MBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[frodotwo]

Pointers beat Cardinal Stritch 69-54. Playing signature tough defense and passing the ball well. 21 Assists by the team. Jon Krull 19, frosh Pete Rortvedt 14. Very young team but great potential. At Ripon next Friday, a huge test for them.

[frodotwo]

Forgot to mention the unveiling of the 2004-2005 NCAA DIII Championship banner before the game and the WI State legislature honoring former coach Jack Bennett at halftime. A great night for Pointer fans!

[John Gleich]

You make it too easy Titan2000... La Crosse beat Oshkosh AT Oshkosh last season, towards the end of the year.  So YES, like La Crosse.

I'm really surprized to see the Whitewater score.  I can't wait to hear details.

Scores Posted thusfar:

Point over Cardinal Stritch 69-54
Loras  over Whitewater  73-71
Platteville over Simpson 73-43
La Crosse over Buena Vista 80-57
Stout over St. Thomas 91-90
Coe over Eau Claire 66-54
Concordia St. Paul over RF 57-54

No score yet from St. Scholastica on the UW Sup/Martin Luther game

[Brian Carroll]

    Oh me of lttle faith. Eagles use 17 players to club BV. This is not the kind of LC team we are used to seeing, though BV started more underclassmen than I expected. WIAC teams better be prepared to play when they face this edition of the Eagles. It should be interesting. Great job, coach Koebel.

[titan2000]

Pointy One:

Remember the next game the Titans drilled the Pointers with Gibson dominating the game.

BTW, Ripon lost to Marian last night so maybe it won't be that big a challenge for you.  As we always say on the MWC board, better dead than red.

[laxeagles1]

    Oh me of lttle faith. Eagles use 17 players to club BV. This is not the kind of LC team we are used to seeing, though BV started more underclassmen than I expected. WIAC teams better be prepared to play when they face this edition of the Eagles. It should be interesting. Great job, coach Koebel.

It's one game.  I was only there for the first half but I liked what I saw.  A)Joe Werner is going to be the best player in conference to his team, hands down(not to say Oshkosh's big two are not good but Werner's value to the Eagles is greater imho)....B) the bench isn't totally settled, Bemis and Brown look like the 6-7 guys, we need to figure out the 8-9 guy before 'life is great'.......I liked what I saw in the team and coach, but it's one game and they won their first game last year as well (thinking back too long to two years ago not last year)..........Should be an exciting year and I hope the players continue to play their butts off.................

The best positive I saw was the hustle on defense.  It was the first game but I have NEVER, in my four years at Lax, seen a Lax defense hustle like that.  It was sure a treat to watch from what i saw..........Another victory tonight would be great

negative i saw from the first half:  FT shooting.  Just amazing to me.......I was never the best player when i played in high school and whatnot but free throws were easy to make.  I expect no less than 70% all game(actually 80% but in today's day and age it's impossible for a team to shoot that)...........So that was the big negative I saw in the first half for Lax

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  #3 Wooster 90  Wisconsin-Stout 82

Wooster was led by their top player Tom Port who had a career high 29 points, including 8 three pointers.  James Cooper had 21 points, Devin Fulk chipped in 14 points and Kyle Witucky added 11 points for Wooster.

Wisconsin-Stout won the board battle, shot 54% from the floor and still lost this game because of Wooster's superior shooting (17 three pointers made).  This is not atypical -- Wooster has 5 guys who can all nail the three point shot.  Chaisson led Stout with 15 points and both Farmer and Nonemacher had 12 points.

[buf]

EC over Buena Vista by about 6 in a fast tempo exciting game that was close throughout.  Dan Ottney and BJ Vetterkind led the Blugolds.  EC played pretty well when they had their starting PG in, but when he went out, they struggled with turnovers.

In other WIAC action,

Robert Morris(Chicago) 77
UWP 71

Robert Morris (Springfield) 68
UWW 51

Whats going on at UWW???

Coe 48
LAX 67

UWL's scores have been very impressive so far!

[David Collinge]

There's something wacky going on with the scoreboard tonight.  UW-WW actually beat Robt Morris (Springfield).  Read the press release: http://d3hoops.com/releases.php?release=52658

Congratulations to Stout for a very good showing at Wooster.  Their "wear-'em-out" strategy that worked against a 6-man UST rotation last night wasn't quite as effective against the 9-man Wooster rotation tonight.  Stout had a good advantage inside and pressed that advantage, but they gave Wooster's sharpshooters too many open looks from the arc, and Wooster made them pay.  This game could easily have gone Stout's way, but tonight Wooster just shot the ball too well. 

All in all, I'd say Stout had a good weekend, beating a good UST team (and picking up an important in-region win), and losing to a very good Wooster team that rarely loses at home.  And since it was an out-of-region game, it's basically ignored by the NCAA, so there's no real harm done. 

Good luck to the Blue Devils the rest of the way.

[buf]

Sorry about the post on the UWW score.  I thought I saw some weird things on the scoreboard tonight (No ranking by Ill. Wesleyan, Maine Farmington women ranked #4, instead of Southern Maine???)

[bulk19]

Blugolds win 70-64 vs. Buena Vista, in a fairly well-played first half by both teams, considering it's the second game of the season for each of them each...

But the second half turned ugly, with the ball squirting out all over the place, and bodies flying, too, at each other, and on the floor for the ball. Might have been due to an increase in intensity on both team's part, though.

Key stat - BV was 9 of 24 from the free throw line. Hats off to all the kids in attendance on Kids' Night, who were stamping feet like they had ants in their pants. Not sure how much it really rattled the opponent, but 9-24 isn't going to cut it... Nice to see the 'Golds didn't get rattled down the stretch in a close game...

Blugolds will scrap and definitely shoot, hustle and play D. Not sure when the lack of size and lack of experience will catch up to them, though, but in the WIAC it will...

[stormy]

is that score right i thought ww was up by 13-15 with 7 to go it was like
55-40

[stormy]

 ;Dmy bad shud have read page 33 first congrats warhawks

[miacwatchmen]

I was in attendance last night at the UW-RF vs. SJU game and i was impressed with River Falls. They had the Johnnies on the ropes.  I know the WIAC is strong but how can those guys be predicted to finish .500 in conference !! WOW that is a tough team. I was impressed with their shooters and the hulk of a human they had in the middle.!!! Does anyone know who he is # 44  very good ball player !

[titan2000]

Maybe the MIAC sucks ?