FormerAccount12
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Tyler Lundblade is a fantastic player for Belmont. He has good size for a guard at 6 foot 5 and shot 48% from 3 last year, which is incredibly good! He is still shooting above 40% from deep so far this year in addition to averaging 16.6 points. Amazingly, he began his career as a walk-on at SMU...yet another example of one of our guys being overlooked out of high school.a couple more predominantly White teams (that haven’t been mentioned yet i don’t think) are having strong starts to the season.
the Belmont Bruins are currently 7-0 but haven’t played a tough schedule. they have 10 players averaging double digit minutes, 7 of whom are gym rats. 3 of them start, including their 3 best players, sophomore Sam Orme, senior Tyler Lundblade, and junior Brigham Rogers. sophomore Drew Scharnowski is instant offense off the bench and plays starter minutes.
Saint Mary’s once again features a very White lineup. the Gaels are 7-0, despite starting 4 blue collar guys and only playing 1 WGA in their whole rotation. their best player in the early going has been Lithuanian junior Paulius Murauskas, but as is the norm for Randy Bennett, they haven’t played anyone yet.
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Iowa got a good win last night over Grand Canyon, despite a subpar shooting night. their defense led the way, holding GCU to just 23 points in the first half before pitching a shutout for the first 5&1/2 minutes of the second half. in fact, the Hawkeyes only gave up 1 point off a free throw in the first 8 minutes of the second half.
an interesting note from the game: junior wing Dusty Stromer, a Gonzaga transfer, came off the bench with the task of guarding Iowa’s alpha, Bennett Stirtz. Stromer, a long, bouncy, sharp shooter never got much playing time with the Zags because the “experts” said “he couldn’t play defense.” well, he forced Stirtz into his worst shooting performance of the young season (5-15), and several of those made buckets came with Stromer getting a breather. “weird,” huh?
Iowa is still undefeated, but up next is a matchup with #11 Michigan State.
Good point on Stromer, it was sad that he didn't develop more at Gonzaga. He was one of those guys who would have definitely been a star player for Gonzaga in years past yet now he was buried behind old transfers who weren't all that great. Stromer needs to shoot the ball better though.

