MBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[cubs]

UWO's Cory Nickel ties a school record (Joe Imhoff) making ten three-point FG's in a win over Washington & Jefferson out in Las Vegas today....

[John Gleich]

Ha! As I remembered, the security guy is waiting for you to take off for the nearest exit.

I don't remember if it was because he was holding the trophy or if it was because he was on the court....

[Greek Tragedy]

http://wiacsports.com/custompages/mbasket/1213/wjosh.htm

Cory Nickel had a quiet, oh wait, quite a game in Oshkosh's 65-53 win over Washington Jefferson in Las Vegas.  He only went 12-19 for 34 points...and attempting ZERO free throw attempts.  Do the math.  That included 10-17 from 3! 

In other, and more important related news (at least for me), Dylan Wurtz made an appearance.  16 minutes off the bench.  Welcome back!

[Greek Tragedy]

Apparently I can do tables really easily, but took me awhile to figure out a picture, but I did!

All three trophies!  Wahoo!


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Took me awhile, but I knew I posted this!  Still looking for the picture of John Gleich, Jacob Nonemacher and lurker BanditUWSP.

[Greek Tragedy]

La Crosse loses to North Park 84-82 in OT as NP hits a shot at the buzzer to win it after La Crosse made one of two free throws with 8 seconds left to tie it.

[Gregory Sager]

My writeup of UWL @ NPU is in the CCIW room. Great game. Very entertaining: 23 lead changes, seven ties, and neither team had a lead bigger than eight points. I'm very impressed by the Eagles. I think that NPU had to play by far its best game of the season to earn the victory, and I'm not sure that UWL played as well as they're capable of playing, although it's not as though the Eagles stunk up the joint or anything. They played hard and did a lot of things well.

[Greek Tragedy]

St. Thomas takes down Stevens Point (again)...68-63 

[Greek Tragedy]

My writeup of UWL @ NPU is in the CCIW room. Great game. Very entertaining: 23 lead changes, seven ties, and neither team had a lead bigger than eight points. I'm very impressed by the Eagles. I think that NPU had to play by far its best game of the season to earn the victory, and I'm not sure that UWL played as well as they're capable of playing, although it's not as though the Eagles stunk up the joint or anything. They played hard and did a lot of things well.

Thanks Greg!

Overtime final from the crackerbox:

North Park 84
UW-LaCrosse 82

Mark Holmes: 32 pts, 10 rebs
Zach Cassita: 18 pts, 6 rebs, 11 asts (1 to)
Chris Benjamin: 12 pts, 7 rebs, 4 asts
Ryan Hyrn: 11 pts, 4 asts
Aaron Weaver: 10 pts

Chris Benjamin hit a baseline ten-footer as time expired in the extra session to give NPU the upset win over an 8-1 UW-LaCrosse team that's been getting votes in the d3hoops.com Top 25 poll. It was not a fluke win -- the Vikings played hard, executed well, and really did some things at both ends of the floor that I wasn't sure this team was capable of doing. It was a huge, richly-deserved win.

It was a very close game most of the way: 23 lead changes, seven ties, and neither team ever had a double-digit lead. But the Vikings did face a serious gut-check time, as the Eagles built their largest lead of the game -- eight points (75-67) -- on a layup with 1:57 left in regulation. But Mark Holmes hit a trey, the NPU full-court press forced a UWL turnover, Zach Cassita put in a layup, the NPU press forced another turnover, and Chris Benjamin buried a triple with 53 seconds left to tie the game. UWL rebounded their own missed trey with 27.6 seconds left to garner the last possession with the shot clock turned off, but coming out of a timeout the Eagles were unable to execute a sound play -- credit the Vikings with good, strong, clean defense -- and a 12-foot fadeaway at the buzzer by UWL's Braden Tice was airballed.

In overtime the lead continued to swing back and forth. NPU was up by one at 82-81 going into the final minute of OT and had the ball, but Benjamin went up too strong on a layup attempt and the ball was deflected out of bounds in favor of the Eagles. UWL's Michael Barrett got off a runner in the lane with eight seconds left that missed, but Brett Peterson fouled him on the arm on the play. Barrett missed the first free throw, made the second to tie up the game at 82 apiece, and that set the stage for Benjamin's heroics. North Park SID Kevin Shepke said to me later that he thought the ball might not have left Benjamin's hands before the buzzer went off, but the coaches and I watched the shot later on the game DVD, and the ball was a good four or five feet out of Benjamin's hands when the backboard lit up.

Zach Cassita was a major hero, as his penetration and passing skills were magnificent this evening. He was so deadly tonight that on the game's final play the entire UWL defense sagged to cover the lane to stop Cassita. He made great decisions with the ball all night, and the last one he made was to flip the ball to the wide-open Benjamin on the baseline for the game-winner. Tonight I saw the Zach Cassita that I have been expecting to see. He's still a little ragged-looking at times as far as point guard duties go, but it's hard to find fault with someone who goes 11:1 on the assists-to-turnovers ratio for the night.

Mark Holmes continues to be a quiet assassin. Tonight marked the second occasion this season in which he's gone over 30 points. What I especially liked about tonight's performance is that he didn't turn the ball over a single time. In fact, the team as a whole turned the ball over only ten times, and this was a North Park team that had really been plagued by turnovers this season. As Mark mentioned, the team's a:to was an unbelievable 22:10 this evening -- a case of great ball distribution and, frankly, a lot of all-out efforts to retain possessions of balls that occasionally bounced off of NPU hands, legs, feet, etc.

Benjamin played a strong game, even without the buzzer-beating heroics, and Ryan Hyrn kept the Eagles honest just by being a three-point threat whenever he was on the floor. Brett Peterson, as usual, had little to show for himself on the stat sheet, but his defense forced several late takeaways on UWL that were credited to other Vikings. He's a very necessary glue player for the Park.

I don't know yet if this was a case of "Cold Hands Lukes".

The Lukes went a collective 15-29 tonight for the Eagles, so that wasn't it.

Tonight I got to call my first-ever buzzer-beater. My apologies if I burst anybody's eardrums on the webcast, as I was screaming my fool head off after Benjamin made the shot. Let me tell you ... it's a lot of fun to call a buzzer-beater on the air for your team. Pete McBride was rooting for a Benjamin miss so that the game could've gone into a second overtime (it was a very entertaining game, after all), but I don't know if I could've handled another five minutes of that kind of tension.

Great win. Very encouraging, and very gratifying. Just when I was ready to throw up my hands and count out the Vikings, they surprise me like this. My response to them is: More like this one, please!

[John Gleich]

Apparently I can do tables really easily, but took me awhile to figure out a picture, but I did!

All three trophies!  Wahoo!


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Took me awhile, but I knew I posted this!  Still looking for the picture of John Gleich, Jacob Nonemacher and lurker BanditUWSP.

I found it today. I'd part it but my hard drive crashed on my laptop right after the UWSP game ended. I'll either figure it a way to send it'd to you or post it.

[AO]

St. Thomas takes down Stevens Point (again)...68-63 

I was very impressed by Point tonight.  Slowed the pace down successfully without having to take too many bad shots at the end of the shot clock.  Ritchay was fearless and Heuer brought his lunch pail.  Would not be surprised to see another matchup between these two in the tourney.

[Greek Tragedy]

Black Friday for WIAC teams as all three playimg go down.

La Crosse loses to an average North Park team (5-5] in overtime.

Oshkosh loses to a good Aurora team, NathCon South favorite
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And Stvens Point going down as well.

[fredfalcon]

RF ekes one out, 57-54, on Arik Smith's buzzer beating 3. Falcons trailed whole game, including 33-20 at half. Zach Peterson double-doubled for RF w/26 pts., 10 rbds. Nobody else in double figures for Falcons.

Ollie White did not play and has medical redshirt status for the remainder of the season. He will be eligible next year.

[Greek Tragedy]

RF ekes one out, 57-54, on Arik Smith's buzzer beating 3. Falcons trailed whole game, including 33-20 at half. Zach Peterson double-doubled for RF w/26 pts., 10 rbds. Nobody else in double figures for Falcons.

Ollie White did not play and has medical redshirt status for the remainder of the season. He will be eligible next year.

Wow, what happened to Ollie White?  No wonder Zach is playing a lot and doing well! 

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS: 75
Edgewood: 48

Luke Knoble scored the game's first seven points and the WARHAWKS opened a double digit lead which they never surrendered in the first four and half minutes of the game.  The lead grew to nineteen points, 40-21/ by the half.  Knoble led all scorers with 15 first half points as the WARHAWKS held Edgewood to 36% shooting while shooting 62% themselves.  Free throw shooting continued to be an issue however as the WARHAWKS only made 5 of 10 first half chances.  Starting the second half with a 10-0 run quickly ended any hopes Edgewood may have held and after that it was bench clearing time as all fifteen players dressed and eleven scored points. 

The WARHAWKS finished the game shooting 51% from the floor and out rebounded Edgewood 40-25.  Knoble finished with a game high 17 points in 22 minutes.  Eric Bryson added 11 points.  Quardell Young's 5 assists were a game high and reserves Steve Egan and Patrick Souter had a game high 7 rebounds and 3 steals respectively.  The WARHAWKS dominated the paint outscoring Edgewood 46-26. 

The WARHAWKS will travel to DePere to face Northwestern (Mn) on the 29th and either Marian or host St Norberts on the 30th. 
   

[Pat Coleman]

Jacob Nonemacher is 7'0", I'm 5'3", no idea how tall BanditUWSP is, and I think John is 6'9"

Umm, still trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong as they come out all blurry but the ones I reposted from a few years ago come out fine. 

Maybe Pat Coleman can help me out!

Looks like this is from Flickr, correct? Can you post a link to the Flickr page? Or grab the URL of a larger version of the photo?