The ETSU-Belmont game turned out to be pretty good. Kudos to the Bucs, making their toughest road trip of the year and coming away with the split. Either team is good enough to get the 1-seed and the automatic spot in the NIT, provided Jacksonville comes back to Earth.
The rest of the weekend, not so much. Upstate's men gave Lipscomb a scare at Allen Arena Thursday. But the lesson of the rest of the weekend is never to underestimate the ability of bad teams to make other bad teams look good. Case in point -- Upstate @ Lipscomb women. Lipscomb is nowhere near good enough to beat anybody by 35. A team that shoots under 30% from the field for the season can only hit better than 50% and go 9-19 from 3-point range is they're playing a bad team having a bad night. But that's what happened. Lady Bisons 82, Upstate 47.
The most impressive performance of the weekend was Jacksonville's women winning by 15 at North Florida. Even when they don't play particularly well, the Dolphins can still make anybody else in the conference look really bad.
Easily the best defensive team in the league, Jacksonville went on an 18-minute stretch where they outscored North Florida 23-2. During that stretch North Florida hit 1 of 23 shots and turned the ball over 13 times.
And Jacksonville posted those defensive numbers while commiting one foul. One. Jacksonville had zero team fouls in the first 14 minutes of the second half.
This game might have been the conference's best shot at pinning a loss on Jacksonville this year. I'm not saying they will go 16-0, but I won't be too terribly surprised if they do.
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