MBB: American Rivers Conference

[OxyBob]

Eyewitness report from Thousand Oaks:

Cal Lutheran 57, Luther 51

CLU: Andy Meier 16 pts, 10 rebs, Aaron Van Klaveren 12 pts, 13 rebs, Greg Grimm 13 pts, 6 rebs, 4 assists, 3 steals
LC: Zac Ruckebeil 11 pts, 9 rebs, Dane Larson 11

Halftime: CLU 31-29
Rebounds: CLU 40-32
Records: Cal Lutheran 7-1, Luther 3-6

Cal Lutheran toughed it out against a stubborn Luther team. Typical CLU game with a lot of bumping, holding and pushing. Luther played an aggressive man-to-man and kept the game close, but Luther couldn't keep Andy Meier and Aaron Van Klaveren off the boards, and the Norse hurt themselves with poor FT shooting in the first half. The game got off to a very slow start, and was tied 17-17 at 6:30. The offenses picked up a bit and CLU led 31-29 at the break. In the second half the Kingsmen led 41-35 at 13:25, but the Norse rattled off 10 in a row and led 45-41. Luther led 51-50 with 3:14 left, but CLU scored the last 7 points of the game and held on for a hard earned win.

For CLU, Meier had another strong game with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Van Klaveren was a beast on the boards, and high-jumping Aaron Fisher had 5 key rebounds. For Luther, Zac Ruckebeil played a great game with 11 points, 9 rebounds and a nice block on Meier.

Buena Vista 108, Pacific Lutheran 100 OT

BVU: Matt Cleveland 29 pts, 12 rebs, Andre Wagner 21, Jeff Janssen 15
PLU: Kyle MacTaggart 24, Josh Dressler 21, Curtis Trondsen 20, James Conti 10

Halftime: PLU 42-40
Regulation: 84-84
Rebounds: BVU 55-38
Records: Buena Vista 9-1, Pacific Lutheran 5-3

Pacific Lutheran had a 7-point lead with 47 seconds to go in regulation, but a costly turnover and 2 missed FTs on 1-and-1s cost PLU a victory. Watching the teams warm up it looked like it would be a mismatch as Buena Vista towered over the much smaller Lutes, but PLU played a very aggressive man-to-man, overplaying and double teaming the ball à la Puget Sound, and refused to give in to Buena Vista, which outrebounded PLU 55-38.

In the first half, BVU had a 33-28 lead at 5:00, but PLU went on a 12-2 run to lead 40-35. Buena Vista tied it a 40, but Curtis Trondsen's jumper gave the Lutes a 42-40 halftime lead. In the second half, PLU was up 47-42, but BVU went on a 15-2 run and led 57-49 at 13:50, stretched the lead to 64-53 at 11:10, and looked to be in control. Back came Pacific Lutheran with a 17-3 run of its own, and the Lutes led 70-67 with just under 7 minutes to go. After BVU took a 77-76 lead, PLU made 8 straight and led 84-77 with 47 seconds to go. Matt Cleveland made a 3-ball to cut the lead to 84-80. After BVU took a TO, PLU tried to inbound the ball, but Kyle MacTaggart threw it straight out of bounds so no time ran off the clock. Cleveland got fouled and made 2 FTs to cut the lead to 84-82 with 35 seconds left. PLU's James Conti was fouled with 26 seconds left, but he missed on the 1-and-1, and Andre Wagner scored on a layup to tie the game at 84. After a timeout, PLU's Gabe Smith was fouled on the baseline by Jon Millea with 3.8 seconds left, but, like Conti, Smith missed on the 1-and-1. After a TO by BVU, Wagner took a half court runner which banked off the backboard and hit the rim but missed, and the game went to OT. Buena Vista exerted its muscle in OT, outscored PLU 14-3, and led 98-87 with 1:30 to go. The Lutes did not go quietly, however, and cut the lead to 102-98 before Wagner sealed the win with 4 straight FTs. Great college basketball game.

For Buena Vista, Matt Cleveland was awesome with 29 points, including 11-for-16 FGs and 3-for-3 on 3s, and 4-for-4 FTs, and he also had 12 rebounds. Andre Wagner was only 6-for-20 shooting and 1-for-6 on 3s, but he had 8 assists and 5 rebounds and was a very clutch 8-for-8 from the line. Freshman guard Jeff Janssen took advantage of PLU's overplaying defense, got open repeatedly, and scored 15 points on 5-for-6 on 3-balls. For PLU, Kyle MacTaggart had 24 on 8-for-13 (6-for-9 3s). Buena Vista shot 16-for-17 FTs, and Pacific Lutheran was 10-for-12, though the 2 misses at the end of regulation were killers.

Tuesday night Buena Vista will face Cal Lutheran at 8:00 p.m. Luther and Pacific Lutheran play in the early game at 6:00 p.m.

OxyBob

[Alfredeneumann]

Wartburg beats Jamestown College of ND @ Eau Claire Wi tourney 74-68

http://www.go-knights.net/news/Article.aspx?ID=3202

"Freshman guard Cole Danielson of Marshalltown continued to move up the Knights' scoring chart, tallying 19 points behind five three-point baskets. Junior forward Jarrett Williams of Chicago, Ill., added 14, while junior forward Kelly McCarville of Cresco ended just one rebound shy of a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds."

The Knights had a season low 7 turnovers.

BOX SCORE @ http://www.go-knights.net/mbasketball/0809stats/james08.htm

They will play UW-Eau Claire tonight for title.

[D O.C.]

Typical CLU game with a lot of bumping, holding and pushing

It's not like the Norse did not expect it, that's what Vikings do! Did!

[Gregory Sager]

Typical CLU game with a lot of bumping, holding and pushing

It's not like the Norse did not expect it, that's what Vikings do! Did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEYEFfAbB5g&feature=related

[sportsknight]

Wartburg falls to UW-Eau Claire tonight in the title game of UWEC's holiday tourney, 92-70.  Wartburg with just one field goal in the first 5 and a half minutes.  Spotting a team a 17 point edge is not a good way to start a ballgame, especially on the road.  16 turnovers for Wartburg isn't bad, but isn't great either.  11 of 25 from the charity stripe is downright awful.  Mitch Eslick (17), Travis Kern (16), and Jordan Sathoff (12) all come off the bench to hit double digits for Wartburg.  Cole Danielson follows up a 19 point outing last night with an 0-3 night from the field in just 13 minutes.  Wartburg's bench outscored the starters 47-23.

[Alfredeneumann]

UW -EC Tournament notes

All-Tournament Team
Colin Boone, Eau Claire
Stephen Hanson, Northwestern
Kelly McCarville, Wartburg
John Peabody, Jamestown
Jordan Sathoff, Wartburg

Fireman Award (Non-starter)
Ryan Shea, Eau Claire

Hustle Award
Jacob Schlub, Eau Claire

King of the Boards Award
Kelly McCarville, Wartburg (19 rebounds)

Playmaker Award
Brian Lecheler, Northwestern (7 assists)

[doolittledog]

Dubuque beats Simpson Saturday 69-53.  Dubuque sank 12-14 free throws to Simpson going 11-21 from the line.  Dubuque also out rebounded Simpson by a 43-28 mark.  The Spartans are now 9-3 over all and 2-1 in conference play.  Simpson is 0-3 in conference play. 

Next up for Dubuque is travelling the 6 blocks over to Loras College for an 8pm tipoff against the Duhawks on wednesday.  The Duhawks are 8-4 overall and 3-0 in league play. 

http://www.dbq.edu/udathletics/news.cfm?ID=1036&team=Mens%20Basketball

[sportsknight]

Sounds like the Knights kind of gave one away against Loras last night in Waverly.  34 all at the half and Loras puts together a 9-0 run in the early stages of the 2nd half.  Wartburg eventually works its way back and leads by 4 with 48 seconds to go, but gets outscored 7-0 between that point and the final horn to lose.  I wasn't there, but it sounds like the Knights played pretty well overall, but those two stretches just killed them.  Things get a bit easier, but not much, when Central comes calling on Wednesday.

Interesting note:  Last night was the first time Wartburg lost while wearing their white uniforms.  They had won both of their previous home games and twice when they wore the whites at tournaments over break.  They have still yet to pull out a W in the road blacks.

[Klompen]

Wartburg falls to UW-Eau Claire tonight in the title game of UWEC's holiday tourney, 92-70.  Wartburg with just one field goal in the first 5 and a half minutes.  Spotting a team a 17 point edge is not a good way to start a ballgame, especially on the road.  16 turnovers for Wartburg isn't bad, but isn't great either.  11 of 25 from the charity stripe is downright awful.  Mitch Eslick (17), Travis Kern (16), and Jordan Sathoff (12) all come off the bench to hit double digits for Wartburg.  Cole Danielson follows up a 19 point outing last night with an 0-3 night from the field in just 13 minutes.  Wartburg's bench outscored the starters 47-23.

Sounds like the Central - Wartburg game might be a snooze fest at the start.  Central spotted Cornell a 20 point lead.  Cornell was hitting everything they threw in the direction of the basket and Central was doing good not to throw air balls.  Both halfs Central scored about 5 points in the first 10 minutes.  At least they are consistent.      They made a nice first half run and could have turned it into a game if they didn't come out the second half and do the exact same thing.   

Cornell had a very tall team and they shot with great accuracy, at least at the start of each half.  They were the better team and deserved the win.  Wait, didn't I say that just a few months ago about football...

[LCNorse]

Does Simpson web cast their b-ball games? If so does anyone have the link to it?

[doolittledog]

Does Simpson web cast their b-ball games? If so does anyone have the link to it?

Audio link http://www.redzonemedia.com/viewschedule.asp?sportID=3&SchoolID=409

I didn't notice if they also video stream. 

[LCNorse]

Does Simpson web cast their b-ball games? If so does anyone have the link to it?

Audio link http://www.redzonemedia.com/viewschedule.asp?sportID=3&SchoolID=409

I didn't notice if they also video stream. 

Thanks!

[du-sz]

I feel like I've been gone from the boards forever.  I need to catch up on my basketball action, the Christmas season always puts me behind.  In just looking at some stats and records it looks like teams that were expected to be in the top half of the conference are already there.  I'm excited to see UD tonight in the AWC. UD looks like they're on the upswing, while the Duhawks, despite being 3-0 so far, look pretty susceptible.
Loras really needs their big men to start producing.  Neither Brant nor Abbuhl is getting much done and Pawelski can't hit anything in his first year. 

Ok, enough being negative. With that said, I'm still pretty happy with the guards. They'll keep us in games with teams like BV and UD, but we really need to improve our paint presence if we want to win.

Also, I see the Iowa Conference jumped into the Youtube world. Their videos are really, really bad right now, but I'm glad they're getting on board with doing video.  Evident by the outcry for streaming games this year people seem to be pushing for it.  Are they looking to expand their video coverage? It'd be nice to see vids from all over the confernce outside of just streaming games.

[doolittledog]

I feel like I've been gone from the boards forever.  I need to catch up on my basketball action, the Christmas season always puts me behind.  In just looking at some stats and records it looks like teams that were expected to be in the top half of the conference are already there.  I'm excited to see UD tonight in the AWC. UD looks like they're on the upswing, while the Duhawks, despite being 3-0 so far, look pretty susceptible.
Loras really needs their big men to start producing.  Neither Brant nor Abbuhl is getting much done and Pawelski can't hit anything in his first year. 

Ok, enough being negative. With that said, I'm still pretty happy with the guards. They'll keep us in games with teams like BV and UD, but we really need to improve our paint presence if we want to win.

Also, I see the Iowa Conference jumped into the Youtube world. Their videos are really, really bad right now, but I'm glad they're getting on board with doing video.  Evident by the outcry for streaming games this year people seem to be pushing for it.  Are they looking to expand their video coverage? It'd be nice to see vids from all over the confernce outside of just streaming games.

Fire off an email to the conference...or work with Loras to hook you up with the conference and see if you can get some sort of internship with the conference in improving their video content!!!

Loras and UD about to tip off...go Spartans!!!

[doolittledog]

UD leading Loras at the half 34-29