Bobcat Game Notes vs. UNC
1/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
After a taste of home cooking, the Bobcats head to the road this weekend to face Northern Colorado on Thursday night and Northern Arizona on Saturday afternoon. The Bobcats earned home wins over league-leading Idaho State and second place Weber State last weekend. Both teams feature inside-outside balance, with Kirk Archibeque and Sean Taibi anchoring UNC’s offense. Northern Arizona’s Stephen Sir is one of the top three-point threats in college basketball, while guard Tyrone Bazy and forward Ruben Boykin, Jr., make their living in the paint.
GAME FACTS
Montana State at Northern Colorado
DATE: January 25, 2007
TIPOFF: 7:05 pm
SITE: Greeley, CO
ARENA: Butler-Hancock Pavilion
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/21/07 in Bozeman
Montana State at Northern Arizona
DATE: January 27, 2007
TIPOFF: 2:05 pm
SITE: Flagstaff, AZ
ARENA: Walkup Skydome
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/25/07 in Bozeman
HIGHLIGHTS
• The Bobcats snapped a seven-game losing streak in Saturday games dating to last March by topping Idaho State • The win over Weber marked MSU’s first this season when trailing at halftime (1-11) • Carlos Taylor is Big Sky Player of the Week, with PSU’s Dupree Lucas • MSU held last weekend’s opponents to 34.8% shooting from the floor
STREAKS
• MSU has held the opponent to less than 50% shooting in 10 straight games, its longest streak of the season • On Thursday, MSU snapped a string in which it was out-rebounded in three straight games • After hitting at least 10 three-pointers in four straight games, MSU has gone four games without at least 10
NOTEWORTHY
• Nick Dissly has 947 career points
• The Cats out-shot their opponents from the field in each their six wins
From Bobcat Coach Brad Huse
On Northern Colorado: “People have struggled to beat them, particularly in Greeley. The’ve played everybody tough. It’s a good offensive outfit with nice players inside, and (Sean) Taibi on the perimeter can really shoot it. They’re hungry, they’re a team that continues to fight, like ourselves. Nothing’s come easy for us, and it’s kind of the same for Northern Colorado.” On Northern Arizona: “NAU is an explosive team, leading the country in three-point shooting, and they’ve had a great run in the league in terms of shooting the basketball. It’s a tough place to get to, a tough place to play, and they’e the (Big Sky) preseason favorites.” On the Bobcats: “There’s certainly a little more interest in where we’re heading (after last weekend). Our guys need to take confidence from those two games, but that doesn’t cover up the mistakes we made in both games. We have to continue to improve. The nice thing is we took care of what we had to at home, and we didn’t know how we’d respond because we hadn’t been home in so long. Now it’s back on the road, which is pretty familiar to us.”
Last Time Out
Montana State scored all the points it needed in the first 37-and-a-half minutes, then held on for dear life in a 58-57 win over league-leading Idaho State. Carlos Taylor led MSU with 19 points.
Three After Three
MSU has hit at least one three-pointer in the last 369 games. From 1986 to late ‘92-93 MSU rolled up 197 straight games with a trey, giving MSU at least one three in 566 of the last 567 games.
Holding On Tight
MSU averaged 16.4 turnovers against its non-conference schedule, but has trimmed that to 13.5 a game against Big Sky foes.
Bombin’
Although Brad Huse has made it clear that his teams won’t rely on three-point field goals to a degree that makes it a one-dimensional outfit, the Bobcats have shown long-range proficiency this season. The Bobcats nailed a school-record 15 triples against Great Falls, and is second in the Big Sky with 7.67 three-pointers a game. MSU is seventh in the league with a 33% rate from three-point land, but is second in three-point defense (also 33%).
Glasswork
Montana State’s rebounding work stands as perhaps the team’s most pleasant surprise this season. MSU averages 35.6 boards a game, second in the league, and is fifth in the Big Sky in rebound margin.
The Glass Master
Much of MSU’s rebounding resurgence is due to the play of Ted Morris, presently second in the Big Sky with 7.4 a game. Morris has led the Bobcats in rebounds 12 times this year.
Triple Threats
Two of MSU’s three in-state starters are moving up the school’s three-point charts. Senior Nick Dissly has 136 three-pointers in his career, eighth in school history, while junior Casey Durham has 110 treys, 12 short of joining the top 10.
Stalking 1,000
Nick Dissly continues a pace that will move him well into MSU’s 1,000-Point Club. Dissly enters the Weber game with 947 career points, and could finish with just over 1,100 in his career. That wouldn’t crack the school’s top 20 list in scoring, but it would grab for him the honor as MSU’s most productive scorer ever from Bozeman.
First-Year Facts
Brad Huse is working against history during his first season as MSU’s head coach. Since 1960, only two of the school’s seven head coaches posted a winning mark in his first season... Huse is the third straight Bobcat basketball coach to have previously served as an MSU assistant... MSU has now been coached by a native Montanan for 17 straight years.
GAME FACTS
Montana State at Northern Colorado
DATE: January 25, 2007
TIPOFF: 7:05 pm
SITE: Greeley, CO
ARENA: Butler-Hancock Pavilion
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/21/07 in Bozeman
Montana State at Northern Arizona
DATE: January 27, 2007
TIPOFF: 2:05 pm
SITE: Flagstaff, AZ
ARENA: Walkup Skydome
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/25/07 in Bozeman
HIGHLIGHTS
• The Bobcats snapped a seven-game losing streak in Saturday games dating to last March by topping Idaho State • The win over Weber marked MSU’s first this season when trailing at halftime (1-11) • Carlos Taylor is Big Sky Player of the Week, with PSU’s Dupree Lucas • MSU held last weekend’s opponents to 34.8% shooting from the floor
STREAKS
• MSU has held the opponent to less than 50% shooting in 10 straight games, its longest streak of the season • On Thursday, MSU snapped a string in which it was out-rebounded in three straight games • After hitting at least 10 three-pointers in four straight games, MSU has gone four games without at least 10
NOTEWORTHY
• Nick Dissly has 947 career points
• The Cats out-shot their opponents from the field in each their six wins
From Bobcat Coach Brad Huse
On Northern Colorado: “People have struggled to beat them, particularly in Greeley. The’ve played everybody tough. It’s a good offensive outfit with nice players inside, and (Sean) Taibi on the perimeter can really shoot it. They’re hungry, they’re a team that continues to fight, like ourselves. Nothing’s come easy for us, and it’s kind of the same for Northern Colorado.” On Northern Arizona: “NAU is an explosive team, leading the country in three-point shooting, and they’ve had a great run in the league in terms of shooting the basketball. It’s a tough place to get to, a tough place to play, and they’e the (Big Sky) preseason favorites.” On the Bobcats: “There’s certainly a little more interest in where we’re heading (after last weekend). Our guys need to take confidence from those two games, but that doesn’t cover up the mistakes we made in both games. We have to continue to improve. The nice thing is we took care of what we had to at home, and we didn’t know how we’d respond because we hadn’t been home in so long. Now it’s back on the road, which is pretty familiar to us.”
Last Time Out
Montana State scored all the points it needed in the first 37-and-a-half minutes, then held on for dear life in a 58-57 win over league-leading Idaho State. Carlos Taylor led MSU with 19 points.
Three After Three
MSU has hit at least one three-pointer in the last 369 games. From 1986 to late ‘92-93 MSU rolled up 197 straight games with a trey, giving MSU at least one three in 566 of the last 567 games.
Holding On Tight
MSU averaged 16.4 turnovers against its non-conference schedule, but has trimmed that to 13.5 a game against Big Sky foes.
Bombin’
Although Brad Huse has made it clear that his teams won’t rely on three-point field goals to a degree that makes it a one-dimensional outfit, the Bobcats have shown long-range proficiency this season. The Bobcats nailed a school-record 15 triples against Great Falls, and is second in the Big Sky with 7.67 three-pointers a game. MSU is seventh in the league with a 33% rate from three-point land, but is second in three-point defense (also 33%).
Glasswork
Montana State’s rebounding work stands as perhaps the team’s most pleasant surprise this season. MSU averages 35.6 boards a game, second in the league, and is fifth in the Big Sky in rebound margin.
The Glass Master
Much of MSU’s rebounding resurgence is due to the play of Ted Morris, presently second in the Big Sky with 7.4 a game. Morris has led the Bobcats in rebounds 12 times this year.
Triple Threats
Two of MSU’s three in-state starters are moving up the school’s three-point charts. Senior Nick Dissly has 136 three-pointers in his career, eighth in school history, while junior Casey Durham has 110 treys, 12 short of joining the top 10.
Stalking 1,000
Nick Dissly continues a pace that will move him well into MSU’s 1,000-Point Club. Dissly enters the Weber game with 947 career points, and could finish with just over 1,100 in his career. That wouldn’t crack the school’s top 20 list in scoring, but it would grab for him the honor as MSU’s most productive scorer ever from Bozeman.
First-Year Facts
Brad Huse is working against history during his first season as MSU’s head coach. Since 1960, only two of the school’s seven head coaches posted a winning mark in his first season... Huse is the third straight Bobcat basketball coach to have previously served as an MSU assistant... MSU has now been coached by a native Montanan for 17 straight years.
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