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DUbulldog, most of the Valley teams have a lot of losses.
Evansville lost as much as you guys, and Creighton, WSU, Bradley, UNI, and ISU all lost a lot.
Drake won again tonight, 95-47. Josh Young led the way again with 20 points, but the star of the night was Bucky Cox, with 18 points, 22 rebounds and 5 blocks.
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS ? Sophomore guard Josh Young (Lawton, Okla.) scored 20 points, including 11 in the second half, to pace a balanced attack as the Drake men's basketball team stopped Sunshine Auto, 95-47, Monday night in the second game of its four-game tour of the Bahamas.
DUB thanks for the update,
.......can you give any idea of what kind of team "Sunshine Auto" of Nassau, Bahamas is?
Are these college kids, ex-college Bahamians, or are they on par with the teams we see here in Peoria down at the RiverPlex?
Seems that if you beat a team by 50, then maybe the starters such as Young, Cox, Houston, etc., shouldn't even be playing in the 2nd half?
DUB thanks for the update,
.......can you give any idea of what kind of team "Sunshine Auto" of Nassau, Bahamas is?
Are these college kids, ex-college Bahamians, or are they on par with the teams we see here in Peoria down at the RiverPlex?
Seems that if you beat a team by 50, then maybe the starters such as Young, Cox, Houston, etc., shouldn't even be playing in the 2nd half?
I'm not sure what kind of team the Sunshine Auto team is.....I'm guessing it's a "club" team sponsored by Sunshine Auto. New Mexico played them (won 82-41) in May.
As for your second point about resting the starters.....I agree, but it's not as easy as it sounds for Drake's team right now. There are only 7 scholarship players available, and only 9 players total (the new guys cannot play, as this trip is prior to the start of the school year). So, Drake is forced to have at least one starter on the floor at all times, unless they want to play with only 4.
I know the competition is weak, but I've been encrouaged by these scores. There are only 4-5 guys on this trip who figure to be in Drake's 10 player rotation (if 10 is indeed the number). It is essentially only half of the team playing right now.
DU Bulldog, I note that they were shorthanded, but in all the press releases, I never saw mention of redshirt freshman Keith Worner playing.
He went on the trip, did he play? If he played, how'd he do?
By the way....Kelvin Sampson's Indiana Hoosiers travel to the Bahamas this weekend to play several of the same teams Drake just clobbered.
Indiana plays Bahama Select at 8:30PM Friday, then a team called Guatemala at noon on Saturday, then return to action Saturday evening at 8PM against Sunshine Auto, and wrap up with a Sunday 2PM game vs. Commonwealth Bank.
DU Bulldog, I note that they were shorthanded, but in all the press releases, I never saw mention of redshirt freshman Keith Worner playing.
He went on the trip, did he play? If he played, how'd he do?
T....he did make the trip, but apparently did nothing to get himself mentioned in any of the stories that were posted on www.godrakebulldogs.com.
There were only 7 scholarship players on the trip, and there were 4 blowout victories for the Bulldogs. I would assume that means that everybody got to play a lot of minutes. Every other player did enough to get mentioned in at least 3 of the 4 game reports. Worner apparently didn't do enough to merit even one mention. He's a real nice kid, he works hard, but at what point does it become obvious that you're in over your head?
Just as an FYI, Bucky Cox had 64 rebounds in the final 3 games. I know the competition was weak, but I'm still encouraged by that.
Just as an FYI, Bucky Cox had 64 rebounds in the final 3 games. I know the competition was weak, but I'm still encouraged by that.
All I can say is that weak competition or not, this is some kind of accomplishment.
I know when Bradley went on its preseason trip to Canada, the stats were often way, way off as they had a bunch of hacks/inexperienced people doing the stat keeping, and I wonder if that's a possibility?
Do you have an actual box score, to prove there were enough missed shots to actually account for all the rebounds?
Is Cox still a walk-on status? It sounds like he'll get plenty of playing time.
Coach....Cox is on scholarship for this year (his junior year) and next.
Originally posted by Tornado
Do you have an actual box score, to prove there were enough missed shots to actually account for all the rebounds?
T....no box scores, but in several of the articles on Drake's website, they mentioned the shooting stats for the Bahamian teams, which were usually along the lines of 19-62, or something similar. So, there were a lot of rebounds to be had.
I will see the coaching staff tonight (as will a couple hundred other people). I'll check with them to see how legit these stats were.
DU Bulldog, I note that they were shorthanded, but in all the press releases, I never saw mention of redshirt freshman Keith Worner playing.
He went on the trip, did he play? If he played, how'd he do?
As of today, Keith Worner is no longer listed on Drake's roster. Drake has 3 commitments (some say 4) and only 2 scholarships available...Worner's scholarship will make 3 available.
I wish the young man good luck. He's a great kid, but was in way over his head at the MVC level.
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