MBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Drake Palmer]

While doing a little more research for the annual Palmer All MIAC FY Name Team, I uncovered a couple of interesting nuggets:

1) I'm assuming there must be some type of family connection between SMU's FY Raheem Anthony, and JR Kareem Anthony-Bello?  Both graduated from Chicago DePaul College Prep.

2) If bloodlines mean anything, watch out for UST's FY Mason Tapp. He had a cousin Isaac Tapp who was an All MIAC player at GAC. In addition, Isaac Tapp's twin sisters were AA in volleyball at the U of MN.  Hannah & Paige Tapp.

Misc.

Carleton had a huge recruiting class this year, and at one point in their win against the UMAC's North Central the other night, Coach Guy Kalland had three FY on the floor: Beck Page, Isaac Tessier, & Jeremy Beckler.  Also, interesting recruiting tactics by Coach Kalland and staff.  Beckler & Tessier are both graduates of White Bear Lake HS. A few years ago, Coach Kalland recruited Roseville HS real hard and ended up with three players from Roseville – Joh Farmer, Quinn Johnson, & Henry Bensen. I believe Farmer & johnson were from the same graduating class (?), and Bensen the following year.

Speaking of FY, the two FY from WBL had huge games for Carleton against North Central on Monday.  In their 82-67 win, guard Isaac Tessier had a game high 27 pts, while FY post Jeremy Beckler notched his first collegiate doubled- double with 23 pts, 10 rebs.  In addition, Beckler was also 3-6 from behind the 3 pt line.  Man, bigs, who can score from the perimeter.  Tessier is a very quick, slashing wing who scored most of his points on drives to the hoop.

Granted, both Carleton & North Central were selected to finish in the bottom half of their respective conferences, but still a nice win by Carleton. For whatever reason, SR Kent Hanson did not play a lot of minutes in this game.  It will be interesting to see how the Carlies fare next week in their conference opener on the road at St. John's.  I watched a small portion of the Jays game last night against UM Morris, and aside from Jubie Aladie, the Jays looked out of sort.  This game was much more competitive than I thought it would be. Morris hung a bit too close for comfort with the Jays the entire game.

Bethel's Granger Kingland had an uncharacteristically poor shooting night against UW-Lax, 2-11(?). Its going to take bit of time to work in the transfers and make them a cohesive unit.

Augsburg in a romp over Northland, 102-54 and cleared the bench early in the second half. Booker and company look ready to get busy!  Keep an eye on Joe Palmer (no relation  ), FY from Faribault.  Prolific scorer who apparently scored 53 points in a game during his senior year.   

[Drake Palmer]

2019 – 2020 Palmer MIAC FY All Name Team

All Dual Last Name Team award goes to Hamline:  They've got 5 players who have outstanding first and last names combos!

Trenton Attwood, Conner Krenos, Reilly O'Neill, Jackson Schlaak, & Franklin Schreurs.

Palmer FY All MIAC Name Sixth Man

St. Olaf: Michael Meriggioli

Palmer FY MIAC All Name Team

Augsburg: Makhi "The Knife" Moore
Carleton: Maternal & paternal grandson of English 60s & 70s rock stars, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page, Beck Page

Concordia:  Jackson "Going for the" Jangula
Gustavus: "Warby" Parker Jones

Hamline: Grandson of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood – Trenton "Jimmy Chitwood," "Woody" Attwood (American spelling of last name  )
SMU:  Raheem "The Dream" Anthony (younger brother to former MIAC FY All Name selection – Kareem "Abdul" Anthony Bello ?)

UST: Tate "The Skate" Staloch

[jamtod]

Caught a bit of the UST livestream at Whitman.
Tommies pulled out the victory 87-79

Looked like Nelson and Riley Miller played together a lot. The usual suspects Lindberg, Hedstrom, Hannah, Madison, Anderson saw plenty of PT.
Sophomores Theisen and Cunningham also worked into the rotation and Freshman Will Ingels looked good.

Live stats still aren't up, and I didn't see enough of it to get a feel. I know Nelson hit a big 3 late and helped seal it with some FTs.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Caught a bit of the UST livestream at Whitman.
Tommies pulled out the victory 87-79

Looked like Nelson and Riley Miller played together a lot. The usual suspects Lindberg, Hedstrom, Hannah, Madison, Anderson saw plenty of PT.
Sophomores Theisen and Cunningham also worked into the rotation and Freshman Will Ingels looked good.

Live stats still aren't up, and I didn't see enough of it to get a feel. I know Nelson hit a big 3 late and helped seal it with some FTs.

I watched almost the whole game.  I've never seen a team, at least not in the last five years, so effectively take Whitman out of what they like to do.  Even in the rare instances they've lost, it's almost always been a team getting hot shooting or beating them at their own game.  Williams went toe to toe with Whitman last tournament, but they were barely hanging on.  UST had the ball handling and patience to beat the press and they refused to bow to the pressure and ran their offense.

Whitman is a talented team.  Less so than in recent years, for sure, but I still had them highly ranked.  Both teams will get better, but it felt like two different levels of ability out there, to me.  Very surprised and impressed with the Tommies.

[Greek Tragedy]

Idk, probably shouldn't be too surprised considering the Tommies did a number on NWU in last year's tournament.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Congrats to the Tommies on a most convincing win this afternoon, handling the Prairie Wolves on Nebraska Wesleyan 82-63 in the semifinals of the U of Chicago's "Chicago Classic" tourney today. UST torched the net from downtown, connecting on 19 of 39 three pointers. Ryan Lindberg set the tone in the opening minutes, draining a quick pair of treys en route to a 19 point game. He torched them for five today and five or six back in March. Tommy Anderson put up 19 points, all in the second half and hit his first five three point attempts. UST shot out to a 23-9 lead in the first 11 minutes of play but the Prairie Wolves- with 3 starters back from their 2017 NCAA championship team- battled back and tied the game at 46 all with 13:23 to play. UST erupted for five consecutive three pointers over a there minute span to burst UNW's bubble and forge to a double-digit lead.

The Tommies (3-1 on the young season) never trailed and committed just 11 turnovers while forcing 13. In addition to the 19 point performances by Lindberg and Anderson, the Toms got a 12 point effort from Anders Nelson and nine from Riley Miller. All told nine players scored in UST's balanced offense. UST was inspired by a 26-7 edge in bench points as coach John Tauer rotated a dozen players in and out, keeping everyone fresh.

Next up, the Tommies square up against DePauw University of Indiana (former VP Dan Quayle's alma mater) at 4 pm, Sunday. Then they return home to tip off the MIAC season against Carleton on Tuesday.

Thank you, coach Tauer & team for the b-day win!

[jamtod]

Congrats to the Tommies on a most convincing win this afternoon, handling the Prairie Wolves on Nebraska Wesleyan 82-63 in the semifinals of the U of Chicago's "Chicago Classic" tourney today. UST torched the net from downtown, connecting on 19 of 39 three pointers. Ryan Lindberg set the tone in the opening minutes, draining a quick pair of treys en route to a 19 point game. He torched them for five today and five or six back in March. Tommy Anderson put up 19 points, all in the second half and hit his first five three point attempts. UST shot out to a 23-9 lead in the first 11 minutes of play but the Prairie Wolves- with 3 starters back from their 2017 NCAA championship team- battled back and tied the game at 46 all with 13:23 to play. UST erupted for five consecutive three pointers over a there minute span to burst UNW's bubble and forge to a double-digit lead.

The Tommies (3-1 on the young season) never trailed and committed just 11 turnovers while forcing 13. In addition to the 19 point performances by Lindberg and Anderson, the Toms got a 12 point effort from Anders Nelson and nine from Riley Miller. All told nine players scored in UST's balanced offense. UST was inspired by a 26-7 edge in bench points as coach John Tauer rotated a dozen players in and out, keeping everyone fresh.

Next up, the Tommies square up against DePauw University of Indiana (former VP Dan Quayle's alma mater) at 4 pm, Sunday. Then they return home to tip off the MIAC season against Carleton on Tuesday.

Thank you, coach Tauer & team for the b-day win!

Happy Birthday!

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Congrats to the Tommies on a most convincing win this afternoon, handling the Prairie Wolves on Nebraska Wesleyan 82-63 in the semifinals of the U of Chicago's "Chicago Classic" tourney today. UST torched the net from downtown, connecting on 19 of 39 three pointers. Ryan Lindberg set the tone in the opening minutes, draining a quick pair of treys en route to a 19 point game. He torched them for five today and five or six back in March. Tommy Anderson put up 19 points, all in the second half and hit his first five three point attempts. UST shot out to a 23-9 lead in the first 11 minutes of play but the Prairie Wolves- with 3 starters back from their 2017 NCAA championship team- battled back and tied the game at 46 all with 13:23 to play. UST erupted for five consecutive three pointers over a there minute span to burst UNW's bubble and forge to a double-digit lead.

The Tommies (3-1 on the young season) never trailed and committed just 11 turnovers while forcing 13. In addition to the 19 point performances by Lindberg and Anderson, the Toms got a 12 point effort from Anders Nelson and nine from Riley Miller. All told nine players scored in UST's balanced offense. UST was inspired by a 26-7 edge in bench points as coach John Tauer rotated a dozen players in and out, keeping everyone fresh.

Next up, the Tommies square up against DePauw University of Indiana (former VP Dan Quayle's alma mater) at 4 pm, Sunday. Then they return home to tip off the MIAC season against Carleton on Tuesday.

Thank you, coach Tauer & team for the b-day win!

Happy Birthday!

Thanks....the win was a sweet present.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Shrugging off a sluggish start, the Tommies put on another exhibition sizzling shooting and suffocating defense to roll past DePauw 84-66 in the championship game of the Chicago Classic.

UST only got off five shots in the first five minutes of play and converted only the last of those. By this point they were looking at an 8-4 deficit and the Tigers were moving the ball around with relative ease. The gap quickly rose to 11-4 before the Toms righted ship and began chipping away at the lead. A pair of treys and a conventional three point play - all from Tommy Anderson - helped close the gap. Finally a layup by Kevin Cunningham with 10:12 left in the first half lifted UST into its first lead. They never relinquished the lead. Hitting   half of their shots from beyond the arc the rest of the half, the Tommies steadily pulled away, extending the lead to 41-27 by the intermission.  DePauw made a brief charge early in the second half but UST squelched the rally and ran the lead to as many as 27 before the deep reserves mopped up the final minutes.

Anderson and Zach Theisen each posted 14 points to lead the way for UST. Anders Nelson added 11 points and Cunningham finished with 9. Riley Miller put up 7 points and Thomas Madison tallied 6. Ten different Tommies scored as UST's balanced attack prompted the Chicago announcer to comment several times about how "every possession it seems like a different guy steps up and scores. They are very hard to defend." (I loved hearing that!)

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

https://www.d3hoops.com/top25/men/2019-20/week1

  7. St Thomas (+8)
14.  St John's (-2)
20. Augsburg (+3)

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Every off-season has it's headlines and surprising news. This past off-season seemed to have a few extra more surprising results. While we are nearly a month into the new season, decisions in the off-season are continuing to make waves throughout Division III.

On Sunday's Hoopsville, Dave chats with a couple of coaches whose programs are dealing with some of the decisions made. Scranton women's basketball may have surprised some by hiring a coach from Division I - bucking a trend of hiring those who know the Royals program (to some degree). And St. Thomas men's basketball is trying to stay focused on the job at hand - this season - while moves have already been made to not only push the Tommies out of the MIAC, but possibly move them out of DIII altogether.

Plus, the Top 25s once again continue to be ... unsettled. We take a look at another turbulent week for ranked teams. Bob Quillman joins Dave for the Top 25 Double-Take.

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[Smitty Oom]

Have been busy, not posted much around here so far this year. UST looks really solid so far, excited to see what Johnny Tauer has to say about his team tonight.

Real quick tidbits elsewhere...

Eli Cave has been as good as Cav-J advertised, and the cardinals as a whole. Looks like they might be right in the hunt for a playoff berth come Feb.

Augsburg took a tough loss against UW-LAX, who wasn't expected to be great in the preseasonbut is sitting at 6-0 right now, but has been solid besides that. Led by Coplin and Carik, they are deserving of their top 25 rank and should stay there for most of the season.

A lot of turnover going down at Carleton, looks like they might have some skilled freshman but this is at least one year early for them to compete.

Nice to see Jubie Alade, SJU best perimeter player, back playing for them. With Jubie, the Johnnies are undefeated and seem to be playing better basketball. He is currently leading the league with 26.3 ppg. I have mentioned it elsewhere, but would have liked to see him playing against the Prairiewolves in the important NWU game to open the season.

Overall, with the state of the West Region in more of a "retooling" the top teams in the MIAC could very well be towards the top of the Regional Rankings.

[Greek Tragedy]

To be fair, La Crosse was picked 3rd in the WIAC (though, the WIAC was supposed to be down this year). With that said, La Crosse is 6-0, Platteville (6-0) with a win over Wash U, Stevens Point is 5-0 after just knocking off CNU, and Oshkosh is 4-2, with wins over Augie and NCC, but losses to Carthage and Elmhurst.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

The latest poll-- UST up to 5th SJU 12th:

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d3/d3hoopscom?fbclid=IwAR0INqbZj62oib7evmhPmymeV4Hjk2_EkjLCeqkO3NKinHAMLfSLOe74O4U

[Pat Coleman]

https://www.d3hoops.com/top25/ -- if it's OK, let's go to D3hoops.com for the D3hoops.com Top 25!