Whitmore and his yes-man Hopkins have to travel accross the country to try and get "student" athletes because the legit local ones now know what those 2 are all about and why would they want to play in a program like that when there are so many better local ones to turn to for the quality student athletes in this area.  Best of luck PIPERS.

MIACMANIAC - "The rest of the HU team returns, and they will have a lot to say about who wins the MIAC title in 2011-12."

Dont bet on "the rest" of the team returning.  They will be looking at several transfers.

Quote from: piperinsider on January 18, 2011, 04:06:53 PM

Quote from: Drake Palmer on January 18, 2011, 02:06:09 PM
I think I might have been bad luck for Mose last night as I decided to try out this Kim's fried chicken one more time.   At 6.25 it's a good value for half a huge fried chicken & copious amounts of fried rice, but personally, I've had better fried chicken.  But I digress... back to the Pipers Tommies game.

The Pipes were able to execute their game plan to perfection aided by the near flawless play of their guards Mike Campbell - early, & Brandon Rieg –late.  Plus some ridiculously clutch 3 pt shooting by "Mr. Oregon" Tyler Pannell, Christian Taber, & Sam "Who?" Gullickson.  Unconscious!   Campbell was nearly unstoppable driving to the lane & threatening to dump off the ball to Carl Hipp, which caused the UST help defender to collapse.  Or Campbell, Rieg & or Levi Wenrich would stop, quickly reverse the ball, & then find a Hamline guard for a semi-open jumper.  Some of those long range shots Pannell took were unreal, long heat checks.

Plus, Hipp is so dangerous on the block that he demands a double team from opposing teams which normally is effective defense against Hamline as they've not known as a particularly good shooting team. Prior to last night they were 9th in the league in 3 pt shooting as they had made 42 out of 132 attempts for a "coolish" 31.8%. But Hamline guards are as quick as the Tommies and neutralized the Tommies' edge, & last night they were making their open shots.

It will be interesting to see how UST defends Hamline the next time they meet.  Will they play Hipp straight up & defend the guards a bit tighter?  But after 20 some years of success, I think Coach Fritz & staff have a decent idea of how to play defense. Hamline will also need to show that last night's shooting performance wasn't a one night fluke. Seriously – Sam Gullickson?  Nice shooting.

For UST they needed to get more production from someone other than Nicolai & Healy, both of whom shot reasonably well, but no one else came up big in the 2nd half for UST.  Healy & Nicolai scored 24 of the 32 points scored in the 2nd half, while  Hannon, Halvorsen, & Pedretti combined to shoot 0-5, 2-2 from the FT line for 2 points.  To beat Hamline you need to challenge Carl Hipp, but he was free to play pretty much all night without fear of fouls.  Zero personal fouls called on him in the game. Hunh?

By the way – I might be showing my age, but what was the deal with the Hamline students standing up & jingling their keys at the end of the game?

So let's see- UST vs GAC round 2, UST vs. CARL round 2, UST vs. HAM round 2. Those 3 games al are shaping up to be potential Games of the Week or Night. Plus if the Johnnies start living up to their potential??  Could be a real interesting 2nd half of the season.

Sam Gullickson was a real nice player for Holy Angels the past couple of years. He always had nice games against Hutchinson (then again, who didn't before last year when they made state for the first time in 35 years). He's 12-for-21 from three in conference games.

Anyone notice if Jordan Schmidt is hurt for Hamline? Or is he ineligible? Hasn't played since the Dec. 14 game against River Falls.

Schmidt is suffering from the effects of a leg infection that started last fall.  recovery time is uncertain, and at this time not known if he will be able to return this season or not.

Noah is back with the pipers.  If you look in the photos he is actually standing in the background of one of them on crutches.  He had a minor ankle sprain early in the first practice, nothing serious.  He has let his hair grow out so you may not recognize him.  He does have game...

Brown was slowed by a recent but unreported knee injury.  It was obvious he didn't have his full abilities in the game.  Hamline was a better team last night with him on the bench.

2010 MIAC preview:

http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/11/30/miac-men-s-basketball-2009-10-season-pre?blog=5

2009-10 Hamline University Roster:

http://www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics/mens_basketball/0910/2009-10_Roster.html

Also a link to Outlook for season:

http://www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics/mens_basketball/0910/2009-10_Outlook.html

Quote from: UMACFAN on November 01, 2009, 02:25:00 PM
This really doesn't matter since it was a scrimmage, but against a very athletic MCTC team, Hamline won by 40 or so.  This MCTC team went to the D3 national title game last year for JUCO.  Anyways, Brown had one of the sickest dunks on one of the twins (Olufaso).  Crossing up somebody on the perimeter and going up two hands and jumping over guy.  Hipp was also impressive as some of the other recruits.  I dont pay too much attention to MIAC bball, but Hamline will be very good this year.

You are right, it really doesn't matter, but actually Hamline won by 17 points.  They did have some glimpses of looking really good and some of the new players show a lot of potential but being so early in the season they obviously still have some kinks to work out.  Ray Brown will be a major impact to the team as long as he doesn't try to do too much.