Seth, Pat Coleman saw HPU and Meia Daniels as well. Did you hear the podcast with Coach K?
The Tour de Tejas fell together very nicely (for HPU's sake) for Pat. There were several components to it.
1) Ranked Miss College men were at McMurry/HSU that weekend. (Thursday)
2) Trinity and Southwestern were in town this weekend. (Friday/Sunday) Trinity Women were ranked in the pre-season.
3) Since there was no Quarterfinals football game at UMHB, HSU, Trinity or another Texas venue on Saturday, he could take in another basketball game. So the Ranked HPU women were next up, in Brownwood!
4) The HSU-McMurry rivalry games, which he got to broadcast. He has described the HSU-McM rivalry as the "most fervent" rivalry of the intra-city rivalries in all of D3. That is a feather in the cap for Abilene. When he sees that HPU women and HSU women played before 1500 fans, then he knows what that means.
He saw 8 schools, 16 teams and 10 games. He had never seen 5 of the schools in person. He picked up 3 new venues for basketball: Brownwood, Georgetown and San Antonio.
The idea behind the Tour de Tejas was to give him a very good idea of the quality of basketball that we play. That gives more validity to the rankings, so that when HPU plays the other two teams, he will have a very good idea of the quality.
This seems to have been a real win/win/win for the ASC, the SCAC and Texas D3 basketball.
As for the rankings, he just flipped McM and HSU. HPU is still in the hunt and climbing when another/higher-ranked team loses a game it should not lose.