Sbc Games 11/25/08

[chrisfisher]

ULAR picks up a nice win over Creighton 71-69. ULAR looks to be a formidable opponent in conference play.

[chrisfisher]

FAU loses to James Madison 81-64. ArkState beats Tennessee-Martin 76-67.

[CMJ]

UA LR looks really, really good so far. Other tha MTSU, the East seems the be spinning their wheels this season so far. Dare I say, the power of the conference may be shifting West?

[chrisfisher]

ULL swallows Oral Roberts in OT. 79-75 ULL. A little better night in the belt tonight.

Edited November 26, 2008 by chrisfisher

[chrisfisher]

Troy beats Georgia State in the final seconds....68-63.

ULL down 7 against Stephen F Austin with under a minutes to go... it appears that ULL is making a run over the past couple minutes.

[CMJ]

Monroe finished the comeback!

[chrisfisher]

Wow! ULL pulls out a win over Stephen F. Austin... they trailed nearly the entire game, but made a run with only a few minutes left.... 60-58 ULL.

[chrisfisher]

Friggin FUI loses to D-II West Georgia.... way to represent FIU. 57-54.

[ADLER]

Lot's of SBC men's hoops on tap tonight - KAjunRaider®,

James Madison 81, FAU 64 Final nm - KAjunRaider®

stAte 76 at UT-Martin 67~~ nm - KAjunRaider®

Big Win~ UALR 71, Creighton 69 ~~ nm - KAjunRaider®

Cajuns 79, Oral Roberts 75 OT ~~ nm - KAjunRaider®

Troy 68, Georgia State 63 ~~ nm - KAjunRaider®

Warhawks 60, Stephen F. Austin 58 ~~ nm - KAjunRaider®

I'm kinda lazy tonight so I just copied all of KAjunRaider's posts off the 'Belt Board.

[CMJ]

Full scoreboard.

Florida Atlantic 64

James Madison 81

Arkansas State 76

Tennessee-Martin 67

West Georgia 57

Florida International 54

Creighton 69

UALR 71

Oral Roberts 75

LA Lafayette 79 OT

Stephen F. Austin 58

LA Monroe 60

Georgia State 63

Troy 68

[NT03]

How some future opponents fared tonight:

Alcorn St 57 @ Houston 110 ( Cougars improve to 3 -1 , includes a 73-64 vs WKU)

Western Michigan 65 @ Sam Houston State 62 ( lost again @ home)

[CMJ]

Sunbelt RPI Update

19 AR Little Rock

23 Arkansas State

165 South Alabama

170 North Texas

191 Denver

202 Florida Atlantic

223 Florida Intlernational

235 LA Lafayette

256 MTSU

300 Troy

310 LA Monroe

325 New Orleans

339 Western Kentucky

I must say, it is sort of amusing to see WKU so near the bottom of all D1 schools.

[chrisfisher]

Sunbelt RPI Update

19 AR Little Rock

23 Arkansas State

165 South Alabama

170 North Texas

191 Denver

202 Florida Atlantic

223 Florida Intlernational

235 LA Lafayette

256 MTSU

300 Troy

310 LA Monroe

325 New Orleans

339 Western Kentucky

I must say, it is sort of amusing to see WKU so near the bottom of all D1 schools.

Crazy right? Sweet 16 to the bottom of the D-1 in less than 4 games since the tourny. Sargarin has us around 100. If we can beat Houston, we'll move up signficantly.

[CMJ]

I mean, honestly none of these ranking systems are that accurate right now(and it's debatable how accurate they are at years end...I remember acouple years ago Kentucky barely snuck into the tournament and they were in the low 20's in the RPI). Still, they're fun to look at!

Edited November 26, 2008 by CMJ

[Censored by Laurie]

FAU has been playing great ball considering they're without Carlos Monroe. I'm really impressed with what Jarvis has done in such a short time and am strongly considering never again predicting where they will finish in the SBC. Xavier Perkins is a strong bodied wing (6'4" 225) sophmore who has scored 17, 24, and 20 in the Owls last three games...Shavar Richardson is a true freshman combo guard who is second on the team in scoring...Brett Royster is an athletic post (from Arlington, sigh) who has 15 blocks thru six games, 4 in each of his last three games. In the last week FAU has played 2 games on the west coast (loss to Arizona, win over Santa Clara), stopped back at home (win over UMKC), then packed back up for a trip to face Stephen Curry and Davidson and follow that up immediatly with this game at James Madison. They're tired...and they've done all this without Monroe. Two more on the road, but winnable games, then another winnable game at home before conference play starts. Right now I hope Jarvis is doing all he can to schedule San Francisco so he can punch Rex Walters for this schedule.

UALR is still undefeated, really with 3 quality wins (Pepperdine, La Tech and Creighton). This team is essentially the same group from last year...except Matt Mouzy appears to have a green light from anywhere, and the role players who were chipping in 5 and 6 ppg last season are up to around 10.

ASU looks good...and if they get Yima Chia Kur eligible that will only add to their depth. They do lack size though...they're a bit like us only smaller upfront and loaded with big guards.

ULL finally decides to pick up their first win...Travis Bureau is playing well, but this team is really struggling without Chris Gradnigo and Randell Diagle in the backcourt

ULM won without Tony Hooper...not sure if he's hurt but he has really struggled out of the gate with his scoring. Looking at how SFA shot the ball this may've been more a case of them losing a game than ULM winning one

Troy hit 10 threes and had 19 assists...those are winning numbers.

No one has the FIU recap posted yet...but I'm surprised by this loss...they've been playing better ball than to lose to a D-II school

[NT03]

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/polls/rpi/index1

CBSsportsline has UNT @ #44 , the highest of the SunBelt teams

[ADLER]

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/polls/rpi/index1

CBSsportsline has UNT @ #44 , the highest of the SunBelt teams

Yeah, we're only 13 spots ahead of those pathetic chumps Memphis. Since when has Memphis been competitive in basketball?