Warriors invade QueensWritten by: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Blair)Marquette takes on the St. John's Red Storm tonight in Queens....tipoff is 6:30pm Marquette Standard Time. A few media links for tonight's game:
- The NY Daily News looks at star-crossed St. John's senior Anthony Mason (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2010/02/24/2010-02-24_st_johns_senior_anthony_mason_jr_plays_his_last_home_game_wednesday_but_hopes_re.html), Jr. heading into Senior Night.
- The Quad over at the New York Times offers a series of previews on college hoops action tonigh (http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/look-for-comebacks-and-nail-biters/)t -- and smartly call out Jimmy Butler's year-to-year improvement. Jimmy Butler, your 2010 BIG EAST Most Improved Player.
- Here's the official MU preview including game notes (http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/022310aaa.html).
- Johnny Jungle looks at the Surging Storm (http://johnnyjungle.com/calm-before-the-storm/mu022410/) but predicts a 67-61 MU victory.
- Rosiak blogs about the game and takes up the topic of Bigs with Buzz (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/85154062.html).
- Rosiak stays on that topic in his print preview (http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/85130012.html) pointing out that "MU ranks 15th of 16 teams in the Big East in rebounding margin, being out-boarded by an average of 4.0 per outing." Of course, despite those predictable rebounding issues MU leads the Big East in scoring defense (http://www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/stats/mbasketball/2009-2010/CONFONLY.HTM). An odd mix, to be sure.
- By the way, Lazar Hayward leads the Big East in steals (http://www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/stats/mbasketball/2009-2010/CONFONLY.HTM#conf.wki). Yes, MU's power forward leads the league in steals.
- One more stat of note ... Maurice Acker leads the Big East in assist/turnover ratio (http://www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/stats/mbasketball/2009-2010/CONFONLY.HTM#conf.wki) with an eye-popping 5.1/1. The next closest is Jordan Theodore at 2.6/1. Incredible.
- Oh, and the moderators at MUScoop have plenty riding on tonight's outcome (http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=18388.0).
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........and since MU is heading to Queens here's a classic
http://www.youtube.com/v/nHRERLEM2eE&hl=en_US&fs=1&
http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2010/02/warriors-invade-queens.html
5.1/1 TO ratio is unreal for anyone....truly amazing for someone who's not a BE caliber player to have numbers like that.
Quote from: StillWarriors on February 24, 2010, 09:11:12 AM
5.1/1 TO ratio is unreal for anyone....truly amazing for someone who's not a BE caliber player to have numbers like that.
tell me about it
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Nicely played-kudos
FWIW, I just verified with MU that Mo Acker leads the nation in A/TO ratio in conference games, 5.1 / 1
Mo Acker, the nation's best. That's insane. Bravo. In the BE, he nearly doubles up the guy in 2nd place (Theodore, 2.6)
I always liked the idea of Mo playing solid senior backup to Junior, but this is crazy....
Quote from: mu-rara on February 24, 2010, 09:57:42 AM
I always liked the idea of Mo playing solid senior backup to Junior, but this is crazy....
Mo also leads the Big East in 3 point FG% in conference games--better than 52%. WTF
Quote from: NYWarrior on February 24, 2010, 09:50:32 AM
FWIW, I just verified with MU that Mo Acker leads the nation in A/TO ratio in conference games, 5.1 / 1
Mo Acker, the nation's best. That's insane. Bravo. In the BE, he nearly doubles up the guy in 2nd place (Theodore, 2.6)
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1). Cubes also makes the top 25.
Quote from: dsfire on February 24, 2010, 10:06:23 AM
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1). Cubes also makes the top 25.
nice find..... will have to check my facts again!
Quote from: dsfire on February 24, 2010, 10:06:23 AM
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/stats/assist_turnover_ratio?games=2&conf=&season=2009-2010&min= seems to suggest he's second behind Alex Rubin of Illinois State (same as if you look at all games, actually, though that drops his ratio to 3.3:1). Cubes also makes the top 25.
Word, awesome find indeed!
http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams/marquette
The Butler sure knows how to get to the charity stripe.
Stats Inc has different #s....waiting on that
Great link the BE stats.
Another great stat. MU is third in BE attendance..behind L'ville where hoops is a religion and Syracuse with their 30K dome and nothing else to do for miles around.
If my memory serves me right, during the time of the Cousy award every pro-DJ poster on here would cite his Assist/TO ratio as to why he was deserving, because he was a "true point guard" (aka couldnt shoot) and that was a "true point guard stat."
Acker has done a great job, and is highly over-looked. Lets hope he keeps up the good work.
Acker has exceeded expectations and we would be lost without him. But his shooting is in the crapper the last few games.
Quote from: tower912 on February 24, 2010, 12:30:40 PM
Acker has exceeded expectations and we would be lost without him. But his shooting is in the crapper the last few games.
Yep - his shooting has been off, so, in statistics we have regression to the mean - so he will shoot well tonight!
Anyone know if the game is going to be on in Chicago? I have comcast and have caught a few on some random channel in the 200's? Thanks