VMI basketball at it again

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Beat some nobody 156-91 tonight. Last year's highest scoring team in the country is fun to watch, although I'd be shocked if they even finish in the top three in their conference.


http://vmikeydets.com/stats.asp?page=stats/2007-2008/basketball/vmi1128.htm

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Belichick is proud.

 

[Mayfly]

No VMI player had over 20 minutes. Belichick would have kept his players in throughout the game.

 

[Cosmo]

Was in VMI coach Duggar Baucom's office a few weeks back, and he was watching tape of a 1989 game between Loyola Marymount and La Salle. Dude knows how to coach a fun style of basketball.

 

[Batman]

56 points allowed? VMI's football team wishes it had that kind of defense. They gave up more than that three times this year (including 70-plus the last two games).

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

156 is about 100 more than VMI scored against Ohio State last week.

 

[sportshack06]

156?

The number of points by VMI tonight...or the number of heart attacks in Duggar Baucom's career?

 

[Cosmo]

****ing cheap shot, sportshack. ****.

 

[ondeadline]

VMI only scored 57 points against Ohio State last weekend, so it can not go wild against a decent team.

 

[Cosmo]

No, and VMI lost the majority of the game it played last season in which it didn't score 100, until the run to the Big South tournament final, when Baucom slowed down on defense and won a few games in the 80s and 90s.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Back in the day, Ron Carter was a serious hooper for the Keydets.

Whether they play well against good teams or not, it has to be fun to watch at a place that isn't exactly known for its yuks. Especially if you're a rat.

 

[gandhithegreat]

I was in Lexington last Tuesday or Wednesday night and can't believe I missed these guys.

Apparently they have been doing this for a while as the game plan is to shoot the ball whether you have the shot or not...it's just a shoot and crash the boards offense...hence the 0-4 team scoring 91.

 

[gandhithegreat]

Also, they took 107 total shots...45 threes

 

[HejiraHenry]

Watch for Southern Miss against the first-year NAIA team from Blue Mountain (0-7) on Thursday night ... Blue Mt. is giving up an average of 111.4 points per game and gave up a season-high 141 (!) the other night to Crichton College.

(SoMiss, which won 20 a year ago but had a ghastly RPI, has no business at all playing such a game, by the way.)

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

156?

The number of points by VMI tonight...or the number of heart attacks in Duggar Baucom's career?

You've obviously never met the guy. But keep taking pot shots, prick.
Dude went through a very trying time in which his family wondered whether their young role model would live fron one day to the next. Guy went from JV girls coach to someone who adores the game.
But hey, go **** yourself.

 

[budcrew08]

Beat some nobody 156-91 tonight. Last year's highest scoring team in the country is fun to watch, although I'd be shocked if they even finish in the top three in their conference.


http://vmikeydets.com/stats.asp?page=stats/2007-2008/basketball/vmi1128.htm

This sounds like they run the "hyper run and gun" offense... basically there are enough guys to sub in and out at 3 or 4 minute intervals -- all 5 in, all 5 out -- and they shoot a ton of threes.
Usually a team like this will either win by a score of like 130-123, because they basically can give up layups at the other end of the floor, or they loss by like 40, if they aren't hitting shots.

I know VMI is a D-I school, but here's another school that runs this offense: Grinnell College, a DIII college in Iowa.
www.d3hoops.com... will have the records and the scores from the past five or six seasons. They played on ESPN a couple of years back to showcase this offense.

 

[Editude]

Another DIII school, Redlands, used to run this offense but got rid of it this season when its longtime coach retired. You can't play more than about 20-22 minutes a game in that style.