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Ex-fucking-hale...excuse my language lol...that was a big one!
 

Western won 90-85.

Luka Barisic led the Western scoring with 22 points and 9 rebounds.  Will Carius had 19 points.  Trenton Massner had 18.  Colton Sandage had 13.  Cameron Burrell had 10.

Tamell Pearson had 9 rebounds.

Western was 15 of 30 (50%) on three-pointers.

Western was 3 of 8 on free throws while Oral Roberts was 13 of 15.

Attendance at Oral Roberts = 4,136.  This was "Fan Appreciation Day" which featured free admission.

Next game will be at UMKC on Saturday (Feb 5).  Game time is 7:00 PM.
 
 

loyalfan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:52 pm Ex-fucking-hale...excuse my language lol...that was a big one!

 

Huge win...

Western Illinois beats ORU men in Tulsa.
From the Tulsa World:
https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/o ... 7e0aa.html
 
 

Historical note of interest:

Last summer, former Leatherneck and later on transfer to ORU, Obi Emegano competed in the Tokyo Olympics representing the country of Nigeria.  He is currently playing professionally in Spain.

https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/lists/ ... -olympics/
 

sealhall74 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:55 pm Historical note of interest:

Last summer, former Leatherneck and later on transfer to ORU, Obi Emegano competed in the Tokyo Olympics representing the country of Nigeria.  He is currently playing professionally in Spain.  I will never forget watching him go through his warmup routine at Western Hall.  He would dribble two balls at the same time and seemingly work magic tricks with them.

https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/lists/ ... -olympics/
 

 

 

Looking at current NCAA stats (overall season, not just conference games) and comparing ours with other conference foes, here is where we are.  Nunbers toward 0 lean to worst in conference and numbers toward 1 lean to best in conference.  

Update:  I posted this earlier but there appears to be a problem with the way St Thomas stats are handled by NCAA.  It was throwing off my results.  Here is the revised stats with ST Thomas excluded from the mix.  Assists look like a problem now along with the 3pt FG defense and our own 3pt FG shooting.

'Western Ill.': [
      '3ptFGAtt=0.65',  'AstTORat=0.42',
      'AstsPerG=0.2',   'BlksPerG=0.22',
      'DRebsPerG=0.51', 'FewFouls=0.56',
      'FewTOs=0.67',    'FGPct=0.36',
      'FGPctD=0.5',     'FTAtts=0.74',
      'FTsMade=0.55',   'FTPct=0.37',
      'ORebsPerG=1',    'FoulsPerG=0.56',
      'RebMargin=0.86', 'ScoreDef=0.39',
      'ScoreMarg=0.7',  'ScoreOff=0.63',
      'StealPerG=0.63', '3ptFGDef=0.23',
      '3ptFGPerG=0.42', '3ptFGPct=0.16',
      '3ptFGMade=0.48', 'Assists=0.19',
      'Blocks=0.2',     'Rebounds=0.79',
      'RebsPerG=0.79',  'Steals=0.63',
      'TOMargin=0.55',  'TOsForced=0.49',
      'TOsPerG=0.73',   'WinLosePct=0.66'
 

This just like one big math problem to me.

Really nice but it's one game and means nothing if you don't win the next game.