MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

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U of Chicago 70, MSOE 53. Final:  (U of Chicago hitting their 3's, per MSOE broadcast).

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Props to WLC athlete Brian Hagel for reaching the 1,000 point plateau! (He also got the last 2006 NathCon MBB Player of the Week Award). (Given Coach Noon's "balanced scoring" and philosophy of not having one "do it all" dominant player, quite the accomplishments.) He's majoring in Communications. 

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1/03/07 In-Conference Projection:

Lakeland over Concordia-WI  (Muskies are at home. CUW could pull a win out if Atkinson has a good game like he did vs. WLC earlier this season).

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Final:  Lakeland 74, Concordia, WI 73. (CUW's Atkinson called for traveling, and then on the last play CUW
s Robinson stole the ensuing inbounds pass and missed a lay-up at the buzzer.)

Lakeland's Saiberlich, Sontag, Regal, Grube and Ehnert all scored in double figures. CUW couldn't get too many inside shots to drop late when they had to have them.

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1/03/07 Non-conference final:

Dominican 74, Eureka 65.

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1/06/07 Projections:

Aurora over Marian: (Still not the easiest of "road tests" for the Spartans).

Concordia-WI over Rockford:  (CUW's at home and hungry for a win after losing the heart-breaker to Lakeland a few nights back).

Lakeland-Edgewood--hate to waffle on this one, if Rogers plays I pick Lakeland, if he doesn't I pick Edgewood. (don't know how long his suspension was supposed to last). On paper this is the NathCon Men's Game of the Day).

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Final:  Concordia-WI 68, Rockford College 57:  Regents had it down to 2 with 5 minutes left, but their shots weren't dropping down the stretch.

Final:  Edgewood 68, Lakeland 64:  (Per Lakeland site, Edgewood stepped it up and out-rebounded Lakeland by 9 for the game, and the Eagles also got to the line more than Lakeland). Rogers held to 9 points.

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Two more 1/6/07 finals:

Aurora 76, Marian 70. (Marian box score indicates Aurora was 9-21 from 3 pt. range).

Knox 70, Concordia-Chicago 66. (from Knox site).

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1/08/07 Projections:

UW-Stevens Point over Lakeland: (Muskies have had others step it up last 2 games, but will have to hustle to keep score close if Pointers are on their game-especially on the 3's--a Muskie win would be a big feather in NathCons' cap if they could pull it off--IMHO highly unlikely.)

UW-Whitewater all over Maranatha:  Crusaders coming off long layoff. (libero and I will eat our crow separately with a smile if I'm wrong on this one).

[libero]

I think the 'Saders are happy with the guarantee money. A win is a little too much to ask. I still stand by my prediction that MBBC will come up with a conference win this season - although the likelihood of that decreased with their loss to RC before the break.

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

My Muskies are in a little bit of trouble. Saturday's game against Edgewood was a game they should have won. I do not take anything away from Edgewood as they clearly earned it, but it was a game that shouldn't have even been close. It was a 6-4 matchup for 17 minutes of the game (the amount of time that Matt Rogers played).

He clearly decided he was going to play for Edgewood on Saturday. From the moment he made his first touch of the basketball on Saturday, you could tell he was on a different mission than the rest of the team. He was out there to try and accumulate his stats after having sat out the team's previous game. Between the handful of bad shots and 4 turnovers (0 assists) in 17 minutes, it was dreadful. But none of that compares to what he did after hitting one of his 2 field goals. After hitting a 3 pointer late in the game, he held both hands in the air with 3 fingers up and stared at the Edgewood bench for about 3 full seconds.

I would like to see the scoring differential between the minutes Rogers played and the minutes he sat the bench. As a fan, it was very frustrating walking away from that game having witnessed all of this. He is too talented of a player to let this kind of stuff happen. I hope for Lakeland's sake, he gets his act together both on AND off the court.

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UW-Stevens Point 97, Lakeland 59--final: (Muskies had it down to 9 early in 2nd, but the Pointers pulled away and turned the game into a rout.) 

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1/10/07 Projections:

Benedictine over WLC: Depends on how fast the Warriors come out of the gate.

Edgewood over Concordia-Chicago:  Averkamp and DeMarco will continue to come up big.

Aurora over Dominican:  If the Stars are hitting their 3's this will be more of a game, but can anyone slow down the Spartans' star player?

Marian over Rockford:  Regents need to put together 40 good minutes of basketball. Still could pull off a mild upset if Marian has an off night.

Non-conference:

Lakeland all over Northland Baptist: 

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WLC over Benedictine
Edgewood over Concordia-Chicago
Dominican over Aurora
Marian over Rockford

Non-conference:
Lakeland over Northland Baptist Bible College

[Greek Tragedy]

Whitewater 92, MBBC 27...ouch.  7 points in the first half and trailed 46-6.

Boxscore

Point 97, Lakeland 59...Boxscore

Down 23-8, Lakeland goes on 15-5 run to pull within 28-23.  Point then goes on a 17-5 run to close out the half...45-28.  Lakeland cuts it to 9 two minutes into the 2nd half and then it's all down hill from there.

Point hits 16 3pters to run their mark to 7 straight games of hitting 10 or more 3s in one game...I think it's seven games.