The men's basketball team season came to and end when they matched off against the Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelinas, 85-61, Wednesday at the Steinke Center in Kingsville.
It was their last shot to get a postseason spot in the Lone Star Conference South Division playoffs.
"It was a good year," head coach Fred Rike said, "but a disappointment."
The Rams finished off the 2006-07 season with a 9-17 record, 4-7 in the LSC. The nine wins is more than the last year's team and the four wins in South Division play is the most divisions for the Rams in the past two years.
"I think being a coach you blame yourself more than anyone else," Rike said. "There's no reason we shouldn't have been among the top teams. But I have great expectations for next year."
From the very beginning of the game the Javelinas had them pinned, with a little under 10 minutes left Texas A&M were ahead by 20 points.
The Rams leading scorer, averaging 21.7 points per game, Marcus Hubbard finished the game with his 11th double-double of the season scoring 15 points and pulling down a game-high 10 rebounds. The 6'9'' forward was named to the LSC first team by conference officials on Tuesday. He was the second-leading scorer in the conference and led the Rams in scoring, rebounding with 8.9 rebounds, and in three-point field goal percentage with 38.1 percent of his shots sunk.
Hubbard, the only nonsenior to appear on the first team, finished in the top five in the LSC in rebounding and blocked shots.
Another Ram scoring in double figures that night was Turner Phipps who played his final game of his collegiate career, received honorable mention. The postseason selections were determined by a vote of the conference's head coaches.
Despite coming short of a position in the playoffs, Rike said, "It's not where you started the season but how you end it."
Rike and the rest of the Rams are turning their focus on recruiting now.
"It's time we hit the road," Rike said. "I'm already excited about it."
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