All tournament team
Cleanthony
Early
- Wichita State
Chane Behanon -
Louisville
Peyton Siva -
Louisville
Michael "Spike"
Albrecht - Michigan
Trey Burke -
Michigan
Mitch McGary -
Michigan
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Louisville's Luke Hancock - named the tournament MOP
Wrapping up the tournament:
Yes, the players in the left
margin were voted to the 2013 All Tournament team this year. A
couple of things happened this year in the selection process that I'm
pretty sure has never happened before. Due to a tie in the voting,
7 players made the All Tournament team instead of the normal 5 and can
you believe it leading tournament scorer Russ Smith of Louisville was not one
of them, yet Michael "Spike" Albrecht from Michigan was?
Luke Hancock, Peyton Siva &
Chane Behanon of Louisville were name to the team. Hancock
being the first non starter to be named the Most Outstanding
Player but in all honesty he deserved the honor after scoring 14
straight in the final game, 9 in 66 seconds. Cleanthony
Early of Wichita State was also recognized this year. He is the first
player from the Missouri Valley Conference to be voted to this team
since a player named Bird made it back in 1979. Michigan was
represented by the aforementioned Spike Albrecht, Mitch McGary & Trey
Burke, who was named national player of the year this year.
I
thought the 2013 tournament all in all was fantastic. Had Wichita
State pulled off the "Shocker" in the Final Four game against
Louisville, that might have completely changed the outcome of our draft
game. A couple of coaches made a name for themselves during the
tournament including Wichita State's Greg Marshall and Florida Gulf
Coast's Andy Enfield who jumped before the tournament was over to grab
the head spot at USC.
Some random things coming out of this
tournament.........
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Tournament scoring has
been down in general over the past 4-5 years. Only one game
this year did a team score over 90 points in a game and that was Ohio State in
their first round win over Iona. In the past 4 years only 4
teams have scored in excess of 100 points in a tournament game. In
the four years starting in 1990, this happened 23 times. Maybe
this has something to do with why our game's final score has been
very close the past couple of years.
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We saw a player being made
to the all tournament team in 2013 that didn't even get drafted in
our draft. Spike Albrecht of Michigan, a 1.5 pts per
game scorer during the regular season with a high game of 7, ended
up with 36 overall points in the tournament which would have put him
in the top 60 of our draft game.
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Here's another one, Ron
Baker, Wichita State, missed most of December's games, all of
Jan & Feb due to a stress fracture in his foot. He just
started playing again right before the tournament started. The
freshman guard went undrafted despite averaging 7.3 points per game
for the 9 seeded Wichita State Shockers. Baker ended up with
55 points in 5 games played which was better than 258 of our picks
drafted this year.
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Tournament Most
Outstanding Player Luke Hancock was playing in his first
season of eligibility with Louisville after transferring from George
Mason. Last year when Hancock was not even eligible to play,
Rick Pitino thought so highly of his leadership he was named
co-captain for this season along with Peyton Siva.
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The Mountain West
Conference was touted to be the toughest conference in the nation
and 5 out it's 9 teams were chosen to participate in the NCAA
tournament. All 5 were gone by the first weekend of play with
3 teams Boise State, UNLV & New Mexico losing in the first game.
All the scoring has been rechecked
and I did not find any errors.
Final results:
Position |
Money |
Drafter / Team Members |
Score |
Behind |
1st Place |
$300 |
Ralph, Nick & Sam Trevino |
751 |
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2nd Place |
$200 |
Mark & Steve Noffke, Bruce Martin |
747 |
-4 |
3rd Place |
$100 |
Kevin Keuper & Dave Eccles |
697 |
-54 |
4th |
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Rob Stenzel & Jason Schladenhauffen |
666 |
-85 |
5th |
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Ken Kremer, Bob & Tim Boldt |
659 |
-92 |
6th |
|
Dennis Hammer |
647 |
-104 |
7th |
|
SID (Bill Starkweather, Drew Logan,
John Logan) |
587 |
-164 |
8th |
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Steve Krautstrunk |
519 |
-232 |
9th |
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John Lehman |
514 |
-237 |
10th |
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Matt Krautstrunk |
509 |
-242 |
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