December '07 Hoops—Frank Marino Column

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Not a good week for our five “Positive ROI” college hoop teams, Butler, Virginia, St. Louis, Akron and New Mexico, although they did better than my pro football picks (see VCO’s “Football Forecast”) did this past Sunday. Combined the five teams went 3-6 SU and 4-4 ATS as of press time (last night).

For the season, led by the 8-0 Bulldogs, (7-1 ATS) the five are a cumulative 31-11 SU and 19-12 ATS 61%.

2007-08 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Date	Time	Opponent	Score	Stories
Fri. Nov. 09	7:00 p.m. ET	at Ball State	W:61-45	Recap \| Box
Wed. Nov. 14	7:00 p.m. ET	Indiana State	W:76-48	Recap \| Box
Sat. Nov. 17	8:05 p.m. ET	at Evansville	W:60-47	Recap \| Box
Wed. Nov. 21	11:30 p.m. ET	Michigan	W:79-65	Recap \| Box
Fri. Nov. 23	9:30 p.m. ET	Virginia Tech	W:84-78	Recap \| Box
Sun. Nov. 25	12:30 a.m. ET	Texas Tech	W:81-71	Recap \| Box
Sat. Dec. 01	7:30 p.m. ET	Ohio State	W:65-46	Recap \| Box
Thu. Dec. 06	7:05 p.m. ET	at Detroit	W:53-46	Box \| Preview

2007 TEAM ROSTER
No.	Player	Position	Height	Weight	Class	Hometown
11	Anglin, Alex	G-F	6'4"	170	So	Kokomo, IN
1	Betko, Julian	G-F	6'6"	200	Gs2	Ruzomberok, Slovakia
34	Campbell, Pete	F	6'7"	200	Gs1	Muncie, IL
50	Engelmann, Elliot	F	6'6"	220	So	Downers Grove, IL
4	Graves, A.J.	G	6'1"	160	Sr	Switz City, IN
10	Green, Mike	G	6'1"	184	Gs1	Philadelphia, PA
3	Hahn, Zach	G	6'1"	170	Fr	New Castle, IN
54	Howard, Matt	F	6'8"	225	Fr	Connersville, IN
24	Jukes, Avery	F	6'8"	215	So	Snellville, GA
22	Leiendecker, Grant	G	6'4"	180	So	Fort Wayne, IN
14	Rodgers, Nick	G	6'2"	165	So	Noblesville, IN
5	Slaton, Ben	G	6'2"	175	Jr	Columbus, IN
32	Streicher, Drew	G-F	6'8"	205	Gs1	Washington, IN
2	Vanzant, Shawn	G	6'1"	165	Fr	Tampa, FL
21	Veasley, Willie	G-F	6'3"	200	So	Freeport, IL

BUTLER TEAM LEADERS
							REBOUNDS
	Player	G	Min	PPG	RPG	APG	Off	Def	Tot	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	Fouls
1.	Avery Jukes	1	34	26.0	3.0	1.0	0	3	3	1	3	1	1	1
2.	A.J. Graves	7	258	17.9	2.6	2.7	1	17	18	19	12	1	11	7
3.	Mike Green	7	246	15.4	5.1	5.4	7	29	36	38	6	3	16	16
4.	Pete Campbell	7	182	14.1	3.9	0.7	4	23	27	5	3	2	6	16
5.	Matt Howard	7	140	10.9	4.6	1.3	14	18	32	9	4	3	9	26
6.	Drew Streicher	7	200	5.1	2.3	1.7	8	8	16	12	3	4	2	25
7.	Julian Betko	7	199	4.7	3.1	1.4	9	13	22	10	5	1	13	18
8.	Ben Slaton	1	2	2.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9.	Willie Veasley	3	25	2.0	2.3	0.3	3	4	7	1	1	0	2	4
10.	Zach Hahn	7	90	1.7	1.0	1.0	0	7	7	7	1	0	3	3
11.	Shawn Vanzant	7	65	1.3	0.7	0.4	1	4	5	3	2	0	2	4
12.	Elliot Engelmann	4	8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
13.	Grant Leiendecker	2	6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
14.	Nick Rodgers	1	2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15.	Alex Anglin	1	2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

			FIELD GOALS			3-POINT GOALS			FREE THROWS			POINTS

	Player		M	Att	Pct	M	Att	Pct	M	Att	Pct	PPG	Total	High
1.	Avery Jukes		8	12	66.7	6	9	66.7	4	4	100.0	26.0	26	26
2.	A.J. Graves		41	90	45.6	33	71	46.5	10	12	83.3	17.9	125	26
3.	Mike Green		34	68	50.0	10	17	58.8	30	40	75.0	15.4	108	23
4.	Pete Campbell		35	68	51.5	28	56	50.0	1	2	50.0	14.1	99	26
5.	Matt Howard		27	44	61.4	0	0	0.0	22	29	75.9	10.9	76	23
6.	Drew Streicher		14	27	51.9	6	13	46.2	2	2	100.0	5.1	36	10
7.	Julian Betko		11	33	33.3	6	20	30.0	5	7	71.4	4.7	33	8
8.	Ben Slaton		0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	2	2	100.0	2.0	2	2
9.	Willie Veasley		2	3	66.7	0	0	0.0	2	2	100.0	2.0	6	4
10.	Zach Hahn		5	13	38.5	2	8	25.0	0	0	0.0	1.7	12	7
11.	Shawn Vanzant		3	9	33.3	1	6	16.7	2	2	100.0	1.3	9	6
12.	Elliot Engelmann		0	2	0.0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0
13.	Grant Leiendecker		0	1	0.0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0
14.	Nick Rodgers		0	1	0.0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0
15.	Alex Anglin		0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0

Not bad for a team without a player over 6'8"

I’ll have more detailed coverage next week, now that league play is in full swing.

Hoping for “ Nothing but net” till next week……