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Pretty tough noncon schedule......Northwestern is common foe ....

RPIs...UCA =286 and TAMCC = 159.....(of course RPI shows UAPB at 180 just ahead of Ga Tech)

SLC West:
70 Lamar
133 UTSA
159 TAMCC
203 UTA
253 SHS
318 TSU

SLC East:
68 SFA
227 MSU
233 NSU
239 SELA
248 NWSU
286 UCA


Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders, 6-9
Nov 14 - W vs. TX A&M-Kingsville, 83-64
Nov 16 - L at Illinois, 53-72
Nov 19 - L at Northwestern, 48-66
Nov 23 - L at Tulsa, 43-66
Nov 28 - W vs. Jackson State, 73-63
Nov 29 - W vs. UNC-Wilmington, 97-64
Dec 3 - W vs. St Edwards, 84-70
Dec 6 - L at T-C-U, 53-66
Dec 8 - W vs. TX A&M-Int, 87-60
Dec 14 - L vs. Oklahoma State, 59-82
Dec 18 - L at Savannah State, 42-47
Dec 22 - W at Georgia, 80-79
Dec 31 - L at S-M-U, 62-92
Jan 3 - L at Florida State, 48-69
Jan 6 - L at Houston, 65-85



2008-2009 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders Individual Stats
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnf ... spx?id=C88

PLAYER G MIN PPG RPG APG OFF DEF TOT AST STL BLK TO PF
K.Palmer 15 421 16.3 4.3 2.6 24 41 65 39 41 8 52 26
D.Watt 15 385 9.1 6.4 0.6 46 50 96 9 15 16 22 41
J.Reynolds 15 315 9.1 4.7 1.1 27 43 70 16 16 7 26 39
T.Green 15 311 7.3 2.1 1.1 11 20 31 16 17 1 21 25
L.Drake 15 395 6.8 2.5 3.3 10 28 38 49 20 3 51 28
F.Toncinic 15 308 5.9 4.5 1.1 16 52 68 16 12 10 18 31
J.Nelson 15 174 3.6 2.2 0.3 14 19 33 4 3 1 26 34
H.Bond 15 355 3.5 3.6 1.1 27 27 54 16 6 5 18 40
S.Coombs 5 100 2.4 2.6 2.6 1 12 13 13 4 0 16 7
A.Topps 9 104 2.2 0.7 0.4 2 4 6 4 6 1 9 11
K.Perkins 4 51 2.0 1.5 0.3 0 6 6 1 2 0 7 5
M.Hammonds 15 88 0.7 0.6 0.2 1 8 9 3 3 2 10 10
J.Warnell 5 7 0.4 0.6 0.0 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 0
J.Johnson 5 7 0.0 0.2 0.0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
J.Allen 4 4 0.0 0.3 0.0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
.TEAM 15 0 0.0 4.0 0.0 31 29 60 0 0 0 6 0

FG 3PT FT
PLAYER M-A PCT M-A PCT M-A PCT PTS
K.Palmer 79-200 .395 26-80 .325 60-74 .811 244
D.Watt 52-109 .477 1-1 1.000 32-48 .667 137
J.Reynolds 50-107 .467 4-16 .250 32-54 .593 136
T.Green 38-103 .369 11-36 .306 22-39 .564 109
L.Drake 35-92 .380 10-39 .256 22-29 .759 102
F.Toncinic 31-74 .419 4-18 .222 23-35 .657 89
J.Nelson 21-46 .457 2-9 .222 10-14 .714 54
H.Bond 18-48 .375 1-7 .143 16-22 .727 53
S.Coombs 3-27 .111 2-19 .105 4-4 1.000 12
A.Topps 6-22 .273 5-19 .263 3-4 .750 20
K.Perkins 3-9 .333 0-3 .000 2-2 1.000 8
M.Hammonds 4-12 .333 0-3 .000 3-7 .429 11
J.Warnell 0-2 .000 0-1 .000 2-2 1.000 2
J.Johnson 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0
J.Allen 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0
.TEAM 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0

Time to Rock & Roll...standby...

Go Bears!

VERY, VERY small crowd...
Also, understand the Sugarbears lost this evening 52-TO-50.

CC is big and physical...we are battling hard.

CC 25
UCA 24

HALFTIME

One heck of a battle going on...both teams playing hard.

NM, Monty beat me to it!

Go Bears!

CC 46
UCA 33

11:51 remaining.

CC is turning up the heat on defense.

Sounds like Bears cannot handle the press very well.....plus 2nd half shooting not very good...

CC 52
Bears 37

9:00 to go

FINAL

CC 70
UCA 44

I guess a team that beat Georgia on the road can be a handful. They simply blew us out the 2nd half from the first minute. Islanders win 2nd half by 45-20!!

UCA led by Mitch Rueter with 10 followed by Brooks Taylor at 8 and Marcus Pillow at 7.

Rand pleased with last 15 minutes of 1st half, mostly the hustle. Did not compete well in 2nd half......stood around and watched ......did not get after it....seldom made right decision on offense with passes....we have some things to correct on offensive end....their 7 footer is talented guy who plays with energy.....did pretty good job defensively on Palmer until late when it did not matter...SF Austin is experienced and will be tough....need to have a big crowd.....team has some soul searching to do....

Stats summary:

UCA 12/48 25% with 4/16 3s and 16/24 FTs Turnovers 14
TAMCC 30/69 43% with 6/23 3s and 4/15 FTs Turnovers 11

TAMCC had 51 rebounds (21/30) while Bears could only manage 36 (11/25)

Islanders move to 7-9 and 1-0 while Bears fall to 7-7 and 0-1

WOW! That was an ugly 2nd half for the Bears! I don't think I've seen many box scores where a team scores fewer points in the 2nd half than they did in the first like the Bears did tonight (24 in 1st, 20 in 2nd)! I've got a scary feeling that this is going to be a LONG season for this team...

It sounds like the Bears went to the restroom at the half and never came back. Reminds me of one my smarter exes.

I think just about anyone can press us. We just don't handle it well at all. I think the word is out: press or 1/2 court trap UCA.

Most teams have a hard time handling a close press and especially the Nolan (midcourt) Trap....after watching teams at Bud Walton trying to handle Nolan's really oppressive mid court traps it seems you either (a) have to be good enough handling the ball to blow through it (very hard), (b) go over the top qucikly which requires teammates to be open or (c) anticipate and NEVER let yourself get in the coffin corner and get the ball downcourt very fast......the latter is the only one where you have any control over the outcome...the other two are turnovers quite often due to poor execution.....we will see how the Bears deal with this.....