MBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[John Gleich]

If you come be sure to stop by and say hi.  Come early, we might sell out.

Are you serious?  For Friday?  I would find that hard to believe, but if you say so!

Though VWU and Whitworth are a plane flight, Wheaton is close... and if they don't split sessions, then the few who do come from Virginia or Oregon could eat up seats.

And who knows... maybe there's a buzz around campus and more students will show up?

Whitworth is in Spokane, WASHINGTON.

Ha Ha Ha!  I made that mistake several years ago and got railed on for a week! LOL.  I didn't even catch that this time and nearly everyone else missed it too.  We Midwesterners must not be good in geography!  Sorry NWhoops!

Besides, you never know, maybe fans from Oregon are coming!

I know that Spokane is in Washington. I just confused Whitworth with Willamette in terms of location.

Now, if only they named their schools after the towns they were in... it would make everything that much easier!

If we were all state schools then maybe that would be an option...

At the very least, Anderson, Aurora, Beloit, Bluffton, Chicago, Defiance, Elmhurst, Eureka, Franklin, Greenville, Grinnell, Hanover, Lake Forest, Ripon, Rockford, and Wheaton would disagree with you...

[(509)Rat]

Impressive list. You should have checked all 400+ institutions

[Mr. Ypsi]

From the MIAA you can add the 3 'A' schools: Adrian, Albion, and Alma (and Kalamazoo).

Middlebury and Lynchburg also come immediately to mind.  There must be at least a dozen others, though NOT Austin (TX) which I keep forgetting is no where near Austin!

[Mr. Ypsi]

WAY more than a dozen more!  (And in the MIAA I forgot Olivet.)

Other privates named for their towns/cities:

Babson, Springfield, Williams, Alfred, Cazenovia, Elmira, Ithaca, Keuka, NYU, Rochester, Utica, Elizabethtown, Immaculata, Lancaster Bible, Rosemont, Swarthmore, Wilkes, York (Pa), Berry, Birmingham-Southern, Bridgewater, Ferrum, Greensboro, Hampden-Sydney, LaGrange, Maryville, Sewanee, U of Dallas, Bethany, Grove City, Hiram, Marietta, Oberlin, Waynesburg, Wilmington, Wooster, Monmouth, Dubuque, Whittier, Claremont (-Mudd-Scripps), Emory (and Henry), Roanoke (actually in a suburb - Salem), (Christopher) Newport.  Add the state schools and CUNYACs, and close to one third of d3 schools have their community somewhere in their name.

[Gregory Sager]

If you come be sure to stop by and say hi.  Come early, we might sell out.

Are you serious?  For Friday?  I would find that hard to believe, but if you say so!

Though VWU and Whitworth are a plane flight, Wheaton is close... and if they don't split sessions, then the few who do come from Virginia or Oregon could eat up seats.

And who knows... maybe there's a buzz around campus and more students will show up?

Whitworth is in Spokane, WASHINGTON.

Ha Ha Ha!  I made that mistake several years ago and got railed on for a week! LOL.  I didn't even catch that this time and nearly everyone else missed it too.  We Midwesterners must not be good in geography!  Sorry NWhoops!

Besides, you never know, maybe fans from Oregon are coming!

I know that Spokane is in Washington. I just confused Whitworth with Willamette in terms of location.

Now, if only they named their schools after the towns they were in... it would make everything that much easier!

If we were all state schools then maybe that would be an option...

At the very least, Anderson, Aurora, Beloit, Bluffton, Chicago, Defiance, Elmhurst, Eureka, Franklin, Greenville, Grinnell, Hanover, Lake Forest, Ripon, Rockford, and Wheaton would disagree with you...

Only one Wheaton College is located in a place called Wheaton. The Wheaton College in Massachusetts is in Norton, MA.

There must be at least a dozen others, though NOT Austin (TX) which I keep forgetting is no where near Austin!

Likewise, Wabash College is located nowhere near Wabash, Indiana. In fact, that village is on the other side of the Hoosier State from Crawfordsville, which is where the college is located.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I've been to both Wabash and Crawfordsville many times (Wabash is on my route between Ypsi and Peoria; Crawfordsville is the 'big city' near one of my favorite places, Turkey Run State Park).  Persistent rumor (perhaps apocryphal) is that the driver of an athletics bus bound for Wabash College ended up in Wabash; the story goes that the baseball game (I think it was) eventually occurred, but was about 5 hours late!

[Greek Tragedy]

The early news this morning had a nice piece by Jen Ladda on the Whitewater team.  It featured their assistant, Lou Chapman, and Whitewater playing DEFENSE.  Wow, what a concept. LOL    Good luck to them tonight and hopefully tomorrow.

[badgerwarhawk]

Lou was a great addition to the WHITEWATER staff.  He's going to be a head coach somewhere and it's going to be soon. 

[matblake]

The early news this morning had a nice piece by Jen Ladda on the Whitewater team.  It featured their assistant, Lou Chapman, and Whitewater playing DEFENSE.  Wow, what a concept. LOL    Good luck to them tonight and hopefully tomorrow.

Here's the report

[Just Bill]

I don't think there's any doubt that Whitewater fully committing to playing defense this season is the reason this UWW team feels like a title contender when others that came before haven't. Until this year, defense at UWW was more a recommendation than a mandate. This year, defense is driving the bus.

[stormy]

Nice article. However, needs some editing. i.e. - Pat miller teams have not won "four NCAA titles" and defensively holding teams to a "58.x" field goal percentage average is not going to win you many games and if Whitewater wins the "Elite Eight" game will be in WHITEWATER. jmo and I could be wrong   

[John Gleich]

WAY more than a dozen more!  (And in the MIAA I forgot Olivet.)

Other privates named for their towns/cities:

Babson, Springfield, Williams, Alfred, Cazenovia, Elmira, Ithaca, Keuka, NYU, Rochester, Utica, Elizabethtown, Immaculata, Lancaster Bible, Rosemont, Swarthmore, Wilkes, York (Pa), Berry, Birmingham-Southern, Bridgewater, Ferrum, Greensboro, Hampden-Sydney, LaGrange, Maryville, Sewanee, U of Dallas, Bethany, Grove City, Hiram, Marietta, Oberlin, Waynesburg, Wilmington, Wooster, Monmouth, Dubuque, Whittier, Claremont (-Mudd-Scripps), Emory (and Henry), Roanoke (actually in a suburb - Salem), (Christopher) Newport.  Add the state schools and CUNYACs, and close to one third of d3 schools have their community somewhere in their name.

I just did the Midwest region for demonstrative purposes... I knew there were more.

Only one Wheaton College is located in a place called Wheaton. The Wheaton College in Massachusetts is in Norton, MA.

I've always kind of wondered why "that other Wheaton" (it was always the "other" in my mind) was named as such. 

From the looks of it, Wheaton (MA) is about a liberal as Wheaton (IL) is conservative...

I wonder if the Wheaton's were somehow related (Warren/Jesse in IL, from Connecticut, and Judge Laban in MA). 

The early news this morning had a nice piece by Jen Ladda on the Whitewater team.  It featured their assistant, Lou Chapman, and Whitewater playing DEFENSE.  Wow, what a concept. LOL    Good luck to them tonight and hopefully tomorrow.

Here's the report

I think this is why I like Whitewater's team so much this year.  In years past, it seems like they've tried to outscore everybody... and they've generally had better athletes, so they've been able to do that.

In many cases, this has led to some pretty darn good seasons... but I felt like they would fall behind some more defensive-minded teams like Point, who (though they would have good success versus non-conference foes due to simply being more talented) would lose to the more athletic Whitewater teams initially but then beat them on the second go-around as they improved defensively thoughout the year.

I feel like that's part of the reason why Whitewater hadn't made it out of the first weekend... they were ultimately losing to good defensive teams who made it more difficult to score and they weren't able to stop those teams... thus scoring fewer points and allowing more (which means, of course, if B is more than A, you lose).

I don't think there's any doubt that Whitewater fully committing to playing defense this season is the reason this UWW team feels like a title contender when others that came before haven't. Until this year, defense at UWW was more a recommendation than a mandate. This year, defense is driving the bus.

You just said what I was trying to... in far fewer words and much more eloquently.  I was planning on doing some sort of analysis to show as much...

I will say this: Whitewater has its lowest scoring average in a decade (72.1 PPG) yet has the highest scoring margin at 13.9 (they give up 58.2 for those who don't want to do the math, which is nearly 7 points per game better than their best defensive effort of the decade).

[(509)Rat]

Same guys doing the UWW video broadcast (maybe they do audio too and they just synced em last week)?? I thought they did a good job, looking forward to the video tonight. Of course I'll be listening to Bob Castle if there isn't too much lag between the two

[Greek Tragedy]

Nice article. However, needs some editing. i.e. - Pat miller teams have not won "four NCAA titles" and defensively holding teams to a "58.x" field goal percentage average is not going to win you many games and if Whitewater wins the "Elite Eight" game will be in WHITEWATER. jmo and I could be wrong   

I'm guessing that might be conference championships?  The 58.2 is scoring defense.  Last year, they gave up 71.4.

[Greek Tragedy]

Unfortunately, looks like I'm going to miss out on tonight's sectional.  I as looking foward to seeing these teams play, especially since I got three guys on my fantasy team playing!  LOL.  Seriously though, it would've been a great sectional to see in person.

Amazing that the "local" newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has nothing on Whitewater.  I don't get the paper everyday, but I don't recall seeing any article on them this entire week.  Very disappointing.  Glad Fox 6 News can step up to the plate.  Shame on TMJ4 as well.