Roberson maturing…..followed the kid since senior year at Plano and my son met him at camp this summer. This is what I had hoped for for all 3 recruits that year.

D’Walyn Roberts is the best player on this team. To wit:

He has a substantial lead over all other players on the team in Points Per Shot with 1.73, making him the most efficient offensive shooter on our team (helped in large part because he leads the team in FG% and is 2nd in FT%). He leads the team in rebounds by a full 1.5 a game after last night’s incredible performance. His A/T ratio is 3rd on the team, behind only Roberson and Brad Reese, making him one of the most efficient at getting the ball to the right player without turning it over. He is the only player with significant playing time that is averaging less than one turnover a game, and his average turnover once every only 32.25 minutes leads the team (by a lot – Roberson is turning it over every 15 minutes about, and only Lew is lower, but with few enough minutes to discount) making him one of the safest players on the court with the ball. He’s rarely in foul trouble, leads the team in blocks, and is 4th in ppg.

I think he’s the most complete player we’ve had in years.

I figure that is about half of what we need to punch a ticket to the dance. Our RPI is not that great (44) because we only have 1 quality win, but, with the exception of Stanford and McNeese, the schedule gets tougher from here on out. Witchita St and New Mexico will really test us away, and UTEP at home won’t be a cake walk. And then we start conference play…

Yes, I am on board with Roberson showing his game at point guard. I am sure part of it is maturity and I believe part of it is having good players around him to make a better team. As noted earlier, an assist is not an assist unless it is converted.

I am especially happy for Roberts this season, he game is coming to maturity as well…I think we are going to be happily talking about him a lot this season.

I must make a point to congratulate Coach Pat for the good JC recruiting, the three named above are making solid early impact, especially Tairu.

I think there is another level of learning by looking at the stats on a minutes played basis.

yes Seth TCU did shoot lights out in the first half and it seemed like Tech missed about 10 free throws. They were extremely agressive to end the first half and continued going to the basket and rebounding the hell out of the ball in the second.

Tech alums showed up REAL WELL last night, crowd noise was easily favored by Tech fans.

One thing that is cool to see in person is just how long our players are and can I just tell you how great it is to see ATHLETES out there!

I think this is testiment of how the University and Athl. Dept. has grown in the past couple years. It was always a catch 22 fan support and building great teams. You can’t build without support, and without building they had nothing worth supporting. Now, we have a VERY competitive Athl Dept as a whole and the growth has no limits. Long Story Short: Continue to support and show up – WREK ’EM TECH!!!

Lubbock locals really really need to show up to support this team on their games over the holiday break, the students simply will not be in town the next month. Athletic Dept may need to make some special ticket deals for these games to encourage attendance. And btw… with some people disagreeing with the JUCO recruits, I think its safe to say that as long as Southplains is winning JUCO national championships, we should probably keep an eye out to recruit their players.

Defeated TCU 80-68 at home.