MBB: American Rivers Conference

doolittledog · November 17, 2014, 07:51:34 AM

Hey Klompen, with our teams football seasons over with, we get to cheer on basketball now

Dubuque wins a tourney in Wisconsin over the weekend with a 79-69 win over Concordia WI on Saturday and 51-33 over Carroll yesterday.

Dubuque graduated two 1,000 point scorers from last years team in Chris Frazier and Mitch Michaelis, so that will be interesting to see how they deal with that. Not the tallest team I have seen, so should be interesting to see how the team develops. I trust in how Coach Sieverding has recruited and built this team up. Should be a fun winter of basketball.

Klompen · November 18, 2014, 08:53:10 PM

Hey DD, sorry we couldn't have better weather to welcome your Spartans to Pella. It was cold! The ball spots were terrible all afternoon because the players kept sliding an extra few yards. Central was better than I expected them to be. A good sign for next year.

Basketball looks to be picking up better than they left off. They are ahead by 3 in their much lower scoring game tonight.

warthog · November 23, 2014, 04:00:46 PM

Is the IIAC trying to kill mens basketball in the conference? Looking at the schedule I see Wartburg and Luther are playing both their contests against one another on Wednesday nights.

I wish they would bring back the good old days when there would be Saturday night contests. The old Knights Gymnasium would be packed to the roof when the Norse came to Waverly. It would be hot. It would be loud. It would be crazy. It would be exciting college basketball.

doolittledog · November 24, 2014, 08:23:10 AM

Quote from: warthog on November 23, 2014, 04:00:46 PM
Is the IIAC trying to kill mens basketball in the conference? Looking at the schedule I see Wartburg and Luther are playing both their contests against one another on Wednesday nights.

I wish they would bring back the good old days when there would be Saturday night contests. The old Knights Gymnasium would be packed to the roof when the Norse came to Waverly. It would be hot. It would be loud. It would be crazy. It would be exciting college basketball.

Friday night/Saturday night were great for fans...probably not so great for the players.

Going back to the late 80's to early 90's basketball had travelling fan bases and packed gyms, while football had less of a game day experience. Today you get 400-500 travelling fans for football and packed stadiums, while basketball plays to half full gyms. Quite the turn around. Maybe a few more games on KCRG and some promotion...and making sure rivalry games are played on Saturdays could bring back the good ole days for basketball. I still enjoy following basketball. We still make sure to make it to Waverly for the UD/Wartburg game (if it's played on a Saturday), occasionally make it to Cedar Rapids for the UD/Coe game (if it's on a Saturday).

Klompen · November 24, 2014, 09:01:27 PM

I miss the Saturday night games too, but agree it is probably better for the traveling team and fans. I do wish they would get away from the rival games being on week nights. That really takes away from the fun of the atmosphere. It could be a great way to keep more kids around campus, or involved in campus activities on the weekends. Those week night rivalry games have Al Dorenkamp stamped all over them. He is no longer at Central, let the fun return!

We look like we have the potential to be a great team this year. It would be nice to pack the stands again.

doolittledog · November 25, 2014, 08:03:41 AM

I would still like to see Saturday "night" games instead of the 4pm contests. I do think it's better for the athletes that it's Wednesday/Saturday now instead of the Friday/Saturday we had in the past.

doolittledog · November 29, 2014, 04:09:17 PM

Dubuque putting $2.7million into an expansion of the Stoltz Sports Center to add seating capacity for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling.

http://www.thonline.com/news/tri-state/article_9e74757a-77f4-11e4-bbde-6b3227d4ead0.html

From the article...

"Student seating capacity is planned to be increased with a 7,500-square-foot addition to the Stoltz Sports Center. Work on the $2.7 million addition is expected to begin in January."

UD is also adding a Physician Assistant program and putting a $3.3million addition onto their science center. From the article...

A second addition on campus would house a physician assistant program.

"The $3.3 million, 17,000-square-foot addition to the University Science Center is anticipated to start in the spring. It would occur on the back of the building in what is now a parking lot. More parking is proposed for near the Chlapaty Recreation & Wellness Center."

Klompen · December 03, 2014, 07:47:40 PM

Wow, that's a nice chunk of change. Makes big changes for the future of the school. Good deal.

Well, Coach Douma has made some good changes. One I heartily approve of is bumping the schedule to some big time competition. It helps that I also approve of his recruiting ability. Gone are Faith Baptist and AIB. Thank you very much! We may lose to Wisc-LC and Augustana (tonight's huge challenge, but at least it will get us ready for the conference instead of padding the won/loss record. I much prefer a coach who believes in the players he recruited. I'm looking forward to seeing how we do against the D3 Hoops #1 team. It may be a long night or it may show real potential for this team. We will find out starting within the hour.

Klompen · December 03, 2014, 10:29:42 PM

Woohoo! Dutch beat Augustana 89-78! Started out just a couple baskets behind at the very beginning, but we got the lead I think by the time we hit 10 points and lead a good portion of the game by 6 or more. They made a nice run at the start of the second half, but just like the first half, we found our stride and really controlled the game for the majority of it.

Students started chanting over rated in the last minute, my thought wasn't that they were over rated, but that we were under rated. Well, we aren't rated at all, or even mentioned, but this should open some eyes, and drop Augustana like a rock, but the truth is they are a good team. Tonight Central was just the better team.

Mitch Boerm got in just before the half, mostly to keep our big guys from getting a last second foul, but you could immediately tell where the football players were. They started chanting Mitch, Mitch, Mitch. Sam Markham, who lettered on varsity last year and had an outstanding football season was listed on the JV team. I don't want to take anything away from the guys that play his position on varsity, but he is one of those "natural born athletes" and I hope this is a temporary thing until he gets out of football mode and back in basketball mode.

Congratulations to the under rated Dutch. Great job guys, you played focused tonight and it paid off.

doolittledog · December 03, 2014, 10:44:10 PM

My wife will claim it was her babysitting skills when Mitchell Boerm was little that made him into the basketball player he is today

Gregory Sager · December 04, 2014, 06:39:44 PM

Quote from: Klompen on December 03, 2014, 10:29:42 PMStudents started chanting over rated in the last minute

Dumbest chant in college basketball. By chanting "Overrated!" you're downplaying the accomplishment of your own team.

Klompen · December 04, 2014, 08:41:28 PM

I could not agree more on how dumb it is to say the other team is over rated. I thought it looked like they had a very good team and stand by my theory that we are under rated. Understandable this early in the year, but if they happened to over look us, no other team will. The game really did make a statement, because except for the first couple of minutes of each half, Central did control the game. The nice thing for Central fans, is that they are also a fairly young team with a deep bench full of talent. Still hoping Sam Markham gets shifted up to varsity where he played last year. Maybe he is able to get more playing time on JV for now while he is still catching up from not joining the team until after football. Hopefully come conference he will be back on the varsity and getting playing time. But Douma did an excellent job of recruiting the young players are stepping up and pushing for the playing time.

Klompen · December 07, 2014, 06:52:11 PM

Dutch had another easy one last night winning 109-50 and hitting 20 threes. Keep it up Dutch!!!

Klompen · December 19, 2014, 10:42:25 PM

Dutch hit the skids, not sure what went wrong for them. So I am going to plant my tongue firmly in cheek and say that it must be the injury to their most vocal fan--me, of course. I broke a bone in my foot and the Dutch start a losing streak. Come on guys, figure it out and fast.

I guess I'm not the problem. Live and win by the 3, live and die by the 3. Dutch need to get hot from beyond the arc, or learn when to settle for 2 or the old fashioned 3.

y_jack_lok · December 19, 2014, 11:25:31 PM

Quote from: Klompen on December 19, 2014, 10:42:25 PM
Live and win by the 3, live and die by the 3.

Here's the box score: http://websterathletics.com/boxscore.aspx?path=mbball&id=3410 , 12-41 on three pointers is definitely dying by the three. It's tough to take that long bus ride for a game at the end of the semester. Watching from the stands it seemed like Central didn't have a lot of energy for the first 30+ minutes and they had problems with Webster's zone. I hope things turn back around for your team.