Florida Atlantic Thanksgiving Tournament

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes are in this tournament hosted by Florida Atlantic. They will play Appalachian State on Friday at 1:30 PM Central. If the Coyotes win they will play the winner of the Delaware State vs Florida Atlantic game and if they lose they will play the loser. The losers play Saturday at 11AM and the winners at 1:30 Central.

App State is in the Sun Belt Conference and is 1-2 on the season losing to Liberty and Alabama and winning against E Tenn State. Last year the Mountaineers finished 9-11 in the Sun Belt.

The Coyotes should be able to win this neutral court game and hopefully fairly comfortably. I will take the Yotes 84-70 to move onto the Tourney Championship game.

Of course the home team will draw the 0-4 (5-25 last year) Lady Hornets in their game. Florida Atlantic from Conference USA should have little problem advancing as they are 3-0 this year and were 13-17 last year with a 7-11 conference record. The Owls are gonna advance to the Championship game where the Coyotes will need to punish them for taking the weak route to the title game. The Yotes are battle tested more than the Owls are and should be able to handle them on their home floor but a good game is a pretty good bet.

Lets finishing this tourney 2-0 but it's a virtual guarantee that the Coyotes will be at least 1-1.

[Yotes]

Watch out for Florida Atlantic. They are 3-0 with one of those wins over FGCU who drew a 7 seed in the NCAA tourney last year, advanced to the second round, and had a 31-3 record. Florida Atlantic is not to be overlooked if they already beat a highly touted FGCU team.

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes are off to a fast start and lead it 6-0 early.

[Coyote Fan]

After 1 quarter the Coyotes lead 20-14.

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes are on a 12-4 run and now lead it 32-18 with about 5:00 to go in the half.

[Coyote Fan]

42-22 Red and White at the half. Nice to hold the Mountaineers to only 22 at the break. As long as the Coyotes keep up the intensity they are well on their way to a match up with the Owls tomorrow afternoon.

[Coyote Fan]

55-35 as the Yotes are still in cruise control. Halfway through the 3rd quarter.

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes offense is rolling again as they lead 69-44 after the 3rd quarter. The performance against Marquette is carrying over to the game today.

[Coyote Fan]

South Dakota 87
Appalachian State 60

Not much of a contest today. I am sure both the Owls and Coyotes will both be tested much more severely then the way they were today.

[Yotes]

I'm not sure Appalachian State has much success this year but it is always nice to win by 27 points. Florida Atlantic figures to be a bit tougher of an opponent. Tipoff is at 1:30 tomorrow.

[Coyote Fan]

Lets go Yotes, Lets go Yotes.

The Owls need an early timeout as our Coyotes lead it early 11-3. After a 3 a few seconds into the game the Yotes have reeled off 11 straight.

[Coyote Fan]

By the sounds of it the Coyotes have a height advantage. The Owls like to move it up and down the court and shoot alot of threes. The Coyotes are dominating the boards so far.

The Yotes now lead it 16-5. The Owls just keep throwing up threes and missing them. The Coyotes are actually a pretty good three point defensive team.

This is what happens when ya play the Summit Champs.

[Coyote Fan]

If the Florida Atlantic players or fans think they were gonna roll over the Yotes they were sadly mistaken. End of first quarter and it is 18-7 Coyotes. There is a long ways to go but what a nice start for the Coyotes.

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes are annihilating this team so far. It's important not to let up on this team for one second as they are capable of coming back in a hurry.

31-14 Yotes.

[Coyote Fan]

The Coyotes lead 33-15 at half. What a great job defensively for the Coyotes to only allow a team like that 15 points. The Owls are getting swallowed up in the red sea. It's important to get this lead as high as possible because Florida Atlantic is certainly capable of getting hot from 3 and narrowing the gap quickly.