WBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Message to Scorekeeper
Why did you just remove your email from the info page on D3 hoops ? oops too late already saw it and that you are an Associate Director of Admissions. Perhaps you should be working instead of slandering other colleges and coaches?

Nobody can remove their e-mail. If you don't see it it's because you aren't logged in.

Perhaps you should be working instead of pointing out things already in evidence.

[LA RAMS]

After watching a couple of scrimmages and viewing the rosters on the various sites I thought now might be a good time to revise my picks for the upcoming season....

The Title Contenders - CSB and GAC

While I have not yet seen CSB I was able to catch GAC's scrimmage this last Friday night and was very impressed with what I saw.  The Gusties have the potential to be even better than they were last year.

MIAC Playoff Locks - Concordia, Carleton, and Bethel

Also got to see Bethel's exhibition last night with SCSU and liked what I saw.  A little short on experience with no seniors on the team but they should be good enough to be in the mix.

Battling For The 6th Spot - St. Kate's, UST, St. Olaf, and Hamline

Somehow I think Kate's will get the last spot.  A lot of new faces at UST, Olaf, and Hamline and they have to show me something first.

Rounding It Out - Mac, Augsburg, and SMU


P.S.

Arizona St. - 24
UCLA - 20

KD, you're fired. 

[scorekeeper]

Has SCSU played everyone in the MIAC now?  I know they played CSB, UST and Bethel.  Are they having a tough time finding competition in D II? 

[scorekeeper]

p.s. The only people "hiding" their identity on these pages are the cowards who log on as "guest" like Hoop202. 

[yojo]

get over it bro...just talk basketball...

[monkey23]

MIAC looks to be as tough as usual.  Am picking GAC as #1- will be anxious to see how their point guard does this season with a year of experience under her belt.   Saw the pre-season rankings for the IIAC and WIAC- no big surprises there.   Will make for an exciting post-season in the midwest. 

On a side note, since I do look into the WIAC and IIAC boards quite a bit, I must say that the MIAC board is way more hostile then the others.  Attack the players, attack the coaches, attack attack.  I hope the kids don't read it.   Felt a bit bad for Hoop 202 who asked where this Scorekeeper character's email was, but then got utterly shot down.    Sha bang.  No love for you (think Seinfeld).

Here's the most recent example I caught:  the "heckuva allegation with no facts" against a coach and player courtesy of Scorekeeper, who then proceded to attack another poster as a "coward."  Man!  Cool down!  We're talking road rage computer style!  I agree with yo jo- keep it to basketball. 

But now, I can't resist!!!!  Must....make....joke......must make.....joke.

Since Scorekeeper seems to be the crankiest in recent times, I have a great idea for an utterly entertaining experiment.  (Just out of curiosity, are you really an Associate Admissions person from a college? I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say that your perception is somewhat altered....conflict of interest anyone?  That would make for an interesting story).  Anyway, let's go with it.   I think we should add a posting site here on good ol D3 hoops about Division III Admissions people from each conference, so we can rag on them and call them names, and tell everyone what a horrible job they do, as well as the people who work for them.  I'm sure they have stats too, somehow.  We could even make trading cards.  It's their own fault for being an Admissions person- attacks come with the job.  And who cares if we've never actually spoken to them?!  Since when does that matter?!  Double check our facts- what for?!  Ethical business practice?  No thanks!  Gossip is the way to go.  And let's call them "cheats" and "cowards" with no basis, and come up with/use monikers like Terrible Tammy or something.....let's see....how about "Score....SNIPER."  Or maybe "El Scoro No Moro?"  I guess I'm not a creative writer, although I do think the last nickname has some merit!   But I suppose people aren't as interested in reading about Admissions people.  Who cares, right?   

Seriously though, women's sports have come so far- it's a shame that it gets so low on boards like this.  Where's the comradery?   Why be so disrespectin'?  There's so much to be proud of.  But all there seems to be here is putting your own team on a pedestal, and blasting/criticizing the others to the point of "false accusations" even.    Smells like a lawsuit to me.  Or bullying.  8th commandment anyone?  What ever happend to "keep it clean?"  HMMM, what's this I seem to be standing on....it seems to be made of wood....oh sorry, it's my soapbox!  Ha ha- I'll get off now before I'm pelted with who knows what...probably just names like coward or something.  I'm sure I've overstayed my welcome and will now retreat back to what I'm actually supposed to be writing.  Oh well.  I'll come back soon for another update on the MIAC Days of Our Lives online edition........!!  Maybe we'll find out who shot J.R.?!!!  Oops, wrong soap.  But it will probably be Mr. Scorekeeper in the broom closet with the candlestick.... 

[blazerball]

Interesting - monkey goes on a rant about things not being civil and then proceeds to, as monkey says, "attack, attack, attack..."

Pot, meet kettle.  Kettle, meet pot.

[gacbacker]

The Gustie women are previewed by the Mankato Free Press:

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/local_story_318005014.html?keyword=secondarystory

The story incorrectly calls Bri Radtke a senior...lucky for Gustie fans she is just a sophomore.

Any other previews out there?

[LA RAMS]

Good article.  Got to catch the scrimmage last night w/UW-River Falls that didn't go so well.  Hate to take too much from that but there's still some things that need to be worked on yet.  Hopefully it'll all get ironed out. 

BTW, congrats to the Little Lefty again for being on the D3 Hoops 2nd Team listing.   

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry plays the Tommies on Friday and St Olaf's on Saturday in Colorado.

We have a new head coach and must replace our All-American point guard, Symbri Tuttle, but have 10 players returning from last year's Pool C team.

Tarra Richardson is the All-American inside post.  Great player, 3.90 GPA Finance Major.

[hoopscoopsmiac]

Can this board be anymore boring??? Granted Women's Basketball isn't nearly as exciting as a few years ago so maybe that plays a role.

[gacbacker]

Looks like the Tommies and Oles both lost in colorado today. Some of the same old problems for the oles in Stromme's debut as they committed 29 turnovers. On the bright side it looks like Elyse Erickson is going to be a good player for them. Erickson is a junior from Orono whom the Gusties coveted pretty strongly. Erickson decided on Olaf and then decided not to play basketball her first two years. It looks like she led them in scoring today.

[LA RAMS]

Definitely a disappointing start for MIAC teams yesterday.  I can handle both UST and St. Olaf going down in flames in consecutive games on the same floor out at the Springs and SMU going down to UW-River Falls but CSB, getting hammered (and I mean HAMMERED) by Wartburg 69-52???!!  What the hell is THAT?  Granted, I know that Wartburg is one of the better teams in the IIAC BUT, you CANNOT be getting run out of the gym like that if you're CSB.  The Blazers, getting punked the way they did is a bad, bad sign for this team and perhaps the conference as well.   

[gacbacker]

I don't think the Blazers' loss is that big of deal. They only turned the ball over 17 times, they just had a bad shooting night which is going to happen early in the season. Wartburg's a decent team, I believe the Gusties have defeated them each of the last two years, but they were competitive games.

It looks like Tauer was in foul trouble as she played only 21 minutes and took only 4 shots. The Blazers have great depth at the guard position, but not so much in the front court this year. Of all the players they can't afford to lose to foul trouble or injury this year, it's Tauer in my opinion.

On another note, and this will sound like a re-run from the last 5 years, but if Bethel can play any sort of defense this year, they could be a sneaky team. Gabby Gustafson could be a pretty good player in this league, and the D1 transfer from Windom should really help them inside.

[phoenix]

Just wondering if any one has seen Bethel or concordia play. Just wondering what they got for a team this year. I know bethel lost some seniors last year and I havn't been able to go out and see them scrimmage or play, I am just trying to get a feel for what they have for players now, along with concordia, they always seem like a surprise team, because they are far away and its hard to see them play early on in the season. They had a good team last year and I think they lost a couple key players, wondering what their team is like.
I feel that GAC will have a good team, they still have jesse and their points guards do have more experience under them to help out. If I remember correctly they do have a decent tall post player that was on their JV team  that should of gain experience and be ready to play now. Blazers come back with a strong guard front and some post play down low.