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Emmett14 · 04-04-2019, 02:38 AM

With 16:47 left, Furman calls timeout and we lead 10-3. Serrano has a couple of baskets for 4 points and Bartell has 4 as well. We do have early foul trouble, we had 4 team fouls in the first 80 seconds. Bass has 2 and is sitting.

11:55 media timeout and we lead 22-15. Serrano has 11, and is 5-7 from the field and is getting a quick breather. Ramage picked up his 2nd foul as well, and McLoughlin is resting, so we currently have a Woodworth/Sanders front line.

With 6:09 left, we've both gone cold and can't quit fouling, we now trail 26-29. Serrano is stuck on 11 points, and we have 12 team fouls. We have 5 players with 2 fouls currently, every starter but Serrano.

Nason picks up his 3rd with 1:39 left and we trail 33-38. Serrano is up to 18, but nobody else is really hitting shots and Furman is continuing to get to the line.

Both teams trade some buckets down the stretch to make the half time score: Furman 43 - Appalachian State 39. Serrano has 20 and Bartell 10. A balanced attack by Furman with several guys getting chances at the free throw line.

Alfaro hits back to back threes and I call timeout with 19:17 left, because we're already down 39-49.

Serrano gets a steal and passes it ahead to Nason who lets a three loose and nails it, forcing Furman to call timeout with 13:26 left, and we trail just 51-53. It's Serrano's 5th assist of the game and Nason now has 15 points out of the blue.

They go on a 6-0 run, and Nason then picks up his 4th foul and will have sit with us trailing 51-59, with 11:23 left.

7:41 left and it's all went to hell, we trail 56-68. Both teams have gone a little cold, we've just gone colder. Chalfant has 15 and 10 for the Paladins.

Bartell gets called for a charge with 3:41 left to signal the last media timeout of the game, and it's a killer because we cut the lead to 63-71 and a basket there would have made the game interesting.

We do get slightly closer before the end of the game, but we could never get a stop when we needed too. Final score ends up being: Furman 77 - Appalachian State 70. Serrano ends up with 29, his season high (career high 34), and it's one of the first times all season he really looked like a star. Serrano, Bartell and Nason played alright, they just had almost zero help. 5 points out of Ramage on just 3 shots in his 24 minutes was a killer. Furman had a couple of nice runs over the course of the game and in the end that was enough.

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Furman 77, Appalachian State 70

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Appalachian State  (14-12, 8-5):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Douglas Ramage    C    24   1-3   3-4   1   7   0  3   5
Dave Bass         PF   21   0-2   0-0   0   5   1  4   0
Kevin Nason       SF   26  6-13   0-0   0   4   3  4  15
Milford Bartell   SG   37  5-10   4-5   1   5   3  3  15
Michael Serrano   PG   37 12-18   2-2   0   2   5  0  29
Chris McLoughlin  C    21   0-5   0-0   1   6   1  3   0
Matthew Woodworth PF   10   2-3   0-0   0   1   1  1   4
Marion Bracey     SF   19   1-2   0-0   0   1   2  0   2
Joe Sanders       PF    4   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  1   0

Turnovers: 12 (D.Bass 2, K.Nason 1, M.Bartell 3, 
 M.Serrano 1, C.McLoughlin 2, M.Woodworth 1, M.Bracey 2)
Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Woodworth 1)
Steals: 4 (K.Nason 1, M.Serrano 2, C.McLoughlin 1)
3P FGs: 7-23 (D.Bass 0-2, K.Nason 3-8, M.Bartell 1-3, 
 M.Serrano 3-7, C.McLoughlin 0-2, M.Bracey 0-1)

Furman  (19-8, 10-4):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Benjamin Thomas   C    29   4-8   4-4   1   6   4  3  12
John Chalfant     PF   34  6-11   3-4   3  11   3  1  15
Daniel Alfaro     SF   31  7-17   3-6   2   4   2  2  20
Joseph Risley     SG   33  3-10   2-2   5   9   3  1   9
Leroy Truman      PG   28   1-4   0-0   0   7   2  2   2
Joseph Ireland    C    19   3-7   1-2   0   2   1  1   8
Bruce Swaim       SG   10   2-4   1-2   2   2   1  1   6
Maxwell Madson    PF    9   1-1   1-1   1   1   1  0   3
Andrew Coombs     SF    6   1-3   0-0   0   0   0  0   2
Arthur Russell    SG    1   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  1   0

Turnovers: 8 (D.Alfaro 4, J.Risley 1, L.Truman 1, 
 J.Ireland 1, B.Swaim 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (B.Thomas 2)
Steals: 4 (J.Chalfant 1, J.Risley 1, J.Ireland 1, 
 B.Swaim 1)
3P FGs: 6-24 (D.Alfaro 3-11, J.Risley 1-6, L.Truman 
 0-1, J.Ireland 1-3, B.Swaim 1-2, A.Coombs 0-1)

Player of Game: PG Michael Serrano (APP)

Emmett14 · 04-04-2019, 03:13 AM

February 21st, 1970 vs Davidson Wildcats (14-11) [6-7]
Conference: Southern
Location: Davidson, North Carolina
1968-69 record: 8-21 (4-12)

Davidson is a 9 prestige school, even worse than us, and they are having one of their best seasons in 20 years. Besides a miracle run to a NCAA berth after a 14-21 (5-11) season in 63-64, they've missed all postseason play for two decades. Once upon a time they were a very strong program thanks to a strong initial prestige rating of 66. They rode that for a while but that's all long gone. They did get quite a few NCAA appearances out of it and a Sweet Sixteen in 1916-17.

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DAVIDSON WILDCATS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:         9   Record Vs 1-50:      0-1   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:     14-11   Record Vs 51-100:    2-0   RPI Rank:           #219   
Conference Record:   6-7   Record Vs 101-200:   0-3 
Home Record:         8-4   Record Vs 200+:     12-7 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       73.9   6 215  Points       72.9   6 180  Points        1.0   5 179  
O.Reb        10.0   5 123  O.Reb         9.6   8 272  O.Reb         0.3   6 183  
D.Reb        28.5   5  70  D.Reb        25.4   2  75  D.Reb         3.2   1  23  
Rebounds     38.5   5  67  Rebounds     35.0   6 122  Rebounds      3.5   3  51  
Assists      14.0   6 240  Assists      15.0  12 305  Assists      -1.0   9 296  
Steals        5.3   5 151  Steals        5.9  12 380  Steals       -0.6   8 281  
Blocks        1.0  10 312  Blocks        1.5  11 210  Blocks       -0.5  11 308  
Turnovers    11.8  11 321  Turnovers    10.4   9 294  Turnovers     1.5  10 346  
Fouls        16.2   2  29  Fouls        20.5   1  11  Fouls        -4.3   1   4  
FG%          .464   4  81  FG%          .433   3  83  FG%          .031   3  53  
FT%          .680   9 297  FT%          .687   5 133  FT%         -.007   8 252  
3P%          .300  11 389  3P%          .361  10 295  3P%         -.061  11 392  
PPS          1.28   4 120  PPS          1.17   2  27  PPS          .113   2  39  
Adj. FG%     .499   8 237  Adj. FG%     .496   3 126  Adj. FG%     .004   8 184

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DAVIDSON WILDCATS Averages

 Player              Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Steve Garnett         C  25  25  28.6  11.6  1.9  7.9  1.5  0.5  0.3  1.7  2.7   2.2
 Logan Jaffe           C   7   0   3.0   0.3  0.0  0.6  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  -0.7
 Tony Taylor          PF  25  25  31.6  14.0  3.1  7.8  1.8  0.3  0.1  1.9  2.4   1.4
 Ted Garrett          PF  25   0   7.2   1.5  0.6  1.3  0.2  0.3  0.1  0.4  0.6  -1.3
 Heinrich Shafer      PF  25   0  18.9   5.0  1.1  4.4  0.5  0.4  0.2  0.8  2.5   0.6
 Kenneth Ballew       SF  25  25  28.4   8.6  1.5  6.6  2.5  0.7  0.3  1.8  2.4  -2.2
 Benton Stephens      SF  22   0   3.7   1.5  0.3  1.0  0.3  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.3   0.6
 Sebastián Pardo      SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Douglas Long         SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Tony Sullivan        SG   2   0   1.0   0.0  0.0  0.5  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.5
 Boyce Evans          SG   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Terry Thorne         SG  25  25  31.4  17.1  0.7  4.3  1.9  1.3  0.1  2.1  2.0   2.4
 Mckinley Gooding     SG  25   0  13.6   5.8  0.2  0.9  0.8  0.6  0.0  0.8  1.0   0.0
 Helmfrid Geis        PG  25  25  33.6   7.9  0.5  3.8  4.2  1.2  0.0  2.1  2.0   1.2
 Jefferson Jones      PG  24   0   3.4   1.0  0.1  0.3  0.4  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.4  -0.7

PG: Geis, 6'3", Sophomore: Started last year and averaged 7.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists. A statsheet stuffer with a nice three point shot that he's never been able to find much success with. Should have a strong junior and senior season. Poor defender.

SG: Thorne, 6'5", Sophomore: Started last year and averaged 10.3 points a game. Way up to 17 this year, and is shooting 51% from the field, and this season has probably been a fluky one for him. Defends a little and can get in the passing lanes.

SF: Ballew, 6'7", Senior: Played 12 minutes a game last year. Versatile defender who is a capable three point shooter.

PF: Taylor, 6'10", Senior: 4 year starter. Averaged 14.6 points and 8.4 rebounds last year and has very similar numbers this season. Strong defender and very tough on the offensive glass with more than 3 a game. Not going to go for 20+ too often, but will get his buckets and a few putbacks a game.

C: Garnett, 6'11", Senior: 3 year starter averaged 13 and 8 last season. Pretty similar to Taylor, but not as good defensively. Strong on the glass, but not the monster that Taylor is on the offensive side of it.

Bench: Shafer is a 6'9" forward who does a good job on the glass, but isn't much help offensively. Goodling is a freshman with a nice jump shot, and isn't afraid to put it up. Jones is a 5'10" freshman point guard who always gets a couple of minutes a game. Garret is an undersized post at 6'6", but at least he's not talented.

Coach: Royal Davis, 44 years old. 43-72 career record. 4th season at Davidson.

Pretty bad coach, besides being decent defensively. Was an assistant at South Carolina State and Palm Beach Atlantic before getting a head job.

They've got a really strong front line and an interesting backcourt that can cause us problems on a bad night. Their depth isn't much, and if we can get them into foul trouble I think we have a major advantage. The conference title is probably out of reach now, but we're playing for seeding and there are 4 teams with one game either way of us.

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1969 Southern Conference Standings

 TEAM                              CW  CL   Pct   W   L   Pct  RPI  Prestige
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 Valdosta State Blazers            10   3  .769  19   7  .731  144        34
 Furman Paladins                   10   4  .714  19   8  .704  348        26
 Chattanooga Mocs                   9   4  .692  18   8  .692   83        30
 Wofford Terriers                   9   5  .643  13  13  .500  347        37
 Appalachian State Mountaineers     8   5  .615  14  12  .538  349        10
 Western Carolina Catamounts        7   6  .538  10  16  .385  289        20
 Elon Phoenix                       7   7  .500  15  11  .577  242        33
 Davidson Wildcats                  6   7  .462  14  11  .560  219         9
 Samford Bulldogs                   5   8  .385   7  20  .259  379        23
 UNC Greensboro Spartans            5   8  .385   5  20  .200  396         8
 College of Charleston Cougars      5   8  .385  12  15  .444  225        26
 The Citadel Bulldogs               3  10  .231   5  20  .200  405        10
 Georgia Southern Eagles            2  11  .154   5  20  .200  391        15

Emmett14 · 04-04-2019, 03:49 AM

Both teams are putting up a lot of bricks, and with 15:01 left we lead 7-6. Serrano has 5 points, including a three pointer. Nason picked up 2 quick fouls, which means we get 15 minutes of Bracey this half again.

They go on a 10-0 run out of that media timeout, Bartell hits a 3 to put an end to it, so at the 11:44 mark we trail 10-17. It's Bartell's first basket of the game.

With 6:42 left, we've pulled closer to 17-19. Bartell has 2 fouls now too, but with so little guard depth, I have to at least play one of them. Nason is the one for the moment.

Last media timeout with 3:50 and we trail 27-29. Bartell has 6 points now after his second three pointer. Ramage is up to 8 with 4-5 from the field and he leads the team.

At halftime the score is Davidson 37 - Appalachian State 32. The zone defense has not been strong inside, Garnett leads Davidson with 10 points and has caused us problems. Serrano has 10 to lead the charge for us. Davidson is 8-9 from the line, but has struggled from three, so I guess I'll stay in the zone for now.

15:35 left, and we've taken the lead 44-43. Nason's hit a couple of shots and so has Bass and we've been capitalizing on their turnovers, which they've had at least 4 already this half, for a total of 10 in the game.

10:55 left and we lead 56-46. Nason is up to 15, and he always seem to score in bursts. Ramage has gone for 12 and 6, and him being productive makes a major difference. Bartell just picked up his 4th foul, so he'll sit for a while.

7:20 left, we lead 64-52 and we're starting to slow the pace a little bit to milk some clock. Davidson continues to kill themselves with unforced turnovers.

I call a timeout with 4:40 after a Davidson three pointer makes it 64-60. Garnett has been doing some damage after being dormant for a while and he has 19 points for the Wildcats.

Serrano gets a steal and is fouled with 1:38 and it finally brings on the last media timeout and after it, he hits both free throws and that gives us the lead 72-64.

Davidson hits some threes and we only hit some of our free throws and with 1:03 left, we lead 73-70. Davidson doesn't need to foul anymore, so we're just going to take our time with the ball, and right before the shot clock is going to go off, Serrano puts up a three off a Bartell pass and nails it and it gives him 26 points, 14 of which have come in the last 4 minutes.

That's the clincher and when the time runs out it the score is Appalachian State 78 - Davidson 70 Serrano goes nuts from three, 4-12. That's probably a few too many threes for him to shoot. Ramage with a very efficient game, and Nason was strong and a nice run or two. Bracey continues to be very unproductive when he plays. I'm glad we held on to that one, as that would have been disastrous for our chances at a bye in the conference tournament.

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Appalachian State 78, Davidson 70

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Davidson  (14-12, 6-8):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Steve Garnett     C    34  8-15   3-7   2   6   1  4  19
Tony Taylor       PF   36  4-10   2-3   2   6   7  2  10
Kenneth Ballew    SF   30   2-3   2-3   2   8   3  1   6
Terry Thorne      SG   22  4-13   5-6   0   1   2  4  14
Helmfrid Geis     PG   36   4-7   0-0   1   8   6  2  11
Heinrich Shafer   PF   22   1-2   0-0   0   7   2  3   2
Mckinley Gooding  SG   20   3-4   0-0   0   0   1  1   8
Jefferson Jones   PG    1   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  0   0

Turnovers: 16 (S.Garnett 2, T.Taylor 2, K.Ballew 1, 
 T.Thorne 1, H.Geis 7, H.Shafer 1, M.Gooding 1, J.Jones 
 1)
Blocked Shots: 0 
Steals: 4 (T.Taylor 1, H.Geis 2, H.Shafer 1)
3P FGs: 6-17 (T.Taylor 0-1, K.Ballew 0-1, T.Thorne 1-6, 
 H.Geis 3-6, M.Gooding 2-3)

Appalachian State  (15-12, 9-5):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Douglas Ramage    C    30   6-8   0-2   2   8   1  2  12
Dave Bass         PF   31   3-5   0-1   1   5   1  3   8
Kevin Nason       SF   31  5-11   3-3   0   5   1  2  15
Milford Bartell   SG   29   3-6   2-2   0   2   2  4  11
Michael Serrano   PG   35  9-22   4-6   1   6   3  2  26
Chris McLoughlin  C    14   1-2   0-0   0   3   0  3   3
Matthew Woodworth PF    5   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  1   0
Marion Bracey     SG   23   1-6   1-1   2   4   2  1   3
Joe Sanders       PF    1   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  0   0

Turnovers: 10 (D.Ramage 1, K.Nason 2, M.Bartell 1, 
 M.Serrano 2, M.Woodworth 1, M.Bracey 3)
Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Woodworth 1)
Steals: 9 (D.Ramage 3, D.Bass 1, M.Bartell 3, M.Serrano 
 2)
3P FGs: 12-30 (D.Bass 2-2, K.Nason 2-6, M.Bartell 3-3, 
 M.Serrano 4-12, C.McLoughlin 1-2, M.Bracey 0-5)

Player of Game: PG Michael Serrano (APP)

Emmett14 · 04-04-2019, 09:36 PM

February 26th, 1970 vs Western Carolina Catamounts (10-17) [7-7]
Conference: Southern
Location: Cullowhee, North Carolina
1968-69 record: 12-18 (8-8)

Western Carolina (WCU) is a 20 prestige team that really hasn't had a history too much better than ours. They made back to back NCAA tournaments in 35-36, which is 66% of their NCAA appearances all time. They have made the NIT a handful of times since then, but haven't had an appearance in the NCAA's since those back to back showings.

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WESTERN CAROLINA CATAMOUNTS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:        20   Record Vs 1-50:      0-0   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:     10-17   Record Vs 51-100:    0-0   RPI Rank:           #326   
Conference Record:   7-7   Record Vs 101-200:   1-4 
Home Record:         5-8   Record Vs 200+:     9-13 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       71.9   9 284  Points       72.1   4 145  Points       -0.3   8 228  
O.Reb         9.1   9 227  O.Reb         8.9   4 173  O.Reb         0.3   7 183  
D.Reb        26.6   7 246  D.Reb        25.5   3  90  D.Reb         1.0   5 118  
Rebounds     35.7   8 254  Rebounds     34.4   2  86  Rebounds      1.3   6 147  
Assists      14.3   4 208  Assists      12.7   2  11  Assists       1.6   1  63  
Steals        4.2  10 314  Steals        5.6  10 345  Steals       -1.4  11 381  
Blocks        2.1   1  76  Blocks        1.8  13 339  Blocks        0.3   4 121  
Turnovers    11.6  10 297  Turnovers     9.1  13 405  Turnovers     2.5  12 401  
Fouls        18.2   7 224  Fouls        18.3   7 190  Fouls         0.0   7 207  
FG%          .445   7 222  FG%          .447   8 212  FG%         -.002   8 213  
FT%          .686   8 278  FT%          .712   9 310  FT%         -.026  10 318  
3P%          .366   4 123  3P%          .342   4 166  3P%          .023   3 110  
PPS          1.30   3  85  PPS          1.25   7 228  PPS          .050   5 111  
Adj. FG%     .527   3  88  Adj. FG%     .504   7 200  Adj. FG%     .023   3  96

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WESTERN CAROLINA CATAMOUNTS Averages

 Player               Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Augustine Bowens       C  26   0   9.6   2.0  0.3  2.0  0.5  0.0  0.2  0.5  1.0  -0.6
 Jackie Hawkins         C  16  16  28.7  11.7  0.9  5.1  1.3  0.0  0.3  1.7  3.3  -3.2
 Jack Cantara          PF  27  27  30.9   7.4  2.1  7.7  1.7  0.4  1.0  1.3  2.7  -0.6
 Eugene Alston         PF  18   0  15.1   4.8  1.1  3.5  0.9  0.2  0.3  0.6  1.2   0.8
 Mark Montalvo         PF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Brian Hill            SF   1   0   2.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   1.0
 Ronald Carpenter      SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Joseph Griffis        SF  27  11  17.1   5.1  0.4  2.4  1.1  0.7  0.1  1.0  1.4   1.1
 Dexter Sasser         SF  27  27  28.9  11.9  1.6  5.3  1.6  0.6  0.3  1.4  2.7  -1.5
 Charles Escobar       SF  14   0   3.9   1.4  0.1  0.9  0.4  0.1  0.0  0.2  0.4   0.3
 Thomas Macaluso       SG  27   0  23.4  13.4  0.9  4.2  1.8  0.4  0.0  2.2  2.0  -0.5
 David Tamayo          SG  27  27  26.0  11.4  1.0  4.3  2.1  0.9  0.1  1.7  2.3   0.4
 Jonah Talley          SG   9   0   2.6   1.4  0.1  0.1  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.2  -2.1
 Omer Stevens          PG  23  21  23.5   7.6  1.2  2.7  2.6  0.7  0.1  1.4  2.2   3.3
 Jeffery Digiacomo     PG  27   6  14.1   3.0  0.4  1.7  1.7  0.4  0.0  0.9  1.3  -0.3

Their entire roster is healthy currently. They've shot the ball pretty well this year and do a pretty good job on the glass. They are okay defensively, but they don't turn anyone over and as long as we don't make unforced turnovers we should be able to score on them pretty well.

PG: Stevens, 6'1", Sophomore: Played 6 minutes a game last year. Pretty good passer who will be even better in a couple of years. Not much offensively otherwise, just 7.6 points a game.

SG: Tamayo, 6'4", Freshman: Having a pretty solid freshman year. Shoots the ball well, 43% from beyond the arc. Helps out a little on the glass, he's basically a better version of our Bracey.

SF: Sasser, 6'10", Sophomore: Started 6 games last year and played 12 minutes a game. Major size for a wing, but is definitely a tweener. Can't defend any position, but can get the ball to the basket and has some ability inside with nearly zero three point shot.

PF: Cantara, 6'7", Senior: 4 year starter, averaged 6.5 and 6 last year. Really underwhelming for a 4 year starter. He's easily having his best season of his career this year, numbers wise with 7.4 and 7.7, which says a lot about a 4 year starter. Good rebounder, decent scorer with a three point shot. Will block a shot a game.

C: Hawkins, 6'8", Junior: 3 year starter. Averaged 10.5 and 4.8 last year. Missed some games due to injury this season, but still has had a decent year. Like Cantara he's a big man with some three point range, and was 18-46 this year in 16 games. Okay defender, not much on the glass.

Bench: Macaluso is a 5'11" guard who is a true SG, and can shoot the heck out of the ball while defending nothing. He's at 13.4 a game, and attempts 8 threes a game, coming off the bench, just a sophomore. Digiacomo is a 6'1" freshman who got a few starts due to injuries early in the year. Defends well and can knock down a three. Will never be a big assists guy but will be a very good guard for this league. Alston is their main post reserve. The 6'8" senior is a good offensive rebounder, but average at best everywhere else. Griffis saw 11 starts earlier this year, but is only getting about 5 minutes a game right now. I'd start the 6'6" sharpshooter over Sasser at the 3 for sure. Bowens is a 6'11" senior walkon who is a solid defender and garbage elsewhere, but might see 5-10 minutes this game.

Coach: Chris Baker, 56 years old. 265-232 career record. 4th season at Western Carolina.

Probably the most accomplished coach in the Southern. Once upon a time, he had worked his way up through Cal Poly to San Diego State to Missouri, where he had 4 very mediocre seasons and was fired. He spent 3 years as an assistant at Illinois before getting a head job again. He's a maxed out defensive coach who at least knows a little offense, and a solid recruiter. His first year at WCU, he had them in the NIT. He's had two rough seasons in a row, but with the guard talent he's stockpiling, he'll probably be gone in 3 or 4 years.

They are a pretty weird team, a lot of young, perimeter talent that will be a real problem in a few years. Their post players are very perimeter oriented as well, so they are a team that is capable of getting hot, and those games just seem to happen sometimes. But, on the other hand. They are very young and their post players are pretty weak on the glass, and we're at home, so I like our odds.

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1969 Southern Conference Standings

 TEAM                              CW  CL   Pct   W   L   Pct  RPI  Prestige
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 Valdosta State Blazers            11   3  .786  20   7  .741  139        34
 Chattanooga Mocs                  10   4  .714  19   8  .704  110        30
 Furman Paladins                   10   4  .714  20   8  .714  334        26
 Appalachian State Mountaineers     9   5  .643  15  12  .556  310        10
 Wofford Terriers                   9   6  .600  13  15  .464  360        37
 Elon Phoenix                       8   7  .533  16  12  .571  292        33
 Western Carolina Catamounts        7   7  .500  10  17  .370  326        20
 College of Charleston Cougars      6   8  .429  13  15  .464  226        26
 Davidson Wildcats                  6   8  .429  14  12  .538  245         9
 Samford Bulldogs                   5   9  .357   7  21  .250  389        23
 UNC Greensboro Spartans            5   9  .357   5  21  .192  388         8
 The Citadel Bulldogs               4  10  .286   6  20  .231  413        10
 Georgia Southern Eagles            2  12  .143   5  21  .192  400        15

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Top 25

# Team FPV Record Points Prv Conference test test test test
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1. Rutgers (59) 25-3 1786 1 Big East Conference
2. Illinois (13) 25-2 1741 2 Big Ten Conference
3. Texas A&M 25-2 1657 3 Big 12 Conference
4. Nebraska 23-4 1568 6 Big 12 Conference
5. Boston College 23-4 1467 7 Atlantic Coast Conference
6. Baylor 22-5 1452 4 Big 12 Conference
7. Alabama 21-6 1366 8 Southeastern Conference
8. Michigan State 22-5 1282 5 Big Ten Conference
9. Florida State 22-5 1230 10 Atlantic Coast Conference
10. Nevada 23-3 1206 9 Western Athletic Conference
11. California 20-6 1056 11 Pacific-11 Conference
12. Memphis 21-6 1034 12 Southeastern Conference
13. Kentucky 19-8 899 14 Southeastern Conference
14. Kansas 21-6 883 13 Big 12 Conference
15. Southern California 19-7 717 15 Pacific-11 Conference
16. Tennessee 19-8 632 19 Southeastern Conference
17. Prairie View A&M 24-4 623 17 Lone Star Conference
18. Pittsburgh 19-9 585 18 Big East Conference
19. Colorado 19-8 558 16 Big 12 Conference
20. Connecticut 19-9 471 20 Big East Conference
21. Pacific 20-8 395 21 West Coast Conference
22. Texas Christian 21-6 290 22 Mountain West Conference
23. Michigan 17-10 132 NR Big Ten Conference
24. Wisconsin 19-8 104 23 Big Ten Conference
25. Utah State 19-7 84 25 Western Athletic Conference

Others Receiving Votes:
San Diego 20-8 81 West Coast Conference
Northeastern 23-6 71 Colonial Athletic Association
Providence 18-9 19 Big East Conference
Virginia 19-8 9 Atlantic Coast Conference
Mississippi 18-9 2 Southeastern Conference

Emmett14 · 04-04-2019, 10:05 PM

With 12:02, Bass goes down with an injury and won't be able to return. We trail 13-14. Ramage has 7 and Serrano 6, and they have the entirety of our scoring output so far.

Bartell misses both free throws, and I'm nearly positive that it is the first time he's done that. That's with 8:01 and we're down 16-18. We've yet to hit a three, and just not getting help outside of Serrano and Ramage.

3:25 and we trail 21-25. Bartell misses his next free throw as well, the front end of a 1-and-1 making it 3 in a row. He was 100-114 for the season coming into the game.

Serrano bricks a three point attempt at half, but I can live with it because the score is Appalachian State 27 - Western Carolina 27. We're 5-12 from the line, which hurts. Serrano and Ramage have combined for 18 of our 27. I'm really starting to resent Bracey's total lack of production. 9 minutes with 1 rebound and no shot attempts. We just have so few options, I guess I could play Gattis and see if he'll score a bucket or two. But, a defensive rating of 5 is pretty hard to trot out there.

Fast forwarding to 10:24 left, we trail 35-46. Things are getting out of hand quick as we've been ice cold from the start of the second half, and WCU has finally strung together a couple of shots. Macaluso has 16 off the bench for WCU.

WCU can't miss, we've finally starting hitting some shots but Macaluso and Tamayo are drilling three pointers left and right. three of them for Macaluso in the last 3 minutes alone. With 6:38 left we trail 45-62.

This game is only getting worse. Ramage goes down with an injury with 1:33 left and we're trailing 61-75. Now he and Bass have injuries, and our entire front line could be out for who knows how long. Serrano is the star of this game, he's up to 24 points on 10-19 shooting. Nason's just 2-7 from the field and has been a non factor.

The final score ends up being a pretty big whooping, especially considering it was tied at halftime. Besides Serrano and Ramage for the first 10 minutes, we were pretty pedestrian offensively, and we were not hitting threes and WCU was, especially in the second half and especially Macaluso. Final score: Western Carolina 77 - Appalachian State 63. But, the real big news as far as the rest of the season goes, is the injury status of Bass and Ramage: Bass's is just a bad stinger, and he'll be available in our next game, but limited. Ramage's is a 2 week injury, which means he's out for the conference tournament and unless we make a postseason tournament, probably done for the season. Rough luck.

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Western Carolina 77, Appalachian State 63

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Western Carolina  (11-17, 8-7):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Jackie Hawkins    C    26   1-7   3-4   0   5   1  4   5
Jack Cantara      PF   35   4-8   0-0   3   6   2  2   8
Dexter Sasser     SF   30   3-8   2-2   2   8   1  1   8
David Tamayo      SG   26   3-6   2-4   1   4   2  1  11
Omer Stevens      PG   30   3-6   0-1   2   4   4  3   7
Thomas Macaluso   SG   25 10-17   2-2   1   1   3  2  30
Jeffery Digiacomo PG    7   0-3   2-2   0   0   2  2   2
Eugene Alston     C    17   2-3   1-1   1   5   1  2   5
Joseph Griffis    SF    1   0-0   1-2   0   1   0  0   1
Augustine Bowens  C     1   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  0   0

Turnovers: 5 (J.Hawkins 1, J.Cantara 2, D.Tamayo 1, 
 T.Macaluso 1)
Blocked Shots: 0 
Steals: 1 (E.Alston 1)
3P FGs: 12-31 (J.Hawkins 0-4, J.Cantara 0-2, D.Tamayo 
 3-6, O.Stevens 1-1, T.Macaluso 8-15, J.Digiacomo 0-3)

Appalachian State  (15-13, 9-6):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Douglas Ramage    PF   29   4-5   3-4   2   6   1  3  11
Dave Bass         PF    8   0-0   0-0   0   1   1  1   0
Kevin Nason       SF   34   2-8   0-0   2   4   4  2   6
Milford Bartell   SG   35   4-7   2-5   0   3   2  3  11
Michael Serrano   PG   36 11-20   3-4   0   4   0  4  26
Chris McLoughlin  C    26   1-4   1-2   1   8   2  2   3
Matthew Woodworth PF    9   0-1   0-0   0   1   0  3   0
Marion Bracey     SG   16   1-3   0-0   1   2   0  0   2
Joe Sanders       PF    8   1-2   2-3   0   2   0  0   4

Turnovers: 7 (D.Ramage 3, K.Nason 1, M.Serrano 1, 
 C.McLoughlin 1, M.Bracey 1)
Blocked Shots: 2 (D.Ramage 1, K.Nason 1)
Steals: 1 (M.Bartell 1)
3P FGs: 4-17 (K.Nason 2-6, M.Bartell 1-2, M.Serrano 
 1-5, C.McLoughlin 0-2, M.Bracey 0-2)

Player of Game: SG Thomas Macaluso (WCU)

Emmett14 · 04-05-2019, 01:11 AM

February 28th, 1970 at Elon Phoenix (16-12) [8-7]
Conference: Southern
Location: Elon, North Carolina
1968-69 record: 13-18 (6-10)

Elon is a 33 prestige school that is just 3 years removed from a 26-9 (12-4) season that ended up in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament, and really the early 60's have been the best time in Elon basketball history. Even if the last two years have resulted in back to back 6-10 conference records.

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ELON PHOENIX TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:        33   Record Vs 1-50:      0-0   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:     16-12   Record Vs 51-100:    1-1   RPI Rank:           #287   
Conference Record:   8-7   Record Vs 101-200:   3-2 
Home Record:         7-5   Record Vs 200+:     12-9 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       68.0  11 370  Points       67.0   1  18  Points        1.0   4 169  
O.Reb         9.5   7 192  O.Reb         9.8   9 288  O.Reb        -0.4   8 256  
D.Reb        24.3  13 411  D.Reb        25.5   2  83  D.Reb        -1.2   9 320  
Rebounds     33.7  11 368  Rebounds     35.3   6 136  Rebounds     -1.6   8 299  
Assists      13.3  10 320  Assists      12.1   1   3  Assists       1.1   3  97  
Steals        6.4   1  59  Steals        5.4   6 295  Steals        1.0   2  81  
Blocks        1.3   5 204  Blocks        1.4  11 195  Blocks       -0.1   8 210  
Turnovers    10.4   2 103  Turnovers    12.3   1  76  Turnovers    -1.9   1  44  
Fouls        17.7   6 149  Fouls        17.9   9 258  Fouls        -0.2   7 195  
FG%          .436   9 296  FG%          .440   5 133  FG%         -.004   9 237  
FT%          .664  11 354  FT%          .681   3  96  FT%         -.017   9 292  
3P%          .369   3 104  3P%          .349   7 222  3P%          .020   4 119  
PPS          1.23  11 275  PPS          1.24   6 175  PPS         -.010   8 241  
Adj. FG%     .499   8 237  Adj. FG%     .500   5 163  Adj. FG%    -.001   9 207

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ELON PHOENIX Averages

 Player                Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Mac Gold                C  28  28  28.1   6.0  2.3  7.8  1.5  0.4  0.1  1.4  3.0   3.4
 Sammy Todd              C  11   0   2.5   1.1  0.1  0.5  0.3  0.0  0.0  0.2  0.1   0.1
 Jeffrey Thames         PF  28   0  13.0   2.7  0.9  3.3  0.4  0.1  0.4  0.5  1.2  -0.8
 Jonathan Williams      PF  28  28  30.1  11.8  1.3  5.7  1.2  0.5  0.2  1.4  2.4  -0.2
 Marco Fulford          PF  27   0   8.0   2.2  0.2  1.2  0.5  0.2  0.3  0.3  0.8  -0.4
 Julian May             SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Hector Hamilton        SF  28  28  29.3  13.3  1.9  5.3  2.9  1.0  0.1  1.8  2.5   0.5
 John Ross              SF  28   0   3.9   1.6  0.1  0.6  0.2  0.2  0.0  0.1  0.3  -0.4
 Owen Ingersoll         SF   3   0   1.3   0.7  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   2.3
 Arthur Brooks          SG  28  28  31.4  11.5  1.1  4.1  2.5  2.0  0.0  2.2  3.1   2.1
 Wayne Hughes           SG   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Everette McSweeney     SG  22   0  15.5   4.1  0.3  2.1  1.6  0.9  0.1  1.2  1.5   0.0
 Anderson Dungan        PG  28  28  34.9  12.6  1.2  2.8  2.2  0.9  0.1  1.3  2.7   2.0
 Joseph Hashimoto       PG  11   0   2.0   1.0  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.0  0.0  0.2  0.5   1.1
 John Mason             PG  26   0   8.1   2.4  0.3  1.2  0.6  0.4  0.0  0.3  0.5  -2.1

They've shot the ball well this year from beyond the arc and do a good job at generating turnovers.

PG: Dungan, 6'3", Junior: 3 year starter. Averaged 11.3 points a game last year. Solid defender with a nice three point shot. Not really a point guard, since he doesn't pass it well. Non existent on the glass.

SG: Brooks, 6'2", Senior: 3 year starter. Averaged 7.6 points a game last year. I think he's more of a point guard that Dungan. Okay defender who will grab some steals and will knock down a three.

SF: Hamilton, 6'8", Senior: 3 year starter. Averaged 14.9 a game last year. Having a bit of a down season. Nearly 3 assists a game, and very capable of going for 20. Poor defender.

PF: Williams, 6'7", Sophomore: Played 13 minutes a game last year and averaged 5 points a game. Has some offensive touch around the basket, pretty lackluster everywhere else.

C: Gold, 6'8", Junior: Started 19 games last year and averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds. Good defender and decent rebounder, who offensively is pretty much just jump shots. 59 three pointers attempted this year.

Bench: Mason is the backup point guard, he plays about 8 minutes a game and is a good outside shooter. Thames is a 6'7" post that is active on the offensive glass and little else. Fulford is a talented freshman post who can score and block some shots, but like a lot of guys on this team, can't rebound. McSweeney is a bit banged up, but he's normally their 6th man. He's one of their better defensive guards, but that isn't saying much.

Coach: Glenn Gurrola, 51 years old. 256-305 career record. 3rd season at Elon.

Tremendous coach, especially defensively and is a strong scout as well. Was the coach at College of Charleston for 16 years, maintaining pretty solid records before leaving for an in-conference foe.

They've got a good coach and we're playing them at their place. We have a whole new front line starting this game though, with McLoughlin and Woodworth getting the nods. I'm hoping we can do well on the glass, but not having Ramage and Bass certainly hurts us there.

We're currently in 5th, but have the tie breaker with Wofford, so if we win, we might be able to snag the 4th seed. Worst case scenario, we lose and we're one of 3 9-7 teams, and we would lose the tiebreaker to both and be the 8 seed.

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1969 Southern Conference Standings

 TEAM                              CW  CL   Pct   W   L   Pct  RPI  Prestige
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 Valdosta State Blazers            12   3  .800  21   7  .750   91        34
 Chattanooga Mocs                  10   5  .667  19   9  .679  119        30
 Furman Paladins                   10   5  .667  20   9  .690  311        26
 Wofford Terriers                  10   6  .625  14  15  .483  327        37
 Appalachian State Mountaineers     9   6  .600  15  13  .536  337        10
 Elon Phoenix                       8   7  .533  16  12  .571  287        33
 Western Carolina Catamounts        8   7  .533  11  17  .393  299        20
 College of Charleston Cougars      7   8  .467  14  15  .483  243        26
 UNC Greensboro Spartans            6   9  .400   6  21  .222  381         8
 Davidson Wildcats                  6   9  .400  14  13  .519  274         9
 Samford Bulldogs                   5  10  .333   7  22  .241  395        23
 The Citadel Bulldogs               4  11  .267   6  21  .222  413        10
 Georgia Southern Eagles            3  12  .200   6  21  .222  402        15

Emmett14 · 04-05-2019, 01:25 AM

13:15 left, we trail 12-13. Serrano and Bartell have combined for 9 of our points. Ideally, we're only going to play 7 players in this game, with Sanders and Bracey the only bench players. Bass is at 77% and I'm not that keen on playing him.

Serrano and Bartell both pick up two fouls in rapid fashion, and it means Levi Gattis, the freshman walk on comes in. Over the course of the next 4 minutes, he hits a couple of threes, has a turnover, gets called for two fouls. With 7:14 left, we lead 22-20. Maybe I should have been playing Gattis all year.

Down the stretch, we trade the lead a few times, but Elon gets the last surge before halftime and they have the lead: Elon 42 - Appalachian State 36. All three starting perimeter players have 2 fouls a piece for us. Bracey actually hit a three, his first since I don't know when. Bartell leads us with 11 and is 5-8 from the field. Gattis hit one more three and is perfect in 3 attempts and has 9 points.

Not looking great with 11:39 left, we trail 40-50 Bartell has yet to score in the second half, but the real problem is that we're being killed on the glass 27-15. Besides McLoughlin, the rest of my team isn't much for rebounds.

6:09 left, media timeout and we're down 47-63 and it's about a wrap on this one. Still getting killed on the boards, and now we're having turnover problems to boot. Dungan has 11 points, 5 boards and 4 assists for Elon.

We cut it to single digits at the very end thanks to a Bartell steal and layup, so the final score looks somewhat competitive: Elon 66 - Appalachian State 58. We were outrebounded by 16 and had just 2 offensive rebounds the entire game. Woodworth, the replacement for Bass, has 1 rebounds in 30 minutes. Pretty rough stuff. Gattis did provide a boost, but he also was in the game when Hamilton was killing us. Still a fun freshman walk on to have. He's averaging 3.7 points in 4.7 minutes, which is good for a 24 point 30 minute average. He's still a minus on +/-, which says something about his defense.

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Elon 66, Appalachian State 58

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Appalachian State  (15-14, 9-7):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Chris McLoughlin  C    33   1-4   0-1   0   8   2  0   2
Matthew Woodworth PF   30   2-3   0-0   1   1   1  2   4
Kevin Nason       SF   33  5-11   0-0   0   2   1  2  14
Milford Bartell   SG   31  7-12   0-0   0   1   0  3  15
Michael Serrano   PG   26   4-8   1-2   0   1   3  3   9
Marion Bracey     SG   21   1-3   2-2   0   3   3  2   5
Joe Sanders       PF   17   0-3   0-0   1   4   1  2   0
Levi Gattis       SF    9   3-3   0-0   0   0   0  3   9

Turnovers: 9 (K.Nason 5, M.Bartell 1, M.Bracey 3)
Blocked Shots: 3 (M.Woodworth 3)
Steals: 2 (K.Nason 1, M.Bartell 1)
3P FGs: 9-19 (K.Nason 4-7, M.Bartell 1-4, M.Serrano 
 0-1, M.Bracey 1-3, J.Sanders 0-1, L.Gattis 3-3)

Elon  (17-12, 9-7):
Player            Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Mac Gold          C    33   2-8   0-0   1   7   1  2   4
Jonathan Williams PF   33  4-11   4-4   3   9   2  0  12
Hector Hamilton   SF   34  9-14   6-7   2   4   2  1  28
Arthur Brooks     SG   35   1-4   1-3   0   7   3  3   4
Anderson Dungan   PG   34   3-8   2-2   3   5   4  1  11
John Mason        SG   11   1-1   0-0   0   0   0  0   2
Jeffrey Thames    PF    9   1-2   1-2   2   3   0  1   3
Marco Fulford     C     4   0-1   0-0   1   1   0  1   0
E. McSweeney      SG    3   1-1   0-0   0   0   0  0   2
John Ross         SF    3   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  0   0
Joseph Hashimoto  PG    1   0-0   0-0   0   0   0  0   0

Turnovers: 8 (M.Gold 1, J.Williams 3, H.Hamilton 1, 
 A.Brooks 1, A.Dungan 1, E.McSweeney 1)
Blocked Shots: 0 
Steals: 6 (H.Hamilton 5, A.Brooks 1)
3P FGs: 8-19 (M.Gold 0-3, H.Hamilton 4-8, A.Brooks 1-3, 
 A.Dungan 3-5)

Player of Game: SF Hector Hamilton (ELON)

Emmett14 · 04-05-2019, 01:34 AM

March 6th, 1970 vs (10) Davidson Wildcats (15-14) [6-10]
1st Round of the 1970 Southern Conference Tournament

Previous meeting: Defeated them 78-70 at our place on February 21st.

We end up getting the 7 seed, not being able to pick up that 10th conference win killed us in the seeding due to tiebreakers. So, we end up drawing the 10th seeded Wildcats who are the last team we beat before our current 2 game losing streak.

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DAVIDSON WILDCATS TEAM INFO

Current Performance
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Team Prestige:         9   Record Vs 1-50:      0-1   Poll Rank:            NR   
Season Record:     15-14   Record Vs 51-100:    2-2   RPI Rank:           #263   
Conference Record:  6-10   Record Vs 101-200:   0-0 
Home Record:         9-5   Record Vs 200+:    13-11 


Team Stats         CR  NR  Opp. Stats         CR  NR  Margin             CR  NR  
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Points       73.8   6 206  Points       73.2   7 206  Points        0.6   7 194  
O.Reb         9.7   6 160  O.Reb         9.6   7 260  O.Reb         0.1   6 208  
D.Reb        28.2   5  92  D.Reb        25.1   1  59  D.Reb         3.1   1  21  
Rebounds     37.9   5  98  Rebounds     34.7   5 100  Rebounds      3.2   3  58  
Assists      14.8   3 166  Assists      14.7  10 259  Assists       0.1   6 190  
Steals        5.3   5 150  Steals        6.1  13 411  Steals       -0.8   9 311  
Blocks        1.0   9 310  Blocks        1.4  10 172  Blocks       -0.4  10 282  
Turnovers    12.0  11 351  Turnovers    10.3  10 308  Turnovers     1.8  11 369  
Fouls        16.4   2  38  Fouls        20.0   1  16  Fouls        -3.6   1   8  
FG%          .471   2  41  FG%          .438   4 115  FG%          .034   3  42  
FT%          .671  11 339  FT%          .690   5 155  FT%         -.019   9 299  
3P%          .308  10 373  3P%          .354   7 259  3P%         -.047  10 375  
PPS          1.29   4 100  PPS          1.18   3  39  PPS          .108   2  35  
Adj. FG%     .508   7 189  Adj. FG%     .500   4 163  Adj. FG%     .008   7 158

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DAVIDSON WILDCATS Averages

 Player              Pos  GP  GS   Min   Pts  Orb  Reb  Ast  Stl  Blk   To  Fls   +/-
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 Steve Garnett         C  29  29  29.2  12.1  1.8  7.6  1.5  0.5  0.3  1.6  2.7   0.9
 Heinrich Shafer       C  29   0  19.2   5.2  1.0  4.4  0.6  0.4  0.1  0.8  2.6   1.3
 Logan Jaffe           C   8   0   2.8   0.3  0.0  0.6  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  -0.4
 Tony Taylor          PF  29  29  32.1  13.9  3.0  7.8  2.4  0.4  0.1  1.9  2.4   0.8
 Ted Garrett          PF  28   0   7.2   1.7  0.5  1.3  0.2  0.3  0.1  0.4  0.6  -1.0
 Kenneth Ballew       SF  29  29  27.8   8.3  1.5  6.4  2.3  0.7  0.3  1.9  2.4  -2.4
 Benton Stephens      SF  24   0   3.6   1.5  0.3  0.9  0.3  0.0  0.0  0.1  0.3   0.8
 Sebastián Pardo      SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Douglas Long         SF   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Tony Sullivan        SG   2   0   1.0   0.0  0.0  0.5  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.5
 Boyce Evans          SG   0   0   0.0   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0   0.0
 Terry Thorne         SG  29  29  30.6  16.3  0.7  4.1  1.9  1.2  0.1  2.1  2.1   1.3
 Helmfrid Geis        PG  29  29  33.7   8.1  0.6  4.0  4.4  1.2  0.0  2.4  2.0   0.7
 Jefferson Jones      PG  27   0   3.5   0.9  0.1  0.4  0.4  0.1  0.0  0.1  0.4  -0.9
 Mckinley Gooding     PG  29   0  14.2   6.1  0.2  1.0  0.8  0.6  0.0  0.8  1.0   0.6

Thorne and Taylor are their studs, while Geis is a very interesting player to me. They've really got pretty good looking stats besides having some turnover problems and not very many three point shooters, so they are a stiff test for a first round matchup. If we win, we play the 2nd seeded Furman Paladins.

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1969 Southern Conference Standings

 TEAM                              CW  CL   Pct   W   L   Pct  RPI  Prestige
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 Valdosta State Blazers            13   3  .813  23   7  .767   63        34
 Furman Paladins                   11   5  .688  21   9  .700  277        26
 Chattanooga Mocs                  10   6  .625  20  10  .667   75        30
 Wofford Terriers                  10   6  .625  15  15  .500  278        37
 Elon Phoenix                       9   7  .563  18  12  .600  265        33
 Western Carolina Catamounts        9   7  .563  12  17  .414  287        20
 Appalachian State Mountaineers     9   7  .563  15  14  .517  328        10
 College of Charleston Cougars      8   8  .500  15  15  .500  246        26
 UNC Greensboro Spartans            6  10  .375   6  23  .207  389         8
 Davidson Wildcats                  6  10  .375  15  14  .517  263         9
 The Citadel Bulldogs               5  11  .313   7  22  .241  414        10
 Samford Bulldogs                   5  11  .313   7  23  .233  400        23
 Georgia Southern Eagles            3  13  .188   6  23  .207  412        15

04-04-2019, 02:38 AM	#65
Emmett14 Rookie OVR: 1 Join Date: Nov 2004	1969-1970 Game 26 Results With 16:47 left, Furman calls timeout and we lead 10-3. Serrano has a couple of baskets for 4 points and Bartell has 4 as well. We do have early foul trouble, we had 4 team fouls in the first 80 seconds. Bass has 2 and is sitting. 11:55 media timeout and we lead 22-15. Serrano has 11, and is 5-7 from the field and is getting a quick breather. Ramage picked up his 2nd foul as well, and McLoughlin is resting, so we currently have a Woodworth/Sanders front line. With 6:09 left, we've both gone cold and can't quit fouling, we now trail 26-29. Serrano is stuck on 11 points, and we have 12 team fouls. We have 5 players with 2 fouls currently, every starter but Serrano. Nason picks up his 3rd with 1:39 left and we trail 33-38. Serrano is up to 18, but nobody else is really hitting shots and Furman is continuing to get to the line. Both teams trade some buckets down the stretch to make the half time score: Furman 43 - Appalachian State 39. Serrano has 20 and Bartell 10. A balanced attack by Furman with several guys getting chances at the free throw line. Alfaro hits back to back threes and I call timeout with 19:17 left, because we're already down 39-49. Serrano gets a steal and passes it ahead to Nason who lets a three loose and nails it, forcing Furman to call timeout with 13:26 left, and we trail just 51-53. It's Serrano's 5th assist of the game and Nason now has 15 points out of the blue. They go on a 6-0 run, and Nason then picks up his 4th foul and will have sit with us trailing 51-59, with 11:23 left. 7:41 left and it's all went to hell, we trail 56-68. Both teams have gone a little cold, we've just gone colder. Chalfant has 15 and 10 for the Paladins. Bartell gets called for a charge with 3:41 left to signal the last media timeout of the game, and it's a killer because we cut the lead to 63-71 and a basket there would have made the game interesting. We do get slightly closer before the end of the game, but we could never get a stop when we needed too. Final score ends up being: Furman 77 - Appalachian State 70. Serrano ends up with 29, his season high (career high 34), and it's one of the first times all season he really looked like a star. Serrano, Bartell and Nason played alright, they just had almost zero help. 5 points out of Ramage on just 3 shots in his 24 minutes was a killer. Furman had a couple of nice runs over the course of the game and in the end that was enough. Code: Furman 77, Appalachian State 70 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appalachian State (14-12, 8-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Douglas Ramage C 24 1-3 3-4 1 7 0 3 5 Dave Bass PF 21 0-2 0-0 0 5 1 4 0 Kevin Nason SF 26 6-13 0-0 0 4 3 4 15 Milford Bartell SG 37 5-10 4-5 1 5 3 3 15 Michael Serrano PG 37 12-18 2-2 0 2 5 0 29 Chris McLoughlin C 21 0-5 0-0 1 6 1 3 0 Matthew Woodworth PF 10 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 4 Marion Bracey SF 19 1-2 0-0 0 1 2 0 2 Joe Sanders PF 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Turnovers: 12 (D.Bass 2, K.Nason 1, M.Bartell 3, M.Serrano 1, C.McLoughlin 2, M.Woodworth 1, M.Bracey 2) Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Woodworth 1) Steals: 4 (K.Nason 1, M.Serrano 2, C.McLoughlin 1) 3P FGs: 7-23 (D.Bass 0-2, K.Nason 3-8, M.Bartell 1-3, M.Serrano 3-7, C.McLoughlin 0-2, M.Bracey 0-1) Furman (19-8, 10-4): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Benjamin Thomas C 29 4-8 4-4 1 6 4 3 12 John Chalfant PF 34 6-11 3-4 3 11 3 1 15 Daniel Alfaro SF 31 7-17 3-6 2 4 2 2 20 Joseph Risley SG 33 3-10 2-2 5 9 3 1 9 Leroy Truman PG 28 1-4 0-0 0 7 2 2 2 Joseph Ireland C 19 3-7 1-2 0 2 1 1 8 Bruce Swaim SG 10 2-4 1-2 2 2 1 1 6 Maxwell Madson PF 9 1-1 1-1 1 1 1 0 3 Andrew Coombs SF 6 1-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 Arthur Russell SG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Turnovers: 8 (D.Alfaro 4, J.Risley 1, L.Truman 1, J.Ireland 1, B.Swaim 1) Blocked Shots: 2 (B.Thomas 2) Steals: 4 (J.Chalfant 1, J.Risley 1, J.Ireland 1, B.Swaim 1) 3P FGs: 6-24 (D.Alfaro 3-11, J.Risley 1-6, L.Truman 0-1, J.Ireland 1-3, B.Swaim 1-2, A.Coombs 0-1) Player of Game: PG Michael Serrano (APP)

04-04-2019, 03:49 AM	#67
Emmett14 Rookie OVR: 1 Join Date: Nov 2004	1969-1970 Game 27 Results Both teams are putting up a lot of bricks, and with 15:01 left we lead 7-6. Serrano has 5 points, including a three pointer. Nason picked up 2 quick fouls, which means we get 15 minutes of Bracey this half again. They go on a 10-0 run out of that media timeout, Bartell hits a 3 to put an end to it, so at the 11:44 mark we trail 10-17. It's Bartell's first basket of the game. With 6:42 left, we've pulled closer to 17-19. Bartell has 2 fouls now too, but with so little guard depth, I have to at least play one of them. Nason is the one for the moment. Last media timeout with 3:50 and we trail 27-29. Bartell has 6 points now after his second three pointer. Ramage is up to 8 with 4-5 from the field and he leads the team. At halftime the score is Davidson 37 - Appalachian State 32. The zone defense has not been strong inside, Garnett leads Davidson with 10 points and has caused us problems. Serrano has 10 to lead the charge for us. Davidson is 8-9 from the line, but has struggled from three, so I guess I'll stay in the zone for now. 15:35 left, and we've taken the lead 44-43. Nason's hit a couple of shots and so has Bass and we've been capitalizing on their turnovers, which they've had at least 4 already this half, for a total of 10 in the game. 10:55 left and we lead 56-46. Nason is up to 15, and he always seem to score in bursts. Ramage has gone for 12 and 6, and him being productive makes a major difference. Bartell just picked up his 4th foul, so he'll sit for a while. 7:20 left, we lead 64-52 and we're starting to slow the pace a little bit to milk some clock. Davidson continues to kill themselves with unforced turnovers. I call a timeout with 4:40 after a Davidson three pointer makes it 64-60. Garnett has been doing some damage after being dormant for a while and he has 19 points for the Wildcats. Serrano gets a steal and is fouled with 1:38 and it finally brings on the last media timeout and after it, he hits both free throws and that gives us the lead 72-64. Davidson hits some threes and we only hit some of our free throws and with 1:03 left, we lead 73-70. Davidson doesn't need to foul anymore, so we're just going to take our time with the ball, and right before the shot clock is going to go off, Serrano puts up a three off a Bartell pass and nails it and it gives him 26 points, 14 of which have come in the last 4 minutes. That's the clincher and when the time runs out it the score is Appalachian State 78 - Davidson 70 Serrano goes nuts from three, 4-12. That's probably a few too many threes for him to shoot. Ramage with a very efficient game, and Nason was strong and a nice run or two. Bracey continues to be very unproductive when he plays. I'm glad we held on to that one, as that would have been disastrous for our chances at a bye in the conference tournament. Code: Appalachian State 78, Davidson 70 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Davidson (14-12, 6-8): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Steve Garnett C 34 8-15 3-7 2 6 1 4 19 Tony Taylor PF 36 4-10 2-3 2 6 7 2 10 Kenneth Ballew SF 30 2-3 2-3 2 8 3 1 6 Terry Thorne SG 22 4-13 5-6 0 1 2 4 14 Helmfrid Geis PG 36 4-7 0-0 1 8 6 2 11 Heinrich Shafer PF 22 1-2 0-0 0 7 2 3 2 Mckinley Gooding SG 20 3-4 0-0 0 0 1 1 8 Jefferson Jones PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 16 (S.Garnett 2, T.Taylor 2, K.Ballew 1, T.Thorne 1, H.Geis 7, H.Shafer 1, M.Gooding 1, J.Jones 1) Blocked Shots: 0 Steals: 4 (T.Taylor 1, H.Geis 2, H.Shafer 1) 3P FGs: 6-17 (T.Taylor 0-1, K.Ballew 0-1, T.Thorne 1-6, H.Geis 3-6, M.Gooding 2-3) Appalachian State (15-12, 9-5): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Douglas Ramage C 30 6-8 0-2 2 8 1 2 12 Dave Bass PF 31 3-5 0-1 1 5 1 3 8 Kevin Nason SF 31 5-11 3-3 0 5 1 2 15 Milford Bartell SG 29 3-6 2-2 0 2 2 4 11 Michael Serrano PG 35 9-22 4-6 1 6 3 2 26 Chris McLoughlin C 14 1-2 0-0 0 3 0 3 3 Matthew Woodworth PF 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Marion Bracey SG 23 1-6 1-1 2 4 2 1 3 Joe Sanders PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 10 (D.Ramage 1, K.Nason 2, M.Bartell 1, M.Serrano 2, M.Woodworth 1, M.Bracey 3) Blocked Shots: 1 (M.Woodworth 1) Steals: 9 (D.Ramage 3, D.Bass 1, M.Bartell 3, M.Serrano 2) 3P FGs: 12-30 (D.Bass 2-2, K.Nason 2-6, M.Bartell 3-3, M.Serrano 4-12, C.McLoughlin 1-2, M.Bracey 0-5) Player of Game: PG Michael Serrano (APP)

04-04-2019, 10:05 PM	#69
Emmett14 Rookie OVR: 1 Join Date: Nov 2004	1969-1970 Game 28 Results With 12:02, Bass goes down with an injury and won't be able to return. We trail 13-14. Ramage has 7 and Serrano 6, and they have the entirety of our scoring output so far. Bartell misses both free throws, and I'm nearly positive that it is the first time he's done that. That's with 8:01 and we're down 16-18. We've yet to hit a three, and just not getting help outside of Serrano and Ramage. 3:25 and we trail 21-25. Bartell misses his next free throw as well, the front end of a 1-and-1 making it 3 in a row. He was 100-114 for the season coming into the game. Serrano bricks a three point attempt at half, but I can live with it because the score is Appalachian State 27 - Western Carolina 27. We're 5-12 from the line, which hurts. Serrano and Ramage have combined for 18 of our 27. I'm really starting to resent Bracey's total lack of production. 9 minutes with 1 rebound and no shot attempts. We just have so few options, I guess I could play Gattis and see if he'll score a bucket or two. But, a defensive rating of 5 is pretty hard to trot out there. Fast forwarding to 10:24 left, we trail 35-46. Things are getting out of hand quick as we've been ice cold from the start of the second half, and WCU has finally strung together a couple of shots. Macaluso has 16 off the bench for WCU. WCU can't miss, we've finally starting hitting some shots but Macaluso and Tamayo are drilling three pointers left and right. three of them for Macaluso in the last 3 minutes alone. With 6:38 left we trail 45-62. This game is only getting worse. Ramage goes down with an injury with 1:33 left and we're trailing 61-75. Now he and Bass have injuries, and our entire front line could be out for who knows how long. Serrano is the star of this game, he's up to 24 points on 10-19 shooting. Nason's just 2-7 from the field and has been a non factor. The final score ends up being a pretty big whooping, especially considering it was tied at halftime. Besides Serrano and Ramage for the first 10 minutes, we were pretty pedestrian offensively, and we were not hitting threes and WCU was, especially in the second half and especially Macaluso. Final score: Western Carolina 77 - Appalachian State 63. But, the real big news as far as the rest of the season goes, is the injury status of Bass and Ramage: Bass's is just a bad stinger, and he'll be available in our next game, but limited. Ramage's is a 2 week injury, which means he's out for the conference tournament and unless we make a postseason tournament, probably done for the season. Rough luck. Code: Western Carolina 77, Appalachian State 63 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Carolina (11-17, 8-7): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Jackie Hawkins C 26 1-7 3-4 0 5 1 4 5 Jack Cantara PF 35 4-8 0-0 3 6 2 2 8 Dexter Sasser SF 30 3-8 2-2 2 8 1 1 8 David Tamayo SG 26 3-6 2-4 1 4 2 1 11 Omer Stevens PG 30 3-6 0-1 2 4 4 3 7 Thomas Macaluso SG 25 10-17 2-2 1 1 3 2 30 Jeffery Digiacomo PG 7 0-3 2-2 0 0 2 2 2 Eugene Alston C 17 2-3 1-1 1 5 1 2 5 Joseph Griffis SF 1 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 0 1 Augustine Bowens C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 5 (J.Hawkins 1, J.Cantara 2, D.Tamayo 1, T.Macaluso 1) Blocked Shots: 0 Steals: 1 (E.Alston 1) 3P FGs: 12-31 (J.Hawkins 0-4, J.Cantara 0-2, D.Tamayo 3-6, O.Stevens 1-1, T.Macaluso 8-15, J.Digiacomo 0-3) Appalachian State (15-13, 9-6): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Douglas Ramage PF 29 4-5 3-4 2 6 1 3 11 Dave Bass PF 8 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 Kevin Nason SF 34 2-8 0-0 2 4 4 2 6 Milford Bartell SG 35 4-7 2-5 0 3 2 3 11 Michael Serrano PG 36 11-20 3-4 0 4 0 4 26 Chris McLoughlin C 26 1-4 1-2 1 8 2 2 3 Matthew Woodworth PF 9 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 3 0 Marion Bracey SG 16 1-3 0-0 1 2 0 0 2 Joe Sanders PF 8 1-2 2-3 0 2 0 0 4 Turnovers: 7 (D.Ramage 3, K.Nason 1, M.Serrano 1, C.McLoughlin 1, M.Bracey 1) Blocked Shots: 2 (D.Ramage 1, K.Nason 1) Steals: 1 (M.Bartell 1) 3P FGs: 4-17 (K.Nason 2-6, M.Bartell 1-2, M.Serrano 1-5, C.McLoughlin 0-2, M.Bracey 0-2) Player of Game: SG Thomas Macaluso (WCU)

04-05-2019, 01:25 AM	#71
Emmett14 Rookie OVR: 1 Join Date: Nov 2004	1969-1970 Game 29 Results 13:15 left, we trail 12-13. Serrano and Bartell have combined for 9 of our points. Ideally, we're only going to play 7 players in this game, with Sanders and Bracey the only bench players. Bass is at 77% and I'm not that keen on playing him. Serrano and Bartell both pick up two fouls in rapid fashion, and it means Levi Gattis, the freshman walk on comes in. Over the course of the next 4 minutes, he hits a couple of threes, has a turnover, gets called for two fouls. With 7:14 left, we lead 22-20. Maybe I should have been playing Gattis all year. Down the stretch, we trade the lead a few times, but Elon gets the last surge before halftime and they have the lead: Elon 42 - Appalachian State 36. All three starting perimeter players have 2 fouls a piece for us. Bracey actually hit a three, his first since I don't know when. Bartell leads us with 11 and is 5-8 from the field. Gattis hit one more three and is perfect in 3 attempts and has 9 points. Not looking great with 11:39 left, we trail 40-50 Bartell has yet to score in the second half, but the real problem is that we're being killed on the glass 27-15. Besides McLoughlin, the rest of my team isn't much for rebounds. 6:09 left, media timeout and we're down 47-63 and it's about a wrap on this one. Still getting killed on the boards, and now we're having turnover problems to boot. Dungan has 11 points, 5 boards and 4 assists for Elon. We cut it to single digits at the very end thanks to a Bartell steal and layup, so the final score looks somewhat competitive: Elon 66 - Appalachian State 58. We were outrebounded by 16 and had just 2 offensive rebounds the entire game. Woodworth, the replacement for Bass, has 1 rebounds in 30 minutes. Pretty rough stuff. Gattis did provide a boost, but he also was in the game when Hamilton was killing us. Still a fun freshman walk on to have. He's averaging 3.7 points in 4.7 minutes, which is good for a 24 point 30 minute average. He's still a minus on +/-, which says something about his defense. Code: Elon 66, Appalachian State 58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appalachian State (15-14, 9-7): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Chris McLoughlin C 33 1-4 0-1 0 8 2 0 2 Matthew Woodworth PF 30 2-3 0-0 1 1 1 2 4 Kevin Nason SF 33 5-11 0-0 0 2 1 2 14 Milford Bartell SG 31 7-12 0-0 0 1 0 3 15 Michael Serrano PG 26 4-8 1-2 0 1 3 3 9 Marion Bracey SG 21 1-3 2-2 0 3 3 2 5 Joe Sanders PF 17 0-3 0-0 1 4 1 2 0 Levi Gattis SF 9 3-3 0-0 0 0 0 3 9 Turnovers: 9 (K.Nason 5, M.Bartell 1, M.Bracey 3) Blocked Shots: 3 (M.Woodworth 3) Steals: 2 (K.Nason 1, M.Bartell 1) 3P FGs: 9-19 (K.Nason 4-7, M.Bartell 1-4, M.Serrano 0-1, M.Bracey 1-3, J.Sanders 0-1, L.Gattis 3-3) Elon (17-12, 9-7): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Mac Gold C 33 2-8 0-0 1 7 1 2 4 Jonathan Williams PF 33 4-11 4-4 3 9 2 0 12 Hector Hamilton SF 34 9-14 6-7 2 4 2 1 28 Arthur Brooks SG 35 1-4 1-3 0 7 3 3 4 Anderson Dungan PG 34 3-8 2-2 3 5 4 1 11 John Mason SG 11 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 Jeffrey Thames PF 9 1-2 1-2 2 3 0 1 3 Marco Fulford C 4 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 1 0 E. McSweeney SG 3 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 John Ross SF 3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Joseph Hashimoto PG 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 8 (M.Gold 1, J.Williams 3, H.Hamilton 1, A.Brooks 1, A.Dungan 1, E.McSweeney 1) Blocked Shots: 0 Steals: 6 (H.Hamilton 5, A.Brooks 1) 3P FGs: 8-19 (M.Gold 0-3, H.Hamilton 4-8, A.Brooks 1-3, A.Dungan 3-5) Player of Game: SF Hector Hamilton (ELON)

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