MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[from downtown]

Scott Murphy's basket with 2.6 seconds vs. Marian gave the Raiders a 1 point victory tonight. MSOE was down by double digits (I bleieve 14) midway through the second have after Coach Miller took a double technical and was ejected from the game but MSOE crawled back. Nice crowd and a nice homecoming win.

[Gregory Sager]

Greg,
Wasn't Dominican a provisional member of the LMC? Did that have to do with it, as without MSOE being the 7th participating school, the LMC only had 6 members?

No, because if Dominican was provisional it was strictly as an LMC member, not as a NCAA D3 member. In other words, the provisional status would've been internal, not external. As far as the NCAA was concerned, the LMC would've had seven member schools in good standing that play men's basketball even after MSOE left the fold.

[WLCALUM83]

12/2 NathCon final:

Per Benedictine's site:  Benedictine 78, Concordia Chicago 67.

[libero]

The conference was told by the NCAA that the AQ would be preserved if all original LMC members joined the new conference. This was a customized mandate, not a set policy.

The LMC blew it, by not sticking together and making the NIIC teams join. There was no reason for the LMC to fold. The NIIC was a dysfunctional 5-team conference that was going nowhere. Imagine where they would be today as Clarke goes NAIA, Dom joins the LMC and Rockford imploads on itself.

[Illinihoops4]

Dominican was a full fledged member of the LMC last year. Funny how they wanted to join that conference to get away of the "reputations" of a couple of the other NIIC schools. The move was very much football driven and Clarke's decision to go NAIA (from the president and supported by some of the staff) was partly decided by the fact that missed class time among other things was supposed to be an emphasis when figuring out the scheduling. That obviously was not the case.  A few members of the staff were very much in favor of going NAIA as many of them went or worked for NAIA Mt.Mercy.

[WLCALUM83]

12/05 Projection:

Dominican over Maranatha:  (The Stars take out their frustrations on Maranatha. Even without last Saturday's loss, Dominican's got a lot of people who can step it up on offense.) 

[lmcfan33]

Prediction for 12/5:

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Dominican over Maranatha. Wait...I think I WILL go out on a limb and change that-- 'Natha stuns the Stars in OT.   

[libero]

Durty, you haven't made a lot of money in Vegas, have you.

[The Lone Sader]

The Stars by 10 tonight against Natha. MBBC has improved but they are just looking forward until they play Rockford (best shot at a conference win)

[escalade07]

BU fan,
You have got to be kidding me. You wanna talk about unsportsmanliek behavior, lets go there. I seem to remember being flipped the bird last season several times by one of your players. He also made a gesture like mooning towards the students. Second, the only pathetic thing would be the way you guys almost blew the game. CUC is haveing a rough start and the fans are frustrated. When a coach acts the way yours does he is asking for what he got. Finally, if you have such strong feelihgs why talk about it online. Be a man and say something after the game. Bottom Line CUC lost and we are dealing with that. But BU is a sorry excuse for sportsmanship and you need to see the players actions before the fans, because the players play and the fans watch!

[The Lone Sader]

Dominican 101 MBBC 37!!!
I know that Natha is bad, but this has reached a whole new level of embarrassment. Is there a D IIII that we can play in??
Go Lady Saders
Lady Saders 67 Stars 66!!!

[lmcfan33]

ok ok so I went out on a limb and it broke... You just gotta pick an upset ONCE in a while. Obviously I was wrong to pick this one. I talked to someone that was at that game for Dominican and apparently they came out in a match-up zone and 'Natha didn't know what to do with it. (not that they would know what to do anyways) That's just embarrassing.

[WLCALUM83]

Per the box score on the Stars' website, Dominican also outshot MBBC 70% to 11% in the first half, and the Stars shot 72% for the entire game!

(Now Maranatha knows how WLC's WBB team felt earlier this season after UW-Stevens Point blew the Warriors out by just shy of 40 points on the Warriors' home floor--the Pointers shot 61% in that game).

The point of my last 2 lines is--it's better not to throw stones too harshly from one's (my) own glass house. 

[WLCALUM83]

Go Lady Saders
Lady Saders 67 Stars 66!!!

As per play by play of box score, sounds like Goff and Peterson came up big on D in the last few seconds of that one. Even though 2 of the Stars' scoring threats still got their points, Crusader women apparently shot better as well. 

[WLCALUM83]

12/06 projections:

Lakeland over Concordia-Chicago

Edgewood over Marian

Benedictine over Rockford  (Regents' lack of size inside hurts their chances).

Aurora over WLC.