Coach Tovarich 2.0 CH2K8 Career Legacy

[Tovarich]

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MEAC Tournament Quarterfinal
Royal Bank of Canada Center
Raleigh, NC

Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks at Morgan State Bears
Mar 11, 2008	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Maryland-Eastern Shore (15-16)	25	40	65
Morgan State (14-17)	37	26	63

Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Davis	25	2-4	0-1	2-2	4	9	3	0	1	6
Krleski	24	6-15	4-10	0-0	1	2	1	0	0	16
Tyson	26	9-24	8-22	0-0	1	3	3	0	0	26
Popovic	23	3-4	0-0	2-2	4	2	3	0	0	8
McFadden	23	1-2	0-0	2-2	5	2	3	1	1	4
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Bright	10	1-5	1-5	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Nimocks	10	1-4	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2
Mirjacic	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Moore	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		23-58	13-38	6-6	18	19	13	1	3	65

Morgan State Bears
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Green	27	2-2	0-0	1-3	0	5	1	0	2	5
Smith	23	6-12	0-2	3-3	6	3	0	0	1	15
Kelly	23	6-7	0-1	1-3	2	0	1	0	3	13
Coly	18	4-6	0-0	0-0	12	2	0	1	0	8
Thompson	20	3-7	0-1	0-0	6	0	0	0	6	6
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Ali	5	5-7	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	11
Holmes	5	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	2	1	0	1	0
Stokes	4	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hemsley	14	1-2	0-0	3-5	4	1	0	0	0	5
Bolden	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Aujla	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Barnes	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		27-45	1-7	8-14	35	13	3	1	13	63

Tovarich: Incredible comeback from 12 down. Then we got up 6, then they re-took the lead. Incredible 3 to win with 1.6 to go by Krleski. Thank you whichever of them missed the 1 and 1 there at the end to give us the chance for the win. Thank you to their center for throwing the ball back to us so many times, he probably would've been wise to just shoot every time he touched it. His passing skills are a bit lacking.

Reporter: It looked like the plan was to go down low for a 2 to win it at the end?

Tovarich: Yes. But kicking it out for the 3 when they had it defended was the right play, obviously. Just relieved we hit it.

Reporter: You don't usually double-team the opposing center, what went into that plan?

Tovarich: After his first pass was stolen, it seemed like that wasn't a good thing for him, so we figured we'll do whatever we can to make him pass. Just guarding one on one rarely forces that, so we stuck two on him. We tied him up twice but he was a turnover machine, so making him get it out of his hands seemed obvious. I was willing to leave a jump shooter open, since most of their offense was just driving right back our slow guys and laying it in.

Reporter: Is it worrying it took 13 extra shots to eek out a win?

Tovarich: You'd like to not have to rely on that, because most teams aren't going to toss you 13 turnovers, but they shot exactly 60% in each half. We were 29% at half and I think we made it to about 50% in the second. So, that's the only way. Deny their shots and shoot a lot of 3's to try to even it out.

Reporter: You were down 3 and they had the ball with about 44 seconds left. You could have played out the defensive possession and still had a chance at the end, what went into deciding to foul?

Tovarich: They weren't exactly lighting it up from the FT line, so I felt better about them there than I did from the field. They hit those first 2, but the second one and one they missed was the difference probably.

Reporter: Winston-Salem State handled you pretty easily the first game, although it was over 2 months ago. Does anything from that game carry over?

Tovarich: It's hard to remember what happened in that game since it was like our second conference game and then we never saw them again. I know we allowed a lot of points and that meant the game was too fast. So we'll need to slow it down for one. We were something like 4-9 at the time, so I'd like to think we've grown and gotten better and come together more with a better understanding of what works and what doesn't, so hopefully we can put up a better fight this time.

[studbucket]

Awesome game and good victory. Glad to see the fouling and doubling strategy worked out.

[Tovarich]

MEAC Tournament Semifinal
Royal Bank of Canada Center
Raleigh, NC

Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks at Winston-Salem State Winston-Salem State
Mar 13, 2008	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Maryland-Eastern Shore (15-17)	28	25	53
Winston-Salem State (18-11)	24	35	59

Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Davis	25	0-2	0-1	1-2	2	7	0	0	2	1
Krleski	25	6-17	2-11	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	14
Tyson	26	10-14	8-12	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	28
Popovic	24	2-4	0-0	0-0	6	3	2	0	0	4
McFadden	25	2-4	0-0	0-0	5	1	5	0	1	4
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Bright	8	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Nimocks	7	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Mirjacic	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Moore	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		21-45	10-25	1-2	16	15	8	0	3	53

Winston-Salem State Winston-Salem State
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Peake	25	3-5	0-1	0-1	0	8	0	0	4	6
Fisher	25	5-9	2-4	0-0	2	1	1	0	2	12
Floyd	26	10-14	6-9	0-0	2	2	1	0	1	26
Lewis	20	1-2	0-0	0-0	9	1	0	0	1	2
Durham	26	4-5	0-0	0-1	4	4	1	0	1	8
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
Funderburke	4	1-3	1-3	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	5
Tucker	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Morris	10	0-0	0-0	0-0	4	1	0	1	0	0
Puckett	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Davis	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Murphy-Long	-- DID NOT PLAY --
Wonge	-- DID NOT PLAY --
TEAM TOTALS		24-38	9-17	2-4	21	18	3	1	5	59

Tovarich: There's no way to sugar coat that one. We collapsed. I don't know what happened for the last 8 minutes. I know the court said NC State, but I don't think we were playing them. I think Winston-Salem State magically became NC State all of a sudden. I thought up 48-37 with 8 to go, we'd just need a few scores and run some clock. Then they score 13 in a row before we can make a shot. Then they go get 9 in a row again. I think we went 2 for our last 14? They made 11 of their last 13. Incredible transformation all of a sudden. Rough loss. I guess it was just some kind of superhuman effort by them and we choked.

Reporter: Do you still consider this a successful season?

Tovarich: We certainly did better than anyone expected. My main goal when I showed up and saw the state of this program was to just get season 1 over with, but now that recruiting is going so badly, that's my expectation for season 2 as well most likely. So, the results may be good, but I expected to be more optimistic about season 2 and I'm not. That's all. Enjoy the off-season reporter people.

[Tovarich]

Conference Tournament Winners
America East-5 Stony Brook
ACC-3 North Carolina
Atlantic Sun-3 Jacksonville
Atlantic 10-2 Xavier
Big East-8 Pittsburgh
Big Sky-1 Montana
Big South-5 Liberty
Big 10-1 Michigan State
Big 12-2 Kansas
Big West-5 Cal Riverside
Colonial-2 James Madison
CUSA-3 Houston
Horizon-2 Detroit
Metro Atlantic-5 Siena
MAC-6 Western Michigan
MEAC-2 Florida A&M
Missouri Valley-2 Southern Illinois
Mountain West-1 New Mexico
Northeast-2 Sacred Heart
Ohio Valley-3 Eastern Kentucky
PAC 10-1 Stanford
Patriot-7 Lehigh
SEC-1 Arkansas
Southern-5 Chattanooga
Southland-2 Lamar
Summit-2 IPFW
SWAC-1 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Sun Belt-5 Louisiana Monroe
West Coast-1 St. Mary's
WAC-5 Nevada

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament
Play-in Game
Chattanooga (17-14) vs. Lehigh (13-17)

East Region
#1 Arkansas (29-4) vs. Play-in
#8 Pittsburgh (21-13) vs. #9 New Mexico (25-8)
#5 St. Joseph's (22-10) vs. #12 Columbia (20-8)
#4 Seton Hall (23-10) vs. #13 Montana (21-7)
#6 Virginia (20-10) vs. #11 Charlotte (19-12)
#3 Marquette (24-7) vs. #14 Siena (18-13)
#7 Clemson (18-12) vs. #10 Houston (23-10)
#2 Duke (23-7) vs. #15 Detroit (19-11)

West Region
#1 Memphis (27-7) vs. #16 Florida A&M (19-12)
#8 Western Kentucky (21-7) vs #9 Baylor (20-10)
#5 Tennessee (19-12) vs. #12 St. Louis (19-12)
#4 Oregon (23-8) vs. #13 Louisiana Monroe (18-13)
#6 St. Mary's (26-5) vs. #11 Georgia (17-12)
#3 UCLA (21-8) vs. #14 Nevada (18-13)
#7 Wisconsin (22-11) vs. #10 Connecticut (18-13)
#2 Michigan State (26-7) vs. #15 Eastern Kentucky (16-13)

South Region
#1 Stanford (27-6) vs. #16 Stony Brook (16-14)
#8 West Virginia (18-12) vs. #9 Florida State (22-13)
#5 Georgetown (21-10) vs. #12 Western Michigan (20-12)
#4 Xavier (24-10) vs. #13 Sacred Heart (21-11)
#6 Providence (21-11) vs. #11 Pacific (21-9)
#3 Louisville (25-9) vs. #14 Liberty (18-15)
#7 Southern Illinois (22-9) vs. #10 Florida (17-14)
#2 Kentucky (27-7) vs. #15 Lamar (20-8)

Midwest Region
#1 Kansas (26-6) vs. #16 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (18-12)
#8 Vanderbilt (21-13) vs. #9 Akron (22-8)
#5 UAB (23-9) vs. #12 James Madison (22-10)
#4 Washington State (24-8) vs. #13 IPFW (19-11)
#6 Butler (27-5) vs. #11 Fresno State (20-10)
#3 Missouri (26-6) vs. #14 Jacksonville (19-11)
#7 North Carolina State (17-11) vs. #10 Illinois (20-12)
#2 North Carolina (24-10) vs. #15 Cal Riverside (15-14)

NIT
Alabama (21-13) vs. Texas-Pan American (18-11)
South Carolina (16-14) vs. Washington (18-13)
Syracuse (18-14) vs. Wagner (20-9)
Gonzaga (22-11) vs. Tennessee State (20-9)

Georgia Tech (16-14) vs. Gardner-Webb (17-12)
St. Bonaventure (20-12) vs. Colorado (17-13)
Northern Iowa (21-9) vs. Rhode Island (21-13)
Arizona State (19-12) vs. Lafayette (16-14)

Ohio State (19-12) vs. NC Asheville (14-14)
Utah State (23-9) vs. New Orleans (21-9)
Iowa State (20-11) vs. Niagara (19-9)
New Mexico State (20-13) vs. Vermont (18-11)

Duquesne (20-11) vs. Winston-Salem State (19-12)
East Carolina (16-10) vs. Davidson (19-8)
Fordham (16-12) vs. Texas San Antonio (19-8)
George Mason (21-10) vs. IUPUI (17-11)

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament

Play-in Game
Chattanooga 71 Lehigh 55
East
1st Round
#1 Arkansas 80 #16 Chattanooga 64
#9 New Mexico 61 #8 Pittsburgh 60
#5 St. Joseph's 67 #12 Columbia 66
#4 Seton Hall 82 #13 Montana 68

#6 Virginia 73 #11 Charlotte 71
#3 Marquette 99 #14 Siena 50
#7 Clemson 73 #10 Houston 63
#2 Duke 83 #15 Detroit 54

West
#1 Memphis 124 #16 Florida A&M 89
#9 Baylor 83 #8 Western Kentucky 68
#5 Tennessee 75 #12 St. Louis 74
#4 Oregon 98 #13 Louisiana Monroe 62

#11 Georgia 72 #6 St. Mary's 70
#3 UCLA 95 #14 Nevada 48
#10 Connecticut 72 #7 Wisconsin 58
#2 Michigan State 90 #15 Eastern Kentucky 53

South
#1 Stanford 82 #16 Stony Brook 59
#8 West Virginia 63 #9 Florida State 60
#5 Georgetown 82 #12 Western Michigan 65
#13 Sacred Heart 88 #4 Xavier 85

#11 Pacific 77 #6 Providence 68
#3 Louisville 95 #14 Liberty 51
#10 Florida 78 #7 Southern Illinois 75
#2 Kentucky 89 #15 Lamar 56

Midwest
#1 Kansas 103 #16 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 68
#9 Akron 85 #8 Vanderbilt 69
#5 UAB 74 #12 James Madison 70
#4 Washington State 72 #13 IPFW 44

#6 Butler 75 #11 Fresno State 63
#14 Jacksonville 69 #3 Missouri 63
#7 North Carolina State 81 #10 Illinois 51
#2 North Carolina 113 #15 Cal Riverside 72

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament 2nd Round

East
#1 Arkansas 88 #9 New Mexico 80
#5 St. Joseph's 79 #4 Seton Hall 69
#3 Marquette 83 #6 Virginia 75
#2 Duke 71 #7 Clemson 51

West
#1 Memphis 103 #9 Baylor 64
#4 Oregon 84 #5 Tennessee 78
#3 UCLA 83 #11 Georgia 50
#2 Michigan State 83 #10 Connecticut 78

South
#8 West Virginia 92 #1 Stanford 81
#5 Georgetown 83 #13 Sacred Heart 62
#3 Louisville 85 #11 Pacific 66
#10 Florida 82 #2 Kentucky 32

Midwest
#1 Kansas 95 #9 Akron 64
#4 Washington State 72 #5 UAB 70
#6 Butler 67 #14 Jacksonville 59
#2 North Carolina 90 #7 North Carolina State 73

NIT 1st Round
Alabama 84 Texas-Pan American 66
Washington 88 South Carolina 60
Syracuse 85 Wagner 57
Gonzaga 80 Tennessee State 60

Georgia Tech 89 Gardner-Webb 68
Colorado 72 St. Bonaventure 52
Rhode Island 74 Northern Iowa 69
Arizona State 75 Lafayette 73

Ohio State 71 NC Asheville 65
New Orleans 75 Utah State 61
Iowa State 79 Niagara 71
New Mexico State 85 Vermont 65

Duquesne 96 Winston-Salem State 67
Davidson 88 East Carolina 73
Texas San Antonio 73 Fordham 70
George Mason 68 IUPUI 63

[Tovarich]

NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
#1 Arkansas 101 #5 St. Joseph's 98 (2 OT)
#2 Duke 81 #3 Marquette 73

#1 Memphis 79 #4 Oregon 60
#3 UCLA 69 #2 Michigan State 69 (OT)

#5 Georgetown 82 #8 West Virginia 64
#10 Florida 86 #3 Louisville 85

#1 Kansas 83 #4 Washington State 63
#2 North Carolina 81 #6 Butler 70

NIT 2nd Round
Alabama 83 Washington 74
Gonzaga 64 Syracuse 59

Colorado 84 Georgia Tech 80
Rhode Island 80 Arizona State 52

Ohio State 63 New Orleans 61
New Mexico State 84 Iowa State 78

Duquesne 90 Davidson 66
George Mason 81 Texas San Antonio 59