UVA-WISE WINS AAC

THE LADY CAVS WON THE AAC TOURNY TONIGHT WITH A BIG WIN OVER KING COLLEGE 57-54

With 3 Former Lady Indians starting (Collier and the Heltons), Chelsea Lee, and Terri Ann Hill, what did you expect? How wonderful it is to see local talent being a part of history. This is a first for UVA-Wise correct?

Certainly a contrast between the men's and women's teams up there. The women are packed with local talent, while the men's aren't.

that is the problem with the baseball team too.

isn't Bates the only region D player on the team?

If there were actually any mens basketball players in this area worth a $hit, then Im sure they would be recruited. I realize everyone on here is a bunch of homers, but being realistic, there is no way in helll that I would recruit anybody around here to play basketball there. Not only that, but lets look at the girls, how often is it that players like the heltons come along? Face it guys, there are very few college athletes in this area as it stands, you cant knock uvawise for recruiting away from here. If they didnt, they would be even worse.

Their biggest problem is they are a state funded school in a conference full of private schools that can afford to give as many schollies as they want.

I agree on the Scholarship part, but why did they not go out and sign McMurray, Wells, Spurlock, Jones, the Humphries, etc. Granted we dont have many prospects and some that we do wouldn't fit UVA-Wise, like Webb, Robbins, etc. However, there are some and it's as if they dont even try to recruit them.

Not sure about Wells, Spurlock, Jones, or the Humphries but I think that McMurray was just too good for uvawise. VThokie22 can tell ya, he was knocking on the door of getting some D1 offers.

He very well may have been, however I just dont understand why we dont recruit some of the local players. If nothing else have them on the team, it would gain local support.

About anybody can go there and walk on, I remember Tompkins from Pound playing there about 5 years ago. I dont even remember the guy playing in high school but he walked on and was at least practice fodder, same with Stevie Neece. I just dont see them offering too many players around here schollies, thats all Im saying. I havent seen them play recently but the year I graduated college, they made it to nationals and the only people on the team I remember were Brandon Green and Zack Moore.(Papst was basically from germany) I just dont see anybody in this area being on Moore or Green's level right now. If uvaw is going to take guys, Im sure they will be offering the TV guys especially since there was a pipeline between council and uvaw in the past.

UVA-Wise did talk with McMurray but McMurray wasn't interested. The coach at UVA-Wise knew this and that's why it didn't go any further. ETSU and another 1 or 2 D1 schools were involved but McMurray decided on Carson Newman. By the way, McMurray was 5-7 from 3 point range and tied for leading scorer with 15. CN lost by 10.

Tompkins was 2nd team all state.

They had brandon, zack, housey, Tony (for most the time), Papst, Young were all from the SWVA area.

Bobby was from Tabb, Parker is from Bristol, Ricky was from Tenn. somewhere.

It may not be possible to recruit as local for basketball, but I will never be conveinced that its not possible for baseball. Hall, Nixon, Wyatt and maybe a few others are all I remember at UVAW since 1998.

My apologies on Tompkins, he must have improved after I graduated. I think he was a year or 2 behind me.