MBB: American Rivers Conference

[Purple Heys]

Interesting story on the D3Hoops front page:

http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/diamonds-and-ice/2009/11/18/a-new-conference-for-cornell-coe-and-luther

Thoughts?

Just want to jump in here as a voice from the MIAC and say this idea is old news and isn't happening anytime soon. It was discussed a bit last spring. Frankly, it's very poor reporting. Why didn't the reporter call anyone at Cornell, Coe or Luther and ask for comments? What about any of the other ACM schools? With the way things are with the economy, it's hard to imagine any of the IIAC or MIAC ACM members wanting to change conferences and incur more travel time, costs and missed class time.

Thanks for jumping in and providing that insight.  +k!

[Klompen]

Central had an easy win over Faith Baptist last night 90-51.  Need tougher non-conference competition to get us ready for the IIAC.  Even the 3rd string looked good last night with some good younger players.  Starters need to spend some time at the free throw line though.  Missed a lot of easy points at the line.

[doolittledog]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald with recaps of last nights games involving UD and Loras.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=264514

Dubuque beat a 6-1 Mt. Mercy 79-75

Loras lost to Wheaton 82-60

[IntramuralChamp]

It might be a tough year in Duhawk land! Tonight they had two starters not score a point and they put up 54 points, losing 90-54? Can losing this bad help you prepare for IIAC, regardless if you're playing top 25 teams? UD appears to be the team to beat in Dubuque this year.

[doolittledog]

Loras and UD get non-conference wins.

Loras 102-98 over Aurora.

Dubuque 77-54 over Beloit.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=264951

[coebball70]

Noticed an interesting post on Loras' sports Facebook page.  Can anyone offer any information on the transfer of Franklin Griffin from Seton Hall to Loras?  I believe Griffin was a starter on Chicago's Whitney Young HS state championship basketball team of 2009. 

[Gregory Sager]

Griffin is not listed in the Seton Hall media guide. Most redshirt freshmen, which is what Griffin would have been, are at least mentioned in D1 media guides. He's also not listed on the Loras online roster, either, and unless he was participating in Seton Hall's preseason practices -- which I strongly doubt, since he isn't even mentioned in the media guide -- he would be eligible to play for Loras right away. Of course, he may not be enrolled yet.

If the Duhawks did manage to land him, it'd be quite a serious coup.

[IntramuralChamp]

6'5 Weighs 218lbs. Appears to be a post player with no 3's shot and 50% from free throw line. Doubt he had any affiliation with Seton Hall athletics.

Name                     G    FG   FGA    3P   3PA    FT   FTA   Pts    Avg   Reb   Ast

Franklin Griffin        30    35    70     0     0    24    48    94    3.1    90     8

* This comes from his high school website!
http://www.ihsa.org/activity/bkb/2008-09/4info3.htm

[keith45]

not sure he was even getting D1 looks....

http://illinoishsbasketball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=760&Itemid=1

[dansand]

Noticed an interesting post on Loras' sports Facebook page.  Can anyone offer any information on the transfer of Franklin Griffin from Seton Hall to Loras?  I believe Griffin was a starter on Chicago's Whitney Young HS state championship basketball team of 2009.  

Augustana recruited him, although they were more interested in his teammate Antonio Johnson who ended up at West Georgia.

I knew he was headed to Seton Hall, but I assumed he had no intention of playing basketball. I don't know how good of a player he is, but from what I've heard, he's a real high-character kid.

[Gregory Sager]

My guess is that he went to Seton Hall as a no-guarantees walk-on, didn't make the cut at tryouts for one of the limited number of walk-on spaces available (no shame in that; he's a 6'5 C/PF type who tried to make a Big East roster), wised up, and left New Jersey to come back to the midwest so that he can enroll somewhere where he can get a good education and play lots of D3 basketball rather than loiter for a year in the stands in the hope that he could then get to spend four years passing squirt bottles and towels down the Pirates' bench.

I've seen Griffin play. I think that he can be a very good player in the IIAC.

[IntramuralChamp]

The real season starts tomorrow, no more games against Martin Luther, Crown, Bethany Lutheran and Knox. Looking forward to the battle in Dubuque, regardless of talent, this in town rivalry is usually a good one. Interesting that its the first conference opener for both teams. Other match up that could be closer then many might think is the BV vs  Luther game. Any thoughts on the conference openers?

[doolittledog]

The real season starts tomorrow, no more games against Martin Luther, Crown, Bethany Lutheran and Knox. Looking forward to the battle in Dubuque, regardless of talent, this in town rivalry is usually a good one. Interesting that its the first conference opener for both teams. Other match up that could be closer then many might think is the BV vs  Luther game. Any thoughts on the conference openers?

I plan on listening in tomorrow night.  Interesting to start the conference season with a Dubuque/Loras matchup.  This is always a fun game.  This is one instance when the old cliche "throw out the records" applies. 

[Alfredeneumann]

The real season starts tomorrow, no more games against Martin Luther, Crown, Bethany Lutheran and Knox. Looking forward to the battle in Dubuque, regardless of talent, this in town rivalry is usually a good one. Interesting that its the first conference opener for both teams. Other match up that could be closer then many might think is the BV vs  Luther game. Any thoughts on the conference openers?

Central @ Wartburg on Saturday to open the conference season for the Knights. Centeral starts with rival Simpson. With all these rivalry openers I'm surprised Wart/Luther wasn't one of them.

[doolittledog]

Loras up 38-31 halftime @ Dubuque