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2018 Big Sky Games

Beardance said:
That’s cold. Kid played hard all game and accepted responsibility for his mistake. Linder is a great coach and won’t emasculate his player that way. Teams lose games..... to players.
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I'm not saying that he is a bad player, he is one of the best, but he is a poor free throw shooter for some reason. He is 9th on the team for free throw percentage made and 1st on the team for most number of turnovers. If you were a coach playing the Bears and were behind by 1 pt. and the Bears had the ball with 10 seconds left, who would you tell your team to foul to try to get the ball back? I think most coaches would put their best free throw shooters in the game as well as their best ball handlers knowing that the other team is going to foul you to try to get the ball back.
 
Beardance said:
That’s cold. Kid played hard all game and accepted responsibility for his mistake. Linder is a great coach and won’t emasculate his player that way. Teams lose games..... not players.
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16.5 point favorites at home against last-place 1-11 NAU Thursday night.

The Lumbering Jacks are having an abysmal season, including losing to a D2 team on their home court.

But they do have one BSC win. They we're 10.5 point underdogs and won at Montana State, something we failed to do.

Still, this should not be close.
 
The good news: 95-60 cakewalk over NAU last night. Dre, JD, and Sanders combine for 70 points.

The bad: EW beat Montana. Of all the games to lose, undefeated Montana doesn't show up for EW, the team we are fighting for the 4-seed bye. So now if EW wins out we can't catch them. And if we lose any of our remaining games we almost certainly won't catch them.

The updated standings:

Montana 13-1
Weber State 11-2
Idaho 10-3
Eastern Washington 8-5
Northern Colorado 8-6

EW's remaining games:
vs MTST
@ WEB
@ IDST
vs SUU
vs NAU

EW still has to play at Weber, and Weber should be the favorite in that one.

Our remaining games:
vs SUU
@ UND
@ PRST
@ SAC

EW losing at least one more game seems realistic. If we go 4-0 and EW goes 4-1 we both finish 12-6. Then it's a tiebreak. We split our head to head games, so the next tiebreak is....?

Is it record against the teams above? If so that's tricky because EW has two fewer games against the top teams. We are 2-4 and they are 1-2 with the Weber road game remaining. If it's non-conference record we win.
 
EW beating Montana didn't just put them ahead in the race for the 4 seed, it put them ahead if we finish tied with them in the BSC standings. If we tie EW, the tiebreaker is "performance against conference teams in descending order of finish, beginning with the number one team." We went 0-2 vs Montana, so EW wins the tiebreaker. This means tying EW is finishing behind them. Therefore, we are most likely the 5th seed.

However, the only difference between 4 and 5 is that 5 has to play a really bad NAU team, while 4 avoids this game entirely. After that it's the same road, 4 versus 5 winner plays Montana for a shot at the title game.

On the other hand, the 6 seed avoids any match-up with Montana until the championship game. The likely road as the 6 seed would be Sac (3-10 BSC, 6-20 overall). Then Idaho (we're 2-0 against Idaho). Then Weber. Whereas the Montana games weren't good for us, we've shown we can hang with Weber. We were up 10 at half in both games. We were up 2 with 6 seconds to go at Weber.

4 seed: bye --> EW --> Montana --> Championship Game
5 seed: NAU --> EW --> Montana --> Championship Game
6 seed: Sac --> Idaho --> Weber --> Championship Game

So we should tank a couple of games and get the 6 seed. :twocents:
 
Nice win to honor senior night. The Anthony Johnson of old showed up for 25. And another stellar game for Dre. Almost had 42 to break the team record he just set. With his 40 point night he's now top 20 in the country for points per game. Making his case for BSC POY.

Montana was 13-0 but have now lost 2 in a row. Meanwhile Weber has won 9 in a row. So now Montana is only 1 game up on Weber for the top spot, when it seemed like a done deal.

We don't play again till next Saturday, which should be a tough game at North Dakota. All road games from here on out.
 
This really was a good season for Big Sky basketball. Going to be a heck of a conference tournament.
 
Brian said:
This really was a good season for Big Sky basketball. Going to be a heck of a conference tournament.
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It sure has.

Currently two BSC players are top 20 in the country in scoring (Spight and Harding).

5 BSC teams in the top 155 for RPI (out of 351).

Spight's game-winner on Sportscenter.

The ladies are in first.

Kinda sad there's only 3 people on this board.
 
#4 ,I am actually on here quite often. Both men's & women's teams are exciting teams to watch. We just cant quite man up with Montana but we are having an excellent year and believe we have surprised a lot of people. On the women's side, I hope we can cover the absence of Smith.
 
beardevil39 said:
#4 ,I am actually on here quite often. Both men's & women's teams are exciting teams to watch. We just cant quite man up with Montana but we are having an excellent year and believe we have surprised a lot of people. On the women's side, I hope we can cover the absence of Smith.
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Good to have you here beardevil. It's a bummer about Smith. We had a big 3 and seemed like the favorite to go dancing. But we still have a very good team and can still get it done.
 
Afternoon game today, 2pm. At Grand Forks for the last BSC game against North Dakota. The last matchup was a tightly contested thriller with Dre's gamewinner on ESPN.

We're favored by 5.5 but the last game at Greeley was tied in OT before Dre's dagger (although if he'd missed we go to second OT with a likely win because 2 of their starters had fouled out). We didn't have a Thursday game so we should be extra ready.

EW won at Weber, so we're all but assured of not being the 4th seed. So the question is are we the 5th or 6th. Idaho State is one game back of us having upset Idaho. But Idaho State's remaining games are tough, EW, then at the Montanas. So even if we lose all 3 of our remaining games we're still probably ahead or tiebreak Idaho State. We are the 5th seed, the worst spot of 4-6. But the upside is an extra game to watch Spight pick apart NAU.
 
Dre had a rare off nite and we still blew by North Dakota. Jonah goes off for 19 and 10 on 70% shooting. That's 19 wins, which is already 3rd all time behind the March Madness team (21) and the year before with Boyle (25).

Last two regular season games are on the road against teams we haven't faced yet, Portland State and Sac.

PSU beat Stanford and won at Cal. They were up at half versus #1 Duke. They lost by 2 to a Butler team that knocked off #1 Villanova. Nice non-conference resume. But only 8-8 in the BSC.
 
A 20 win season would be damn impressive all things considered... I give them that. I thought they were ineligible for the conference tourney though... glad that's not the case.
 
1.5 point dogs at Portland State tonight.

These guys have the third best offense in the country, but are 328th in defense.

Leading score Deontae North (21 pts per game) suspended indefinitely. He had 20 in the first half against Duke.

Just thinking, if Weber falls to the 4th seed, then we'll have to go through Weber and Montana just to get to the final game. We're 0-4 versus them. Yikes.

Go Bears!
 
20 wins. If Weber wins its last game, there'll be four 20 win teams in the BSC, plus PSU could have 19.

With Weber's loss to Montana, Weber is now tied with EW and EW has the head to head tiebreaker. EW should have no problem beating NAU at home in its last reguar season game, especially with the 3rd seed on the line. That means we have the hardest possible path:

NAU --> Weber --> Montana --> Title game (Idaho/EW probably)

Go Bears!
 
Last regular season game tonight, at Sac State. We're 7.5 point favorites.

Troy's got his work cut out for him tonight if Izayah Mauriohooho-Le'afa passes to Jiday Ugbaja who then dishes it to Chibueze Jacobs.

EW beat NAU earlier today so our path on the bracket is set:

NAU --> Weber --> Montana (assuming Montana beats North Dakota) --> Championship Game

Go Bears!
 
Sac State came to play on their senior night. Strings goes for 30, 6/7 from 3. We give up 88 to a team that averages 66. Before beating us, Sac had only 3 BSC wins and 2 of them were against PSU, who of course is their first round matchup in the tournament.

The regular season is history now. Finally we can begin our bracket busting run to the national title game versus the other UNC, where we upset the Tar Heels and initiate our dynasty.

NAU --> Weber --> Montana (assuming Montana beats North Dakota) --> Championship Game
 
Took care of the Lumbering Jacks. JD's dunk was massive and featured on SportsCenter.

Now for Weber Round 3. Go Bears!
 
Incoming freshman Sam Masten wins basketball Gatorade Player of the Year:

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/08/rock-canyon-sam-masten-gatorade-boys-basketball-player-of-year/
 
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