been home with the flu for the last two days, and as a result, have been over more information about the few schools on the short cards than i really ever needed to know. yesterday's overcrunching led to four plays, one top (that i posted here) and three one unit plays. three of the four hit as i managed to overthink myself in ranking them, choosing to post up the losing marshall under play.
today i'm no better and have been slouching around in sweats all day overanalyzing again. this is all the warning you're going to get.
austin peay +24: on the surface this game appears to man little to either team; both are coming out of finals, memphis has the governors in between bigtime games, and for a/p it's sandwiched between conference road games and a two week home stand. but the regional ties that bind the two are there if you look. a/p coach dave loos is class of '69 at memphis, a two sport star that was inducted in the university hall of fame in 2002. if i'm not mistaken callipari was at the dinner. both team are laden with tennessee players. most of those played summer and aau ball together. two govs played with the tigers' niles on memphis ridgeway high school's state championship team a couple of years ago. this kind of setup would usually favor the underdog.
governors seemed to have stepped up a notch as a reult of a players' only meeting after the tennessee wesleyan game. mired in lackluster play and sketchy shooting beforehand, they shot 47.3% from the floor, 43.6% from the arc in three successive ovc games, two of them on the road.
bit of concern over this being the governors' third road game of the week, but they've all been within a four or five hour bus ride of clarksville, so not quite such a deal. game time was actually moved back an hour tonight as both teams were finishing exams this morning, so a/p slept in their own beds last night.
glta
today i'm no better and have been slouching around in sweats all day overanalyzing again. this is all the warning you're going to get.
austin peay +24: on the surface this game appears to man little to either team; both are coming out of finals, memphis has the governors in between bigtime games, and for a/p it's sandwiched between conference road games and a two week home stand. but the regional ties that bind the two are there if you look. a/p coach dave loos is class of '69 at memphis, a two sport star that was inducted in the university hall of fame in 2002. if i'm not mistaken callipari was at the dinner. both team are laden with tennessee players. most of those played summer and aau ball together. two govs played with the tigers' niles on memphis ridgeway high school's state championship team a couple of years ago. this kind of setup would usually favor the underdog.
governors seemed to have stepped up a notch as a reult of a players' only meeting after the tennessee wesleyan game. mired in lackluster play and sketchy shooting beforehand, they shot 47.3% from the floor, 43.6% from the arc in three successive ovc games, two of them on the road.
bit of concern over this being the governors' third road game of the week, but they've all been within a four or five hour bus ride of clarksville, so not quite such a deal. game time was actually moved back an hour tonight as both teams were finishing exams this morning, so a/p slept in their own beds last night.
glta
