WBI Final @ Appalachian State

[NM Green]

Watching party at Eastside?

party planning time! 

GMG

[GrandGreen]

Should be a big challenge, App St. has 6'4 space eater in the paint.  Had two 20 rb games in tournament.  

Very strange that NT has scored 56 points in every tournament game.  

NT won the last game with both George and Bradley having bad overall games.  

This game is going to be very tough and for NT to win, they are going to have play much better. 

[Mean Green Matt]

1 hour to game time. 

NORTH!

[UNTLifer]

TEXAS!

[Cooke County Kid]

NORTH

[Mean Green Matt]

Good start. 16-6 NT about 4 minutes in. 

[Mean Green Matt]

22-15 NT after the first quarter. We looked terrible the last few minutes a didn’t score.  5-0 run for App State to end the quarter. 

[Mean Green Matt]

We have blown a 12 point lead in about 5 minutes of game time. App State on a 14-3 run. Game on. 

[Mean Green Matt]

TIed at the half. App State has all the momentum right now. 

[CMJ]

Hey, if you had said to the team they just have to win half for the title, I'm sure they'd have taken it.

[Mean Green Matt]

Slipping away already. Down 8 now. We can’t hit anything. 

[Venson]

George looks completely gassed and lazy right now. I think she is a liability right now. 

[RBTX]

Man, just about everything App St is putting up is going in.

[UNTLifer]

It’s over. They just hit 57 points and we are playing people that couldn’t hit water if they threw a rock off of the Lewisville Lake bridge. Good season. 

[Venson]

When you are just throwing the ball up and it's going in, that is a bad sign for the opposing team. Unfortunately we are that opposing team.

[Mean Green Matt]

Really disappointingly performance in this one. We scored the same amount of points in the first quarter as we did in the 2nd and 3rd combined. Anything is possible but a 14 point deficit is close to insurmountable given how we are playing. 

[Mean Green Matt]

😕

[Venson]

This one looks like it might be in the books.

[ADLER]

67 - 47 with 5:00 left

[UNTLifer]

We shoot in the low 30% range and they are above 50%. No way we are coming back. 

[ADLER]

Plummer is also such a dominant rebounder and gets everything under the basket.

[Mean Green Matt]

We have some really promising pieces for next year. Mims is a great ball handler. I think shepherd shows promise along with Townley. George (who will be a senior) has had some fantastic games and then at other times struggles mightily. Bradley’s scoring will be very hard to replace. 

I think this recruiting class will get a lot of minutes next year as well. It is a very disappointing end to the season, because we are getting completely annihilated (App State has outscored us 65-30 since we had a 12 point lead), but Mitchell has pulled this program from the depths to at least a respectable middle of the pack team. Next step is to legitimately contend for a conference title. 

[Venson]

I can take a loss, but this is an embarrassing loss.

Edited April 4, 2019 by Venson
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[Venson]

I feel for Bradley. She gave a heart and soul for this team. I hate to see her leave without some kind of hardware, but she has helped Coach Mitchell turn this program around.

[Mean Green Matt]

5 minutes ago, Venson said:

I feel for Bradley. She gave a heart and soul for this team. I hate to see her leave without some kind of hardware, but she has helped Coach Mitchell turn this program around.

And I’m sure Mitchell wants more. She probably wanted to be contending for conference titles already. But the fact is this was a BAD program for the better part of 15 years before she took over. I think the days of single digit win totals are over for our team.

Edit: in fact over the last 20 years the program has really only had success when she’s been a part of it. Either as a player or coach. 

Edited April 4, 2019 by Mean Green Matt