We are getting really close to the meat of the Men's Schedule. 1 game separates the top 5 teams in the conference, and every week for the rest of the season there will be at least one matchup between Top 5 teams. Sometimes multiple games

Games for Saturday February 4th (Men/Women)

Louisiana at Georgia State (ESPN3)
UL Monroe at Georgia Southern
South Alabama at Troy (ESPN3)
Texas State at UT Arlington
Coastal Carolina at Little Rock
Appalachian State at Arkansas State (ESPN3)

Games for Thursday Feb 2nd (Women) and Monday February 6th (Men)

UL Monroe at Georgia State (ESPN3)
Louisiana at Georgia Southern
Appalachian State at Little Rock
Coastal Carolina at Arkansas State (ESPN3)

Standings:

AState 7-2
GS 7-2
GSU 7-2
TXST 6-3
UTA 6-3
CCU 5-4
UL 4-5
Troy 4-5
LR 3-6
USA 3-6
ULM 1-8
App 1-8

Women's scores

Little Rock 67 - App St 55
Ark St 60 - CCU 52
Geo Southern 63 - Louisiana 60
Geo St 87 - ULM 35

I'm worried UTA is gonna be pissed from the first matchup this year and throttle us in Arlington.

I'm also excited to see if we can take some of our recent momentum and keep winning some games. I've watched just about every TXST game this year and I've seen just about every SBC team play at least once I think and I still can't tell if we're a contender or if we're about to go on a long losing streak to close out the season.

(02-03-2017 12:39 PM)_x_ Wrote:  I'm worried UTA is gonna be pissed from the first matchup this year and throttle us in Arlington.

I'm also excited to see if we can take some of our recent momentum and keep winning some games. I've watched just about every TXST game this year and I've seen just about every SBC team play at least once I think and I still can't tell if we're a contender or if we're about to go on a long losing streak to close out the season.

If we don't avenge that loss by at least 15, I'm pulling the plug on the season.

Good has been reinstated after being suspended Monday. Kelvin Robinson is still suspended and injured.

Scores today so far:

Georgia State blows a 15 point halftime lead, but makes free throws late to survive UL 85-82

Georgia Southern beats ULM 76-62


In Progress:

UTA has a 15 point lead on Texas State
South has a 2 point lead on Troy. Both games getting late 2nd half.

Still to come tonight:

Coastal at Little Rock
App at AState

In a game of shabazz vs all. App leads astate 39-37 at half.

Fo I think you can be satisfied with margin of victory. Cross put in subs at end otherwise the margin would have been greater than it was.

Coastal wins at Little Rock 82-75. Coastal keeping in the thick of things.

stAte beats App 79-78. Whew!

Some times you just have to keep playing. We were dead from the 3 line and the charity stripe all night. Good game to the boys in the ugly shorts.

Fox said post-game he's ready to get fined. Not happy with the ticky-tack crap called by the Sun Belt Saturday Night Special refs that got four of our players fouled out.

(02-04-2017 10:23 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  Fox said post-game he's ready to get fined. Not happy with the ticky-tack crap called by the Sun Belt Saturday Night Special refs that got four of our players fouled out.

Those guys were terrible. We almost fouled a guy out in the first half.

I'm not sure what it is about us that morph you guys into duke, but man we really struggle with you guys

(02-04-2017 10:23 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  Fox said post-game he's ready to get fined. Not happy with the ticky-tack crap called by the Sun Belt Saturday Night Special refs that got four of our players fouled out.

Your players got in foul trouble because you got out coached. McCasland knew you'd defend outside the arc to take away the 3 and use your height advantage inside. You did that effectively at your place. He chose to drive against your bigs and force you to react. You did by fouling. Your guys were fortunate that the Redwolves free throw shooting was abysmal or this would have not been a close game.

(02-04-2017 11:02 PM)sdcritter Wrote:  

(02-04-2017 10:23 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  Fox said post-game he's ready to get fined. Not happy with the ticky-tack crap called by the Sun Belt Saturday Night Special refs that got four of our players fouled out.

Your players got in foul trouble because you got out coached. McCasland knew you'd defend outside the arc to take away the 3 and use your height advantage inside. You did that effectively at your place. He chose to drive against your bigs and force you to react. You did by fouling. Your guys were fortunate that the Redwolves free throw shooting was abysmal or this would have not been a close game.

The officials were horrible tonight regardless the fact that we helped App State along in their foul plight. They called every single touch foul tonight, completely disrupting any rhythm this game had

We should sign them up for Monday Night with Coastal Carolina bringing their 3 point barrage into town.

McCasland set the school record for most wins by a 1st year head coach today. We still have an outside shot to set a school record for victories in a season, but it's going to require winning the Sun Belt to get there.

Off the thread topic, but didn't want to make a separate thread.

(01-24-2017 08:49 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Sickening to see the Sun Belt ranked 13th in RPI, seriously 13? Sun Belt was awful for years in hoops besides us, MTSU and LA...THe bottom of this conference has 5 teams just bad and they are bad every season...What do we do?

(01-23-2017 07:45 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Football : 5th in G5 this year

Basketball : RPI currently 24 of 32

TV contract : Terrible

How about this ? Gary Ransdell for...woops-he would be biased.

Somebody do SOMETHING PLEASE !!!

Heart-warming.

(02-05-2017 11:47 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Off the thread topic, but didn't want to make a separate thread.

(01-24-2017 08:49 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Sickening to see the Sun Belt ranked 13th in RPI, seriously 13? Sun Belt was awful for years in hoops besides us, MTSU and LA...THe bottom of this conference has 5 teams just bad and they are bad every season...What do we do?

(01-23-2017 07:45 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Football : 5th in G5 this year

Basketball : RPI currently 24 of 32

TV contract : Terrible

How about this ? Gary Ransdell for...woops-he would be biased.

Somebody do SOMETHING PLEASE !!!

Heart-warming.

Believe it or not, we (Coastal fans) probably appreciate this even more than the rest of you probably do. Because we heard all the chiding and condescension from Liberty about how it was so embarassing for Coastal to join the lowly Sun Belt, and that Liberty was waiting for a spot that was worthy of their grandeur in CUSA.

I hope they get that CUSA spot some day.

(02-04-2017 09:43 PM)UTArlingtonMaverick Wrote:  Fo I think you can be satisfied with margin of victory. Cross put in subs at end otherwise the margin would have been greater than it was.

They played well for forty minutes, something that has been inconsistent all year. Had they played like this all year, we'd have half as many losses, one SBC loss and still be in contention for an at-large berth. So all-in-all, I'm happy. I just hope we don't have (or need) another wake-up call to get our butts in gear.

(02-05-2017 11:47 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Off the thread topic, but didn't want to make a separate thread.

(01-24-2017 08:49 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Sickening to see the Sun Belt ranked 13th in RPI, seriously 13? Sun Belt was awful for years in hoops besides us, MTSU and LA...THe bottom of this conference has 5 teams just bad and they are bad every season...What do we do?

(01-23-2017 07:45 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Football : 5th in G5 this year

Basketball : RPI currently 24 of 32

TV contract : Terrible

How about this ? Gary Ransdell for...woops-he would be biased.

Somebody do SOMETHING PLEASE !!!

Heart-warming.

Don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but I called this years ago, for everything but Ransdell - what ever that is.

I specifically remember WKU fans saying they needed to go to CUSA cause they take hoops seriously. I tried to say that both CUSA's stock was gonna fall and the SBC's was gonna rise. I was told I was crazy in part because of UTA's poor basketball history, which has everything to do with today.

The only thing that hasn't happened that I called is the SBC completely surpassing CUSA in baseball. CCU's addition should help, though I did not foresee that years ago when WKU announced their move.

Anyway, have fun languishing in a conference that is completely reactive. Watching CUSA's moves in realignment is like playing chess against a first-grader.