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Old 07-07-2015, 09:07 AM   #51
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March 29, 2019

NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
(7) #14 Memphis (27-8) vs. (3) #22 Auburn (25-9)

I'm not quite sure how Auburn did so well this season, other than about 3 blue/green rated players on their roster, the rest are yellow, orange, or red. Aldo Waring and James Ange are the guys to stop, if we can contain them, we've got a good chance. If not we probably end our season today.

What we needed to do, we didn't. Ange lit us up for 30 points, Waring had 15, and they had 2 other guys in double figures. They certainly didn't beat the tar out of us, as the lead never got into double digits, but it was steady, holding between 6 and 9 most of the game. We led once, and that was only because we scored the first basket. Our season ends with a 90-81 loss.

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Auburn 90, Memphis 81 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Auburn (26-9, 12-4): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Thomas Mello C 23 2-5 6-8 1 4 2 4 10 Brett Witkowski PF 20 1-4 0-0 5 5 2 4 2 Aldo Waring SF 33 5-19 4-5 7 17 1 1 15 James Ange SG 34 9-17 6-7 0 2 4 4 30 Malik Tucker PG 34 2-7 9-10 1 5 3 3 13 Patrick Hirsch SG 14 2-7 2-2 0 2 1 2 7 Michael Williams PG 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Sidney McCormick SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 Wes Lathrop SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Charles Nix C 26 3-3 0-0 2 4 0 1 7 Harland Barton PF 11 2-2 2-2 2 3 0 3 6 Turnovers: 12 (T.Mello 3, A.Waring 3, J.Ange 3, M.Tucker 1, P.Hirsch 1, C.Nix 1) Blocked Shots: 6 (C.Nix 6) Steals: 8 (A.Waring 1, J.Ange 2, M.Tucker 2, P.Hirsch 1, C.Nix 1, H.Barton 1) 3P FGs: 9-33 (T.Mello 0-1, A.Waring 1-13, J.Ange 6-11, M.Tucker 0-2, P.Hirsch 1-5, C.Nix 1-1) Memphis (27-9, 14-2): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Franklyn Crandell C 33 2-7 1-1 3 8 2 4 5 Gaston Lytle PF 27 5-11 8-10 2 4 0 5 18 David Berg SF 22 5-7 4-4 2 3 1 5 16 Thomas Diaz SG 33 2-6 7-8 0 3 0 3 13 Antione Cantwell PG 29 0-3 4-4 2 4 8 3 4 Carrol Nilsen SF 17 4-9 2-2 2 6 0 2 10 Mark Cohen PF 11 1-3 1-1 2 6 2 2 3 Kurt Marshall C 3 0-1 2-2 0 0 0 0 2 John Breland SF 7 3-6 0-0 0 0 0 2 8 Michael Higgins PG 16 1-5 0-0 0 2 2 0 2 Gerald Sena PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 13 (F.Crandell 2, G.Lytle 2, D.Berg 2, T.Diaz 3, A.Cantwell 2, C.Nilsen 1, M.Higgins 1) Blocked Shots: 5 (F.Crandell 2, T.Diaz 1, C.Nilsen 2) Steals: 4 (D.Berg 2, M.Higgins 2) 3P FGs: 6-20 (F.Crandell 0-1, D.Berg 2-3, T.Diaz 2-5, A.Cantwell 0-3, J.Breland 2-4, M.Higgins 0-4) Player of Game: SG James Ange (AUBRN)

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Old 07-07-2015, 09:19 AM   #52
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2019 Postseason Wrap-Up

I won't go into a full postseason run-down, Kansas beat Maryland in the National Championship game, while Mercer beat Indiana in the NIT championship.

Tulsa lost 87-69 to Southern Illinois in the First round of the NCAA Tournament.

UTEP lost to George Mason 76-67 in the Second Round of the NIT Tournament.

Houston lost 88-85 to Penn in the Second Round of the NIT Tournament.

Our most successful conference teams were UAB, who made it to the NIT Elite Eight, and Tulane, who won the CIT.

Next time, I'll take a look at the offseason. I can tell you right now, that this team next year might resemble the team I would have had at Sam Houston St. this season. It's going to be ugly.
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Old 07-08-2015, 07:43 PM   #53
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2019 Offseason

Awards

No national awards, which is a bit disappointing, but I was named Conference USA Coach of the Year, and several of my players got awards. Let's take a look:

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2018-2019 CONFERENCE USA AWARDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Player of the Year: SR SG Thomas Diaz Memphis 11.3 PPG, 8.3 RPG, 3.2 APG 1.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG Freshman of the Year: FR SF Greg Henriquez Rice 14.6 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 1.9 APG 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG Coach of the Year: Mike Schaplowsky Memphis 27 - 9 (14 - 2) All-league 1st Team: C SR Bryan Voyles Central Florida 15.4 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.3 SPG, 2.4 BPG PF SR Tony Griffin Tulsa 12.1 PPG, 9.7 RPG, 1.6 APG, 1.2 SPG, 0.4 BPG SF SR Jordan Justice Tulsa 14.5 PPG, 4.5 RPG, 1.6 APG, 0.8 SPG, 0.3 BPG SG SR Thomas Diaz Memphis 11.3 PPG, 8.3 RPG, 3.2 APG, 1.9 SPG, 0.2 BPG PG SR Andrew Hubbard Tulane 11.9 PPG, 2.0 RPG, 6.4 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG All-league 2nd Team: C JR Franklyn Crandell Memphis 8.4 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 1.5 APG, 0.5 SPG, 3.8 BPG PF JR Mervin Weathers Houston 10.5 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 1.6 APG, 0.3 SPG, 0.5 BPG SF SR David Berg Memphis 10.9 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 2.6 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.3 BPG SG JR Wilton Glaser Tulane 18.8 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 2.1 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.3 BPG PG SR Rafael Cano UTEP 14.4 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 4.5 APG, 1.1 SPG, 0.2 BPG All-freshman Team: C FR Charles West Rice 2.3 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 1.0 APG, 0.6 SPG, 1.5 BPG PF FR Abraham Hillard Tulsa 2.1 PPG, 2.8 RPG, 0.5 APG, 0.2 SPG, 0.4 BPG SF FR Greg Henriquez Rice 14.6 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 1.9 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG SG FR Lenard Meunier Marshall 15.5 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 2.2 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.2 BPG PG FR Amos Lusk Memphis 9.7 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 2.3 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG

Departing Players

C Kurt Marshall- graduating
SG Thomas Diaz- graduating
SF David Berg- graduating
PF Carrol Nilsen- graduating
PF Mark Cohen- entering draft
C Franklyn Crandell- entering draft
PF Gaston Lytle- entering draft.

F*ck!!!!! Basically my entire post is gone. Kurt didn't play much, and Carrol was disappointing, but the other 5 are huge losses. We are losing the C-USA player of the year in Diaz, while Franklyn Crandell was on the C-USA Second Team. Ok, so to be honest, while it sucks losing Cohen, he wasn't as big of a star as he should have been. Lytle outplayed him, but man it would have been nice to have 1 of those 2 back, and Crandell. Ugh!

Final Recruiting Class

FR C Troy Tomblin (***, #173 overall)
FR SF Stan Martin (***, #407 overall)

Well, at least I did sign 2 recruits this year, but I lost 7 players. And of those 7, only 1 was drafted. Mark Cohen went 44th overall. Damn you Gaston and Franklyn. Despite all that, Memphis still pulled the #124 class in the nation, but only 5th in the C-USA. Troy is going to thrown into the fire early, as he is the only big man on the roster, although John Breland is 6'7'', he may see some time at the 4. Stan will most likely redshirt. I'm hoping for some luck as far as transfers go.

Chuck Lugo, my recruiting coordinator, wants a raise. Yea, I'm taking a huge chance here, but I'm giving him his raise. Joshua Amos also wants a raise, but he didn't do squat to help me this season, so he isn't getting that raise.

No conference movement to speak of, so we're ok there.

Job Offers

Louisiana Tech has offered me their head coaching position. While they do have a full roster, it's a roster that quite frankly sucks. No thanks.

And that was it. I'm staying at Memphis. Talk about a slap in the face. Remember how I gave Chuck Lugo that raise? So how does he thank me? By taking the head coaching job at LA Tech. What a POS. Now I need a new recruiting coordinator. Didn't take long for me to find my guy. Gregg Orman is my new recruiting coordinator. His recruit rating is 81, which is 6 better than Chuck. But he's also costing me $60,000 more than Chuck would have.

Transfers

Remember how I said this years roster would resemble the roster of Sam Houston St. if I'd have stayed there? I wasn't lying. We go 7 deep, 6 if you take out Amos, who is still injured for another 286 days and probably won't be able to play until next February, at best. We've got 7 scholarships available for transfers. We need bodies, I don't care if they are red/red, red/orange, we just need bodies, especially in the post.

We've added 2 to the roster, C Scottie Harris and PF Brenton Tweedy. Neither one will amount for much but a warm body, which is what we need. Still 5 schollies to dish out.

Add 1 more to the roster, PF Monte Donofrio, another red/orange guy.

So we'll play the 2019-2020 season with 10 players. 10 sounds a lot better than 7.
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Old 07-10-2015, 05:57 PM   #54
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Here is a look at the initial 20 man call list for the recruiting period

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Name Pos Ht Wt Rating Interest State -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hector Friday C 6-11 311 *** Very High Tennessee Daniel Stout SG 6-2 177 *** Very High Tennessee Drew Osterman SF 6-6 222 *** Very High Tennessee Randell Sellars SG 6-3 171 **** High Tennessee Eldridge Boyd C 6-11 261 *** High Illinois Nicolas Lack PG 5-9 181 *** High Illinois Robert Nickel SG 6-4 197 *** High South Carolina David Gilpin C 6-9 221 ***** Average Minnesota Brent Sides C 6-8 230 ***** Average Wisconsin Mark Santoro SF 6-4 217 ***** Average New York Johnny Carillo C 6-7 232 **** Average Tennessee Wayne Rogers C 6-11 224 **** Average Illinois Garrett Oliveira C 6-8 235 **** Average North Carolina Roosevelt Mason PF 6-10 229 **** Average Texas Ervin Parent PF 6-6 231 **** Average Washington Claud Stevens PF 7-0 230 **** Average North Carolina Chris Sharp PF 6-9 234 **** Average Indiana John Farrell C 6-10 241 **** Average Virginia Clint Goodnight C 6-9 221 *** Average Tennessee Xander Aguilar PF 6-10 211 *** Average Tennessee

With 3 scholarships to hand out, we are still in a serious need for post players that can contribute, but I can't pass up on a 4 star SG that has high interest in us at the moment. Simply put, we need to get the best players we can get, and hopefully get these scholarships filled quickly.

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Old 07-10-2015, 06:18 PM   #55
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Offseason Recruiting News

August 2019

We've offered scholarships to 3 centers, Boyd, Friday, and Gilpin. All are either green or blue rated potential.

September 2019

No change in the 3 guys we offered schollies to, as Boyd and Friday still have very high interest, while Gilpin has average interest. We freed up another scholarship by cutting another walk-on, and offered it to 4 star Garrett Oliveira, another center. Good thing is, all 4 of these guys can play PF if need be.

October 2019

No change in interest with Boyd, Friday, or Gilpin. Boyd has us as his #1, with Xavier and Auburn on our heels. Friday has us #2, with Ole Miss in the lead. We're competing with Kansas for the services of Gilpin. Oliveira now has high interest in us, but we're behind North Carolina for his services.

November 2019 (early signing period)

Gilpin signed with Kansas, Friday signed with Ole Miss, Oliveira signed with North Carolina, and Boyd signed with us. Now we're back to the grind on our other 3 scholarships. I've added a few players to the call list, and here is what the new, updated call list looks like:

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Name Pos Ht Wt Rating Interest State -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Houser C 6-9 232 *** Average Oklahoma Donato Vila C 6-9 246 *** Average Spain Cyrus Cathey C 6-8 221 *** Average Texas Daniel Stout SG 6-2 177 *** Average Tennessee Robert Nickel SG 6-4 197 *** Average South Carolina Dominic Hewett SF 6-7 220 ***** Low Texas Mario Albertini PG 5-10 154 ***** Low Italy Richard Mundell PG 5-11 155 ***** Low Canada

We'll go 10 deep this season, as I decided to redshirt Amos Lusk. He's still injured for another 3 months, and if he came back this season, it would be in mid-February. Why have him waste a whole season on the IR? So he redshirts, everybody else plays.
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Old 07-15-2015, 06:55 PM   #56
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Here is a look at the roster for the 2019-2020 Memphis Tigers, as I finally learned how to use print screen for screenshots, so now you can see the color ratings:

The order of screenshots is as follows: overall, offense, defense, potential
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Old 07-15-2015, 06:57 PM   #57
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ok, so that didn't work like I thought it would, I thought it would actually show the screenshots in the post, but instead you have to click on the links. If you guys like it that way, I'll do it that way year by year, but if not, I'll just do the copy and paste and code from FBCB without the color codes. Here's a look at the schedule.



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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/19 vs. Detroit 0-0 66 11/22/19 VCU 0-0 69 11/27/19 at Utah State 0-0 45 12/01/19 at #9 Tennessee 0-0 6 12/05/19 Towson 0-0 38 12/09/19 at Kansas State 0-0 35 12/15/19 Purdue 0-0 287 12/20/19 South Florida 0-0 52 12/22/19 UL-Lafayette 0-0 84 12/28/19 Alcorn State 0-0 236 12/30/19 Texas Tech 0-0 65 01/04/20 Seton Hall 0-0 108 01/15/20 Tulane 0-0 67 01/18/20 at Tulsa 0-0 39 01/22/20 Southern Methodist 0-0 322 01/25/20 at Rice 0-0 151 01/29/20 at Southern Methodist 0-0 322 02/01/20 at UAB 0-0 106 02/05/20 UTEP 0-0 107 02/08/20 at East Carolina 0-0 198 02/12/20 at Tulane 0-0 67 02/15/20 Tulsa 0-0 39 02/19/20 Houston 0-0 58 02/22/20 Rice 0-0 151 02/26/20 UAB 0-0 106 02/29/20 Southern Mississippi 0-0 289 03/04/20 at Central Florida 0-0 122 03/07/20 at Marshall 0-0 238
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Old 07-15-2015, 07:17 PM   #58
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November 2019

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/19 vs. Detroit 1-2 173 W 88-86 1-0 11/11/19 vs. Western Michigan 1-2 184 W 57-43 2-0 11/17/19 vs. #13 Southern Illinois 7-0 13 L 83-66 2-1 11/22/19 VCU 1-4 315 W 67-66 3-1 11/27/19 at Utah State 4-1 91 L 64-59 3-2


About what I expected, as Southern Illinois is really good, and going to Utah State is always tough. 2 of our 3 wins have been by a combined 3 points. Oh boy!

Overall Record: 3-2
Home Record: 1-0
Road Record: 0-1
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR
RPI: 77

Recruiting News

None to speak of, no signings, none of the guys we are looking at signed elsewhere. I offered a couple scholarships to some of the 5 star guys that have average interest that haven't been offered yet.

Player Averages

Attached is a link to the player averages, so you can see how everybody is doing statwise.
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Old 07-15-2015, 07:19 PM   #59
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Well I'll be damned, this time the screenshot actually showed up. I guess it only works if it is a single attachment and not multiple. Crazy.
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Old 07-17-2015, 08:46 AM   #60
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December 2019

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/19 vs. Detroit 4-7 138 W 88-86 1-0 11/11/19 vs. Western Michigan 3-7 247 W 57-43 2-0 11/17/19 vs. #8 Southern Illinois 13-0 27 L 83-66 2-1 11/22/19 VCU 3-9 346 W 67-66 3-1 11/27/19 at Utah State 11-2 69 L 64-59 3-2 12/01/19 at #23 Tennessee 8-2 133 L 92-57 3-3 12/05/19 Towson 7-2 84 L 70-53 3-4 12/09/19 at Kansas State 6-5 189 L 85-71 3-5 12/15/19 Purdue 6-6 150 L 97-74 3-6 12/20/19 South Florida 9-3 50 L 61-51 3-7 12/22/19 UL-Lafayette 7-4 25 L 72-62 3-8 12/28/19 Alcorn State 3-8 202 L 89-66 3-9 12/30/19 Texas Tech 9-3 71 L 78-69 3-10


I'm about to go all Izulde on this game. How in the f*ck do we lose EVERY SINGLE GAME IN DECEMBER? Including getting pounded by teams like Towson and Alcorn St? Un-frikkin-believable! This team is an absolute joke, and it's thanks to my inept recruiting that we are in such bad shape. Of course it didn't help that half the team decided to leave early to go pro, and where are those guys now? I hope you like walking the streets looking for a dollar, you POSes. We start conference play next month, and hopefully, by the grace of god, that will be our saving grace.

Overall Record: 3-10
Home Record: 1-6
Road Record: 0-3
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR
RPI: 199

199? Really? That's f'in pathetic. This is not Memphis basketball. I may be looking for a new job next season due to the fact that my ass got canned here.

Recruiting News

The 5 star guys we were looking at signed elsewhere, but check this out, Mario Albertini, from Italy, is another 5 star recruit. And guess what, his interest in us is very high. Amazing, since we're not even on his top 5 list of schools. But nobody has offered him yet, so guess what, we're throwing everything his way, including a scholarship offer. Maybe I'll get lucky here.

Player Averages

Here's a look at the player averages through December, and it's not pretty.
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Old 07-17-2015, 08:59 AM   #61
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January 2020

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/19 vs. Detroit 8-12 134 W 88-86 1-0 11/11/19 vs. Western Michigan 7-11 250 W 57-43 2-0 11/17/19 vs. #8 Southern Illinois 21-1 14 L 83-66 2-1 11/22/19 VCU 5-16 327 W 67-66 3-1 11/27/19 at Utah State 14-6 93 L 64-59 3-2 12/01/19 at #18 Tennessee 14-4 28 L 92-57 3-3 12/05/19 Towson 15-3 47 L 70-53 3-4 12/09/19 at Kansas State 9-10 136 L 85-71 3-5 12/15/19 Purdue 11-9 100 L 97-74 3-6 12/20/19 South Florida 14-5 49 L 61-51 3-7 12/22/19 UL-Lafayette 14-6 79 L 72-62 3-8 12/28/19 Alcorn State 8-11 185 L 89-66 3-9 12/30/19 Texas Tech 12-6 27 L 78-69 3-10 01/04/20 #14 Seton Hall 16-3 38 L 59-43 3-11 01/15/20 Tulane 13-6 215 L 89-65 3-12 (0-1) 01/18/20 at Tulsa 12-7 81 L 68-66 3-13 (0-2) 01/22/20 Southern Methodist 5-13 346 W 60-59 4-13 (1-2) 01/25/20 at Rice 8-10 231 W 91-75 5-13 (2-2) 01/29/20 at Southern Methodist 5-13 346 L 79-56 5-14 (2-3)

Well, at least we won a couple games in January, but this team is still absolutely pathetic. We'll be lucky to win 10 games this season. I just don't understand it. Ah well, I'm still in good with the AD, let's write this season off and move on to next season.

Overall Record: 5-14
Conference Record: 2-3
Home Record: 2-8
Road Record: 1-5
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR
RPI: 195

Recruiting News

Boom shaka boom boom! That 5 star PG from Italy, Marco Albertini? We took a chance and through a schollie his way because nobody else had, and the MFer ACCEPTED IT! Hells yeah, that is my first 5 star signing so far. It's sad that it had to be a foreign guy though. We also signed SG Justin Bouldin. So I've got 1 scholarship left to fill, and I'm using it on a 4 star C from Washington who hasn't signed yet. If not, I have a fallback (hopefully) on a 3 star C from Georgia who hasn't been offered yet.

Player Averages

Here's a look at the player averages through January.
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Old 07-22-2015, 05:05 PM   #62
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February-March 7, 2020

I decided there was no reason to waste a post just for 2 regular season games in March, so I lumped them into the February post.

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/19 vs. Detroit 16-13 65 W 88-86 1-0 11/11/19 vs. Western Michigan 16-13 157 W 57-43 2-0 11/17/19 vs. #8 Southern Illinois 31-2 12 L 83-66 2-1 11/22/19 VCU 12-20 254 W 67-66 3-1 11/27/19 at Utah State 18-12 109 L 64-59 3-2 12/01/19 at #18 Tennessee 20-9 39 L 92-57 3-3 12/05/19 Towson 21-8 47 L 70-53 3-4 12/09/19 at Kansas State 15-15 107 L 85-71 3-5 12/15/19 Purdue 14-16 106 L 97-74 3-6 12/20/19 South Florida 20-10 44 L 61-51 3-7 12/22/19 UL-Lafayette 19-10 72 L 72-62 3-8 12/28/19 Alcorn State 13-16 190 L 89-66 3-9 12/30/19 Texas Tech 18-11 16 L 78-69 3-10 01/04/20 #11 Seton Hall 24-6 30 L 59-43 3-11 01/15/20 Tulane 22-8 115 L 89-65 3-12 (0-1) 01/18/20 at Tulsa 15-15 165 L 68-66 3-13 (0-2) 01/22/20 Southern Methodist 7-22 346 W 60-59 4-13 (1-2) 01/25/20 at Rice 15-14 166 W 91-75 5-13 (2-2) 01/29/20 at Southern Methodist 7-22 346 L 79-56 5-14 (2-3) 02/01/20 at UAB 23-8 34 L 84-61 5-15 (2-4) 02/05/20 UTEP 17-13 145 W 88-75 6-15 (3-4) 02/08/20 at East Carolina 14-15 180 L 89-70 6-16 (3-5) 02/12/20 at Tulane 22-8 115 L 64-63 6-17 (3-6) 02/15/20 Tulsa 15-15 165 W 77-60 7-17 (4-6) 02/19/20 Houston 18-10 67 L 100-93 7-18 (4-7) 02/22/20 Rice 15-14 166 W 79-71 8-18 (5-7) 02/26/20 UAB 23-8 34 L 62-38 8-19 (5-8) 02/29/20 Southern Mississippi 13-17 189 L 77-61 8-20 (5-9) 03/04/20 at Central Florida 13-16 154 W 74-63 9-20 (6-9) 03/07/20 at Marshall 10-20 245 W 78-47 10-20 (7-9)

At least we've got some momentum going into the C-USA Tournament, and we did get to 10 wins with an absolutely crap roster. It's pretty simple though, it's win the C-USA Tourney and get the auto bid to the NCAA Tourney, or for the first time in my career, I'll be watching the entire postseason from home.

Overall Record: 10-20
Conference Record: 7-9
Home Record: 5-11
Road Record: 3-8
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR
RPI: 173

Recruiting News

Nothing new on the recruiting front, we've still got 1 scholarship to use, and I've gone after some 3 star players who haven't been offered yet. Not that I'm expecting anything, I think I'll have that scholarship to use for a possible transfer. In any case, that 5 star guy we picked up has me excited for the future... that is if I have a future here after this season is over.


Here's a look at the final C-USA standings.


Code:
TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tulane 13 3 .813 22 8 .733 115 50 Houston 11 5 .688 18 10 .643 67 70 UTEP 10 6 .625 17 13 .567 145 65 UAB 10 6 .625 23 8 .742 34 76 Rice 10 6 .625 15 14 .517 166 42 Central Florida 8 8 .500 13 16 .448 154 55 East Carolina 8 8 .500 14 15 .483 180 45 Memphis 7 9 .438 10 20 .333 173 81 Tulsa 6 10 .375 15 15 .500 165 71 Southern Mississippi 5 11 .313 13 17 .433 189 49 Marshall 5 11 .313 10 20 .333 245 51 Southern Methodist 3 13 .188 7 22 .241 346 40

We are the #9 seed in the C-USA Tournament and will take on #8 seed Tulsa.

The other First Round Pairings are as follows:

(12) SMU vs. (5) Rice
(10) Southern Miss vs. (7) ECU
(11) Marshall vs. (6) Central Florida

Player Averages

Here's a look at the final player stat averages through the regular season:
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Old 07-23-2015, 11:59 AM   #63
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Just wanted to touch base and let everybody know that I will not be around much for the next couple weeks. There is a huge baseball tournament coming to town that I am helping out with. I may occasionally sneak in a post or 2 over the next 3 weeks, but don't hold your breath.

I will have a lot more free time starting mid-August though, so hopefully I can really get a move on this. Thanks for your patience all
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Old 08-10-2015, 06:26 PM   #64
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March 11, 2020

Conference USA First Round
(9) Tulsa (15-15) vs. (8) Memphis (10-20)

I've never been in this position in my young coaching career, playing so early in a conference tournament. We lost to Tulsa by 2 at their place, but won by 17 at home. This is a neutral game, so it'll be interesting to see how it plays out. They've got a great guard tandem of Lamar Coble and Jere Salter, so if we can contain them, our chances are good. We got lucky as Coble only played 11 minutes due to foul trouble, and Salter only scored 9 points. They did have 2 that had 16, but we had 4 in double figures led by Troy Tomblin with 18. The result was a 73-60 win, and we are one step closer to going back to the NCAA Tournament.

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Memphis 73, Tulsa 60 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tulsa (15-16, 6-10): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Leandro Pena C 30 0-5 0-0 2 8 0 4 0 Dewey Rasmussen PF 21 1-1 0-0 1 4 0 5 2 D. Ghesquier SF 27 4-17 0-0 3 5 1 2 10 Lamar Coble SG 11 0-1 0-0 1 2 3 4 0 Jere Salter SG 32 3-12 1-2 2 6 5 3 9 Everette Sapp PG 27 6-12 1-2 2 2 1 3 16 James Stauffer PG 3 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 Paul Porter SG 15 5-11 3-4 1 1 2 3 16 Abraham Hillard PF 16 0-1 0-0 1 5 0 0 0 Ricky Braziel C 11 1-4 0-0 3 5 1 0 2 Lamont Nordstrom SF 5 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 0 3 Charles Marino PF 2 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Turnovers: 7 (D.Rasmussen 1, D.Ghesquier 2, L.Coble 2, J.Salter 2) Blocked Shots: 2 (L.Pena 1, P.Porter 1) Steals: 3 (J.Salter 3) 3P FGs: 11-39 (L.Pena 0-1, D.Ghesquier 2-11, L.Coble 0-1, J.Salter 2-9, E.Sapp 3-5, J.Stauffer 0-2, P.Porter 3-8, L.Nordstrom 1-2) Memphis (11-20, 7-9): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 25 4-8 10-13 2 6 1 1 18 Monte Donofrio PF 27 1-3 2-2 1 8 3 4 4 John Breland SF 29 6-13 0-0 1 6 0 3 13 Gerald Sena SG 35 4-6 4-4 0 2 3 0 14 Antione Cantwell PG 33 5-13 3-4 2 3 0 2 13 Brenton Tweedy C 22 2-3 0-1 2 12 0 0 4 Jerry Robertson SG 19 1-5 5-8 0 1 0 3 7 Stan Martin SF 9 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Scottie Harris C 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 6 (M.Donofrio 3, J.Breland 1, A.Cantwell 1, S.Martin 1) Blocked Shots: 5 (A.Cantwell 1, B.Tweedy 2, J.Robertson 2) Steals: 1 (G.Sena 1) 3P FGs: 3-13 (J.Breland 1-2, G.Sena 2-4, A.Cantwell 0-3, J.Robertson 0-4) Player of Game: PF Troy Tomblin (MMPHS)



March 12, 2020

Conference USA Quarterfinals
(8) Memphis (11-20) vs. (1) Tulane (22-8)

We played Tulane to a 1 point loss at their place, and if that team shows up, we've got a great chance to win this game. It's not going to be easy though. They've got very balanced scoring, and Wilton Glaser is their stud, averaging 20 points a game. We'll definitely be keying tight on him. While Glaser did score his 14 points, John Breland was sensational for us, scoring 31 points in this shootout. We trailed by 5 at halftime but turned it on in the second half to stun Tulane, as we move to the semifinals with an 84-77 victory!

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Memphis 84, Tulane 77 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (12-20, 7-9): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 18 4-5 3-4 1 3 0 4 11 Monte Donofrio PF 34 3-4 1-2 1 4 2 2 7 John Breland SF 34 12-29 0-0 2 9 1 0 31 Gerald Sena PG 37 5-8 3-3 1 4 1 1 15 Antione Cantwell PG 10 1-2 8-10 0 1 0 4 10 Brenton Tweedy C 10 0-1 0-0 1 2 0 5 0 Jerry Robertson SG 22 0-1 0-0 0 3 1 4 0 Stan Martin SF 19 4-7 2-2 2 7 3 2 10 Scottie Harris C 16 0-2 0-0 1 5 1 0 0 Turnovers: 10 (M.Donofrio 2, J.Breland 2, G.Sena 1, B.Tweedy 1, J.Robertson 1, S.Martin 3) Blocked Shots: 4 (M.Donofrio 1, J.Breland 1, S.Martin 1, S.Harris 1) Steals: 5 (J.Breland 1, G.Sena 2, J.Robertson 1, S.Martin 1) 3P FGs: 9-18 (J.Breland 7-14, G.Sena 2-2, S.Martin 0-1, S.Harris 0-1) Tulane (22-9, 13-3): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts C. Pomerleau C 30 6-13 3-5 4 7 4 3 15 Stephen Jarboe PF 30 2-4 4-6 1 6 2 0 9 Herschel Xiong SF 28 1-4 0-0 0 1 0 2 3 Wilton Glaser SG 30 4-12 3-4 1 6 5 5 14 Floyd Leos PG 15 5-6 0-0 0 2 0 5 13 Gerardo Clark SG 24 2-4 4-4 0 1 1 2 10 Stanton Mangum PF 17 1-2 3-4 0 3 1 2 5 Wayne Whitehouse PG 13 2-5 1-2 0 2 0 0 6 John Dunning PF 5 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 Charles Clawson SG 5 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 2 0 Basil Jenkins PG 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Charles Poland SF 2 0-1 0-0 0 2 0 0 0 Turnovers: 13 (S.Jarboe 2, H.Xiong 3, W.Glaser 4, S.Mangum 2, W.Whitehouse 1, J.Dunning 1) Blocked Shots: 1 (G.Clark 1) Steals: 3 (H.Xiong 2, W.Whitehouse 1) 3P FGs: 11-24 (S.Jarboe 1-2, H.Xiong 1-3, W.Glaser 3-8, F.Leos 3-3, G.Clark 2-3, W.Whitehouse 1-3, B.Jenkins 0-1, C.Poland 0-1) Player of Game: SF John Breland (MMPHS)
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Conference USA Semifinals
(8) Memphis (12-20) vs. (4) UAB (24-8)

It doesn't get any easier here in the tourney, as UAB is really one of the toughest teams in the conference. They hammered us twice in the regular season, and we're going to have to play a perfect game to beat them. Not much to talk about with their team, they are stacked, with 2 guys averaging over 15 ppg. We're just hoping not to get blown out of the water here.

As expected, they jumped out on us early, but we hung with them. They led by 6 at halftime, and 2 of their players combined for 39 of their points. If only we could have stopped them. As it stands, a gallant effort but not enough. We end a very, very dismal season with a 68-59 loss.

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UAB 68, Memphis 59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UAB (25-8, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts David Barnett C 27 3-10 0-0 3 5 2 0 6 Jackson Mobley PF 38 1-3 0-0 4 12 5 3 2 Chris Francis SF 29 6-11 2-3 2 5 0 2 16 Arthur Doane SG 28 11-22 0-1 3 9 2 4 23 Chris Fairfield PG 27 3-7 2-3 1 7 0 3 9 Brian Thompson SG 18 0-2 0-0 0 2 1 2 0 John Springer PG 13 2-3 0-1 0 1 1 1 5 Kerry Perry SF 4 2-2 0-0 1 1 0 0 5 Dennis Eggleston SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Tan She C 15 1-4 0-1 2 3 1 0 2 Turnovers: 13 (J.Mobley 4, A.Doane 3, C.Fairfield 2, B.Thompson 3, D.Eggleston 1) Blocked Shots: 7 (D.Barnett 1, J.Mobley 4, C.Fairfield 1, T.She 1) Steals: 5 (J.Mobley 1, C.Francis 1, A.Doane 1, B.Thompson 2) 3P FGs: 6-17 (C.Francis 2-4, A.Doane 1-4, C.Fairfield 1-4, B.Thompson 0-2, J.Springer 1-1, K.Perry 1-1, T.She 0-1) Memphis (12-21, 7-9): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 26 1-12 0-0 0 2 3 2 2 Monte Donofrio PF 34 1-3 0-0 3 7 4 2 2 John Breland SF 32 4-18 0-0 2 6 2 0 11 Gerald Sena SG 36 4-9 6-7 2 6 1 0 15 Antione Cantwell PG 33 8-11 0-0 2 4 3 2 17 Brenton Tweedy C 17 2-2 0-0 1 7 1 2 4 Jerry Robertson SG 11 3-4 0-0 0 1 1 1 6 Stan Martin SF 10 1-4 0-0 1 2 1 1 2 Scottie Harris C 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 8 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 1, G.Sena 2, A.Cantwell 4) Blocked Shots: 2 (J.Breland 1, B.Tweedy 1) Steals: 4 (M.Donofrio 1, B.Tweedy 2, J.Robertson 1) 3P FGs: 5-15 (J.Breland 3-11, G.Sena 1-2, A.Cantwell 1-2) Player of Game: SG Arthur Doane (UAB)

I just realized I forgot to put the other conference tournament scores up, my bad. But in the C-USA championship, UAB hammered UTEP 68-48.

2020 Selection Sunday

It was a very down year for Conference USA, who is sending only 4 teams to the postseason.

UAB got the 9th seed in the NCAA South Region and will face (8) Texas Tech in the First Round.

Houston got the 5th seed in the NIT West Region and will travel to (4) Wake Forest in the Second Round.

Tulane got the 5th seed in the NIT South Region and will travel to (4) Syracuse in the Second Round.

UTEP got the 8th seed in the CBI and will host (9) Elon in the First Round.
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Auburn beat Arizona 70-58 to win the NCAA Tournament.
Wake Forest beat Kent St. 70-58 (go figure) to win the NIT.
Georgetown beat Iowa 2 games to 1 to win the CBI.
St. Marys beat Western Illinois 58-50 to win the CIT.

UAB lost to (8) Texas Tech 99-84 in the First Round of the NCAA Tourney.

Houston lost to (4) Wake Forest 71-68 in the Second Round of the NIT.

Tulane lost to (4) Syracuse 80-72 in the Second Round of the NIT.

UTEP beat (9) Elon 95-91 in the First Round of the CBI, then in the Quarterfinals beat (1) Hampton 72-70, but lost to (13) Iowa 83-62 in the Semifinals.

Not a good postseason for the C-USA.

Next post will include a few notes about the Memphis Tigers season, as well as get into the offseason.
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Awards

To the surprise of nobody, we were shut out on the national award front. 1 of my players got a conference award. Let's take a look.

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Player of the Year: SR SG Wilton Glaser Tulane 21.5 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 2.2 APG 1.0 SPG, 0.3 BPG Freshman of the Year: FR SG Norman May UTEP 14.7 PPG, 1.9 RPG, 2.3 APG 0.8 SPG, 0.1 BPG Coach of the Year: Carey Finlay Tulane 22 - 10 (13 - 3) All-league 1st Team: C SR Chance Hewlett UAB 6.6 PPG, 11.6 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.5 SPG, 3.6 BPG PF SR Mervin Weathers Houston 12.0 PPG, 8.1 RPG, 1.7 APG, 0.5 SPG, 1.0 BPG SF SO Chris Francis UAB 15.8 PPG, 3.8 RPG, 2.1 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG SG SR Wilton Glaser Tulane 21.5 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 2.2 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.3 BPG PG JR Jere Salter Tulsa 14.6 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 4.9 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG All-league 2nd Team: C SR Chris Hart UTEP 7.8 PPG, 7.2 RPG, 1.2 APG, 0.7 SPG, 2.2 BPG PF SR Jackson Mobley UAB 5.0 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 1.8 APG, 0.6 SPG, 3.0 BPG SF JR John Breland Memphis 15.2 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 1.8 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.8 BPG SG SO Greg Henriquez Rice 20.4 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 2.3 APG, 1.3 SPG, 0.2 BPG PG JR Steven Whitehead Rice 12.4 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 5.8 APG, 1.2 SPG, 0.1 BPG All-freshman Team: C FR Dewey Rasmussen Tulsa 7.1 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 0.9 APG, 0.2 SPG, 0.2 BPG PF FR Ricky Braziel Tulsa 4.2 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 0.9 APG, 0.4 SPG, 0.1 BPG SF FR Gerardo Clark Tulane 7.7 PPG, 2.4 RPG, 1.4 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.1 BPG SG FR Norman May UTEP 14.7 PPG, 1.9 RPG, 2.3 APG, 0.8 SPG, 0.1 BPG PG FR Tobias Waugh Central Florida 4.1 PPG, 1.0 RPG, 1.4 APG, 0.5 SPG, 0.1 BPG

The question is, does Breland return? I sure hope so.

Departing Players

none, and this pleases me very much. Memphis should return back to prominence next season.

Final Recruiting Class

FR PG Mario Albertini (*****, #20 overall)
FR C Eldridge Boyd (***, #523 overall)
FR SG Justin Bouldin (***, #531 overall)

Not the greatest class, but I'm stoked about Albertini, he's going to be sensational. All 3 of these players have either blue or green potential, and FBCB rated our class 47th best in the nation, which is tops in the C-USA. We are the only school in the conference to pick up a 5 star recruit, and only 1 other school even got a 4 star recruit. Don't call me Coach Calipari, I did everything by the book!

Joshua Amos is still requesting a raise. I was lucky enough to keep him this season without giving him a raise, to me he's not good enough to be bumped up to $50,000, so I'm keeping him at $40,000 and if he walks, he walks.

No conference movement that concerns us, so now it's time to see what kind of offers come my way. Not that I expect to take any of them, as I'm expecting huge things at Memphis this season.

Aaaaand my decision was made quite easy. Nobody wants my services after the disastrous season I had, so I'll be staying at Memphis, not that I wasn't going to anyways.

Unbelievably, Joshua Amos is still here. Nobody else thinks he's worth $50,000 a year either.

Transfers

We've still got one scholarship to use on transfers, if I care to. I put out a couple feelers, but no takers, so I'm keeping my roster the way it is.
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We've got 3 scholarships to hand out and have a major need for SF and PF, so we're keying on those areas. Unfortunately, with the disastrous season we had last season, most of the interest comes from 3 star players, but I've stretched to add a few 4 and 5 star players as well. Here's a look at the initial 20 man call list:

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Name Pos Ht Wt Rating Interest State -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prince Burden PF 6-6 224 ***** Low Mississippi Del Owen PF 6-9 222 **** Average Georgia Donnie Kozlowski PF 6-7 222 **** Average Illinois Boris Herrod PF 6-5 225 **** Low North Carolina Danilo Cohen PF 6-10 247 **** Low North Carolina David Wang PF 6-7 223 **** Low Florida Russel Hines PF 6-8 240 **** Low Florida Carl Hurtado SF 6-4 238 **** Average Georgia Joesph Bethel SF 6-4 207 **** Low Mississippi Teddy Johnson C 7-1 231 *** High Kentucky Manuel Abel PF 6-8 221 *** Very High Tennessee David Marvin PF 6-6 211 *** High Louisiana Brian Crow PF 6-7 206 *** High Illinois Paul Russell PF 6-7 221 *** High Texas Arthur Saito PF 6-7 205 *** High Oklahoma Alphonse Chester SF 6-8 223 *** Very High Tennessee Hector Whitmer SF 6-7 213 *** High Illinois William Barrera SF 6-6 210 *** High Illinois David Roberson SG 6-1 180 *** Very High Arkansas Darrin Chesson SG 6-3 177 *** High Texas
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August 2020

4 star Donnie Kozlowski is showing average interest in us now, so I'm going after him fairly hard. I offered a scholarship, we'll see what happens. I also offered a scholarship to 5 star Prince Burden, but I'm sure I'll end up with 3 star recruits.

September 2020

Kozlowski is still showing average interest, but we've got Burden up to average interest, crossing fingers. I'm probably making a mistake by putting all my recruiting into those 2 players and looking at a few others.

October 2020

I'm about to give up on Burden, as Florida and Mississippi St. are at the top, and I don't think we can overtake them. I like my chances to get Kozlowski though, as right now Iowa is in the lead, but we've offered, they haven't. I've also sent an offer to Manuel Abel. He's a 3 star, but he is still showing very high interest in us. He'll be a good backup.

November 2020 (early signing period)

1 for 2 with the recruits so far, as Abel signed with us, but Burden signed with Florida. That's ok, that means Kozlowski is still on the market, but he's still average. We'll keep after him though. Hey at least we finally pulled a signing in the early signing period.

We've got 3 guys willing to redshirt: Brenton Tweedy, Scottie Harris, and Monte Donofrio. All post players. All juniors. None of my freshmen are willing to redshirt, and I was hoping at least one would be. So, here's what we're going to do, since I only have 5 post players, with a couple others than can play post if necessary, I'm going to redshirt Harris and Tweedy. That means John Breland, who is only 6'7'', will probably spend some time at PF. Fortunately I have a number of perimeter players, so I can mix and match there.

Early draft reports are in, even with a heck of a training camp, John Breland is still projected to go undrafted. That's just crazy talk. And of our projected starting 5: 4 of the 5 are green rated currently, with another current green player (Albertini) set to come off the bench. Our weakness is Donofrio who is only orange rated current. Unfortunately, the bench isn't very strong, but we'll make it work. Our starting 5 plus a top reserve should each get over 30 minutes a game.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/16/20 at Illinois 3-1 38 L 79-70 0-1 11/20/20 UL-Lafayette 2-3 152 W 81-72 1-1 11/22/20 vs. East Tennessee State 0-6 310 W 69-57 2-1 11/24/20 vs. Green Bay 3-3 33 L 69-67 2-2 11/25/20 vs. Notre Dame 2-1 60 L 85-63 2-3 11/30/20 at Arizona State 0-2 273 W 93-84 3-3


Aside from the Notre Dame loss, all our other losses have been close, but man, losing to Green Bay? I've still got a long ways to go to get this team good again. At least we finished the month at .500.

Overall Record: 3-3
Home Record: 1-0
Road Record: 1-1
Neutral Record: 1-2
Rank: NR
RPI: 265

That is a good awful RPI!

Recruiting News

No change as far as Kozlowski goes, he's still got us behind Iowa, but we'll keep fighting to get him. We're also going after Danilo Cohen, another 4 star PF although not as highly ranked.

Player Stats

Here's a look at the stats through November.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/16/20 at Illinois 9-5 10 L 79-70 0-1 11/20/20 UL-Lafayette 8-5 47 W 81-72 1-1 11/22/20 vs. East Tennessee State 4-11 304 W 69-57 2-1 11/24/20 vs. Green Bay 6-7 144 L 69-67 2-2 11/25/20 vs. #18 Notre Dame 10-1 171 L 85-63 2-3 11/30/20 at Arizona State 4-7 62 W 93-84 3-3 12/09/20 Tennessee-Martin 5-7 213 L 79-67 3-4 12/14/20 at Tennessee State 7-6 256 W 63-62 4-4 12/19/20 Western Kentucky 5-9 235 L 77-69 4-5 12/22/20 Mississippi Valley State 3-7 160 W 97-65 5-5 12/25/20 Wisconsin 9-3 16 L 72-66 5-6 12/29/20 at Oakland 1-10 117 W 93-77 6-6


Are you kidding me? Teams like Tennessee-Martin and Western Kentucky should not be beating us. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're at .500, but we should be at least 3 games over .500. And things don't get any easier in January, as we finish off the non-conference schedule against 2 teams with a combined record of 19-3. I'd be willing to bet the farm that we are sitting under .500 at the end of the month.

Recruiting News

Cohen signed with N.C. State, Kozlowski with Iowa. Now it's just a matter of getting the best guys we can. That could start with Korbl Willner, a 4 star PF out of Germany. He's tops on the list right now. We're also looking at Timothy Jepson, a 3 star SF.

Player Stats

Here's a look at the averages through January, and you can see they aren't where I thought they'd be.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/16/20 at Illinois 14-7 25 L 79-70 0-1 11/20/20 UL-Lafayette 14-7 83 W 81-72 1-1 11/22/20 vs. East Tennessee State 6-17 323 W 69-57 2-1 11/24/20 vs. Green Bay 8-14 199 L 69-67 2-2 11/25/20 vs. #18 Notre Dame 15-5 35 L 85-63 2-3 11/30/20 at Arizona State 6-13 116 W 93-84 3-3 12/09/20 Tennessee-Martin 10-11 214 L 79-67 3-4 12/14/20 at Tennessee State 11-11 308 W 63-62 4-4 12/19/20 Western Kentucky 8-14 287 L 77-69 4-5 12/22/20 Mississippi Valley State 6-14 311 W 97-65 5-5 12/25/20 Wisconsin 13-8 40 L 72-66 5-6 12/29/20 at Oakland 9-11 141 W 93-77 6-6 01/02/21 West Virginia 14-6 14 L 76-57 6-7 01/07/21 Kansas State 13-6 13 W 82-77 7-7 01/13/21 Southern Mississippi 8-11 247 L 73-65 7-8 (0-1) 01/16/21 at UTEP 9-11 161 W 81-63 8-8 (1-1) 01/20/21 Tulsa 10-8 72 L 99-81 8-9 (1-2) 01/23/21 East Carolina 8-12 96 L 68-63 8-10 (1-3) 01/27/21 at East Carolina 8-12 96 W 92-83 9-10 (2-3) 01/30/21 at Marshall 7-11 238 W 68-60 10-10 (3-3)

I'm happy that this team is still at .500 as we enter February. The postseason is still very much in reach, but we've got to have a strong rest of the season. Unfortunately, the consistency on this team just isn't there, so it'll be interesting to see how things play out.

Overall Record: 10-10
Conference Record: 3-3
Home Record: 3-7
Road Record: 6-1
Neutral Record: 1-2
Rank: NR
RPI: 210

This is a complete reversal of how most teams are. Usually most teams are better at home, but we've proven to be road warriors thus far this season.

Recruiting News

Nothing new to report as far as signings go, but at least Korbl Willner is showing more of an interest in us. Unfortunately, we're still 4th on his list.

Player Stats

Here's a look at the player stats through January:

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Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amos Lusk SG 20 20 30.2 13.8 1.5 4.6 2.9 1.4 0.1 1.8 2.2 1.5 John Breland SF 20 20 28.3 13.4 1.2 5.5 1.9 0.6 1.3 2.0 3.1 3.7 Troy Tomblin C 20 20 25.0 11.7 1.2 5.4 1.4 0.8 0.3 1.3 3.0 0.7 Antione Cantwell SF 20 20 29.6 11.3 2.9 5.3 4.1 0.7 0.3 2.0 3.3 0.7 Mario Albertini PG 20 0 24.8 8.0 0.5 2.3 3.4 1.6 0.1 1.5 2.3 0.1 Monte Donofrio PF 20 20 30.8 6.2 2.6 8.8 1.2 0.9 0.4 1.1 2.7 1.7 Michael Higgins SG 20 0 10.5 3.9 0.5 1.1 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.9 0.7 -3.4 Justin Bouldin SF 20 0 9.5 3.0 0.5 1.5 0.8 0.5 0.2 0.8 1.2 -0.6 Eldridge Boyd C 20 0 9.1 2.3 0.6 2.7 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.7 1.2 -2.5 Stan Martin SF 5 0 3.4 1.2 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.2 -0.8 Gerald Sena SG 13 0 2.0 1.1 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 -0.2 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 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

Higgins and Boyd are absolutely killing us. Got to get more out of them.

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February-March 6, 2021

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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Old 08-22-2015, 10:05 PM   #75
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Here's a look at the final Conference USA standings:

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TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tulsa 11 5 .688 17 11 .607 64 67 UAB 11 5 .688 18 10 .643 138 77 Memphis 10 6 .625 17 13 .567 119 76 Houston 10 6 .625 18 11 .621 97 72 Central Florida 8 8 .500 13 17 .433 128 55 Tulane 8 8 .500 18 11 .621 80 56 East Carolina 8 8 .500 12 18 .400 140 48 Rice 7 9 .438 18 11 .621 72 46 Marshall 6 10 .375 12 16 .429 204 49 Southern Mississippi 6 10 .375 12 17 .414 228 47 Southern Methodist 6 10 .375 12 17 .414 262 39 UTEP 5 11 .313 12 18 .400 202 65

Here's a look at the First Round C-USA Tourney Results:

(5) Central Florida- 61, (12) UTEP- 53
(6) Tulane- 56, (11) SMU- 48
(7) ECU- 89, (10) Southern Miss- 68
(8) Rice- 81, (9) Marshall- 55

The Quarterfinals will be as follows:

(8) Rice vs. (1) Tulsa
(5) Central Florida vs. (4) Houston
(7) ECU vs. (2) UAB
(6) Tulane vs. (3) Memphis
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Old 08-22-2015, 10:17 PM   #76
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Conference USA Quarterfinals
(6) Tulane (19-11) vs. (3) Memphis (17-13)

This isn't going to be an easy game, as overall they had a better record than us, and they beat us 67-55 at home in our only regular season match-up. They don't really have a stacked lineup though, PG Floyd Leos is their best player, so this is a very winnable game, and we're hot right now. Let's see what happens.

This was a nip and tuck game throughout the 1st half, as we went into the locker room tied, but an 11-0 run to open the 2nd half gave us a lead we would not lose as we get a big, big win 78-63.

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Memphis 78, Tulane 63 Tulane (19-12, 8-8): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Justin Johnson C 25 3-12 7-10 4 5 2 4 13 Stanton Mangum PF 30 5-7 1-4 3 9 1 4 11 Charles Clawson SF 23 0-1 2-2 0 3 1 5 2 Gerardo Clark SG 28 3-10 3-4 0 5 1 3 10 Floyd Leos PG 34 4-8 2-4 2 5 0 1 12 Wayne Whitehouse SG 24 3-7 0-1 0 6 4 1 8 John Dunning C 19 0-3 0-0 1 4 1 4 0 Charles Guinn PF 6 2-3 1-3 1 2 0 0 7 Charles Poland SF 9 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Michael Garcia PG 3 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 0 Turnovers: 14 (J.Johnson 2, C.Clawson 2, G.Clark 1, F.Leos 3, W.Whitehouse 3, J.Dunning 3) Blocked Shots: 2 (S.Mangum 1, W.Whitehouse 1) Steals: 4 (C.Clawson 1, G.Clark 2, F.Leos 1) 3P FGs: 7-19 (C.Clawson 0-1, G.Clark 1-6, F.Leos 2-4, W.Whitehouse 2-4, C.Guinn 2-2, C.Poland 0-1, M.Garcia 0-1) Memphis (18-13, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 14 4-6 4-4 0 0 1 4 12 Monte Donofrio PF 36 1-4 2-4 2 14 1 2 4 John Breland C 34 9-14 3-10 1 6 1 5 22 Antione Cantwell SF 34 6-10 6-6 4 7 5 3 19 Amos Lusk PG 1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 Mario Albertini PG 33 1-3 3-5 0 2 5 4 6 Michael Higgins SG 20 1-6 3-6 0 2 0 1 6 Gerald Sena SG 11 0-2 0-0 1 3 0 1 0 Justin Bouldin SF 8 2-5 0-0 1 2 0 0 5 Eldridge Boyd C 9 1-4 0-0 1 3 1 1 2 Jerry Robertson SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 8 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 2, J.Breland 1, A.Cantwell 1, M.Albertini 1, M.Higgins 1, G.Sena 1) Blocked Shots: 3 (J.Breland 3) Steals: 7 (M.Donofrio 1, J.Breland 1, A.Cantwell 1, M.Albertini 1, M.Higgins 2, E.Boyd 1) 3P FGs: 5-15 (J.Breland 1-3, A.Cantwell 1-4, M.Albertini 1-2, M.Higgins 1-3, G.Sena 0-1, J.Bouldin 1-2) Player of Game: SF Antione Cantwell (MMPHS)

Other Quarterfinal Results:

(1) Tulsa- 94, (8) Rice- 67
(4) Houston- 70, (5) Central Florida- 56
(7) ECU- 68, (2) UAB- 58

Semifinal Pairings:

(4) Houston vs. (1) Tulsa
(7) ECU vs. (3) Memphis
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Old 08-22-2015, 10:22 PM   #77
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Conference USA Semifinals
(7) ECU (14-18) vs. (3) Memphis (18-13)

We got some bad news earlier in the day as Amos Lusk ended up tearing a ligament in his thumb yesterday and he's out for the rest of the season. That means Mario Albertini will make his first start of the season in a pressure role. We got a bit lucky from a seeding standpoint as we get ECU instead of UAB, but they did split with us in the regular season, and we'll see how the guys react to the loss of Lusk.

Well it wasn't a great effort, as we were down early, but we rallied to lead by 2 at halftime. Neither team took care of the ball, but we forced 19 turnovers and only committed 17. That combined with the fact we made 7 more shots, and we advance to the C-USA Championship with a 70-60 win!

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Memphis 70, East Carolina 60 Memphis (19-13, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 25 4-11 3-6 1 6 2 2 11 Monte Donofrio PF 35 3-5 0-0 3 14 1 3 6 John Breland SF 28 7-13 2-4 1 2 0 4 19 Antione Cantwell SG 22 4-9 0-0 2 4 1 4 9 Mario Albertini PG 32 2-5 1-2 0 1 5 3 6 Michael Higgins SG 17 3-4 4-4 0 0 4 4 10 Gerald Sena SF 12 0-1 0-0 0 2 3 2 0 Justin Bouldin SF 11 2-6 0-1 1 2 0 1 5 Eldridge Boyd C 10 2-4 0-0 3 6 0 0 4 Jerry Robertson SG 6 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 Turnovers: 17 (M.Donofrio 4, J.Breland 3, A.Cantwell 4, M.Albertini 3, M.Higgins 3) Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Donofrio 1) Steals: 8 (T.Tomblin 1, J.Breland 2, A.Cantwell 1, M.Higgins 2, J.Bouldin 2) 3P FGs: 6-15 (J.Breland 3-5, A.Cantwell 1-3, M.Albertini 1-3, J.Bouldin 1-4) East Carolina (14-19, 8-8): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Z. Crutchfield C 31 3-6 0-1 2 8 0 2 6 Monte Tavares PF 31 2-6 4-5 0 6 1 3 8 Kenneth Voorhees SF 23 2-9 2-4 2 2 0 4 6 Bernard Deleon SG 33 2-9 4-5 5 8 5 1 8 Arlen Hague PG 35 6-14 1-2 1 3 3 1 16 Will Moya PF 11 1-2 1-2 2 6 1 0 3 Hans Reed PF 6 1-1 2-2 0 1 0 0 4 Larry Thorton SF 22 3-7 0-0 0 2 1 5 7 Joe Leiker SF 6 0-0 2-2 0 1 1 0 2 G. Satterwhite PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Turnovers: 19 (Z.Crutchfield 2, M.Tavares 1, K.Voorhees 5, B.Deleon 7, A.Hague 3, J.Leiker 1) Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Tavares 1) Steals: 8 (K.Voorhees 1, B.Deleon 1, A.Hague 2, W.Moya 1, H.Reed 1, L.Thorton 1, J.Leiker 1) 3P FGs: 4-24 (K.Voorhees 0-4, B.Deleon 0-5, A.Hague 3-11, L.Thorton 1-4) Player of Game: SF John Breland (MMPHS)

Our opponent in the title game will be (1) Tulsa, who handled (4) Houston 85-67.
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Conference USA Championship
(3) Memphis (19-13) vs. (1) Tulsa (19-11)

This is a huge, huge game, as we should be extending our season regardless, but a win here would put us back in the NCAA Tournament. We split with them, each winning on the road (go figure). A lot of pressure in this one, they've got a couple guards that we'll be focusing on defensively, so far all the marbles, here we go!

Unfortunately, their athleticism on the boards was just too much to overcome. We hung with them throughout but they've got some big bodies, and they had 11 offensive rebounds. It was a gallant effort, and a heck of an improvement over last season, but we fell short 83-72, and now our fate is in the hands of all the selection committees.

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Tulsa 83, Memphis 72 Memphis (19-14, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 20 4-5 1-3 0 3 0 3 9 Monte Donofrio PF 36 3-5 0-1 2 7 3 2 6 John Breland SF 18 5-12 1-3 0 3 0 4 12 Antione Cantwell SF 34 2-8 2-3 0 3 5 4 8 Mario Albertini PG 30 5-9 1-1 0 0 2 1 13 Michael Higgins SG 25 5-10 1-2 0 1 5 1 13 Gerald Sena SF 11 0-3 0-0 0 1 0 2 0 Justin Bouldin SF 6 2-5 0-0 0 2 1 0 5 Eldridge Boyd C 17 1-2 1-2 4 7 2 2 3 Jerry Robertson SG 2 1-1 1-2 0 1 0 0 3 Stan Martin PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Turnovers: 18 (M.Donofrio 2, J.Breland 2, A.Cantwell 6, M.Albertini 2, M.Higgins 4, E.Boyd 1, S.Martin 1) Blocked Shots: 3 (J.Breland 2, M.Higgins 1) Steals: 2 (A.Cantwell 1, M.Albertini 1) 3P FGs: 8-23 (J.Breland 1-3, A.Cantwell 2-6, M.Albertini 2-3, M.Higgins 2-6, G.Sena 0-2, J.Bouldin 1-3) Tulsa (20-11, 11-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Ricky Braziel C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Dewey Rasmussen C 25 3-6 5-6 1 6 0 1 11 D. Ghesquier SF 29 5-13 0-0 3 5 0 0 12 Lamar Coble SG 20 5-10 2-4 1 3 4 4 13 Jere Salter PG 35 4-8 5-6 2 4 12 2 14 Paul Porter SG 23 7-13 2-2 0 6 0 3 18 Eckbert Hornick PG 10 1-1 0-1 0 2 2 0 2 Abraham Hillard PF 36 6-10 1-3 4 11 1 4 13 B. Marroquin SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Charles Marino C 19 0-1 0-0 0 6 1 3 0 Chris Fiske SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Leonard Blair C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 16 (D.Ghesquier 3, L.Coble 4, J.Salter 3, P.Porter 4, E.Hornick 1, A.Hillard 1) Blocked Shots: 4 (J.Salter 1, P.Porter 1, C.Marino 2) Steals: 7 (D.Ghesquier 3, L.Coble 1, J.Salter 2, P.Porter 1) 3P FGs: 6-23 (D.Rasmussen 0-1, D.Ghesquier 2-8, L.Coble 1-4, J.Salter 1-4, P.Porter 2-6) Player of Game: PG Jere Salter (TLSA)

2021 Selection Sunday

We knew there was no chance of making the NCAA Tournament, and a very, very slim chance to make the NIT Tournament, so we held out hope for a call from the CBI or CIT. We got the call from the CBI, but I gotta tell ya, I've never been more ticked off in my life. I have no idea what kind of code FBCB has for postseason tournaments, but we drew the 15 seed, which irks me in itself. But our opponent? UA frikkin B. Yea, FBCB and the CBI have matched up 2 C-USA opponents in the First Round! I'm beyond ticked right now!!!!

Tulsa got the auto bid to the NCAA Tournament and will be the C-USA's lone representative. They drew the 12th seed in the NCAA Midwest Region and will take on 5th seeded DePaul.

Tulane got the 4th seed in the NIT Midwest Region and will host 5th seeded Idaho in the Second Round.

Rice got the 8th seed in the NIT Midwest Region and will host 9th seeded Citadel in a First Round game.

Houston got the 6th seed in the NIT South Region and will travel to 3rd seed San Diego in the Second Round.

And of course, there is us and UAB playing each other (go F yourself FBCB) in the CBI. What a joke.
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Old 08-22-2015, 11:50 PM   #79
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Yeah those lower tournaments can be a real crapshoot. I've seen that with teams I've run too, the intra-conference matchup is an oddball though.
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Old 08-27-2015, 06:37 PM   #80
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CBI First Round
(15) Memphis (19-14) @ (2) UAB (18-11)

So here we go with the total bs that is 2 conference teams playing in the First Round of the CBI. We played UAB once in the regular season, at our place and won by 2. Now we go to their place in a game that means so much more. UAB has about 5 guys that they really rely on, and not much after that. If we can get into their bench, we got a chance.

We certainly didn't get blown out in this one, but we also never led either. We just went 8 deep tonight, as Troy Tomblin had a double-double for us, but they made just a few more shots than we did, and we end our season with a 65-55 loss.

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UAB 65, Memphis 55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (19-15, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 25 6-15 4-6 5 12 1 2 16 Monte Donofrio PF 35 1-5 0-0 3 9 1 2 2 John Breland SF 33 3-10 4-7 1 5 0 2 10 Antione Cantwell SG 35 3-16 0-1 5 8 4 3 6 Mario Albertini PG 33 3-6 0-0 0 1 3 2 7 Michael Higgins SG 24 4-5 1-1 0 1 4 1 10 Gerald Sena SF 8 1-2 2-2 1 2 1 1 4 Eldridge Boyd C 7 0-0 0-0 0 3 1 0 0 Turnovers: 21 (T.Tomblin 2, M.Donofrio 1, J.Breland 1, A.Cantwell 8, M.Albertini 4, M.Higgins 5) Blocked Shots: 2 (J.Breland 1, M.Higgins 1) Steals: 8 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 1, J.Breland 2, A.Cantwell 1, M.Albertini 1, M.Higgins 2) 3P FGs: 2-14 (T.Tomblin 0-1, J.Breland 0-1, A.Cantwell 0-6, M.Albertini 1-3, M.Higgins 1-2, G.Sena 0-1) UAB (19-11, 11-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts David Barnett C 13 0-1 2-2 1 3 1 5 2 Tim Logsdon PF 27 2-5 2-2 2 7 0 2 6 Nelson Young SF 35 3-14 0-0 4 11 1 2 6 Arthur Doane SG 33 6-15 3-6 0 3 2 0 15 Chris Francis PG 35 7-15 4-5 2 3 4 0 19 Brian Thompson SG 11 4-6 0-0 2 4 0 1 10 John Springer PG 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Kerry Perry SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Tan She C 24 1-2 0-0 2 4 1 3 2 Dennis Eggleston PF 8 0-0 0-0 0 3 1 0 0 Brian Villatoro C 7 2-4 0-0 0 1 0 1 5 Turnovers: 15 (T.Logsdon 1, N.Young 4, A.Doane 7, B.Thompson 1, T.She 1, B.Villatoro 1) Blocked Shots: 1 (D.Barnett 1) Steals: 10 (T.Logsdon 1, A.Doane 3, C.Francis 3, B.Thompson 2, K.Perry 1) 3P FGs: 4-17 (T.Logsdon 0-1, N.Young 0-1, A.Doane 0-5, C.Francis 1-4, B.Thompson 2-3, T.She 0-1, B.Villatoro 1-2) Player of Game: PG Chris Francis (UAB)
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Old 08-27-2015, 06:46 PM   #81
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2021 Postseason Wrap-Up

The NCAA Final Four saw (2W) North Carolina beat (3S) Florida St. 91-81, and (2E) Florida beat (2MW) Xavier 88-70. In the national championship, Florida beat North Carolina 89-87.

The NIT Final Four saw (1S) Wichita St. beat (7W) Furman 81-62 and (1E) Texas Tech beat (2MW) New Mexico St. 106-89. The NIT Championship saw Texas Tech beat Wichita St. 95-87.

The CBI Championship Series saw (16) Vanderbilt (why were they a #16 seed? This game needs some major recoding when it comes to seeding postseason tournaments) beat (7) SE Missouri St. 2 games to 0. Vandy won the first game 93-74 and the second game 80-64.

The CIT Championship saw (15) Coppin St. beat (5) Samford 68-61.

Tulsa lost in the NCAA Midwest Region First Round to (5) DePaul 77-64.

Rice beat (9) Citadel 85-80 in the NIT Midwest Region First Round, then beat (1) Richmond in the Second Round before losing to conference foe (4) Tulane 81-77 in the NIT Round of 16.

Tulane beat (5) Idaho 84-61 in the NIT Second Round, then beat (8) Rice 81-77 in the Round of 16 before losing to (2) New Mexico St. 85-81 in the NIT Round of 8.

Houston beat (3) San Diego 70-65 in the NIT Second Round before losing to (2) Creighton 63-60 in the NIT Round of 16.

UAB, after beating us in the CBI First Round, then lost to (7) SE Missouri St. 86-85 in the Quarterfinals.

Another bad postseason for the C-USA.
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Old 08-27-2015, 07:13 PM   #82
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Awards

No surprise that we were shut out of the national awards. Here's a look at the C-USA season awards.

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Player of the Year: JR SG Greg Henriquez Rice 23.8 PPG, 7.9 RPG, 2.4 APG 1.7 SPG, 0.2 BPG Freshman of the Year: FR PG Alfredo Delgado Southern Methodist 11.4 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 2.5 APG 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG Coach of the Year: James Lamont Tulsa 20 - 12 (11 - 5) All-league 1st Team: C SR David Barnett UAB 11.8 PPG, 7.9 RPG, 1.6 APG, 0.5 SPG, 1.7 BPG PF JR Joseph Thomson Central Florida 17.5 PPG, 6.6 RPG, 1.2 APG, 0.3 SPG, 0.7 BPG SF SR Donatien Ghesquier Tulsa 11.5 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 1.8 APG, 1.2 SPG, 0.4 BPG SG JR Greg Henriquez Rice 23.8 PPG, 7.9 RPG, 2.4 APG, 1.7 SPG, 0.2 BPG PG SR Jere Salter Tulsa 16.6 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 6.2 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.2 BPG All-league 2nd Team: C JR Charles West Rice 5.8 PPG, 8.9 RPG, 1.3 APG, 1.1 SPG, 3.2 BPG PF JR Monte Donofrio Memphis 6.2 PPG, 8.3 RPG, 1.1 APG, 0.9 SPG, 0.4 BPG SF SR John Breland Memphis 13.7 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 1.5 APG, 0.8 SPG, 1.1 BPG SG SR Lamar Coble Tulsa 20.6 PPG, 3.6 RPG, 3.1 APG, 0.8 SPG, 0.3 BPG PG SR Steven Whitehead Rice 13.1 PPG, 4.8 RPG, 6.9 APG, 1.0 SPG, 0.1 BPG All-freshman Team: C FR Justin Johnson Tulane 10.0 PPG, 4.1 RPG, 1.7 APG, 0.5 SPG, 1.1 BPG PF FR Monte Tavares East Carolina 8.4 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 1.3 APG, 0.3 SPG, 0.7 BPG SF FR Nelson Young UAB 9.7 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 1.7 APG, 1.3 SPG, 0.1 BPG SG FR Wilfredo Johnson Southern Mississippi 4.8 PPG, 1.1 RPG, 0.6 APG, 0.2 SPG, 0.2 BPG PG FR Alfredo Delgado Southern Methodist 11.4 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 2.5 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.1 BPG

Can't believe Albertini didn't make the C-USA Freshman Team. That just proves we've got some work to do.

Departing Players

SF John Breland- graduating
SG Michael Higgins- graduating

Losing Breland hurts as he was 2nd team all-conference the last 2 seasons. Higgins never really lived up to his potential.

Final Recruiting Class

FR PF Manuel Abel (***, #310 overall)

That's it. 1 lousy scholarship filled, out of the 3 we had open. Abel looks like a decent player, he was an all-state player in Tennessee, but still, we need to be doing better. Our class was only good for 225th in the nation, and next to last in the C-USA. The only saving grace is that nobody in the conference got better than a 3 star player this season.

No conference movement that matters to us, so we'll skip that. I've finally had it with Joshua Amos who insists on a raise. I can find a better coaching assistant, so I gave him the boot. New coaching assistant coming up for Memphis this season!

Not a huge surprise, another year goes by without job offers. No surprise, as when I started, the prestige at Memphis was 81, now it's 71. A lot of that probably had to do with coaching. Hopefully that will be fixed this season.

I have made another move, that I didn't really want to make but had no choice. I've fired our lead scout Kevin Shortridge. He's a great scout, but I need to save some money on my staff, so he has to go. I'll be getting a cheap lead scout, since to me, scouting doesn't matter a whole lot anyways.

Charles Hill is our new scouting director. He only cost me $50,000 and his scouting rating is 44.

Our new coaching assistant is Cole Murphree, he cost me $180,000 but he's got a 94 in offense and a 65 in defense, so he should really help us at least offensively.

We've passed on the transfers this time around.
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Old 09-04-2015, 08:35 PM   #83
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We're going with a 15 man initial call list this time, as we've only got about a $6,000 monthly budget for recruiting, so things are going to be much more local and regional for a while. We've got 4 scholarships to use, and I definitely want to use 2 of them on a SF and a SG. As for the other 2, the best I can get. I'm also not going to reach, as you can see I've got it pretty much split evenly between 3 star recruits and 4/5 star recruits. I'd much rather sign 4 3 star recruits if I have to. Here's a look at the call list:

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Name Pos Ht Wt Rating Interest State -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myles Coats C 6-7 242 *** Very High Arkansas Daniel Boyette PG 6-2 186 *** High Tennessee Frankie Hage SF 6-8 248 *** High Arkansas Thomas Mariano PG 5-11 178 *** High Arkansas Daniel Smith PF 6-6 246 *** High Arkansas Spencer Sanchez C 6-10 240 *** High Arkansas Armand Alexander PF 6-7 246 **** Average North Carolina Kenneth Thomas PG 6-2 183 **** Average Alabama Kelly Farley SF 6-6 229 *** Average Tennessee Michael Faris SG 6-2 192 ***** Low Tennessee Romeo Brinkman C 6-10 241 ***** Low Tennessee Bobby Valentine SG 6-3 192 **** Low Tennessee Jack Uribe SF 6-6 240 **** Low Tennessee Hector Linder SG 6-1 180 **** Low Tennessee Bennett Duffey C 6-8 222 ***** Very Low Tennessee
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Old 09-04-2015, 08:44 PM   #84
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August 2021

We're holding off on offering scholarships right now, but definitely have our eye on a couple 3 star players that have very high interest in us.

September 2021

I've offered a scholarship to Frankie Hage, who has green potential. Unfortunately with only a $6,000 recruiting budget, I'm finding that I can do much in a month.

October 2021

Still banking on Hage and 5 star Michael Faris, but I have a feeling it will be back to square one.

November 2021 (early signing period)

As expected, all our offers were declined. Back to square one. I suck at recruiting. We won't be redshirting anybody either.
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Here's a look at the roster and schedule. Normally I would do a screenshot so that you could see the color ratings, but I'll just tell you this. Our starting 5 is mostly blue/green players, the entire bench is yellow or worse. Yeah, training didn't go very well at all.

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Player # Pos Yr Ht Wt Sch Acd Status Hometown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Tomblin 43 C Jr 6-8 243 Yes 34 OK Royal Palm Beach, FL Monte Donofrio 30 PF Sr 6-6 253 Yes 44 OK Donaldson, AR Antione Cantwell 0 SF Sr 6-2 209 Yes 29 OK Memphis, TN Amos Lusk 23 SG Jr* 6-0 175 Yes 44 OK Madisonville, KY Mario Albertini 44 PG So 5-10 164 Yes 60 OK Verona, Italy Gerald Sena 40 SG Sr 6-3 206 No 74 OK Bethalto, IL Justin Bouldin 2 SF So 6-3 203 Yes 16 OK Parkin, AR Brenton Tweedy 10 C Jr* 6-10 266 Yes 59 OK Vincennes, IN Eldridge Boyd 42 C So 7-0 286 Yes 61 OK Mount Vernon, IL Manuel Abel 25 PF Fr 6-8 229 Yes 32 OK Memphis, TN William Auten 13 PG Fr 6-4 186 No 45 OK Woodbury, TN Stan Martin 4 SF Jr 6-5 208 Yes 32 OK Broken Hill, Australia Scottie Harris 21 C Jr* 6-8 216 Yes 44 OK Arab, AL Jerry Robertson 31 SG Jr 6-3 212 No 21 Suspended Westmoreland, TN

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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/14/21 vs. Northwestern 0-0 193 11/22/21 at Nevada 0-0 177 11/26/21 Elon 0-0 80 11/30/21 at Kansas 0-0 127 12/04/21 USC Upstate 0-0 345 12/07/21 at Tennessee Tech 0-0 266 12/11/21 UC Davis 0-0 332 12/16/21 at Baylor 0-0 20 12/21/21 at Northern Iowa 0-0 192 12/27/21 North Carolina Central 0-0 338 12/31/21 #23 West Virginia 0-0 310 01/05/22 South Dakota 0-0 330 01/12/22 at Rice 0-0 219 01/15/22 at East Carolina 0-0 74 01/19/22 at Central Florida 0-0 43 01/22/22 at UTEP 0-0 296 01/26/22 Central Florida 0-0 43 01/29/22 at UAB 0-0 282 02/02/22 UTEP 0-0 296 02/05/22 Rice 0-0 219 02/09/22 Marshall 0-0 150 02/12/22 East Carolina 0-0 74 02/16/22 UAB 0-0 282 02/19/22 at Southern Mississippi 0-0 246 02/23/22 at Tulsa 0-0 281 02/26/22 at Tulane 0-0 280 03/02/22 Houston 0-0 109 03/05/22 Southern Methodist 0-0 245


Somehow we are starting the season ranked 20th in the nation and #1 in the mid-major poll. I see that lasting maybe a week or 2.

Jerry Robertson is on academic suspension, no big deal, he won't play much anyways.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/14/21 vs. Northwestern 2-4 155 W 82-61 1-0 11/16/21 vs. Towson 3-3 138 W 82-73 2-0 11/18/21 vs. #9 Mississippi State 5-0 32 L 85-73 2-1 11/22/21 at Nevada 3-3 261 L 83-73 2-2 11/26/21 Elon 0-3 160 W 74-55 3-2 11/30/21 at Kansas 3-1 147 L 80-72 3-3


Overall Record: 3-3
Home Record: 1-0
Road Record: 0-2
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR in Coaches Poll, RV in Mid-Major Poll.
RPI: 149

Season started well, with a 2nd place finish in Puerto Rico, then went south from there, but still a major better RPI than what we had this time last season. A lot of work to do though. I loaded up on creampuffs in the non-conference schedule, at least they should be creampuffs. This should give the guys some confidence, assuming we win them. Our toughest games in December should be at Baylor and against West Virginia.

Recruiting News

At this point I'm just getting some guys back on the call list and evaluating. We'll see what happens, but I fear I'm going to be eating some scholarships yet again.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/14/21 vs. Northwestern 8-13 135 W 82-61 1-0 11/16/21 vs. Towson 13-9 107 W 82-73 2-0 11/18/21 vs. #19 Mississippi State 15-5 27 L 85-73 2-1 11/22/21 at Nevada 15-6 22 L 83-73 2-2 11/26/21 Elon 1-18 321 W 74-55 3-2 11/30/21 at Kansas 11-8 85 L 80-72 3-3 12/04/21 USC Upstate 11-10 169 W 79-49 4-3 12/07/21 at Tennessee Tech 11-11 228 W 76-61 5-3 12/11/21 UC Davis 8-12 174 W 99-86 6-3 12/16/21 at #23 Baylor 14-7 13 L 77-39 6-4 12/21/21 at Northern Iowa 13-7 126 W 76-62 7-4 12/27/21 North Carolina Central 14-9 47 W 76-67 8-4 12/31/21 #17 West Virginia 15-5 11 L 83-60 8-5 01/05/22 South Dakota 8-12 215 W 83-52 9-5 01/12/22 at Rice 13-7 66 L 61-49 9-6 (0-1) 01/15/22 at East Carolina 12-8 90 W 73-59 10-6 (1-1) 01/19/22 at Central Florida 7-13 136 W 77-51 11-6 (2-1) 01/22/22 at UTEP 8-10 238 W 83-74 12-6 (3-1) 01/26/22 Central Florida 7-13 136 L 86-78 12-7 (3-2) 01/29/22 at UAB 14-6 37 W 85-81 13-7 (4-2)


Overall Record: 13-7
Conference Record: 4-2
Home Record: 5-2
Road Record: 6-4
Rank: NR in coaches poll, #2 (12 FPV) in mid-major poll.

I feel like this team is just a key player or 2 away from being what they used to be. Some interesting results this week as we lose at home to Central Florida but win at UAB. I honestly was expecting a reverse there. We are definitely in postseason talk, but it's key to finish the regular season strong. 20 wins isn't out of the question, but it's going to be tough, because we still have a game against UAB, a game against Rice, and a game against Tulsa. Not to mention Marshall and Southern Miss are no slouches either.

Recruiting News

I've decided it's important to have another PF on the team next year, so I'll actively be recruiting the PF spot. My best hope at this point is probably a 2 star. If worse comes to worse I'll move a C to PF. I'm also going after SG Zach Gerkins. The big problem with him is his GPA is only 2.18, but still, I don't expect him to be a key player. He can be a roleplayer though.

Player Averages

I know I'm kind of fudging it with the screenshots, as doing it this way you can't see the player color ratings. I'll get back to actual screenshots next season, I just wanted to bust out a season quickly this weekend, with it being a holiday weekend. Anyhow, here's how the averages stack up through January.

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Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amos Lusk SG 20 20 29.7 16.9 1.5 4.7 3.4 0.9 0.1 2.3 2.8 4.0 Antione Cantwell SF 20 20 28.4 15.2 2.9 5.7 4.0 1.1 0.1 1.9 2.8 7.3 Troy Tomblin C 20 20 22.9 13.9 1.4 5.4 0.8 0.4 0.2 1.0 2.8 6.5 Mario Albertini PG 20 20 29.6 9.3 0.8 2.3 3.6 1.1 0.1 2.1 2.9 5.5 Gerald Sena SF 20 0 12.0 4.4 0.7 2.0 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.5 2.0 0.2 Monte Donofrio PF 20 20 28.3 3.9 1.5 6.9 1.5 0.7 0.5 1.2 3.2 4.0 Justin Bouldin SF 20 0 12.4 3.5 0.8 2.3 1.1 0.9 0.2 1.5 1.6 -0.8 Brenton Tweedy C 20 0 17.5 3.2 1.5 5.3 0.5 0.3 1.7 0.7 1.6 -0.5 Eldridge Boyd C 20 0 7.3 1.9 0.4 1.5 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.6 0.7 -0.9 Stan Martin SF 14 0 4.9 1.6 0.4 0.9 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.1 -1.9 Manuel Abel PF 17 0 3.9 0.8 0.2 1.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.8 William Auten PG 19 0 4.8 0.6 0.3 0.7 0.7 0.1 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

I actually like the production I'm getting out of Tweedy and Bouldin, as they may very well be stepping into bigger roles next season. Bouldin could be the starting SF next season with the fact that Cantwell is a senior. Also impressed with Albertini, but I'm still expecting more from him. This is still a starter based team, with not much off the bench.
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Date Opponent Record RPI Result Score Record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/14/21 vs. Northwestern 14-16 85 W 82-61 1-0 11/16/21 vs. Towson 17-14 116 W 82-73 2-0 11/18/21 vs. #15 Mississippi State 22-8 24 L 85-73 2-1 11/22/21 at #16 Nevada 23-7 20 L 83-73 2-2 11/26/21 Elon 4-25 338 W 74-55 3-2 11/30/21 at Kansas 16-13 100 L 80-72 3-3 12/04/21 USC Upstate 17-14 193 W 79-49 4-3 12/07/21 at Tennessee Tech 15-17 236 W 76-61 5-3 12/11/21 UC Davis 12-17 202 W 99-86 6-3 12/16/21 at #14 Baylor 20-10 9 L 77-39 6-4 12/21/21 at Northern Iowa 19-11 101 W 76-62 7-4 12/27/21 North Carolina Central 17-12 64 W 76-67 8-4 12/31/21 West Virginia 20-10 21 L 83-60 8-5 01/05/22 South Dakota 14-15 214 W 83-52 9-5 01/12/22 at Rice 18-12 93 L 61-49 9-6 (0-1) 01/15/22 at East Carolina 17-13 98 W 73-59 10-6 (1-1) 01/19/22 at Central Florida 10-20 162 W 77-51 11-6 (2-1) 01/22/22 at UTEP 12-16 229 W 83-74 12-6 (3-1) 01/26/22 Central Florida 10-20 162 L 86-78 12-7 (3-2) 01/29/22 at UAB 19-11 62 W 85-81 13-7 (4-2) 02/02/22 UTEP 12-16 229 W 74-66 14-7 (5-2) 02/05/22 Rice 18-12 93 W 89-86 15-7 (6-2) 02/09/22 Marshall 19-10 77 W 84-44 16-7 (7-2) 02/12/22 East Carolina 17-13 98 L 70-62 16-8 (7-3) 02/16/22 UAB 19-11 62 L 76-68 16-9 (7-4) 02/19/22 at Southern Mississippi 21-9 29 L 73-52 16-10 (7-5) 02/23/22 at Tulsa 21-9 38 W 98-80 17-10 (8-5) 02/26/22 at Tulane 11-19 152 W 87-80 18-10 (9-5) 03/02/22 Houston 16-13 99 L 66-63 18-11 (9-6) 03/05/22 Southern Methodist 10-19 201 W 77-55 19-11 (10-6)

Overall Record: 19-11
Conference Record: 10-6
Home Record: 9-5
Road Record: 8-5
Neutral Record: 2-1
Rank: NR in coaches poll, #5 (3 FPV) in mid-major poll.

A couple setbacks in February and the first week of March, including a 3 game losing streak in February and a bad loss to Houston. So we don't get 20 wins in the regular season, but we're still in great position to go back to the NCAA Tournament. It'd be nice to win at least 1 in the conference tournament to get to 20 wins though.

Recruiting News

I'll say once again, I suck at recruiting!! Both of the guys I was looking at declined, but I've still got a bead on Zach Gerkins. We'll see what happens. I may have 3 scholarships open for potential transfers.

Player Averages

Here are the final regular season stats:

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Player Pos GP GS Min Pts Orb Reb Ast Stl Blk To Fls +/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Albertini PG 30 30 30.1 9.9 0.8 2.1 3.7 1.2 0.1 1.9 2.9 5.4 Amos Lusk SG 30 30 29.9 17.5 1.6 4.9 3.3 1.0 0.1 2.5 2.7 3.6 Monte Donofrio PF 30 30 29.7 5.0 1.8 7.4 1.7 0.6 0.7 1.3 3.1 3.7 Antione Cantwell SF 30 30 28.2 14.0 2.8 5.2 3.8 0.8 0.1 2.1 2.9 7.0 Troy Tomblin C 30 30 23.4 13.2 1.5 5.3 1.0 0.5 0.2 1.1 2.9 6.7 Brenton Tweedy C 30 0 17.4 3.0 1.4 5.3 0.6 0.3 1.7 0.6 1.6 0.0 Justin Bouldin SF 30 0 12.3 3.8 0.8 2.1 1.1 0.8 0.2 1.3 1.4 -0.2 Gerald Sena SF 30 0 12.3 4.5 0.8 2.1 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.4 1.8 0.8 Eldridge Boyd C 30 0 6.2 1.5 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.7 -0.7 Stan Martin SF 22 0 4.3 1.5 0.3 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.2 -0.7 William Auten PG 28 0 4.3 0.7 0.3 0.7 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 Manuel Abel PF 23 0 3.5 0.8 0.2 1.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 1.0 Scottie Harris C 9 0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 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
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Here's a look at the final Conference USA standings:

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TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern Mississippi 11 5 .688 21 9 .700 29 44 Memphis 10 6 .625 19 11 .633 36 71 UAB 10 6 .625 19 11 .633 62 73 Tulsa 10 6 .625 21 9 .700 38 68 Houston 9 7 .563 16 13 .552 99 71 Marshall 9 7 .563 19 10 .655 77 46 East Carolina 8 8 .500 17 13 .567 98 49 Rice 8 8 .500 18 12 .600 93 47 UTEP 7 9 .438 12 16 .429 230 58 Central Florida 6 10 .375 10 20 .333 162 53 Southern Methodist 5 11 .313 10 19 .345 200 37 Tulane 3 13 .188 11 19 .367 152 56

We won a 3 way tiebreaker and got the #2 seed in the Conference USA Tournament.

Here are the First Round Results:

(12) Tulane- 77, (5) Houston- 58
(11) SMU- 82, (6) Marshall- 76
(10) Central Florida- 74, (7) ECU- 60
(8) Rice- 89, (9) UTEP- 85

Wow! This could be a crazy C-USA Tournament as Rice is the only higher seed to win a First Round game. Here's a look at how the Quarterfinals shape up:

(8) Rice vs. (1) Southern Miss
(12) Tulane vs. (4) Tulsa
(11) SMU vs. (3) UAB
(10) Central Florida vs. (2) Memphis
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Conference USA Quarterfinals
(10) Central Florida (11-20) vs. (2) Memphis (19-11)

This is a game that we should win easily, even though they did beat us at home in late January. They've got a couple good players, but nothing really scary. Just a matter of not getting over confident and playing our game.

And we do take care of business tonight, in convincing fashion. We led by 16 at halftime and shot 54.4% from the field. 4 guys were in double figures for us, including Amos Lusk who led us with 18. And how about Monte Donofrio, who had 6 points, 11 rebounds, and 7 assists. What a line. We get to the 20 win plateau for the first time in 3 seasons and advance to the C-USA semifinals with a 75-52 victory!

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Memphis 75, Central Florida 52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central Florida (11-21, 6-10): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Joseph Thomson C 32 6-12 2-2 5 9 1 2 14 Johnathan Partida PF 29 2-8 1-2 1 2 2 2 5 Duane Cruz SF 21 2-5 0-1 0 1 0 1 4 Joshua Scruggs SG 30 2-5 2-4 2 5 2 2 6 Chris Walker PG 24 3-5 2-3 2 3 5 1 9 Tobias Waugh PG 16 1-3 0-2 1 1 2 3 2 Jordan Jones PF 15 1-6 0-0 0 3 1 2 2 Bret Munroe SF 16 3-5 2-2 0 1 2 1 10 Alfonzo Brown SG 10 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 2 0 Monty Davis PF 3 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 Robin Parsons SF 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 15 (J.Thomson 6, J.Partida 2, D.Cruz 1, C.Walker 1, T.Waugh 1, J.Jones 1, B.Munroe 1, A.Brown 2) Blocked Shots: 6 (J.Thomson 2, D.Cruz 2, J.Scruggs 1, J.Jones 1) Steals: 5 (J.Thomson 1, J.Scruggs 1, C.Walker 1, T.Waugh 1, B.Munroe 1) 3P FGs: 3-13 (J.Thomson 0-1, D.Cruz 0-1, J.Scruggs 0-2, C.Walker 1-2, T.Waugh 0-2, B.Munroe 2-4, A.Brown 0-1) Memphis (20-11, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 27 6-11 2-2 0 4 1 3 14 Monte Donofrio PF 32 2-6 2-4 5 11 7 2 6 Antione Cantwell SF 29 4-6 0-0 1 2 7 3 10 Amos Lusk SG 27 7-13 2-4 4 8 2 3 18 Mario Albertini PG 33 4-9 0-1 1 1 3 2 10 Gerald Sena SF 13 3-4 0-0 1 3 3 2 7 Justin Bouldin SF 11 1-2 0-0 0 2 0 2 2 Brenton Tweedy C 16 2-2 0-0 1 4 0 2 4 Eldridge Boyd C 3 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 Manuel Abel PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 William Auten PG 3 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Stan Martin SF 4 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 4 Turnovers: 14 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 4, A.Cantwell 2, A.Lusk 3, M.Albertini 1, J.Bouldin 1, B.Tweedy 1, W.Auten 1) Blocked Shots: 3 (B.Tweedy 3) Steals: 4 (T.Tomblin 2, G.Sena 2) 3P FGs: 7-13 (A.Cantwell 2-3, A.Lusk 2-4, M.Albertini 2-5, G.Sena 1-1) Player of Game: SG Amos Lusk (MMPHS)

Other Conference Tournament Games:

(8) Rice- 85, (1) Southern Miss- 66
(4) Tulsa- 77, (12) Tulane- 68
(11) SMU- 71, (3) UAB- 59

Semifinal Pairings:

(8) Rice vs. (4) Tulsa
(11) SMU vs. (2) Memphis

With all the upsets in the quarterfinals, this is now our tournament to win.


March 11, 2022

Conference USA Semifinals
(11) SMU (12-19) vs. (2) Memphis (20-11)

We get a gift here by not having to play UAB, but is it really a gift? Or is SMU a Cinderella story in the makings? We only played them once this season, and pounded them by 22 at home. There is absolutely nothing on their roster that makes me think we won't beat these guys.

And beat them we did. Last time we played them was bad enough, but we humiliated them this time. We forced 18 turnovers in route to a 17 point halftime lead, put 5 guys in double figures, and got 14 players in the game. We move on to the C-USA Championship with an easy 93-67 victory!

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Memphis 93, Southern Methodist 67 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern Methodist (12-20, 5-11): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Silas Corson C 16 1-2 0-0 3 4 0 4 2 Brent Percy PF 29 2-4 1-2 2 4 0 2 5 Mark Elliott SF 27 3-12 4-4 2 6 2 3 10 Alfredo Delgado SG 11 3-3 0-0 0 1 0 4 6 Antione Pine PG 28 2-7 0-0 2 3 5 2 4 Julius Collins PG 11 1-4 0-0 0 0 0 1 2 Joseph Bohannan SF 12 4-5 3-4 0 1 0 2 14 Earle Soloman SG 21 2-6 4-6 0 0 4 0 8 Weston Bishop SG 9 1-2 2-4 1 3 2 2 5 Gregory Perryman PF 13 2-2 1-2 0 4 0 3 6 Kirk Chen SF 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Clint Villatoro PF 12 0-2 2-3 0 1 0 0 2 Del Gerald C 10 0-0 3-4 0 0 0 3 3 Turnovers: 18 (S.Corson 2, B.Percy 2, M.Elliott 5, A.Delgado 1, J.Collins 2, J.Bohannan 1, W.Bishop 1, G.Perryman 2, C.Villatoro 1, D.Gerald 1) Blocked Shots: 2 (B.Percy 2) Steals: 2 (S.Corson 1, M.Elliott 1) 3P FGs: 5-15 (M.Elliott 0-3, A.Pine 0-1, J.Collins 0-1, J.Bohannan 3-3, E.Soloman 0-4, W.Bishop 1-1, G.Perryman 1-1, K.Chen 0-1) Memphis (21-11, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 22 2-7 1-2 0 2 1 2 5 Monte Donofrio PF 32 3-4 3-4 0 5 1 1 9 Antione Cantwell SF 27 4-10 6-7 3 6 5 2 15 Amos Lusk SG 18 7-9 2-4 4 7 3 4 17 Mario Albertini PG 24 6-10 0-0 1 2 3 4 16 Gerald Sena SF 14 3-4 2-2 0 0 2 3 10 Justin Bouldin SF 17 3-5 4-6 0 0 1 2 11 Brenton Tweedy C 18 2-3 1-2 4 11 2 2 5 Eldridge Boyd C 5 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 Manuel Abel PF 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 William Auten PG 12 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 0 Stan Martin SF 5 0-2 3-4 0 0 0 3 3 Scottie Harris C 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Jerry Robertson SG 2 0-2 2-2 0 0 1 0 2 Turnovers: 11 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 1, A.Cantwell 1, A.Lusk 2, J.Bouldin 2, M.Abel 1, S.Martin 3) Blocked Shots: 3 (M.Donofrio 1, B.Tweedy 2) Steals: 7 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 1, A.Cantwell 1, M.Albertini 3, G.Sena 1) 3P FGs: 9-16 (A.Cantwell 1-3, A.Lusk 1-1, M.Albertini 4-6, G.Sena 2-3, J.Bouldin 1-1, J.Robertson 0-2) Player of Game: PG Mario Albertini (MMPHS)

Other Conference Tournament Games:

(8) Rice- 83, (4) Tulsa- 57

Could we get any better of a draw in this tournament? Luck has definitely been on our side, but we still have one more game to go before we can punch our ticket back to the big dance.
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Conference USA Championship
(8) Rice (21-12) vs. (2) Memphis (21-11)

Don't sleep on Rice, they are a good team that won some big games in non-conference, but faltered majorly in C-USA play. We split with them, each winning at home. This is the rubber match, on neutral ground. Their starters in the post are what makes the Owls go, both are green/green guys. We're not taking this game lightly, and we're not assuming that we're a lock for the NCAA Tournament. I'd like to win this game and leave no doubt.

This was not what you would expect from a championship game. We shot less than 26% in the first half but took a 6 point lead into the locker room. They came storming back in the second half, shooting 44.1% for the game. Only a basket from Amos Lusk kept our championship hopes alive. His basket sent the game to OT, where both teams traded baskets. It wasn't until a last second three pointer rimmed in and out that we could finally celebrate again. We are cutting down the nets as the Conference USA champions after a 69-67 overtime victory!!!!!!!

Code:
Memphis 69, Rice 67 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (22-11, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 23 3-7 5-8 0 3 1 4 11 Monte Donofrio PF 39 5-9 3-4 4 13 1 2 13 Antione Cantwell SF 33 2-10 6-8 2 2 3 2 11 Amos Lusk SG 39 5-16 3-8 3 8 4 3 13 Mario Albertini PG 36 3-7 5-9 1 4 3 2 12 Gerald Sena SG 14 2-4 0-0 2 2 1 1 5 Justin Bouldin SF 11 1-2 0-0 2 3 2 0 2 Brenton Tweedy C 14 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 3 0 Eldridge Boyd C 9 0-1 2-2 0 2 0 1 2 Manuel Abel C 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0 William Auten PG 3 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 0 Scottie Harris C 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Turnovers: 14 (T.Tomblin 3, M.Donofrio 4, A.Cantwell 1, A.Lusk 3, M.Albertini 2, J.Bouldin 1) Blocked Shots: 1 (B.Tweedy 1) Steals: 6 (T.Tomblin 1, M.Donofrio 1, A.Lusk 1, G.Sena 1, J.Bouldin 2) 3P FGs: 3-12 (A.Cantwell 1-4, A.Lusk 0-1, M.Albertini 1-4, G.Sena 1-2, J.Bouldin 0-1) Rice (21-13, 8-8): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Charles West C 24 3-6 2-3 1 5 2 4 8 Ernie Forsberg PF 33 3-13 1-2 4 7 1 2 7 Paco Prieto SF 15 0-2 0-0 0 2 2 5 0 Greg Henriquez SF 27 4-10 4-4 4 6 5 5 13 Jack Altman PG 36 4-7 0-0 1 3 0 4 9 Domenic Fogel PF 21 3-3 0-0 0 8 1 2 6 Eldon Jones SG 22 5-9 2-3 0 1 0 5 14 William Heard SG 12 1-1 1-2 0 1 0 0 4 Ronald Huber SF 12 1-4 0-1 0 2 0 0 2 Mark Thompson C 10 1-2 0-1 1 5 1 2 2 Harold Hoch PF 2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Logan Killian PG 7 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 1 2 Jeffry Washington SF 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 20 (C.West 2, E.Forsberg 1, P.Prieto 1, G.Henriquez 1, J.Altman 4, D.Fogel 2, E.Jones 4, W.Heard 2, R.Huber 1, M.Thompson 1, L.Killian 1) Blocked Shots: 4 (C.West 2, E.Jones 1, M.Thompson 1) Steals: 6 (G.Henriquez 3, D.Fogel 1, E.Jones 1, W.Heard 1) 3P FGs: 5-17 (P.Prieto 0-1, G.Henriquez 1-4, J.Altman 1-4, E.Jones 2-5, W.Heard 1-1, M.Thompson 0-1, L.Killian 0-1) Player of Game: PF Monte Donofrio (MMPHS)

How big has Donofrio been as a yellow/yellow rated player? Without him, we don't win this tournament.

2022 Selection Sunday

It feels really good to be able to watch the other championship games on Selection Sunday, knowing we've already punched our ticket back to the big dance. I invited the guys over to my house as we watched undefeated North Carolina play their biggest rivals, the Duke Blue Devils, in the ACC Championship. For those wondering, Carolina stayed undefeated with a 72-70 victory. Now, to the selection show!

Disappointment all around as the selection show ended. Don't get me wrong, we are very happy to be going dancing, but with a 32 RPI, I expected better than a #11 seed. But that's what we got, the 11th seed in the NCAA East Region. We'll be taking on 6th seeded Syracuse.

Other C-USA teams extending their season:

Tulsa got the 10th seed in the NCAA Midwest Region and will open up against 7th seeded Providence. I would have loved us to have that game.

Southern Miss gets the 10th seed in the NCAA South Region and will open up against 7th seed Maryland.

The fact that Tulsa got a 10 seed amazes me. Their RPI was 11 spots lower than ours and we hammered them in the regular season. Ah well, sour grapes I suppose.

UAB gets the 3rd seed in the NIT South Region and will host 6th seed Northern Iowa in a Second Round game.

Rice gets the 2nd seed in the NIT East Region and gets a bye into the Second Round, where they will host the winner between 10th seeded Bryant and 7th seeded Appalachian State.

Marshall gets the 6th seed in the NIT East Region and will travel to 3rd seed Tennessee State in the Second Round.

ECU gets the 2nd seed in the CIT and will open up the First Round by hosting 15th seed Toledo.

And finally, Houston gets the 11th seed in the CIT and will travel to 6th seeded UL-Monroe.

So the C-USA gets 8 of 12 teams into postseason play. Good job!
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NCAA Tournament- East Region First Round
(11) Memphis (22-11) vs. (6) Syracuse (21-11)

We have identical records, well almost identical, but on paper Syracuse has a few more current blue and green players than we do. Their entire starting line-up is averaging double digits in scoring, which means if we can get them in foul trouble and get into their bench a little more, we've got a real shot to win this game.

Or.. we could just come out and play sparkling, tight defense in the second half, which is what we did. After going into the locker room leading by only 4, we came out and outscored the Orange 37-12 in the second half. Yep, that's right, we held them to 12 second half points on just 11.9% shooting. The result was an easy 77-48 victory as we move on!

Code:
Memphis 77, Syracuse 48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (23-11, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 25 2-5 6-8 0 10 2 1 10 Monte Donofrio PF 27 2-2 1-1 2 6 2 2 5 Antione Cantwell SF 28 5-10 2-3 2 5 1 1 14 Amos Lusk SG 33 7-23 5-8 5 9 6 1 19 Mario Albertini PG 31 5-10 0-0 0 2 2 1 13 Gerald Sena SF 13 0-3 3-4 2 4 0 0 3 Justin Bouldin SF 11 1-2 4-4 0 1 0 2 6 Brenton Tweedy C 16 1-1 0-0 2 5 0 1 2 Eldridge Boyd C 10 1-1 3-4 1 4 0 0 5 Manuel Abel PF 2 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 0 0 William Auten PG 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Stan Martin SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 12 (T.Tomblin 3, A.Cantwell 3, A.Lusk 5, G.Sena 1) Blocked Shots: 5 (A.Cantwell 1, A.Lusk 1, M.Albertini 1, B.Tweedy 2) Steals: 4 (A.Cantwell 1, A.Lusk 2, W.Auten 1) 3P FGs: 5-18 (A.Cantwell 2-2, A.Lusk 0-5, M.Albertini 3-7, G.Sena 0-3, J.Bouldin 0-1) Syracuse (21-12, 13-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Carl Medeiros C 20 4-7 1-2 2 5 1 4 9 Darrell Andino PF 30 4-9 0-2 6 9 0 1 8 James Lahr SF 28 1-14 0-2 3 6 4 3 3 Henry Merino SG 26 4-12 0-0 2 3 0 1 10 Shawn Kelly PG 26 3-4 0-0 0 6 3 2 8 Eddie Tedeschi SF 17 1-6 0-0 0 4 2 0 3 Gayle Chambliss PG 14 2-6 0-0 1 1 2 5 5 Richard Dyer PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Alvin Aldridge SG 10 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 3 0 Wade Brock C 12 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 4 0 Frank Arredondo PF 17 1-5 0-0 1 4 0 2 2 Turnovers: 15 (C.Medeiros 3, J.Lahr 2, H.Merino 4, S.Kelly 3, G.Chambliss 2, W.Brock 1) Blocked Shots: 4 (D.Andino 2, J.Lahr 1, A.Aldridge 1) Steals: 7 (D.Andino 3, H.Merino 2, S.Kelly 1, E.Tedeschi 1) 3P FGs: 7-26 (J.Lahr 1-6, H.Merino 2-7, S.Kelly 2-3, E.Tedeschi 1-6, G.Chambliss 1-4) Player of Game: SG Amos Lusk (MMPHS)


March 19, 2022

NCAA Tournament- East Region Second Round
(14) Navy (20-13) vs. (11) Memphis (23-11)

This really feels like dejavu to me. Last time we were in the NCAA Tournament we were the 7th seed, won our first round game, and got to play the 15th seed after they upset the 2nd seed. This time around, we get 14th seed Navy who upset 3rd seed Nebraska 67-60. This is a crazy region, with 4 double digit seeds in the Second Round, so if we can get by this game, we've got a real shot to advance far. First, we must beat Navy. They are a scrappy team, with 2 guys averaging double figures. Defensively they are iffy at best, so if we take it right at em, I like our chances.

It certainly wasn't the prettiest of second halves this time, but considering we led by 14 at halftime, we cruised a little bit in the last 20 minutes. Again, defense won it for us, as we forced 27 turnovers in route to a 65-52 win and another Sweet Sixteen appearance!!

Code:
Memphis 65, Navy 52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (24-11, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 19 1-8 6-8 0 1 0 4 8 Monte Donofrio PF 36 5-7 5-7 1 6 0 3 15 Antione Cantwell SF 29 2-10 1-2 5 9 4 3 5 Amos Lusk SG 36 7-17 2-2 3 5 7 2 18 Mario Albertini PG 34 3-6 2-2 0 4 2 2 8 Gerald Sena SF 11 1-2 0-0 1 2 0 3 2 Justin Bouldin SF 7 1-3 0-0 0 3 0 0 2 Brenton Tweedy C 18 0-1 1-2 2 4 0 1 1 Eldridge Boyd C 5 2-2 0-1 0 0 0 0 4 Manuel Abel PF 1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 William Auten PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Stan Martin SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 15 (T.Tomblin 2, A.Cantwell 4, A.Lusk 4, M.Albertini 1, G.Sena 2, J.Bouldin 1, E.Boyd 1) Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Donofrio 1) Steals: 8 (M.Donofrio 1, A.Lusk 2, M.Albertini 2, G.Sena 1, J.Bouldin 1, E.Boyd 1) 3P FGs: 2-10 (A.Cantwell 0-4, A.Lusk 2-2, M.Albertini 0-2, G.Sena 0-1, J.Bouldin 0-1) Navy (20-14, 9-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Jose Brito C 25 1-3 0-0 2 8 1 5 2 Abe Long PF 21 1-5 0-0 1 4 1 4 2 Ricky Schofield SF 28 4-9 0-0 1 6 2 2 10 Rosendo Clower SG 33 3-5 1-3 2 8 2 2 9 Jarvis Petrillo PG 26 4-12 3-4 1 3 0 3 11 Larry Swift SF 18 2-7 1-1 3 6 0 1 5 Virgil Templeton PF 22 1-1 0-0 2 2 1 3 2 Edward Haggerty PF 11 2-4 5-6 0 2 0 1 9 Harold Davison C 1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Andrew Burmeister PG 12 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 D. Fauvarcque SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Steven Broome PG 2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 27 (J.Brito 4, A.Long 2, R.Schofield 5, R.Clower 7, J.Petrillo 4, L.Swift 3, V.Templeton 1, A.Burmeister 1) Blocked Shots: 2 (J.Brito 1, L.Swift 1) Steals: 4 (R.Clower 2, J.Petrillo 2) 3P FGs: 4-15 (R.Schofield 2-6, R.Clower 2-4, J.Petrillo 0-2, L.Swift 0-2, A.Burmeister 0-1) Player of Game: PF Monte Donofrio (MMPHS)
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NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
(11) Memphis (24-11) vs. (7) Georgetown (22-12)

We've accomplished the athletic directors season goal of reaching the Sweet Sixteen, anything else we do is just a bonus. This is a very winnable game, as the Hoyas skimmed by their first 2 tournament games, and a look at their roster shows 4 players that we need to really key on. Other than that, it's pretty weak.

Unfortunately, the officiating was against us tonight. It started out really well, as we led by 4 at halftime. Then the second half sparked a change, and not a good one. Of our starting lineup, 3 fouled out in the 2nd half, and the other 2 were saddled with 4. This meant the bench saw more action than I would have liked. We were able to hit a buzzer beater to force overtime, but then ran out of gas. The Hoyas dominated the overtime period and ended our season as we lost 90-80. Still though, a fine season. Very fine.

Code:
Georgetown 90, Memphis 80 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (24-12, 10-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Troy Tomblin C 18 3-8 1-4 1 6 0 5 7 Monte Donofrio PF 27 1-1 6-6 0 5 1 5 8 Antione Cantwell SF 29 5-11 1-2 0 1 0 5 12 Amos Lusk SG 31 6-18 2-2 4 7 5 4 17 Mario Albertini PG 34 4-8 0-0 2 3 4 4 10 Gerald Sena SG 17 3-5 2-3 0 2 2 2 9 Justin Bouldin SF 20 1-4 0-0 1 2 3 0 2 Brenton Tweedy C 22 1-2 1-2 1 6 0 3 3 Eldridge Boyd C 14 3-3 0-0 0 4 0 0 6 Manuel Abel PF 9 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 William Auten PG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Stan Martin SF 3 2-2 0-1 0 2 1 0 4 Scottie Harris C 1 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 0 0 Turnovers: 20 (T.Tomblin 2, M.Donofrio 1, A.Cantwell 4, A.Lusk 4, M.Albertini 1, J.Bouldin 5, E.Boyd 1, W.Auten 1, S.Martin 1) Blocked Shots: 4 (T.Tomblin 1, J.Bouldin 1, B.Tweedy 1, S.Martin 1) Steals: 6 (A.Cantwell 2, M.Albertini 1, J.Bouldin 1, B.Tweedy 1, E.Boyd 1) 3P FGs: 7-17 (A.Cantwell 1-2, A.Lusk 3-7, M.Albertini 2-4, G.Sena 1-3, J.Bouldin 0-1) Georgetown (23-12, 11-7): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Jerrod Bee C 34 3-7 3-4 4 6 0 2 9 Mark Rash PF 24 2-3 5-6 1 6 1 3 9 Stewart McDowell SF 27 2-14 0-0 3 7 2 3 4 Paul Merritt SG 36 8-17 13-14 1 6 2 1 34 Jose Shaver PG 39 3-10 5-7 5 11 2 0 13 Nicholas Barbee SG 15 1-6 2-4 1 2 1 0 5 Isaiah Zepeda SF 18 3-6 2-2 2 3 0 1 9 Wilson Casper PF 20 2-4 0-0 0 4 2 5 4 Carrol Rae PF 8 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 3 Chung Sayers PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Antonio Leon PF 4 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 1 0 Turnovers: 15 (J.Bee 1, M.Rash 1, S.McDowell 4, P.Merritt 4, J.Shaver 2, N.Barbee 2, I.Zepeda 1) Blocked Shots: 5 (J.Bee 2, S.McDowell 1, P.Merritt 1, I.Zepeda 1) Steals: 9 (M.Rash 1, S.McDowell 1, P.Merritt 5, J.Shaver 1, I.Zepeda 1) 3P FGs: 10-28 (S.McDowell 0-6, P.Merritt 5-11, J.Shaver 2-5, N.Barbee 1-3, I.Zepeda 1-2, C.Rae 1-1) Player of Game: SG Paul Merritt (GTOWN)

The postseason wrap-up will be coming up later in a separate post.
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2022 Postseason Wrap-Up

In the NCAA Final Four (1S) North Carolina hammered (2W) Stanford 74-51, and (12E) Niagara (what??) beat (3MW) Baylor 88-82. In the national championship, North Carolina beat Niagara 80-60.

The NIT Final Four saw (7W) Florida beat (4S) Alabama 73-55 and (1MW) Butler beat (2E) Wichita State 69-47. The NIT Championship was a close one, as Butler beat Florida 68-66.

The CBI Championship Series saw (5) UNC Wilmington beat (6) Winston-Salem 2 games to 0. UNC Wilmington won game 1 71-55 and won game 2 73-63.

The CIT Championship saw (16) Tennessee-Martin beat (7) UC Riverside 66-42.

Tulsa beat (7) Providence 79-67 then lost to (2) UCLA 88-85 in the NCAA Midwest Region.

Southern Miss lost to (7) Maryland 88-79 in the NCAA South Region.

Rice lost to (10) Bryant 103-97 in OT in the NIT East Region Second Round.

UAB lost 67-44 to (6) Northern Iowa in the NIT South Region Second Round.

Marshall beat (3) Tennessee State 71-59 before losing to (10) Bryant 90-62 in the NIT East Region.

ECU lost 68-66 to (15) Toledo in the CIT First Round.

Houston beat (6) UL Monroe 80-54 then lost to (3) SE Louisiana 77-72 in the CIT.
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Terrible news guys, this project is done. I was working on it earlier when my computer locked up on me in the middle of saving, and when I got all rebooted, the file was gone. I'm a little ticked off at the moment, and hating computers again, but I say better this one than one of my FBCB Interactive Dynasties.

I'll be restarting this project in a couple days, first I want to focus on the Interactive Dynasties a little bit, crossing fingers this was just an isolated computer issue and not something serious.
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