MBB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[haterinthehouse]

I have also heard this, and the job is posted on NCAA.com and on the Hanover website.  I am hoping to see more about this on the D3hoops website.  Beitzel won something like 500 games in his coaching career and it wasnt long ago that he had teams win 100 games over a four year span and were consistently ranked amongst the top teams in D3.  Hope to see more about his fantastic coaching career. 

[Pat Coleman]

If anyone has a copy of this press release, we'd be glad to run it. Otherwise, if we were to run a story it would say.

"Mike Beitzel, Hanover men's basketball coach, has retired."

Not much of a story. Hopefully Hanover will post that on its site at some point.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Pat, since IWU and Hanover had quite a rivalry going for a while (seemed to meet in the tourney almost every year, plus some regular-season games), Q might be able to add to a story.  I would guess he probably interviewed him (or at least talked to him) on several occasions.

[DIII Fan]

Story from Saturday's Madison Courier on Coach Beitzel

http://www.madisoncourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=18&SubSectionID=289&ArticleID=42444

[DIII Fan]

Defiance Coach and former Hanover player Jon Miller named new Hanover coach...


http://www.hanover.edu/athletics/men/mbasketball/

[Gregory Sager]

Interesting. It's not often that you hear of a coach giving up the head coaching job at one school in order to take the head coaching job at another school within the same league.

[iwumichigander]

In a release this morning from Hanover College it was announced that Mike Beitzel has retired as the men's head coach after 20 seasons.

Congratulations to Coach Beitzel on his retirement.  He is a first class gentleman who put a highly competitive team on the court each season.  He ranked very high among my list of favorite opponent coaches.  He'll be missed.

[WLCALUM83]

Defiance is getting a new MBB coach:

http://www.d3hoops.com/pressreleases.php?release=2306


(During Coach Brummett's last season at Lakeland, he led that squad to 3 upset wins all on the road--to take the Northern Athletics Conference post-season tournament championship. NAthCon didn't have an automatic bid, else the Muskies would have got into the D3 tournament.

[RO_24]

Rumor out of Beaverland is that Krauss has been booted from the team.  Should have been done last year.

[Darryl Nester]

The HCAC men's preseason poll was posted this morning.  In brief:

		07-08 Final	06-07 Final
Team	Points (#1 votes)	standings	standings
Defiance	73 (4)	1 / 13-3	4 / 9-7
Anderson	65 (2)	2 / 10-6	9 / 2-14
Franklin	63 (1)	2 / 10-6	1 / 11-5
Transylvania	60 (1)	2 / 10-6	2 / 10-6
Hanover	35	5 / 9-7	4 / 9-7
RHIT	31	6 / 8-8	8 / 5-11
MSJ	30 (1)	8 / 3-13	4 / 9-7
Bluffton	28	7 / 7-9	2 / 10-6
Manchester	20	9 /2-14	7 / 7-9

[dc_has_been]

The HCAC men's preseason poll was posted this morning.  In brief:

		07-08 Final	06-07 Final
Team	Points (#1 votes)	standings	standings
Defiance	73 (4)	1 / 13-3	4 / 9-7
Anderson	65 (2)	2 / 10-6	9 / 2-14
Franklin	63 (1)	2 / 10-6	1 / 11-5
Transylvania	60 (1)	2 / 10-6	2 / 10-6
Hanover	35	5 / 9-7	4 / 9-7
RHIT	31	6 / 8-8	8 / 5-11
MSJ	30 (1)	8 / 3-13	4 / 9-7
Bluffton	28	7 / 7-9	2 / 10-6
Manchester	20	9 /2-14	7 / 7-9

Wow, MSJ gettin 1 first place vote!  Interesting to see a team who's picked to end up in 7th place getting a first place vote.  I wonder who gave them that one?

[Darryl Nester]

Actually, that's becoming a regular feature of the HCAC poll:  Last year, Anderson was picked 7th in the preseason poll, but garnered one first-place vote.  Two years ago, RHIT was picked 8th with one first-place vote.  (It was Rose's first year in the conference; I'm guessing their coach realized he didn't know the other HCAC teams well enough, and decided to be optimistic.)

The track record for these teams is mixed:  Anderson ended last season tied for second, so perhaps the coach who placed them first was on to something.  On the other hand, RHIT finished 8th in 2007, exactly where the poll placed them.

I don't know if MSJ really "deserved" a first place vote, but last year they were pretty young (1 junior, 2 seniors), so they have a lot of returning players.

[pbrooks3]

How is Franklin looking for the 2008-09 campaign?  Impressed with their play last year in the opening round of the D3 tournament at Centre.

[haterinthehouse]

How good will the Collier Tournament be at Hanover College.  UW Platt just defeated Bradley, Wooster will once again be good.  And lets see what new the new ball coach can put together at HC.  This might be one of the best in season tournaments in the country. 

[pbrooks3]

Do we have anyone attending the Franklin-Centre game tonight that might post the action?