Month: November 2006

This is embarrassing, and it’s probably some sort of sign.  Here’s the conference leaderboard in Brick Index (BI), which is a quick measure of whether a player’s tendency to shoot the ball often is hurting the team: Rank Team ## Player Name BI PER 1 HU 4 Cole Kee 8.3 2.64 2 ATU 3 Brandon […]

Ecclesia may have come to Searcy ready to play another D-II team, but they probably left demoralized after last night’s 109-50 beating at the hands of the Bisons. Here are the keys:   Away Home +/-   Eff 61.0 128.0 -67.0 Actual net efficiency TS% 37.4 61.8 -0.245   OR% 33.3% 42.1% -0.088   TR […]

Harding won their first home game of the season last night, 68-55 over the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers.  This game was hardly true to form for a Bisons win, which is typically characterized by hot shooting and  consistent defense.  In last night’s case, the Bisons outrebounded the comparatively unathletic Chargers by about 33% and turned the ball […]

I’m not totally caught up on this weekend’s games, but I’m getting things in gear for the first Harding home game tomorrow night against Alabama-Huntsville.  UAH split the home-and-home with HU last year, so the Bisons will be working toward winning both games starting at 8:30 PM Eastern.  Hopefully I’ll have some stats to post […]

The first weekend of the basketball season has passed, and the outcomes were mostly predictable.  Here’s a rundown of what happened: Week in Review Christian Brothers looked very good as the only team to play three games this week.  The Bucs won all of them, all against solid Division-II opponents.  The home win over Lynn […]

21st Ranked Bisons Fall to Incarnate Word, 79-70 [HardingSports.com] In recent years for Harding Basketball, there has been one thing you can count on: if the three-point shots aren’t falling, the Bisons certainly are. That was the case today against Incarnate Word in Austin, Texas, where Harding just couldn’t hit enough shots and fell 79-70. […]

HardingSports.com game summary Matt Hall had 35 points in a close season-opening game to lead the newly-21st-ranked Harding men’s team. Sadly, I didn’t get to hear much of the radio broadcast, since it cut out on me for good at about the 7-minute mark in the first half. It apparently turned out to be a […]

This is the first in a series of weekly previews and reviews of GSC basketball action.  Until the first week of 2007, there are no conference games or set Monday/Thursday/Saturday schedules for games, so this could be a bit hectic.  I’ll try to check in once each week to review the games that have been […]

These posts never work out well, but it’s time to predict the GSC West for the 2006-07 season.  A lot of good players are gone, but there are still some good, maybe even great teams within the division.  I’ll do this in reverse order, but let’s start with what the GSC coaches think will be […]

Delta State crushed the GSC competition last year, so they’re the last preview in my preseason series.  Official games start tomorrow, but first let’s discuss the 2006 conference champs. 05-06 Recap The Statesmen looked like a Division-I team playing in the comparatively-lowly GSC last year, with an early-season loss at North Alabama being their only […]