Are You Ready For Some Hoops?

I hope all of you and your families had a great Thanksgiving holiday. It is so hard to believe we are already into the Holiday season and another semester is coming to a close.

The basketball teams have jumped right into their season and it is a busy week for especially the Cowboys this week. HSU will take on regional foe Trinity on Monday and then go to Sam Houston State for a game against the Division I Bearkats on Thursday.
That game will give me a chance to see old friend and former HSU broadcaster John Wilson. Wilson is a Sam graduate and works in College Station. It seems impossible that he has been gone from here for nearly four years.

The Cowboys will return home and join with the Cowgirls to start conference play on Saturday afternoon against LeTourneau. The Cowboys split with LeTourneau last year including a win in the ASC Tournament. The Cowgirls will look to get back on the court after a 13 day layoff.

We are trying something new this year with most of our games being on at least an Internet broadcast, both home and away. We will be utilizing students for our home games this year and either myself or Al Pickett will handle the road games. The use of students is to get them some experience in broadcasting games, so bear with them as we use this as a teaching tool. When we get to West Division play our six games out of Abilene will be on the radio as well with Chad and Al. This is a new adventure for us, but we want you to be able to hear our games, even if you can’t be there in person.

We had a surprisingly good student crowd in the men’s opener on Tuesday. With the students out for Thanksgiving break, we were not expecting much as far as attendance. Those who were there were treated with a good game, as the Cowboys dominated from the opening tip. The Cowboys and Cowgirls are both playing up-tempo pressing styles this year and should be entertaining to watch, so we hope you will find your way to the Mabee Complex.

The academic All-ASC teams are out for the fall sports and once again HSU did quite well. We had 37 non-freshmen student-athletes in the four sports with 3.0 GPAs or better. That was the second most in the league to the 38 of ETBU and Miss. College, but both of those two have more sports with cross country teams. It always amazes me when I send in the nomination forms of the number of student-athletes that get it done in the classroom as well.