MBB vs A&M San Antonio

[geezer]

Cards return to action December 30th against A&M San Antonio to restart after the Christmas break and close out their non-conference schedule.  A victory will give Lamar a six and five non-conference schedule and over all seven and six record for the 2024 portion of the season.  This game should give the Cards a good warm up to get ready for the rest of the conference season and starts the first of five straight home games.  Tip off tomorrow is an hour earlier than normal with a 6 PM start.

[SportsGuy]

18 hours ago, geezer said:

Cards return to action December 30th against A&M San Antonio to restart after the Christmas break and close out their non-conference schedule.  A victory will give Lamar a six and five non-conference schedule and over all seven and six record for the 2024 portion of the season.  This game should give the Cards a good warm up to get ready for the rest of the conference season and starts the first of five straight home games.  Tip off tomorrow is an hour earlier than normal with a 6 PM start.

Need to win all of these home games

[geezer]

Unless Hamilton came up with some kind of injury during the off time, Lamar isn't taking this game very seriously as Hamilton isn't suited up tonight.  Not using the regular starting five seemed to get Lamar off to a slow start as at one point Lamar was shooting 1-10 from the field and weren't taking good care of the ball either.  Since then, Lamar has slowly built a lead and with 7:31 left in the first half the Cards are up by five 22-17.

[geezer]

Final score Lamar 82 - SA 65.  Unimpressive outing for the Cards.  Too many turnovers, inconsistent offense, need more energy on defense.  Probably overlooked the opponent as it is a lower division program.

[coachacola]

Sounds like this game was treated like a scrimmage which I don't blame Brooks for doing.  But is scheduling these non-D1 schools worth it?

[geezer]

I'm afraid Lamar may be approaching the point where they can't get peer level non-conference teams to come to Beaumont.  As a whole the SLC may be approaching that.  The worst thing that can happen to a mid-major or higher program is tp loose to what is considered a lower-level team.  Even Gonzaga has had to play games almost 300 miles from campus a couple of times a year to get quality opponents to play them in Seattle.