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SFA (11-1/3-0) comes to town and brings a very fine team witha 3-0 SLC record after shelacaings of Lamar and McNeese the last two. Sagarin gas the Jacks rated 50th in D1. Their results so far this season are:

Nov 9 - W vs. Howard Payne, 84-30
Nov 17 - W at FIU, 69-60
Nov 20 - W vs. Jarvis Christian, 78-39
Nov 24 - W at Tulsa, 57-41
Dec 1 - W vs. San Diego, 56-51
Dec 5 - L at Texas A&M, 54-62
Dec 8 - W vs. LSU-Shreveport, 73-46
Dec 15 - W vs. Lubbock Chris, 78-67
Dec 18 - W at Oklahoma, 56-55
Dec 20 - W vs. Grambling St, 60-38
Dec 29 - W at TX A&M-CC, 67-56
Jan 3 - W vs. Lamar, 79-43
Jan 5 - W vs. McNeese State, 71-43


Jacks avg 68n ppg and opponents avg 48...a 20 point spread....the SLC winning spread is a little higher.

Both SFA and UCA avg about 60% FTs......at bottom of SLC.

Both teams avg about 46-47% FGs but SFA allows opponents only 37% while UCA gives up 47%...that has to change to have a chance to win.

Bears shoot about 37% 3s a while SFA hits less than 30%. UCA has hit 102 3s so far, nearly twice the number of SFA.

Jacks lead SLC in rebounding and reb margin at 8-9. Bears in middle of pack with a <2> deficit. Bears will have to at least make this an even match.

SFA and UCA are 1-2 in SLC in TO assist/TOs.....SFA leads in TO margin at +6 while UCA is OK at 1.5+.

Taylor Smith leads SFA in scoring (15, 5th in SLC) and rebounding (9, 3rd SLC). UCA's Garner and Crawford are 3rd and 4th SLC scoring at 16. Garner is 5th in SLC rebounding at 7+.

Keys are - at least break even on TOs and rebounding, take good shots and take aadvanatgbeof home court and play tough, aggressive defense.

Sagarin would suggest SFA favored by 12.

anyone getting the internet radio broadcast to work?

Q1: SFA 24 UCA 14

Bears not getting shots to fall...SFA has fouled only once...

Cannot get game broadcast or video...LiveStats OK.....

Look at the rebound difference.... SFA 22 UCA 8??? Come on guys!! Play like you want to WIN!

Half time

SFA 38 UCA 31

Q2: UCA 17 SFA 14

Hanging tough so far......even though getting massacred on the boards (24 v 9), shooting is pretty even ( SFA 50% Fs v 48%), 3s at 30% v 40% and FTs at 54% v 63%....the real stat is we are losing offensive rebs by 10 to 1......TOs only at 5 each.....got to get some O-boards and more second shots...

Good to have Q back with his 12 points....Crawford has 7 without any 3s...Garner needs some baskets....Bears still in this game.....

http://www.ucasports.com/sports/2013/1/10/adfljkadu8.aspx?&tab=3

See link above re broadcast issue....

8:05 left...SFA leads down to 64-57.....Q has 21/4...Bears have only taken six 3s...made 50%....doing a bit better on o-boards now with 5 vs SFA's 13....

SFA 60 UCA 51 after Q3....


Scoring heating up... SFA wins Q3 by 22-20....

1:39 left

UCA fighting...SFA leads 73-64...still a chance....

FINAL

SFA 38-39=77
UCA 31-38=69

Battled to the end.... most points scored against SFA this season....loss is not good but there are signs here of hope...Q is back and with an exclamation point....game could have gotten away early and Bears came back...game could have gotten away again in 2nd half but Bears again came back.....remember that SFA is rated about 50th in D1 and we are down about #250....this performance overall should be encouraging........plus a glimpse of what we can do against a very good team....got to be proud of the effort....

SFA v UCA

FGs: 56% v 47%...Bears actually had more shots in spiteor rebounding
3s: 33% v 33%....both teams 4 for 12.....
FTs: 48% v 58%....
Rebs: 38 v 20 .....14 v 8 on o-boards..
TOs: 12 v 11...big improvement here...good job

Q finishes 21/5 with 4 assists...great return...
McClure added 10...Crawford had 9...Berete scored 8...

Give SFA credit for keeping Crawford (12th in D1 for 3s %) at 0 for 2....Jacks leader Taylor Smith tallied 23/12....four others in double figures.....