Mr. Buddy Garrity Posted March 12 Report Posted March 12 Good season Lamar. McNeese is an above average mid-major (IMO) that I think has a damn good chance of playing on the 2nd weekend. Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 12 Report Posted March 12 Lamar finished the game shooting 31% from the field (20/65), 22% from three (5/23) and 53% from FT (9/17) Lamar outrebounded McNeese 49-32 with a 21-5 offensive rebound edge. McNeese with 9 block shots. Final 63-54 McNeese Quote
Mr. Buddy Garrity Posted March 12 Report Posted March 12 On 3/12/2025 at 11:15 PM, AggiesAreWe said: Lamar finished the game shooting 31% from the field (20/65), 22% from three (5/23) and 53% from FT (9/17) Lamar outrebounded McNeese 49-32 with a 21-5 offensive rebound edge. McNeese with 9 block shots. Final 63-54 McNeese Expand In bold: I was telling someone at the half if LU shoots the 3 better in the 2nd half it would be a dub, they shot it worse in the 2nd half unfortunately. Quote
5GallonBucket Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 On 3/12/2025 at 11:15 PM, AggiesAreWe said: Lamar finished the game shooting 31% from the field (20/65), 22% from three (5/23) and 53% from FT (9/17) Lamar outrebounded McNeese 49-32 with a 21-5 offensive rebound edge. McNeese with 9 block shots. Final 63-54 McNeese Expand And only scored 1 pt off of turnovers Quote
1989NDN Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Congrats to Coach Brooks and Lamar. The Cardinals competed. Untimely TOs by the Cardinals in the second half, FT shooting, McNeese blocking everything Lamar put up near the rim, and it's hard to win on the road against a good McNeese team at home. Scrappy, chippy game. Almost had a brawl in Lake Charles. Quote
spidersal Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 McNeese has a decent team, however they will be 1 and done in the tournament due to an extremely weak conference Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 On 3/13/2025 at 3:00 AM, spidersal said: McNeese has a decent team, however they will be 1 and done in the tournament due to an extremely weak conference Expand McNeese could be as high as a 13 seed. SLC is ranked 20th as a conference. Was 30th last year. 5GallonBucket 1 Quote
Mr. Buddy Garrity Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 On 3/13/2025 at 12:56 PM, AggiesAreWe said: McNeese could be as high as a 13 seed. SLC is ranked 20th as a conference. Was 30th last year. Expand I've seen several projections as a 12. Either way I think they win at least one game in the Big Dance. Quote
spidersal Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Thank you for acknowledging that they are in a weak conference! Quote
TxHoops Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 On 3/13/2025 at 6:19 PM, spidersal said: Thank you for acknowledging that they are in a weak conference! Expand They have guys on their bench Lamar would have no chance of getting due to the NIL they command. Their top 3 guys, coming off the bench, were Saint Louis’s leading scorer last year (top tier mid major program) and two guys who started games for Arizona State and Ole Miss. Their bench players. They have more than one guy making 6 figures. In short, every player that plays for them could arguably be Lamar’s best player. They have a high mid major roster if you ask anyone who knows their butt from their elbow about college basketball. So yes, Alvin has improved Lamar’s record every season he’s been there. He played a team with a roster WAYYYY better than his very competitively twice in the past couple of weeks. You guys expecting them to win the conference need to start raising money. Because you give Will his roster and give him Will’s roster, those games have the same winner. It’s about the dudes and McNeese has bought a bunch of them. navydawg31, Mr. Buddy Garrity and 5GallonBucket 2 1 Quote
spidersal Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 You are correct it is about the players and Brooks struggles recruiting but I have to admit that he should be SLC coach of the year this year. My post is very accurate on being in an extremely weak conference A rating of 20 in conferences is pretty poor(30 last year was awful) Quote
TxHoops Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 On 3/13/2025 at 8:17 PM, spidersal said: You are correct it is about the players and Brooks struggles recruiting but I have to admit that he should be SLC coach of the year this year. My post is very accurate on being in an extremely weak conference A rating of 20 in conferences is pretty poor(30 last year was awful) Expand Give Brooks a half a mil per year to “recruit” like Will has and I bet his recruiting improves tremendously. I would say he’s recruited pretty damn well finding guys who can compete with little to no funds. Mr. Buddy Garrity 1 Quote
spidersal Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Point well taken. Simply stating recruiting at Lamar, a commuter college with very little athletic support is very tough. The college is ugly, in a poor part of town and refineries right next to the gym makes recruiting tough. I am sure Brooks is doing the best he can do That being said, their season is over unless they are invited to a tournament of the Rinky Dinks Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 On 3/13/2025 at 9:57 PM, spidersal said: Point well taken. Simply stating recruiting at Lamar, a commuter college with very little athletic support is very tough. The college is ugly, in a poor part of town and refineries right next to the gym makes recruiting tough. I am sure Brooks is doing the best he can do That being said, their season is over unless they are invited to a tournament of the Rinky Dinks Expand So Lamar needs to up root the entire university and move to greener pastures, Correct? Quote
spidersal Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 Not going to happen, so they will continue struggling in the recruiting aspect. What the city of Beaumont with the help of Lamar is to revitalize the South Park area close to the college. Probably won’t happen and as Trump would say what a dumb statement by AggiesAreWe. I enjoy most of your post. however that was inappropriate I was stating why they struggle recruiting and those reasons are Hugh part of it. You think that is why they struggle in every athletics program !!! Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 3:22 AM, spidersal said: Not going to happen, so they will continue struggling in the recruiting aspect. What the city of Beaumont with the help of Lamar is to revitalize the South Park area close to the college. Probably won’t happen and as Trump would say what a dumb statement by AggiesAreWe. I enjoy most of your post. however that was inappropriate I was stating why they struggle recruiting and those reasons are Hugh part of it. You think that is why they struggle in every athletics program !!! Expand TxHoops is correct in stating that if Lamar invested in NIL like McNeese has, the recruits will come in spite of the location of the university. That is my point. Quote
spidersal Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 That is a good point, however Lamar is probably not going to do that INO Lamar’s athletic staff as well as the president of Lamar are happy with mediocre results Quote
navydawg31 Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 Looks like Lamar Woman decline to participate in the WNIT… I wonder as to why…? Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 On 3/17/2025 at 8:00 AM, navydawg31 said: Looks like Lamar Woman decline to participate in the WNIT… I wonder as to why…? Expand Costs. No NCAA money to support that tourney. Lamar men's team should have got an NIT invite. Saw a few of the teams that are playing NIT. Lamar had a better resume than a few of those teams. Question would have been if Lamar would have accepted the invite? navydawg31 and bullets13 2 Quote
navydawg31 Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 On 3/17/2025 at 1:34 PM, AggiesAreWe said: Costs. No NCAA money to support that tourney. Lamar men's team should have got an NIT invite. Saw a few of the teams that are playing NIT. Lamar had a better resume than a few of those teams. Question would have been if Lamar would have accepted the invite? Expand Makes sense… I guess what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If they said no for women’s gotta say no for men’s.. Quote
spidersal Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 Lamar had a good record this season 20-13. It was a better season than the last several years, however they were not good enough to get invited to any post season tournament IMO Hopefully they will improve next year The only SLC to get invited a tournament is the winner because it is a weak conference Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 On 3/17/2025 at 3:00 PM, spidersal said: Lamar had a good record this season 20-13. It was a better season than the last several years, however they were not good enough to get invited to any post season tournament IMO Hopefully they will improve next year The only SLC to get invited a tournament is the winner because it is a weak conference Expand You obviously haven't looked at the teams that were invited to NIT. I'm not saying Lamar should get an invite but they certainly should have over a few of the teams that did. That is my point. Quote
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