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Game 7-059: Southern Utah at IUPUI
February 18, 2011 9:37 am ET by Kyle Whelliston

Southern Utah Thunderbirds at IUPUI Jaguars

February 17, 2011 7:00 pm
The Jungle
BBState Stats/Recap



Bally goes college, the most Caucasian And 1 Mixtape Tour stop ever, Badlands swimming and diving, Mid-Con Appreciation Night, and a return to the scene of an old temp job.

@midmajority Game Tweets

18:18 Yo, Bub. http://img.ly/32ce
18:45 Game No. 7-059: Southern Utah at IUPUI. "Zoo Cage" was taken.
18:49 While folks are playing fun-brakts over at the NCAA, there is serious Badlands Conference basketball going on right here at The Jungle!
18:53 There is also the Badlands swimming/diving championships going on across the hall at the natatorium. Watched that for a while.
18:57 Apparently Centenary is pretty good at swimming! There was a decent little turnout and a big C flag. Swim on, Gents!
18:57 RT @RedZoneIUPUI: Wish @midmajority could see a decent turnout once... Last time was against Duquesne when 5 kids came
18:58 .@ballybasketball is going college and sitting in the @RedZoneIUPUI student section tonight.
19:02 IUPUI is 10-4 in the BLC (16-11 overall), 3 games behind OAK. SUU is 8-17 (4-10) and have lost five of seven. #youareinformed
19:04 SUU is coached by Roger Reid, one of the stars of the Tony Ingle book I helped write. Fourth season in Cedar City, 37-78 record.
19:06 Tip. http://img.ly/32cQ
19:06 Sitting next to the Stat Crew tonight. J-34, D-5. Y-01, D-1. The building blocks of everything we do.
19:07 Very much so! RT @RobDemovsky: @midmajority Is that the same Roger Reid formerly of BYU, son was Robbie, if I recall?
19:09 IUPUI out to an 8-4 lead after three and a half minutes. They're led by 6-6 jr. Alex Young & Leroy Nobles, a 6-5 sr. with #dunxplosiveness.
19:10 RT @SethHunt105: @MIDMAJORITY #ALLCAPSGAME+PILOT SENIOR NIGHT+MASCOT NIGHT=TWITTER EXPLOSION #MASCOTSWILLBEBALLIN
19:11 Our next game after this will be the #ALLCAPSGAME. UIC and Butler on Sat afternoon. We'll have a full breakdown in tomorrow's SD.
19:11 Leroy Nobles also has #superhooposity! He sank a line drive to put IUPUI ahead 11-4 at 15:30.
19:12 Nobles with a breakaway layup, and now he has some kind of awesome trifecta going. 4-for-4 from the floor, Jaguars up 13-4.
19:14 "Espo for three!" That would be sophhh Sean Esposito, who dropped a #soop to put IUPUI up 16-4. Could this be a 1H Shoe Pic blowout?
19:18 Here, it's IUPUI 24, Southern Utah 8 at the end of the first quarter.
19:19 Thanks to those around the Badlands who invited us over tonight. If it weren't financial, we totally would. Thanks for your wild kindness.
19:22 I recognize this defense from SUU. It's the same as playing the Charlotte Bobcats in NBA Live 04 on the easy setting. #memories
19:23 I think @RedZoneIUPUI lost Bally. I don't see him over there.
19:25 There he is! Good turnout in the student section tonight, lots of Greek letters all over the place.
19:30 Fast-moving 1H here in downtown Indy; IUPUI leads 30-16 at 5:55 1H.
19:30 Remember, this IUPUI team beat runaway leader Oakland. Could do it again in SD next month and go to the Dance instead.
19:34 History favors Oakland: the last 5 regular season champions in the Badlands/Mid-Con backed it up: ORU 3x, NDSU Bison Fever, and OAK in 10.
19:35 But! In 2003, IUPUI finished second behind Valparaiso, and beat the Crusaders 66-64 in the championship for their first/only NCAA bid.
19:36 Ron Hunter jumped on the floor and split his pants. You might have seen that clip a few times during ESPN Championship Week.
19:37 This game is not for a championship, but it's settling into a rhythm. IUPUI up 32-20 at 2:57 1H, saving effort and playing bench.
19:39 Check out the Mid-Con lineup from 1994: GB, VALP, UIC, CLST, WRIG, EIU, MILW, NIU, WIU, YSU. How many are still in the league?
19:41 That's right, only the Leathernecks of Western Illinois. The historic Horizon League pillage of 95 is well-covered in el book.
19:42 Here in 2011, it's 40-28 IUPUI over Southern Utah. Both teams joined the league in 1998.
19:44 Get it, Ron! RT @dcbradley: @midmajority And here's video of the shot and subsequent slide! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGeTuWvFHOU
19:46 They remembered. #sniff http://img.ly/32dD
19:52 Sneaking over to watch some Badlands swimming. Oakland just won a women's relay title! http://img.ly/32dH
19:57 Halftime spreads across Hoops Nation East. In the A-14, Temple leads Richmond 38-29. Savannah State 43, Trinity Baptist (NAIA) 11.
19:58 Is Xzibit there too!?! RT @devonmiller8: @ty_pennington is here. Why aren't you @midmajority ? WSU wants you to visit again!
19:59 We're back for a second half of big bad Badlands hoops. A Damon Heuir #superhoop cuts the SUU deficit to nine, at 42-33.
20:00 Thunderbirds, to their credit, come out of the break with a burst of energy, trying to catch IUPUI by surprise. Working! Jag lead is 7.
20:02 Matt Hodgson and Ramell Taylor with #omgdunx for SUU, and the shoe's on the other foot now! IUPUI's lead shrinks from 12 to 1 in 4 minutes.
20:04 Ron Hunter looks like he just got his car stolen. That's the best I can do to describe it.
20:05 Been there RT @UCIHOOPS: stuck in a blizzard on the way to Reno! Been sitting in the bus for 5 hours already.
20:06 RT @goldengrizzGP: @midmajority OU's men's and women's swim/dive teams have won SL title every year they've been eligible for the championship. #domination
20:07 SUU is confounding IUPUI with these crazy #dunx! After a horrible first half, the T'Birds have wiped out a 12-point HT deficit. Tied at 43.
20:13 A Matt Hodgson #dunx puts SUU in the lead! Slam-bam-jam-DAMN! 47-45 Thunderbirds at 13:30 2H.
20:14 Alex Young, however, nails a #superhoop to stem the #BadlandsMadness. IUPUI leads 50-48 at 12:48 2H.
20:18 Imagine a two-bid Badlands. It happened (twice)! In 91, Green Bay and N. Illinois went. In 90, future Valley pals (SW) Mo St and UNI did.
20:22 Of the Mid-Con's 7 NCAAT wins on the proper bracket, 5 are in the Horizon now (CLST 2, GB 1, VALP 2). MOST and UNI own the other two.
20:23 In the present, SUU owns a 56-55 lead at the end of the third quarter.
20:25 Came in the summer of 94, stayed for four years (95-98). RT @HarfordHoops @midmajority Wasn't the University of Buffalo in there in 94 also.
20:27 RT @HustleBelt: @midmajority @HarfordHoops Ahem. University AT Buffalo. #MACstickler #idontknoweither
20:29 .@IUPUIRedZone doin' work. http://img.ly/32ei
20:30 When Bo Boroski announces a block call at the scorer's table, he punctuates the double-hip punch with a "Boom."
20:32 Two teams trading leads here, five minutes to go. Currently 64-63 Southern Utah. SUU has scored most of 2H points on #dunx.
20:33 #poursa40 @defiantlydutch: @midmajority: A moment of silence, on Badlands Night, for 1993-94 ECC runnerup NE Illinois plz.
20:33 Southern Utah is 2-8 on the road this year, so this would be a remarkable result for a number of reasons.
20:36 Oakland is currently trailing NDSU 50-47 midway through 2H. A G'Griz win and an IUPUI loss would clinch the outright regular season title.
20:39 SUU and their #dunx doing their part for Oakland. Two minutes to go, Thunderbirds lead 74-67. What a swing.
20:40 NAIA fun. RT @midmajority360: Trinity Baptist 24 Savannah State 84 | SVST 9-18 (0-0) | http://tmm7.me/e9d
20:42 To say IUPUI's interior defense was compromised would be too kind. The second half has been the most Caucasian And 1 Mixtape Tour ever.
20:42 RT @rtruesdell: @midmajority Scary Jackrabbits crushing IPFW. IUPUI at ORU next week likely will be for 1st-Round tourney bye #badlandsmadness
20:43 This is virtually over. One minute left, and Southern Utah leads 76-68. This was 26-10 IUPUI at one point.
20:45 Been noted on a thousand message boards, but if this officiating thing doesn't work out for Bo Boroski, he can play Bill Clinton in a movie.
20:46 RT @KraigW: @midmajority you can see me in the USU broken backboard picture in the blue shirt at the press table. @ballybasketball is sadly obscured
20:46 There are four people from SUU behind their bench, and they are the happiest people in the world right now. :32, 80-68.
20:48 SUU dribbles an entire :35 clock out. Final: Southern Utah 80, IUPUI 68. Jags scored one point after the final media TO.
20:51 TU 1/2 behind X at 10-2, W7. RT @midmajority360: Richmond 53 Temple 73 | RICH: K. Anderson 15 - TU: R. Moore 24 | http://tmm7.me/e9e #A14
20:52 Well, that's it for Badlands night. Oakland poised to win the conference. GNHN.


Boxscore

SOUTHERN UTAH 80, at IUPUI 68
02/17/2011

SOUTHERN UTAH 9-17 (5-10) -- D. Heuir 3-6 0-1 7; D. Heuir 3-6 0-1 7; J. Weirick 4-7 3-4 12; J. Weirick 4-7 3-4 12; J. Nielson 5-6 4-7 15; J. Nielson 5-6 4-7 15; J. Stevenett 5-8 4-4 14; J. Stevenett 5-8 4-4 14; M. Hodgson 5-7 4-4 14; M. Hodgson 5-7 4-4 14; R. Taylor 5-7 0-1 10; M. Massey 2-3 0-0 4; M. Massey 2-3 0-0 4; R. Brimley 0-2 0-0 0; R. Brimley 0-2 0-0 0; R. Jones, Jr. 0-2 0-0 0; K. Davis 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 55-89 30-41 146.
IUPUI 16-12 (10-5) -- L. Nobles 7-13 5-6 21; A. Young 6-13 1-2 14; J. Ashworth 1-4 0-0 3; S. Thomas 3-9 0-0 6; S. Esposito 3-5 2-2 11; C. Siakam 4-5 3-4 11; M. Patton 0-0 0-0 0; D. Gibbs 1-4 0-0 2; A. Williams 0-0 0-0 0; N. DeSchepper 0-0 0-0 0; N. Kitcoff 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-53 11-14 68.

Three-point goals: SUU 6-11 (J. Nielson 1-1; D. Heuir 1-2; J. Weirick 1-2; R. Jones, Jr. 0-1), IUPUI 7-18 (S. Thomas 0-2; L. Nobles 2-5; J. Ashworth 1-4; A. Young 1-2; S. Esposito 3-5); Rebounds: SUU 48 (M. Hodgson 5), IUPUI 20 (C. Siakam 7); Assists: SUU 25 (D. Heuir 4), IUPUI 13 (J. Ashworth 6); Total Fouls -- SUU 28, IUPUI 21; Fouled Out: SUU-None; IUPUI-L. Nobles.