VU Record Watch

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Real fact: Didn't Bryce sit out that Purdue game because he was hurt.....

CORRECT!

One of 2 games he missed that year.  Anyone know the other?

I thought chef would be the only one to notice.  a tip of the cap.

[historyman]

One of 2 games he missed that year.  Anyone know the other?

Against an NAIA school from Indiana that beat Valpo, I believe in an exhibition game. Was it Grace? Or Bethel? Or Goshen?

[covufan]

Didn't Bryce miss the Stanford game his senior year as well?  I recall wanting that rematch with Bryce if we had pulled out the win against Rhode Island.

Also, the talk of the TOs and history reminded me of a game, and I'm not sure if it was Smith's last year as coach or Homer's first, but around that time.  We had a game with 40 turnovers.  A TO a minute, baby.

[valpo84]

Sounds like a game against Huggins Univ Cincy game in like 1989 at the then new Shoe in Cincy. That was an ugly, ugly game.

[valpo84]

Sounds like a game against Huggins Univ Cincy game in like 1989 at the then new Shoe in Cincy. That was an ugly, ugly game.

Corrected to Feb 25, 1991. Final 90-47. Could not find a box score easily. Maybe Aaron has one laying around....

[milanmiracle]

I wonder what his brother Mike is Opp to?

Except in 2008-09, when we only managed 1,901.

I propose a 3-month ban for anyone bringing up that season

Unless it's to show how much an aberration it is.

Thanks for the updates!

Logan Jones recruiting video:

Logan playing basketball

Probably we should have followed him a little longer before we offered... 

I thought about bringing up Logan Jones too but at least I managed to restrain the impulse. Like I said a few years back I suspected that we might have been making a mistake with that recruitment when I saw the reaction  of a Madison resident to the VU interest in him. I hope Milan doesn't catch wind that we are again talking about his favorite player.

For the record that was the one and only season that I watched more girls games than guys and it wasn't even close.

I caught it...wish I didn't but I did. Painful, just painful. Thanks 

[covufan]

Sounds like a game against Huggins Univ Cincy game in like 1989 at the then new Shoe in Cincy. That was an ugly, ugly game.

Corrected to Feb 25, 1991. Final 90-47. Could not find a box score easily. Maybe Aaron has one laying around....

Yeah, I remember that game.  It wasn't pretty, that is for sure.  I also remember some schmoozing alumni had to go sit with the team at Homer's invite and left me with a future sportswriter!

For some reason the game I'm remembering with 40 TOs had Todd Smith on the team. 

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Dority:  527 pts in 33 games (16 ppg)
  NEEDS:  38 pts to make top 10 pts/season

Dority:  63 3pters in 33 games
  NEEDS:  9 to make top 10 3pts/season

FTM, season
1.   Bruce Lindner ('70) 177
2.   Dick Jones ('67) 166
3. LVD 144
t4.   Fran Clements ('62) 142
t4.    Ed Eckart ('57) 142

BLOX, season
t1. GUEYE 67
t1. soph Raitis 67
3. jr Raitis 66
4. VASHIL 58

Also, here's where Peters would be all-time if he scored no more points this year and only scored the same number each following year.
3. Oppland 1780 pts
4. Peters 1676 pts
5. Lubos 1675 pts

If he scored 27 more this year he'd be on pace to pass Tracey Gipson for 2nd.  JUST SAYIN'

THERE IS NO FUN FACT TIME AFTER NO FUN LIKE THAT GAME

BUT THERE CAN BE FUN TOOTING OF OWN HORN: EMPHASIS ADDED

His 52 blocks last year would put Gueye right at #6 for Valpo.

At Alabama, he averaged a block every 10.3 minutes.  Playing 20.6 minutes for Valpo and playing every game would give him 68 blocks, which would be...let's see -- oh look! -- the top season ever at Valpo.  4-5 more would put him in the top 10 ever.  In one season.

How dare they mortgage our future!!!1!

[chef]

Lubos is the one with 1675, not Raitis. Bryce missed games against Purdue and Bethel. He did then play versus Stanford in Hilo, and was named MVP in the tournament, even though we went 2-1, with a 3-pt loss to Stanford. The Cardinal went to the final four that season with a dramatic last second comeback versus Rhode Island.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Lubos is the one with 1675, not Raitis

Good catch!  I did have Raitis as the 1621 before

and i KNEW you'd be the only one to get the other BD miss, although historyman came REALLY close.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Dority:  535 pts in 34 games (16 ppg)
  NEEDED:  30 pts to make top 10 pts/season
AND SOME OF THOSE WOULD HAVE COME IN HANDY TONIGHT[/i][/color]

Dority:  63 3pters in 33 games
  NEEDED:  8 to make top 10 3pts/season
DITTO

FTM, season
1.   Bruce Lindner ('70) 177
2.   Dick Jones ('67) 166
3. LVD 145
t4.   Fran Clements ('62) 142
t4.    Ed Eckart ('57) 142

BLOX, season
1. GUEYE 71
2. soph Raitis 67
3. jr Raitis 66
4. VASHIL 58

AARGH ONE MORE and Gueye would be in the top 10 all time.  After one year.  Oh well.  At least he'll be in the top 10 seasons until the Second Coming (and I don't mean Bryce Drew III).

Also, here's where Peters would be all-time if he only scored the same number of points each following year.
3. Oppland 1780 pts
4. Peters 1732 pts
5. Lubos 1675 pts

eh...that's it for tonight. 

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Not so much to go on this year...at least not yet.  Here's a mid-game update from Drake.

Since Vashil has been the one to absorb most of the "let's dis Moussa" disparagement:

Blox, career
5. Harry Bell 1984-88 94
t6.  VASHIL 90
t6. Morris Smith 1979-81 90

He started the year t10 at 72.  Has 18 halfway through the 2nd half today.  Will not catch Raitis but should pass Zoran for #2 all time.

Not bad for 3 years.

And he's started making FTs too!
This year: 15-24 (62.5%)
Last year: 47.7%
Soph: 28.6% (cut to Ben Wallace, shaking head sadly)

[valpotx]

I never knew that Vashil was a fellow Texan.  That explains why I like him so much .

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/57413/vashil-fernandez

[LaPorteAveApostle]

That...man, ESPN.  I remember they said that E'Twaun Moore was from East Chicago, IL.

Vashil was 13th in the country in blocks before tonight.

[talksalot]

and Vashil is now at  94 with 22 on the season stat sheet... T5 with Harry Bell

looking up the ladder...
Broekhoff 100
Gomes 111
Zoran 127
Raitis 228

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Blox, career
3. Joaquin Gomes 2000-04 111
4. Rowdy 2009-13 100
5. VASHIL 96
6.  Harry Bell 1984-88 94

Also, on pace to shatter Moose's record for season blocks (71); 2.4 pg over the 32 games we're guaranteed would be 77, roughly.

And would leave him alone in 2nd behind Raitis (228).

[valpotx]

Raitis rules the paint, and interesting fact, holds the VU men's basketball record for porn watched during daylight hours, and having no shame watching it while you are in the room

[bbtds]

Raitis rules the paint, and interesting fact, holds the VU men's basketball record for porn watched during daylight hours, and having no shame watching it while you are in the room

Why are you smiling so much today, Raitis?

I saw woman eating Latvian hot sausage.

serious hot sausage export from latvia.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LATVIAN%20sausage

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Blox, career
3. Joaquin Gomes 2000-04 111
t4. VASHIL 100
t4. Rowdy 2009-13 100

At this rate, he might catch Raitis after all.

Which would be good, because it's really hard to take him seriously now.  (thanks tx)

ALSO SUPER BONUS FT UPDATE
This year: 23-34 (67.6%)
Last year: 47.7%
Soph: 28.6% (cut to Dennis Rodman, shaking head sadly)

[valpotx]

Hahaha, good stuff.  He lived with a baseball teammate of mine across the hall from me during my/his JR year of school in Berg.  You'd walk in there and just hang out, and he'd be sitting on his laptop watching away with some big headphones on, like it was just any other TV show .  Run lived next door to him, so maybe he heard the full cinema experience at night, when headphones weren't needed?

[agibson]

And he's started making FTs too!
This year: 15-24 (62.5%)

It's a start, but if I remember well he started last season pretty well too.

He seems to have eliminated last year's (intentional? rhythm building?) shimmy, but against New Mexico it seemed like he was getting some weird motion on the ball, sort of side spin?

It seems like he's definitely been working hard on it, for years!  Best of luck to him, certainly.

[Kyle321n]

And he's started making FTs too!
This year: 15-24 (62.5%)

It's a start, but if I remember well he started last season pretty well too.

He seems to have eliminated last year's (intentional? rhythm building?) shimmy, but against New Mexico it seemed like he was getting some weird motion on the ball, sort of side spin?

It seems like he's definitely been working hard on it, for years!  Best of luck to him, certainly.

Non-Con: 21-35 (0.600) in 14 games
Conference: 17-43 (0.395) in 16 games (including an 0-7 performance vs. UIC)
Post Season: 3-8    (0.375) in 3 games (0-4 in conference tourney, 3-4 vs. Columbia)

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Hm...you're right...perhaps the conference affects his confidence?





for no reason:

[valporun]

Hahaha, good stuff.  He lived with a baseball teammate of mine across the hall from me during my/his JR year of school in Berg.  You'd walk in there and just hang out, and he'd be sitting on his laptop watching away with some big headphones on, like it was just any other TV show .  Run lived next door to him, so maybe he heard the full cinema experience at night, when headphones weren't needed?

I definitely heard it. I just didn't think anything of it because I wasn't always in my room to focus on the noise. Though Raitis did get upset with me for my inability to be a track god on the Power Pad Track and Field Nintendo game. I was embarrassed.

[LaPorteAveApostle]

Blox, career
3. Joaquin Gomes 2000-04 111
4. VASHIL 102

Alone in 4th!  (Sorry, Rowdy.  You're probably the shortest person in the top 10, man.)