Monthly Archives: February 2011

Texas State head coach Doug Davalos can rest a bit easier this week since senior forward Tony Bishop was named Southland Conference Player of the Week.

You can read the SLC’s press release by CLICKING HERE.

Former Texas State first baseman Paul Goldschmidt launched a three-run home run in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ game this afternoon against the Colorado Rockies. Goldschmidt’s bomb, which you can see here by clicking here, tied the game in the ninth inning.

• Texas-San Antonio leads Texas State by five at halftime, 38-33.
• Got a little bit chippy in the first half as four technical fouls were dished out. UTSA’s Larry Wilkins and Texas State’s Tony Bishop got tangled up in the paint and then Doug Davalos and Brooks Robinson got into it a little bit.
• Not sure why the Bobcats decided to sit in a 1-3-1 zone while the Roadrunners lit them up in the first half from beyond the arc. UTSA knocked down 6 of its 12 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes.
• Texas State won at home again, thanks to a pair of free throws by Ryan White with 0.3 seconds left in the game. The final score was 82-80.

• Texas State’s men would be the No. 2 seed at 9-4 even though it has the same record as McNeese State. The Cowboys own a tiebreaker against the Bobcats from a win earlier in the season.
• Texas State’s women wouldn’t be in the tournament as Suzanne Fox’s team is currently sits in ninth. The Bobcats fell to Southeastern Louisiana Wednesday night and the Lions improved to 4-9, earning a tiebreaker against Texas State.

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Former Texas State head coach Brad Wright was hired by Wharton ISD as its new athletic director and head football coach. Wright will make $80,000 per year, according to the Wharton Journal-Spectator.

Here are the seeds in the men’s tournament…

1. Texas State (8-3)
2. McNeese State (7-4)
3. Northwestern State (7-4)
4. Southeastern Louisiana (6-5)
5. Stephen F. Austin (6-5)
6. Sam Houston State (6-5)
7. Texas-San Antonio (6-5)
8. Texas-Arlington (6-5)

Here are the seeds in the women’s tournament…

1. McNeese State (10-1)
2. Lamar (9-2)
3. Sam Houston State (8-3)
4. Texas-San Antonio (7-4)
5. Central Arkansas (7-4)
6. Stephen F. Austin (6-5)
7. Northwestern State (6-5)
8. Texas State (4-7)

According to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, Texas State is the favorite to earn the Southland Conference’s bid to the NCAA Tournament. Lunardi released his recent “Bracketology” report this afternoon.

The Bobcats would play Florida Atlantic in the first round play-in game and if they won, Texas State would tangle with Ohio State.

Talked with Texas State head coach Doug Davalos this afternoon about his team’s recent success and senior forward Tony Bishop. Eventually the topic about Bishop NOT being named Southland Conference Player of the Week came up and this is what Davalos had to say…

“The guy they gave it to (Devon Baker) had a good week, but it was all offensive,” Davalos said. “He’s the worst defensive player in the conference but they gave it to that guy, because he scored.”

Baker averaged 24 points per game last week to lead Northwestern State to a pair of wins.

Bishop put up 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds Wednesday night against Central Arkansas, so another big performance Saturday afternoon against Texas-Arlington might put him in line for the award.

StatSheet.com does a great job of putting together pages for each team in Division I with graphical representations of who leads said team in each category. As you can tell for the Bobcats, it’s pretty close to being equal across the board in several categories.