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Ron Boerger

Four Trinity men's players spent part of their off-season helping the USA Basketball 3x3 women's team prepare for this month's Olympics, working with them in San Antonio, North Carolina, and Las Vegas:   

https://www.trinitytigers.com/sports/mbkb/2021-22/releases/20210723j2ojiw

Ron Boerger

Trinity has their largest class of first years in recent memory, and there's some size on them (for Trinity, anyway), too:


30Kai AllenGFY6-4Zurich, Switzerland / Zurich International-
21Cole AndersonFFY6-7Mont Belvieu,Texas / Barbers HillEngineering
20Braxton BarryFFY6-8Houston, Texas / Westbury ChristianAccounting
1Elijah De La GarzaGFY5-10Mission, Texas / PSJA NorthBusiness
10Jacob HarveyGFY5-11Huffman, Texas / HargravePsychology
42Grant JacobsFFY6-4New Braunfels, Texas / New BraunfelsEngineering Sciences
25Jaxson KapelluschFFY6-7Bedford, Texas / TrinityElectrical Engineering
15Pierce Mathews FY6-4Cypress, Texas / Cy Woods-
14Jacob MillhouseGFY6-3Plano, Texas / IndependenceBiology
32Jules NunnFFY6-6Houston, Texas / St. John'sBusiness
45Nathan ThompsonFFY6-9Austin, Texas / BowieEngineering Science

Also a transfer from Platt who averaged 20ppg in both his freshman and sophomore seasons, Griffin Levine, a junior 5'9" SG.   Platt did not ball last spring. 

Ron Boerger

Kudos for TLU for taking on UT in exhibition tonight and hope they got a good check in the process.

Ron Boerger

Year 2 of the Jimmy Smith era at Trinity shows a decidedly different non-conference schedule.   After opening at home Sunday with Sul Ross, the Tigers will make the short bus ride across town to take on D1 foe UTSA in exhibition play.  I'm not sure but this may be the first time the two have played (which the UTSA website confirms).   Birmingham-Southern and Carleton visit Thanksgiving weekend, Alma and Calvin do as well before Christmas, and Trinity makes the even shorter bus trip to play D1 Incarnate Word in exhibition just before year's end.   In between Trinity travels to Abilene for a pair against HSU and McMurry and opens conference play at Schreiner the first of December. 

D3Navy

Fun game last night at UTSA.  It was a given that UTSA would eventually prevail, but TU played very well, especially early.  UTSA just had too much size and owned the boards in the 2nd half.

Great crowd that was welcoming to the Tigers.  It'd be nice if this became a recurring event.

Ron Boerger

Trinity's hot start to the season (non-D1 edition) continued this weekend with wins over Concordia (95-82) and formerly undefeated UT-Dallas, 95-62.  The Tigers are playing an uptempo game with plenty of penetration, unlike years past when the name of the game was swing the ball around the perimeter ad nauseum before jacking up a long jumper.   Four players are averaging double figures, Tanner Brown (13.0 ppg on 53% shooting), Enzo Sechi (12.4/51.1%) and Kaleb Jenkins (10.8/47.1%).   The leading player off the bench is first year Jacob Harvey, averaging just over 10 ppg while shooting over 60%.   After a 5-0 run through the ASC, Trinity will enjoy some turkey at home before hosting B-SC (2-2) on Friday, followed by Carleton (1-1) on Saturday. 

Ron Boerger

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Make it 6-0 for Trinity with a 108-76 win over visiting Birmingham-Southern.  Kaleb Jenkins and AJ Clark had 17 each, and Enzo Sechi had 15 and 7 as the Tigers shot over 56% on the evening while holding the Panthers under 38%. 

I went looking through the archives to see the last time Trinity had 100 or more points - 101 in a 2OT win at Southwestern in 2018.  I can't find any other time going all the way back to 2006 2002 that they hit triple digits.

Edit 2:  Thanks to @SCAC_Sports' Winter Record Book:
- last 100 point performance in regulation:  12/18/99, 104-76 W vs. Schreiner
- last 108+ point performance:  11/24/92, 109-70 vs. UDallas

Ron Boerger

Trinity loses its first game of the year to Carleton, 103-100.  Too many missed FTs (17-28) and Carleton hit 46% of their threes (13-28).

Ron Boerger

Trinity's exhibition against D1 Incarnate Word (a game they easily could have won, as UIW has struggled and lost earlier this season to Concordia [TX]) has been cancelled due to COVID protocols.   The game will not be rescheduled.

Riley Zayas

Covid-19 protocols also cancelled Texas Lutheran's game against Concordia (TX) yesterday. They cancelled just hours before tip-off, and according to the release (link below) TLU's game against Centenary on Saturday has not been impacted (according to TLU's release), though Concordia's release noted that the game was cancelled "due to COVID-19-related issues on the Texas Lutheran men's basketball team."

https://athletics.concordia.edu/news/2021/12/28/mens-basketballs-game-against-texas-lutheran-canceled.aspx

https://tlubulldogs.com/general/2021-22/releases/20211228gze4ni
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Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on December 29, 2021, 10:44:20 AM

New CDC guidelines call for just 5 days of quarantine for asymptomatic vaccinated individuals who test positive, so that should help teams quite a bit.

And no testing at the end of the quarantine.

This change is good, but long overdue based on the science.

Ron Boerger

Closing in on midway through conference play and St. Thomas, on the strength of a four game winning streak, has the early lead at 5-1 with all but one of those wins coming at home.  Schreiner, winners of five straight including the only SCAC home loss for St. Thomas, is second at 5-2 with Trinity in third at 4-2.  Texas Lutheran, battling COVID, is next at 2-1 but will have to make up three or four games in the next few weeks. 

Trinity, already known as a second half team this season, has really struggled early in its last two games resulting in a loss at St. Thomas on Thursday and a comeback win yesterday at Colorado College.  Against the Celts the Tigers were a turnover factory (26 in the game) and could not buy a basket early, trailing 30-13 at the half.  The margin remained around that with the Celt lead still 17 with 8:39 remaining.  First-year Jacob Harvey did his best to rally the Tigers, with several steals, a couple of layups, a three, and two FTs as the lead was trimmed to three, 49-46 with 2:10 to play.  That was a close as the visitors would come as St Thomas would hit six free throws in the final 18 seconds in a 59-51 win.  The Celts' Christian Alaekwe led all scorers with 18, Andrew Nguyen added 13, and Andrew Adebo had 10 boards as St. Thomas outrebounded Trinity 46-30.  Harvey's 12 points (in 16 minutes) and AJ Clark's 10 led Trinity.

Two days later it was almost a case of deja vu all over again as Colorado College sprinted out to an early 11-0 lead before Jacob Harvey would score Trinity's first points on a layup four minutes in.  CC would extend the lead to as many as 17 after two Edgar Romero FTs with 8:37 left in the half, and were still up 14 three minutes later, but Trinity would claw their way back into it.  A Harvey three late in the half closed the margin to two before Trinity settled for a five point deficit, 46-41, at half.  The second half saw the teams exchange baskets - or turnovers - until Harvey tied the game up for the first time at 52 with two more FTs just over six minutes in.  It remained close with Trinity gradually pulling away until Enzo Sechi's three made it 70-63 with 6:20 to play, but the home Tigers would tie it back up at 76 when Scott Cunningham hit a layup with 91 seconds remaining.  They would have several chances to score from that point as Trinity turned the ball over twice, sandwiching Sechi's layup with 33 seconds left, but Colorado missed two threes and turned the ball over with 6 seconds left, forcing the team to foul Sechi who hit both FTs for the final margin.

Sechi and Harvey led all scorers with 19 each, and AJ Clark, the only starter to score for Trinity, added 13.  It looks like Coach Smith shook up the starting lineup to make a point after Thursday's performance, but of the five starters only Clark would see more than 11 minutes on the court.  Colorado had four starters in double figures, led by 17 from Scott Ruegg, 16 from Jack McRoskey, and 11 each by Adrian Price and Edgar Romero.  Trinity enjoyed a robust 30-16 advantage at the line.

COVID willing, the three teams will meet again in San Antonio later this week.

Ron Boerger

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One week later and there has been a bit of change at the top of the SCAC leaderboard.  St. Thomas played Trinity in San Antonio for the second time in a week and this time the Tigers would come out on top, 64-55. 

Once again, Trinity got off to one of their patented slow first half, though this time they would lead 11-6 off an Enzo Sechi three 5 1/2 minutes into the game before going into their slump.  The Celts would outscore Trinity 25-10 over the next 13 minutes before Trinity would go on a 6-2 run to close out the half to trail by six at the break, 33-27.  Christian Alaekwe had 15 for the Celts, Enzo Sechi 12 for Trinity.  Trinity took their first lead since early in the game after scoring the first seven points coming out of the locker room, thanks in no small part to increased defensive pressure which resulted in turnovers on the first two Celt possessions.  St. Thomas would retake the lead almost immediately on a Alaekwe three and slowly extended their lead to nine at 46-37 after Cameron Gims hit a layup eight-plus minutes into the quarter.  It would take the Tigers just over a minute to tie it back up, and the game would remain tight as with under two minutes to go Alaekwe would hit one of two free throws to put St Thomas up by one.  That would be the last points scored by the Celts as Kaleb Jenkins, who played a huge role down the stretch for Trinity, would come up with a couple of key rebounds, the last of which with five seconds to go resulted in a foul call on Gims which ended up in four free throws after Gims, who had fouled out, said something not to the officials' liking.  Jenkins hit all four which resulted in the final nine point margin.  His 16 points would trail only Sechi's 17 for Trinity, and his eight rebounds - as the shortest player on the floor - would lead the team.  Christian Alaekwe would lead all players with 21 points and 9 boards, but he had little help as no other Celt was in double figures. 

The game yesterday against Colorado College was not nearly as exciting, though the visitors hung in there for a half, taking a 36-35 lead at halftime before Trinity got their offense going in another nine-point win.  Unfortunately for those in attendance (raises hand) the referees decided to call this game very tightly (52 fouls) and while nobody surprisingly fouled out, the resulting parade to the free throw lines made the game very hard to watch (and play, no doubt).  Colorado bore the brunt on most of the calls; Trinity ended up shooting 46 free throws to CC's 18 as a result.  Sechi and Jenkins would share the scoring honors, both with 15, while Scott Cunningham would come of the bench to lead Colorado with 16. 

St. Thomas also defeated Schreiner on Sunday, so they are tied with Trinity at the top of the conference with two losses to Schreiner's 3.  Trinity still has one game left with the Mountaineers next month. 

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