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Old 02-18-2009, 08:39 PM   #151
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Congrats on picking up one of your goals in a really compelling game. Hope you can keep it going the rest of the way this season.
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Old 02-18-2009, 08:50 PM   #152
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Congrats on a great game. Love it when you can get an extremely competitive game like that. Just the way basketball should be.
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Old 02-18-2009, 10:30 PM   #153
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Thanks for the comments guys Being able to generate games like that one is definitely one of the big things that makes this such a great console sports game. The intensity down the stretch and the flow of the game totally feels like a real game, its awesome.
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Old 02-18-2009, 11:33 PM   #154
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Hampton continues to win and we can no longer finish 1st in the regular season. We can still finish anywhere from 2nd to 5th. Since I'm not sure how tiebreakers work here I'm just going to play our last game and see where we end up

March 4, 2010

NC A&T (16-12, 12-5 MEAC) at Winston-Salem State(11-18, 7-10 MEAC)

I thought early in the year that WS State was going to challenge for the league title. They have been a disappointment. They have 3 good backcourt players, including the 2nd leading scorer in the MEAC in Darius Floyd, at 18.7 ppg. He scored 25 against us last time we played.
Half
Time
NC A&T
WSS
Notes
1
19:00
2
12
They have 2 3's, and we've turned it over twice against their press already,and 3 times overall... 12 points in the first minute!? Ugh.
1
12:30
16
19
We fight our way back after we settle down and stop giving them easy looks. Fisher is killing us, 3 3's already. Ewing has 8 points though which has helped our run. Backups are in now.
1
7:00
26
33
The backups had a hard time keeping up, I slowed things down but you can't really tell. Floyd and Fisher are unstoppable... at least by me.
1
4:15
30
42
They just aren't missing any shots. This is the team I expected Winston Salem State to be,not some 7-10 team struggling for wins.

HALF
39
60
In the final two minutes we had 4 straight turnovers. Fisher has 25 points. 10-18 shooting, 5-11 from 3. Floyd has 16, 2-4 from 3/6-9 overall.


They have 11 steals and only 2 turnovers. As a result they've taken 10 more shots than us, and they're on fire. If we can stop turning the ball over we can play them even, but I don't know if a 21 point comeback is in the works here.


I've got 11 from Ewing and 13 from Hayes.
2
15:00
54
72
We get the lead under 20 for the first time in the 2nd half.
2
13:50
59
72
They've gone completely cold for the first time this game and we've run off a good amount of points quickly. Still down 13 but we feel like we might be in it again.
2
12:30
61
76
They run off 4 straight and push the lead back up to 16. We've got to get our starters some rest, so the backups are in.
2
10:00
61
84
Our backups haven't gotten the ball up to the rim yet. Two steals and a blocked shot, with two threes and a dunk on the other end.
2
6:15
69
89
We get Cruz some buckets, but its probably a bit much to ask our starters to erase a 20 point deficit in 6 minutes.

HAH. At the 4 minute mark they go up 25 and I just want it to end

Winston-Salem State 107
NC A&T 77

They got 30 from Fisher and 28 from Floyd, their two star players. They had 19 steals and only 5 turnovers.

Alston: 10 points/6 assists
Ewing: 17 points/7 assists
Johnson: 1 point/4 boards
Coleman: 16 points/9 boards
Hayes: 15 points/9 boards

Cruz: 14 points

Letdown game? This is exactly the team I match up the worst against. They have numerous 3 point shooters, including two very good ones, they force turnovers and make it hard for you to run even when they miss 3 pointers. I really have no idea how we beat them the first time around after seeing this performance.
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Old 02-18-2009, 11:36 PM   #155
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Final MEAC Standings

1. Hampton 14-4
2. Howard 13-5
3. NC A&T 12-6
4. SC State 12-6
5. Delaware State 11-7
6. Coppin State 10-8
7. Morgan State 9-9
8. Bethune-Cookman 8-10
9. Winston-Salem State 8-10
10. Norfolk State 7-11
11. MD-Eastern Shore 2-16
12. Florida A&M 2-16


We face the winner of Coppin State and Maryland-Eastern Shore in the quarterfinals.

Last edited by Radii : 02-18-2009 at 11:37 PM.
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Old 02-18-2009, 11:38 PM   #156
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MEAC First Round Games

Winston Salem State 65
Bethune-Cookman 62

MD-Eastern Shore 76
Coppin State 64

Morgan State 75
Norfolk State 60

MEAC Quarterfinal Pairings

1. Hampton
9. Winston-Salem State

4. South Carolina State
5. Delaware State

3. North Carolina A&T
11. Maryland-Eastern Shore

2. Howard
7. Morgan State


Howard is who we just played our classic double overtime game against. Morgan State we played two very challenging games against in the regular season, winning by 2, and losing by 1.

Assuming we beat MD-Eastern Shore(shouldn't look ahead, right?) I get Howard or Morgan State.
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Old 02-19-2009, 01:01 AM   #157
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March 9, 2010 – MEAC Quarterfinals

NC A&T (16-13, 12-6 MEAC) vs MD-Eastern Shore (8-21, 2-16 MEAC)

We beat these guys by 32 at our place, but only won by 8 at their place. PG Marc Davis and backup SG Dan Krleski both proved to be 3 point threats in the second contest.
Half
Time
NC A&T
UMES
Notes
1
15:30
4
10
We start out extremely sloppy and they take advantage. We call a time out to settle down and get into our offense.
1
10:15
16
18
Backups are in. Our starters stayed out a little longer than I would have liked, we did have one crowd boost in the middle there that helped out. Coleman has 10, Alston 4, Ewing 2.
1
8:00
16
25
A bad shot and a turnover and its a quick 7-0 UMES run. We're just trying to eat clock here.
1
4:15
20
33
Another bad shot, two very costly turnovers(they just picked Shiloh and Works up at the top of the key and ran in for a layup) and we are falling behind pretty bad here. Starters are back in.

HALF
27
39
Frustrating half. They make 6 3's compared to our zero. But we shouldn't be down by this much, and we shouldn't struggle to score this much. And again its the turnovers. They have 2, we have 12. About half of those came in the 6 minutes the backups were out there. But its just way too many.


Coleman has 12 points, Alston 6. They don't really have anyone dominating on the scoreboard, SF Sato has 9. He really likes to shoot though and he doesn't do it that well so I'm fine with that.
2
15:45
42
46
We had it down to 7, then they scored a couple and took a 46-35 lead. Since then we're on a 7-0 run and have cut the lead down to 4. Seems like we've got control of things again.
2
15:15
45
46
We force a miss and Ewing hits our first 3 pointer of the game on the other end. They call a timeout. The crowd has gone nuts for us, giving us a boost twice this half already.
2
13:45
52
50
Another Ewing 3 gives us our first lead of the game a few minutes later.
2
10:45
56
52
Backups are in, we've cooled a bit but lead by 4. Now to avoid the disaster that occurred with our backups in the first half.
2
8:00
59
52
A miracle 3 by Shiloh and our defense is playing great. This is more like it.
2
7:00
60
52
Starters back in for the duration.
2
5:00
62
54
They burn a time out. Though i'm not stalling at this point, a couple minutes going by where we each score 2 is fine by me at this stage of the game.
2
3:15
68
60
They had the lead down to 6 and a chance to cut it down lower. We get a stop and a bucket on our end. Backto 8...
2
0:55
68
66
We ran a little clock but not so much that it was out of our offense. But we turned it over once, and they got a layup off a defensive rebound once, and on our last possession Ewing missed a shot, Hayes got the board but his putback was blocked. They came down and scored and its closer than we'd like now...
2
0:21
70
66
Whew. I run a play to get either Hayes or Coleman open inside, and am able to find Coleman a layin with very little time left on the shot clock.

We force them into a bad shot, get the rebound, and put it away.

NC A&T 72

MD-Eastern Shore 66

Rebounds: NC A&T 42, MD-Eastern Shore 26
Steals: NC A&T 3, MD-Eastern Shore 13

Sato scored 22 for them.

Alston: 17 points/3 assists
Ewing: 12 points/8 assists
Johnson: 2 point/4 boards
Coleman: 16 points/11 boards
Hayes: 17 points/23 boards

Monster game from Hayes on the boards. On to the semifinals!
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Old 02-19-2009, 01:03 AM   #158
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MEAC Quarterfinal Results

1. Hampton 78
9. Winston-Salem State 69

4. South Carolina State 67
5. Delaware State 61

3. North Carolina A&T 72
11. Maryland-Eastern Shore 66

2. Howard 76
7. Morgan State 49


MEAC Semifinals

1. Hampton
4. South Carolina State

2. Howard
3. North Carolina A&T


The semifinals are a rematch of our double-overtime thriller vs Howard just 13 days ago. On the other side we are rooting hard for South Carolina State.
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:13 AM   #159
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March 12, 2010 – MEAC Semifinals

NC A&T (17-13, 12-6 MEAC) vs Howard (18-16, 13-5 MEAC)

So we know what we're up against here. The last time we played SG Timothy scored 45 points and SF Riley scored 37. Of course we were keeping pace the entire time but I expect similar. They have two shooters in their starting lineup(and SG White off the bench who can hit them too) and they're going to go to them repeatedly.

Half
Time
NC A&T
HOW
Notes
1
13:00
13
20
Howard breaks out for 6 straight, extending a normal 14-13 lead up to 7 before we call a timeout and get our backups in the game. We haven't gotten out on the break at all. All our buckets are in the half court set. They have 3 3's I believe.


Coleman has 2 fouls.
1
9:15
18
29
Backups did ok for a short bit, scoring the first 3 and making it 20-16. Now its a 9-2 Howard run and we're down 11.
1
8:45
19
29
Shiloh is hurt going to the basket into traffic. A little less speed out of the backups now.
1
7:00
23
41
They have Riley, Timothy and White all on the court at the same time. We have no answer at all for this. We call a timeout and get the starters back out there and just pray these guys go cold.
1
1:30
41
53
We go on a run to make the score respectable. They benched a couple of their shooters and have started missing more of their shots, which is letting Alston go nuts on the break.

HALF
43
60
They close the half strong and we are in huge trouble. They are 9/18 from 3 and shooting over 60% from the floor...


Timothy has 21 and Riley 19 for them. We just have no prayer of stopping either of them.


On our end Alston has 16, Hayes 8 and Ewing 6. Coleman's two fouls hurt us inside for sure.
2
17:15
51
67
Alston is exhausted from carrying the team on his back, and Ewing isn't far behind despite doing jack shit today. I start rotating some individual players around.
2
16:50
51
70
Coleman picks up foul #3 on a 3 point play for them...
2
15:00
53
70
A timeout by us and some more backups in. This is going so poorly heh.
2
11:30
61
81
Alston back in...

They make a 3, we turn itover, they make a 3, we turn it over, they get a 3 point play. It's 90-61 and I say uncle.

Howard 112
NC A&T 93

They made 16 3's. 33 from Riley, 29 from Timothy. We just couldn't score enough to keep up. The stretch in the first half where they had White, Riley and Timothy all out on the court at the same time was completely demoralizing. There is no defense we can play that would keep them from getting open 3's every possession with those 3 guys all out there at once.

Alston: 26 points
Ewing: 11 points
Johnson: 2 points/7 boards
Coleman: 10 points/7 boards
Hayes: 21 points/14 boards
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:16 AM   #160
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MEAC Semifinals

1. Hampton 58
4. South Carolina State 75

2. Howard 112
3. North Carolina A&T 93

MEAC Finals


4. SC State 74
2. Howard 73


South Carolina State earns a 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:22 AM   #161
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Graduating Seniors

SG Austin Ewing - 67 OVR

07/08 - 10.2 ppg, 1.4 apg, 1.1 steals
08/09 - 16.3 ppg, 2.8 apg, 0.7 steals
09/10 - 17.1 ppg, 3.5 apg, 1.1 steals

One thing I rarely mentioned about Ewing is that his FT rating was over 90. He led the nation in free throw shooting in the 08/09 season. He shot 91.4% from the free throw line for his career.


PG Tavarus Alston - 58 OVR

07/08: 4.7 ppg, 2.7 apg
08/09: 10.8 ppg, 4.2 apg
09/10: 15.0 ppg, 4.7 apg

Alston didn't have a great deal in the way of skills, but he was FAST and he had a very smooth crossover motion that I was able to use like crazy in the fast break. Works and Shiloh don't have this ability and its going to completely change how I play with this team next year, assuming I'm with this team next year.

SF Robert Johnson - 57 OVR

07/08 - 1.5 ppg, 1.3 rpg
08/09 - 2.9 ppg, 1.2 rpg
09/10 - 2.5 ppg, 3.7 rpg

I don't use the SF position well to begin with. Johnson didn't have nearly enough talent to get me to try to incorporate the SF more in my offense.
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:29 AM   #162
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ergh, I thought I stopped the sim before the national title game but apparently not. So I'm doing this all a bit out of logical order as per usual.

Coaching Skill Increases

I met four of my goals last year!

Win a non-conference tournament. Have a winning record. No unhappy players and... coach a conference player of the year!!! Thomas Coleman won player of the year in the MEAC.

There are two areas that I primarily want to focus on, Defense and Teaching. I need players with better defensive awareness, and I need to be able to begin to develop some of these 3* recruits I'm starting to pull in:

Offense: C-
Defense: C+
Teaching: C+
Scouting: C-
Charisma: A+
Disclipline: C-
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:40 AM   #163
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Coaching Carousel

I mentioned earlier in the season that I had planned on leaving NC A&T this year with Alston and Ewing graduating. While I'm tempted to stay and shoot for a few more coaching goals before I move up, I did decide that if I got offered a mid-major job this year that I would likely take it.

It looks like Jim Calhoun has retired at UConn. They hire Creighton's head coach.

The South Carolina job opens up as well. They hire Nevada's head coach.

Nevada is up next in the WAC - They don't have me anywhere in their top 6. They hire IUPUI's head coach.

Creighton in the MVC is next, and they hire Hartford's head coach. I'm not on their list either.

Miami-Ohio is next in the MAC. They go after someone else but I am listed #2 for them. Getting close!


Ohio - MAC - the last mid-major that needs a coach. They list me as their #1 option.

Looking at the team's roster strengths, it looks like an upgraded version of NC A&T. Good offense, no defense, great shooting.

The team is rated 71 OVR, 74 OFF, 68 DEF, 80 SHT, 81 REB. They finished 10-20 last year but were 8-8 in conference play. They have a fairly average looking roster, most of the starters are rated in the upper 60's.

Going through this is pretty much a formality, I want to make the jump up to mid-major and this is the place to do it.

I have accepted a 2 year contract to coach Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference
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Old 02-19-2009, 02:55 AM   #164
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Assistant Coaches

I bring on two new assistants. I decide not to worry about a "recruiting assistant" and focus on player development instead.

Sandy Boylan - age 29

OVR: C
OFF: B+
DEF: D
TEA: C+
SCO: D
CHA: C
DIS: D

Ambition: A

Offense and Teaching are clearly the reasons I wanted this guy. Charisma of 'C' is fine too, as there are no assistants out there with a charsima any higher this year.

Alassane Bannister - Age 32

OVR: C
OFF: C-
DEF: B-
TEA: B
SCO: D
CHA: F
DIS: C

Ambition: A-

And here we've got a guy with some defensive ability and a good overall skills teacher.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:00 AM   #165
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Now that we're through with all that we can go review the end of the last season.

NCAA Tournament

1 seeds:

Mississippi State
Tennessee
Arizona
UCLA


South Carolina State was a 16 seed and lost by 30 to Mississippi State.

Final Four

5 seed Wisconsin came out of the East (beating 3 seed UConn)
1 seed Mississippi State beat 10 seed Arizona State in the South
1 seed Tennessee beat 2 seed Duke in the Midwest
3 seed Pittsburgh beat 4 seed Memphis in the West

National Semifinals:

5. Wisconsin 73
3. Pittsburgh 71

1. Mississippi State 94
1. Tennessee 93

Finals:

1. Mississippi State 79
5. Wisconsin 59


Mississippi State wins the national title.


The MAC was represented by Akron in the tournament. Akron earned a 14 seed and lost to 3 seed USC 88-86 in the first round.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:04 AM   #166
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NCAA Awards

Kevin Love wins the player of the year award as a junior for UCLA. He scored 27.9 ppg and grabbed 7.7 rebounds a game.

Mississippi State's Rick Stansbury wins national coach of the year.


1st Team All American

PG Derrick Rose - Memphis - 25.3 ppg, 4.8 apg
SG Jerome Dyson - UConn - 20.1 ppg
SF Jonathan Rodriguez - Campbell - 30.6 ppg, 10.0 rpg
PF Blake Griffin - Oklahoma - 24.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg
C Kevin Love - UCLA - 27.9 ppg, 7.7 rpg


MEAC Awards

Hampton's Todd Lickliter wins coach of the year

NC A&T's Thomas Coleman is the player of the year

Bethune Cookman's PF Henry Walcott is freshman of the year.

First Team All-MEAC

PG Tavarus Alston - NC A&T - 15.0 ppg, 4.7 apg
SG Carrio Bennett - SC State - 18.8 ppg
SF Ameer Ali - Morgan State - 12.4 ppg
PF Thomas Coleman - NC A&T - 15.1 ppg, 11.3 rpg
C Scott Hayes - NC A&T - 13.8 ppg, 9.4 rpg

Run up and down enough and score more than everyone and the awards come raining in.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:14 AM   #167
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Ohio Recruiting Overview

Ohio only had two scholarships available this year. They've already got one signing and it looks like a good one:

3* PF Daryl Delic

Shooting: B-
Skills: B-
Offense: B-
Athletiism: B+
Rebounding: A-
Intelligence: B
Potential: A-
Size: B

He's only 6'6" which is smaller than I like at PF but he looks like a nicely skilled player.


Our other scholarship is offered to a 2* SG named Gerad Byfield out of Cincinnati. He's ranked #656 overall and doesn't impress me one bit. It also looks like we'll likely lose him to Wright State.

We got a 4* SF p to 100% interest but Wake Forest and Tennessee both have offers out to him, I expect him to pick one of them immediately.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:29 AM   #168
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Offseason Recruiting

I was right in that my 2* Scholarship guy went elsewhere, and the 4* I was tailing went to Wake Forest. The only other active target Ohio seems like they could land is a 6'9" 2* Center that doesn't impress me at all.

There's two targets potentially worth having:

3* SG Romeo Fitzgerald - rated #337 overall, I was on this guy at NC A&T, but he hasn't signed with them yet. So I hope he really just wants to play for me, and I make him an offer.

3* JC SF Caron Harrison - No one else seems to have any interest in Harrison and he has reasonable interest in me, so I scout him out. A JC player would be nice here.

And finally the other option is to try to grab a world recruit. I target two of them to see what happens.


Week 2

Both my local 3* targets sign elsewhere. Fitzgerald sticks with NC A&T,good for him, and good for their recruiting class.


Without any options that I like better, I offer the 3* World recruit a scholarship and hope its not too late to land him.


WOOHOO. On the final day of the recruiting season C Arnaud Dahi from the Ivory Coast signs with Ohio:

Dahi is 6'10" 213 lbs. We know little else about him, except that grades out as an A- in rebounding.

Otherwise, we've got our fingers crossed.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:34 AM   #169
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Recruiting Class Rankings

1. Duke
2. Arizona
3. Louisville
4. Mississippi State
5. California
6. UConn
7. UCLA
8. USC
9. Kansas
10.West Virginia


Central Michigan looked to have the best MAC class around 90th. NC A&T was ~100th! Ohio looks to be around 140th.
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Old 02-19-2009, 03:49 AM   #170
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Incoming Recruits

Good news here:

PF Daryl Delic - 6'7" 207 pounds - 73 OVR - B Potential

Good from close range(89), layups(85), shooting in traffic(87), good low post offense(79) and a good rebounder(80/78 offense/defense). 84 Hustle, so a good worker. The B potential has me pretty excited too.

73 OVR means that he comes in as my highest rated player.


C Arnaud Dahi - 6'11" 219 lbs - 67 OVR - C- Potential

For a total unknown, I'll take it.

Close (82), shooting in traffic(79) low post offense(76) and rebounding (76/81 offense/defense) are all pretty good . 76 STR is a solid B+, and he has very good defensive awareness, 72.


And that'll have to do for tonight, roster overview and we'll get rolling in the new season tomorrow.
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Old 02-19-2009, 12:36 PM   #171
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Time to see what we're looking at here.

Ohio Roster Overview

Starters

PG Wayne Turner - JR - 71 OVR - good skills for a PG, speed(89), quickness(88), Handling(87), decent passer(74), defender(80) and a reasonable shooter(80 close/75 mid/76 3 pointer). Great stamina(90). Turner is a transfer from Southern Miss.

SG Tommy Freeman - SR - 66 OVR - 3 point shooter (84). Average speed(80), handling(74), and defense(75). He's definitely out there to give me a 3 point threat. Averaged 8 points per game last year

SF Devaughn Washington - SR - 65 OVR - 6'8 so he has good size for a small forward. He's a decent rebounder(77 offense/74 defense) with very average skills elsehwere. A good close range shot(85) but not much else. Big surprise, i don't much care for my small forward, I guess some things are unlikely to change.

PF Daryl Delic - FR - 73 OVR - My star recruit, great in close(89) and in traffic(87), very good low post offense(79) but a bit lacking on defense(69). Very good rebounder. He's only 6'7" and we will see how that impacts things as the season goes along. One of the few guys I've seen with an awareness rating over 70, offensive awareness 71.

C Arnaud Dahi - FR - 67 OVR - Good in close(82), and average to above average on the boards(76 Offense/81 defense). Very strong (76) with great defensive awareness(72).


Bench

PG Drake Massey - SO - 68 OVR - decent speed(82) but poor quickness(76). A fine ball handler and passer for a backup(79/79) and a good defender(82). He's a acceptable shooter too(74 med/76 3). The CPU recommended that I start Massey at SG instead of Freeman, but I've chosen to go with the 3 point shooting instead.

SG Mike Harris - SR - 66 OVR - Average all over. Good leaper(84 vertical), all his speed/handling/shooting ratings are C's. Again a perfectly acceptable backup.

PF Marucie Pearson - SR - 67 OVR - 6'10" and a solid rebounder(80 offense/80 defense). Very good inside(89) and an average post defender(72). Seems like a very solid guy to have coming off the bench.

C Kenan Sessoms - FR - 65 OVR - 6'11" walkon. Average rebounder(77 o/74 d), good post defender(78 post d) who has very little stamina and will get in tons of foul trouble(foul 92).

I'm hoping that with Turner's stamina we can make it on a 9 man rotation. We have a SG, Taymon Roller, that is rated 56 OVR and can fill some extra minutes if necessary.
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Old 02-19-2009, 01:01 PM   #172
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Recruiting Preview

If you look at the roster above, you'll notice 4 seniors in my top 9. And we have 4 scholarships to try to replace those guys.

There is one very exciting development looking at recruiting:

We are #5 in interest at 89% for 4* SG Arzelle Cooper. He's the #63 overall recruit. He's from Ann Arbor and lists Michigan 3rd and Ohio State 2nd, so we might not have much of a shot, but obviously we're going after him and will have to find out.

We're #6 in line for another 4* guard out of Chicago, but this one looks less promising. SG Craig Lidzius only has 63% interest in us, and it seems like he's leaning pretty heavily towards DePaul. This actually looks like quite a lost cause.


I offer all four of my scholarships pretty early on, based mostly on rankings at this point as my scouting abilities are fairly poor:

4* SG Arzelle Cooper - #63 Overall - He came in for a visit in our first week and we have him at 100% already. Toledo, Ohio State, Michigan and Xavier still have to act on him.

3* SF Wendell House - #157 overall - We scout him as a good shooting athletic wingman. We're the first to make an offer to him. It looks like our likely competition is Purdue and Notre Dame here.

3* SG Danny Warsaw - #235 overall - Offered primarily because he scouts as an A- shooter.

3* PG Rickey Butt - #371 overall - A local kid from Euclid, Ohio. We're competing with local schools here, Cleveland State, Akron, Dayton. Offered because we'll need another natural PG once Turner graduates in two years. Additionally, his last name is Butt, huh-huh.


We've got 6 games before the early signing period. I'm probably going to just play out two of them against evenly matched opponents, then sim the other four to get to the early signing period ASAP.

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Old 02-19-2009, 11:20 PM   #173
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Predictions based on initial roster strengths:

1. Kent State 80 OVR
2. Ball State 79 OVR
3. Bowling Green 79 OVR
4. Akron 77 OVR
5. Buffalo 76 OVR
6. Ohio 76 OVR
7. Central Michigan 75 OVR
8. Toledo 75 OVR
9. Western Michigan 74 OVR
10. Miami-Ohio 74 OVR
11. Eastern Michigan 73 OVR
12. N. Illinois 73 OVR


Best Overall Player: C Colin Wierzba - 80 OVR - Kent State (sophomore)
Best Freshman: C Rans Lemons - 73 OVR - Central Michigan
Best Shooter: SG Tommy Freeman - 66 OVR - Ohio (senior)
Best Playmaker: PG Joe Jakubowski - 70 OVR - Bowling Green (senior)
Best Pro Prospect: SG Wallace Mason - 79 OVR - Bowling Green (junior)
Best Defender: C Colin Wierzba - 80 OVR - Kent State (sophomore)


No one in the MAC is ranked, and fact the MAC appears down a bit for a mid-major. The MAC was the 20th rated conference based on conference RPI last year, there were a few small conferences rated above them.
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Old 02-19-2009, 11:42 PM   #174
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C Kenan Sessoms - FR - 65 OVR - 6'11" walkon. Average rebounder(77 o/74 d), good post defender(78 post d) who has very little stamina and will get in tons of foul trouble(foul 92).

I'm thinking that is an avoid foul rating, but I'm not absolutely positive.
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Old 02-20-2009, 12:19 AM   #175
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I'm thinking that is an avoid foul rating, but I'm not absolutely positive.

the higher the number, the lower the letter grade(a 92 is an F), which is why I've always assumed higher means foul prone. I think I still have my manual, but I doubt it specifies.
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Old 02-20-2009, 12:29 AM   #176
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Valparaiso (0-0) at Ohio (0-0)

Woohoo, first game! Valpo is rated 76 OVR, same as us. We start in the hole as far as team unity is concerned, at 23. Valpo is at 41.

Scouting

PG Chip Dupree – SO – 68 OVR – Very fast (88 speed) but not as quick(80). Good hands, passing and defense, all right around80. He can hit the 3 and can drive to the basket, this guy looks fairly dangerous.

SG Howard Little – SR – 72 OVR – Good defender(83), average speed/quickness(80/81), average overall shooter(82 close/74 med/74 3)

SF Brant Challed – JR – 69 OVR – above average rebounder, not a big threat to shoot though(63 med/70 3 ratings). Good going to the basket(78 shdr) but not terribly quick.

PF Bryan Bouchie – SR – 72 OVR – 6'11” - good inclose(88), above average on the boards(80 offense/83 defense), and above average in the post(74 offense/76 defense)

C Chase Becker – SR – 69 OVR – 7'0” - They've got a size edge here. Good rebounder(80/83), very good low post offense(80) and good defense(74). Not as great a straight up close range shot though(81). Terrible foul rating, hopefully we can get him into foul trouble

Decent all around team here, they don't seem like a team that's going to murder us from deep, but they have fairly good talent everywhere. The size disadvantage worries me.

Half
Time
OHIO
VAL
Notes
1
15:00
12
5
Oh man I like Freeman's shooting motion. Turner is fast and has the same explosive blowby move that Alston had. Gonna be fun with these two guys.
1
13:00
20
8
Valpo is playing a 2-3 zone. All our guards are rated at least 74 from 3, and I'll take wide open 3's with those guys as long as they're hitting.


One thing is certain early. A 9 man rotation will require a lot more micromanagement as far as substitution patterns go.
1
9:40
28
15
Yeah my head is spinning trying to manage substitutions It doesn't help that its overriding who I have listed as the starter at SG. It keeps wanting to default it back to Massey even though I've overwritten that everywhere to say Freeman is my starter.
1
4:20
43
18
Wow. They haven't made a shot in a long time.

HALF
52
29
Great first half! We shoot 60%, they shoot 27%. We're 6-11 from 3.


Turner leads us with 11 points, Freeman has 9(3-5 from 3), Delic has 6 and Dahi has 6. Dahi has 11 boards.
2
15:30
62
37
A 3 from Turner and another from Freeman keeps us pushing ahead strong.
2
7:30
76
53
We'd almost pushed the lead up to 30 but have cooled slightly.

I've got a 20 point lead with 5 minutes left and sim to the end.

Ohio 84
Valparaiso 64

Each team made 10 three pointers, but we did it in 22 shots, they took 36 of them. We shot 51% overall and held them to 33% shooting.

Turns out their SF Challad likes to shoot the second he touches it every time down. That's no good for Valpo as he's not really a great shooter. He went 6-23 today.

Turner: 23 points/7 assists (3-6 from 3)
Freeman: 17 points (5-11 from 3)
Washington: 5 points/5 boards
Delic: 9 points/6 boards
Dahi: 10 points/13 boards

I ended up completely mismanaging my subs and rarely had the exact guys on the court that I wanted during the middle of either half. I may go to a 10 man rotation and throw my awful SG into the mix just to keep things simple.

Initial thoughts on these guys: I love Turner and Freeman both, they're going to score a ton for me this year. Delic was up against a very good, very big power forward today and suffered. Hopefully he'll do better vs weaker competition but I'm worried about him. Dahi seems solid and strong inside.

Not everyone is going to spend most of the game in a 2-3 zone against us, the big men should be stronger vs man to man opposition I am sure.
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Old 02-20-2009, 02:54 AM   #177
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Youngstown State (0-0) at Ohio (1-0)

We have another game vs an evenly matched opponent today, then our next few games we either expect to win easily or lose badly, so I'll play this one and then sim some out. Youngstown State is rated 75 OVR.

Scouting

PG Vili Cantrell – SO – 67 OVR – Average... average speed, average handling/passing, average or below shooting. He's a good steals guy and we'll want to protect the ball around him. But he doesn't seem a scoring threat.

SG Vytas Sulskis – SR – 66 OVR – 6'7”, a natural SF. He is a decent shooter(79 med/79 3), but he's a bit slower than most SG's. Freeman is more of a spotup shooter so this is actually not a great matchup for us, but my backup guards could probably take pretty good advantage of this.

SF Ije Kohn – SO – 70 OVR – Decent insidee, not a great overall shooter though(70 med/66 3). Average on the boards and not a guy we're worried about that much. He is 6'8” so he gives them a ton of size.

PF Alloune Hodges – SR – 75 OVR – 6'10”, great inside(93close) and incredibly good outside for a big man (73 med/74 3). Outstanding low post player and rebounder (84 DRB). This guy is a monster.

C Landy Markham – FR – 66 OVR – Only 6'8”. Not as good a scorer or rebounder as Hodges. Good post defender but awful defensive awareness(dawr is 56, I am learning to expect to see over 60 for everyone at this level).

If we can hold our own on the defensive boards, I think we match up pretty well against these guys when I have the ball.
Half
Time
OHIO
YSU
Notes
1
16:00
12
4
We get out to another fast start. The scoring is balanced, no one has more than 4 of our points yet.
1
13:50
14
16
Big run on their part,they are doing a good job running when we miss, and they've hit two threes over our zone. Freeman has 2early fouls and has to sit.
1
11:45
18
20
All backups except for Turner are in now.
1
5:30
29
30
All starters are back in except for Freeman who I don't want to pick up a 3rd stupid foul. Hodges has 2 fouls for them which is good, he was their leading scorer when he sat a couple minutes ago.

HALF
41
46
We've allowed them to shoot 57% for the half, just too high.


Delic and Dahi both have 9 points inside. Freeman was 1-4 from 3 when he came out with foul trouble. Their big SG Sulskis is proving to be a big problem. He has 14 points, 2-3 from outside and 3-4 inside.
2
16:00
52
51
Defense is playing well, and we're on a 11-3 run after allowing the first bucket of the half. Turner has hit a 3, driven to the hoop and drawn a couple fouls, and has a nice dunk in transition.
2
11:45
61
62
Backups are in at all 5 positions.
2
9:15
67
65
Delic and Dahi are back in, guards are still resting. Pearson, my backup PF, scored my last 4 and was solid inside during this stretch.
2
6:30
73
73
I burn a time out and get all my starters back in. Delic and Dahi are playing very strong inside. Sulskis is still killing us and really the only reason the game is close.
2
3:15
78
82
Mostly back and forth but we have missed two free throws in our last two possessions and have let them go up by 4. I burn my next to last time out just to keep my guys rested.
2
2:30
80
82
They use a timeout. We got Dahi a good inside look to cut it to 2.
2
1:33
80
84
Their ball after they score and we come up empty.
2
0:15
85
86
After they score to go up 6, we get a drive from Turner to cut it to 4. There's about 50 seconds left at this point and I end up playing defense instead of fouling. We force a bad shot(Hodges, contested, from 20 feet) and Freeman hits a pullup 3 in transition! We're going to have to foul, down 1with 15 seconds left.

They make 1 of 2 free throws when we foul. I push the ball upcourt, Turner drives by his man but Hodges is back there in defense. Turner goes up strong, hoping to draw a foul,but Hodges plays great defense and just forces an awkward shot that is no good. We foul again with 6 seconds left, but they make both FT's this time. I rushed that final shot a bit and could have done better for sure.

Youngstown State 89
Ohio 85

Well,I just lost to a team nicknamed the Penguins. I'm pretty pleased overall though, as we've played two teams rated about the same as us that play two totally different styles of defense, and we were able to hold our own against both. We did struggle against their lead scorer today, Sulskis, but its not every day you run into a 6'8” guy who can shoot the 3 and plays SG adeptly.

Turner: 15 points/4 assists
Freeman: 11 points (3-9 from 3)
Washingon: 4points
Delic: 16 points/8 boards
Dahi: 18 points/11 boards

Pearson: 10 points/4 boards
Massey: 6 points/5 assists

I'm extremely happy with what I've seen out of Dahi so far, and I feel a lot better about Delic this game. He isn't the go-to guy that I can use when I need a basket in any situation, but he's the type of player that if I find with just the slightest bit of space/position, he's going to score.

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Old 02-20-2009, 03:03 AM   #178
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I'd mentioned that I wanted to play the two games that were even matchups, and then sim a few to get into the early signing period, so here we go with that


November 15, 2010

Binghamton 89
Ohio 72

Hrrm, this is one I kinda thought I'd win. Turner scores 17, Freeman 13, and Harris, backup SG 13.


November 20, 2010

S. Illinois 67
Ohio 53

Yeah, I expected that one. Scores in the 50s make me sad. Washington led us with 8 points. We shot about 20% in this one.

November 23, 2010

Ohio 83
Longwood 76

17 from Washington, 11 orm Freeman, 10 from Pearson and 10 from Massey. Delic and Dahi are doing pretty awful in these simmed games. Delic fouled out in 23 minutes in this one.


November 27, 2010

Ohio 77
Detroit 59

Solid win on the road here. Turner with 16, Freeman 10, Washington 14, Delic 7 points/8 boards.


That makes us 3-3, we have 6 non-conference games to go before conference play starts in early January.
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Old 02-20-2009, 03:32 AM   #179
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WOOHOO, WINNER.

#1 Target SG Arzelle Cooper has signed with OHIO.

#2 Target SF Wendell House has signed with OHIO.

#3 Target SG Danny Warsaw has yet to sign with anyone

#4 Target PG Rickey Butt signs with Cleveland State

That is an absolutely stellar result.

4* SG Arzelle Cooper - #63 OVR/#22 SG

Cooper is the superstar of the class for me. My first 4* recruit, my first top 100 recruit, and we pulled him out of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Scouting Grades:

Shooting: B+
Skills: B
Defense: A-
Athleticism: B+
Rebounding: B-
Intelligence: B+
Potential: A-
Size: B-

Cooper is 6'4" 184 lbs. He played in the ABL for The Champs. He averaged 14.1 points per game and 5.8 rebounds in 28 minutes. He shot 48% from the field(36-75) and 43% from 3(15-35). I hope those numbers are meaningful, I have actually never really used ABL Stats for anything before.

3* SF Wendell House - #157 OVR/#29 SF

Shooting: B+
Skills: B-
Defense:B
Athleticism: A
Rebounding: B+
Intelligence: B
Potential: C+
Size: B+

House is from Milwaukee. We offered him right away, in the final week before the signing period Milwaukee-Wisconsin offered him a scholarship as well, so I'm very glad to have snagged him in the early signing period before they had a chance to keep him closer to home.


This leaves us with two open scholarships.

One remains offered to SG Danny Warsaw. We had him at 97% but that dropped a little when Cooper accepted our offer. It's still 92% and assuming I can get that back up to 100% we'll stick on him. He's the #235 recruit in the nation and the main interest we have in him is that he grades out as an A- in shooting.

Our last scholarship was going to a PG. At this point I would take a good ball handling PG, or a big man. Unfortunately, I really don't have either left on my target list. I'll scout around and see what I can find, but I'm not desperate for anything right now, and may wait to see if I have any transfer interest before making a 4th offer.


With the World recruit we landed last year, the fact that I got hired to a higher level team, and now the signing of a 4* recruit, I've secured 3 coaching upgrades in the next offseason. To continue to improve past that it'll take success on the court. The next reasonable goals to reach are 20 wins, conference titles, and NCAA Tournament bids. Hopefully Cooper is a big step in the right direction towards those goals.

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Old 02-20-2009, 05:53 AM   #180
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the higher the number, the lower the letter grade(a 92 is an F), which is why I've always assumed higher means foul prone. I think I still have my manual, but I doubt it specifies.

Ah cool, learned something new

Impressive start with recruiting! There is a thread at OS that talks about ABL Stats - > Ratings, they found that they relate and are a more accurate reading than the scouting ratings.

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Old 02-20-2009, 08:44 AM   #181
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the higher the number, the lower the letter grade(a 92 is an F), which is why I've always assumed higher means foul prone. I think I still have my manual, but I doubt it specifies.
I never knew that. I always thought it was avoid fouls as well.

Are you talking about the screen where it has the number grade and the letter grade side-by-side for rating? I thought the letter grade on that screen was how much he had to develop...

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Old 02-20-2009, 01:36 PM   #182
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I'm not so sure of myself anymore on this foul rating. I did some searching through the OS forums today and couldn't find anything at all.

I'm going to see if there's any change in any of the foul ratings during the season. And, towards the end of the year when some stats have built up, see if there is a more clear correlation between the guys committing the most fouls and the rating. We'll see.

One good thing that came from me perusing the OS forums is that I have now set up a custom balanced playbook that I'm going to start having the CPU opponent use, I'd seen it mentioned in the thread here but didn't really understand the difference it made for people.
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Old 02-20-2009, 01:45 PM   #183
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I always thought it was "avoid fouls" as well and higher was better (and that the letter was backwards.) However, I don't have any conclusive evidence of that. I've been enjoying following along.
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Old 02-20-2009, 04:02 PM   #184
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NC A&T (3-2) at Ohio (3-3)

I had to schedule my old team. They have an overall roster strength of 72, highest in the MEAC.

Scouting

PG Boomer Shiloh – SO – 64 OVR – Shiloh has taken over for Alston. He's very fast and a good defender, not a big scoring threat.

SG Edmund Axton – SG – 72 OVR – Axton came in very strong, he's got a lot of speed(86) but no quickness(76), he's great inside and off the dribble, and an average midrange and outside shooter. Axton has one of the better clutch ratings i've seen(77).

SF Romeo Fitzgerald – FR – 65 OVR – Fitzgerald is the other 3* guy I was recruiting when I left NC A&T. He is a good passer but otherwise just average everywhere, and is actually a below average mid-range and 3 point shooter(70/66).

PF Thomas Coleman – SR – 66 OVR – Good inside, good rebounder, the returning player of the year in the MEAC. Averaging 9 ppg/10 rpg early on for the Aggies.

C Scott Hayes – SR – 68 OVR- Hayes is their leading scorer at 13ppg so far. Outstanding inside(92 close) and a good post offensive player. Not nearly as good a rebounder as coleman.

They've reverted back to a painfully slow offense now that I've left and are averaging 55 points per game so far this year.

Half
Time
OHIO
NCAT
Notes
1
14:30
9
8
Dahi has two fouls so he's done for awhile. I start resting some of my starters as well. NC A&T has two 3 point plays, Coleman has 5 of their 8 points, and their guards are struggling a lot to score.
1
9:40
21
20
All our backups are now in. Our post players are doing well against A&T's backup big men.
1
7:00
25
24
Most starters are back in, Turner is still sitting, he was the only guy out there past the 10 minute mark though.
1
2:30
36
29
We finally start to get some separation. Freeman has 8 points and Turner has gotten out on the break a couple times, but mostly its our inside game doing the scoring here.

HALF
40
33
We shoot 50% and hold them to 33% shooting.


Fitzgerald has 11 points forthem, including 2-2 from 3. Coleman has 7 points/7 boards. Standard.


On our end we're getting some nice balanced scoring. Turner and Freeman both have 8. Delic has 8, backup PF Pearson has 6. Dahi had 5 rebounds in 5 minutes but didn't score before he sat with foul trouble.
2
15:45
51
45
Freeman has hit 3 3-pointers this half already but they are matching us pretty well. Hayes has 5 and Coleman 2 early on. Fitzgerald has drained another 3 on us as well.
2
14:00
57
49
Another 3 from Freeman and a good move inside from Delic and we extend our lead backout to 8. Some subs start coming in.
2
11:00
65
54
All backups are in now. Hayes and Coleman are both showing some nice post play to score on us, but we seem to be pulling away a little overall. Their jump shooting is just not that good and can't stay hot all game.
2
8:00
69
56
Backups are playing well defensively, though not really scoring all that well. The starters will be ready to go at the 6:30 mark or so.
2
7:15
69
59
Or now. Starters are ready to go now.
2
4:45
69
64
I'm totally unhappy with how my offense is playing right now. After another 3 makes this an 8-0 NC A&T run, I call a timeout and tell my guys to get their shit together.
2
2:00
74
71
We've got the ball but now only lead by 3 with 2 minutes to go.
2
1:40
77
71
After going a little cold, Freeman drains a monster 3 for us, back up by 6.
2
0:44
80
74
Dahi with a great block on Hayes, and Freeman makes another 3 to give us a 9 point lead. They answer with a 3 by Axton, and I have a little trouble getting the ball over half court and call a time out.

We burn the shot clock, can't score,and they make a 3, but there just isn't enough time left for them. Turner goes to the line with 5 seconds left and makes 1 which seals the win.

Ohio 81
NC A&T 77

I'm very pleased with the playbook for the CPU. Instead of mindlessly launching 40 three's they did try to get Hayes a lot of touches. Fitzgerald had the hot hand for A&T today and scored 21. Hayes had a double double for them.

On our end Turner had a great game with a double-double of his own, and Freeman was very good from 3.

Turner: 17 points/10 assists
Freeman: 26 points (8-18 from 3)
Washington: 4 points/7 boards
Delic: 11 points/8 boards
Dahi: 7 points/10 boards

Pearson: 8 points/4 boards
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Ohio (4-3) at Northern Iowa (5-1)

N. Iowa is rated 74 OVR and their roster ratings look almost identical to mine.

Scouting

PG George Stanley – FR – 67 OVR – Very good speed and defense(83 defense), ok quicks, good vertical for what that's worth. He's an average shooter all the way around, 75 from 3 and the only guy in the lineup we care about defending the 3 against. Averaging 9 ppg.

SG Stetson Detrick – JR – 70 OVR – primarily Detrick looks like a defender(82 DEF) with decent Defensive Awareness(69). A 3 point rating under 70 makes me happy as well as a 72 mid-range rating. Not a great ball handler , decent off the dribble.

SF Scooter Mattox – SO – 69 OVR- Poor defender(70), good inside and from mid-range, not a 3 point threat at all. He's 6'8”, our SF is a bigger guy too so that works out.

PF Lucas O'Rear – SR – 69 OVR – Solid rebounder and post defender. Very good hands for a big man, good inside and ok in traffic. Only 6'6” so that's a pretty awesome matchup with Delic. O'Rear averages 14.2 ppg to lead Northern Iowa.

C Brent Barz – SR -65 OVR – 6'10” - Decent on the boards, decent defender, not much of an offensive game though. He has horrible defensive awareness(58), hopefully that will give Dahi an advantage on him.

They have two noteworthy backups. Walkon PG Drew Lundberg is their best 3 point shooter, rated 82. Backup SG is a good shooter from all over the court,including from 3. The two of them average only 7 points combined, but we need to remember that their backups can be deadly if left open.

O'Rear? Seriously? What I wouldn't have given to be able to have Lucas O'Rear and Rickey Butt starting for me at the same time(seriously, its like a 5 year old in my head,I can't help it).

Half
Time
OHIO
N. IA
Notes
1
15:15
8
7
Fairly slow start for both of us. Their “poor shooting” SG Detrick has all 7 of their points.
1
13:30
14
9
The only time the clock has stopped so far is for two fouls, both on their center, Barz. With no rest but that so far we go with wholesale subs, all backups are in at the 13:30 mark.
1
8:15
21
18
Backups are struggling to get in a rhythm at all. Pearson and Sessom inside have scored most of our points. Massey and Harris(PG/SG) have missed some wide open shots.
1
7:00
23
21
We get another basket from Pearson and then leave Lundburg WIDEOPEN, one of their very good 3 point shooting backups. So wide open that its worth all caps. I don't' think there was anyone from either team within 10 feet of him when he lined up his 3 pointer. Oh yeah, that was my fault, my guy ran into a screen as he was cutting through the lane Starters back in.
1
3:30
32
27
After allowing N.Iowa to go up 27-26,we get back to back 3's, one from Freeman, and one from Turner. I burn a timeout to make sure my starters don't tire and can finish out the half.

HALF
39
37
Every time they catch up we go on a 5-0 run or so and get out to a small lead. We haven't trailed by more than 1 or 2 but aren't able to pull away either.


Their SG, Detrick(the one with no offensive skills, remember?) has 14 points on 6-8 shooting, 2-4 from 3.


Turner leads us with 10 points. Freeman has 9, Dahi has 7 points/8 boards. Delic is struggling badly, as I suspect he will do anytime the defense crowds the paint like these guys are, in a 2-3 almost the entire time. We drew 8 fouls and got to the line 14 times this half. Turner is 0-2 from the line, Dahi is an awesome 3-8, and we're 6-14 as a team.
2
16:20
42
44
Slow start to the half, and we're struggling pretty badly here. The crowd is going nuts for N. Iowa, and we just burned a timeout to cool things down a bit.
2
12:45
49
51
After falling behind by 5, 49-44, we finally get a couple things to go our way. Turner gets fouled on the break and makes both his free throws, and Sessoms grabs an offensive board and gets a 3-point play on a putback. Backups are in now.
2
8:15
56
53
Backups started out with a quick 5-0 run and are playing great defense. If I had Turner on the floor his blowby move would have given us a 10 point lead by now but Massey just doesn't have the same impact. Pearson and Sessoms have had a number of looks down low though and have completely blown it. We really should be up 10 right now.
2
7:30
58
58
Starters are back in. We just committed foul #7 this half and N. Iowa is shooting free throws the rest of the way.
2
4:50
65
66
They've made 2 threes, we've hit one and gotten it inside a couple times. We call a timeout to keep our guys fresh and keep their crowd quiet.
2
2:30
74
68
Finally, a little breathing room. Leading 69-68, Turner pump fakes, side steps and drains a 3. After Detrick misses a 3 for them, Turner is out on the break and makes a layup and we're up by 6.
2
1:20
77
72
They make a 2, we burn the shot clock and get a big clutch 3 from Freeman. They get an easy look on the other end and have cut one off the lead, but with 1:20 left, its our ball up 5.

We stall, cannot score but they miss their next shot and have to start fouling. We end up making two free throws while they make a 3 pointer down the stretch. Solid win.

Ohio 79
Northern Iowa 75

This was a really solid game all around. The 6 point lead I had when it was 74-68, and again at 78-72 in the closing seconds was the biggest lead that either team had at any point in the contest. That generated some good intensity in the final 6 minutes, where it seems like either team pulling ahead by a couple possessions would win. Every time we missed a shot it felt like we were under huge pressure to prevent them from going on any sort of run at all.

Detrick scored 18, but he went 0-6 from 3 in the second half and wasn't much of a factor. O'Rear had 16 points and 15 boards. His counterpart, Delic for us, was a total non-factor.

Turner: 24 points/5 assists/3-7 from 3
Freeman: 17 points/2 assists/5-14 from 3
Washington: 2 points/5 boards
Delic: 6 points/3 boards
Dahi: 7 points/13 boards

Pearson: 11 points/4 boards

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Old 02-20-2009, 11:46 PM   #186
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I always thought it was "avoid fouls" as well and higher was better (and that the letter was backwards.) However, I don't have any conclusive evidence of that. I've been enjoying following along.

Yeah I'm pretty convinced that you guys are right at this point and that the letter grade is just messed up. I'm still hoping to see some proof during the season.

There's a "challenge shot" mini-game that improves block and foul ratings, so I'm trying to complete that to see what happens to the foul rating. The awesome thing about that is that I'm trying it with my 68-73 rated mid-major players, and the offensive guys they put up for me to defend against are all from Duke... N. Smith and K.Singler. Seriously??? I haven't come anywhere close to completing it yet.
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Old 02-21-2009, 12:37 AM   #187
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Nice work you're doing with Ohio in your first season.
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Old 02-21-2009, 12:46 AM   #188
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We have a couple interesting situations brewing here.

Maurice Pearson, my backup PF, has a confidence level of 47%. He started for this team last year and was pushed into a backup role when Delic came in. Of course now that I've started Delic I assume it'll piss him off if I swap them. But I'm seriously considering doing it. I think I'll get more consistant play out of Pearson, the 6'10" guy. I need Pearson happy no matter where he is though, because he has been my best bench performer.

Drake Massey started at SG last year. I changed that up this year and moved Freeman to SG to have the deadly 3 point guy getting more minutes. Now, Massey is getting 15 minutes per game, and he is talented. But his confidence level is down to 22%. The problem I have with Massey is that he doesn't have a chance to start. I'm not moving him back over Freeman who is good for 5 or 6 3's many games, and Turner is the better PG. And the reason this is a more serious problem is that Massey is only a sophomore. With my 4* SG recruit coming in, and Turner only being a junior, Massey isn't starting next year either.

I'm going to use my pep talks quite possibly for most of the year on Massey and Pearson. I may well consider starting Pearson. He's a senior though so I just want production out of him. Massey I'm worried about being a transfer risk, and he's too good to just let walk like that.
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Old 02-21-2009, 12:47 AM   #189
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Nice work you're doing with Ohio in your first season.


Thanks And thanks to everyone for the comments, the added immersion I feel from writing everything up is worth a ton and I'd probably be doing this if no one were reading, but its nice to know that people are!
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Old 02-21-2009, 01:47 AM   #190
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Howard (3-6) at Ohio (5-3)

Revenge game for the team that knocked me out of the MEAC tournament last year. They're rated 64 and we should crush them.

Scouting

Kyle Riley is the guy that burned NC A&T for 30+ last year in our last game, and he's the only noteworthy guy still on the roster. They were a senior led team.

Half
Time
OHIO
HOW
Notes
1
14:00
16
11
We're pretty much running and gunning here,not playing much of a structured offense at all.
1
12:30
19
13
Backups are in. Dahi has 2 fouls. Turner is our leading scorer by far early on.
1
9:30
31
13
Massey scores 7 quick points, a fast break dunk, a 3pointer and a pullup jumper. We're on a roll now. Maybe the scoring will make Massey less pissed off
1
6:00
44
26
Massey has 15 hah. Happy now dude? Starters are back in.

HALF
52
41
Well we gave back quite a bit at the end there. Riley got hot for them(he has 16 points) and we couldn't score at all for a bit at the end.


Turner has 16 for us, and Massey has 15. Freeman is 1-7 from the floor, ice cold.
2
15:00
66
55
We're really not playing great today, we should bear down and win this by 20+ but it doesn't seem to be happening.
2
7:00
80
65
Our backups again play better than the starters,extending the lead out to 14. Starters are back in to finish it off.

We cruise the rest of the way.

Ohio 95
Howard 75

Freeman was as cold as I've ever seen him. I guess that if he's going to be awful all game, its good that its in a game we win easily regardless.

Turner: 31 points/4 assists
Freeman: 3 points (1-13 shooting)
Washington: 9 points/5 boards
Delic: 6 points/7 boards
Dahi: 8 points/19 boards

Massey: 20 points/3 assists
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Old 02-21-2009, 02:06 AM   #191
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We've got 3 more games before conference play starts. I'm going to sim through these last 3 games. If you haven't noticed, I want to be successful this year but consider it a bit of a transition year. Dahi is the only guy *I* recruited for this team. Next season I'll have a full recruiting class coming in, unlikely to redshirt, and it'll be more "my team." So I'm rushing a little to get through this transition season.


December 12th:

Ohio 83, at Troy 75

20 from Turner, 11 from Freeman, 9 from Washington, Harris and Massey. Troy was 5-2 and has a roster strength of 79, I didn't expect to win that on the road.


December 15, 2010

at Ohio 72, Cal-Poly 63

Another evenly rated team, things are going pretty well here!

18 points from Turner, 13 from Washington, and 10 from Dahi.


December 27th

at Ohio 72, Southern Utah 63

Turner scored 14, Washington 12, Delic 11, Pearson 11.


I didn't expect to win all 3 of those!

We're going into conference play 9-3.
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Old 02-21-2009, 11:41 PM   #192
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Ohio (9-3, 0-0 MAC) at Northern Illinois (5-7, 0-0 MAC)

So we're unexpectedly 9-3 going into conference play. We're not in the mid-major top 25. Bowling Green is the only MAC team represented there, they are #23. RPI numbers aren't out for this season yet but the MAC expects to be one of the lower ranked mid-majors.

We've made a lineup change, going back to Pearson at PF. Delic is coming off the bench. I want my 6'10” guy out there over my 6'6” skills guy.

Scouting

PG Femi Russell – JR – 69 OVR – 10.1 ppg is essentially tied for the team scoring lead with PF Munir. Decent speed/defense/ball handling. Very good off the dribble(81), good mid-range jumper, average 3(71).

SG TJ Coulibaly – FR – 63 OVR – Quite a good defender for this level(84 DEF), looks like a poor offensive player, midrange and 3 ratings below 70. Given that we expect him to score 30 obviously.

SF Terence Ngounou – JR – 68 OVR – 7.3 ppg/5.5 rpg – good speed for a SF, good inside and ok from mid-range but doesn't seem like a big scoring threat.

PF Brennen Munir – JR – 67 OVR – 6'6” with 10.2 ppg/4.3 rpg. Pretty good awareness but not great raw skills. Poor rebounder(71/71 off/def), poor in close(79). Decent shot blocker and defender. Seems like he is overrated at 67 OVR.

C Christian Watson – FR – 67 OVR – Only 81 close range rating, not good for a center. Average/Above average rebounder. Only 6'9”. 5.3 ppg/6.5 rpg so far this year.

Our team unity is up to 44, starting Pearson helps there. NIU's is 36. Our roster strength drops to 74 without Delic in the starting lineup.

Half
Time
OHIO
NIU
Notes
1
17:30
12
2
NIU just got to the line for their first points after a 12-0 start for us, mainly on the break after rebounds.
1
15:30
21
6
Timeout NIU.
1
12:45
28
11
Backups are in. Turner has 16 I think. He's been devastating out on the break.
1
6:30
40
25
Starters are back in.

HALF
55
28
We've held them to 25% shooting and they continue to launch 3's. Munir has made a couple nice plays inside for them but with our zone and him being 6'6” he can't do much so they end up relying on the outside shot entirely.


So yeah, they keep crashing the boards and I keep firing it to Turner for fast break buckets. I figure at some point I will just stop doing that but its so much fun :P Turner has 27 at the half...

We lead by 35 with 14 minutes to go and I quick sim to the end.

Ohio 92
Northern Illinois 53

They shoot 27% for the game.

Turner: 44 points/2 assists
Freeman: 15 points
Washington: 4 points/4 boards
Pearson:5 points/10 boards
Dahi: 6 points/19 boards

Sessoms: 8 points/6 boards

Turner had 33 points when I simmed it out, I stopped fast breaking on them and still built the lead out easily, we're just way better than these guys, or at least we were today.
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Old 02-21-2009, 11:42 PM   #193
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Now there's a bug I've never seen before. when I exited the game, the score on the calendar shows that I beat NIU 100-60. I go look at the box score and it shows that the game went into overtime where Ohio scored 8 and NIU scored 7. When I look at the individual players stats they still add up to 92-53.
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Old 02-22-2009, 08:42 AM   #194
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Now there's a bug I've never seen before. when I exited the game, the score on the calendar shows that I beat NIU 100-60. I go look at the box score and it shows that the game went into overtime where Ohio scored 8 and NIU scored 7. When I look at the individual players stats they still add up to 92-53.

I get this one from time to time...
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I get this one from time to time...

Yeah, me too. It appears to be just cosmetic though.
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Old 02-22-2009, 01:53 PM   #196
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I sure didn't expect to be 10-3, but I'm sticking to my goal of getting through this transitional season quicker than most to begin playing with a team that I've begun to mold with my own recruits. I'm going to sim 1 out of every 2 games at least for a little while in conference play.


January 9, 2011:

Western Michigan 62, at Ohio 55

Pearson scores 12, Dahi has 9 points/11 boards, and Freeman scores 9. Turner has a terrible game with 0 points and four fouls.


Out of my next two games, the second one is a lot more appealing, so simming the first:

January 12, 2011

at Ohio 63, Eastern Michigan 51

Pearson leads us once again with 15 points. Freeman scores 11, Dahi and Turner both have 6.


This sets us up for a matchup vs the only other team in the MAC also averaging over 70 points/game in Bowling Green.
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Old 02-22-2009, 03:29 PM   #197
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Bowling Green(8-7, 1-2 MAC) at Ohio (11-4, 2-1 MAC)

Bowling Green is, based on roster strength, one of the top teams in the league. But we're all reasonably close that that doesn't count for too much.

Scouting

PG Joe Jakubowski – SR – 71 OVR – Game Experience is maxxed out, not sure i've seen that too often before. Good speed, quicks, handling and passing. Good shooter(82 close/77 med/77 3) and good off the dribble. 6.8 ppg/6.6 apg, leads the league in assists.

SG Wallace Mason – JR – 81 OVR – Wow, this guy is a stud. 89 SPD/87 QCK, 85 DEF, 83 Close, 72 Med, 86 3-pt. Great off the dribble or in traffic, clutch rating of 82. Hell his defensive rebounding is 83! We are in trouble. He's averaging 15.5 ppg.

SF Chris Knight – SR – 71 OVR – 6'8”, another big SF. Good defender, good inside and from mid-range. He's good off the dribble and in traffic. 9.5 ppg.

PF Clif Ahvenniemi – SO – 69 OVR – 6'7”, a little undersized compared to pearson. better rebounder than Minter(79 D), extremely good low post defender(82), but poor post offense. Good clutch rating(74), good vertical and decent strength. 4.5 ppg/3.9 rpg.

C Tarick Minter – JR – 74 OVR – only 6'9”. Not a great rebounder(81 O/74 D). Better post offense than defense(79 O/73 D). ok but not great inside(83 close, 85 shtr). He is very strong and has great awareness. 13.9 ppg/3.6 rpg.

I don't think we can play zone against these shooters. Perhaps we'll play a mix. They take 45% of their shots inside, but still 30% of them from 3. We may just have to take our lumps inside instead of letting them destroy us from 3.

Our team unity is up to 47, it seems that's improving at a better rate at this level. But Bowling Green's unity is 57, Jakubowski and Mason are both very experienced.
Half
Time
OHIO
BGU
Notes
1
13:30
18
14
Good start for both teams on offense so far. We have 3 offensive boards that have all led to second chance points. Freeman has 11 points, 3 3's and a good pump fake/drive to an open hoop. They also have 3 3's. We have drawn 1 foul on Mason so far. Backups are in.
1
9:30
20
21
Massey scores on a layup to end a 7-0 Bowling Green run. We've committed a couple dumb turnovers and otherwise gone cold here.
1
6:30
25
25
Great(and I mean GREAT) 3 point play by Delic to tie the game up. He got hit coming into the lane and sort of threw up a blind shot with his left hand after he drew the contact that went in.


Starters are back in.
1
3:15
32
32
Turner gets mason isolated on the wing, drives past him and draws a foul going up to the basket. Mason now has 2 fouls and has not been as effective as I'd feared so far this half.

HALF
37
43
Our defense falters a little towards the end of the half and we go into the locker room down by 6. Both teams have been effective in the half court set, not much running for either of us.


Jakubowski has 13 to lead bowling green, 3-5 from 3. Mason has 7, but is 0-1 from 3. As a team they are 5-13 from behind the arc and are shooting just over 50%


Freeman has 13 for us, Turner has 8, and Pearson has 7. Dahi leads us with 6 boards. We're shooting a bit worse, 13-31. Freeman is 3-6 from 3, Turner is 0-3 which is disappointing, a second deep threat would be real nice to have today.


Overall the rebounding is even, 19-18 their favor, but we have 6 offensive rebounds for 11 second chance points.
2
17:15
46
46
They get a 3 point play to open the 2nd half, going up 46-37. We go on a fierce 9-0 run after that poor start, Freeman hits a 3, we get Washington out in transition(our athletic SF) for a monster dunk after their PG got stuck underneath the basket, we've got 3 blocked shots and Dahi and Pearson each have buckets.
2
15:20
52
51
Back and forth again, we had taken a 48-46 lead before they went back up again. Turner just missed a 3, but Washington got the board, missed the 1st putback, got it back and made it on his 2nd try. Bowling Green takes a time out as the crowd is going nuts for us for the 2nd time this half already.
2
11:15
65
58
Hm is this a rivalry game for Ohio? The 6th man is triggering every other time we score it seems. It has 4 times this half already. Does the game even understand/know about rivalries to do that?


Our offense is really clicking right now. We're getting baskets from everywhere, Freeman has 19 points now, Dahi and Pearson have both come up big inside, and Washington and Turner are contributing as well. The defense is playing great, and were it not for a poor stretch where we turned it over on 3 out of 4 offensive possessions, we could be up double digits right now.
2
8:45
72
70
Their offense has gotten it in gear, and fast. They've scored the last 5 or 6 times down in a row, including two 3 pointers, and they've cut it right back down to 2. I call a time out and get my backups in. I have only used 1 time out so I'll have a lot of chances to stop the clock late to keep my starters fresh, but they need a little rest.
2
5:00
77
75
Fine play by the backups, Harris hits a big 3 for us, Massey gets an open look but I think his confidence is still shot. Starters come back in to finish off the game.
2
4:00
79
75
Good defense, even after allowing Mason to snag an offensive rebound down low. Freeman hits a wide open 12 footer and they burn a time out.
2
3:10
83
77
Another timeout by Bowling Green. Pearson is just dominating his man down low and our defense is playing great, up by 6 now!
2
1:00
85
79
Leading by 6 with 2:15 to go we decide to burn some clock. Freeman misses a 3 as the shot clock winds down, but Dahi gets the offensive board! He kicks it back out and we burn some more clock, again failing to score. They miss a 3 though, and we rebound, leading by 6 now with 1 minute left and the ball.


They're unable to do anything down the stretch and we snag a good conference win.

Ohio 88
Bowling Green 79

Solid, solid win today. The rebound margin was even in the 1st half because they were shooting much better than us so there were a lot more defensive rebounds available for them than us. Things evened out in the 2nd half, and in fact we shot 47% for the game and they shot 46%. The rebound margin ended up being hugely in our favor, 43-29. We pulled down 14 offensive boards and had 17 second chance points.

We did an outstanding job of minimizing their big shooting threats. Jakubowski scored 15 points and had 6 assists, a solid day but not much in the 2nd half. Mason only scored 10, going 4-14 from the floor, and a cold 1-4 from 3. On our end we had three guys with big numbers, including Pearson, making me very glad I inserted him back in the starting lineup:

Turner: 12 points/8 assists
Freeman: 24 points (6-12 from 3)
Washington: 6 points/6 boards
Pearson: 24 points/7 boards
Dahi: 10 points/20 boards

Pearson dominated his man all day in the low post, Dahi was incredible on the boards, and Freeman was the scorer we needed outside today to keep things spaced out well down low.
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Old 02-22-2009, 03:50 PM   #198
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Hey look, rankings.

The RPI is now available. We're #69 in the RPI! We've only played 1 top 100 team, and we lost(that was a simmed game vs S. Illinois). We're 6-2 vs teams rated 100-200, and 6-1 vs poor teams at 200+.

The awesome news though is that we've cracked the mid-major top 25, coming in at #24! That's the first time I've sniffed any sort of love from any poll in this dynasty. We're the only MAC team listed.


The #1 team on this list is pretty noteworthy. Virginia Commonwealth of the CAA(which is the 8th ranked conference overall right now), is 16-1 and has the #1 RPI in the nation and a #7 ranking in the media poll. Their only loss is a 1 point loss to George Mason, #5 in the mid major poll and no slouch themselves. They have wins over Texas Tech, Villanova and Penn State, all teams with winning records so far.


The MAC is the #15 ranked conference right now, better than last season, though still towards the lower half of the mid-majors.
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Old 02-23-2009, 12:21 AM   #199
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Ohio (12-4, 3-1 MAC) at Ball State (10-6, 3-1 MAC)

Ball State has the strongest roster in the MAC, 80 OVR. They do have some losses to some poor teams though. They take 44% of their shots from 3 point range, and they run a 3-2 primary defense, which I'm not really used to seeing.

Scouting

PG Melvin Goins – SR – 76 OVR – Goins is the returning MAC player of the year, and he looks better this year. Averaging 18.1 ppg/3.7 rebounds/3.0 assists/1.3 steals. He's a crazy good athlete. 90 speed/92 quickness/99 vertical!!/82 hustle/92 stamina. Good ball handler, decent passer, very good defender(84), good in close and from midrange, only 74 rated 3 point shooter. Outstanding off the dribble and a great dunker for a guard(81 dunk rating, 52 dunk standing). Oh yeah, dude is 5'10”. heh, wow.

SG Jamon Diarra – JR – 69 OVR – 5.7 ppg, easily the worst player in the lineup. Only 69 from 3, not terribly fast, only an average defender. He has a good knack for picking up steals though(83 stl).

SF Vern Pettyjohn – SO – 76 OVR – 6'6”, averaging 5.6 ppg/5.9 rpg this year. Pettyjohn looks a bit more like an inside guy, he's an extremely good rebounder for a SF(83 O/77 D), a good defender, both in the post and on the ball, great blocker, great steals. He is a bit odd in that he is better from outside than midrange(69 med/74 3 point). He's outstanding in traffic and off the dribble.

PF Kelenna Monroe – JR – 71 OVR – Great offefnsive rebounder(86), good in the post(76 O/76 D), and ok inside. 7.8 ppg/3.5 rpg. 6'8”

C Arzelle Schmidt – SR – 73 OVR – average rebounder, very good post player(79 O/78 D, both good for this level). Good in close, and he has a midrange jumper as well(76 midrange). Averaging 7.7 ppg/3.8 rpg. Only 6'8” so we have an edge there.

Goins is by far their biggest scoring threat.

I'm really wondering why they take so many 3's. They seem like a team that isn't that great from deep.

Half
Time
OHIO
BSU
Notes
1
14:30
6
10
Either good defense or crappy offense is keeping the scoring down here.
1
13:00
9
10
Ok, I'm officially blaming shitty offefnse. Dahi with a 3 point play to cut it to one. Our backups come in.
1
10:45
16
10
Hey, some offense! Delic has 4 and Massey just hit an open 3 and we've scored 10 in a row now.
1
8:30
16
15
We have to burn a timeout to avoid a held ball situation. After a jumper and a 3 point play we only lead by 1 now.
1
5:45
19
22
5 straight from Ball State, including a 3 by Goins, and we burn a timeout to get our starters back in.
1
2:00
25
35
We had it down to 26-25 and they explode on a 9-0 run. We commit 2 turnovers that lead to dunks on their end and allow Goins an open 3. Need to get this offense going!

HALF
27
40
We scored first to cut it to 8 and then they ran off the final 5 points. Not good!


Goins started out slow, only 3 points until the 5:45 mark. But he ended the half with 14. He has 4 steals. Diarra has 13.


All our points are coming inside. We have 8 from Pearson, 7 from Dahi, and 5 from Delic off the bench. That's 20 of our 27 points. Massey's 3 points is the only points we have scored by a guard. Turner and Freeman are both scoreless.
2
16:30
29
50
The lead hits 20 as they start the 2nd half on a 10-2 run.
2
13:30
37
56
Backups are in, but this is looking pretty bad. They are better at picking off passes and getting straight up steals off the dribble than any team I've ever played it feels like.
2
7:15
48
68
Starters are back in. This is feeling quite hopeless, but obviously there is still time for a run.
2
6:15
57
72
We manage 9 poitns in a minute and cut the lead down to 15. Of course, we hit our first 3 pointer in a long, long time to start this stretch, and they came down and drained one on us immediately. But we forced two turnovers and that helped here.
2
5:00
61
74
Ball State burns a time out as we've got it down to 13. This run feels very, very forced, there's still a lot of sloppy play on our end but they've gone cold. Its just a question of how long they stay cold now.
2
4:15
61
79
There's two steals and two layups in a row for them... ugh.

We got the lead down to 12 in the final 2 minutes but as soon as we made a threat Goins knocked us out with a 3-ball.

Ball State 86
Ohio 73

I cannot really complain about losing to a very talented Ball State team at their place. I'm unhappy about how we lost though. Ball State forced us into 21 turnovers. That's just outrageous. They only had 10 themselves.

Goins had 23 points and 7 steals for them. Diarra had 18 points.

Turner: 8 points/6 assists
Freeman: 4 points (0-8 from 3)
Washington: 2 points/4 boards
Pearson: 19 points/7 boards
Dahi: 19 points/14 boards

Delic: 11 points/4 boards

Delic had a solid game off the bench today, but I'm still very happy with the decision to start Pearson.
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Old 02-23-2009, 12:35 AM   #200
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Ohio 89, at Toledo 75

We win our next simmed game. Turner scores 20, Pearson 17, and Washington 10. Massey has 9 off the bench. Solid road win after our Ball State loss.

Our next two games are vs Kent State and Akron. Akron is 6-0 in conference play, so I'll play that one.

January 26th, 2011:

Ohio 61, vs Kent State 56

Turner with 10 points/6 assists, Freeman with 12, all from 3. Dahi with 10 points/7 boards.

I'm going to win 20 just from simming games at this rate.

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