MBB: American Rivers Conference

dunkin3117 · December 14, 2018, 09:17:33 AM

Loras defeated BV, in a make-up game, 104-85. A lot of time for both benches as the Duhawks led 96-70 with just under 6:00 remaining. Both teams are back at it Saturday, BV travels to Northwestern, Loras hosts Augsburg.

NWU heads out west over the weekend to face George Fox (6-2) and Linfield (6-1). Will be a huge road test for NWU, probably the 2 toughtest opponents they will have faced up to this point in the season.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · December 14, 2018, 09:46:49 AM

Quote from: dunkin3117 on December 14, 2018, 09:17:33 AM
Loras defeated BV, in a make-up game, 104-85. A lot of time for both benches as the Duhawks led 96-70 with just under 6:00 remaining. Both teams are back at it Saturday, BV travels to Northwestern, Loras hosts Augsburg.

NWU heads out west over the weekend to face George Fox (6-2) and Linfield (6-1). Will be a huge road test for NWU, probably the 2 toughtest opponents they will have faced up to this point in the season.

They might actually have to give more than 70% in these games.

dunkin3117 · December 16, 2018, 09:08:38 AM

Loras defeated Augsburg last night 89-66, behind freshman Jordan Boyd's 18 and 11 performance. Loras has won each of the last 3 games by an average 22 points, all while per-season all American Josh Ruggles has struggled to find his shot. When he finds it again, look out. They have so many different guys that they can go to. It's hard to hide any poor defenders against this team. Next on their schedule #11 UW-Whitewater.

Schipper Strong · December 18, 2018, 08:05:07 PM

Central playing ugly at Bethany Lutheran tonight. We should be winning but our shot selection is really poor. For a decent shooting team we must be on a final's brain drain. Lots of shots, nothing but air and poor rebounding making for a likely bad outcome if they don't get their heads out of their back side. This will be a game they will wish they could replay. 6 minutes left and on any other night i think they would win. They don't seem to want it tonight.

Schipper Strong · December 18, 2018, 08:38:31 PM

Central goes down in flames in a loss that was embarrassing, don't get me wrong Bethany Lutheran played well and clearly deserved the win. Central looked like they warmed up at the bar. The number of air balls tonight is going to make them cringe. Coach Douma wasn't there for some reason. I don't know if they would have played any better if he had been. I am Central loyal, I see the world through a red lens many times, but tonight they deserve blatant honesty.

dunkin3117 · December 19, 2018, 01:47:18 PM

What is going on in the ARC!? Head Coaches catching the flu bug?

Schipper Strong · December 22, 2018, 03:15:40 PM

Coach Douma apparently had a back injury according to the write up.

Schipper Strong · January 02, 2019, 08:29:00 PM

Central plays Dubuque tonight. Please tell me Doolittle doesn't have a lucky snow blower.

Hope the Dutch play better tonight. They have to earn some respect back after their last outing.

doolittledog · January 02, 2019, 08:51:49 PM

Quote from: Schipper Strong on January 02, 2019, 08:29:00 PM
Central plays Dubuque tonight. Please tell me Doolittle doesn't have a lucky snow blower.

Hope the Dutch play better tonight. They have to earn some respect back after their last outing.

I found a penny and picked it up today

Schipper Strong · January 02, 2019, 09:43:22 PM

Well, you didn't need to do that. Seriously, it was completely unneccessary. I don't know where the Central team from earlier went, but they look like amateur hour tonight.

Schipper Strong · January 02, 2019, 09:50:16 PM

Not sure why the stats are not working tonight. Guess they want to keep their shooting percentage a secret.

doolittledog · January 02, 2019, 10:51:41 PM

I THINK Dubuque beat Central 93-74? Schipper Strong can help me out here. There was no sound for the game so while I was working I really had no idea what was going on, other than I knew UD was up.

I love conference road wins!

Schipper Strong · January 02, 2019, 11:04:18 PM

Congratulations to Dubuque on a well earned easy win tonight. They certainly won the hustle award tonight. They did not shoot great, but they hit the boards hard all night and got some easy steals from a lackluster Central team.

Maybe the Central team that played together so well earlier in the season was not the real Central team. I am sure this is the team everyone that picked central to finish so low expected. I wanted to believe in the team they showed themselves capable of being. But they seem to have lost their focus. For a few games they were playing unselfishly, sharing the ball, looking for the open shots and actually aiming the ball when they took them. They out rebounded teams that had the height advantage and played like a contender. Not sure what caused them to soar and what caused them to fizzle back out. Dubuque did not always look great tonight either, but they played a lot harder and wanted it far more.

Schipper Strong · January 02, 2019, 11:12:39 PM

Sorry, I can't help you out. The internet worked about as well as the home team. No stats, no sound at all, and my video kept going out during the game. I was home the last 4 days with a horrid cold and didn't think I should push it by working then going to a game my first day back to reality. I was actually glad I didn't feel up to going out to the game when I saw how it was going. I had no idea how much time was left when I have up trying to get it to come back on.

AndOne · January 06, 2019, 11:42:54 PM

I sense Loras strongly felt they were capable of taking down #1 Nebraska Wesleyan yesterday.
However, you have to be impressed with NWU's 18 point win, especially when you consider 2 Wesleyan starters were out and didn't play a minute.
Loras' Josh Ruggles—20 minutes, 1 for 6, 3 points. Was he hurt?

MBB: American Rivers Conference

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