Quote from: AO on February 20, 2008, 12:08:08 AM
Wow, a four way tie for 2nd place.  A coin flip and a possible play-in game?  Can anyone explain this?

per UMAC website, 1) Northwestern 2) Martin Luther 3) St Scholastica (won the coin flip) 4)  Bethany Lutheran/Minn-Morris (Play in game).  Basically every team except for MLC had everything tied (head to head, con. road win/losses) so hence the coin flip and play in game.  Predictions for 1st team and POY?

Quote from: d3bballfollower on January 10, 2008, 01:13:57 PM
conference play starts back up tomorrow! the most interesting matchup of the night may be Martin Luther at Presentation (yikes)...how many teams will go 2-0?  how many will go 0-2?  who will start to assert themself as a top tier UMAC team?

NWC will go 2-0, although Scholastica could pull an upset on Friday.  That game and the Morris-BLC game will be interesting.  I feel that Morris will also go 2-0, they have too many scorers (Allen, Dalbey, Jensen) for BLC to handle.  I think Northland will 0-2 and so will Presentation. 

Quote from: AO on December 11, 2007, 05:50:04 PM
The UMAC is 4-6 versus the MIAC thus far.

Now 4-8, Bethany loses to the Gusties by 8 with no box score yet.  Morris loses to SJU by 14 I think.  Jensen 20 points and Allen 19.  The boxscore says that Morris was up at halftime by 8 and was up for the most of the game, seems to be the trouble with Morris not being able to close out games.  Same with BLC, they have had some close losses. 

Quote from: VOJ on December 12, 2007, 08:40:57 AM

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Quote from: Willy Wonka on December 11, 2007, 02:33:02 PM
...Can MIAC teams start playing again so us has-beens can't stop talking about this never-was...

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Speaking of Johnnies, VOJ – what's the old adage – "pride goes before a fall."  This season in particular seems to demonstrate that you can't afford to take any teams lightly, not even schools from the UMAC.  I still say you better watch out for UM-Morris.  I'm sure AO or someone will be flaunting the final head to head results if they gain the overall W-L edge by the time January 2nd rolls around.  Right now it's not looking pretty for the remaining inter-league match ups unless we start putting the wood to the likes of Northwestern, Bethany Lutheran & Scholastica. It's a given the Dawgs better beat Presentation by a sizeable margin.

I guarantee the J's will come out not taking Morris lightly...and I know they are spoiling for a W...

I would hope that they do not.  Morris beat pre-season #1 Bethel by 10, Crushed Concorida-Moorhead, and beat NAIA Jamestown College...

Quote from: d3bballfollower on December 09, 2007, 04:39:06 AM
Morris takes down PC in Aberdeen 76-61...Will Jensen with 26 and 15...if Morris continues to board as well as they have they could definitely cause problems for NWC

Beat me too it.  Allen chipped in with 20 points.  Scholastica over Northland by 9, Zubke 17 pts and 7 rebounds and Aarneson also had 17 I think.  Anybody have the score for the MLC/Bethany game? 

Quote from: Hoopology101 on December 03, 2007, 11:56:41 PM
People forget that Presentation only beat Trinity bible by 10 points at home! Trinity had the lead by 4 with 2 mins to go and then the refs started calling things and put presentation on the line!  By the looks of that anything can happen this year.  Thats why we play the game! I'm calling Crown beats NW!! Get Your Popcorn Ready @ Crown 5pm

If you put stock into that then you could also say that NWC lost to Jamestown by 10 or whatever and Morris beat Jamestown, so.....is Morris better?  No. 

I have not seen any UMAC teams play yet this year, but here is how I see it shaking out now after seeing some box scores:

1) Northwestern - Too much fire power Discher, Hanson Bros, Strelecki, and Anderstrom.
2) UM-Morris - Allen, Dalbey, and Jensen are going to be tough for any team to stop.
3) Scholastica - Athletic talented team (Zubke and Schmitz) but may not be disciplined enough to beat a Morris or NWC.
4) Bethany Lutheran - Sure Wills is tough, but who else to they honestly have?  Priem and Saffert?
5) Presentation College - They have a lot of players back (from what I have heard), hopefully they can get some UMAC W's.
6) MLC - Nass and Schwartz form a nice duo, but they do not have much after that.
7) Northland College - Aarneson can score, but that is all they really have.
8)Crown College - I could see them winning a few conference games and batteling for 6-7 but for now here is where they belong.

UMM beats Jamestown in overtime tonight, Allen has 28 points and Fragodt chips in 14 in the win.  As I said before JC was ranked #9  NAIA D2 in the nation. 

Quote from: d3bballfollower on November 29, 2007, 11:33:37 PM
Morris loses a heartbreaker on the road to now 6-2 Jamestown College 99-96...no box score yet

looks like Morris has had no trouble putting the ball in the basket averaging 82.5 ppg through their first 5 games (2-3)...but they have also had trouble defending, giving up an average of 85.8 ppg...

to Morris' credit they have played some good teams that can shoot the rock (SJU, Bethel and Jamestown)...probably the only teams in the UMAC that could run with the Cougs on a good shooting night are NWC and Bethany Lutheran...

UMM has a very t

ough non-conference schedule left...they host Jamestown in a rematch on Saturday, then are off for a week before opening up UMAC play at Presentation on the 8th, followed by a return game hosting the Johnnies on the 12th before ending the fall break on the road at Crookston on the 14th...after the break they host North Central on Jan. 5th, and then hit the road to end non-conference play by taking on current 7-1 Valley City State who disposed of Presentation 77-58 on Tuesday...they are also at North Central on Feb. 4th

I was higher on Presentation in the preseason, and even though I'm not giving up on them yet...I am leaning towards slotting Morris in at the #3 spot in the UMAC and possibly the #2 spot depending upon how Bethany plays...

Man I just saw that on the UMM page, no box score up yet.  What is up with Morris not being able to close out these NAIA schools.  Jamestown came out of the pre-season rankings # 8 in the nation and Mayville State was on the others receiving votes.  Here is the link:

http://naia.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl-div2/spec-rel/103107aab.html

I was trying to be nosy so I went on to Jamestown's page to find the box score, no luck but I did find out that Jamestown beat NWC by 9 (I think).  I really think that UMM is going to battle for the top spot with NWC.  They could very easily be 4-1 rather than 2-3 against all SOLID MIAC or NAIA schools. 

UMM took Mayville State all the way to the wire tonight, losing by 3.  UMM is for real, they have some talented kids who can put some points on the board.  The boxscore says that Morris was up most of the game, but they couldn't close it out.  Here is the boxscore:

notables - Phil Allen 17 points,  Will Jensen 15 points 9 rebounds, Eric Dalbey 9 points and 9 rebounds...

http://www.morris.umn.edu/athletics/mens/basketball/stats/MBB07-08/HTML/MBKMAYMM.HTM

I think that UM-Morris is very underrated, they have some really good guards and Allen in the middle.  They are 2-1 against 3 good MIAC schools.  They are definitely better than their 5th pick in the polls.  What is the UMAC against MIAC this year then??

UM Morris beats Bethel tonight by 10, the pre-season number one in the MIAC.  Just looked at the box score, it looks like Phil Allen had a HUGE game with 31 points and 6 rebounds....others to score for Morris:
Daniel Fragodt - 23 points 9 rebounds
Eric Dalbey - 20 points 6 rebounds
Will Jenson - 11 points 5 rebounds 3 assists and 5 steals


Bethel - Otterson and Madson had 25 points each.

Huge win for the cougers, now 2-1 against MIAC schools.

UM-Morris falls to St Johns by 16 and Bethany Lutheran loses to Bethel by 7. 

That would have been huge if MLC took down Bethel.  The preseason # 5 in the UMAC takes down the preseason # 5 in the MIAC.  Phil Allen 21 points, 6 rebounds and Will Jensen 18 points, 8 rebounds.  What else happened in the MIAC?

Quote from: Ralph Turner on October 20, 2007, 07:48:26 PM
Welcome Matt!

Good luck to the UMAC this year.

Y'all are getting closer to full conference status!

Thank you Ralph, I cant wait til the UMAC teams can get a bid to the Tourney.  I really think Scholastica last year could have done some damage.