MBB: Midwest Conference

[GC]

1st time poster.  Don't know if this has been mentioned yet but I thought you guys might be interested (Grinnell Fans especially).  Word is that tonight against Monmouth, Grinnell will play the system as usually with one slight variation: Grotberg will be playing all 40 minutes (or as close to that as possible).  Does anyone know the Grinnell record for shots taken by and individual player in game (or points scored for that matter)?  Could be very interesting.

[systemfan86]

 
Grotberg playing 40 minutes?! That's nearly impossible to believe. In fact, I doubt that that is true. Sorry GC.

I can't come up with a single reason that might be true. Grinnell is fighting for a spot in the conference tournament and their chances to win this game go down if Grotberg - or any other player - attempts to play all 40 minutes. You don't go from 18 minutes a game to 40.   

[jeffdc]

1st time poster.  Don't know if this has been mentioned yet but I thought you guys might be interested (Grinnell Fans especially).  Word is that tonight against Monmouth, Grinnell will play the system as usually with one slight variation: Grotberg will be playing all 40 minutes (or as close to that as possible).  Does anyone know the Grinnell record for shots taken by and individual player in game (or points scored for that matter)?  Could be very interesting.

Seems improbable - but Arsenault is known for fiddling with the system. I'd like to see Ticus and Schmidt and Chamberlain get more minutes, personally.

We'll see what happens.
GC, you a student?

[titan2000]

Grotberg is going to try to score at least 81 points and then he is going to the Saints Rest, where he will attempt to have small talk and later big talk with one of the female staff.  

No word yet on him going pro after this season.

[Early]

Ripon does have a tradition of playing well against ranked teams.....especially at home.  Actually mwc, the IWU game was 4 years ago, but I'm just being picky. 

I remember a player that could play 40 minutes in the system.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nice one Titan2000, very funny.  By the way there were Toronto Raptors scouts at Darby last weekend, so who knows.

[mwc4life]

I remember a player who could play 40 minutes vs. the system and then dunked the ball in the 39th minute!!!

Hint:  Early knows him!

[mwc4life]

                                         FG%    3pt%  FT%      TOT  pf  TP A  to    st   min
10 Tommy Becker........ g 12-16   0-0    7-7    0  3  3   3  31  7  2  0  6  39


Sorry, he came out under a minute!


Early...you disagree with me again and no more score update!!!

[The Roop]

I supposed if Grinnell played a little "Goon Ball", Arsenaults term not mine, that Grotberg could play 40 minutes. Just leave him on the offensive end when he got tired. Not sure what is trying to be proven here though.

[jeffdc]

I suspect it's a rumor to freak out MC.

So, MC, you scared yet? 

[Gregory Sager]

With the new format their is a first week host, which is specified as the highest seed with no capacity limit.  The capacity limit is for sectionals.  If Lawrence gets the bye, they will obviously host one game, but even without a bye, they can still host, even if they aren't exactly at 1,000, at least semantically.

True, but the point OS was raising concerned sectionals.

[Gregory Sager]

Does that include hosting a FOUR TEAM SECTIONAL?

That's a redundancy, OS. All sectionals consist of four teams.

This hosting stuff is not a closely-guarded state secret, folks. The 2006 handbook is downloadable on a PDF file on the www.ncaa.org website.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I guess we could always ask Pat to check his ip address and see if GC is really a student or from somewhere else.  That is one thing I regret from this new board, that you can't track down people's ip addresses.  It was my #1 secret for uncovering anonymous posters in the CCC room.

[The Roop]

Bye teams have had to travel in the past lets not forget. I think it has happened twice in the past 5 years. And I'm not so sure a top 5 ranking guarantees you one anyway. With the Great Lakes as loaded as they are right now, the NCAA pretty much has to move teams out of there. The 3 team/bye brackets would be one way of doing that.

[Gregory Sager]

Good point, Roop. Keep in mind, though, that one of the bye brackets will almost certainly be used for the West Coast teams for travel purposes. And there's a good chance that another will be used for the teams in the middle south, i.e., the ASC rep(s) and Trinity (TX)/Southwestern (if one of them gets a bid).

add another to the list who would like to see a round robin. The 14 game schedule is left over from the old 2 division conference which disappeared years ago.

"Double round-robin", actually. A single round-robin means one pass through the league, which is what the NESCAC does. What the MWC currently does (and what the NAC will do when it plays its inaugural season next year) is play a modified double round-robin in which two of the home-and-homes are reduced to a single game.

Think of it this way: The various D3 leagues are competing on a nine-hole golf course. A single round-robin is nine holes of golf. A double round-robin is the full eighteen holes, in other words two entire trips around the course. The NESCAC plays nine holes and then retires to the clubhouse to sip manhattans and discuss their stock portfolios. Most of the rest of the leagues -- the CCIW, NJAC, OAC, WIAC, MIAA, MIAC, SUNYAC, etc. -- play the full eighteen holes. The MWC plays the front nine, then starts the back nine but runs out of steam somewhere around the sixteenth or seventeenth hole, at which point they walk off the course and wander over into the pro shop to write dirty haikus on the bathroom wall.