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Coach Hinson said Don't Leave
Published: 4/1/2008 9:15 AM
Last Modified: 4/1/2008 9:15 AM

Tulsa appeared easily on its way to another home victory in the CBI on Monday night with just over three minutes to go.
So, it was time to pack up and head to the press room and start the column for Tuesday morning's paper.
Barry Hinson, a Division I college basketball head coach for the past 11 years, told me to keep my seat.
He said Bradley has such good offensive players that if the Braves could get TU disorganized and into a scramble at the end, this game could get tight.
Hinson was right. As coach at Missouri State the past nine years, he knows plenty about Bradley.
If you ever want to learn a lot about college basketball, sit next to a Division I head coach like I did on Monday night. He predicted almost everything Bradley did and what Tulsa what do to counter it.
In the end, he predicted Tulsa's fantastic home crowd would save the day for the Hurricane.
He was right. TU's late-season victories have brought the crowds back to the Reynolds Center, just as predicted in this blog almost three months ago.
Winning is all Tulsa needed to get the fans back in the Reynolds Center. And, on Monday night, those fans were the difference.



Reader Comments 3 Total
Tom (5 years ago)
Gee John! You mean an only slightly better than mediocre Div.1 coach knows more about basketball than you do? We're supposed to be surprised at this?
Dio L. Daily (5 years ago)
Sorry guy but Barry was better than a "slightly better than mediocre" D1 coach. Politics were never on the side of MSU. Of the 4 hightest rated teams to never make the NCAA Tourney, MSU was three of them. The biggest problem was the influence the MAJORS on the selection commttee.
Terry (5 years ago)
If you are going to throw out meaningless rpi numbers maybe you should throw out these...

- 4 of 9 his years we finished 5th or lower in Valley play...including the only 2 "play in games" in school history
- W-L record against NCAA Tournament teams 17-44 (28%)
- W-L record against the RPI Top 100: 44-75 (37.0%).
- Road/neutral court record of 60-83 (42.0%) overall, and 3-14 in 2007-08.
- In games decided by 5 points or less, Hinson's record at MSU is 29-44 (39.7%).
- 7 of 10 MVC teams have earned NCAA bids during Hinson's tenure. Only Evansville and IL State have missed the Tournament for as long as Missouri State.

I would agree with "slightly mediocre" and it seems other colleges feel the same way considering he can't find another job.
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