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One of the worst if not the worst WBB seasons in BG history is now over and let's look back at the stats. But first, I had missed the All-MAC selections this year and reviewed them just today. It was not a surprise that we had no player on any All-MAC selection even HM. Also, BG failed to land anyone on the All Defensive or All Freshman teams. Care to hazard a guess on what other team had this distinction. Miami, No they had a player on the Frosh Team. Akron, No they had a HM selection. Well how about no one but BG. Ring-a-ding-ding. A shameful fall from grace that may not be much better next year unless some amazing Frosh shows up.

On to the stats sheet. So BG shot 35.6% to its opponents 41%. A supposed 3 pt shooting strength was not at 29.4% to opponents 31.3%. We did eke out a FT shooting advantage of 67.9% to 66.8% but it was not that long ago that BG had a number of 75% FT shooters and above. BG did have some strength on the boards throughout much of the season and that helped somewhat but if you continue to shoot poorly it's negated. That also is relative to turnovers. BG had 295 Assists to 505 Turn Overs for a terrible Assist/TO ratio of 0.58 Our opponents had 386 Assists to 419 TOs for a ratio of 0.92. You can not win many games with both below average shooting and poor floor play, and that is exactly what happened this season.

Despite the pathetic season, I thought that either of the soph. Guards might have pulled an HM rating. But that inconsistency killed everything.
I would assume coaches would nominate their own players for MAC recognition. If true, Roos didnt think enough of her own kids ?

Class of 61 wrote:Despite the pathetic season, I thought that either of the soph. Guards might have pulled an HM rating. But that inconsistency killed everything.
I would assume coaches would nominate their own players for MAC recognition. If true, Roos didnt think enough of her own kids ?

I'm sure she nominated both of those kids, but you don't make the team just by being nominated.

But, unless the MAC does it differently, an HM is just that, and most coaches get that recognition for their kids. It's not end of world, but at least a mild recognition.

I might be misunderstanding what you're saying. Here's what I'm saying ...

In most leagues, coaches nominate the players they feel are worthy of all-league consideration. Then, the other coaches vote, ranking their top-ten (or 15, or however many) players. Then, the votes are counted, and the top five point-getters are named to the first team, the next five to the second team, and so on. Players don't automatically make the team just because they were nominated by their coach.

I understood you as saying that Coach Roos did not nominate any players. But, I'm guessing that Coach Roos DID nominate players, and they just didn't get enough votes to be named to the team. If I'm wrong, I apologize.

Not a problem. I only know when i was coaching soccer and then lacrosse , admittedly at HS levels, we nominated kids we felt were worthy, and, all conf. Teams were selected similar to what you've described. Kids NOT selected were granted Hon. Mention.
This sometimes is the ONLY way kids playing on a bad team (read BG) could get ANY recognition. It's why i thought at least one of the two soph. Guards Might get a HM.
At any rate what's done is done. Only hope the new recruits are for real because this will be a VERY young team next year.

I believe stooges is likely right since only two players received HM. The may be a threshold of points required for the designation.