WBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Willy Wonka]

Nothing that was sent to the professors was for something THEY had to do by the way.  What was sent to the professors was the list of expectations for the players by the coaches as pertained to their academics.  Just to clear up any confusion.  It was sent to professors nearly to let them know that the women's basketball team has a high emphasis on academics and the coaching staff wanted to let them know that they believed in that also.  The coaches have not asked the professors to do anything above and beyond what they already do.

Not sure if this "call your bluff" stuff is directed at me or not, but what I was told seems to be a little different than what EC is saying. I expect it's a case of putting the wrong EM-pha-SIS on the wrong SIL-ah-BULLS.

That said...the Gusties seem to have worked out their offensive kinks in the last two games. It's nice to see the ball whipping around the perimeter and not necessarily stopping in the hands of Vadnais or Monahan. The diverse scoring will only help against the better teams, such as Wednesday against the Carlies.

[gacbacker]

Thought it might be time to give out some mid-season awards:

MVP: Bri Monahan

All-Conference: Vadnais, Hageman, Keeley, Oken-Berg, Lincoln, Schneider, Berglund, Petrich, Noreen, Boone, Sampson, Gotchnik, Baltzer, LeGrave, Nautsch

All-First Year: Schmidt, Sorbo, Radtke, Connor, Sather, Baltzer

All-Defensive: Oken-Berg, Vadnais, Monahan, O'Neil, Katch

Coach of the Year: Durbin and Rufsvold (tie)

Most surprising team: Macalester

Most disappointing team: Bethel

[MIACBaller]

I like Willy Wonka have many sources.

Your "sources" seem to have given you some pretty specific information. Unless, of course, you are the source...

[Ghost of MIAC Past]

I am very friendly with most of the MIAC coaches, and I do hear much more specific information than the casual fan.

[Willy Wonka]

I like Willy Wonka have many sources.

Your "sources" seem to have given you some pretty specific information. Unless, of course, you are the source...

If I am the source, huh? I can only dream of owning business cards that say the following:

Willy Wonka
Head of Women's Studies at SMU

[hoopscoopsmiac]

I like Willy Wonka have many sources.

Your "sources" seem to have given you some pretty specific information. Unless, of course, you are the source...

If I am the source, huh? I can only dream of owning business cards that say the following:

Willy Wonka
Head of Women's Studies at SMU

STOP PEOPLE!

Willy Wonka please note that I believe MIACBaller is calling the east coast miac fan's bluff, not yours. As of which I second. It seems east coast miac fan "is very friendly with most of the MIAC Coaches" (to quote him)...especially when one of them is your boss...

[scorekeeper]

I know I'm a bit late on commenting about the Monday night games, but as someone mentioned earlier, there are just too many games in the same week so it's tough to keep up.  Without Kempe and Dalhed in the backcourt the Blazers were looking for someone to step forward and help Noreen with the scoring responsibility.  They were given a huge lift against the Pipers by First-Year guard Mindy Schmidt.  Schmidt showed how she became the leading scorer in Champlin Park history (I know it's a short history) by scoring 20 points.  She drove to the basket, hit some short range shots and nailed 3 shots behind the arc.  I hope Schmidt can carry that over to tonight when the Blazers travel to St. Thomas to face their arch rivals.  Hamline must have had an off night because I didn't see any of the play that would have carried them to some big early season wins.  The Pipers have now lost 3 consecutive games and will be in a dog fight for 6th place I think at the end of the season. 

[she_scores51]

I like Willy Wonka have many sources.

Your "sources" seem to have given you some pretty specific information. Unless, of course, you are the source...

If I am the source, huh? I can only dream of owning business cards that say the following:

Willy Wonka
Head of Women's Studies at SMU

Wowzers, I take off for a couple of days an my alma mater has a new Head of Women's Studies. Welcome, Wonka.

SMU looked pretty good in a win over Augsburg on Saturday. I wasn't able to see their tough loss to Bethel on Monday, but judging by the box score, they had trouble finding their offense as they only managed 14 first-half points.

I like what Stimmel is doing down in Winona and hope he can get a handful of quality recruits to really help his program out next year. For this year, I think they're going to be happy with any wins they can get. Who knows, maybe they'll get a few upsets themselves (you never know!).

ECMF, I'm curious as to who your boss might be?!?

[Nites]

Willy,

Will you be in St. Peter for the games against Carleton?  Both should be good games.  On the ladies side, the Knights are turnover prone.  If the Gusties can get their press going and capitalize on that, they will win.  The Knights are still young and the 1-2 punch of Monahan and Vadnais may be too tough.  They need to produce though and the Gusties need to try to hold their own on the boards where Carleton has excelled.

How do you see the game playing out?

[Nites]

GAC having its way with Carleton, 30-14 at the half.

[Willy Wonka]

Nites - I was a roady for three straight days recently. Sometimes you have to pull back and actually do some work to make sure you don't get fired

Any more updates? How did things look/sound?

[Collegeville Magic]

Wow, a Gustie smackdown on Carleton, St. Kate's continuing their "post Super Bowl" decline by losing to the Oles.  Weird.

St. Ben's came away with a hard fought rivalry game tonight, 47-44.  UST played very aggressive perimeter D, and St. Ben's missed enough shots to keep it close.  The Blazers continue to force tons of turnovers, and lots of players chipped in. 

Ellie Boone was probably the player of the game for the Blazers, grabbing a number of very key rebounds, and contributing to Gotchnik's fouling out.

I wish we had some St. Kate's or St. Olaf fans on here to enlighten us...

Go Blazers!!!

[gacbacker]

Smackdown is right...the Gusties completely shut down the Carleton offense tonight. The Knights led 10-7 and the Gusties finished the first half on a 23-4 run. I've never seen a Carleton team look as flat as they did tonight.

The freshmen are really making a difference for the Gusties...Vadnais and Monahan are doing what they do, but Radtke has been as consistent and as steady as you can ask a freshman point guard to be. Schultz can rebound as good as any guard in the conference and her offense is really starting to come together. Layman has been a consistent threat off the bench and has a pretty turn-around jumper from 12 feet in.

Three very winnable games now ahead for the Gusties...Mac, Augs and Bethel.

[cobbernation]

Good win tonight for the cobbs over SMU.  Now they have great momentum going into sat. matchup with conf. leader CSB.

Hageman had a cold night, but Fredenburg, keeley and co. picked it up to complete the victory.  I might have to start making a case for Sarah Sorbo to be on the all-defensive team. 

Here line from tonight.
40 Sara Sorbo.......... g  4-7    1-1    2-2    1  3  4   4  11  3  1  0  6  22

She is very aggressive and scrappy on the defensive side of the ball.  If a loose ball is 6 ft. away she is diving on the floor to get it.  She is very motivated and physical.  All that along with 11 points and 4 assists/rebounds.

A total of 8 turnovers by the starting five tonight.  It should be a great game on Saturday.

GO COBBERS!

[Pat Coleman]

Interesting. Picking up a loose ball should not be credited as a steal, however.