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NCAA Tournament 2nd Round

East
#1 North Carolina 97 #9 Syracuse 80
#4 Connecticut 75 #5 Colorado 67
#6 Marquette 93 #3 Western Kentucky 66
#2 North Carolina State 99 #10 Utah 83

West
#1 Louisville 86 #9 Florida 78
#5 Stanford 87 #4 Kansas 78
#3 UNLV 81 #6 Southern Mississippi 65
#10 Buffalo 90 #2 Michigan State 82

South
#1 Providence 82 #8 UCLA 76
#13 Oregon 78 #5 Charlotte 68
#3 Kentucky 91 #6 Southern California 75
#2 Duke 96 #7 Clemson 84

Midwest
#1 Memphis 99 #8 Penn State 84
#5 Pittsburgh 64 #4 Texas Tech 52
#6 Florida State 82 #3 Georgia Tech 64
#10 Alabama 81 #2 Illinois 79

NIT
1st Round
St. Joseph's 73 Virginia Military 47
Kansas State 77 Boston College 67
IUPUI 82 Iowa 57
California 81 Lamar 78

Fordham 78 NJIT 63
Michigan 61 Nebraska 49
Georgia 95 Gonzaga 91 (OT)
Montana 76 Tulsa 57

Houston 95 Southern 43
St. Mary's 69 Oregon State 66
Louisiana Tech 69 Youngstown State 60
Georgia State 73 Kent State 59

Texas A&M 61 Samford 53
Rutgers 54 Hofstra 49
Xavier 72 Cal Fullerton 65
Holy Cross 78 Davidson 74

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NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16

#1 North Carolina 92 #4 Connecticut 60
#6 Marquette 82 #2 North Carolina State 81

#5 Stanford 75 #1 Louisville 74
#3 UNLV 86 #10 Buffalo 52

#1 Providence 94 #10 Oregon 87
#2 Duke 80 #3 Kentucky 79

#1 Memphis 84 #5 Pittsburgh 58
#6 Florida State 91 #10 Alabama 71

NIT
2nd Round
Kansas State 61 St. Joseph's 60
California 69 IUPUI 60

Michigan 75 Fordham 57
Georgia 83 Montana 65

Houston 73 St. Mary's 71
Georgia State 72 Louisiana Tech 62

Texas A&M 75 Rutgers 46
Xavier 70 Holy Cross 45

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NCAA Tournament
Elite 8

#1 North Carolina 127 #6 Marquette 117 (2OT)

#3 UNLV 82 #5 Stanford 73

#2 Duke 72 #1 Providence 71

#1 Memphis 92 #6 Florida State 89

NIT Quarterfinals
California 75 Kansas State 72

Michigan 97 Georgia 42

Georgia State 96 Houston 77

Xavier 74 Texas A&M 71

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NCAA Tournament
Final Four
#1 North Carolina 87 #3 UNLV 75

#2 Duke 95 #1 Memphis 75

NIT
Final Four
Michigan 82 California 76

Xavier 94 Georgia State 64

Final
Xavier 73 Michigan 54

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Duke Blue Devils at North Carolina Tar Heels
Apr 8, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#1 Duke (27-9)	56	41	97
#1 North Carolina (34-5)	43	41	84

Duke Blue Devils
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Bonfim	29	7-11	2-3	2-5	2	6	2	0	2	18
Nahra	14	1-3	0-0	1-2	0	2	1	0	2	3
Joiner	27	5-8	1-4	4-4	8	5	0	1	0	15
Moye	26	5-6	2-4	5-6	4	0	1	1	1	17
Surov	23	4-7	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	3	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
McCrommon	22	1-4	0-1	0-1	5	1	0	1	3	2
Garnett	13	1-2	0-1	5-6	2	2	0	0	0	7
Hackstadt	17	1-3	1-2	3-6	2	4	1	0	0	6
Freeman	12	3-3	2-2	3-4	1	1	1	1	0	11
Ballard	3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pait	7	2-5	1-2	1-2	0	1	0	0	0	6
Huertas	7	1-2	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	0	4
TEAM TOTALS		31-58	9-20	26-38	31	22	6	7	9	97
TEAM TOTALS		31-58	9-20	26-38	31	22	6	7	9	97

North Carolina Tar Heels
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Gatling	36	5-10	0-2	6-8	5	6	1	0	0	16
Fitzgerald	17	3-4	1-1	2-2	2	2	1	0	0	9
Turner	18	0-3	0-1	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Urbina	37	10-15	1-2	3-5	12	3	1	1	4	24
West	34	4-22	0-3	8-12	4	4	2	1	3	16
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Mohammed	21	2-5	0-2	0-0	1	2	1	0	1	4
Miiage	17	2-4	1-3	2-2	7	2	0	1	0	7
Bruff	10	1-1	1-1	2-2	2	0	0	0	0	5
Strawberry	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stevenson	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Vanttaja	2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Paul	1	1-1	0-0	1-1	0	0	0	0	0	3
TEAM TOTALS		28-66	4-15	24-32	35	20	6	3	10	84

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Player of the Year: Ty Page (Charlotte)
Mid-Major Player of the Year: Jean Deleon (Alabama State)
Coach of the Year: Roy Williams (North Carolina)
Defensive Player of the Year: Fab West (North Carolina)
Big Man of the Year: Ty Page (Charlotte)
FR of the Year: Corbin Suotamo (Western Kentucky)

1st Team All-America
PG Ronald Fitzgerald (Tennessee)
SG Jeremy Soroye (Kentucky)
SF Bradley Cummings (Texas A&M)
PF Fab West (North Carolina)
C Ty Page (Charlotte)

2nd Team All-America
PG Ellis Chapman (UNLV)
SG Jeromy Galloway (Southern Mississippi)
SF Byron Ricks (Florida State)
PF Galen Echols (Pepperdine)
C Eddie Badu (Washington)

FR All-America
PG J.P. O'Brien (Oklahoma State)
SG Rodney Bolton (Florida State)
SF Cody Crumbley (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
PF Demetrius Bradford (Illinois)
C Corbin Suotamo (Western Kentucky)

Sun Belt
Coach of the Year-Dave Tovarich (Western Kentucky)
Player of the Year-Rodrick Burleson (South Alabama)
FR of the Year-Corbin Suotamo (Western Kentucky)

1st Team All-Sun Belt
PG Alan Gamble (Florida International)
SG Brendan Thomas (Little Rock)
SF Stevie Tamayo (Western Kentucky)
PF Otis Bazin (Little Rock)
C Rodrick Burleson (South Alabama)

2nd Team All-Sun Belt
PG Gerard Villanueva (New Orleans)
SG Tom Daniel (North Texas)
SF Wade N'diaye (Arkansas State)
PF J.P. Franklin (Louisiana Monroe)
C Corbin Suotamo (Western Kentucky)

FR All-Sun Belt
PG Marqus Crandle (North Texas)
SG Clayton Ross (Florida Atlantic)
SF Angel Darby (Arkansas State)
PF Elijah Tukker (Arkansas State)
C Corbin Suotamo (Western Kentucky)

Notable coaching changes
Tom Penders retired from Houston
Jerry Wainwright retired from DePaul

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Stats - 2012-13
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Tamayo	35	647	17.6	1.9	1.1	1.7	0.1	0.4	0.7
Suotamo	35	623	12.4	7.5	1.8	1.1	0.6	0.5	1.0
Riley	35	649	9.6	4.6	1.9	1.6	0.2	0.4	0.9
Stivers	35	656	9.2	0.9	2.2	1.7	0.0	0.3	0.7
Li	35	278	6.1	0.8	0.4	0.7	0.0	0.2	0.2
Petrauskas	35	329	6.1	3.5	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.8
Lewis	35	291	5.0	0.7	1.1	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.3
Pawlak	35	275	4.5	2.7	0.7	0.9	0.0	0.3	0.5
Galbreath	35	648	4.1	0.9	5.2	1.7	0.0	0.8	1.1
Jack	18	87	3.8	1.4	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.2
Blankenship	18	83	2.8	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.3
Capel	35	328	2.0	0.5	3.0	0.8	0.0	0.5	0.4

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Coach Tovarich will return to Western Kentucky

Signees-13th Ranked Class
Sid Jordan 5* #8 SG #16 OVR
DeMarcus Flores #9 SF #47 OVR
Jeffery Merriex 4* #9 PF #72 OVR

Tovarich: Press conference time. Let me avoid all the questions I can here: I have put together the following schedule, not that it matters because no matter how many good teams I schedule, none of them play like they do in the tournament but we'll throw the young team into the fire and see what they can do. I realize we may head into that conference opener 3-8 before we destroy Denver, who didn't fire their clown coach, but I still expect to do well in the Sun Belt.

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 2009-10 Schedule
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Nov 1	vs Eastern Kentucky
Nov 6	at North Carolina
Nov 11	at Pre-Season NIT
Nov 16	vs Texas Tech
Nov 19	at Notre Dame
Nov 20	at Legends Classic
Nov 27	at Marquette
Dec 3	vs Michigan
Dec 12	at Kentucky
Dec 19	at Denver
Dec 23	vs Georgetown
Dec 28	at Troy
Jan 1	vs Louisiana Monroe
Jan 4	at Louisiana Lafayette
Jan 8	at Florida International
Jan 11	vs New Orleans
Jan 15	at Arkansas State
Jan 18	vs Arkansas-Little Rock
Jan 22	vs South Alabama
Jan 26	at North Texas
Jan 29	vs Middle Tennessee
Feb 5	at Florida Atlantic
Feb 8	vs Denver
Feb 15	at Louisiana Monroe
Feb 19	vs Louisiana Lafayette
Feb 22	vs Florida International
Feb 26	at New Orleans
Mar 1	vs Arkansas State

I have released walkons Liam Hess and Casey Queen. They were never going to see the court here. The remaining roster:

2013-2014 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
#	NAME	POS	HT	WT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
1	Keon Camper	SG	6'3"	205	RS FR	Louisville, KY
2	Marion Lewis	SG	6'5"	213	JR	Cupertino, CA
5	Sid Jordan	SG	6'4"	179	FR	New York, NY
10	DeMarcus Flores	SF	6'5"	210	FR	Lorain, OH
12	Marlon Capel	PG	6'1"	188	RS JR	Tucson, AZ
22	Dennard Galbreath	PG	6'1"	191	JR	San Bernadino, CA
24	Najeeb Blankenship (W)	SF	6'9"	256	RS JR	Cincinnati, OH
34	Leroy Li	SF	6'5"	246	JR	Modesto, CA
41	B.B. Shehan	C	7'2"	257	RS JR	New York, NY
43	Jarrid Jack	PF	6'7"	214	RS SO	San Diego, CA
51	Darrall Pawlak	PF	6'8"	222	SO	San Diego, CA
52	Corbin Suotamo	C	6'10"	262	SO	Aurora, IL
53	Jeffery Merriex	PF	6'10"	207	FR	Brooklyn, NY
55	Donatas Zoellner (W)	C	7'0"	264	RS JR	Germany

Tovarich: The depth chart is going to fluxuate. There's a lot of very evenly fought battles here and we'll see who is better at what and what situations fit them better:

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Depth Chart - 2013-14
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
PG	Galbreath	Capel
SG	Lewis	Jordan	Camper
SF	Li	Flores (RS)	Blankenship (W)
PF	Pawlak	Jack	Merriex (RS)
C	Suotamo	Shehan	Zoellner (W)

Tovarich: I have a scholarship available despite having no seniors. I think I may have cut a recruit somewhere last year. Who remembers? Not me. The one scholarship will be to get the best PG we can find to replace Galbreath the following year. I kept recruiting assistant. There was no better recruiting assistant available. I replaced tape guy with Winston-Salem State coach, so he is the new tape guy. Yes, I turned down DePaul, which was the only power job available.

Sun Belt Ratings:
Western Kentucky 88
Louisiana Lafayette, Arkansas State 84
Florida International, South Alabama 80
North Texas 79
Middle Tennessee 78
Florida Atlantic 77
Troy 76
Louisiana Monroe 75
Denver 72
Arkansas-Little Rock 71
New Orleans 69

Pre-Season Top 25

NCAA Hoops Rankings - AP Top 25 - Updated: Nov 1, 2013
RK	TEAM (VOTES)	RECORD
1	Connecticut
2	Georgia Tech
3	UCLA
4	Texas
5	California
6	Pittsburgh
7	Louisville
8	Syracuse
9	Southern California
10	North Carolina State
11	West Virginia
12	Memphis
13	Duke
14	Florida
15	North Carolina
16	Stanford
17	Kentucky
18	Florida State
19	Virginia
20	Washington
21	Tennessee
22	Michigan State
23	Xavier
24	Arizona
25	Arizona State

Tovarich: Did I cover everything? I think so. No questions?

(everyone raises their hand)

Tovarich: No questions. Tremendous. See you all after the Eastern Kentucky game.

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Bowling Green, KY

Eastern Kentucky Colonels at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Nov 1, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Eastern Kentucky (0-1)	24	24	48
Western Kentucky (1-0)	42	40	82

Eastern Kentucky Colonels
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Cuic	22	5-16	2-12	2-2	2	3	1	0	3	14
Swanson	19	5-11	1-5	0-0	3	2	1	0	1	11
Gaines	22	3-14	0-5	0-0	5	1	1	0	3	6
Bing	22	0-2	0-2	0-0	4	1	1	1	2	0
Luber	21	5-8	0-0	3-6	15	1	0	4	1	13
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Quinn	12	1-2	0-0	2-2	3	0	0	1	1	4
Wofford	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Messy	13	0-7	0-6	0-0	0	4	1	0	0	0
Goodson	7	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0
Parks	2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Boeckmann	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Nahra	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		19-62	3-30	7-10	33	14	5	6	13	48
TEAM TOTALS		19-62	3-30	7-10	33	14	5	6	13	48

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	13	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	1	0	3	2
Lewis	13	2-9	1-5	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	5
Li	12	1-6	1-4	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	3
Pawlak	12	3-5	1-2	0-0	5	1	2	0	0	7
Suotamo	12	5-9	0-0	0-2	7	2	0	0	0	10
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	11	3-8	0-0	1-3	10	2	1	0	2	7
Jack	14	6-9	1-3	0-0	8	2	2	0	0	13
Jordan	13	6-8	2-4	1-1	2	1	1	0	0	15
Capel	15	1-3	0-0	4-4	1	4	2	0	1	6
Camper	12	4-7	2-5	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	10
Blankenship	8	0-3	0-3	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Zoellner	5	2-4	0-0	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	4
TEAM TOTALS		34-72	8-26	6-10	43	16	12	0	6	82

Tovarich: 1-0, as we should be.

Reporter: You don't seem excited coach.

Tovarich: Lot to work on.

Reporter: Would you like to elaborate on that?

Tovarich: Happily. The so-called starters got outscored 55-27 by the bench. We let some average center playing at Eastern Kentucky, the obvious lesser half of this state, get 15 rebounds and block us 5 times. We should be dominating down low against them, and we didn't. I know I don't have a Tamayo kinda 3-point shooter anymore, but I was hoping it would go better than that. Everyone was kinda disappointing. I scheduled this cupcake school so I could get to see some of the new people and what they can do and I ended up relying on the new people to put the game away when the starters failed to. I know we ended up with 43 rebounds, which is a high for my career but they missed 27 3's so we should have statistically outrebounded them, but it didn't feel that way because of their center. The big guys are still soft. We cover up a lot of this stuff with 3-point shooting, but nothing about today's 3-point shooting encouraged me.

Reporter: Can that all be chalked up to team unity coach?

Tovarich: Sure, why not. Even though we're starting 3 JR's and 2 SO's, you'd think it would be higher than it is.

Reporter: You said the depth chart would be fluid. Will you start some different people next game?

Tovarich: Maybe. Lots of very evenly skilled players on this roster. It's a bit easier to have a gap between the A team and the B team, and it's quite blurred with this team. We'll mix and match and see what works. I guess it's best we started with an easy opponent, because I don't think that would have gone well against a real team, which we now play a lot of.

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Chapel Hill, NC

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at North Carolina Tar Heels
Nov 6, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Western Kentucky (2-0)	46	33	79
#15 North Carolina (0-1)	40	29	69

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	19	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	2	2	0	1	3
Lewis	19	5-7	1-3	4-4	1	1	6	0	0	15
Li	19	4-11	2-7	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	10
Pawlak	17	7-13	1-2	2-5	1	2	2	1	0	17
Suotamo	19	0-4	0-0	1-2	8	3	2	0	1	1
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	9	5-7	0-0	3-4	9	0	0	1	0	13
Jack	11	4-7	0-0	1-3	1	1	1	0	1	9
Jordan	9	2-3	2-3	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Capel	9	0-1	0-0	3-4	1	1	2	0	2	3
Camper	9	1-4	0-1	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	2
Blankenship	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Zoellner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		29-58	7-17	14-22	22	12	17	2	6	79

North Carolina Tar Heels
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Millage	24	9-14	4-7	0-0	0	8	0	0	7	22
Bouma	18	7-14	1-4	0-0	1	3	1	1	1	15
Bruff	22	3-6	1-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	2	7
Zaharias	24	1-2	0-0	0-0	14	2	0	2	2	2
Stevenson	17	3-5	0-1	0-0	6	1	0	0	0	6
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Whitaker	14	3-5	0-2	2-2	0	3	0	0	2	8
Strawberry	6	3-5	3-4	0-0	1	0	1	0	2	9
Brady	14	0-1	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	1	2	0
Joiner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Greenleaf	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Paul	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Vanttaja	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		29-52	9-20	2-2	28	19	4	4	18	69

Tovarich: Well, didn't really expect to win that, especially how we started. Their press caused us problems early, and Riley isn't here to break it so easily for us. Pawlak doesn't have his speed. Jack was rough trying to drive it in. Suotamo wasn't allowed to make a shot. Luckily Shehan did, and we started getting some fouls on the drives eventually. I'm sure Roy is upset with the FT disparity, though probably 9 of those were at the end when they were intentionally fouling. Luckily they were sloppy with the ball. Shocking for having a SR PG who could score at will. The ideal offense for them was obviously for him to just not pass.

Reporter: They say teams who press don't like to be pressed back. Did you feel that was the case today?

Tovarich: It seems like a bad strategy for a team who only wants to use 8 players. There's a reason we never pressed my first season @ Eastern Shore unless we were desperate. It gets everyone tired and you risk getting in foul trouble. Even when we weren't pressing, their main offensive philosophy was just to rush everything and play as fast as possible and it lead to a lot of turnovers on their part, also a bad strategy for a team that apparently doesn't trust the end of the bench. They start 2 FR, and they were some of the turnovers. I don't think we got that many from pressing.

Reporter: Have you ever seen such a long period of basketball with no stoppages?

Tovarich: That must have been like 7 minutes. We were slowing it down a little because we had enough of a lead that I felt comfortable killing some time, but everyone on the floor was exhausted there at the end. I had to leave the B team in for the final 1:46 because the starters were all huffing and puffing there.

Reporter: Did you rebound better than you expected?

Tovarich: Probably, only -6 is good by our standards. If this were the tournament though, we'd have been -26.

Reporter: Do you expect to be ranked now?

Tovarich: I don't know. That's not really important.

Reporter: Are you disappointed in the Pre-season NIT field?

Tovarich: Very. Not a single ranked team. I didn't sign up to play Butler and Brown and then some mediocre unranked power schools like Washington State or Seton Hall.

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Pre-Season NIT 1st Round
Value City Arena
Columbus, OH

Butler Bulldogs at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Nov 11, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Butler (1-1)	29	32	61
Western Kentucky (3-0)	33	38	71

Butler Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Robinson	17	3-7	1-3	0-1	2	3	1	0	1	7
Harrison	24	5-8	4-6	0-0	2	2	1	0	1	14
Wilmont	20	7-14	1-5	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	15
Galbreath	20	4-10	1-5	0-1	10	1	2	0	2	6
Babcock	24	4-9	0-1	0-0	7	0	0	3	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Carroto	10	1-3	0-1	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	2
Gordon	7	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	4
Minoff	12	1-9	0-5	0-0	2	4	1	0	0	2
Frederick	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Webster	2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McKenzie	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Franklin	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-63	7-26	0-2	30	15	6	3	5	61
TEAM TOTALS		27-63	7-26	0-2	30	15	6	3	5	61

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	21	1-2	1-1	2-2	0	6	1	0	3	5
Lewis	21	0-7	0-5	2-2	3	4	0	0	0	2
Li	21	8-17	6-12	0-0	5	0	0	0	1	22
Pawlak	20	6-7	2-3	0-0	7	3	0	0	0	14
Suotamo	18	4-7	0-0	0-0	11	2	0	0	2	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	10	3-4	0-0	0-2	7	1	0	0	0	6
Jack	8	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Jordan	7	1-5	1-3	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	3
Capel	7	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	3	0	0	0	0
Camper	7	3-8	3-6	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	9
Blankenship	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Zoellner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-61	13-30	4-6	39	21	3	0	6	71

Tovarich: Basketball is such an easy sport when you get rebounds. It's not a concept I'm very familiar with, but having an opponent shoot maybe a little below average and not having to worry about constant putbacks is nice. It makes you feel like you don't need to be hyper aggressive going for steals because you know they'll shoot 65% and outrebound you by 25.

Reporter: How long will Suotamo be out?

Tovarich: If my team's medical doctor is more competent than my assistants, I am told 6 days he'll be feeling the effects, but he can probably go. We may not need much from him against Brown, so we'll have him keep it light in that game if things go as they should.

Reporter: You could play 5 games in 5 days next week if you beat Brown.

Tovarich: Yeah, it would be nice to know exactly when the semifinals of this pre-season NIT thing were, so I'd know not to schedule anything around that but now I know that for the future.

Reporter: Do you worry your team will be tired?

Tovarich: Not at all. These young kids can play 5 games in 5 days like it's nothing. They won't start the game tired from the day before, or 4 days before. You can be in Hawaii one night and Maine the next and they're great. What a world we live in eh?

Reporter: You hoped Lewis could make 3's like Tamayo used to. How'd you assess his rough start?

Tovarich: 2/13 is not great, but Li hit a lot of 3's tonight, so I just need it work for one of them. The B team is overperforming on 3's so far from what you would expect, so it's all pretty random and we'll plug in people, but there's no one on this team who gets to keep shooting 3's when they're 0-9 like Tamayo would have. There's not much of a difference between starter and coming off the bench with the depth on this team, so I'll pull the plug in a close game on someone shooting that badly.

Reporter: What kind of experimenting will you try against Brown then?

Tovarich: We respect all our opponents equally. (wink)

Suotamo and Shehan out together was the next experiment, but we can't do that now, so I'm not sure what else we'll try. Zoellner will have to fill in with some minutes the next two games, which may be an issue with Texas Tech, but I don't expect it to be tomorrow. Now because I said that, Brown will probably outrebound us and make it close.

[Tovarich]

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Pre-season NIT Quarterfinal
Value City Arena
Columbus, OH

Brown Bears at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Nov 12, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Brown (1-2)	31	22	53
Western Kentucky (4-0)	36	49	85

Brown Bears
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Assel	22	5-14	3-7	0-0	0	6	1	0	4	13
Caskill	21	2-6	0-3	1-1	1	0	1	1	3	5
Cuffle	22	5-17	1-6	2-2	1	2	0	0	0	13
Castro	22	3-4	0-0	1-3	7	1	0	0	1	7
Banks	22	1-4	1-1	1-2	7	4	0	2	1	4
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Cobb	9	2-3	0-1	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	5
Amerson	8	0-2	0-1	0-0	3	1	1	0	1	0
McClinton	8	1-1	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	0	4
Nubine	4	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Hill	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Diogu	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Larmond	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		20-54	5-21	8-12	24	15	3	3	11	53
TEAM TOTALS		20-54	5-21	8-12	24	15	3	3	11	53

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	14	2-4	0-1	0-0	1	4	2	0	2	4
Lewis	14	2-6	1-5	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	5
Li	14	4-10	1-3	2-3	2	0	0	0	0	11
Pawlak	14	2-4	0-0	1-2	7	0	0	0	0	5
Suotamo	14	3-6	0-0	1-1	4	3	3	1	0	7
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	9	2-4	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	4
Jack	14	4-9	0-2	2-2	6	2	0	1	1	10
Jordan	9	3-3	3-3	2-2	3	0	0	0	0	11
Camper	14	4-7	2-5	4-4	4	2	2	0	0	14
Capel	14	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	6	1	0	0	4
Blankenship	5	1-2	1-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	3
Zoellner	5	2-3	0-0	3-3	2	0	0	0	0	7
TEAM TOTALS		31-60	8-21	15-17	36	18	10	2	3	85

Tovarich: That was pretty ugly for a while. The big guys seemed cursed in the first half. None of them could make a shot it felt like. No one could rebound for a while it felt like. We shot poorly to start. Brown stayed with us in that one for too long. Eventually things went how they should, but a lot of things to work on as usual.

Reporter: At one point, you were being outrebounded 21-14 and you looked baffled. What changed for you to outrebound them 22-3 the remainder of the game?

Tovarich: I have no idea what changed. Partly they devolved into firing off 3's so fast that we were the only ones around to rebound. Camper did a nice job snagging 3 offensive rebounds. He showed some real toughness getting down, I can't say amongst the trees, because Brown had no trees, but the big guys couldn't rebound, so glad to see he could. They shot poorly on 3's when they got down big, so it probably was fairly even before that, though we did a good job on the offensive glass in the second half too. But it all needs to be a lot better. It felt better against Butler, but I shouldn't be surprised we managed to take a step back there. Butler was likely a fluke.

Reporter: Usually you mix in some press and go for steals in the halfcourt. Why not tonight?

Tovarich: I was going to be as stubborn as I could about that. It's Brown. We ought to be able to just play half court basketball against them, straight up, with no press, no double teams, no trapping, etc and beat them. And they got me close to changing strategies a few times early in the 2nd half when they got it down to one score. Then we went on the 15-0 run when they went cold shooting and things were easy from then on. We'll get back to our usual aggressive defense against Texas Tech and our 5 games in 5 days next week.

Reporter: The B team got as many minutes as the starters. Is that what you anticipate to be the norm?

Tovarich: Maybe. Today the starters just didn't have it. The guys off the bench outscored them 53-32 with the minutes perfectly split. They outrebounded them 22-14. They outdid them in shooting percentage, got to the line more, out assisted them, literally outplayed them in every facet of the game. So they deserved every minute they got. Everyone's so even, we'll have to be constantly re-evaluating who the best 5 are to start.

[Tovarich]

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E.A. Diddle Arena
Bowling Green, KY

Texas Tech Red Raiders at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Nov 16, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Texas Tech (2-2)	34	32	66
Western Kentucky (5-0)	42	46	88

Texas Tech Red Raiders
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Wilkins	24	5-15	1-7	0-0	3	7	0	0	5	11
Erickson	20	4-12	1-7	2-2	3	2	1	1	1	11
Barton	22	5-8	0-1	0-0	5	2	1	1	2	10
Kent	19	6-8	0-1	2-2	6	0	1	2	0	14
Tchana	20	4-9	2-4	0-0	4	1	0	4	2	10
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galos	16	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	4	0	0	3	0
James	11	2-2	1-1	0-0	2	2	0	0	3	5
Ibekwe	8	2-3	0-0	1-1	4	1	0	0	0	5
Holbrook	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Potter	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Chambliss	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Cruz	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		28-58	5-22	5-5	28	19	3	8	16	66
TEAM TOTALS		28-58	5-22	5-5	28	19	3	8	16	66

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	19	3-6	1-3	2-2	2	3	1	1	1	9
Lewis	19	3-7	1-4	0-0	1	3	3	1	0	7
Li	19	6-12	5-9	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	17
Pawlak	10	3-9	0-0	1-2	2	0	1	0	0	7
Suotamo	17	3-8	0-0	2-2	6	1	1	0	0	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	8	3-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	6
Jack	14	4-6	1-2	0-0	1	4	3	1	0	9
Jordan	9	2-4	2-3	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	6
Camper	9	3-4	2-3	0-0	1	3	1	0	0	8
Capel	9	2-4	1-2	1-1	1	2	1	0	2	6
Blankenship	5	1-2	0-0	1-1	1	2	2	0	0	3
Zoellner	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	2
TEAM TOTALS		34-69	13-26	7-8	23	19	16	3	3	88

Tovarich: Not sure what magically changed there all of a sudden. The first 3-4 minutes resembled Marquette in the tournament last year. We were being pressed relentlessly, turning it over, they were 9/13 shooting and grabbed seemingly every rebound and were up 10. We were 3/10 in the paint, with perfect defense every time apparently and no ability to make a layup. Then we started to press back, went on a 13-0 run and then they seemed like they couldn't make a shot. Luckily we shot great from 3, because none of the big guys shot well from 1 foot away. Another team with no depth speeding the game up with the press and playing too fast on offense and turning it over a lot. I don't get the strategy. Li had a Tamayoesque night and he's been tremendous. Got some other guys we need to get going.

Reporter: Eventually you gave up on driving it in once you broke the press. Is that the plan going forward?

Tovarich: I love my 3's, but against the press, you usually can get a decent advantage down low and make their big guy choose who to defend, and usually draw some fouls, but he somehow guarded both our PF and center perfectly while never committing a foul the entire game and we were softer than jello today, couldn't rebound until they started firing 3's before anyone was down court and couldn't finish down low. So at 3/10 I'll stop and accept that what seems like a 2 on 1 advantage is not and we'll work it around for my favorite shots-the 3's. If I knew we'd shoot 50% on 3's the whole time, then I'd have started that strategy from the beginning, but they finally stopped shooting 9/13 so we got into the regular offense and then I saw we were gonna have a good night from the outside.

Reporter: Jack ended up with more minutes than Pawlak. Will you make a change at PF?

Tovarich: Pawlak had a rough night breaking the press, that's probably not a good position for him. Jack seems a little better at it, so in that scenario, Jack's the better option for sure. Suotamo also had a rough night shooting. We have a lot of time to figure that stuff out.

Reporter: Everyone on the roster scored and everyone had a rebound. Is it going to always be a group effort or is it going to often be a committee?

Tovarich: If Li keeps shooting 3's like this, he can be a Tamayo-like guy who averages almost 20. I got a lot of other options if he's off. Options are always good. Jordan's on fire from 3 too and he's only supposed to be a so-so option from out there. Still hope to get Lewis going too.

Reporter: In 5 days you'll play Notre Dame, Missouri, then Washington State or Seton Hall, followed by Georgia and potentially Texas. What do you expect in those 5 days?

Tovarich: I'm sure we're due a clunker in there somewhere, we'll see. I would like to see a team like we see in the second round of the tournament and see if we can figure out what to do. Troy likes to do that to us, but it's tough to get prepared for that kinda scenario when no one seems to play like that in the regular season. I know the tournament is more intense, but gosh, it's like night and day. They play like well-programmed machines. That's what we need to learn how to play against, so I pile up all these big time schools and see if they'll do it, and Texas Tech did it for a few minutes, but they just fell off the face of the earth all of a sudden. Everything's about prepping for the NCAA tournament. It doesn't mean anything to keep piling up all these regular season wins if it doesn't translate later.

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Weird to me that you're not ranked, but the game does dumb things.

Glad WKU held on after that rough start.

[Tovarich]

Re: Coach Tovarich 2.0 CH2K8 Career Legacy

Weird to me that you're not ranked, but the game does dumb things.

Glad WKU held on after that rough start.

There was no new poll until after all those games. I start playing November 1 every year because I can but many teams don't start until the second Friday. I still noticed 3 schools haven't even played a game yet and I've seen a school with 6 already. So WKU is in the polls in time for the marathon of games.

[Tovarich]

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Joyce Center
South Bend, IN

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Nov 19, 2013	1ST	2ND	SCORE
#19 Western Kentucky (6-0)	46	22	68
Notre Dame (3-3)	32	25	57

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Galbreath	20	1-3	0-2	2-2	1	6	3	0	0	4
Lewis	20	0-3	0-2	0-0	2	1	1	0	2	0
Li	20	4-14	2-7	2-2	2	1	2	0	0	12
Pawlak	20	6-8	0-1	3-4	3	4	1	0	2	15
Suotamo	20	6-9	0-0	0-0	6	1	2	4	1	12
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Shehan	8	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	0	1	0	4
Jack	8	3-4	1-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	7
Jordan	8	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Camper	8	3-5	2-3	1-3	1	0	0	0	0	9
Capel	8	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	1	0	0	2
Blankenship	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Zoellner	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-51	6-18	8-11	21	18	10	5	5	68

Notre Dame Fighting Irish
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Worthy	22	4-12	2-7	2-2	0	5	0	0	3	12
Dumbliauskas	21	5-7	2-2	0-0	1	1	2	0	2	12
Matthews	22	4-14	2-4	0-0	6	1	1	1	3	10
Shehan	22	1-4	0-2	0-1	2	1	2	0	1	2
Fox	21	2-7	0-0	1-1	16	1	0	0	2	5
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Wente	15	3-6	0-2	0-0	0	2	0	0	1	6
Evertsen	7	2-2	1-1	1-2	1	2	0	0	1	6
Stewart	10	2-4	0-0	0-1	6	0	0	0	1	4
Benton	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Hawkins	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Thornton	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Brand	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		23-56	7-18	4-7	32	13	5	1	14	57

Tovarich: Ugly wins count too, and that was quite ugly.

Reporter: The backups seemed to be quite productive during their lower than usual 8 minutes. Why didn't they get more minutes?

Tovarich: I think most everyone was quite productive, except for Lewis. I think I'm ready to make the switch there and maybe he can start again if he gets going. Turning it over twice to compound his not making shots isn't good enough around here.

Reporter: Are you disappointed in the rebounding?

Tovarich: -11 against them, and 16 by one guy is pretty rough for us. It feels better sometimes but we still have these clunkers.

Reporter: Pawlak has struggled to break the press, but he seemed better today.

Tovarich: For sure, after his first one, which he got blocked by the rim.

Reporter: The happiest you looked was when their alley-oop ended up going out of bounds.

Tovarich: Yeah, that's a first. Usually the ball and the player it's intended for goes through us like we're ghosts and there's nothing we can do to stop it. It was nice to know it's humanly possible for that play not to work just once.