ACU making SportsCenter appearances a regular thing

It started in May when ACU's centerfielder Thomas Bumpass made ESPN's SportsCenter Top 10 Plays with an amazing catch in the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament. Then, ACU's football team defeated West Texas A&M 93-68 in the second round of the NCAA Division II Football Playoffs in November; that earned the school multiple spots on the world's most popular sports news show. Then both last night and this afternoon, the ACU Women's Basketball team earned national recognition on SportsCenter for their 147-143 4 OT win over Texas Woman's at Moody Coliseum.

We hope to get video posted soon of today's clip which featured shots of ACU's coaches Shawna Lavender and Terri Pertuit. The video, courtesy of Abilene's NBC affiliate KRBC, also showed a highlight of junior forward Jamie Meyer scoring two of her 49 points (school record) and gave face-time to senior forward Kristee Davidson scoring a basket.

However, we do have video (click here) (you'll need quicktime) of the initial report from ESPN on the game that ran late last night. It talked about the game and TWU's Renee Renz who scored 63 points in the loss for the Pioneers.

On Monday's show, Lavender, Meyer and Davidson were shown in highlights on the bump before heading to commercial with 15 minutes left in the show. Then in the final segment, the highlights show a layup from Davidson, a bucket from Meyer, and a clip of Lavender and Pertuit talking to Davidson in a huddle. Then the anchors (Jay Harris, Brian Kenny) mentioned some of the NCAA records set in the game including the most combined points. It then showed a screen with "Notable High-Scoring Games" including Navy's 74-62 football victory in 2007, and Loyola Marymount's men's hoops team defeating U.S. International 181-150 in 1989. They could have easily mentioned ACU's 93-68 football win over WTAMU, but hey, we'll let it slide.

At the end of the show Brian Kenny joked that "Hopefully they get a good crowd next time at Texas Abilene, now they deserve it, what more do you want?" And yes, he did say "Texas Abilene."

The Wildcats accomplished this feat in front of roughly 200 fans Monday night.

So now that ACU has scored 93 points in a football game, and 147 points in a women's basketball game; it is now up to softball coach Chantiel Wilson and baseball coach Britt Bonneau to coach their teams to 50-run games this year.