Thoughts on 119-93

#1 posting 1.26.2006

POINT PARADE
IL
AA
Jen Juergens, Kankakee Bishop McNamara 29 vs Providence 66-51
Amanda Thompson, Chicago Young 25 vs Chicago Marshall 64-42
Kayla Doss, Chicago Westinghouse 25 vs Chicago Dunbar 58-28

IA
JUCO
Megan Bradley, Iowa Central 27 vs Southwestern 82-49
2A
Dani Benson, West Marshall 28 vs Ogden 64-60 OT (j24)

MN
JUCO
Michele Cheney, Rainy River 28 vs Mesabi Range 63-80
Marie Anderson, Hibbing 26 vs Vermilion 74-69
A
Tara Thielke, Hancock 38 vs Central Christian 70-58 (j23)
Tianna Lemieux, MN Transitions 27 vs MN Deaf 67-68 (j12)

BUZZER BEATERS x 2
MN
Amanda Heckman, Truman hit a three at the buzzer to send the game with GHEC into overtime. However Jessica Petrowiak of GHEC hit another three at the end of overtime for the final margin in a 51-48 win by GHEC on J21.

MILESTONES
IL
Dorothy Gaters, Chicago Marshall coach, must wait for her record breaking win #827 as Chicago Young won 64-42.
SD
Kathleen Schjodt, Hot Springs reached the 1000 point mark with 18 vs Hill City 61-40

NUMBER 1S
MN
AAAA Hopkins, AAA Marshall, AA Breck, A Osakis
ND
A Mandan B Bottineau
USA Today National
5 Oak Park Fenwick, IL; 18 Chicago Hope, IL; 20 Bloomington Kennedy, MN; 21 Bollingbrook, IL; 22 Southfield-Lathrup, MI
Midwest Region
1. Oak Park Fenwick; 3. Chicago Hope; 4. Bloomington Kennedy; 5. Bollingbrook; 6. Southfield-Lathrup

THOUGHTS ON 119-93
MN
With Centennial and Champlin Park setting some new state records, I was thinking what was the number of possessions for the game. With my charting of previous games the most was 87 (Hopkins/Henry Sibley), the average is 66. Looking at Centennial's shot attempts according to the StarTribune was 66. Let us say that the possessions were 87. If that was the case Centennial in 100 posssessions would have scored 136.8 points while Champlin Park would have been at 106.9. If they were average (something I doubt) with 66 possessions it would be Centennial 180.3 and Champlin Park at 140.9. In the two previous games I have charted Centennial had 68 possessions against Hill-Murray; Champlin Park 66 vs Osseo.
As far as scorring % goes, that is even more speculative. Centennial was at .426, CP .455 when I charted in their previous games. Hopkins had the best against Cretin-Derham Hall with .647. If we take that as the bench mark then Centennial would have scored on 56 possessions. My guess is they were better than that. That is because at twice that level it comes to 112.6. My guess is they scored on at least 59 possessions for a .678 scoring %. CP then would have come in at .534.

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