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Louisiana Tech will host its first national postseason tournament in almost a decade when the Lady Techsters welcome Missouri State to the Thomas Assembly Center Thursday night for the first round of the WNIT.
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Anthoney gts first bucket and Techsters lead 2-0 early!
4-4 now.. Bears ball
Bears take the first lead of game at 6-4!
Anthoney has all 7pts for the Techsters and they lead by1.. 766
about 4:35 left in 1st QTR!
Techsters up 7-6...
Techsters have turned over 3 times...
Leading scorer for the Bears looks like she may be injured.. being helped off the court!
Malone gets bucket and is going to line for the plus 1!
Techsters leading by 4 now!
Cleaver just picks up 2nd foul for the game in the 1st QTR! Techsters leading 10-8
Malone gets bucket and lead back to 4! with just under 2 minutes left in game.. Bears shooting 27% and Techsters shooting 31% for game!
6th team foul on the Techsters!
Good job defense for theTechsters.. 30 violation for the BEars, Techsters should get last shot for the 1st QTR!
End of 1QTR 12-9!
Anthoney and Malone have all 12 of The pts for the Techsters...
Stalley get a bucket..
Techsters has 6 turn overs and Bears at 8 for game!
Bears leading on rebounds for game..19-14 out rebounded Techsters for game so far!
Techsters hanging on to a 14-13 lead early in the 2nd QTR!
Tied at 14..
Bears take 15-14 lead..
What the heck - 5-6 turn over in a row by Techsters
Techsters up to 10 turn overs for game!
Bears leading by 1..
Bears have 9 turn over themselves..
5:50 left in 2nd QTR!
Dixon gets bucket and Techsters leading by 1..
4:51 left in 2nd..
Undisciplined
Dixon going to line for 2.. Techsters leading by 1...
Missed 1st! misses both!
Anthoney with rebound.. both teams are 1 of 20 shooting from 3pt range!
Bears gong to line, makes 1st to tie game, misses 2nd..
Bears ball in tied game!Techsters ball in tied game..
16 -16 score..Techsters ball..
rebound Bears..
Anthoney picks up 2nd foul, with 1
Anthoney get 2nd foul of game, then Malone gets called for her 2nd foul of game after Bears take a 3pt lead for game.. Stalley 0 for 5 shooting 3pt range!
We foul the Bears with .01 seconds left on the clock to end the 2nd QTR! 23-18 Techsters trailing at the half!
I hope this is one of those games where Brooke reminds the girls that they can't score if they keep losing the ball...
Bears hit 3ptr to start 3rd QTR!
26-18..
Cleaver misses 1 of 2 free throws.. misses both make that 25-18, they changed the 3ptr to a 2..
Stalley o for 6 shootint for game!
Lang gets a driving lay up.. 25-20..
Techsters ball, Malone gets bucket.. 22-25!
31-24 Bears leading, make that 31-27.. make that 33-27!
When Stahley is off I don't like the odds...
Bears ball leading by 6.. Techsters with rebound..
5:16 left in 3rd QTR!
Whittney going to line for 2.. trailing by 6..
Makes 1st, misses 2nd!
trailing by 5, Bears ball..
Whittney gets bucket.. lead at 3 for Bears.. 35-32 ..
Bears with rebound..3:46 35-32
Prob 2-13 threes, 2-8 free throws
Anthoney picks up 4th Foul with just over 2 nimutes left in the 3rd QTR trailing by 5!
37-32..
Can't teach... accuracy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Russdawg
Another problem is they are standing around at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russdawg
39-32, Bears leading!
about a minute left in 3rd QTR!
Malone at line, makes 1st.. 39-33, makes 2nd.. 39-34..
Let's GO D!
Techsters ball on jump ball, 39-36 aftr Malone bucket!
Bears get another 3ptr! 42-36.. 42-38..
Malone with rebound.. misses a shot at buzzer! 4pt game at end of 3rd QTR!
Bears playing good disspite loosing leading scorer early in the 2nd QTR!
Bears ball to start 4th QTR!
Techsters ball on jump ball!
Trailing by 4..
Bears steal ball!
offensive rebound for the Bears...
Malone with 14th rebound!
Bears player gets 4th foul..
Techsters ball,
Malone gets bucket and will go to line for the plus 1..
misses the shot! trailing by 2..
tied game at 42.., Bears get bucket!
Malone going to line for 2 trailing by 2!
She makes 1st.. gets 2nd, tie game at 44!
Bears going to line, misses 1st... makes 2nd.. Bears leading by 1...
Techsters ball, and Time out called.. 7:29 left in game!
Win or lose, Malone is playing like a true champion.
Let's GO Techsters!
Techsters ball trailing by 1...
24 pts and 14 rebounds for Malone!
fricking turn over by the Techsters!
Bears ball, leading by 1.. 45-44..
turn over Bears!
Anthoney back in game!
Techsters leading by 1!
Malone with 15th rebound.. and Stalley gets her 1st rebound of game and lead at 4! Bears call TIME OUT!
Malone is willing this team against MS
6:14 left in game, Techsters up by 4!
Bears ball, they get bucket.. lead at 2.. and Bears get ball.. and going to line for 2..Techsters still leading by 2..
Bears makes both to tie game at ..
Anthoney gets bucket..
Tied again at 51!
Techsters ball and Stalley gets another 3ptr!
54-51.. about 5 minutes left in game!
Bears going to line for 2 trailing by 3..
Malone gets rebound..
Cleaver gets bucket and leads by 5!
Cleaver gets a rebound from misses 3ptr from the Bears, and Techsters tur it over!
leading by 5!
3:28 left in game, Bears ball, 56-53..Techsters ball,
rebound bears.. 56-55 after Bears bucket!
Techsters ball, nd they call TIME OUT! leading by 1..
TCU wins against Lamar and will host the winner of this game!
Techsters ball, and have fresh 3p on clock.. turn over by Techsters and Cleaver picks up foul and Bears going to line trailing by1..
Tied game at 56!
Bears to shoot second shot.. 1:39 left in game and makes 2nd shot to take a 1 pt lead!
Bears with rebound and 1 pt lead for the Bears!
Malone cramping on court!
Malone deserves better teammates
Wow. What a collapse. Must have been going to the men's practices.
We suck.
....except Malone.
No other way to say this....we are STUPID!!!
Oh no! We suck again!
This is why I didn't want to go to the NIT. We aren't even NIT material. Just hit the recruiting trail, because losing to nobodies sure isn't going to help us get better.
1:20 left in game and bears leading by 1, make that 3! with 60b seconds left in game!
Techsters ball, rebound by Bears after missed 3ptr by Anthoney, Bears going to line leading by 3!
35 seconds left in game trailing by 3 and Bears at line!
56-51 is the score.. seconds left in game!
Bears with rebound! going back to lineleading by 5!
29.6 seconds left in game!
Bears miss 1st free throw!
Stil leading by 6 McLeoud gets a 3prt!
62-59 Bears leading! Their ball, with 5 second call on Bears and they turn the ball over!!!
Techsters ball trailing by 3!
Turn over Techsters!
WOW, WOW!
Bears going back to line!
misses 1st free throw, still leading by 3.. makes scond! lead at 4...
Techsters ball, 13.2 seconds left in game!
6 of 14 shooting at free throw line for the Techsters!
Ball game over Bears come in the the TAC and beat the Techsters with out their leading scoreer!
6 of 14 from the line
It's the exact same crap night after night after night...
I like Brooke but ending every season with double losses just ain't getting my rocks off
Malone was crazy intense tonight, went all out after everything. Man are we gonna miss her. I'm honestly worried about next year.
THANK YOU ALEXUS, A TRUE LADY TECHSTER.
The beatings will continue until play improves.
Sad thing is, as I posted earlier, I expected to lose a close game. But BlindDog was right - we'd claw back from a deficit just long enough to give us hope. It's the Tech way!
Btw, many thanks to BlindDog for his unfaltering commentary. For those of us who can't watch or listen, it's a godsend. The Twitter account is laughably slow.
Next year w/o Malone we will be dreadful.
A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
Alexus Malone scored 24 points and grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds but it wasn't enough as Missouri State defeated Louisiana Tech 63-59 Thursday night in the first round of the WNIT at the Thomas Assembly Center.
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Malone really wanted this. 18 rebounds. Darn shame. Its these absolutely DREADFUL mistakes by players that create these aweful turnovers. I don't know how they can make such a poor decision in some cases.
Malone is the best Lady Techster I've seen since Adrienne Johnson. Malone was really fun to watch tonight as well as all season long. She gets after it and can do almost anything. We are really gonna miss her. Kudos to Alexus. Proud of the way she represented Tech.
Not only do we have to replace Malone, Brooke needs to find a legit PG to come in and start right away in the worst way. The Lady Techsters have been flat out awful passing the ball and turning it over all season. Way too many possessions just given away all season due to mostly unforced turnovers. It's hard to watch. Recipe for disaster.
And what a pitiful finish to the season with two bad losses playing bad basketball. MSU lost their leading scorer in the 1st quarter, and we still couldn't beat them at the TAC. How much money did we waste hosting this tourney game?
Looked like the red seats which hold around 2000 were about half full and blue seats basically empty. Probably not more than 8-900 paid, wont ever know financial results but we must remember the publicity of hosting a game is worth a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Publicity of hosting WNIT is worth a lot? LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Exes&Ohs
Your paid attendance is nowhere near accurate. No way it's even half that amount. The majority of attendees were students who get in for free, comped tix for admin and coaches, comped tix for players' families, etc. Only a handful of folks are actually paying listed ticket prices to get in.
And the WNIT is nothing like the NIT. The NCAA pays teams on top of subsidizing expenses for the NIT. The WNIT is a pay-to-play tourney like the men's CBIT but not as costly.
Update: Tech had to pay the WNIT $6,500 to host the game last night. Not sure who gets ticket sale money, if host gets to retain or if it has to be given to the WNIT. Second Round hosting fee would've gone up to $7,500. For teams that travel, each school has cover the first $12,000 in travel expenses, and the WNIT pays any amount after that $12K threshold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
Literally the only good outcome of that game was Malone had a career high. That's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
I'm still with Brooke, if only because (we can only hope) one coaching search is quite enough to be getting on with. But this is the exact same ending as last season. I don't know if we've actually improved at all over last year. Not what I was sold.
Has there ever been a crazier season? Early win over Penn State, lose next day to Niagara who was 0-5 including being badly whipped by ull.
Ended conference getting trounced at home by Charlotte, then beating conference leader UAB on the road and ending Rice's 15 game home winning stream. Looking Up? Not so fast my friend.
Concluded the year with poorly played losses to UNT and Missouri State. Awful basketball at times.
So next year WKU and UAB will be at least as good, Rice, UNT, Charlotte, Middle Tennessee will definitely be BETTER. CUSA stronger all around. We lose Malone, a true warrior. We gotta have help NOW or we could flip this years 19-12 record to 12-19. And in two years when all the seniors from 2018-19 are gone, frightening without quick upgrading. Who've we got coming to make us better? Just asking. And somewhat worried.
I don't know that I'm worried merely because I'm well on my way to acceptance in the stages of grief (or maybe I'm still stuck at anger). Tech sports have thoroughly broken me. I no longer expect anything good to happen, I just hope whatever bad thing happens isn't too horribly embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russdawg
I'd hoped Brooke would give me a shot of hope in the arm but apparently not. The Diamond Dawgs are the final frontier but we'll see.
You're right though. We need help immediately. Playing this game was a mistake and a distraction from what is really important, which is getting some players ASAP.
Coaching is not our problem. I think Brooke is as good a coach as we have had since Leon retired. Talent is our issue. Malone played like a Techster of old and the rest of our team is so very average compared to the kind of talent we need to compete at level to get into the big tourney on a regular basis. I have given up any hope of us getting back to a top ten program, I'd be happy with top 30. We need better players, period.
Top 100 needs to be our first goal :((Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceWillisDawg
It is all about recruiting..... As long as we are a one bid conference, that is going to be an uphill climb. We might be able to recruit a top 100 player like WKU, but it will be few and far between. We have to have something to sell.
Yes, Malone did remind me a little of a Pam Kelly out there on Thursday....
#20 slips away. Again.