A Sea Of Red

A SWAC Attack in Chi-town ... welcome to unusual holiday tourney matchups.


Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, Mississippi


MVSU Hoops Official Site


Public University
Enrollment: 2500
Conference Affiliation: SWAC
Nickname: Delta Devils
Notable Alumni: Jerry Rice, Deacon Jones & Ashley Ambrose



Sean Woods
2nd Season as MVSU Head Coach
Former HPU Assistant & One of Kentucky's "Unforgettables" as a Player

Jerry Rice can't save you now Delta Devils! Dumb mascot by the way.

From what I could gather on their website the Delta Devils are 1-2 on the year (losses to Washington State and GOnzaga and a win over Champions Baptist). Their leading scorer is a guy named D'Angelo Jackson a 6'1 guard (11.3 ppg). their bigs are 6'8" (Amos Studivant, Sophomore), 6'9" (Jason Holmes, Sophomore who is actually from CHicago) and 6'9" (Jacob Blakenship, Junior). They shoot about 35 percent from 3.

Record is 1-4
11/13 lost to Washington State 94-66
11/14 lost to Gonzaga 92-74
11/19 defeated Champion Baptist 102-56
11/22 lost to Iowa State 96-55
11/24 lost to St. Louis 75-39

Like all other SWAC teams, they load up on guarantee games in hoops to fund their athletic departments. Most SWAC fans don't even pay attention until league play rolls around.

I used to cover plenty of Delta Devils games back in my past life when they would visit TSU & Prairie View. Expect lots of running and sloppy play with some amazing dunks sprinkled in. Of course, the same could be said for nearly every SWAC game.

NO mention of the game in today's local fishwrap. Is Lang on VACATION???

I guess I'll have to rely on this souce instead:
http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 95&TeamID=

BuryYourDuke wrote:Don't know anything about this team. Is this a winnable game?

From the looks of their scores it is a winnable game. Hopefully we will have a good shooting night.

Cider Jim wrote:NO mention of the game in today's local fishwrap. Is Lang on VACATION???

I guess I'll have to rely on this souce instead:
http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 95&TeamID=

I emailed in a preview box. Apparently they just didn't run it. Typical.

howdydoody wrote:

BuryYourDuke wrote:Don't know anything about this team. Is this a winnable game?

From the looks of their scores it is a winnable game. Hopefully we will have a good shooting night.

To do list:

Wake up. Check
Set LU up for failure. Check.
Look at LU box score after the game.
Follow flow chart on how to proceed.

Did LU win? - Yes - Congratulate on win but be sure to make light of it.
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No
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Be sure to make the AD look bad in some way.

LUconn wrote:

howdydoody wrote:

BuryYourDuke wrote:Don't know anything about this team. Is this a winnable game?

From the looks of their scores it is a winnable game. Hopefully we will have a good shooting night.

To do list:

Wake up. Check
Set LU up for failure. Check.
Look at LU box score after the game.
Follow flow chart on how to proceed.

Did LU win? - Yes - Congratulate on win but be sure to make light of it.
|
No
|
Be sure to make the AD look bad in some way.

A late entrant for post of the year.

The words of a marionette should not be taken seriously.

No live stats or video feed for this one. I'ts good ol JE, and I hope he is having one of his "good days".

Evan Gordon getting his first start.

Ohman gets us off to a 3-0 lead.

olldflame wrote:Evan Gordon getting his first start.

Who did he start over? Minaya?

Yes. We are now up 7-3. Kyle has 5 and Evan 2.

Flames up 13-7. It's nice to get a lead early.

Score is now 13-7 with Ohman and Konan leading the way.

Right now I don't care how bad the team we're playing is. They're a Division I team and if we can pick up a win here, get some confidence, and win again tomorrow we'll be in good shape heading into conference play on Thursday.

SuperJon wrote:Right now I don't care how bad the team we're playing is. They're a Division I team and if we can pick up a win here, get some confidence, and win again tomorrow we'll be in good shape heading into conference play on Thursday.

Agreed.

We now trail 15-13. Playing really sloppy the last couple of minutes.

Minaya scores to tie it at 15.

MVS shooting a ton of 3s.

Jesse out with 2 fouls. Minaya scores to give us the lead.

Stephene now in. Hopefully he can pick up where he left off against Northwestern.