MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Greek Tragedy]

12/16 Final:  Benedictine 74, Lakeland 66 (per Benedictine's web site).

And This Site has Lakeland winning!  As does the Lakeland site...2 v 1!

[WLCALUM83]

OS, I guess you're right. I stand (and sit) corrected.

[Greek Tragedy]

OS, I guess you're right. I stand (and sit) corrected.

I wasn't right, persay...I just checked this site's scores first, then saw your post and then went to the Lakeland site as well...and that's not to say Lakeland's site is always right and Ben's is not! 

[WLCALUM83]

12/18 Non-Conference Final:

North Central 74, Benedictine 54.

Conference Final:

Marian 68, Concordia-Chicago 56.

Dominican gets Coe of Iowa tomorrow.

[AndOne]

North Central 74
Benedictine    54

Leading scorers for Benedictine---Bridgeman 12 pts, Swanson 11 pts
                          for NCC--Walton 25 pts. (11 fo 16), frosh Reid Barringer 20 pts (7/13)

Rebounds--Benedictine 23,  NCC 43 (Walton 10)

Remarkable stat of the night----Benedictine was held to one 2 pt FG in the 2nd
                half--along with 5 threes

[WLCALUM83]

12/19 Non-conference finals:

MSOE 67, Concordia-Chicago 59.

Aurora, IL 99, Loras 71.

Dominican vs. Coe yet to come in.

[Gregory Sager]

12/19 Non-conference finals:

MSOE 67, Concordia-Chicago 59.

Aurora, IL 99, Loras 71.

Dominican vs. Coe yet to come in.

Coe beat Dominican, 72-61. The Stars will face Lake Forest in the consolation game of the Midwest Invitational tournament out in Huntington Beach, CA on Wednesday evening.

[coebball70]

Watched Aurora handle Loras last evening.  Surprised at volume of 3-pt. attempts, 17 of 43, in fact 2/3 of fga were 3's!  Aurora should win NAC.  Eager to see Edgewood re-match.  Game with Millikin tomorrow night will determine if they are truly strong.  Aurora's schedule is extremely weak.  They should schedule more CCIW and IIAC teams next year instead of a cake-walk!

[keith45]

Watched Aurora handle Loras last evening.  Surprised at volume of 3-pt. attempts, 17 of 43, in fact 2/3 of fga were 3's!  Aurora should win NAC.  Eager to see Edgewood re-match.  Game with Millikin tomorrow night will determine if they are truly strong.  Aurora's schedule is extremely weak.  They should schedule more CCIW and IIAC teams next year instead of a cake-walk!

Coebball,
Due to the new conference, AU doesn't have a ton of non conference games to schedule. They played and beat a CCIW school which was ranked top 15 I think (North Central), they have 1 more CCIW school on the schedule, as well as Beloit and a so-so NAIA school which they beat...They also have Clarke, which is independent this year and won the NIIC last year. So 2 CCIW schools, (one of which was ranked top 15), a NAIA school, a LMC school, Loras (which was picked top 4 in the IIAC) and an independent doesnt equate to a cakewalk...just my 2 cents
I think the Edgewood game will be a close game for the first half, but EC had  hot START AT HOME

[from downtown]

Midwest Invitational tournament out in Huntington Beach, CA

[coebball70]

hey Keith - a Duhawk is second cousin to a Kohawk - you know, it's an Iowa thing, the whole state goes to the birds....Iowa Hawks, etc.

you are right - i did forget about Spartans win over North Central - a really over-hyped CCIW bunch - but I still think the schedule is a cake-walk with half the teams sporting losing overall records.

The Spartans are fun to watch, though.  I'll eat some 'humble pie' if you do to Millikin what you did to Loras - even though they too will have a losing record overall at year's end.

[budder]

Dominican beat Lake Forest tonite in CA

[Gregory Sager]

Midwest Invitational tournament out in Huntington Beach, CA

Four midwestern D3 teams (North Park, Lake Forest, Dominican, and Coe) traveled out to Cali and held their own tournament in a juco gym that they rented, rather than follow the usual routine and sign up for a SLIAC team's tournament (which means accepting with the SLIAC team's home-cooking refs, accommodations, guarantee, food, etc.).

[coebball70]

Well, me bad.  Aurora romps Millikin handily 90-75.  Millikin made two minor runs in the second-half to try to make it a game.  Aurora anwsered with two better runs to close the door for good.  Welton's tough, ain't nobody going to keep him from getting his points.  A couple of excellent 3-ball shooters compliment him and Aurora won't lose a game now until tournament time.  It's still too bad for them that they don't play anybody tough from here out.  Season will get a little boring with no competitive fights in sight.  Good luck Spartans, hope you're not 'one and done' come March!

[WLCALUM83]

Were it not for Edgewood's mild upset, the Spartans would still be undefeated. Coebball 70, if they do indeed run the table in conference the rest of the way, so much the better from a PR standpoint for the Northern Athletics Conference.  (Heck, they might be the only NathCon team to get in, should they win out.)