by Wayne23 » Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:50 pm
3/5: Gary Owen is #5 on the Norton list which makes him a possible 1st team All American. Pretty exciting.
3/7: We get a bye to the semifinal round where we face #3 seed Eastern Illinois, 20-10, 13-5. We have beaten them badly twice this season, by 28 and 26.
Scouting Assistant Pers Will: Overconfidence is scaring the coaching staff. We match up VERY well with this team. We feel we're better at every position except PG, which is about even, and we think we have the better bench. We can't let them beat us with threes, which is probably their only chance.
3/8: 95-91. We took the lead right away. Up only 3 at the half though. It was a war right to the end, mostly because of our awful D (they shot 51.9%, 10-20 on threes) and going 0-9 on threes. We won it at the line; they had 3 guys foul out. We were quicker, which meant they had to foul but honestly, the game was not well officiated.
31, 8 for Owen, another big game when we needed it. 19, 7, 4 for Celk, 19, 3, 2 for Weat. Our guards didn't give us much. We'll need a lot more from them in the title game.
As expected we play #1 seed, #21 ranked Eastern Kentucky, 25-5, 15-3.
They beat us by 3 there in Feb. We didn't have Luke John.
Scout Pers Will: The game in Feb. was close all the way. Been watching it over and over. They won it on a 25 foot buzzer beater. We won the inside game easily, didn't lose the outside game by much and we took care of the ball. The two differences- 14 threes to our 6, and their bench was WAY better than ours.
They run a fast paced O with lots of screens and good movement without the ball. They look for the outside shot. I'm recommending that we play a lot of 3-2.
They use a 1-2-2 full court press almost every time and then settle into a man to man. They'll try to tire out our guards.
As far as personnel go we're the better team except for bench strength and I feel like if we play our game we should win.