MBB: American Rivers Conference

[Purple Heys]

Question:

How does Sager explain his 8 stars over Pat's 5 stars?

Unless Pat pulls out the tried and true arguments of "Mine's bigger" or "Quality over quantity" .

How many little stars equals a big star?

[Purple Heys]

Incidentally...

A large foul disparity can develop when one team plays zone and one plays aggressive man to man.

Or one team takes the ball to the basket versus one content to jack up 3's all night.

The thing that drives me nuts about officials is simply laziness.  I feel they are obligated to hustle.  To change sides frequently so as to balance calling style differences between refs.  And for pete's sake to not posture.

Tell the captains and coaches what to expect at the pregame pow-wow and call your game.  Last but not least...don't take anything personal...nobody likes you...you are the ref.  (Exaggeration, but a ref has to have a think skin.)

I think coaches appreciate a ref who hustles.

Having both coached and ref'd, I like to think I cut a coach a bit more slack on the whining side...but at the pregame meeting I always told them my hand signal for when enough is enough.  It worked pretty good too.  They got their say, so their team could see them working hard for them, and I got an agreement from them to control themselves.

[Gregory Sager]

Question:

How does Sager explain his 8 stars over Pat's 5 stars?

Hard work and clean living.

[The Show]

For the record, I think most refs suck.

Easy!  I just concluded my junior high officiating season tonight.  There has to be a special place in heaven for a guy who agrees to officiate junior high girls basketball...

[Alfredeneumann]

Any Central followers - What's up with former W-SR player/ vagabond Grant Franzen? Is he hurt, left the team, DNP-Coaches Decision? No minutes in over a month.

[3baller]

Show,

I meant to say most refs suck, except those that ref Jr. High girls games and also happened to be my roommate in college!
 

[sharmony]

Congratulations to the Beavers on winning their second straight IIAC championship tonight with a 74-70 victory over Dubuque.  Also give credit to the Spartans for not giving up and fighting until the final buzzer sounded. 

[du-sz]

They're not celebrating an anniversary, by your own admission. They're celebrating 100 years of the rivalry.

In my humble opinion, this is the better way to do it.  I couldn't help but laugh at Loras a couple years ago when the celebrated "100 Seasons of Duhawk Football" even though there was a full decade in there where football was only a club sport "on the boulevard."  Poor effort if you ask me.

Even I thought that was a dumb thing to celebrate. Just an excuse to go alumni back and make new t-shirts.

I've been away from the boards too long....and no, not because Loras isn't in first place, but because I just haven't. 

Can't say I'm too impressed with the Duhawks, though.  We're struggling, then looking good, then playing ok. Can't figure them out.  I guess I'll just accept the mediocrity, but it'd be nice to give it another run this year.  We seem to have some tools, and they've shown it in games like their latest with Wartburg.  Loses to Coe, and beatdowns by Cornell won't help the cause, though.

[sportsknight]

Checking out the BV-Loras game this afternoon.  Senior Day for the Duhawks.  They'll miss these guys, esp. Kolze, Cantella, and Oeth.  Looks like BV will be without Fogelman - he's in a sweatsuit for warm-ups.

FYI to the Loras folks around here: not a real classy touch to be playing unedited rap music during warm-ups.  Heard the S-word at least 6 times, a couple of F-bombs, and the big 'n' made an appearance too.  You stay classy, Loras College.

[coebball70]

sportsknight....I commend your shout-out about Loras' warm-up music.  There's no place for such music(?) at a IIAC afternoon basketball game.  Well done.

[Ralph Turner]

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=6127.msg1035680#msg1035680

On the Multi-Region board, we are compiling the post-season tourneys.

We need someone to "cut-and-paste" the info on your conference tourney.

Thanks.

[Alfredeneumann]

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=6127.msg1035680#msg1035680

On the Multi-Region board, we are compiling the post-season tourneys.

We need someone to "cut-and-paste" the info on your conference tourney.

Thanks.

Quarterfinals - Tuesday, Feb. 24
#6 Central @ #3 Loras
#5 University of  Dubuque @ #4 Warburg
   

Semifinals - Thursday, Feb. 26
Lowest seed winner @ #1 Buena Vista
Other Qrt. winner  @ #2 Cornell
   

Championship game - Saturday, Feb 28
@ Highest seed

[doolittledog]

Loras beats UD by 1 point.  Dubuque had a 1 point lead and shooting a 1 and 1 with 10 seconds left.  UD missed the free throw.  Loras came down, had their shot blocked, got the rebound and threw up a prayer with almost no time left.  The shot rolled around the rim and then seemed like it stopped against the backboard and then slowly rolled in.  Not often your game winning shot drops about a second after the whistle.  Fun game to watch. Close the whole way and a packed house got to watch the game. 

[Purple Heys]

OK...so now its conference tourney time.

The Rams have broken their season record for wins.  If there is a year that they have a legit shot at 1) a conference tourney game win; and 2) a chance at the NCAA playoffs....it's this year.

[Purple Heys]

Predictions:

1st Round
Loras over Central  (Central played Loras tough twice, an upset would not surprise)
UD over Wartburg   (Knights riding a dreadful 3 game stretch, UD narrowing missed sweeping Loras)

Semifinals
Cornell over Loras
BV over UD

Final
Cornell over BV   (I can dream)