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This week the Monarchs will travel to Texas. First up is the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners. This Thursday the Roadrunners are promoting a throwback to the '90s. So it's a good enough reason to wear those neon windbreakers, which where pretty popular back then.

The Road Runners are 6-14, 2-7 on the season. They have an RPI ranking of 300 which is dead last in Conference USA. They have a SOS of 180. Three of the team's wins though are against non-division one teams that do not factor in the RPI rankings.

Vs Concordia Texas W 73-44 (non-division one team)
Vs Incarnate Word W 63-56 Record: 5-10 RPI: 306
@ Texas L 53-84 Record: 14-7 RPI: 36
Vs University of the Southwest (NM) W 79-62

Bank of Hawaii Classic
@ Hawaii L 50-62 Record: 9-10 RPI: 200
Vs Utah L 45-91 Record: 10-11 RPI: 107

@ UTRGV L 64-75 Record: 5-12 RPI 302
@ Texas St L 69-74 Record: 5-12 RPI: 287
Vs Sam Houston St L 77-81 Record: 11-5 RPI: 145
Vs Texas Wesleyan W 8-78 (does not factor into RPI)
@ Texas Tech L 58-115 Record: 14-5 RPI 132
Vs FAU L 53-80 Record: 9-12 (3-7) RPI: 178
VS FIU W 60-45 Record: 5-16 (2-8) RPI: 283
@ La Tech W 82-73 Record: 8-10 (2-7) RPI: 235
@ Southern Miss L 65-82 Record: 9-9 (3-6) RPI: 194
@ UTEP L 54-94 Record: 12-8 (5-4) RPI: 231
Vs North Texas L 55-79 Record: 7-11 (3-6) RPI: 258
Vs Rice L 62-74 Record: 14-6 (9-0) RPI: 98
@ UAB L 55-94 Record: 13-7 (7-3) RPI: 116
@ Middle Tenn St L 48-69 Record: 15-7 (7-3) RPI: 48
Vs ODU Record: 18-3 (8-1) RPI: 31

I hate to say this, but the UTEP's final regular season game is a road game against FIU. That game might decides which team finishes dead last in the conference.

Roadrunners Starting Five
32 Quezada, Adryana F 5'10" Fr 13.3 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 0.9 apg, 55.2 FG%, 25.0 3P%, 60.0 FT%, 27.9 mpg
34 Donald, Karrington G 5'7" Jr 10.4 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.4 apg, 37.0 FG%, 35.6 3P%, 50.0 FT%, 30.4 mpg
25 Mitchell, Shannan F 6'0" Fr 3.9 mpg, 3.0 rpg, 0.5 apg, 32.5 FG%, 23.1 3P%, 58.3 FT%, 18.0 mpg
04 Woods, Mikayla G 5'6" Fr 15.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 2.4 apg, 2.5 spg, 42.1 FG%, 23.3 3P%, 69.6 FT%, 31.6 mpg
15 Toth, Timea F 6'1' Sr 3.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 1.6 apg, 35.1 FG%, 0.00 3P%, 69.2 FT%, 29.6 mpg
The Bench
11 Mass, Charlene G 5'7" Fr 8.2 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 1.3 apg, 28.1 FG%, 25.8 3P%, 54.7 FT%, 27.1 mpg

UTSA has a very young roster. It has seven freshmen and a redshirt freshman as well. They do have a 6'5" girl, but she has one start on the season and averages 8.9 minutes a game. Beyond that, they are not a tall team. They are dead last in the conference in defensive rebounding, assists per game, and they have taken the fewest three point attempts in the conference. They do have freshman Mikayla Woods though. For the season, she is averaging 15.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg. If you looked at just her conference stats though, she is averaging 18.1 ppg (tied for 2nd place), 6.8 rpg and 3.1 spg. She upped her game considerably. Karrington Donald is also averaging 12.2 ppg slightly higher than her season average of 10.4 ppg. It's not a deep bench either.

Inside the Numbers.
................UTSA.....ODU
PPG..........62.2.......66.7
OPPG.......75.6.......53.3
FG%.........38.5.......41.5
OFG%......43.7........34.5
3P%...........28.6.......32.5
O3P%.........31.3......23.0
3PPG..........4.0........6.6
O3PPG.......6.1........4.1
FT%...........61.3......62.6
FTPG.........11.2......11.6
RPG...........37.2......41.6
ORPG........41.2......35.1
APG...........10.1.......11.9
TPG...........18.1.......14.5
SPG...........8.3..........8.4
BPG..........3.7..........3.9
AST/TO ratio:
UTSA: 0.6, ODU: 0.8

If you look at just the Con USA stats, you have a game that features the best defensive team in the conference (ODU- 56.3 ppg) vs the worst defensive team in the conference (UTSA - 76.7 ppg) The numbers all point to an ODU win. Rice is at home against UAB, currently tied for 3rd place in the league. Rice is tough at home, but UAB brings a lot of firepower. Feb 13th is coming.... Go Monarchs.

Conference USA Standings
Rice 9-0
ODU 8-1
UAB 7-3
Middle Tenn St 7-3
WKU 6-3
Charlotte 5-4
UTEP 5-4
Southern Miss 3-6
North Texas 3-6
Marshall 3-6
FAU 3-7
La Tech 2-7
UTSA 2-7
FIU 2-8

Game is on ESPN+ Beginning at 7. We’ll be watching, pulling for a big win. Anyone know status of Wayne?

Holy crap, we are 18-3?!?!?!

(02-06-2020 04:11 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Holy crap, we are 18-3?!?!?!

Where you been, brother?

When do we play Rice?

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(02-06-2020 06:14 PM)BigBlueMonarch Wrote:  When do we play Rice?

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Next Thursday at home

(02-06-2020 06:28 PM)LetsGoODU Wrote:  

(02-06-2020 06:14 PM)BigBlueMonarch Wrote:  When do we play Rice?

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Next Thursday at home

Might have to try and come down. I could use a break from dreary Pennsylvania

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Register isn’t playing. Injured, ill?

So what are the ladies ranked ? I imagine top 35

Thank god for the Lady Monarchs.

(02-06-2020 08:39 PM)eastcoastDave Wrote:  Register isn’t playing. Injured, ill?

Sore knee.

Final Score: ODU 62, UTSA 43. No Wayne. No Register. No Problem. 14 points, 8 boards from Edwards. 14 points, 5 boards from Morris, 8 points, 17 boards from Young, 10 points from Adams off the bench, 5 points, 6 boards (4 defensive boards), 3 blocks from Reichert.

ODU outrebounded UTSA 58-34 (!) Including 23 offensive boards that helped us get a 26 to 12 points in the paint edge. 10 team assists, 9 turnovers for the game. Fewest turnovers all year.

Rices wins 64-53. Thursday Feb 13th one week away....get ready.

(02-06-2020 04:37 PM)84Monarch Wrote:  

(02-06-2020 04:11 PM)Gilesfan Wrote:  Holy crap, we are 18-3?!?!?!

Where you been, brother?

Dont follow womens but I knew we were building a good team.