February-March 6, 2021
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/16/20 at Illinois 20-11 20 L 79-70 0-1
11/20/20 UL-Lafayette 20-9 92 W 81-72 1-1
11/22/20 vs. East Tennessee State 10-20 328 W 69-57 2-1
11/24/20 vs. Green Bay 10-22 243 L 69-67 2-2
11/25/20 vs. #9 Notre Dame 24-6 12 L 85-63 2-3
11/30/20 at Arizona State 11-17 126 W 93-84 3-3
12/09/20 Tennessee-Martin 14-18 210 L 79-67 3-4
12/14/20 at Tennessee State 17-14 226 W 63-62 4-4
12/19/20 Western Kentucky 14-17 260 L 77-69 4-5
12/22/20 Mississippi Valley State 12-17 270 W 97-65 5-5
12/25/20 Wisconsin 20-10 27 L 72-66 5-6
12/29/20 at Oakland 13-15 171 W 93-77 6-6
01/02/21 West Virginia 20-10 19 L 76-57 6-7
01/07/21 Kansas State 18-11 22 W 82-77 7-7
01/13/21 Southern Mississippi 12-17 237 L 73-65 7-8 (0-1)
01/16/21 at UTEP 12-18 198 W 81-63 8-8 (1-1)
01/20/21 Tulsa 17-11 71 L 99-81 8-9 (1-2)
01/23/21 East Carolina 12-18 154 L 68-63 8-10 (1-3)
01/27/21 at East Carolina 12-18 154 W 92-83 9-10 (2-3)
01/30/21 at Marshall 12-16 180 W 68-60 10-10 (3-3)
02/03/21 at Central Florida 13-17 145 W 86-77 11-10 (4-3)
02/06/21 UAB 18-10 135 W 75-73 12-10 (5-3)
02/10/21 at Tulsa 17-11 71 W 95-83 13-10 (6-3)
02/13/21 Tulane 18-11 64 L 67-55 13-11 (6-4)
02/17/21 at Southern Mississippi 12-17 237 W 87-83 14-11 (7-4)
02/20/21 Southern Methodist 12-17 238 W 80-74 15-11 (8-4)
02/24/21 Marshall 12-16 180 L 75-72 15-12 (8-5)
02/27/21 at Rice 18-11 74 L 81-73 15-13 (8-6)
03/03/21 at Houston 18-11 111 W 89-79 16-13 (9-6)
03/06/21 UTEP 12-18 198 W 77-76 17-13 (10-6)
I could not be happier with the way we finished the regular season. Obviously I'm disappointed at some of our losses, especially the Marshall loss on February 24th, but this team is really gelling and playing together, and I strongly believe a win or 2 in the C-USA Tourney will get us to the postseason, despite our less than impressive RPI.
Overall Record: 17-13
Conference Record: 10-6
Home Record: 6-9
Road Record: 10-2
Neutral Record: 1-2
Rank: 3 points in mid-major poll.
RPI: 118
Again, the RPI is the only thing that scares me about making a postseason tournament. We've got to have at least 1, maybe even 2 wins in the C-USA Tourney just to have a chance, in my opinion. Speaking of which, we'll be the 3rd seed and get a bye to the Quarterfinals, where we'll take on the winner of (11) SMU/(6) Tulane. That game, I'm not too worried about.
Recruiting News
Both guys we were looking at declined our offer, so now it's on to a couple new guys.
Player Stats
Here are the final regular season stats:
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Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Amos Lusk SG 30 30 30.6 13.9 1.5 4.6 3.0 1.6 0.1 1.9 2.2 1.0
John Breland SF 30 30 29.3 13.4 1.4 5.9 1.7 0.7 1.0 1.8 3.1 1.9
Troy Tomblin C 30 30 26.6 12.8 1.3 5.8 1.7 0.6 0.3 1.4 2.9 2.2
Antione Cantwell SF 30 30 30.0 11.9 2.7 5.0 3.9 0.8 0.3 2.0 3.3 1.4
Mario Albertini PG 30 0 24.2 7.8 0.5 2.2 3.2 1.3 0.1 1.3 2.2 0.3
Monte Donofrio PF 30 30 30.1 6.4 2.2 8.0 1.1 0.9 0.4 1.1 2.9 3.2
Michael Higgins SG 30 0 10.2 3.9 0.3 0.9 1.3 0.3 0.0 0.9 0.8 -1.4
Justin Bouldin SF 30 0 9.0 2.7 0.5 1.5 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.9 1.3 -0.8
Eldridge Boyd C 30 0 8.2 2.2 0.6 2.6 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.9 -1.6
Gerald Sena SG 20 0 2.1 1.1 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 -0.5
Stan Martin SF 8 0 3.3 0.8 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 -2.1
Jerry Robertson SG 2 0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -2.0
Brenton Tweedy C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Scottie Harris C 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0