MBB: American Rivers Conference

[Gregory Sager]

The Midwest Conference board in the Midwest Region asks if Cornell is moving to the Midwest Conference. Anyone have any info regarding that possibility?
What would the primary reason(s) for such a move be?
Thanks.

Cornell was a charter member of the Midwest Conference and was a member from 1922-1997.  Cornell, along with their neighbor and rival Coe left the Midwest Conference for the Iowa Conference together.  There was some talk in 2002-2003 of bringing fellow Midwest Conference member Grinnell over to the Iowa Conference as well.  Grinnell declined the offer because they did not want to add wrestling. 

Most of the talk about Cornell wanting to move back to the MWC revolves around their membership in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.  6 of the 10 members of the MWC belong to the ACM.  3 of the 9 members of the IIAC belong to the ACM.  A year ago the 14 members of the ACM voted on whether they should leave their own conferences and start up an ACM conference.  The only schools that voted in favor of this were the 6 MWC members and Cornell from the IIAC.  Soon after that proposal was voted down Cornell notified the MWC they wanted to move back to that conference.

That is where it gets interesting.  Cornell has been a weak sister in the IIAC...mostly by their own choosing.  2 years ago when Cornell won the mens conference basketball title they then told their coach he had to take a 20% pay cut.  He then left the school and they were able to replace him with a coach with no head coaching experiance they were able to pay even less than the pay cut they offered their former coach.  This is all after Cornell had just completed a 100+ million dollar capital campain.  The rumors going around after Cornell did this and then asked back into the MWC is that the 6 ACM members of the MWC + Cornell would then try to entice another ACM school into the MWC (maybe Macalester) and then try to punt the non-ACM schools in the ACM out of the conference.  Other rumors flying around were talk if that happened the new MWC would ban NCAA post season play, would allow mostly only conference play with very limited games against non-conference opponants.

In effect, it would make the new ACM league (I don't think that they'd be able to retain the Midwest Conference name) a miniature D4, for those of you who were following the D3/D4 debate a couple of years ago.

[AndOne]

Thanks doolittledog and Greg. Very informative and interesting.
I had not heard of Associated Colleges Of The Midwest

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Practice starts next week!

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Any word on IIAC newcomers?

[doolittledog]

Any word on IIAC newcomers?

No names, but I heard Gary Rima on the radio last week saying a kid from NU High will be a freshman at UD this fall who's the son of Gary's spotter during UNI football games.  NU High has been a power recently in the lower divisions making multiple final 4 appearances at state. 

Last week at the UD Homecoming game UD coach Robbie Sieverding had a lot of recruits on campus...he's going after size, these guys were BIG...of course, everybody looks big when you're my height. 

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Luther 2011-12 Men's Basketball Roster

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Luther 2011-12 Men's Basketball Roster

11 Freshmen, 1 Transfer, 29 Total

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Loras 2011-2012 Men's Basketball Roster

[Alfredeneumann]

Wartburg has posted it's roster.
http://www.go-knights.net/roster.aspx?path=mbball

Scrimmage tomorrow.

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Season tipoff tomorrow!!!  Luther @ UW-Platteville

[doolittledog]

UD 2011-12 roster is up.

http://www.dbq.edu/udathletics/basketball.cfm

A couple of players didn't come back that would have contributed and another couple with injuries...but I am looking forward to this season.  Coach Sieverding has this program heading in the right direction. 

Spartan season starts tonight with Elmhurst visiting UD at 7pm...no video or audio that I am aware of.  That usually starts during the conference portion of the season. 

[doolittledog]

Dubuque beats Elmhurst 77-63

[Klompen]

Congratulations to the Central Dutch men's team for starting out the conference race with a very nice win tonight.  The Dutch came out hot against BV, then lost their focus for a bit, going into the half behind by 6.  They came out the second half a bit sluggish, yet slowly but steadily clawed their way back into the game to take the lead again in the last two minutes and putting the game away with Turner hitting 7 of 8 free throws in the last 30 seconds.  Dutch 74, BV 66.  Not too bad for a team picked to finish second to last against the team picked to finish second. 

Not saying the Dutch will win the conference, not even saying they will compete, but it is certainly a nice win for the team tonight and something to help build a little confidence for the under sized Dutch.  The height must all be going to that great football giant in the NE part of the state, cause they sure didn't show up in Pella.   

[doolittledog]

Dubuque opens up IIAC play with a 70-58 win over Coe.  UD was 27-29 from the line   That's, uh, not too shabby

[doolittledog]

Dubuque moves to 2-0 in the IIAC with a 74-64 win @ Cornell