WBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

MSOE hoops coach Ott adds another item to her plate:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_05/20080514b.html


(Could there be an impending change with WBB down the road? Just speculating agian, folks.) 

[WLCALUM83]

Concordia-Chicago has found a new WBB coach:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/200i8_05/20080522c.html

[Just Bill]

Corrected link: http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_05/20080522c.html

[hickory_cornhusker]

(P. S. It'll take a while to get used to Marian's name change, eh?)

My mom works in the business office at Marian and she said that she has had a hard time getting used to answeing the phone as "Marian University"

Carroll is also changing to a university this summer and there are talks going on at St. Norbert about moving in that direction.

[WLCALUM83]

Megan Scheele's (Edgewood) European trip journal can be found here:

http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=2535

[WLCALUM83]

Belated props to the Concordia-WI WBB team! 

http://www.d3hoops.com/notables

(2nd article down)

(With honorable mention to Lakeland-#23)

[WLCALUM83]

Here's news on prep players headed Aurora's and Edigewood's direction-respectively:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=775829

("Other college choices" section).

[WLCALUM83]

Coaching change at Rockford:

http://www.d3hoops.com/pressreleases.php?release=2359

(Regents would appear to be in "re-build" mode, with Angie Butler, Love Morgan & Co having graduated. Just my .02)

[WLCALUM83]

Changes at Alverno here:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_08/20080813c.html

(Inferno also recently took on a new volleyball coach. As far as hoops goes, IMHO, bringing Beth Porter on as assistant coach is a good move from a public relations standpoint, given the past high level of respect she received while at Lakeland, during and after her playing days.)

[WLCALUM83]

Pre-Season 2008-09 Women's Hoops Projections can be found here:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_11/20081107a.html

[WLCALUM83]

What do you think of the new divisional format for Women's hoops in the Northern Athletics conference?

(A note:  Mount Mary and Alverno have had a long-time rivalry in women's soccer and volleyball as well as hoops, so that's the rationale for including a school not normally in-conference on the women's side.)

[OshDude]

If anyone's interested in the D-III regional volleyball tournaments, I have a fairly extensive blog that covers the St. Thomas and Oshkosh (where LC will be) regionals. It's not bad in national terms, either. Stop by and tell me what you think.

[Just Bill]

Why does your NAC Volleyball links menu only include 8 of the 13 teams?  Other than that, it's a very nice page!

I don't care for the divsions right now.  I especially don't like the fact that four of the schools change divisions every two years.  It's hard to build a fan base in a low-profile conference if you keep changing your format all the time.

I don't think the Challenge game makes sense when the  teams will have already played each other once.  If the two divisions didn't meet normally, then it would make more sense.

I also don't like the top four in each division qualifying for the tournament.  It will be unfair when a 4-12 fourth place team gets in over a 7-9 fifth place team.

[OshDude]

I only have the WI teams from those conferences on the rail. I started the blog as Oshkosh-specific. Then it went WI-specific. Now it's bordering on regional, so I may add those other links after the tourney. It does look odd that I list about half of the league. Good point, but that's the reasoning. I've never really had a national audience before last month.

And for the most part I'm with you on disliking the divisions.

[Ralph Turner]

I don't like the rotating divisions either.

I think I prefer a 3rd division (Central Division).

Football is a single division sport.  M/W Golf and M/WCross Country, Track and Field don't need divisions to determine the AQ.

VB, M/W Soccer, M/W Hoops, Baseball/Softball and W Tennis can go three divisions.  The season is long enough to have that many bids.  Play single round-robin out of division.  Play double round-robin intra-division.  You can award wild cards/at large berths on the inter-division results for the conference tourney and AQ.

Men's Tennis (8 teams) can go single division.