MBB: American Rivers Conference

[doolittledog]

BV up by 3 points @ UD at the half 33-30

[doolittledog]

BV holds on to beat Dubuque 66-62  Dubuque had the ball down 2 with 10 seconds left.  BV stole the ball with .5 of a second left and was fouled.  Hitting their 2 free throws for the difference. 

Good game.  Nice to see Dubuque being able to give the conference heavy weights all they can handle.  It's been a few years since the Spartans could do that. 

[sportsknight]

Knights win 66-61 over Luther.  Great start by Wartburg, jumping out to a 16-4 lead five and a half minutes in.  Luther got themselves back in with a 9-2 run to end the first half, and came out like gangbusters after halftime, nailing 6 three-pointers in the first ten minutes and eventually taking a 7 point edge with 9:10 to play.  Ryan Kuhn made four of those 3s on his way to 14 2nd half points (2 in the first half).  Knights came out of a time out at the 9:10 mark and ran off 11 straight points.  Cashes Mason absolutely took over, scoring 10 in a row for the Knights at one point.  Knights did a good job of closing the thing out, hitting 4 of 6 FTs down the stretch and limiting Luther to just 7 points in the final 5 minutes.

Great crowd on hand for the game too.  I don't know that I've seen so many Wartburg students on hand since the W opened, so that was good to see.  They do need to learn that timeouts are when you stand up and chant or do something to make noise, and not just plop down and wait for play to resume.

[Alfredeneumann]

Knights win 66-61 over Luther.  Great start by Wartburg, jumping out to a 16-4 lead five and a half minutes in.  Luther got themselves back in with a 9-2 run to end the first half, and came out like gangbusters after halftime, nailing 6 three-pointers in the first ten minutes and eventually taking a 7 point edge with 9:10 to play.  Ryan Kuhn made four of those 3s on his way to 14 2nd half points (2 in the first half).  Knights came out of a time out at the 9:10 mark and ran off 11 straight points.  Cashes Mason absolutely took over, scoring 10 in a row for the Knights at one point.  Knights did a good job of closing the thing out, hitting 4 of 6 FTs down the stretch and limiting Luther to just 7 points in the final 5 minutes.

Great crowd on hand for the game too.  I don't know that I've seen so many Wartburg students on hand since the W opened, so that was good to see.  They do need to learn that timeouts are when you stand up and chant or do something to make noise, and not just plop down and wait for play to resume.

Cashes was great at the end and he was gassed. The TO Luther took before Cashes was to shoot 2 FT's was a great favor for the Knights. A minute to rest and catch his breath was the reason he made both FT's. No Travis Kearn again. Not sure when he'll make his return.
I would add Cole Danielson hitting 6 of 9 3's + 22 total helped A LOT.
The first 5 minutes and from the time it was 52-45 Luther to the end were as good as I've seen the Knights play this year.
Luther's big men were NO factor the 1st half but came out a lot more aggressive and were a factor as well.
If they ever get Danielson and McCarville scoring in the same game watch out.
3 wins in a row with a road trip to Simpson on Sat.

[WartburgPoliSci11]

Anyone have an idea why Mitch Eslick has been playing so little recently, his knee still bothering him or just struggles?

[Alfredeneumann]

I don' t know about the Simpson game  (5) but before that game he got 13 minutes in each game against Luther and Coe and 32 before that against Central.

[Klompen]

Central is playing better than I thought they might this year, given the losses to graduation last year, but I wish they would play the full 40 minutes.  We can't seem to avoid hitting a Looonnnggg cold streak that takes us out of games that we might otherwise win.  They have the potential and some good talent, they just need to stay focused for the whole game.

[Klompen]

Another almost win by the Dutch on the road against a top team.  If they had played the whole second half with the determination of the last minute...

Still a good job by the Central Dutch.  You are giving teams all they can handle, even if you don't always come out on top.  At least we aren't a team to be over looked anymore.   Boschee is going to get us there yet.  We just have to learn to refuse to lose. 

[Alfredeneumann]

Anyone have an idea why Mitch Eslick has been playing so little recently, his knee still bothering him or just struggles?

Mitch was FINE last night in Wartburg's big 80-66 win over # 6 BV last night. Ask Kyle Stribe of BV. Mitch put a move on him and as they say at the playgrounug "broke  his ankles" in the first half... put him on the floor and ref's had to call a TO to see if he could continue to play.
Cole and Mitch set the tone for the game by hitting 5 -3's in the first 4 minutes. Very solid game by Cashes, 9 assists, 2 TO's. BV got the score to 33-32 with 5 minutes to go in 1st half but most of the rest of the game was 7 to 15 pt lead for the Knights. The student section was into the game. BV looked like they didn't want to be there at all. But I'm sure they'll be ready on 2/4/09  in Storm Lake.

WARNING TO CONFERENCE BIG MEN. If you are going to set a ball screen, BV's big men will come up and deliver a shove to your back that would be 10yd penalty in the NFL.

# Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
12 Danielson, Cole..... 7-14       7-13      4-4    0    3    3    0  25  5  1  0  1  33
22 Eslick, Mitch.......   7-14       5-12      2-3    2    6    8     1  21  4  0  0  1  27


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[sportsknight]

Last night's game was the first one that reminded me of old-school Knights Gym.  Student section did a great job thru the entire game, with the exception of that "overrated" chant at the end of the game.  I personally hate that one.

Knights came out firing last night and did a great job keeping the lead and doing enough to keep BV at bay.  BV is a very good team, but any time you spot a team an 11 point lead and they are shooting as well from the arc as Wartburg was last night, it is a very tall order.

[Purple Heys]

How 'bout them Rams?!

LaDew becomes the school's all-time leading scorer last night as the Rams roll Coe @ the Crunchberry Fieldhouse.

Rams are putting together a solid season.

Nice to see...

[Gregory Sager]

Last night's game was the first one that reminded me of old-school Knights Gym.  Student section did a great job thru the entire game, with the exception of that "overrated" chant at the end of the game.  I personally hate that one.

It's a chant that makes absolutely no sense. If you say that the other team is overrated, then you're devaluing your team's victory over that other team. It's one of those chants that's 100% emotion, 0% logic.

[Alfredeneumann]

#2 Kyle Stribe for BV  should look into this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OLEzsmFXY

As for "over-rated" chant, in the IIAC you don't get too many chances of playing a rated team and when you give 'em a butt kickin' let them know it.

[Gregory Sager]

As for "over-rated" chant, in the IIAC you don't get too many chances of playing a rated team and when you give 'em a butt kickin' let them know it.

Let them know it by saying that they're overrated? That your victory over them is therefore worth less than what the experts think?

I can think of a million things to chant to put an exclamation point on a big win that work better than "Overrated!"

[sportsknight]

Last night's game was the first one that reminded me of old-school Knights Gym.  Student section did a great job thru the entire game, with the exception of that "overrated" chant at the end of the game.  I personally hate that one.

It's a chant that makes absolutely no sense. If you say that the other team is overrated, then you're devaluing your team's victory over that other team. It's one of those chants that's 100% emotion, 0% logic.

My thoughts exactly.