MBB: Midwest Conference

[Old Fighting Scot]

I will indeed be there in spirit. 

system fan, MC will not deploy the long bombers tonite.  MC very rarely shoots 3's against the system.  Beaird and Hebler will probably be the only two Scots that even have shooting a single trey on their mind tonite.  Ol tg usually tries to employ the beat them with two and at the line strategy against the pioneers.

[scottie]

Old School,
I think you underestimate Larry.  I was at the Ripon game, and Ripon gave them a hard game.....reguardless of the record that was a big win for Lawrence.  And I would have to say Ripon is better than their record.  Even Larry fans said that after the game. 
Oh yeah, Braier is a machine. 

mwc4life and I sat together at the game, and you should have seen when they annouced him....last of course of the 5....But the other 4 came through announced and the crowd and team cheered, but when Braier stepped through announced, the team and crowd erupted!!  No larry fan was seated and the team just responds to him.

Early - "reguardless"?   You must be consumed with the absence of Steve Cool...this board is reguardless.  He's "wanted dead or alive."   8)

An "early" prediction: MC 98, Pios 92 

[titan2000]

Roop and other Beloit supporters:

A few years ago my 5 year old son heard me tell my wife that LU played Beloit and he told me, with a smile on his face, that Beloit was  "the underwater fart city" 

From the mouths of babes........if you don't get it, just imagine it.   

[The Roop]

Yes, that's a little Wisconsin humor that has been around for as long as I can remember. Can't give you any applauds for it because it's an old joke to me. Although it is the time I've heard it in the 5+ years I've been back in Wisconsin. Which leads me to a joke for you..........

Does your wife still talk in her sleep

[titan2000]

Roop:

I heard here talking the other night.  She said that if she did it with a Beloit grad it wasn't considered "cheating".  Something about needing to know it. 

[The Roop]

That could very well be true as I didn't go there. Better keep listening 

[tps040580]

Knox 59
Lake Forest 55
Maclin got 15 points

Ripon 65
St. Norbert 53
Schmitting 9-10 shooting for 20 points

[polek2]

mwc4life,
Just cuz you played for and coached with good coaches doesn't mean you are a good coach.  Unfortunatly you can't learn by osmosis.  Obviously we are going to disagree on this matter.  As far as Ripon big men go this is the first time in a very very long time that Ripon has a inside bigman that is a focal point in the offense.  Usually Ripon is all about guard play.  So over Vraney's career at Ripon who were the other big time big men that he so amazingly coached?   It is interesting that he finally leaves and a big man starts playing well, which I think may be attributed to the fact that the big men no longer waste practice time doing pointless ungamelike drills that I have witnessed vraney running.  Also seeing Vraney force big men on defense to fully front their mark at the high post lost him a lot of points in my book, luckly a player confronted him on it got yelled at which brought Gillie over who then sided with the player and said fronting the high post is dumb we arn't going to do that.  So that is my opinion and what it is based on.  Like I said in my first post.  He is a good guy nothing against him personally just his coaching.

[jeffdc]

Any word on the GC-MC game? Curious fans want to know.

[Maverick]

Final from Glennie:
Grinnell 128 - Monmouth 125 (OT)

Close game all the way through the entire 45 minutes of play--that being said, the Scots should have had this one but let it get away late in regulation.  Too many missed opportunities (missed lay-ups and missed free throws) in the final minutes of the second half.  If those are made, MC takes the lead by 5-6 points rather than keeping the score at a tie or a one-possession game late.  I'll wait for now to see what schwanman, Fighting Scots 13, or any other poster that was there has to say on the game.

[scottie]

Sounds like a helluva game.  Gotta make those free throws...

[mwc4life]

Tps040580~

You beat me to the punch!  (dam, i was going to pick KC over LFC too!)

Any other updates?

Ripon beats SNC by 12 and the final score was as close as SNC got the whole 2nd half.

http://www.ripon.edu/athletics/mbasketball/0506Season/mbbgm10.htm


Some strange stats for the game:

Ripon shoots over 60% as a team at home and McMullen gets 1 pt. playing only 25 minutes. Wise gets 3 pts in 34 some odd minutes??? Where was the guy that tore LU apart...need more consistancy.  It's good to see one guy keep getting better and better (schmitting).

I still haven't figured out why Ripon doesn't go to Schmitting every possesion.  9/10 FG....are you kidding!!!  Good to see Bo Johnson bounce back with a really good shooting night.  Ripon scores 1 pt. in the first 6 1/2 minutes of play before waking up. 

Polek2

Well, it sounds to me like you had some personal problems that you witnessed/experienced to arrive at your opinion.  Since I never played down low I can't really tell you from my experience what he did for me.  All I know is that he cared a lot about helping Ripon Basketball.  He stayed after to help players, he demanded workouts, he got on everyone for lifting, he ran the off-season training, watched a ton of game tape, he drove a ways from work to be at Ripon for practice and he was very apart of the game-plans.  These are all things good coaches do.  He has a defensive mentality and I'm willing to bet you that if he ever gets his own gig that all his players play real hard...he demands it.  Since we're obviously not going to agree and whatever life experience you had ruined your idea of him being a coach cause he...fronted the post and did ungamelike drills (which are what by the way) then we should drop it. 

"As far as Ripon big men go this is the first time in a very very long time that Ripon has a inside bigman that is a focal point in the offense. Usually Ripon is all about guard play."

-Is this because Vraney was a bad coach that this is the first year Ripon's had a true big man?  You don't think he had anything to do with Schmitting's development? Ripon IS usually a guard oriented team that doesn't do a great job of feeding it inside...Vraney's fault? 

"So over Vraney's career at Ripon who were the other big time big men that he so amazingly coached?"

Scott Landish, Kieck, Liska, Vraney, Butrym....anyways he did a lot more then coach the bigs.  He never really had a player the liked playing with his back to the basket.  When you had guards like Glocke, Kohl, Becker its hard not to be.  But Schmitting just got good over night.

[The Roop]

LU 65 Beloit 61

[mwc4life]

Away games are always tough when everyone is gunnin for you

[mwc4life]

Ummmmm....I'm not going to say nuttin, but....that dude aint rite!

Check out John Grotberg's stat line in Grinnell's improbable comeback 128-125!


http://www.midwestconference.org/mbasketball/GCMC1-10m.htm