Leatherneck Nation

LOCATION CHANGE FOR TONIGHT'S PRE-GAME SOCIAL:

It will be at the same place as yesterday's pre-game social before the Women's game.

4:00 PM at The Rooftop.
112 Northwest Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd

We need better offball movement. Kids standing around with hands on hips.  Not kidding.

Can’t turn the ball over every other time down the court and win. 

At the under 4 time out. 

19 turnovers 

9-19 from FT line. 

will be a miracle to pull this one out. 

Western wins 61-59

Quinlan Bennett was Western's lead scorer with 18 points.  He also had 10 rebounds.

Jesiah West, Ryan Myers, and JJ Kalakon each had 12 points.

Drew Cisse had 12 rebounds.

Western had 19 turnovers which resulted in 25 points for Tennessee State.

Western was 16 of 29 (55%) on free throws.

Tennessee State had 15 steals.  Western had 4.

Tennessee State had 16 bench points.  Western had 1.

Survive and advance...that all you can say for this game.

Will need a better showing tomorrow night against Little Rock, but if we play to our ability, it is a very winnable match-up.

Just out of curiosity did anyone's streaming seem discolored? Just seemed like TV had a yellow tint on it whole time nit as good of quality as I was hoping for. 

 
 

In Thursday's other quarter-final game, #3 Morehead State beat #6 SIU-Edwardsville 78-63.

Attendance for the evening session = 1,140

Biggest surprises on the drive down here:

1) The number of farm fields using cover crops.  All reallly bright green right now.
2) The number of farm fields with working oil pumps churning away on them. Google says about 30K oils well are still around in the state of Illinois, most of them down south.

Biggest surprises on the court last night:

1) We did not handle the pressure very well.  Dribblers dribbling out of control with no where to pass the ball.
2) The stars must have been aligned.  We got the 2 best bigs into early foul trouble, eventually both fouled out 
    and were essentially non-factors.

Biggest non-surprise on the court:

1) We got to foul line more than them and controlled the boards, like most games this year.  When we can do that, I like our chances to pull off an upset tonight and every night.

TSU did not bring a band or cheerleaders for whatever reason.  The conference honored a lot of elementary school kids from around the conference at half time.  Pep band did a fantastic job of keeping those kids dancing in their seats the whole game. 
 
 
 
 

sealhall74 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:20 amThe conference honored a lot of elementary school kids from around the conference at half time.  Pep band did a fantastic job of keeping those kids dancing in their seats the whole game. 
 
 

The radio half-time show talked about this.  Each team in the tournament is "adopted" by a 4th grade classroom in Evansville.  During the days leading up to the tournament, the coaches and players talk to the kids in their adopted classroom.