Musketeer Madness Live Thread

[Muskie]

Just kicked off the festivities

[Muskie]

Rik Smits and his son Derrick are here. Smits is a high priority recruit for Butler among others.

[Muskie]

The Coke Zero is not great tonight

[coasterville95]

They have soft drinks?

[Muskie]

And beer.

Women win by 10
Dance team out now

[Muskie]

Men's 3 point competition

[Muskie]

Myles scores 19 in 3pt

[Muskie]

James Farr with 7

[Muskie]

Martin with 11

[Muskie]

Abrell with 12

[coasterville95]

Myles is the 3 pt champ with 20/30 in the top man vs top women round.

[coasterville95]

Time for the slam dunk competition!

[coasterville95]

Trey is a guest judge for the competition. He is our honorary player from the charity whose name I forget.

[sirthought]

I though FS1 was doing coverage? Not seeing it on the streamed sites.

[Juice]

I though FS1 was doing coverage? Not seeing it on the streamed sites.

It's not on until 9 pm.

[Muskie]

It's not on until 9 pm.

It's a recap show of all ten schools.

[coasterville95]

Each contestant gets 1 Dunk and 60 seconds

Brandon Randolph - 39
Smaj - 49 pts
#24 - 44 PTA
Reynolds - 47 pts

Semaj and jalen advance to second round.

[coasterville95]

Second rioting

Samaj - 47
jalen - 47

Tie!

Tiebreaker coming.

[coasterville95]

Tiebreak.

swami 49
jalen - 50.

Jalen wins!

[coasterville95]

Time men's scrimmage is next.

[ballyhoohoo]

I think Stainbrook has spanks on

[paulxu]

Mario Mercurio@MarioMercurio

The best dunk contest in the history of #MusketeerMadness. Christon and Reynolds with 6 highlight reel dunks. #BIGEAST

[coasterville95]

Men's game format. 16 minute game. Media TO every 4 minutes. U

[sirthought]

Updates?

[Muskie]

Updates?

Blue up 26 on White.

Semaj Myles stainbrook Richards Farr on white

Davis Abel Reynolds philmore Martin on blue

[drudy23]

Blue up 26 on White.

Semaj Myles stainbrook Richards Farr on white

Davis Abel Reynolds philmore Martin on blue

They're up by 26?

[ballyhoohoo]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/26/gu5abaha.jpg

[Muskie]

They're up by 26?

Sorry no it was 26 20 at that point.

[RoadWarrior]

Great seeing Muskie, Mrs. Muskie and Coasterville at Listermann! Tasty brews and a good look at the Musketeers!!! Let's do it again, soon.

[Titanxman04]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/26/gu5abaha.jpg

Plenty of seats still available.

[waggy]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event.

Wow that's pathetic. Shots like that you know have to chap UD's ass.

[XU3232]

Call me crazy but I thought Remy looked like the best player on the court... Only 16 minutes but he looked good. Jalen also looked solid.

[paulxu]

Are those football bleacher seats in the upper decks?

[xumuskies08]

Solid crowd at Cintas tonight. Nearly 5,000 on hand. Dunk contest was off the charts this year. Semaj and Jalen can throw down. Stainbrook looked solid and Jalen is as advertised. Only guy who looked "bad" was Martin. Remy Abell stole the show IMO. Kid was pumped to be on the floor and it showed. He was all over the place. He'll be something next season. But, it's only a scrimmage, blah blah blah.

[Muskie]

Are those football bleacher seats in the upper decks?

Yes I've sat on the many times for high school games.

[Masterofreality]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/26/gu5abaha.jpg


Plenty of seats still available.

THAT is hilarious. And Trevon Bluiett was still considering them? HA!

Obviously Butler had to pull the old "Let's put the gathering of people that stumbled in here all on one side of the building to where the TV cameras are facing so it looks like a throng" trick.

ESPN will be doing that for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC! Bball games this year a lot..I think.

[Masterofreality]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/26/gu5abaha.jpg


Wow that's pathetic. Shots like that you know have to chap UD's ass.

Chap away! At least Butler doesn't have raw sewage roiling through the building.

[Fireball]

If Musketeer Madness was any indication, you had better get to the games early if you want to get a decent parking spot. I've been to many of these, and that is the first time I've had so much trouble finding a place to sit.

Very well done, Muskie fans.

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[paulxu]

Somebody left the gymnastics balance beam in front of the press table.

[Masterofreality]

You know what is also hilarious?

On the ButlerHoops board, idiots over there are talking that XU "only" had about 5,000 at MM and that there were "thousands" of empty seats. Then they talk about their 3,000 and say that they "did it right". HaHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Man, they really hate us over there...to the point of calling us a "cesspool". Well, they're only about 50 miles off.

Maybe they should teach a geography class at BU.

[paulxu]

Every conference needs a UD....even if they can't find a watermelon.

http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/butler-mascot.jpg

[xeus]

I pulled this off Facebook from a friend at butler's event. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/26/gu5abaha.jpg

Is that a banner hanging below the "dawg pound" sign with pictures of "fans" to fill the void? Awesome job Butler!

[BandAid]

Individual Players:
Abell looked awesome. And he was definitely getting into the scrimmage, showing emotion and all - in a scrimmage.

Jalen has buckets of potential. Hopefully he can avoid fouling like a machine.

I was disappointed Myles didn't get a look during the scrimmage. They didn't even set him up.

Dee made some stupid passes, then he made some awesome passes.

Stainbrook is the ultimate garbage man. The type of guy you just want to punch in the face when you play against him.

Kamall was solid. He didn't stand out in any one way, but he was solid. I see him being a good glue guy down the road.

Martin was bad again.

Team Notes:

It was good to see Semaj take Randolph under his wing at times. He's really stepping into a leadership role.

Stainbrook and Reynolds practicing against each other every day is a great thing. Those two competing will make them both much better.

Despite Semaj and Randolph playing together on the white team, I thought the blue team moved the ball much, much better.

[Cincypunk.org]

How did Philmore look?

[Masterofreality]

Is that a banner hanging below the "dawg pound" sign with pictures of "fans" to fill the void? Awesome job Butler!

Yeah, looks like there are vacant seats on the other side of the basket stanchion.

[xudash]

Xavier's FS1 video, in case you missed it:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball

[Nildogg]

Is that a banner hanging below the "dawg pound" sign with pictures of "fans" to fill the void? Awesome job Butler!

That area is handicap seating... The other side is worse, as it houses the band, and another handicap area.

With the renovation, the seating will thankfully extend the entire length of the baseline on both ends, and hopefully the cheesy banners will be gone.

Also, FYI they kept everyone on one side, which pushed the crowd all the way to the top into the first few rows of the upper bleachers. Some estimated estimated it at 3-3.5K . Not bad really since this was a no frills scrimmage with relatively little promotion.

I anticipate Butler doing more next year once the renovations are complete, but they probably will never put on a circus like some of the other BE programs do... good or bad, its not our style.

[Nildogg]

By the way, it was more than the ESPN College Gameday crowd we had last year...

[Milhouse]

Actually 3k -3.5k would be a really good turnout for Butler since they only average 7k in attendance. so getting near half for a scrimmage in a year that is almost certainly a down year (perhaps not much hope of an up year in the future either....unless a coveted recruit decides on Butler)

[Thor in 204]

How did Philmore look?

I thought Phillmore looked good. It was evident that his legs are healthier. He was faster and had some explosiveness to his jumping. He looked more confident and smoother than last year. He took one wide open 3 pointer after he looked first to pass; the shot had good rotation and came off his hand well. He didn't make it, but it was much more than a last option prayer. I'm hoping that he'll make some mid-range jumpers this year. He competed, looked like he had his head intensely in the scrimmage. Played good position defense inside and got out to the perimeter on defense very effectively...Semaj and Myles got pretty well shut down in terms of open looks from 3, and Isaiah was a big part of that, along with Dee and Remy.