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M: vs Montana
The Hornets (9-10, 2-6 BSC) host the BSC leading Grizzlies (13-7, 8-1 BSC) Thursday night. The Griz got off to a bumpy start to the season but have found their stride. Their lone BSC loss was to Idaho 2 weeks ago. The Hornets were rolled at Montana (77-58) early in conference play largely due to poor FT (11/25) and 3 point (1/6) shooting.

Montana’s production runs through forward Martin Breunig (18.5 ppg, 9.0 rpg) inside and gets good support from guards Walter Wright (12.7 ppg, 4.3 apg, 3.9 apg) and Michael Oguine (10.7 ppg, 5.2 rpg).

Comparison: Hornets - Grizzlies
Points/Game: 72.5 – 70.1
Rebounds/Game: 35.4 – 35.7
Assists/Game: 14.6 – 13.5
Turnovers/Game: 12.2 – 13.2
Points Allowed/Game: 71.8 – 66.8

Tough game and Montana is coming into this game hot. A poor shooting night doomed the Hornets in the first matchup this season. It’s going to take one hell of an effort to steal a win in this one.
 
It' will be a tough game to win on Thursday but I don't think we have to worry about Lopez going off for another career high against us....we actually did a decent job of containing Bruenig, Wright and Oguine...they got a combined 40 pts the first game but Lopez went for 21pts....We shot bad from 3pt land and from the line...home court should help that out...sure would be nice to pick up a win...
 
Montana is 5-0 on the road during Conference play so this will be a tall task tonight. I expect the Hornets to be up to that task with the return of Cody Demps tonight. I'm interested to see how we decide to matchup with Montana after not starting Eric the last couple of games. Breunig isn't huge but he is super efficient down on the block and shoots 65%.
 
I'll be making easy money tonight... Montana is only 2.5 point favorite tonight. Sure you can guess where I'm laying the $$$$ down...
 
mattman_121 said:
Montana is 5-0 on the road during Conference play so this will be a tall task tonight. I expect the Hornets to be up to that task with the return of Cody Demps tonight. I'm interested to see how we decide to matchup with Montana after not starting Eric the last couple of games. Breunig isn't huge but he is super efficient down on the block and shoots 65%.
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Vegas says Demps is still out. You know something they don't???
 
Kadeezy said:
mattman_121 said:
Montana is 5-0 on the road during Conference play so this will be a tall task tonight. I expect the Hornets to be up to that task with the return of Cody Demps tonight. I'm interested to see how we decide to matchup with Montana after not starting Eric the last couple of games. Breunig isn't huge but he is super efficient down on the block and shoots 65%.
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Vegas says Demps is still out. You know something they don't???
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Vegas was right about Demps...but terribly wrong on the spread and the over. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hornets beat the Griz for the 2nd straight year at home 83-79. :lol: :lol: :lol: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Hornets had a terrible 1st half (Hornsby was in foul trouble less than 2 minutes in on some BS calls) and Breunig completely dominated (but made some stupid fouls, :lol: at that foul on Ugbaja for his 3rd when Ugbaja took that low percentage 3 with the shot clock winding down :lol: ) .

Griz open the 2nd half with a couple of 3s and stretch the lead to 20...then the Hornets open a can of whoops ass and fvcking dominate the last 18 minutes of the game and grab the win. Ugbaja (18 pts, 5 boards) made a HUGE statement and planted a flag tonight. Graves (18 pts, 5 assists) proved why he should drive to the tin more as he made things happen when he did. Wu (11 pts, 4 boards) broke some poor dudes ankles so bad a stretcher had to come out to cart some poor guy off the floor (ok not really, but kinda). Stuteville (15 pts, 9 boards, 4 blocks) had a huge 2nd half, and Strings (13 pts) was Strings.

Wow what a win, I guess paved roads and indoor plumbing was just too much for Montucky to over come in Sacto yet again. :lol: 8-)

Great atmosphere as the pep band finally founds its way back into the Nest for the first time in well over a decade. :thumb: :clap:
 
Sorry about your bankroll Kadeezy but that was one fun game to be at....I really like the aggressive offense...Jiday kept Wright from getting off and Marcus did the same on their freshman Oguine...Wu got lucky on a banker but that seemed to open the gates for him and he definitely gave the offense a spark, I wish he had taken the shot after he broke the guys ankle because that would have been icing on the cake..one of the most entertaining games I've ever been to....
 
Amazing come back for the Hornets to knock the Griz out of first place and light up the Griz fan board with the traditional blasts about our facilities and overall questioning of Sac State even being relevant Big Sky equals.

Best of luck tomorrow against the other Montana school and may the Hornets come out fired up to continue to stand strong at Hornet Gym with another huge hometown crowd and with the long await return of the Sac State band at basketball games!!

Go Sac State .
 
M: vs Montana State

The Hornets (10-10, 3-6 BSC) face a pesky Montana State (9-13, 4-6 BSC) tonight in the Nest. MSU knocked off the Hornets in the first meeting but have only 2 road wins this season. The Bobcats lost by a significant margin at PSU (83-68) Thursday night.

Guards Tyler Hall (17.5 ppg, 5.5 rpg) and Marcus Colbert (17.0 ppg, 5.3 apg) are still carrying the load for this young Bobcat team. MSU is 2nd in the BSC in 3 pointers per game at 9.1 but last in the BSC in blocks at 2.0 per game.

Comparison: Hornets - Bobcats
Points/Game: 73.1 – 75.3
Rebounds/Game: 35.6 – 36.8
Assists/Game: 14.5 – 12.5
Turnovers/Game: 12.1 – 12.5
Points Allowed/Game: 72.2 – 79.5

MSU struggles on the road but the Hornets are still struggling to find consistency. If the Hornets can keep the momentum from Thursday’s epic win over Montana going, then their chances tonight are good. A win tonight moves the Hornets ahead of MSU in the BSC standings.
 
I hope Sac State doesn't come out flat tonight after that insane win Thursday night, I know I'm still riding on a high from that great game. The 2H was all about playing hard that's it. After getting beat by the exact same play for 2 back to back three pointers to open the second half (Gfeller) and push the Montana lead to 20 things didn't look very good.

Give Jiday a ton of credit for stepping up like this when Sac State really needed a boost. Wu has been on fire lately, but he was killing me by leaving Gfeller wide open for threes at least 2-3 plays in the second half.

After struggling there for the first couple of conference games Graves has really been playing well recently averaging really good numbers over the last six games 17.2 points 5.5 assists 3.7 rebounds 48% field goal percentage. I love when he gets out in transition and stays in attack mode.

Tonight our game plan should be very simple, go to the rim every single possession. Montana State has zero big guys. Eric got in foul trouble at Montana State, if he can avoid that he should have another big game to follow up the great performance against Montana.

On defense we need to find the three point shooters (and they have a lot of them): Colbert/Everett/Gobeloglu/Hall/Holm.
 
79-76 loss. Hornets came out flat and spotted MSU a 12 point lead early on. The Hornets spent the rest of the night trying to claw back into it. It was a 4 point game at half, MSU rebuilt the lead in the 2nd half and the Hornets got it to 1 with about 5 to go but were just out of gas. A late barrage of 3's made the final score look closer than it really was.

With Demps out (who suited but didn't play), the Hornets just don't have the quality backcourt depth to match up with smaller lineups. MSU out hustled the Hornets most of the night. The inconsistency continues...
 
I just want to know what the ef the call was with less than 6 secs left when they stopped play and took our 3 off the board? Ref blows the whistle to stop play but never makes a call, just gives it back to us with 3 left....WTF was that??
 
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