MBB: American Rivers Conference

[doolittledog]

Dubuque moves to 2-0 on the season with a 66-60 win @ Illinois College over Illinois College.  Even more impressive is Dubuque has done this without junior, Mitch Michaelas. 

[DBQ1965]

UD beat Elmhurst in OT, 72-71.

[Klompen]

Central beat Cornell by 3 at Cornell.  Off to a 3-0 start with a new coach and lots of graduated starters from last year.  Not too bad.  Of course, we don't have anyone that could score 138 points a game or 70, good thing we dropped Faith Baptist from our non-conference schedule. 

I can't imagine watching someone score that many points, defense was not the name of the game.  Not sure how I feel about what one person scoring that much says.  I think it is great for the kid, and I understand feeding the player with the hot hand, but given how much GC won by, should he have still been playing?

[doolittledog]

I believe UD moves to 4-0 on the season with a 64-56 win over cross town rival Clarke University...played at the UW-Stout Turkey Shootout. 

[Klompen]

And Central goes to 4-0 with a 92-84 win at Eureka College, a team we beat 59-56 last year at home.  I think maybe we have had a different player as high point man in each game, or at least 3 of 4 if not all 4.  Nice start for the Dutch and good momentum builder early in the season. 

[Pioneer_fan04]

IIAC vs WIAC showdown in P-vegas tomorrow afternoon Wartburg vs Platteville 3pm.  1st real matchup of the regular season for the Pioneers should be a good one. 

[doolittledog]

Dubuque lost @ UW-Stout 61-51 after leading at the half 31-30.  Sounds like a cold shooting second half.  A WIAC poster described UD as good size but poor guard play.  UD must have added some height, because they have recently run a 3 guard lineup and relied and their guard play.  Klompen can remember her favorite UD player Taylor Blum and his lack of height

[Norsanity]

Dubuque lost @ UW-Stout 61-51 after leading at the half 31-30.  Sounds like a cold shooting second half.  A WIAC poster described UD as good size but poor guard play.  UD must have added some height, because they have recently run a 3 guard lineup and relied and their guard play.  Klompen can remember her favorite UD player Taylor Blum and his lack of height

We're still pretending klompen is female?

[doolittledog]

Dubuque moves to 5-1 on the season, beating North Central 80-65.  Dubuque shot 59.6% from the field. 

[DBQ1965]

Dubuque moves to 5-1 on the season, beating North Central 80-65.  Dubuque shot 59.6% from the field.

I got all excited until I realized it was North Central in Minnesota and not Illinois.

[doolittledog]

Dubuque moves to 5-1 on the season, beating North Central 80-65.  Dubuque shot 59.6% from the field.

I got all excited until I realized it was North Central in Minnesota and not Illinois.

Hmm, I guess I had thought they played NCC of Illinois in a tourney in MN.  I guess I was wrong.  Well, it's still a win I guess.   

[Mr. Ypsi]

There IS a slight difference between North Central (MN), which has never had a winning season in the years d3hoops.com reports for them, and North Central (IL), which is undefeated and ranked #5 in the country!

[AO]

There IS a slight difference between North Central (MN), which has never had a winning season in the years d3hoops.com reports for them, and North Central (IL), which is undefeated and ranked #5 in the country!

However, this is probably one of the better years for North Central (MN).   They played River Falls close for a half and beat St. Mary's.  They tallied 10 steals with only 11 turnovers while Dubuque committed 20 turnovers. 

You'll get a direct score comparison of the North Centrals this season as Wheaton comes to Minneapolis.

[Klompen]

Central loses their first game tonight, but played great against undefeated Wm Penn.  Penn fans were loud and annoying the Central fans just enough, that by the second half the Central fans started getting a little vocal as well.     It was anybody's game until the 5 minutes left mark when Penn knocked down a couple of 3's and rattled the Dutch a bit.  I was expecting us to get beat and for it to be an ugly game, but the Dutch really played with them and lead by 4 at one point in the second half.  We gave them a ton of free throws in that last few minutes and still only lost by 9, 92-83. 

All in all, I thought the Dutch played very well, particularly being outsized by quite a bit under the basket.  Jacob Winkler continues to play outstanding ball and Matt Greenfield has really come on strong this year.  Given the graduation losses, I am very hopeful for the conference games.  I think we made a great hire with Coach Douma.

[Floyd in Iowa City]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald with recruiting news...

http://www.thonline.com/sports/local_sports/article_1571eda1-4a7c-582d-98a3-47a0dac38790.html

From the article...

Western Dubuque all-state senior forward Cameron James will take his talents to Luther this fall.

The 6-foot-5 post man averaged 13 points and seven rebounds while helping lead the Bobcats to the brink of a state championship and a runner-up finish in Iowa Class 3A.

Luther went 17-9 last season.

Luther has somewhat quietly built themselves up into a conference power.  They aren't just a 1 and done team.

It seems to me that Luther's guard court will say a lot about how good they will be this year.  Against the Oles they played very well at times, but the guard court almost fell apart at the end of the game when the Oles were trying to get back into it.

They have lost twice to UW schools, but are 3-2 overall and have a couple nice inside players again this year.  Tyler Wedemeier is averaging 18 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 blocks per game, and John Androus is a good player as well.  As long as someone hits open shots from the outside and those guys are healthy and not in foul trouble, the Norse should be solid again this year.