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1 MVC game Tuesday, Jan. 29

With being swept by the Bears. I feel like we benefit most by a Valpo w. We have to win our next 5 or 6 and then see how everything shakes out. After tomorrow we have 3 of 4 at home. The roadie being uni payback game? Then 3 of 5 on the road. We have the ramblers twice. We could finish first or last what a mess.
 
An exciting ending. Valpo took a 54-51 lead in overtime, but then Missouri State's Keandre Cook scored to make it 54-53. Each team missed shots, and Valpo rebounded, but they turned the ball over with 12.7 seconds left. Keandre Cook was then fouled with 1.8 second left in overtime, and made both free throws. Missouri State wins at Valparaiso 55-54-
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=237499

Keandre Cook had 17 points and 5 rebounds for MSU. Their leading scorer Tulio Da Silva was just 1-9 and had only 4 points.
For Valpo, freshman guard Javon Freeman had 12 points and 15 rebounds.
Both teams are now 5-4.
 
ISU plays at Drake tonight..
but the PJS has an article about Milik Yarbrough - and the whole article is on how he's such a sharing team player...
and isn't focused at all on scoring or winning the scoring title...
(it's actually an article written by the Pantagraph's Jim Benson)

it even says he values far more highly handing out assists than shooting...

BUT do the facts support this? Just sayin' - it ought to be easy to prove...

Milik Yarbrough and UNI's AL Green have both launched about 275 shot attempts this season -
they FAR outpace anyone else in the league in taking shots - the next closest players are all about 20% fewer shots than those two guys..

So - Yarbrough is in the stratosphere when it comes to looking for shots for himself - but does he hand out a lot of assists, as well?
..hardly - he's about 40 assists (30-40% fewer) behind the league leader Josh Webster of MSU. But his numbers have dropped off even MORE since league play started.
Considering he plays the part of their point, his assist numbers are 9th in the league just ahead of Loyola's center Cam Krutwig.
 
Yarbrough is a good passer, and he should focus more on his passing to set up Fayne and others. But anyone who has watched even a few minutes of any of their games can see he would much rather shoot than pass and that he is a selfish player. Even his coach, who cares more about winning than discipline or anything else, has benched him multiple times in the past for his selfish play.
So I am not buying these claims in Benson's fluff piece about Yarbrough-
"Yarbrough said he'll gladly take two points and 10 assists.... in exchange for a victory."
"That's not what I'm focused on right now (the scoring title). I didn't even know it," (yeah, right :roll:)

Some interesting numbers-
In ISU's 13 non-conference games, Yarbrough took 20.8% of his teams shots and averaged 3.8 assists per game. But in their 8 MVC games so far, he has taken 24.4% of the team's shots and his assists have dropped significantly to 3.1 assists per game. So he is actually launching more shots, shooting a lower percentage, and averaging fewer assists in MVC games despite playing more minutes per game.
So, I don't buy that he is such a great team player, and values assists as much as scoring points. IMO, he is all about his own stats, and trying to get noticed by NBA scouts.
 
Nobody denies he is a physically talented player - and he has the ability at times to take over and win games - but in the long run, he needs to help get his teammates more involved.
 
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