Oral Roberts Game on Jan 1

wiu712 · Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:42 pm

Summit League games start on Friday, Jan 1, at Western Hall vs Oral Roberts. Game time is 7PM.

It is "Buck Night": $1 admission!!

wiu712 · Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:26 pm

Western wins 72-61.

Western out-scored Oral Roberts 52-37 in the second half.

Taylor Higginbotham led the Western scoring with 21 points. Michelle Maher had 18.

Attendance at Western Hall was 507.

sealhall74 · Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:23 am

There was a 3 minute stretch in 3rd quarter (9:24 - 6:21) during which the teams scored a combined 27 points. Not a single foul was called during that short stretch. After scoring that last 3ptr, ORU had to call an immediate 30 second timeout and bring in a couple of subs for relief. Without a doubt, this style of play is quite a bit closer to the one James Naismith had in mind when he invented the game back in 1891:

At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class which was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Springfield YMCA Physical Education, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction": Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape[8] and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith

Wow, have we totally messed up James' game or what?

Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:41 am

So, what you're saying is it's supposed to be the "big kid" version of "go outside and run around the house until you're tired".

sealhall74 · Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:50 am

ST_Lawson wrote:So, what you're saying is it's supposed to be the "big kid" version of "go outside and run around the house until you're tired".

More or less you got it. Current game is too physical and too many stoppages of play. In James' game, dribbling was not allowed (first introduced in 1901). One rule change they might consider in future would be to limit the amount of dribbles to say 3 so that passing becomes more of an emphasis and those ugly player control charging fouls become less common.