Coach Tovarich 2.0 CH2K8 Career Legacy

[Tovarich]

vs.

Sun Belt Tournament Semifinal
Mitchell Center
Mobile, AL

Florida International Golden Panthers at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Mar 10, 2014	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Florida International (16-13)	31	43	74
#20 Western Kentucky (28-6)	59	41	100

Florida International Golden Panthers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Pearson	23	4-9	0-2	2-4	4	5	0	1	5	10
Rose	19	9-14	3-6	2-2	2	5	1	0	6	23
Tucker	22	7-8	3-3	1-2	6	6	1	0	4	18
McCollum	21	3-8	0-0	3-3	7	2	0	0	2	9
Schultz	21	0-1	0-0	1-2	6	2	0	3	0	1
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Attaway	6	1-2	0-1	4-4	4	0	0	0	0	6
Lindeman	3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Santiago	7	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	1	0	2
Chadwick	4	1-4	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Olsen	14	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	5	3
Valencia	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Gerlach	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-50	7-16	13-17	32	22	2	6	22	74
TEAM TOTALS		27-50	7-16	13-17	32	22	2	6	22	74

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	17	4-8	0-2	2-2	1	3	4	0	0	10
Lewis	17	5-11	3-5	0-0	0	2	1	0	0	13
Li	15	9-13	3-6	2-2	4	3	3	0	0	23
Jack	16	4-5	0-1	0-1	3	7	4	0	0	8
Suotamo	16	4-8	0-0	0-0	6	3	0	0	0	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	9	3-5	0-0	0-0	2	2	0	0	0	6
Pawlak	12	3-6	2-2	0-0	4	1	4	0	0	8
Camper	11	1-4	1-3	2-2	1	1	1	0	0	5
Jordan	9	4-8	1-3	0-2	1	0	3	0	0	9
Capel	11	0-1	0-1	2-2	1	3	2	0	2	2
Blankenship	3	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Zoellner	3	3-4	0-0	0-1	0	1	0	0	0	6
TEAM TOTALS		41-76	10-24	8-12	23	26	22	0	2	100

Tovarich: Love the result, polar opposite of our game with them the other day. Both teams shot very well. We cooled off considerably in the second half. 22 turnovers might be the most I've ever seen. They were so intent on getting out in transition that we picked off a lot of their passes because they were so long. We got in a real dry spell there in the second half and they hit a bunch of 3's there. Eh well. We got to 100, the players were pretty excited to rub it in their face.

Reporter: No one had a really off night shooting. Can you keep that up for another game?

Tovarich: Yeah, that's a first. There's always someone who's like 1-7. We couldn't do much wrong there for 3/4 of the game before we went cold. That was just a fluke I expect. Someone will be off in the final surely.

Reporter: Cajuns in the final. You had two easy games with them. Does that bode well for this one?

Tovarich: Irrelevant. Our 3 games with FIU all went completely differently.

Reporter: You got outrebounded by 9, is that a concern?

Tovarich: Always. But when you get 22 turnovers, they can have 9 extra rebounds. I assume the Cajuns will take better care of the ball than that. I've never seen such bad pass attempts as what I just saw. They were trying too hard for transition that wasn't there.

[Tovarich]

vs.

Sun Belt Tournament Championship
Mitchell Center
Mobile, AL

Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Mar 11, 2014	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Louisiana-Lafayette (18-12)	31	26	57
#22 Western Kentucky (29-6)	46	44	90

Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Cox	25	2-7	2-6	0-0	0	6	0	1	1	6
Cleaves	22	6-8	5-7	0-0	0	1	0	0	2	17
Robinson	23	2-9	1-4	2-3	4	3	0	0	8	7
Barber	21	3-8	0-1	0-0	4	3	0	2	2	6
Kole	22	4-7	0-0	0-0	9	1	0	2	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Hoskin	13	3-5	1-1	0-0	5	0	0	0	1	7
Shields	13	2-3	0-1	2-2	1	2	0	0	1	6
Sherrod	1	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McDade	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Perry	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Blackwell	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Emmett	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		22-49	9-21	4-5	23	16	0	5	16	57
TEAM TOTALS		22-49	9-21	4-5	23	16	0	5	16	57

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	17	2-6	0-2	0-0	0	4	4	0	0	4
Lewis	17	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	7	1	0	1	4
Li	17	6-15	3-8	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	16
Jack	17	2-5	0-0	1-2	4	0	3	1	0	5
Suotamo	16	10-11	0-0	4-6	6	1	3	1	0	24
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	8	6-7	0-0	2-2	3	1	1	1	0	14
Pawlak	11	3-4	0-0	3-4	5	2	1	0	0	9
Camper	11	2-3	1-2	0-0	0	3	1	0	0	5
Jordan	7	1-3	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Capel	11	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Blankenship	3	1-3	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Zoellner	3	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	4
TEAM TOTALS		37-62	5-15	11-15	24	21	17	3	1	90

Tovarich: Another shockingly easy win over them. Nice to win this thing for the first time in 3 years.

Reporter: Why do you match up so well with the Cajuns?

Tovarich: They lack height down low for sure. And the big guys shot how they should almost always shoot against smaller guys. That said, I can probably point to 88 games in my career where we constantly got dominated defensively, offensively, rebounding by small guys. Then obviously they lack depth. Only 8 guys play and the one just got in for a quick minute. We have great depth. I didn't even press them at any point or they'd really have been exhausted. It's an experienced starting 5 for sure, but they need more depth and they need more height. Very athletic team, but we can usually take advantage of them.

Reporter: Joe Lunardi has you as a 5 seed. Is that what you expect?

Tovarich: Maybe we'll get lucky and move up to a 4. Big difference between playing these Memphis and Air Force type 12 seeds and maybe getting a Hofstra or a Long Island or a Boston U. Enormous difference. We'll need some luck.

[Tovarich]

Conference Tournament Winners
America East-1 Boston U
ACC-4 Clemson
Atlantic Sun-1 Florida Gulf Coast
Atlantic 10-1 Massachusetts
Big East-4 Pittsburgh
Big Sky-6 Montana
Big South-1 VMI
Big 10-2 Illinois
Big 12-1 Texas
Big West-3 Long Beach State
Colonial-2 Hofstra
CUSA-2 East Carolina
Horizon-2 Green Bay
Metro-7 Rider
MAC-1 Western Michigan
Summit-5 Southern Utah
MEAC-5 Norfolk State
MVC-1 Drake
MWC-1 Air Force
NEC-4 Robert Morris
OVC-2 Tennessee Tech
PAC 10-6 Oregon
Patriot-6 Lafayette
SEC-3 Alabama
Southern-3 Davidson
Southland-2 Northwestern State
SWAC-1 Grambling
Sun Belt-1 Western Kentucky
WCC-1 Gonzaga
WAC-2 Nevada

NCAA Hoops Rankings - AP Top 25 - Updated: Mar 17, 2014
RK	LW	TEAM (VOTES)	RECORD
1	1	Texas	32-1
2	2	Syracuse	24-5
3	5	Pittsburgh	28-6
4	4	Connecticut	26-7
5	6	UCLA	26-6
6	3	Georgia Tech	22-7
7	8	Louisville	24-8
8	7	Michigan State	25-7
9	9	Arizona	23-8
10	10	Southern California	22-9
11	11	California	20-11
12	12	Maryland	24-8
13	14	Illinois	27-6
14	13	West Virginia	21-11
15	15	Auburn	23-8
16	19	Oregon	23-10
17	17	Arizona State	21-12
18	16	Stanford	22-11
19	22	Western Kentucky	29-6
20	18	Miami Florida	22-8
21	20	Vanderbilt	21-9
22	21	North Carolina State	22-11
23	23	Alabama	25-7
24	NR	Nebraska	24-10
25	24	Villanova	19-12

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament

East
#1 Texas (32-1) vs. Lafayette (15-16) or Norfolk State (14-19)
#8 East Carolina (25-7) vs. #9 Indiana (21-12)
#5 Auburn (23-8) vs. #12 Hofstra (22-10)
#4 Stanford (22-11) vs. #13 Boston U (27-8)

#6 North Carolina State (22-11) vs. #11 Texas A&M (19-10)
#3 Michigan State (25-7) vs. #14 Long Beach State (19-13)
#7 Seton Hall (22-11) vs. #10 Kentucky (19-13)
#2 Arizona (23-8) vs. #15 Penn (18-13)

South
#1 Pittsburgh (28-6) vs. #16 Robert Morris (17-15)
#8 Cincinnati (19-13) vs. #9 Oklahoma (21-9)
#5 Alabama (25-7) vs. #12 Drake (23-9)
#4 Arizona State (21-12) vs. #13 Florida Gulf Coast (23-7)

#6 Clemson (22-9) vs. #11 Fairfield (25-6)
#3 Oregon (23-10) vs. #14 Tennessee Tech (23-11)
#7 Florida (23-10) vs. #10 Marquette (18-15)
#2 Georgia Tech (22-7) vs. #15 Montana (20-10)

Midwest
#1 UCLA (26-6) vs. #16 Southern Utah (18-11)
#8 Villanova (19-12) vs. #9 Nevada (24-7)
#5 Western Kentucky (29-6) vs. #12 Air Force (22-9)
#4 California (20-11) vs. #14 Wisconsin-Green Bay (20-11)

#6 Vanderbilt (21-9) vs. #11 Utah (21-8)
#3 Southern California (22-9) vs. #14 Northwestern State (21-9)
#7 Tennessee (19-10) vs. #10 Massachusetts (26-8)
#2 Louisville (24-8) vs. #15 Grambling (20-9)

West
#1 Syracuse (24-5) vs. #16 Virginia Military (18-12)
#8 Nebraska (24-10) vs. #9 Mississippi State (22-11)
#5 West Virginia (21-11) vs. #12 Florida State (20-11)
#4 Maryland (24-8) vs. #13 Western Michigan (18-13)

#6 Miami Florida (22-8) vs. #11 Ohio State (22-10)
#3 Illinois (27-6) vs. #14 Rider (20-14)
#7 Gonzaga (25-7) vs. #10 Arkansas (23-11)
#2 Connecticut (26-7) vs. #15 Davidson (19-12)

[Tovarich]

NIT
Michigan vs. Utah Valley State
South Florida vs. Providence
Virginia vs. Long Island
Colorado vs. Towson

Dayton vs. Morgan State
Duke vs. Iowa State
Hawaii vs. Wright State
Kansas vs. Nicholls State

Washington State vs. Holy Cross
Houston vs. Loyola Marymount
Memphis vs. NC Greensboro
La Salle vs. Northern Arizona

St. Mary's vs. Oral Roberts
Southern Mississippi vs. Kansas State
Fresno State vs. Samford
Buffalo vs. Cal Riverside

[Tovarich]

vs.

NCAA Tournament 1st Round
Jon M. Huntsman Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Air Force Falcons at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Mar 20, 2014	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#12 Air Force (22-10)	46	12	58
#5 Western Kentucky (30-6)	45	34	79

Air Force Falcons
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Salow	20	4-7	0-3	0-0	0	5	0	0	5	8
Barrow	21	3-9	0-3	2-3	8	2	1	0	3	8
Maxwell	22	3-11	2-8	2-2	3	2	0	0	2	10
Lufkin	23	3-9	1-4	1-2	4	2	0	1	1	8
Duffy	18	5-7	1-1	0-0	12	0	0	1	0	11
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Truscott	14	3-5	1-3	0-0	1	2	0	1	1	7
Cleland	11	0-2	0-1	2-2	0	1	0	0	2	2
Jacobsen	11	2-2	0-0	0-2	7	1	1	1	0	4
Bright	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Millage	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Noel	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Barley	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		23-52	5-23	7-11	35	15	2	4	14	58
TEAM TOTALS		23-52	5-23	7-11	35	15	2	4	14	58

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	21	0-5	0-4	0-0	1	12	1	0	2	0
Lewis	20	4-11	2-9	0-0	1	1	3	0	0	10
Li	20	8-20	8-17	0-0	6	0	2	0	0	24
Jack	19	3-8	2-5	2-3	2	0	1	1	0	10
Suotamo	9	4-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	3	0	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	16	2-7	0-0	1-2	10	2	1	0	0	5
Pawlak	10	0-2	0-0	2-2	4	3	1	0	0	2
Camper	7	3-4	3-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Jordan	6	3-4	2-3	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	8
Capel	7	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	3
Blankenship	2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Zoellner	2	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0
TEAM TOTALS		28-68	18-42	5-7	30	20	14	1	3	79

Tovarich: I didn't think I said anything too inspirational or game-changing at halftime, but I'll take all the credit.

Reporter: So, what did you actually change at halftime?

Tovarich: We got tight on a few of their outside shooters. I told them to crash the glass a little. I mean, getting outrebounded 22-7 at halftime, that one's pretty obvious. We did a good job making those numbers look respectable, although I don't know what we did to make them shoot 25% in the second half. They're lucky they hit that 3 with 4 seconds to go or they'd have been in single digits. We slowed it down some the last 5 minutes or so because the tight game turned lopsided all of a sudden.

Reporter: You seemed annoyed with the refs.

Tovarich: It seemed pre-determined Suotamo was going to be in foul trouble the whole game. Every time he breathed on someone, they'd call a foul. We eventually got their starter a 3rd and he sat a lot of the 2nd half as well, but 4 fouls in 9 minutes is crazy. Shehan luckily is also really good. He couldn't put a putback back in to save his life, but he rebounded in the 2nd half, which we couldn't do in the first. Air Force obviously doesn't have the depth we do, so tight calls by the refs can't really hurt us too bad.

Reporter: Cal next. What do you expect from that?

Tovarich: Obviously on paper, they're better than we are. They're battle tested. The PAC-10 has 7 teams seeded 1-4. I see they start 4 seniors, so their team unity is out of this world. There's probably nowhere that we're better than them. It's going to take great effort. We'll go hyper-aggressive on defense and go for a lot of steals, because I can already see the alley-oops from halfcourt coming and shooting 65%. We'll need to find some hot shooters. We're probably sizeable underdogs as we'd be against almost anyone in the 2nd round.

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament
Play-in Game
Lafayette 84 Norfolk State 47

1st Round
East
#1 Texas 107 #16 Lafayette 55
#8 East Carolina 79 #9 Indiana 54
#5 Auburn 86 #12 Hofstra 75
#4 Stanford 84 #13 Boston U 66

#6 North Carolina State 93 #11 Texas A&M 70
#3 Michigan State 86 #14 Long Beach State 52
#7 Seton Hall 99 #10 Kentucky 87
#2 Arizona 79 #15 Penn 63

West
#1 Syracuse 105 #16 Virginia Military 48
#8 Nebraska 82 #9 Mississippi State 58
#5 West Virginia 80 #12 Florida State 57
#13 Western Michigan 73 #4 Maryland 72

#11 Ohio State 66 #6 Miami Florida 59
#3 Illinois 76 #14 Rider 61
#10 Arkansas 82 #7 Gonzaga 64
#2 Connecticut 97 #15 Davidson 64

South
#1 Pittsburgh 87 #16 Robert Morris 46
#9 Oklahoma 73 #8 Cincinnati 71
#5 Alabama 80 #12 Drake 77
#4 Arizona State 87 #13 Florida Gulf Coast 69

#6 Clemson 81 #11 Fairfield 58
#3 Oregon 86 #14 Tennessee Tech 72
#7 Florida 72 #10 Marquette 69
#2 Georgia Tech 74 #15 Montana 53

Midwest
#1 UCLA 67 #16 Southern Utah 42
#9 Nevada 78 #8 Villanova 70
#5 Western Kentucky 79 #12 Air Force 58
#4 California 87 #13 Wisconsin-Green Bay 58

#11 Utah 63 #6 Vanderbilt 51
#3 Southern California 78 #14 Northwestern State 46
#10 Massachusetts 86 #7 Tennessee 76
#2 Louisville 97 #15 Grambling 47

[Tovarich]

vs.

NCAA Tournament 2nd Round
Jon M. Huntsman Center
Salt Lake City, UT

California Golden Bears at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Mar 22, 2014	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#4 California (21-12)	30	37	67
#5 Western Kentucky (31-6)	31	39	70

California Golden Bears
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Gunn	24	5-6	3-4	1-2	1	7	1	0	3	14
Boozer	24	2-3	1-2	1-2	3	7	1	0	3	6
McCroskey	22	11-17	2-6	1-1	4	1	0	1	6	25
Stevens	22	3-8	0-0	2-2	8	1	0	3	0	8
Estrada	22	4-6	0-0	1-1	10	2	2	1	4	9
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Norris	8	1-3	0-1	2-2	0	0	0	0	1	4
Fernandez	6	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	2	0	0	3	1
Minor	13	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Randall	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Curry	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Carr	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Spears	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		26-45	6-13	9-12	29	21	4	5	20	67
TEAM TOTALS		26-45	6-13	9-12	29	21	4	5	20	67

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	24	0-5	0-4	4-4	0	6	4	0	2	4
Lewis	24	7-8	3-4	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	17
Li	24	2-14	2-13	0-0	1	4	6	0	0	6
Jack	23	7-13	0-2	1-1	7	3	6	1	1	15
Suotamo	21	7-11	0-0	4-5	6	0	0	1	1	18
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	7	2-5	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	1	0	5
Pawlak	5	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	2
Camper	4	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Jordan	4	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0
Capel	4	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Blankenship	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Zoellner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-62	6-26	10-12	20	18	18	3	5	70

Tovarich: Whew, my favorite way to win a game. Allow 60% shooting, brick every 3 we take, get dominated on the boards and go for steals on every possession.

Reporter: What were you thinking down 7-0 in the first minute?

Tovarich: De ja vu. I was remember Marquette last year. Suotamo's running down the lane and could just dunk it but he decides to finger roll it and miss short, then they go down and bomb a contested 3. The alley-oop from beyond the 3-point lane which I had 3 people in between who couldn't block it was a nice touch too.

Reporter: Despite focusing so much on McCroskey, he piled up the points anyway.

Tovarich: Yeah, we were supposed to double him every time he had it, and we did get him to throw it away a few times, but no matter how tight we were supposed to be on him, he was often open. Their PG too.

Reporter: You didn't give the bench much of a chance.

Tovarich: Nope, wasn't feeling them at all really. Wasn't feeling Li, but they kept leaving him open, like they knew he'd miss and they were baiting me to let him keep shooting. Lewis caught fire in the second half though and shot us out of it. A few big rebounds at the end, Galbreath hitting all 4 FT's at the end was huge. We can usually overcome one off night like Li had. But it took everyone else contributing.

Reporter: You'll likely get UCLA again for the 3rd time in 5 years. Can you match up with them in any way?

Tovarich: They've dominated us both times. We'll have to try the same gameplan as today and hope Li doesn't go 2-13, we can rebound better and they don't shoot 60% but we'll need to be +15 in turnovers and +17 in shots to eek it out like we did today if we're lucky.