Game 3: Mount St. Mary's University, Friday, November 18th, 7:30 PM, NO TV

[Washingtonian]

Women play against Arizona at 5 PM at EBA, hence the later start time.

Mount St. Mary's plays at Minnesota tonight at 8 PM which can be watched on the Big 10 Network Plus.

Mount St. Mary's has an 0-2 record coming into tonight, with losses to WVA and Iowa St. The schedule is here:
http://mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/schedule

Last year's stats are here:
http://www.mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/teams/mountstmarys?view=profile&r=0&pos=sh

Junior Robinson averaged 12.0 PPG last season and is the sole player from last year's team that is on this year's team that averaged double figures in points last season. He is averging 6.0 PPG so far this season.

This year's stats are here:
http://www.mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/teams/mountstmarys?view=profile&r=0&pos=sh

Elijah Long is averaging 16.5 PPG/6.0 RPG, Miles Wilson is averaging 11.0 PPG, and Greg Alexander is averaging 10.5 PPG.

Discuss.

 

[GreenLantern]

Us - 74
Them - 68
OT

 

[PoorManProfit]

A very ambitious Nov. schedule for The Mount minus G Mas. I assume they firmly believe if they are going to get a "W" this month it will be in Fairfax. However...

Mt. St. Mary 62
G Mas 70

 

[masonjoe]

After watching last night I'm thinking

Mount - 72
Mason - 65

 

[gmutom]

Mount St. Mary's plays at Minnesota tonight at 8 PM which can be watched on the Big 10 Network Plus.

Mount St. Mary's has an 0-2 record coming into tonight, with losses to WVA and Iowa St.

Wow, that's a really impressive schedule. They are going to be much more battle tested than we will be going into this game. I hope our players show the same intensity from the second half of last night's game and not the first.

 

[G M U]

I think last nights game provided more questions than answers. First half the team looked complacent and lazy, perhaps expecting to win. I want to believe something clicked in the second half that might carry over to Fridays game but I just don't know. LVC played essentially 5 guys last night and they clearly got tired. So it's unclear what really prompted that second half rally. Either way, I think we squeak out a win:
Mason: 70
Mount: 68

 

[phoenix-arizona]

Could be a new local rival

 

[GSII]

One of our commits went to Minn. I forgot his name and too lazy to look it up. Will watch to see what we missed out on.

 

[The Great PATSby]

One of our commits went to Minn. I forgot his name and too lazy to look it up. Will watch to see what we missed out on.

Ahmad Gilbert. So far he's a bust.

 

[PDGL Hoops]

Mason 69
MSM 66

 

[JimP]

Rebounding should not be an issue as MSM was outrebounded by Hood, a D-III team picked for 7th in the same league that Lebanon Valley was picked 2nd in. MSM beat Hood 89-65.

 

[Mason2005]

Jenkins's should have a good game. Their experienced big men are only around 200 lbs.

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[psyclone]

I broke down and spent $20 for kenpom this year.

He picks Mason by 74-65. They picked Minnesota by 17 over the Mount; Minnesota won by 24.

Meanwhile, kenpom also ranks players nationally on a variety of statistical categories. We have 2 of our players in the top 10 in 2 different categories (based on just Division 1 games, so the LVC game doesn't count):

1. Assist Rate (ARate): This is assists divided by the field goals made by the player’s teammates while he is on the court
2. FTRate: Free throw rate is calculated by 100*FTA/FGA. This measures a player’s ability to get the line relative to how often he attempts to score.

Which one of our players is ranked in the top 10 of which category? Contest is only open to non kenpom subscribers? Winner gets the undying admiration of the rest of us on masonhoops.com.
I'll post the names of the players by 11:30 tonight.

 

[GMU_DCU]

I broke down and spent $20 for kenpom this year.

He picks Mason by 74-65. They picked Minnesota by 17 over the Mount; Minnesota won by 24.

Meanwhile, kenpom also ranks players nationally on a variety of statistical categories. We have 2 of our players in the top 10 in 2 different categories (based on just Division 1 games, so the LVC game doesn't count):

1. Assist Rate (ARate): This is assists divided by the field goals made by the player’s teammates while he is on the court
2. FTRate: Free throw rate is calculated by 100*FTA/FGA. This measures a player’s ability to get the line relative to how often he attempts to score.

Which one of our players is ranked in the top 10 of which category? Contest is only open to non kenpom subscribers? Winner gets the undying admiration of the rest of us on masonhoops.com.
I'll post the names of the players by 11:30 tonight.

1. Jenkins
2. Moore

 

[psyclone]

1. Jenkins
2. Moore

Killjoy!! I'm a little suspicious of whether you are a subscriber, but I have no proof either way. So I'll just have to assume you are an incredibly analytic observer of our team with a keen sense of unusual statistics. Congrats!

Jenkins is seventh in his category and Moore is 9th.

 

[GSII]

Where did Pablo go?

 

[GMU_DCU]

Killjoy!! I'm a little suspicious of whether you are a subscriber, but I have no proof either way. So I'll just have to assume you are an incredibly analytic observer of our team with a keen sense of unusual statistics. Congrats!

Jenkins is seventh in his category and Moore is 9th.

Nah, I just looked at the box score...wasn't too hard to figure out

 

[psyclone]

Nah, I just looked at the box score...wasn't too hard to figure out

How naive of me not to have seem how easy that was given that the data was based on a single game. But congrats on taking the trouble to figure it out!

 

[Pablo]

http://www.mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20161117c6u5pn:

• "Mount St. Mary's is holding its opponents to 28.6 percent shooting (14-for-47) from three-point range this season. The Mount's opponents are averaging 4.7 three-pointers made per game on the year."

 

[psyclone]

http://www.mountathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2016-17/releases/20161117c6u5pn:

• "Mount St. Mary's is holding its opponents to 28.6 percent shooting (14-for-47) from three-point range this season. The Mount's opponents are averaging 4.7 three-pointers made per game on the year."

We'll take that 28.6%! We're only shooting 17.5% from 3, so 28.6% would be an improvement!

By the way, if one looks deeper into MSM's stats, they're giving up a FG% of 49.5 overall, albeit against pretty good competition.