@ Portland State -- Saturday 12/7 @ 7 PM

up7587 wrote:

jumpstop wrote:Now, it's on to take down Tim Douglas and the Vikings.

Tim D. is leading the Vikings in minutes played, points scored, shots made and shots attempted. He has 23 assists in 6 games, but also 18 turnovers. He is also the Viking's 2nd leading defensive rebounder.  

The Vikings are guard oriented, with 4 of their top 5 scorers being guards.

PurpleGeezer wrote:Rumors of a prefunk on the Park blocks?

PilotNut wrote:I have been informed of an official UP pre-game gathering from 5-6:45pm at Rogue Hall, on the PSU campus.

PilotNut wrote:I have been informed of an official UP pre-game gathering from 5-6:45pm at Rogue Hall, on the PSU campus.  More details to follow, I am sure...

PREGAME DETAILS

WHERE: Rogue Hall 1717 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97201 (located on the ground floor of the Vue Residential Tower on the corner of SW Montgomery & Park).


COST: $20 which includes food, beverages and a GA ticket to the game. Tickets will be held at PSU Box Office Will-Call.

TIME: Pregame Social: 5:00 - 6:45 p.m., Game Tip-off: 7:00 p.m.

RSVP: To purchase tickets and RSVP, please contact Dave Taylor at (503) 943-8619 or at taylord@up.edu.

DeanMurdoch wrote:Guard oriented was used by jumpstop to describe PSU and that might be an understatement as they are 328th out of 351 D1 teams in "effective height" - and you'd think that generally a smallish team would be reliant on the three ball, but they're well below average in both frequency of three-point attempts and tempo.

DoubleDipper wrote:A look at Pomeroy’s stats will show that UP is currently No. 309 in the nation at defending the 3-ball and PSU is No. 94 in effectively shooting the 3-ball.   I’m not making any predictions based upon those stats, but based upon the Vikings lack of inside height, the Pilots had better be prepared to see some outside shooting.
 

If the game does sell out, then the Vikings are almost impossible to beat at the Stott Center and they will win, 95-90. If the total embarrassment does come and game is not sold out, then the Pilots win 81-69.

It only happens once a year.

Black Friday? Santa Claus coming down your chimney? Some alignment of stars and planets? No, but just as rare: Portland State and the University of Portland meeting on a basketball court.

For the men’s teams, it will happen on Saturday, when the Vikings and Pilots tip off at 7 p.m. at Stott Center.

The nonleague rivalry series stands in UP’s favor, 33-17, and the Pilots have won the last two years including 81-60 on Nov. 21, 2012.

This season, PSU is 4-2 and Portland is 5-3.

The Viks also are 4-0 at home this season and 5-3 at home against the Pilots since re-instating the hoops program on the South Park Blocks in 1996.

PSU’s starting point guard, Tim Douglas, is back on the court after redshirting per NCAA rules following his transfer from UP. Douglas has scored in double figures in all six games for PSU.

He spent two years on the bluff, averaging 7.7 points per game in 2010-11 and 8.5 points in 2011-12, with 24 total starts — and a career-high 27 points against Portland State in a 78-67 victory on Dec. 18, 2010.

DeanMurdoch wrote:Is this game still going to be played? I hear there's an inch of snow forecast for the Portland area today.

DoubleDipper wrote:

DeanMurdoch wrote:Is this game still going to be played? I hear there's an inch of snow forecast for the Portland area today.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.....you hosers north of the 49th parallel may think we are all wimps down south, but I've got news for you.....to toughen our image, we're annexing much of your old province, British Columbia.

DoubleDipper wrote:It was not that many years ago (2009) that the Pilots were nationally ranked (No. 25) after a good tournament showing in Anaheim, only to lose at home to hot-shooting PSU 86-82. PSU was not necessarily known to be a 3-point shooting team that year either, but on that night they made 15 of 25 3-pointers to outscore the Pilots by 10 in the second half.
 
A look at Pomeroy’s stats will show that UP is currently No. 309 in the nation at defending the 3-ball and PSU is No. 94 in effectively shooting the 3-ball.   I’m not making any predictions based upon those stats, but based upon the Vikings lack of inside height, the Pilots had better be prepared to see some outside shooting.

DeanMurdoch wrote:Nice win! van der Mars gets better and better (19 and 18, are you kidding me?) and that was one of the better games I've seen Thieleke play - within himself and effective. 3 blocks and a steal for Korey off the bench, not to mention the 6 points.

And hey, the 23 from Bailey was nice too!

I had the same replay on Big Sky TV that the officials had for the Thieleke/Moore incident that took a ridiculously long time to decide. The refs never were able to see video of it, only Moore and van der Mars bumping shoulders and Thieleke beginning a "discussion" with Moore - and that was it. So I'm pretty sure they were just guessing when Korey got the technical...at least, I thought it was a technical but as I look at the stats I see the only T was to Wintering for the minor brouhaha at the end - and that might have been the first basketball game I've ever seen where a player takes six consecutive free throws!

A nice win for the Pilots, and now they have eight full days to prepare for Montana State as the Big Sky Tour continues.