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Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Who is up for a Wednesday basketball matinee? The Kent State Golden Flashes and the Arkansas Pine Bluff Golden Lions will tip things off at noon for a rare mid-week, mid-day affair at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. This will be the stiffest test for KSU so far this season. Pine Bluff comes in at 1-3...BUT....The losses have been:
TCU 73
Pine Bluff 72
Oklahoma 66
Pine Bluff 58
Mississippi 80
Pine Bluff 47
I imagine that the Golden Lions will not be intimidated by the high noon atmosphere in Kent. The leading scorer for Pine Bluff is Shaun Doss. The 6'5 185 pound grad student averages 19 points per night. Next up is 6'4 sophomore Kylen Milton who averages about 12 points a game. The leading rebounder is 6'8 230 pound Oral Roberts transfer Ismael Plet. He has grabbed double digit boards in two of their first four games.
Overall Pine Bluff doesn't seem to have a ton of size on the roster, but they do play plenty of 6'4/6'5 type guards. It should be a battle. May I suggest a burger and a beer at Ray's followed by some Kent State Hoops!
Go Flashes!
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2022 08:56 AM by fallsdog.)
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-15-2022 08:53 AM)fallsdog Wrote: The leading scorer for Pine Bluff is Shaun Doss. The 6'5 185 pound grad student averages 19 points per night.
He averages 19/night. How many does he average per afternoon?
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fallsdog
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-15-2022 08:58 AM)AlphaFlash Wrote: He averages 19/night. How many does he average per afternoon?
The inmates are asking me what's so funny. Well played.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-15-2022 10:02 AM)fallsdog Wrote: (11-15-2022 08:58 AM)AlphaFlash Wrote: He averages 19/night. How many does he average per afternoon?
The inmates are asking me what's so funny. Well played.
Inmates? Did you drop in on an Akron practice?
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11-15-2022 10:39 AM |
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fallsdog
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
No No. Spiritual Advisor at the Grafton Prison. Much more level headed crowd here.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-15-2022 08:53 AM)fallsdog Wrote: Who is up for a Wednesday basketball matinee? The Kent State Golden Flashes and the Arkansas Pine Bluff Golden Lions will tip things off at noon for a rare mid-week, mid-day affair at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. This will be the stiffest test for KSU so far this season. Pine Bluff comes in at 1-3...BUT....The losses have been:
TCU 73
Pine Bluff 72
Oklahoma 66
Pine Bluff 58
Mississippi 80
Pine Bluff 47
I imagine that the Golden Lions will not be intimidated by the high noon atmosphere in Kent. The leading scorer for Pine Bluff is Shaun Doss. The 6'5 185 pound grad student averages 19 points per night. Next up is 6'4 sophomore Kylen Milton who averages about 12 points a game. The leading rebounder is 6'8 230 pound Oral Roberts transfer Ismael Plet. He has grabbed double digit boards in two of their first four games.
Overall Pine Bluff doesn't seem to have a ton of size on the roster, but they do play plenty of 6'4/6'5 type guards. It should be a battle. May I suggest a burger and a beer at Ray's followed by some Kent State Hoops!
Go Flashes!
It probably isn't at all significant, as the teams are about the same strength this year, but they lost to the Mississippi State Bulldogs, not the Mississippi Rebels.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
As I said about the Portland game, we don't want a repeat of Southern from last year.
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11-15-2022 11:53 AM |
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
I think Pine Bluff is better than Southern from a year ago. But I do agree. At full strength (presumably) against a mid major who has not matched KSU's success of the past two decades AT HOME.....should be a KSU KO!
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Pine-Bluff KenPom is 355. If we lose, we really f'd up.
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11-15-2022 01:52 PM |
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-15-2022 01:52 PM)dannyb73 Wrote: Pine-Bluff KenPom is 355. If we lose, we really f'd up.
And 352 last year.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
So 21-23 from the foul line in first half is pretty good....
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11-16-2022 01:23 PM |
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
46 total fouls with over 5 minutes left and 6 technicals. SOunds like a terrible game to watch
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Looks like the High Noon atmosphere got to them. 94-68 Final
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-16-2022 01:59 PM)thanksjim Wrote: 46 total fouls with over 5 minutes left and 6 technicals. SOunds like a terrible game to watch
It was terrible to watch.
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11-16-2022 03:15 PM |
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
I agree with burden.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
(11-16-2022 03:15 PM)burden Wrote: (11-16-2022 01:59 PM)thanksjim Wrote: 46 total fouls with over 5 minutes left and 6 technicals. SOunds like a terrible game to watch
It was terrible to watch.
In Kent's 3 D1 games they have been whistled for (in order) 22, 24 and 21 fouls.
In my mind I think 7 fouls per half should be the norm up to the final 3 minutes when foul strategy comes more into play. But since Kent is winning, that is not an issue.
So they probably need to cut back on 2-3 fouls per half and 4-6 fouls per game. For a team that plays as physically as Kent traditionally does, averaging about 17-fouls per game should not be alarming.
Therefore, they do need to get a handle on it ... but not lose their edge.
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Officiating last 2 games has been putrid
Monday 47 total fouls , 8 technicals.
Today 51 total fouls , 3 technicals
One good official , the other two clueless
Ref’s need to be better before someone gets hurt
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Aggressive defense doesn't explain the high foul numbers today. Carry and Jacobs are both extremely aggressive on defense and while they both did have 4 fouls I think at most 3 of their total 8 fouls were defensive fouls. Today the block/charge was not a 50/50 call it was a 95/5 call in favor of the charge.
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11-16-2022 06:36 PM |
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RE: Kent State vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff
Thought I had during the game today. I never remember this many Ohio guys on our team. 7 of the 16 players are from Ohio. 9 if you count Santiago and Carry who played HS in OH but aren't originally from here. Then next year our two recruits are from Ohio too.
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