever I identified as a suitable candidate to fit my storyline. Chucho Garrido graduated in 1905 and was the 37th overall pick that year. Luckily, I managed to stumble into a coach who's background was perfect to become Chucho's.

He is one of three Marquette players with 2000 career points and is third on the all-time scoring list at the school. The big man became a coach about six years after graduating, joining the staff at UW-Milwaukee. He stayed there until 1921, joined Glenn Weaver at Air Force and when he left to become just the 2nd head coach in Marquette history, Chucho was back home again.

He stayed until it was time to step out on his own, as the Head Coach at South Dakota State where he won two Summit League titles and was named conference coach of the year twice. He joined Rice last year and led them to a 22-win season. No one expected Coach Weaver to retire, but when he did, the clause in Garrido's contract was trigger enabling him to leave with no penalty if Marquette was interested. The only nice thing about being at a dominant program is not having to worry a whole lot about the spending part of it. But in case you were curious, his total compensation would total about $5.53 million.

Within days of my arrival, I knew what had to be done and the deal was done. Marquette hires it's third head coach in school history and the hope is that he'll be in that role for a very long time to come.


COACH DETAILS

Chucho Garrido - Head Coach - Marquette
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Age: 46
High School: West Shore Senior High School
Hometown: Melbourne, FL
Alma Mater: Marquette

Current Level: 6
Career Record: 81 - 50

Recruiting: 12
Scouting: 10
Offense: 98
Defense: 100


Coaching History:
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Season Team Position W L CW CL Postseason
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1929 Rice Head Coach 22 12 9 5 Loss in NIT Round 1
1928 South Dakota State Head Coach 21 11 12 2 Loss in NIT Round 1
1927 South Dakota State Head Coach 16 16 7 7 No Postseason
1926 South Dakota State Head Coach 22 11 11 3 Loss in NIT Round 1
1925 Marquette Assistant 22 12 10 6 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1924 Marquette Assistant 26 9 11 5 Loss in NCAA Tourney Round 2
1923 Marquette Assistant 36 3 14 2 NCAA Champion
1922 Air Force Assistant 37 2 14 2 NCAA Champion
1921 Milwaukee Assistant 15 15 10 8 No Postseason
1920 Milwaukee Assistant 7 22 4 14 No Postseason
1919 Milwaukee Assistant 16 15 8 10 No Postseason
1918 Milwaukee Assistant 6 24 4 14 No Postseason
1917 Milwaukee Assistant 19 11 11 7 No Postseason
1916 Milwaukee Assistant 14 17 8 10 No Postseason
1915 Milwaukee Assistant 12 18 7 11 No Postseason
1914 Milwaukee Assistant 10 21 7 11 No Postseason
1913 Milwaukee Assistant 17 14 10 8 No Postseason
1912 Milwaukee Assistant 14 16 10 8 No Postseason

Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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1928 Conference Coach of the Year (Summit League)
1928 Summit League Champion
1926 Conference Coach of the Year (Summit League)
1926 Summit League Champion

Job Movement:
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Season Move
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1930 Hired by Marquette (Head Coach)
1930 Quit job with Rice
1929 Hired by Rice (Head Coach)
1929 Quit job with South Dakota State to pursue a higher position
1926 Hired by South Dakota State (Head Coach)
1926 Quit job with Marquette to pursue a higher position
1923 Moved with head coach from Air Force to Marquette
1922 Hired by Air Force (Assistant Coach)
1922 Staff fired by Milwaukee
1912 Hired by Milwaukee (Assistant Coach)

[Young Drachma]

No big surprise here, I guess. But Joe Peebles left Colorado to take over the job at North Carolina. I considered hiring him at Marquette, but thought it'd be better to go in a different direction here. Two of the assistants went with him, while head scout Lloyd Wicks went to Loyola Marymount to be the head man there.

Sort of sad in a way, but I think everyone will be okay.

[Young Drachma]

Hard to adjust your expectations from being in a place where winning was a luxury to a situation where anything LESS than 25+ wins and a Final Four is the expectation. But I'm going to learn. Regular season is over for the 1930-31 season.


#7 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 98 Record Vs 1-50: 8-2 Poll Rank: #7
Season Record: 27-5 Record Vs 51-100: 4-2 RPI Rank: #12
Conference Record: 13-3 Record Vs 101-200: 7-1
Home Record: 14-1 Record Vs 200+: 8-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 81.8 2 13 Points 64.7 6 59 Points 17.1 3 6
O.Reb 12.9 3 45 O.Reb 10.0 8 79 O.Reb 2.9 3 29
D.Reb 24.3 14 186 D.Reb 22.3 4 54 D.Reb 1.9 6 51
Rebounds 37.2 8 91 Rebounds 32.4 6 48 Rebounds 4.8 4 23
Assists 18.9 4 11 Assists 12.5 2 81 Assists 6.4 3 5
Steals 7.6 2 23 Steals 4.6 6 26 Steals 3.0 1 12
Blocks 3.8 6 84 Blocks 3.7 16 324 Blocks 0.1 9 155
Turnovers 11.1 2 5 Turnovers 16.3 3 29 Turnovers -5.2 2 9
Fouls 19.9 17 301 Fouls 18.6 6 186 Fouls 1.3 14 298
FG% .490 2 7 FG% .427 2 83 FG% .063 3 11
FT% .678 12 166 FT% .663 3 102 FT% .015 11 128
3P% .417 1 5 3P% .329 4 97 3P% .088 1 5
PPS 1.34 2 15 PPS 1.25 11 212 PPS .086 4 48
Adj. FG% .550 2 14 Adj. FG% .475 2 47 Adj. FG% .075 2 10



We end the regular season ranked 7th in the nation with a 27-5 record. The real season begins right now. We are the #2 seed in the Big East Tournament.


#7 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Joshua Andersen PG 32 32 31.3 14.3 1.5 3.9 8.1 2.9 0.1 1.8 3.3 14.2
Clark Simmons C 32 32 30.3 12.9 2.5 7.0 1.4 0.4 1.5 1.8 2.8 15.2
Kevin Marks SF 32 32 29.7 17.3 2.3 5.5 2.3 1.0 0.1 1.8 2.8 13.8
Gregory Hodge SG 32 32 29.1 14.7 1.5 3.4 2.1 1.2 0.1 2.1 2.4 11.9
Allan Hudnall PF 32 32 26.2 4.9 2.2 7.6 1.2 0.4 0.4 0.8 2.9 12.4
Charles Ables PG 32 0 19.8 9.6 1.3 3.6 1.6 0.4 0.1 0.8 1.6 7.0
Chris Gregory PF 32 0 10.2 2.3 0.8 2.6 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.5 1.5 3.8
Rolf Davis SG 32 0 8.0 2.9 0.2 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.9 3.7
Lowell Munro SF 32 0 6.7 1.9 0.1 0.7 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.9 2.6
Dario Etter C 32 0 5.3 0.4 0.3 1.3 0.2 0.1 0.9 0.3 0.4 1.2
Dennis Begin PF 30 0 3.0 0.5 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 1.2
Elwood Madewell SF 11 0 2.9 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.5
Jonathan Radcliff SG 3 0 1.3 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.7
Harvey Rochester PF 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0




#7 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/12/30 vs. Brigham Young 7-22 255 W 74-45 1-0
11/14/30 vs. George Mason 10-20 214 W 99-73 2-0
11/17/30 vs. San Diego State 22-9 39 W 83-72 3-0
11/19/30 vs. #9 North Carolina State 28-5 24 L 88-84 3-1
11/25/30 Eastern Illinois 12-18 250 W 85-50 4-1
12/03/30 Austin Peay 18-15 106 W 98-62 5-1
12/05/30 at Illinois State 16-15 186 W 101-92 6-1
12/07/30 Air Force 21-12 32 W 73-64 7-1
12/17/30 at Milwaukee 11-20 233 W 73-65 8-1
12/19/30 Butler 19-13 59 W 67-60 9-1
12/22/30 at Western Illinois 14-16 209 W 65-51 10-1
12/25/30 George Mason 10-20 214 W 82-57 11-1
12/28/30 Hofstra 16-15 90 W 84-52 12-1
12/31/30 at IUPUI 17-17 123 L 91-84 12-2
01/03/31 Akron 12-19 332 W 88-55 13-2
01/10/31 at Saint Louis 9-20 268 W 79-69 14-2
01/14/31 #3 Syracuse 31-3 2 W 85-63 15-2 (1-0)
01/17/31 Louisville 12-18 127 W 78-50 16-2 (2-0)
01/21/31 at DePaul 16-14 113 L 73-70 16-3 (2-1)
01/24/31 at Notre Dame 11-21 110 W 83-59 17-3 (3-1)
01/28/31 at Connecticut 12-18 161 W 78-58 18-3 (4-1)
01/31/31 #5 Cincinnati 26-5 3 W 66-65 19-3 (5-1)
02/04/31 at St. John's 20-13 53 W 84-53 20-3 (6-1)
02/07/31 Massachusetts 6-24 287 W 79-70 21-3 (7-1)
02/11/31 at Texas Christian 19-13 66 L 72-70 21-4 (7-2)
02/14/31 at #12 South Florida 27-7 11 W 83-50 22-4 (8-2)
02/18/31 #4 Georgetown 28-4 16 L 87-80 22-5 (8-3)
02/21/31 Seton Hall 19-13 51 W 92-72 23-5 (9-3)
02/25/31 at West Virginia 14-18 146 W 95-42 24-5 (10-3)
02/28/31 at Providence 17-15 86 W 86-68 25-5 (11-3)
03/04/31 Rutgers 21-10 61 W 86-85 26-5 (12-3)
03/07/31 Pittsburgh 17-14 36 W 82-57 27-5 (13-3)
03/12/31 vs. Texas Christian 19-13 66 W 65-52 28-5
03/13/31 vs. #4 Georgetown 28-4 16 W 65-63 29-5
03/14/31 vs. #3 Syracuse 31-3 2 L 75-55 29-6



Lost in the Big East Tournament Finals to Syracuse.

[Young Drachma]

#3 in the West region.

Marquette beats Pepperdine 79-65 in the 1st round, but falls in the upset to 6-seed Indiana in the 2nd round 87-84.

1930-31 FINAL FOUR
3 NC State def. 1 Stanford 95-84
1 Missouri def. 1 Syracuse 86-85

Missouri def. NC State 89-85

Maybe I should've taken over Mizzou and hired someone to come in here and post rumors of who we'd hire.

[Young Drachma]

RECRUITING: #47

After this upcoming season, I'm going to take over a second school and run them parallel to Marquette. It'll be a low-prestige program from a smaller conference, sort of purposely because it's the thing we haven't done yet. So we'll go even lower the mid-majors and find a low major looking for a coach and take over that gig instead.

Should be interesting.

But in the meantime, we're going to get back to Marquette basketball's second season. After this coming year, if the team doesn't perform better -- and recruiting was poor this past year, so not expecting a lot -- then we're going to get rid of the assistants he inherited when he took this job.

We're committed to Chucho for the long-term, unless there's a compelling reason to remove him. It's partially why I want a second program to monitor, but also just to see how to run a small budget team that can't get it's first or second choice of coaches.

[Young Drachma]

1931-32 SEASON

For the first time ever, one of my teams finally won their conference tournament. Marquette claims the Big East championship.


#13 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige: 97 Record Vs 1-50: 8-2 Poll Rank: #13
Season Record: 25-6 Record Vs 51-100: 6-4 RPI Rank: #6
Conference Record: 13-3 Record Vs 101-200: 9-0
Home Record: 13-1 Record Vs 200+: 2-0


Team Stats CR NR Opp. Stats CR NR Margin CR NR
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Points 78.7 6 24 Points 60.5 1 7 Points 18.3 1 5
O.Reb 11.9 8 119 O.Reb 8.1 2 6 O.Reb 3.7 3 20
D.Reb 26.2 4 40 D.Reb 22.2 4 41 D.Reb 4.0 3 7
Rebounds 38.0 5 55 Rebounds 30.3 1 5 Rebounds 7.7 1 8
Assists 19.7 2 5 Assists 11.8 1 21 Assists 7.9 1 2
Steals 8.4 1 8 Steals 4.6 4 41 Steals 3.7 1 7
Blocks 5.2 4 34 Blocks 4.4 18 360 Blocks 0.9 7 88
Turnovers 13.3 8 115 Turnovers 16.8 3 15 Turnovers -3.5 4 23
Fouls 19.3 16 254 Fouls 17.0 17 338 Fouls 2.3 17 336
FG% .499 1 2 FG% .416 4 38 FG% .083 2 3
FT% .668 12 215 FT% .668 5 119 FT% .000 12 188
3P% .403 2 9 3P% .306 1 19 3P% .096 2 2
PPS 1.32 4 24 PPS 1.18 6 71 PPS .142 5 21
Adj. FG% .553 2 9 Adj. FG% .459 1 13 Adj. FG% .094 2 5



#13 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES Schedule

Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/08/31 vs. Hampton 24-8 58 L 89-75 0-1
11/24/31 at Illinois-Chicago 20-15 83 W 70-35 1-1
11/30/31 at Valparaiso 19-13 54 L 60-56 1-2
12/03/31 Creighton 14-18 195 W 58-44 2-2
12/08/31 Detroit 18-15 56 W 87-62 3-2
12/10/31 Eastern Kentucky 13-16 155 W 77-56 4-2
12/12/31 Cleveland State 14-16 156 W 81-45 5-2
12/15/31 Bowling Green 20-13 63 L 85-75 5-3
12/19/31 at Northern Illinois 11-20 268 W 76-61 6-3
12/23/31 at Milwaukee 17-15 97 W 101-58 7-3
12/30/31 Akron 13-19 147 W 69-45 8-3
01/08/32 at Wisconsin 20-12 22 W 72-64 9-3
01/13/32 at #10 South Florida 25-7 12 L 68-66 9-4 (0-1)
01/16/32 at Georgetown 19-11 82 W 87-63 10-4 (1-1)
01/20/32 Connecticut 15-15 166 W 100-50 11-4 (2-1)
01/23/32 #8 Syracuse 27-7 4 W 85-60 12-4 (3-1)
01/27/32 at Villanova 6-23 236 W 68-60 13-4 (4-1)
01/30/32 #4 Cincinnati 27-5 8 W 74-71 14-4 (5-1)
02/03/32 at Pittsburgh 16-15 136 W 83-61 15-4 (6-1)
02/06/32 Notre Dame 12-19 137 W 87-58 16-4 (7-1)
02/10/32 Rutgers 20-13 43 W 78-55 17-4 (8-1)
02/13/32 at St. John's 20-11 42 L 71-69 17-5 (8-2)
02/17/32 Texas Christian 17-13 45 W 88-61 18-5 (9-2)
02/20/32 DePaul 14-17 126 W 85-54 19-5 (10-2)
02/24/32 at Massachusetts 13-19 180 W 87-60 20-5 (11-2)
02/27/32 West Virginia 17-15 60 W 93-50 21-5 (12-2)
03/02/32 at Seton Hall 21-11 33 W 79-57 22-5 (13-2)
03/05/32 at Louisville 20-11 86 L 83-82 22-6 (13-3)
03/10/32 vs. West Virginia 17-15 60 W 66-43 23-6
03/11/32 vs. #10 South Florida 25-7 12 W 75-63 24-6
03/12/32 vs. #8 Syracuse 27-7 4 W 92-83 25-6


I'm guessing a 2-seed in the tournament? I guess we'll find out.

[Young Drachma]

#1 seed in the West Region. Let's go to work.


#8 MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES Averages

Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Clark Simmons C 31 31 30.1 16.6 3.1 7.5 1.7 0.5 2.4 2.6 2.6 14.7
Gregory Hodge SG 31 31 31.9 16.1 1.6 3.6 3.2 1.7 0.4 2.1 2.9 16.8
Joshua Andersen PG 31 31 30.3 13.5 1.5 4.8 7.6 2.2 0.1 1.8 3.4 16.1
Chris Gregory SF 31 31 27.1 8.5 1.8 7.0 2.0 1.5 0.5 1.8 2.4 14.3
Allan Hudnall PF 31 31 27.6 6.9 1.6 7.7 1.4 0.3 0.5 1.2 2.8 14.1
Elwood Madewell C 31 0 11.7 4.3 0.6 2.0 0.5 0.3 0.1 1.1 1.5 3.7
Lowell Munro SF 31 0 12.9 4.1 0.4 1.4 1.6 0.8 0.1 1.0 1.4 5.0
Rolf Davis SG 31 0 9.4 3.7 0.2 1.0 0.4 0.5 0.0 0.9 1.0 1.9
Dennis Begin PF 31 0 9.2 2.2 0.4 1.6 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.7 4.5
John Ferris PG 1 0 2.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0
Jack Bobbitt PG 31 0 5.8 1.7 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.4 1.1
Jonathan Radcliff SG 17 0 2.6 0.9 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 -0.5
Dario Etter C 22 0 3.3 0.6 0.2 0.8 0.0 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.2 0.8
Tony Robinson PG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ira Shay C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

[Young Drachma]

1931-32 NCAA TOURNAMENT
North Texas def. Citadel (87-77)

WEST REGION 2ND ROUND
#1 Marquette 105, 16 North Texas 69
#9 Houston 89, 8 Wisconsin 87
#13 Bowling Green 85, 4 North Carolina 82
#12 Fresno State, 5 Washington State 78
#2 Nevada 86, 15 St. Mary's 74
#7 Washington 82, 10 George Mason 65
#3 Baylor 81, 14 Fairleigh-Dickenson 67
#11 Sacramento State 85, 6 Georgia 73

WEST REGION 3RD ROUND
#1 Marquette 68, #9 Houston 66


Marquette 68, Houston 66

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Genaro Arbuckle C 35 1-3 0-0 3 6 2 2 2
Nestor Salters PF 33 11-14 5-10 1 5 1 2 27
J. Spaulding SF 35 1-9 2-2 0 6 5 3 4
Jerome Johnson SG 8 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 5 2
Edward Schaeffer PG 33 5-11 2-3 0 0 6 2 14
Charles Thurmond SG 28 4-7 4-4 1 7 5 1 13
James McGuire SG 11 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
M. Wainwright PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Ben Buckingham SF 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 2 2
Justin Love PF 8 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 2 0
George Cuellar C 4 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 2
Chris Harry C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
David Mathis PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 16 (G.Arbuckle 2, N.Salters 1, J.Spaulding
4, J.Johnson 1, E.Schaeffer 3, C.Thurmond 2, J.McGuire
1, B.Buckingham 1, G.Cuellar 1)
Blocked Shots: 5 (G.Arbuckle 4, J.Spaulding 1)
Steals: 10 (G.Arbuckle 2, J.Spaulding 2, J.Johnson 1,
E.Schaeffer 3, C.Thurmond 2)
3P FGs: 3-16 (J.Spaulding 0-4, J.Johnson 0-1,
E.Schaeffer 2-5, C.Thurmond 1-4, J.McGuire 0-2)

Marquette Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clark Simmons C 22 3-7 2-5 0 3 1 4 8
Allan Hudnall PF 29 0-1 2-2 0 5 1 2 2
Chris Gregory SF 26 7-13 0-0 4 8 1 3 16
Gregory Hodge SG 33 3-8 1-2 1 3 2 0 7
Joshua Andersen PG 21 6-8 2-3 0 4 4 4 17
Lowell Munro SF 15 3-5 1-2 2 3 0 0 8
Rolf Davis SG 12 2-3 0-0 0 0 0 1 5
Elwood Madewell C 10 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Bobbitt PG 9 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 2 0
Jonathan Radcliff SG 4 0-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Dennis Begin PF 13 1-3 2-2 1 2 2 4 5
Dario Etter C 5 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 22 (C.Simmons 5, A.Hudnall 2, C.Gregory 2,
G.Hodge 4, J.Andersen 2, R.Davis 3, J.Bobbitt 2,
D.Begin 1, D.Etter 1)
Blocked Shots: 3 (C.Gregory 1, L.Munro 1, D.Etter 1)
Steals: 8 (C.Simmons 1, C.Gregory 2, G.Hodge 2, L.Munro
2, R.Davis 1)
3P FGs: 8-18 (C.Gregory 2-4, G.Hodge 0-5, J.Andersen
3-4, L.Munro 1-2, R.Davis 1-2, D.Begin 1-1)

Player of Game: PF Nestor Salters (HOU)



#12 Fresno State 103, #13 Bowling Green 97
#2 Nevada 83, #7 Washington 80
#3 Baylor 84, #11, Sacramento State 62

NCAA SWEET 16
W#1: Marquette 75, W#12 Fresno State 58


Marquette 75, Fresno State 58

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Brent Carbaugh C 24 4-7 6-9 1 4 0 2 14
Reginald Haile PF 27 3-5 2-2 1 4 0 2 8
Basil Kline SF 36 7-13 2-2 3 8 2 3 18
D. Bissonnette SF 24 2-8 2-2 2 2 4 5 7
Odis Graf PG 31 2-7 2-2 1 3 2 4 7
Tanner Kimbro C 14 1-3 0-0 0 4 0 2 2
Daniel Leon PG 19 0-1 0-0 1 1 1 1 0
Bennie Rodrigez PF 12 0-2 0-2 2 7 0 1 0
Lawrence Cloud SF 8 1-1 0-0 0 2 3 0 2
Kenneth Reardon C 2 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Allen Bogard SF 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0

Turnovers: 25 (B.Carbaugh 3, R.Haile 3, B.Kline 4,
D.Bissonnette 6, O.Graf 6, D.Leon 3)
Blocked Shots: 3 (R.Haile 1, B.Kline 1, D.Leon 1)
Steals: 9 (B.Kline 2, D.Bissonnette 1, O.Graf 1, D.Leon
1, L.Cloud 4)
3P FGs: 4-17 (B.Kline 2-7, D.Bissonnette 1-5, O.Graf
1-5)

Marquette Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clark Simmons C 32 10-15 4-5 6 11 1 4 24
Allan Hudnall PF 29 4-7 2-3 3 7 3 2 10
Chris Gregory SF 28 2-9 5-5 5 7 1 3 9
Gregory Hodge SG 33 4-15 0-2 3 4 5 1 9
Joshua Andersen PG 36 4-14 3-4 0 1 7 1 12
Lowell Munro SG 13 4-4 0-0 0 1 1 3 8
Rolf Davis SF 7 0-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Elwood Madewell C 11 0-2 0-0 2 5 0 3 0
Jack Bobbitt PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Jonathan Radcliff SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0
Dennis Begin PF 7 1-1 1-1 1 2 0 0 3

Turnovers: 15 (C.Simmons 6, C.Gregory 3, G.Hodge 1,
J.Andersen 4, J.Radcliff 1)
Blocked Shots: 0
Steals: 13 (C.Simmons 1, A.Hudnall 1, C.Gregory 2,
G.Hodge 3, J.Andersen 4, L.Munro 2)
3P FGs: 2-18 (C.Gregory 0-4, G.Hodge 1-8, J.Andersen
1-4, R.Davis 0-2)

Player of Game: C Clark Simmons (MARQ)




W#2 Nevada 87, W#3 Baylor 75
MW#1 Missouri 90, MW#5 Ohio State 76
MW#2 Stanford 87, MW#3 South Florida 68
S#1 NC State 80, S#5 California 75
S#2 Syracuse 63, S#3 Mississippi St 52
E#8 Georgia State 83, #4 Illinois 54
E#2 Virginia 99, #6 Louisiana State 72

NCAA REGIONAL FINALS (ELITE 8)
EAST: Virginia 102, Georgia State 87
SOUTH: Syracuse 70, NC State 61
MIDWEST: Missouri 71, Stanford 57
WEST: Marquette 95, Nevada 61


Marquette 95, Nevada 61

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Thomas Gonzalez C 32 3-9 1-1 2 7 2 3 9
Kyle Settle PF 27 2-8 0-0 1 2 1 4 4
Wilford Sundberg SF 35 4-9 2-6 0 3 2 1 11
Chris Segura SG 28 4-8 1-1 1 4 2 4 10
Gary Hardman PG 32 5-11 8-9 1 3 4 4 19
Daniel Smith SG 12 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 2 0
Isidoro Cortes SF 7 0-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 0
Andrew Stokes C 15 1-1 1-2 1 2 0 1 3
Wilford Dodds PG 5 1-1 0-0 0 0 1 0 2
Darrick Wagoner PG 1 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 1 3
Nathaniel James PF 5 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 18 (T.Gonzalez 2, W.Sundberg 1, C.Segura 8,
G.Hardman 2, D.Smith 2, I.Cortes 3)
Blocked Shots: 2 (K.Settle 2)
Steals: 9 (K.Settle 2, W.Sundberg 2, C.Segura 3,
G.Hardman 1, A.Stokes 1)
3P FGs: 6-19 (T.Gonzalez 2-4, W.Sundberg 1-3, C.Segura
1-2, G.Hardman 1-5, D.Smith 0-2, I.Cortes 0-1,
D.Wagoner 1-1, N.James 0-1)

Marquette Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clark Simmons PF 32 8-17 1-2 0 6 1 0 17
Allan Hudnall C 27 3-5 2-2 4 9 1 2 8
Chris Gregory SF 28 3-6 0-0 3 11 1 1 6
Gregory Hodge SG 34 11-15 6-6 0 1 3 4 32
Joshua Andersen PG 36 9-17 2-3 4 4 12 2 22
Lowell Munro SF 14 1-1 0-0 0 1 1 2 2
Rolf Davis SG 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 0
Elwood Madewell C 12 1-1 4-4 0 4 1 2 6
Jack Bobbitt PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 1 0
Jonathan Radcliff SG 1 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 2
Dennis Begin PF 10 0-2 0-0 1 5 0 1 0

Turnovers: 12 (C.Simmons 3, A.Hudnall 1, C.Gregory 2,
G.Hodge 2, J.Andersen 3, J.Bobbitt 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (C.Simmons 1, G.Hodge 1)
Steals: 8 (C.Gregory 2, J.Andersen 4, L.Munro 2)
3P FGs: 6-14 (C.Gregory 0-2, G.Hodge 4-6, J.Andersen
2-6)

Player of Game: SG Gregory Hodge (MARQ)




FINAL FOUR
2 Syracuse def. 1 Marquette 78-56


Syracuse 76, Marquette 58

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Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
John Ogle C 32 3-7 4-4 1 7 3 0 11
Wyatt McGrew PF 25 4-9 1-2 4 10 2 3 9
Murray Figueroa SF 34 7-12 2-6 2 8 2 2 21
Tyler Stahl SF 32 4-8 2-4 0 5 4 2 13
Gregg Billman PG 32 3-9 5-7 0 2 4 1 13
Zachary Hardaway SG 11 2-3 0-0 0 2 4 1 5
Leslie Zayas SG 8 0-2 0-0 1 3 1 1 0
John Hendley PF 19 1-2 0-1 1 3 0 1 2
Jewel Schaefer PG 3 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0
Richard Stratton PF 4 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 1 2

Turnovers: 15 (J.Ogle 1, W.McGrew 1, M.Figueroa 6,
T.Stahl 4, G.Billman 3)
Blocked Shots: 12 (J.Ogle 1, T.Stahl 2, J.Hendley 9)
Steals: 6 (W.McGrew 1, M.Figueroa 1, T.Stahl 1,
G.Billman 1, Z.Hardaway 1, J.Hendley 1)
3P FGs: 12-25 (J.Ogle 1-2, M.Figueroa 5-7, T.Stahl 3-5,
G.Billman 2-8, Z.Hardaway 1-2, L.Zayas 0-1)

Marquette Stats:
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Clark Simmons PF 32 3-13 0-0 4 9 3 3 6
Allan Hudnall PF 28 5-8 1-2 4 8 0 1 11
Chris Gregory SF 29 5-11 2-3 1 10 0 2 13
Gregory Hodge PG 17 3-5 1-2 0 0 2 4 9
Joshua Andersen SG 32 3-11 0-0 2 4 12 5 7
Lowell Munro PG 15 3-6 0-0 0 0 0 0 6
Rolf Davis SG 15 0-3 0-0 1 3 0 0 0
Elwood Madewell C 15 2-8 2-2 2 3 0 2 6
Jack Bobbitt PG 7 0-1 0-1 0 0 0 2 0
Jonathan Radcliff SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 2 0
Dennis Begin PF 7 0-2 0-0 1 1 0 0 0

Turnovers: 10 (C.Simmons 2, A.Hudnall 1, G.Hodge 1,
J.Andersen 1, L.Munro 1, R.Davis 3, J.Radcliff 1)
Blocked Shots: 6 (C.Simmons 4, G.Hodge 1, D.Begin 1)
Steals: 6 (G.Hodge 1, J.Andersen 1, L.Munro 1,
E.Madewell 1, J.Bobbitt 1, J.Radcliff 1)
3P FGs: 4-15 (C.Gregory 1-1, G.Hodge 2-3, J.Andersen
1-4, L.Munro 0-3, E.Madewell 0-3, J.Bobbitt 0-1)

Player of Game: SF Murray Figueroa (SYR)




2 Virginia def. 1 Missouri 73-71

Syracuse def. Virginia 83-81
This is Syracuse's 5th title.

[Young Drachma]

It's exciting to go to the Final Four, even if you're expected to be there by your administration. This is Marquette's first Final Four since winning the whole thing in 1923-24. This is the school's 6th Final Four overall. Chucho Garrido maintains the streak of each coaching who's coached here taking the team to a Final Four. Talk about a record for future coaches to have to uphold, huh?

[Young Drachma]

1932-33 CONFERENCE MOVEMENT
Longwood leaves Continental League for America East
North Alabama leaves Independent for Sun Belt
Grand Canyon (Phoenix, AZ) moves up to D1. Joins the WCC.

There will be some bigger changes coming down the pipe, but...not this off-season.

[Young Drachma]

I ended up saving this dynasty in state and creating a spinoff for myself because I wanted to go faster and tinker around some too. I'm not sure if I'll revisit this iteration or advance you to my future one or not.

I've made some fun alterations like eliminating auto-bids for 1 and 2 prestige conferences, brought in the two other tournaments to serve those underserved teams as a result (and it seems to be working nicely, as it turns out) and made some changes based on suggestions to my CoachCalc methodology that should help things too.

So I'll get around to this eventually, just not sure when and exactly how.