MBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Stout survivor]

Hard to pick right now but my 2 cents

Player of the year - Jeff Skemp (no Gibson, Cobb, Nonemacher, Werner) he is a very good player with good guard play

07-08
Platt - nice core of players coming back with some good new peices
Point - Can they shoot ... I think so
UWW - If they can stay diciplined they are athletic and should be tough
River - Got something good going on can they keep it going
Lax- got some good guard talent who will fill the middle
Stout - my heart wants to say they will be first, they have talent but as in the teams that follow how well will they gel in thier first year together.  Biggest impact by a first year player Cole Kraft.
Oshy - Reloaded and will compete but may have a little trouble closing out games.
Suptown - really like what is going on up north still learning how to win in the wiac, should not to much longer befor they are in the top 4.
EC - finish thier fall from the top and Zorn will sit 3/4 empty agian.

I do feel that 3rd to 8th is wide open with any one of those teams stay healthy and get hot can make a big push

Now I am all excited and it is only June.

[Greek Tragedy]

Schedules so far

La Crosse

Platteville

River Falls

Stout

[chmarx]

Thanks, OS.

[wcbsas]

Stout - my heart wants to say they will be first, they have talent but as in the teams that follow how well will they gel in thier first year together.  Biggest impact by a first year player Cole Kraft.

Cole Kraft played football and baseball at Winona State (D2 school) this past year.  In fact he saw the field as a freshman WR and was the teams 4th leading receiver.

Are we talking the same Cole Kraft from Menomonie WI?

[wcbsas]

Stout

Stout plays two D2 teams including powerhouse Winona State (2006 National Champions and 2007 Runner-ups)!

[John Gleich]

Stout

Stout plays two D2 teams including powerhouse Winona State (2006 National Champions and 2007 Runner-ups)!

Wonder if Winona will duck the Bluedevils like they ducked the Pointers last year...

[wcbsas]

Stout

Stout plays two D2 teams including powerhouse Winona State (2006 National Champions and 2007 Runner-ups)!

Wonder if Winona will duck the Bluedevils like they ducked the Pointers last year...

Please elaborate ...

[John Gleich]

Point and Winona had agreed to play a home and home, and at a fairly late date, Winona backed out.  Point had to scramble to find enough games and was able to replace it with the game against Regis (CO)... a game that ended up being cancelled by Denver's storm right after Christmas, so Point played one game less than everybody else anyway.

[wcbsas]

Point and Winona had agreed to play a home and home, and at a fairly late date, Winona backed out.  Point had to scramble to find enough games and was able to replace it with the game against Regis (CO)... a game that ended up being cancelled by Denver's storm right after Christmas, so Point played one game less than everybody else anyway.

Last year Winona had some scheduling difficulties, starting with:

The University of Minnesota is required to rotate playing one Minnesota D2 school in their exhibition schedule.  Last year was Winona's turn.  UofMinnesota tried avoiding it (righfully so ... seeing as they lost to Winona) by delaying deferring their schedule all the way into August.

Because of that Winona's schedule was turned upside down.  They were going to play in the Disney Classic in November but had to cancel it because of UofM.

I'm sure the Point game got caught up in that turbulence. 

[Greek Tragedy]

The Pointer women's schedule is up, so that means I can at least figure out the men's conference schedule...

S-12/1 at Whitewater
W-12/5 at La Crosse

S-Jan. 5 Oshkosh
W-Jan 9 River Falls
S-Jan. 12 Platteville
W-Jan. 16 at Stout
S-Jan. 19 Superior
W-Jan. 23 Eau Claire

S-Jan. 26 at Oshkosh
W-Jan. 30 at River Falls
W-Feb. 6 Stout
S-Feb. 9 at Superior
W-Feb. 13 at Eau Claire
S-Feb. 16 Whitewater
W-Feb. 20 La Crosse
S-Feb. 23 at Platteville

First 8 games is a 5 home/3 away split, with the three road games all traditionally tough.  It's a killer final three games (not sure how good La Crosse will be). 

Traveling-wise, it looks like I'll put less miles on my car this year with FOUR away games during the week that are WEST of Stevens Point (EC, LX, RF and ST).  It's too bad because I loved going up to Stout for the double-header.  Last year, only Eau Claire and Platteville were away during the week and I even drove the 3 hours to Platteville, only missing the midweek away games to Eau Claire and the nonconference game to Viterbo.  I guess I can always go to Whitewater or Oshkosh during those midweek away games, but can I actually go to another game when I know Point is playing??

I'm guessing we'll get Viterbo at home, Ripon and Lakeland away as usual.  Northern Michigan is coming to town, I think.  Rumor around the campfire is that we're headed to Amherst for a tourney.  Augustana came to Point last year, so I'm assuming we're headed to their place this year.  We drove to Appleton and Waukesha last year, so maybe Lawrence and Carroll will return the favor this year.  That would be our nine nonconference games.

Viterbo (H)
Ripon (A)
Lakeland (A)
Northern Michigan (H)
Amherst tourney (two games) (A)
Augustana (A)
Lawrence (H)
Carroll (H)

[John Gleich]

Tom,

Do these factor in the double headers?  I haven't looked at the women's schedule, so perhaps it says which games these are.

[Greek Tragedy]

Tom,

Do these factor in the double headers?  I haven't looked at the women's schedule, so perhaps it says which games these are.

I'm guessing all Saturday conference games are double-headers.

[chmarx]

That sounds right to me.

[BDB]

Coach Eddie Andrist is overseas coaching the Qatar National Team in it's quest to qualify for the 2008 Bejing Olympics.

Here's a couple interesting websites to see how he is doing. The first one has a bit on Jake Nonemacher as well.

http://www.asia-basket.com/QAT/QAT.asp

http://uwstoutmbb.blogspot.com/

[John Gleich]

The Pointer women's schedule is up, so that means I can at least figure out the men's conference schedule...

S-12/1 at Whitewater
W-12/5 at La Crosse
S-12/15 at Ripon
S-12/22  at Augustana

S-Jan. 5 Oshkosh
W-Jan 9 River Falls
S-Jan. 12 Platteville
W-Jan. 16 at Stout
S-Jan. 19 Superior
W-Jan. 23 Eau Claire

S-Jan. 26 at Oshkosh
W-Jan. 30 at River Falls
W-Feb. 6 Stout
S-Feb. 9 at Superior
W-Feb. 13 at Eau Claire
S-Feb. 16 Whitewater
W-Feb. 20 La Crosse
S-Feb. 23 at Platteville


Viterbo (H)
Lakeland (A)
Northern Michigan (H)
Amherst tourney (two games) (A)
Lawrence (H)
Carroll (H)

Here's some other dates:

Dec. 15  At Ripon 7:00 p.m.
December 22  At Augustana 7:30 p.m.

Also, NMU doesn't have UWSP on their schedule