MBB: American Rivers Conference

[Kohawk Krazy]

Pretty simple tonight-The Knights win and they are in, lose and its going to take some help from Luther. Yikes

I could be wrong, but how can Wartburg clinch tonight?  this is their last game, so with a win they would be 5-11 in the conference, while Dubuque and Central both have two games left after tonight.  Wouldn't Wartburg need to win and hope that Central and Dubuque lose out?  Here are the standings as of right now:

X-Loras            12-1  16-6
X-Coe              10-3  17-5
X-Buena Vista  9-4   14-7
X-Simpson        8-6   15-8
Central             6-7    9-12
Dubuque          5-8   11-11
Wartburg         4-11  10-14
Cornell             3-10  7-15
Luther              3-10  5-17

[lorbec47]

Loras wins the regular season conference title. I don't think they folded.

[Kohawk Krazy]

Congrats to the Duhawks for winning the conference title tonight.  It was too bad the refs only let Kilburg play for nine minutes of the 40 played....

[Charlie Kohawk]

Nine minutes! You've got to be kidding me. I wasn't there, but I've seen enough of Coe's games this year to conclude that the officials have targeted Mike Kilburg. It's not his fault that he's bigger and better than everyone else. Let 'em play man. Someone needs to remind IIAC officials that NOBODY comes to watch them.

[Kohawk Krazy]

In the nine minutes that he played, he was 3-3 from the field and 1-2 at the line.  7 points in nine minutes, not bad until you add in the five fouls.  Two of the five fouls were even called after the play had developed...here's to two wins next week and a #2 seed in the tourny...

[doolittledog]

Let 'em play man. Someone needs to remind IIAC officials that NOBODY comes to watch them.

That's what I thought when I watched the UD/Wartburg game.  Neither team was able to ever get into a rythem because pretty much every trip down court resulted in a foul call.  More often than not an offensive foul call.  Neither team was allowed to "let 'em play"  They weren't allowed to play like men at all. 

[sportsknight]

I've seen enough of Coe's games this year to conclude that the officials have targeted Mike Kilburg.

Wow, must have been a rule change in the conference that they're calling fouls on guys just for being taller than other players.  Just a damn shame that these IIAC refs hate Mike Kilburg so much.

[Walston Hoover]

Pretty simple tonight-The Knights win and they are in, lose and its going to take some help from Luther. Yikes

I could be wrong, but how can Wartburg clinch tonight?  this is their last game, so with a win they would be 5-11 in the conference, while Dubuque and Central both have two games left after tonight.  Wouldn't Wartburg need to win and hope that Central and Dubuque lose out?  Here are the standings as of right now:

X-Loras            12-1  16-6
X-Coe              10-3  17-5
X-Buena Vista  9-4   14-7
X-Simpson        8-6   15-8
Central             6-7    9-12
Dubuque          5-8   11-11
Wartburg         4-11  10-14
Cornell             3-10  7-15
Luther              3-10  5-17

8 teams get in right? Luther and Cornell play the last night of the season and one is going to have to lose.

[Walston Hoover]

My bad, Didn't realize only 6 teams got in. That makes more sense than just leaving 1 team out.

[warthog]

WH & SK:

No basketball news. 

Wanted to let you know Little Warthog and spouse passed the boards. 

They celebrated in Madison this weekend with a former Trumpet editor.

[youcantseeme]

I've seen enough of Coe's games this year to conclude that the officials have targeted Mike Kilburg.

Wow, must have been a rule change in the conference that they're calling fouls on guys just for being taller than other players.  Just a damn shame that these IIAC refs hate Mike Kilburg so much.

I think that I picked up in the sarcasm there, but as someone who saw the Loras/Coe game I can tell you honestly, it seemed the referees have targeted Kilburg throughout the season.  There were at least two calls that I thought were very suspect. 

One, he got called for a foul when he was no where near the play.  Kuenstling was clearly the one that committed the foul (and it was clearly a foul) but the ref came running from under the basket with his hand up, looked back, and then signalled Kilburg for his 4th foul. 

The other call was nearly as awkward.......Kilburg took what looked like a charge about 15 feet from the basket.  When contact was made both the trail and underneath officials blew their whistles and called fouls, only the trail called a charge and the underneath called a block.  For some reason the underneath guy took charge of the convo and over-ruled and Kilburg was done.

Now I am not saying that Kilburg playing 30 minutes would have been the difference.  Loras's second half defense took control of the game.  I am just going to argue that it doesnt seem right that the best player in the conference is getting called for playing the exact same way he did last year.

[The Show]

This is great!  Conspiracy theory in the IIAC!

I was curious how Fogleman sometimes ended up in foul trouble too, but it's obvious now...he's 6'5" and 270 lbs.   

[doolittledog]

Good luck to everyone in tonights IIAC games. 

I mentioned listening to the UD game over the internet to my wife and for some reason she nixed that idea.  Something about a romantic meal tonight...I wonder what that could be about???

[knightlife06]

I got to see this dunk in person last night.  It is one of the best collegiate dunks I've seen.  Just thought I'd let you all get a chance to see it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKb3k1IhDM

[StormE]

Simpson comes from behind early at Coe, wins a great game 78-73!!  The Storm continue to build their confidence heading into the tourney!