Rangers will face Carlyle at 8:30 in the BIT

by Steve Dunford

You might have watched Carlyle play on Monday, but Carlyle coach Andy Palmer shared a little with me about his Indians.  Here is something about them:

Here is a link to their stats:

http://stats.stlhighschoolsports.com/sports/basketballboys/stats/teamstatoverall.php?t=35&s=693

Here is some information I grabbed from the St Lous Post Dispatch website.

In the paint is 6’5″ Conner Tonnies averaging 10.9 ppg. and 9.2 rebounds.  Tyler Sever is 6′ 3″ and  averages 12.9 ppg; 6′ 2″ Eli Cox averages 11.3 ppg; 5′ 11′ Dru Johnson averages 8 ppg and leads the team in assists at 2.29; 6′ 1″ Nick Becker averages 2.4 ppg.  That rounds out the starting five.

Off the bench is 6′ 1″  Alex Hules at 1.7 ppg; 6′ 3″ Dawson Reinacher at 2.0 ppg; and Shatzat .7

Here is what Benton Coach Ron Winemiller. “The two bigs will give us trouble. We have to make them run and play a full court game.”

The Rangers survived going against Darius Roundtree down as Massac.  I don’t know with their size if Carlyle plays a zone but if they do, the Rangers have too many zone busters.

I am going with Benton by six.