MBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Drake Palmer]

Props to the Concordia Cobbers who have quietly moved to 3-0 & are sitting at the top of the standings with UST also 3-0 & Augsburg who is 2-0.

This weekend the Cobbs travel to Pella, Iowa to take on the Central Dutch.  Central & Wartburg were the co-favorites to win the IIAC this year.  (Buena Vista received 2 first place votes in the coaches' poll but was behind in the total votes to Central.)

One of the intriguing side bars to this game is the coaching matchup. Rich Glas, coach of the Cobbers was the former head coach at UND & will be squaring off against his former PG from UND, Mike Boschee, who is now the head coach at Central.  Back in 1990, UND made it to the DII final 4 which was pretty impressive for this part of the country, until Winona State broke that record with their success several years ago. Boschee was also the assistant coach at GAC during their glory years in the early 2000s.

[Gacman]

I agree WW. I don't think it was a well played game by either sides. I was following the live stats for the first 7 minutes of the game and the stat line was terrible. We had like 6 TO's and 14 missed shots in those opening minutes.

I just noticed that Bethel was receiving votes in the Preseason Poll. I think the were 40 something, anyway goes to show how little the rankings mean at this point in the season. It also shows how those polls can be misleading when the people voting on this don't see a large part of the action.

[Gacman]

Sorry for the double post but just wanted to comment on Mike Boschee. We scrimmaged Central my freshman and junior year. At this point flom was our assistant so I never had Boschee as a coach, but during those two scrimmages he had some of the biggest tantrum, screaming/yelling tirades I have ever experienced or witnessed in all my years of basketball.

[Willy Wonka]

Sorry for the double post but just wanted to comment on Mike Boschee. We scrimmaged Central my freshman and junior year. At this point flom was our assistant so I never had Boschee as a coach, but during those two scrimmages he had some of the biggest tantrum, screaming/yelling tirades I have ever experienced or witnessed in all my years of basketball.

He's very intense, but he's a very good defensive coach. I can't speak to his offensive philosophy, as he wasn't really allowed to tinker with Hanson's motion set. We exchanged e-mails a few times after he went to the IIAC, but I haven't seen him in years now.

His speech patterns are especially mockable, though. Bosch would start super soft and intense, but be screaming by about his 8th word. Then Hanson would come in to smooth the waters during timeouts. Kind of the good cop/bad cop routine that we rode all the way to the title game in 03.

As an aside, I was the student assistant for his office partner back in the day and I remember always getting kicked out of the room when he needed to talk to his brother, the gunner for the Jayhawks.

[carletonsid]

Knights with a solid 77-75 win over Benedictine, the NAC favorite this year (yeah, I know not that impressive). Knights shot 62 percent in 1st half and led 44-35 at break. Benedictine with 18-5 spurt to open second half, but Knights found enough offense and made FTs down the stretch. Sutherland with 21 and six others with between 7-9 points.

[Gregory Sager]

Knights with a solid 77-75 win over Benedictine, the NAC favorite this year (yeah, I know not that impressive).

NAthC South Division, actually. I don't think that the coaches pick a winner for the entire league; they just rank the teams within the two divisions. Nevertheless, Benedictine's a decent team, so this is a good road win for Carleton.

[abominable_snowman]

If I'm a Tommie fan, the Tuesday night against River Falls would make me very nervous.  

nicely done drake.

good observations as well.   the keys for purple this year will definitely be learning curves for the new faces and then synchronization.

regarding joe scott, it's always been my personal opinion that he can improve his effectiveness when he isn't making shots. He's the type of player that is the engine of an offense and should be able to create all sorts of opportunitiesfor his teamates.  I'd also like to see more diversity, he's physical enough to post up more often.  He has been driving more to create FT opportunity, which I always like to see.

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SJU goes 2-0 against UWEC and UWO at the Oshkosh classic this weekend.

[miacsuperfan]

Through Thanksgiving Saturday, the non-conference win/loss tally reads:

MIAC    23
Others 10   8)

Unless, of course, you don't count BU's opener.   

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Through Thanksgiving Saturday, the non-conference win/loss tally reads:

MIAC    23
Others 10   8)

Unless, of course, you don't count BU's opener.   

beter make that 23-11, as Cobbers lost to Central (http://www.central.edu/athletics/basketballmens/statistics/GAME-05.HTM)
still, it looks good for the MIAC, will help land a 2nd (maybe 3? granted, 3 is unlikely) teams in the NCAA

sounds likea cold first half did in the Cobbers ... a pair of techies on the bench early in 2nd half too

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UWL defeats GAC, 76-69.

[Drake Palmer]

Hamline 107 – Buena Vista 84

Before the Piper posters flood the airwaves, I just wanted to point out what a difference 2 weeks, & a healthy Ray Brown seem to make for a fairly young team.  The Pipes crush the Beavers.

Early on Brown & Nick Carroll were making some nice feeds to cutters, or in Carroll's case, some great entry passes to Carl Hipp. This in turn began to open up the perimeter for the streaky Piper shooters & Hamline began to rain a bunch of treys.  FY Noah Aguirre led the way with 24 or 25 points.  Ray Brown is a tough match if he's making his outside shot (which he was today) because as quick as a cat he can glide by his defender for the layup, or out quick his defender in the paint.

Defensively, the Hamline scheme seems to be: pressure the ball, gamble defensively, hope Hipp gets a block & through sheer numbers of players, gradually wear the opposing team out.  Ray could stand to put a little more effort into his defensive pressure. Yet, all in all, a nice win for the Pipes. The Augsburg–Hamline game should be a dandy on Wednesday night.

UW-LAX 76 – GAC 69.  Good effort by the Gusties in a loss against UW-LAX.  The way La Crosse started out this season I thought this game had all the makings of a blowout. The 2 LAX guards – Tony Mane & Trevor Stratton are studs.

St Mary's lost in OT to Lake Forest College 87-85.  Tough loss for the Birds, but I think they're showing definite signs of improvement.  I realize this is the old, semi-faulty comparative scores thinking, but Lake Forest only lost to University of Chicago by one point, & Chicago beat Carleton by 5 points, 61-56 yesterday.

[bballfan247365]

Hamline 107 – Buena Vista 84

 The Pipes crush the Beavers.

Drake - just wanted to point out this is a family show....  Please leave that XXX play by play in the home library.  I too am looking forward to the Wednesday night tilt!!  I also over heard that Ray Ray is only 80% healthy... 

MIAC Thanksgiving Domination... or Dominatrix for Mr. Palmer!!

[TearDrop]

A very tough loss for the redbirds today!! It sounded like they played well and played very hard. WW played 43 minutes and Holland played 40! Holland drilled a 3 with less than 3 seconds to tie the game in OT and somehow Lake Forest managed to score at the buzzer after going the length of the court. SMU is clearly better than they have been but if they are going to have a successful season then they need to start winning these close ones!! Their two best players have tons of experience and need to start leading the young guys in these close ones!! GO SMU!!

[piperinsider]

Hamline 107 – Buena Vista 84

Before the Piper posters flood the airwaves, I just wanted to point out what a difference 2 weeks, & a healthy Ray Brown seem to make for a fairly young team.  The Pipes crush the Beavers.

As Deuce would say between noon and 3 on KFAN:
"What do you think about the (Pipers) now?" We're comin!