Watch Tramique Sutherland live - Hill College vs. Western Texas

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South Plains in white

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South Plains leads 61-54 with 10 minutes remaining - both Gregg Marshall & Bruce Weber were noted to be in the arena scouting

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South Plains wins 93-81

For South Plains: BU recruit Roderick Lawrence had 17, Billydee Williams, a very good
6-6 shooting guard who averaged 14 ppg this year and 11 ppg with 40% from 3-pt as a freshman at Iowa Western last year and is uncommitted.
had 16, Clayton Jones 15
For Cape Fear: Anthony Vanhook 21, Cordea Wilson 17, Demetris Abrams 16.
South Plains plays Paris JC tomorrow at 4:30

Next game is #13 seed Harcum vs. #20 seed Walters State

Tomorrow's noon game between #11 seed Jones Co & #22 seed Highland CC (Freeport, IL) determines who #6 seed Hill College's opponent is on Wednesday at 8PM

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Final scores
Harcum 97 - Walters State 80
Trinity Valley 68 - Pratt 65

so far the better seed has won all four games

current game might be an upstet...
Wallace State trails Westchester 47-40 w/ 15 min to play

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Wallace State pulled the game out in OT...
so far the better seed has won all the games - and six teams are so far eliminated - six more will go down today - so by Wednesday morning only 12 teams will be left to battle for the NJCAA title

By the time Hill plays at 8PM Wednesday, another 3 teams will get knocked out earlier Wednesday - so before playing a game, Hill will be among the final nine teams remaining and if they win they are in the Elite Eight.
Winning Thursday puts them in the Final Four, then semi-finals Friday & Finals Saturday.


Couple of the UNSIGNED players in an earlier games wowed the coaches and recruiters in attendance...

A 6-4 SG Aaron Wheeler was solid for Walters State - averages 18 ppg - prob. raised his stock a bit

Combo guard Giovanni McLean of Westchester went for 34 pts - his season averages are impressive 17 ppg, 5 rebs, 8 asst/gm - 44% from 3-pt & he makes 2-3 per game

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at halftime of first game at the NJCAA Nationals...
#14 seed Shelton State over #19 seed State Fair CC 42-38

Shelton's Brandon Moss with 17 at half, SFCC's Kedar Edwards with 14 with 3-6 from the arc

Moss is a big 6-7 PF who does all his scoring inside - he is unsigned
He has offers from some smaller schools (Tennessee Tech, Tenn. State).

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20140224/SPORTS/140229813

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Final in game 1 today State Fair CC 111 - Shelton State 99 OT - in a foul marred game...
a total of 62 fouls called a a whopping 89 FT's attempted..

SFCC's Kevin Punter was 8-10 and 12-15 from FT for 28 pts
Punter has offers from Missouri State and Wichita but is undecided

Shelton's Albert Lynch was 5-11 from the arc and 30 pts in a losing effort

BOTH are uncommitted and getting strong looks!

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SFCC's Kevin Punter was 8-10 and 12-15 from FT for 28 pts
Punter has offers from Missouri State and Wichita but is undecided

Kevin Punter is a 6'4" scoring machine who averaged over 20 ppg and almost 5 rpg. He sounds similar to a Jarmar Gulley, but may be a better outside shooter. He is close to 40% on threes. We could use a kid like him. Wichita State is after him strongly, and he already visited Missouri State. He just got an offer from Missouri and plans a visit after his season is finished, according to this recent article on JucoJunction.com-

http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1618162

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The current game in Hutchinson will decide the opponent for tomorrow's Hill College opener...

Almost mid-way thru the 1st half this game is a low scoring ordeal...
#11 seed Jones Co. 15 - #22 seed Highland 12

Jones' Leroy Fludd (Freshman avg 14 pt/6 reb) already has 10
Nephew of ex-Bradley Brave Tom Prusator, Grant Prusator has 4 pts for Highland

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Jones Co 36 - Highland 27 at half
Grant Prusator leads Highland with 9, Leroy Fludd leads Jones Co. with 13 pts, 6 rebs

Highland also has a 6-10 Xzavier-Taylor-like kid, Marvin Jones (Thornton HS, IL) - getting interest from Loyola, Valpo & SIU - he has 4 pts/6 rebs at half

http://www.chicagohoops.hoops247.com/index.php/2011-08-04-18-06-26/3052-marvin-jones-talks-season-recruiting

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Highland CC rallying - they trail 59-58 with 8 min to go
Grant Prusator is en fuego - now 7-10 from the arc and has 27 pts!!

I'm watching Prusator - just a freshman - and he looks a lot like Jeremy Crouch, although only 6-1 or 6-2 with a solid body...knows how to use screens, gets open, and has a quick release!!
On the season he averages 12.4 ppg, 3 rpg, and hits 42% from the arc - he finished his high school career #18 all time in the IHSA record book with nearly 300 career 3-pointers...
Matt Roth, as you recall, is #1 with 464, Lincoln's Jordan Nelson is 7th with 346
..hope we're taking a look at the kid...

Highland's Marvin Jones has 8 pts/12 reb - Prusator hits again from the arc (8-12) and 32 pts!!!


edit - just a little over 3 min to go - Highland trails 73-70


edit again - Highland trails 78-77 w/ 2 min - Prusator hits again from the arc (8-12) and has 32 pts!!

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tough break - Highland with a costly turnover in the final seconds and they lose 81-79 as a buzzer-beater 3-pt attempt bonces off
Grant Prusator boosted his stock with 32 pts - no turnovers

Hill College & Tramique Sutherland will face Jones Co. Wednesday at 8PM


Next up is #1 ranked & #1 seeded Indian Hills (IA) vs. #16 seed New Mexico JC
Indian Hills CC is an amazingly high powered offense that averages a Grinnell-like 112 ppg for the season..
that's about 10 pts more per game than the next highest scoring team in the nation...

their top scorers are Roosevelt Scott 17ppg, SG & backup PG Roderick Bobbitt 16ppg, PG Lester Medford 15ppg, SG Marcus Posley 14ppg, F Quevyn Winter 12ppg, F Jordan Washington 10ppg, plus eight different players shoot the 3-pointer well and average from 35% to 42%

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Interesting result in the Indian Hills/New Mexico JC game...


very low scoring game thus far - both teams shooting just 27% (4-15 & 6-22) and Indian Hills trails 24-22 with only 4 min to halftime
Looks like IHCC is not going to hit 100 this game.

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Halftime
New Mexico JC 32 - Indian Hills 29

Indian Hills so far is 0-11 from 3-pt, and 7-26 overall (27%)
NMJC is 6-22 and there's tons of fouls....35 total with the two teams already have shot 45 FT attempts...
NMJC has one player with 4 fouls already and two more with 3
IHCC has two guy with 3 fouls

In fact NMJC has 18 of her 32 points on FT's
IHCC has 15 of their 29 points on FT's

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Indian Hills is the #1 team in the NJCAA rankings and the #1 overall seed in the tournament.