MBB: American Rivers Conference

[doolittledog]

DBQ1965, my wife is already talking smack about beating me again once you start up your march madness pool this year

[doolittledog]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald with a nice article regarding the five IIAC teams seperated by just one game with seven to go.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271058

Another article from the paper about UD point guard Taylor Blum.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271058

I will say it again.  The Telegraph-Herald does a great job of covering local small college sports, as well as keeping tabs on local kids that have taken their game to other parts of the country.  Well done, TH. 

[Purple Heys]

UD men's bball is in the rarifield atmosphere ... at least for a few days. 

GO SPARTANS!

Geez ... I can't even spell rarefied!

You were educationized at UD.   

[Kohawk Krazy]

Who does anyone have for tonight?

Buena Vista at Central - The Beavers have struggled in Pella and on the road in general this year.  Should be a shootout.

Dubuque at Wartburg - Blum lit up the Kohawks late on Saturday.  I think he does it all night in Waverly.

Luther at Coe - Two of the bottom three teams going at it.  Kohawks are in serious trouble if they lose tonight.

Simpson at Cornell - This one could get ugly.

[doolittledog]

Who does anyone have for tonight?

Buena Vista at Central - The Beavers have struggled in Pella and on the road in general this year.  Should be a shootout.

Dubuque at Wartburg - Blum lit up the Kohawks late on Saturday.  I think he does it all night in Waverly.

Luther at Coe - Two of the bottom three teams going at it.  Kohawks are in serious trouble if they lose tonight.

Simpson at Cornell - This one could get ugly.

Those predictions sound about right to me. 

For my prediction...I predict I will crack open a beer and listen to the 2nd half of the UD/Wartburg womens game while my kids play Wii and my wife escapes upstairs to read a book and get some peace and quiet.  After I finally convince my kids to go upstairs to bed about 8pm I will listen to the UD/Wartburg mens game in relative peace. 

[Klompen]

Congratulations to the Dutch on a great win over BV in Pella tonight.  They came out really nervous and just a bit off on the shooting, but they put it together for a real nice win tonight and a better hold on first place.  Awesome game by Mark Holan, better give him his Wheaties more often as he was on fire from 3 point land tonight.  Way to go red.  Tonight you did us all proud.  Better yet, it was before a full house for a week night game.  Good to see the students turn out in full force and cheer on the team, even if that was what probably threw them off in the beginning.  Not sure they were used to having so many people there cheering for them.  Hope they all turn out on Saturday for Wartburg.

Enjoy the win guys, you did great!

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Who does anyone have for tonight?

Luther at Coe - Two of the bottom three teams going at it.  Kohawks are in serious trouble if they lose tonight.

Seriously serious trouble.

[Alfredeneumann]

Who does anyone have for tonight?

Luther at Coe - Two of the bottom three teams going at it.  Kohawks are in serious trouble if they lose tonight.

Seriously serious trouble.

Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "C"
And that stands for Coe.

Paraphrased from The Music Man

[Klompen]

I'm hoping that Wartburg has trouble, right here in Tulip City! 
It starts with "T" and that ryhmes with "C"
and that stands for CENTRAL.

Go Dutch!

[Kohawk Krazy]

Here's what I've got for Saturday action...

Buena Vista at Luther - This is gonna get ugly and ugly fast.  Am I correct that BV has no road IIAC wins in 2010?

Simpson at Loras - See above about a blowout.

Cornell at Coe - I really wish I wasn't saying this, but again, see above.

Wartburg at Central - By far should be the best game of the day, but I see the Dutch pulling this one out.

[IntramuralChamp]

Here's what I've got for Saturday action...

Buena Vista at Luther - I'll take BV, but not by much! They beat Loras on the road earlier in the year, but Luther's slow down tempo will bring them trouble and BV wins by 5.

Simpson at Loras - Got to take the home team, but Simpson is scrappy and battles and will make Loras work for the game.

Cornell at Coe - Coe has no answer for Cornell's inside presence or their guards, and it could be a long night for the KoKoNuts!

Wartburg at Central - Game of the week and upset of the week! Central is still flying high about beating BV at home and feeling good about themselves. Meanwhile Wartburg comes in and shoots well  to win and makes the IIAC conference race that much better!

[doolittledog]

With everybody beating each other up every night on the court.  We'll only see 1 IIAC team in the tourney this year.  4 conference losses might win you the title...then you have to figure out a way to win the tourney which is anyones to win this year. 

[Alfredeneumann]

It's all about the defense. In games where they are really aggressive on the that end of the the court the offense takes care of itself. The 2nd half  against BV @ Wartburg was as good as I've seen all year.

Not sure what's the deal with this team in road games this , so I think the Dutch will win a close one, but am HOPING I'm wrong.

[Klompen]

Good game by the Knights in Pella, but congratulations to the Dutch on another key victory!  That was two very tough teams this week and the Dutch did what they had to do to win.  It was a difficult shooting day for Central and when you can get a win in spite of an off day, it feels great.  I checked the scores of the other games at the half and was hopeful that all the teams leading at half would win and that, gulp, Simpson would even win, but only Central could hang on to their half time lead and even that had to go to OT.  Way to go, Dutch.  Long road games next week, take care of business guys.  It's been a long time coming and it would be great to see this year's seniors take home a championship.  I know I have said before, but it is worth saying again, these guys have really been the ones to turn around Central's IIAC standings and, with so many seniors, it would be great to finish on top. 

The Dutch will have a lot of shoes to fill next year.  It would be a great time for seniors to look at Central as a school at or near the top of the conference with some good opportunities for game time as a young player next year.

[Klompen]

Big game coming up against Dubuque on Wednesday night.  It was surprisingly easy in Pella when the two met earlier in the year, something tells me it won't be that easy again, though I can dream.   

Would be nice to see Mark Holan get player of the week recognition.  He came up big in two huge games for the Dutch this week with six 3 pointers against BV and 4 more against Wartburg.  He really stepped up his game this week.  Cooper and Liming also stepped up their games, but Holan probably made the biggest difference, at least against BV. 

Hope the Dutch gaurds get out of their cold shooting blues.  The conference race it too tight to be able to shoot like we did Saturday and come out on top very often.  Sadly, the one shot we hit was when we tipped in a basket for WB trying to get the rebound!  Wouldn't have needed OT if we had not been scoring for them.