MBB: Midwest Conference

[The Roop]

The New Roop Order
has heard all the haiku pleas
become one with it

[The Roop]

Lunch time is over
"The Roop" must go back to work
night shift has grown old

[Mr. Ypsi]

If daily haiku
is the order from on high,
must we all obey?

[Pat Coleman]

What's wrong with saying "NO. 38 Carroll".  IF one would put numbers in front of the "others receiving votes" teams, that's exactly what they would be.  I'm not suggesting that the poll be expanded (the Top 25 is just fine), but let the stragglers enjoy some limelight, especially since there are 400 or so DIII teams.  NO. 38 sounds pretty good now.

Problem is, it's a Top 25. It's not a Top 40. Ask Don Hansen if he wants to rank basketball teams again, you might find someone willing to give a Top 40.

[jeffdc]

GC falls to Wartburg, 111 - 97. I'll leave the details as usual to JeffP. Suffice it to say that Wartburg played very well, particularly defensively.

[scottie]

Hoping to hear news
that's good from Maple City.
What say you Schwannie?

[Maverick]

Final from Glennie:

MC 87 - AU 80

Chad Trudo hit 10-14 on 3's for 32 points to lead Aurora.  However, Chris Hebeler did just a little better knocking down 12-17 on 3's to lead Monmouth with 38 points.  I wasn't at the game but judging from the box score and stat lines like those, I sure wish I would've been.  Anyhow, a good win for the Scots heading into the winter break.

[schwanman]

Hebeler on fire
Trudo answering right back
What a game tonight!

(For those scoring at home, Hebeler is two syllables ... it's like the middle "e" isn't there. At least, that's our story)

For those reading at home, you might also think the "D" was missing. But a lot of the threes, especially Hebeler's, were decently guarded.

Odds are, Hebeler will cool off just a tad now ... the Scots don't play for a month!

[Maverick]

Schwanman, Maverick,

At least one team seems to be doing well in Monmouth?  are the Titans as good as i thought they would be or have they just not played anyone yet?  and maverick how are the baby titans doing?  I need updates, i miss it soo much.....

Wait until the Titans play the Ghosts!!  Nice OT win over the conference champs last night..

Smoov, how far are you from Glendale?

Old Fighting Scot - The Titans are having a good season so far, 6-1 record.  Haven't played much competition yet, but went down to the wire with the state's 15th-ranked team (Orion) last night and just missed pulling out a win.  The sophs are 2-0 with a nice win in last night's game against a strong Orion soph. team and should continue to be good throughout the season.  The freshmen (baby Titans) are 1-2 right now; struggling a little bit but we're going to get it turned around real soon.  I'll try to keep you updated better in the future!

Snydz - I don't think we'd have to play the Ghosts unless it was sometime in March during the Elite 8 in good ol' Peoria.  You are right in that it was a hell of a nice win for them over Washington and that Roth kid last night--not too bad for a sophomore.

[scottie]

Geesh!  Did they have to replace the nets after the game?  Those guys were on fire. 

Congrats to the Scots!  Hopefully they can begin to match that intensity in conference play.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Hebeler on fire
Trudo answering right back
What a game tonight!

(For those scoring at home, Hebeler is two syllables ... it's like the middle "e" isn't there. At least, that's our story)

For those from the south, you don't have to truncate Hebeler - fire is only one syllable!

[tps040580]

Wow. 12-17 from behind the arc.  And 10-14 isn't bad either. 44 threes in a game really isn't really Glasgow's style. That has to be about 20-25 more attempts than usual. It must have been a strange game to watch, but I guess if you are making them like that, the reigns get loosened a bit.

The Grinnell-Wartburg boxscore looked interesting too because after hearing the Beloit and Ripon people talking about fouls my eyes immeditately went there. It really was a huge disparity tonight.  Wartburg took 47 FTs to Grinnell's 14. I wasn't expecting to see it given it was a home game. Also interesting, Monmouth took as many threes as Grinnell. 

SNC hung around with UWO for a long time as well. UWO led 46-44 with 5:54 left before going on 6-0 run over next 2:20. 57-52 final. 

[dahammer]

Interesting that LU05 would bring up Carroll and transfers.  It seems that with a little research every team currently has or had transfers play a role.  St Norb has lallensack and Zepnick (had K Hanalu POY 03), BC has Dowden and Horton, Ripon has Kellet and Mueller (had Becker POY 05), LU has Bradley, Knox has Zick, and MC has a couple also and those are just the ones I could find anything on.  Transfers are a part of D3 and every team has guys that don't play. Didn't Coach Tharp start off his career at LU by getting a Beloit player to transfer with him causing a lot of bad blood with Coach Knapton? My point being lay off the transfer bashing.  It seems that Tharp may be getting  worried after seeing Carroll play at Carthage and set out his goon squad to try and discredit a team that may beat them.  If this Carroll Team wins it this season it will be because they had the best team this year.  If you see this Carroll Team this season you will be impressed.

[d3bbfan]

Dowden is a freshman...1st year out of high school. Horton went to a JC and didnt play ball there.

An amazing and disapointing game for Beloit at Carthage. It looked like Beloit was gonna get blown out....they were down by 20 with 10 min to go. Then they started a come back and took the lead by 3 with 15 secs to play. a TO and missed shots put the game into over time.  BC went up by 3 in the OT but just couldnt hang on for the win. If any good came out of the game the BC didnt quit and should have came out with the win. It was a very exciting game. A great come back. Wish they would have come out with the win.

[Greek Tragedy]

Should the Larry U faithful expect a win on Sunday then?  Not sure what your post is trying to say, if Beloit was good enough to come back to almost win or if Carthage was bad enough to blow a huge lead!  Though, they have to be good to get that lead in the first place...or Beloit bad enough to give it to them!