I was very impressed with Wartburg last night. Coming into this season, I knew that Jordan and Cole would be the primary scorers on the team, and with the loss with Murphy at point, and graduation of 5 seniors, I was nervous heading into last night. A stat I know most coaches, especially Coach Peth looks at is rebounding, and Wartburg held the edge over UNI, part of that being because UNI only had 5 turnovers, but still impressive nonetheless. Also, Wartburg won't face guards as quick and athletic as UNI's all season, so some of those turnovers can be contributed to the fact that UNI is a very sound, solid defensive team with great quickness. Kwadzo was very solid last night, showed very good touch from 3.

That being said, UNI has NO post offense. None. O'Rear's only basket was when Jacey fell down and he was wide open in the paint. He is solid in that he battles for offensive boards and sets good, hard screens, but Jake Koch wanted nothing to do with the paint and jacked up a couple terrible threes. If Austin Pehl is going to play solid minutes for UNI, they will struggle. He did not impress me at all, but he has never impressed me, not even in High School. Anthony James is exactly what I thought he was, a decent shooter who is always out to "get his" he shot a contested three in transition last night when UNI had an advantage, but without Ali, there will be some more shots, and he decided he wants them. UNI will be solid though, and were very good on defense (especially in the second half)

Agree with what SR. said, Drew Crawford really looks like he's worked on his game in the summer, looks more in shape, has increased his quickness, and didn't look rattled on the big stage of the McCloud Center (hit his first shot of the game, fresh off the bench). Jordan and Cole will be solid and the Knights should have a fairly good year..

ESPN is doing another time filling content segment where states vote for who would be on their Mt. Rushmore. What does everyone think of this?

Here's what I posted on ESPN.com
Kurt Warner
Dan Gable
Ed Thomas- Football Coach from Applington Parkersburg, coached 4 nfl players, after the tornado hit the town and school, he lead his team to an undefeated regular season and made the state quarterfinals, losing to the eventual state champion
Nile Kinnick, while he is more of a legend, he is still an icon in the state

it should also be noted that Dr. Tom Davis was the coach at Drake too...

I agree wit the over rated chant, not a fan, sorry pops

Also many congrats to the knights this year, as a third year Wartburg student, but a lifelong wartburg fan, im anxious for next year to begin already.

We lose a lot of seniors, especially on defense, but im very hopeful for next year. With Yordi and boom/harvey and a handful of lineman starters back, it oculd be a great 2009 for the Knights!

Congrats to the seniors for getting that IIAC championship that had eluded them, and congrats to the coaching staff for fighting through the short off season

thanks JG, i started listening right after they kicked the first fieldgoal

Wartburg limits bandwith in the dorms, couldnt even watch the live feed without it breaking up every 2 seconds, listening to the game on the radio, who fumbled?

On that last drive of the knights, I didnt feel like their defense gave up, they were pressuring yordi, he had to scamper 15 yards, leave the pocket (and pass past the line of scrimmage), I dont know what the 3 Dbacks were doing on the last play, didnt jam vetter at the line, didnt communicate, then neither Scot made a play on the ball, but i dont think they quit by any means, both teams fought til the end

I tailgated with WH, and I agree with what he was saying, the security officers were trying to rain on our parades, while the Scottish fans could have open beer cans in the tennis court parking lot. Also, I stood the whole game on the outter fence under the scoreboard, it wasnt a bad spot to watch teh game, but i would have much rather sat with a bunch of wartburg people. The campus was nice, the people were nice, but also, to get from our stands to the consession stand, you had to hop skip and jump over a set of stone steps and walk up at 30 degree slope of grass.


Monmouth had a great year, there is no doubt about it, it was a competitive game, but there is no way the MWC ever compares with the IIAC, and the only common oponent we had was st. norbert, which we beat by 24, and the scots beat by 9,

WH you are not an idiot

Wow, Just made it back from Monmouth, and I'm still in awe of the 2008 Knights! Stood in the endzone with some former Knights and it just was an amazing game. As can be seen on the front page of D3 football, there were 3 scots within 5 yards of Vetter, but none were in position to make a play, great pitch and catch from Yordi to Vetter. Big Win for the knights and excited for next weekend!

not William Penn, Iowa Wesleyan

Willis deserves this honor this year.  Coming back to coach the team weeks before camp starts and then to put them into the playoffs.  That is an outstanding job.  Say what you want about him being close to the program, but he did not recruit those kids, those were Koehlers kids.  




The Senior Class played for one year under Coach Willis, and the Juniors were brought in partially by Willis and Koahler, but i totally agree, the bomb was kind of dropped on him really late in the off season, did a great job stepping back into his coaching role, and won the conference, great day to be a Knight, and a Hawkeye for that matter

Dubuque lookedd pretty good tonight in my opinion, they Bluhm nailed 2 early threes, if it wasnt for Kwadzo, I think the game would have been within 10 points. I agree with sportsknight, they were really small, so if their shots don't fall, they will struggle, but it's hard to get the ball inside against UNI. IMO dubuque will finish in the top 4 in the league this year.

http://www.dbq.edu/udathletics/mensbasketball/news1.cfm?ID=984


Any chance they play UNI as close as Wartburg played Iowa in 2005?

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