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  1. • There are four REALLY good teams at the top of this league right now, led by four REALLY good players in Morrison, Hamilton, Braun, and Wolters, and all four teams/players were in top form last night. Fantastic stuff. • Mad props to Mike Minyard for filling the house last night, and to the students, who were over 1000 strong according to ID counts at the gate. Way to go, OZONE! • The game ops last night seemed virtually flawless - Richard McCutchen and his crew nailed every promo, timout, etc. And the band was great. It's just nice to have the students, cheerleaders, and band all together - makes for a wonderful college basektball experience when the fans are there with them. • All that being said, I've never seen such a contrast between the crowd in their seats at tip-off, and the crowd that eventually came to almost filling the place. A VERY slow process to get everyone in the building - not sure how bad the lines were in the lobby, but the arena continued to fill well into the second half. Just hope some of those late-arrivers who apparently had to wait in line for quite a while will come back next time either earlier, or with a reserved ticket in hand. • As for the game, Oakland played a lot better defense this time around, but our shooting was just silly good. And so was theirs! Incredibly entertaining to watch. Three of the last four home games (NDSU, SDSU and Oakland) have been as fun to watch as any games I've ever seen at the Mabee Center. • Rod Pearson was really tough tonight. He stayed patient late in the shot clock on possessions where it appeared nothing was going to happen, then found men for open shots. EIGHT assists - ONE turnover. Not to mention his 4-point possession on the flagrant foul and the sweet drive and lay-up late to preserve the win. He played GREAT. • When Warren Niles is hitting the 3, he plays harder in all other facets of the game. • After Domo scored six straight to gave us the lead at 70-67 with 9 minutes to go, Kampe decided to double-team him whenever he caught the ball outside. At that time, he had 22 points. He did not score again until 30 seconds to go, when he hit 2 free throws to end with 24 points total. Normally, Domo going scoreless for 8+ minutes down the stretch in a tight game would spell disaster for us. But instead, the others picked up the slack and carried the day offensively, scoring 21 of our final 23 points of the game (Niles-9, Pearson-4, Craion-3, Lliteras-3, Roundtree-2). That's HUGE: if we can continue to make opponents pay when they take such drastic measures on Domo, there's no telling who we might be able to beat the rest of the year. • Did Damen Bel-Holter suffer some sort of injury? He only played a few minutes in the second half. He had a couple of inside buckets in the opening minutes of the game, and a great hustling block on a Hamilton face break lay-up near the end of the first half, but that was pretty much it. • The new sports editor of the Tulsa World apparently just doesn't get it: five paragraphs on the front page of the Sunday edition, and that from columnist John Klein or else, who knows - we might have been relegated to interior purgatory again. But, hey - TU won again over a mediocre Rice team that couldn't stay within 20 points of Oakland, and that's what's important. That, and a trivial story on OU's new TV network that takes up 3/4 of the front page and could have been run this July. I've decided that from here forward, I'm not going to let some small-minded newbie be a buzz kill for me. I'm going to, as Geoff Haxton says, "celebrate all victories".
    4 points
  2. Great points, OT. While lines may have been bad last night, I can't help but think many arrived late because they CAME LATE! My son came with four friends and got to the game midway through the first half. He said they had to park a long way away, to it took them a while to walk to the Mabee Center. I don't think it took them long to get inside once they were there. While Warren Niles was well deserving of being named "Player of the Game" by Geoff Haxton, another member of the "team" that I think was just as deserving was our old pal, Mike Minyard. What an INCREDIBLE job he did filling up Mabee Center last night! That crowd made all the difference in the world as far as atmosphere, and I think that both teams fed off of it. It made the play better, and the game more exciting. You talked about Rod's offense, which WAS great, but I think his defense on Hamilton was equally great. It was Rod's hustle, time after time, that denied Reggie open shots. Hamilton still managed to score 27 - in the charged atmosphere of Mabee Center last night, something that he seems to feed off of, I hate to think how many Hamilton might have scored had Rod not been on him. Have to say the same for Domo, though. He was all over Bader all night long, and managed to fight through many a screen to deny #3 an open look on the other side. I think last night's game was truly a BCS- level game, played by two very talented teams playing at near the top of their skill levels in front of a great crowd. Hard to improve on what we saw last night.
    3 points
  3. Hey, we owe a lot to Steve Bontrager. He was one of smartest guys on the court and had the most solid fundamental game. He rarely made mistakes and he ran the team like a coach on the floor. Trigger's the man. I don't know about the past story brought up here, but it doesn't matter. The past is past. I tip my hat to Steve for bringing his game to ORU back in the day and elevating everyone else's around him.
    1 point
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