[whmatthews]

I just found a tape of Liberty vs. CCU in round 2 of the 04 tournament and watched it last night. I had almost forgot about what happened in the final minute when we took over the game - Brian Woodsen crossed up a guy on CCU and broke his ankle and the game got stopped to help him off the court. The Vines exploded - it was a huge student section covered in red.

That just to say - I'm pumped for the conference tournament now. Anything could happen.

[TIMSCAR20]

Woodson's cross over led to a Larry Blair 3 in the corner that sealed the deal as well. Also the kid that got shook was Brandon Newby who was playing the game of his life prior to that play. Newby was 15-17 or something insane like that from the field. Newby was injured for the 5 games prior to that game and was playing hurt since he was a senior and it was possibly his last game. I believe that performance put him up on the 1000 point club for Coastal as well. It was a special play that Woodson made though. The prior game vs CSU, a freshman named David Dees came off the bench and hit 3 consecutive 3 pointers late in the game when Liberty was trailing the underdog but inspired Bucs. What a week that was capped by a 45 point blowout on national TV of HPU. A record breaking performance that left no doubt about who was the best team in the conference! I was on press row for the last 2 games and had the priveledge of calling the 1st game. All 3 games were in the Vines Center and the fans were loud!

[Sly Fox]

Yeah, but Kyle still thinks Gathings was the man.

[TIMSCAR20]

7 points in a 45 point loss when he really only had 5 because Gabe Martin accidently tipped one in the wrong basket and Gathings got credit. Yes that was an MVP performance Blair's 29 and record breaking 7 three point shots was not worthy

[olldflame]

Of course, even KK wasn't stupid enough to believe Gathings deserved the MVP. The problem was that the voting was done BEFORE the final game. Gathings had a pretty good first 2 rounds, and he and Larry would have been the leading candidates. In the aftermath, the BSC steadfastly refused to consider a change or even acknowledge Gathing's gracious move to give the trophy to Larry. Their records show Gathings as MVP. They basically just acknowledged that there was a problem with the voting procedure and it has been addressed. They now do what pretty much everybody else has always done for all-tourney and MVP selections, which is to wait til the last few minutes of the final before taking the vote.

[TIMSCAR20]

I believe Danny had decent games in the 1st 2 but I don't think it was more than 14 per game which is right around what LB averaged in the 1st 2 games. I believe the voting was broken but I don't think it should have been locked up by Gathings based on his numbers in the 1st 2 games. Plus, who votes for all tournament before the most important game is decided? That's not smart. The big south should have acknowledged their mistake publicly but they didn't. At least Danny did the right thing.

[olldflame]

They acknowledged that their policy of voting after the semi-finals was "flawed", and changed it immediatly when they realized what had happened with the Gathings selection. The women's final was played after the men's and they threw away the vote that had already been taken and voted again after the final. We will never know, but there's a good chance Katie would have gotten a similar raw deal if they had not. If I'm not mistaken, there was a girl from CCU who had put up big numbers in the first 2 rounds.

[jcmanson]

That was an amazing week! Dees and Blair played out of their minds for only being freshman. I remember leaving the Vines after cutting the nets down, and thinking how many 'ships we would win with Blair/Dees. I never thought that would be our only 1.

[whmatthews]

I wish I knew how to put the vhs clip of that final two minutes onto youtube.

[Rocketfan]

I wish I knew how to put the vhs clip of that final two minutes onto youtube.

Someone help the man out....

[truedrewdawg87]

I don't have the semifinal game with Woodsen's sick crossover. I do have the BSC championship game on VHS. Like I've said on this board before that I'm working on getting it put on DVD. I'm hopefully going to be seeing the parents in about two to three weeks. They have one of those VHS to DVD converters so hopefully they can get the game on DVD for me soon. Once that gets completed I'll be happy to work with you guys on getting copies out to whoever wants one for a small fee to cover the DVD and shipping.

[jimflamesfan]

I have the 04 championship on DVD...but I never finilized it, and that DVD recorder broke. I since have purchased another DVD recorder (you can get them for $49 at Wal-mart), so I have to find the VHS tape to transfer to DVD.

That being said...I haven't had enough interest to dig up the tape. I'm more excited about this year's tournament, and the future soon to come

[whmatthews]

I don't have the semifinal game with Woodsen's sick crossover. I do have the BSC championship game on VHS. Like I've said on this board before that I'm working on getting it put on DVD. I'm hopefully going to be seeing the parents in about two to three weeks. They have one of those VHS to DVD converters so hopefully they can get the game on DVD for me soon. Once that gets completed I'll be happy to work with you guys on getting copies out to whoever wants one for a small fee to cover the DVD and shipping.

That sounds good, I'd love to have one.