December 2021
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record
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11/14/21 vs. Northwestern 5-8 123 W 82-61 1-0
11/16/21 vs. Towson 8-5 212 W 82-73 2-0
11/18/21 vs. #9 Mississippi State 11-1 15 L 85-73 2-1
11/22/21 at Nevada 6-6 127 L 83-73 2-2
11/26/21 Elon 0-10 185 W 74-55 3-2
11/30/21 at Kansas 9-3 87 L 80-72 3-3
12/04/21 USC Upstate 9-4 22 W 79-49 4-3
12/07/21 at Tennessee Tech 5-8 280 W 76-61 5-3
12/11/21 UC Davis 5-8 115 W 99-86 6-3
12/16/21 at Baylor 9-4 52 L 77-39 6-4
12/21/21 at Northern Iowa 7-4 198 W 76-62 7-4
12/27/21 North Carolina Central 7-6 24 W 76-67 8-4
12/31/21 #19 West Virginia 10-2 18 L 83-60 8-5
Overall Record: 8-5
Home Record: 4-1
Road Record: 2-3
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR in coaches poll, #16 in mid-major poll.
RPI: 23
I love that 23 for an RPI, looks solid. With the recent loss to West Virginia, we'll probably drop a few spots in the mid-major poll, but at least we are getting looks. As expected, Baylor and West Virginia hammered us, and we handled everybody else. We've got 1 more what should be a fairly easy non-conference game, then we head into conference play. Conference USA is the 9th ranked conference right now, so I expect a grind.
Recruiting News
We were able to get PG Thomas Mariano from Arkansas to commit. That's a nice pickup as we stole him from Arknsas. He's the #251 recruit in the nation. Again though, with that $6,000 a month budget, we just can't do much on the recruiting end. I've sent my assistant to evaluate a few more players though.
Team Statistics
Here's a look at the player averages through December 2021.
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Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/-
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Amos Lusk SG 13 13 29.5 17.0 1.8 5.5 3.5 0.7 0.1 2.5 3.0 2.3
Antione Cantwell SF 13 13 27.5 15.3 2.8 5.3 3.6 0.9 0.1 1.8 2.8 5.0
Troy Tomblin C 13 13 21.3 12.7 1.2 4.8 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.9 3.2 4.6
Mario Albertini PG 13 13 30.3 9.2 0.8 2.5 4.2 1.1 0.2 2.2 2.8 3.3
Gerald Sena SF 13 0 11.8 4.4 0.9 2.3 0.8 0.5 0.0 0.3 1.8 -0.5
Monte Donofrio PF 13 13 27.5 4.0 1.5 7.2 1.5 0.5 0.2 1.6 3.1 3.4
Justin Bouldin SF 13 0 12.2 3.8 0.7 2.2 0.9 0.8 0.2 1.6 1.7 -0.2
Brenton Tweedy C 13 0 18.3 2.5 1.8 5.8 0.5 0.4 1.5 0.7 1.7 -1.5
Stan Martin SF 9 0 5.7 2.1 0.3 0.9 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.1 -2.8
Eldridge Boyd C 13 0 7.8 2.1 0.5 1.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.6 0.9 -1.8
Manuel Abel PF 13 0 4.2 0.8 0.3 1.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.5
William Auten PG 12 0 5.0 0.8 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1
Scottie Harris C 6 0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5
Jerry Robertson SG 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
As you can see, Lusk, Cantwell, and Tomblin are our big 3 at the moment. Oh yeah, Jerry Robertson is off academic suspension. Big deal.