Some Surprises in Tuesday's Exhibition Games

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Most teams playing exhibitions won easily over weak D-II's and D-II's but there were a few surprises.


Emporia State held right even with Kansas up 'til halftime, 41-37.
Then in the 2nd half, all the Emporia big men got a lot of fouls and fouled out, and Kansas won easily.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/15958613.htm

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/nov/08/fouls_flummox_esu/?sports

Herb Sendek's Arizona State Sun Devils barely squeaked by Victoria 58-53

http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=137&p=2&c=588132

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=78535

NC State allowed St Augustine to stay closer than they wanted in their 87-76 win.

Wake Forest likewise struggled in a 68-60 win over DII North Carolina Central (who will move to DI in one or two years).
This game was within 3 pts in the final minute or so.

Missouri Kansas City (DI) lost to Park Univ. (NAIA) 103-99

Lastly, Dan Monson, Jim Molinari, and Minnesota are not taking Winona State lightly.
They know how good they are.

http://www.startribune.com/512/story/795021.html

[Da Coach]

Here is another article--

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/11/08/69777

The interesting thing in this article is the reference to Bradley. They cite that Winona State played at Bradley and they say this--

In the Warriors' Wednesday exhibition game against Bradley - which went to the Elite Eight in last season's NCAA Tournament - Smith poured in 20 points and 12 rebounds.

So I missed that. Bradley must have beaten Memphis last March?

[tornado]

Lewis University hung tough against UIC and was within 2 points with 7 seconds left in the game, but fell 67-62.

[tornado]

Here's one that didn't get mentioned in the press until this morning, and understandably.

SEC power AUBURN lost at home in an exhibition game to NAIA Auburn University-Montgomery (AUM) 69-64.
This is quite an embarrassment to Auburn head coach Jeff Lebo.

[collegehoopjunkie]

In the Kansas/Emporia game, Sherron Collins scored 20 points.
Not bad for a point guard, but in 32 minutes of play in a 90-55 blowout, he had only 2 assists, none in the 2nd half when he played 15 of the 20 minutes against Emporia's deep subs.
KU missed 41 shots as a team as 134 of the 200 minutes were played by the starters.

[Braves4Life]

Too much talent

In the Kansas/Emporia game, Sherron Collins scored 20 points.
Not bad for a point guard, but in 32 minutes of play in a 90-55 blowout, he had only 2 assists, none in the 2nd half when he played 15 of the 20 minutes against Emporia's deep subs.
KU missed 41 shots as a team as 134 of the 200 minutes were played by the starters.

Obviously, KU has too much talent. When it's all about Me Me Me and you take machine-gun shots your shooting percentage is going to stink!

Good luck BS in reigning in your KU superstars! If BS can't get these boys to play as a team and accept their roles then they will dramatically underachieve. Sometimes this is a good way to find out if a coach can really "coach" (x's & o's).

Coach K and Roy Williams and a few others can reign in their talent and make them play as a team. We'll see if BS can do. Failing to beat Bucknell and us the last two years tells me he cannot coach!