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The LM will end there non conference season on the road against the East Tennessee State University Bucs on Wed. ETSU is located in Johnson City, TN. It is a town that bottled Mountain Dew when it first started. (At the time they were already bottling another soft drink called Dr Enuf) Eventually the rights were sold to the Tip Corporation and they started bottling Mountain Dew in Marion, VA. Even though the Mountain Dew Festival has gone on for more than 50 years in Marion the origins of the soft drink can be traced right back to Johnson City, TN.

Bucs schedule so far. Record: 7-7 RPI: .4396 RPI: 253
@ Butler W 68-59 Record: 3-8 RPI: .4555 Rank: 224
Vs #13 Tennessee L 83-59 Record: 7-4 RPI: .6342 Rank: 17
Vs Winthrop W 62-45 Record: 0-11 RPI: .3944 Rank: 311
Vs Appalachian St L 71-68 Record: 5-6 RPI: .4774 Rank: 197
@ Northern Kentucky L 62-56 Record: 3-8 RPI: .4255 Rank: 272
Vs Murray St W 79-60 Record: 6-5 RPI: .4176 Rank: 283
@ Austin Peavy L 77-74 Record: 4-7 RPI: .4139 Rank: 289
Vs Davidson W 76-56 Record: 2-9 RPI: .4196 Rank: 280
@ Campbell W 56-55 Record: 5-3 RPI: .4065 Rank: 297
Vs Vanderbilt L 80-72 Record: 10-2 RPI: .5898 Rank: 62
@ Tennessee Tech W 82-76 Record: 2-10 RPI: .3838 Rank: 324
Vs Elon L 79-51 Record: 7-4 RPI: .6210 Rank: 22
University of Miami Holiday Tournament
Vs Maine L 61-48 Record: 7-6 RPI: .5749 Rank: 72
Vs Coppin St W 70-58 Record: 0-10 RPI: .4264 Rank: 268
Vs ODU Record: 5-5 RPI: .4965 Rank: 166
The Bucs beat teams that they should have beat and lost to a few that they should have beat.
ESTU Starting Five
15 Tianna Tarter 5'6" Jr G 20.2 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 4.5 apg, 2.6 spg, 46.6 FG%, 21.8 3P%, 65.5 FT%, 35.6 mpg
02 Shamauria Bridges 5'7" Sr G 13.4 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.6 apg, 33.1 FG%, 37.4 3P%, 76.3 FT%, 32.0 mpg
05 Raven Dean 6'1" So F 7.1 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 1.2 apg, 34.5 FG%, 12.5 3P%, 62.9 FT%, 19.2 mpg
22 Malloree Schurr 5'10" Jr G 3.1 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.8 apg, 37.8 Fg%, 60.0 FT%, 19.7 ppg
45 Yamile Rodriguez 6'4" Sr C 2.6 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 0.3 apg, 45.7 FG%, 55.6 FT%, 13.9 mpg
Top Bench
04 Carley Lytton 5'11" So G 5.1 ppg, 1.2 rpg, 0.3 apg, 32.4 FG%, 33.3 3P%, 44.4 FT%, 14.1 mpg
11 Micah Morris 5'10" Jr G 4.6 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 0.4 apg, 1.1 spg, 41.2 FG%, 33.3 3P%, 70.6 FT%, 17.0 mpg

The team's best player is Tianna Tarter. She broke 1,000 career points for ETSU this season and was a first team All-SoCon last season. She leads the team in every major catergory. Bridges and Lytton are the definitetion of three point threats. 60% of what Bridges shoots is behind the arc while 81% of what Lytton shoots is from downtown. They are a decent rebounding team overall. When 6'1" So F Sadasia Tipps comes off the bench, she is a really good rebounder on the offensive end. They do like rotate players in and out. Only Bridges and Tarter will see more than 20 minutes of game action.

Inside the Stats.....
..........ETSU......ODU
PPG....65.7.......674
OPPG..65.9......67.6
FG%....38.1......42.4
OFG%..40.9.....37.2
3P%....29.7......29.8
O3P%...27.2.....38.2
3PPG....6.1.......4.5
FT%......64.9.....68.4
FTPG....13.7......11.9
RPG......37.9......42.5
ORPG....39.8......37.7
APG.......10.2.....14.2
TPG........15.8....17.5
SPG........8.0......6.6
BPG.......2.8.......4.2
AST/TO RATIIO:
ETSU: 0.6 ODU: 0.8

Bottom line. Two .500 teams will play each other. ODU is looking for it's first victory on the road. This is not a great ETSU team, but they have the home field advantage. So it would be a good win for the LM to win before they begin ConUSA play on the road. Also they beat us at home last year, so I really would like some revenge.

At this point in the season, beating ETSU won't impress anyone for the WNIT or the NCAA tournament. But losing to them would do more harm if we need to get a WNIT bid. NCAA at large bid, forget about it. Our wins aren't worthy enough for that.... Basically we need to win the Con USA title to advance to the tournament.

ETSU 51 - ODU 44. End 3rd.

18 t/o's, fouls, missed free throws, streaky shooting, poor defense. I m sick of this shLt

Out coached again

(12-28-2016 08:56 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  18 t/o's, fouls, missed free throws, streaky shooting, poor defense. I m sick of this shLt

AMEN!!!

This is so sad. At the home games seems everyone loves KB?
Look at Va Tech after picking up Kenny Brooks and he is not coaching any of his own recruits. He's turned them around. We just look worse every game.

5:47 left in the 4th quarter. ODU up 57-53.
Timmons fouls at the 4:02. ETSU goes 1-for-2. ODU up 57-54
Simms goes 1-for-2 from the FT line at 3:50 mark. ODU up 58-54
ETSU shots a three. Miss. Rebound ETSU. Lay-up ETSU. ODU up 58-56.
Simms misses a three. Rebound ETSU. Lay-up by Tarter. Tie ball game @ 3:03.
2:28 mark. Lay up by Tarter. ETSU takes lead, 60-58.
1:38 mark Simms goes 1-for-2 from the FT line to make it 60-59.
After that ODU does a lot of fouling, ETSU scores 10 points to ODU's 1 over the final 1:12 left of the game.

We should have won this game. Weird game based on stats. Get this. ODU outrebounded ETSU 53-42, including offensive boards 21 to 10. However despite having a clear advantage on the offensive glass, our second chance points was only 15 to ETSU's 10. Meaning we missed a lot of second chance opportunities....

Rice on Friday. New season.