Top 25 talk

[WUPHF]

North Central at #5
Your sanity will be questioned numerous times.
Actually, I think you are a very smart man. Of course, my sanity is often questioned, so there you go. 

As often as I have questioned his judgement about a particular St. Louis area basketball team, I have never made it in to the blog, but in regards to North Central, he did work in this line...

(if you ask some fans, his season-ending injury still affected the team 20 games after the fact)

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

North Central at #5
Your sanity will be questioned numerous times.
Actually, I think you are a very smart man. Of course, my sanity is often questioned, so there you go. 

As often as I have questioned his judgement about a particular St. Louis area basketball team, I have never made it in to the blog, but in regards to North Central, he did work in this line...

(if you ask some fans, his season-ending injury still affected the team 20 games after the fact)

If you are challenging me to get you quoted, WUH... don't dare me.

And I just couldn't resist. It was actually a test to see who is and isn't reading it.

Let me add... you have made it in the blog in the last year or two for questioning me, just not as overtly.

[WUPHF]

Let me add... you have made it in the blog in the last year or two for questioning me, just not as overtly.

+1 Ha, ha!  Looking ahead to another fun year of basketball, blogs and Hoopsville.

[Greek Tragedy]

So a fellow WIACer pointed out that Stevens Point is scheduled to play #1 Whitman, #2 Augustana, #10 River Falls, #11 Whitewater, #21 Wartburg and then four teams who also received votes:  #29 Hope, #34 Oshkosh, #37 St. Norbert and #39 St. Thomas. That accounts for 12 of their 25 games this season.

Point plays Augustana, Wartburg, Whitman and River Falls in consecutive games at the end of December and the first game in January.

Obviously it's only the preseason rankings and a lot can happen, but that's seems like a pretty daunting schedule on paper.

Glancing through the Top 25, is there any other team that has a similarly tough schedule? Just curious.

[HOPEful]

So a fellow WIACer pointed out that Stevens Point is scheduled to play #1 Whitman, #2 Augustana, #10 River Falls, #11 Whitewater, #21 Wartburg and then four teams who also received votes:  #29 Hope, #34 Oshkosh, #37 St. Norbert and #39 St. Thomas. That accounts for 12 of their 25 games this season.

Point plays Augustana, Wartburg, Whitman and River Falls in consecutive games at the end of December and the first game in January.

Obviously it's only the preseason rankings and a lot can happen, but that's seems like a pretty daunting schedule on paper.

Glancing through the Top 25, is there any other team that has a similarly tough schedule? Just curious.

Not at Point's level of difficulty, but Alma's season starts with  #2 Augustana, #9 Washington, and #12 North Central in 3 of their first 6 games. The other 3 are @ IWU, @ Elmhurst, and @ ONU... Not an easy 6 game stretch.

[Greek Tragedy]

New pool! If you want to play, post your picks in the fantasy league board, NOT HERE!

Here's the idea. The preseason Top 25 has now been released. The object is to pick a team NOT in the preseason poll who received ANY votes, including Oswego St, who received just one vote. 

Then, throughout the season, we'll keep track if any of the teams get votes and sustain Top 25 status. At the end of the season, we'll have 2 winners. The poster who picked the team who garnered the most votes during the season and the team who finished the highest in the final poll (the one after the tourney is complete).   

Hopefully we can even get some of those "experts" to play since all you have to do is pick a team before the season starts and that's all you have to do!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

New pool! If you want to play, post your picks in the fantasy league board, NOT HERE!

Here's the idea. The preseason Top 25 has now been released. The object is to pick a team NOT in the preseason poll who received ANY votes, including Oswego St, who received just one vote. 

Then, throughout the season, we'll keep track if any of the teams get votes and sustain Top 25 status. At the end of the season, we'll have 2 winners. The poster who picked the team who garnered the most votes during the season and the team who finished the highest in the final poll (the one after the tourney is complete).   

Hopefully we can even get some of those "experts" to play since all you have to do is pick a team before the season starts and that's all you have to do!

Very tempting!

[hopefan]

Hoping we'll see more Coach's polls of league standings come out this week... not too many out so far..

I've seen:
ASC
CCIW
HCAC
IIAC
MACC
MACF
NATHC
OAC
ODAC
SLIAC
UAA
USAC

Would be nice (and easier to find) if readers would post here as more become available...Thanks

[Greek Tragedy]

WIAC

http://www.wiacsports.com/news/2017/11/3/uw-river-falls-selected-to-win-mens-basketball-title.aspx?path=mbball

[hopefan]

WIAC

http://www.wiacsports.com/news/2017/11/3/uw-river-falls-selected-to-win-mens-basketball-title.aspx?path=mbball

Thanks G.T.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Had a request to share this info:

I found roku channels for Centennial, MIAC, ASC, SAA, IIAC, SCIAC, E8, CAC, Landmark, NWC, LEC, GNAC, NECC, and the MWC, plus WashU, Neumann, Stevenson, and Denison have their own channel just for the athletic dept.

It's still the web stream, but you can watch on your TV!

[Greek Tragedy]

ASC: http://ascsports.org/news/2017/10/25/mens-basketball-letourneau-concordia-texas-picked-to-win-mens-hoops.aspx?path=mbball

CCIW: http://www.cciw.org/news/2017/10/25/augustana-picked-to-win-2017-18-cciw-mens-basketball-title.aspx

HCAC: http://heartlandconf.org/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20171025h6v61a

IIAC: http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2017/10/18/iiac-mens-basketball-coaches-tab-nebraska-wesleyan-as-preseason-front-runner.aspx?path=general

MACC & MACF (go to preseason poll link): http://www.gomacsports.com/index.aspx?path=mbball

NACC: http://www.naccsports.org/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20171023x4yenu

OAC: http://www.oac.org/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/2017_Basketball_poll.pdf

ODAC: http://www.odaconline.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/102617-mbkb-preseasonpoll

SLIAC: http://sliac.org/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20171026fg2etz

UAA: http://uaasports.info/sports/wbkb/2017-18/releases/uaapreseasonpoll

USAC: http://www.usasouth.net/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20171023od2pqb

WIAC: http://www.wiacsports.com/news/2017/11/3/uw-river-falls-selected-to-win-mens-basketball-title.aspx?path=mbball

[hopefan]

CSAC now up...
http://csacsports.org/news/2017/11/8/mens-basketball-cabrini-nets-top-honors-in-csac-mbb-preseason-poll.aspx

[ronk]

Had a request to share this info:

I found roku channels for Centennial, MIAC, ASC, SAA, IIAC, SCIAC, E8, CAC, Landmark, NWC, LEC, GNAC, NECC, and the MWC, plus WashU, Neumann, Stevenson, and Denison have their own channel just for the athletic dept.

It's still the web stream, but you can watch on your TV!

Ryan,
  What does 1 need(software,hardware) to watch Landmark basketball, for example, on Roku? Feel free to be simple in explaining to someone who still uses a flip-phone.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Ronk - do you have roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, or other types of what are basically called OTT (Over The Top) device?

If you have one of those devices, you most likely can see Landmark games. You basically download their "app" to the device - or move over to their "channel" - and watch from there. Basically the portal is like you would have going to the Landmark portal on the internet, only you are using your remote and pushing buttons on the options you want. And you are watching on your TV not computer.

I am seriously considering mounting an extra TV of ours in the Hoopsville studio to allow me to watch more games. LOL

More info here: http://www.landmarkconference.org/news/2017-18/10242017ottapps