Georgetown Tigers on CSTV

[Wildcat Larry]

If you have CSTV, you can watch the Georgetown Tigers in the national semi-final game of the NAIA Tournament from Kansas City.

The second half is about to start and the Tigers are down by 11. Apparently Mountain State has gone crazy from the 3 point line.

[Doug Hardin]

Here's an SAT analogy to explain this game:

Mountain State: Georgetown :: Kentucky: Utah

The last three times we've gotten to the NAIA semifinals ('03, '04, and '08), we've lost to Mountain State. We just can't seem to beat those guys.

Mountain State got off to a hot start and made about 8 threes in the first half, many of which were contested, to build a 10-15 point lead. It pretty much stayed there the rest of the game. GC pulled within 6 in the second half, but that Spencer kid hit another three for Mountain State to immediately push the lead back to 9, and GC never got close again.

All in all, a great year for the Tigers. I just wish we could get over the proverbial hump and claim a title. But with the way the NAIA Tournament is set up (have to win 5 games in 6 or 7 days), all you can really hope for is to keep putting together talented teams and hope one year the ball bounces your way enough to win the championship.

[4theluvofbilly]

How did Campbellsville do? I didn't get to watch it and that's my alma mater. I'm curious.

[cumberlandredskin]

How did Campbellsville do? I didn't get to watch it and that's my alma mater. I'm curious.

They lost. They and Georgetown will play the consolation game.

[Doug Hardin]

Campbellsville also lost. Oklahoma City beat them 78-64, which was almost an identical score of the Georgetown game (MSU 78, GC 65).

[poodoo]

I had kept pulling hard for them, Doug. I had just kept thinking that Georgetown would come back from the deficit. Still, what a season they had!

[Buck_Naked]

I had kept pulling hard for them, Doug. I had just kept thinking that Georgetown would come back from the deficit. Still, what a season they had!

No kidding! 35-1 sure doesn't suck, and it's beyond me why no D-1 program has snapped Happy Osbourne away from G'town...unless he just doesn't want to go.

Say what you will about the level of play, but when you get right down to it basketball is basketball, and that man can flat-out coach!

Here's a brief bio:
Twelve seasons as head coach of the storied Tiger Program, where his teams have won nine of the last twelve Mid-South Conference titles, and he has had at least 25 wins in all of his 12 seasons as head coach.

Last season he was named the Mid-South Conference Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his career.

Georgetown has 16 straight national tournament appearances and more overall appearances and wins in the tournament than any other team.

Won the 1998 National Championship, and was the fastest coach at any collegiate level to win 100 career games, and passed the 300-win mark in 2006.

Not too shabby IMHO! Congrats to the Tigers for another great season!

[Doug Hardin]

Won the 1998 National Championship, and was the fastest coach at any collegiate level to win 100 career games, and passed the 300-win mark in 2006.

I think Ray Harper passed him at Kentucky Wesleyan a few years after Happy set the record.

Happy seems content (you thought I'd go with the obvious pun, but I didn't!) at Georgetown. He's been there for over 20 years when you factor in his time as an assistant to the late Jim Reid. Georgetown has a tradition of coaches sticking around a long time. Happy's been the coach since 1996. Reid coached for over twenty years before that (and Happy says he'd still be coaching if cancer didn't take his life 12 years ago), and Bob Davis coached them for about 20 years before that. So GC has only had 3 head coaches since the mid-50s.

[cumberlandredskin]

I think Ray Harper passed him at Kentucky Wesleyan a few years after Happy set the record.

Happy seems content (you thought I'd go with the obvious pun, but I didn't!) at Georgetown. He's been there for over 20 years when you factor in his time as an assistant to the late Jim Reid. Georgetown has a tradition of coaches sticking around a long time. Happy's been the coach since 1996. Reid coached for over twenty years before that (and Happy says he'd still be coaching if cancer didn't take his life 12 years ago), and Bob Davis coached them for about 20 years before that. So GC has only had 3 head coaches since the mid-50s.

It seems like when these NAIA coaches get entrenched somewhere they stay a long time. My old school, Cumberland College, had Randy Vernon for a long time. I think he interviewed one time at Mississippi State but don't know if he was seriously considered. Roland Weirwille was at Berea for a long time too. Can't believe Happy has been at Georgetown that long. He's done a great job!