MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[fcnews]

I stand corrected Sager. Listening to a fan and not verifying details leads to inaccurate posts. Either way great player.

[lmcfan33]

Lakeland has a transfer from D-I Marquette. What's your point?

lakeland's big D-I transfer played in only 8 games for marquette, averaging 1.4 minutes in those 8 games, he didn't even start for lakeland on saturday and only played 15 minutes with 3 points....

what's YOUR point Big_Uns??

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

BigUns point was only to show a transferring player from a higher division (which isn't even the case since it is a D3 school) doesn't necessarily lead to great production. He simply pointed out that Lakeland had a D1 transfer.

[budder]

Dominican beat #22 Aurora 68-64, running their record to 3-0.  Good win against a top 25 team

[Gregory Sager]

Dominican beat #22 Aurora 68-64, running their record to 3-0. Good win against a top 25 team

Where is TBF when you need him? 

Fantastic win by Dominican, one made even sweeter by the fact that it occurred on Aurora's home court. For my money it's the best victory that the Stars have achieved since they joined the ranks of the NCAA. Congrats to Mark White and his team.

[budder]

Good question, where is TBF?

It was a great win, hopefully the team can keep it going this weekend at Illinois College

[Big_Uns]

The Way I See It,

BigUns point was only to show a transferring player from a higher division (which isn't even the case since it is a D3 school) doesn't necessarily lead to great production. He simply pointed out that Lakeland had a D1 transfer.

Thank you, The Way.


As for Dominican, it looks early like they indeed did deserve many more props in the preseason polls. Whoever brought this up a week ago should be deemed prognosticator of the week.

The LMC has its first conference game tonight when the Baptists visit Lakeland. Lakeland should win this game hands down, and should be a nice, dare I say, tune-up game for when the UWs make the trip to The Cornfield Friday and Saturday.

[Greek Tragedy]

Any thoughts from the LMC faithful, or more importantly, the Lakeland contingent on this weekend's games vs. La Crosse and Point?  La Crosse is a much improved team and is considered a sleeper by most fans and posters in the WIAC.  I believe the fish beat them last year.  2-time defending champs come in on Saturday with a new face.  Gone are four senior starters and two all-americans.  LC gave them a run for their money last year and could pull out a win on Saturday.  I'm looking foward to seeing Saturday's matchup in Lakeland's new gym. 

[Big_Uns]

Well you're definitely looking at a couple of interesting matchups with those two games. Lakeland's defense seems to have improved quite a bit, having held Lake Forest under 50 points. LC only did that once all of last year. They created something like 20 turnovers and only had seven turnovers themselves.

They won despite a rather cold shooting night. That's something that didn't happen too much last year.

No doubt that Saiberlich and Howard need to hit their threes and James needs to cause disruption with the dribble in order for the Muskies to hang. I would imagine both games will be quite good.

[unctarheel]

There were some big wins for the LMC over the weekend. We could have another one tonight when EC knocks off Platteville. I don't know much about the two teams they played in Cali, but tonight should be a good barometer of where they are at.
My picks for the year:
1-EC
2-WLC
3-CU
4-MSOE
5-Lakeland
6-Marian
7-Dominican (dark horse)
8-MB
The man in the middle for EC takes home POY honors...

[Pioneerbacker]

Don't forget the UW-Platteville/Edgewood contest tonight.  Any thoughts from the Eagle or LMC fans?  Platteville showed some good things this past weekend, but I think they are still finding their identity with all the new faces.  I think Platteville wins a close one and erases that agonizing loss to the Edgedome, I mean the Eagles, from a year ago.  

[John Gleich]

Platteville over Edgewood 74-49

[da_foreigner]

Another big night for the LMC over a NIIC team on the road.  MSOE wins against Rockford 86-77.  The Mikos-Bayiha backcourt put up mamoth stats to lead the Raiders to a 3-0 start.  Saturday night could be interesting against Lawrence; who I believe just knocked off the Oshkosh Titans in OT. 

[Pioneerbacker]

unctarheel,
what does last night's game between UW-P/Edgewood tell you?  I think if you get the Eagles out of their nest, they become a different team.  I know players have bad games, but Edgewood was clanking everything they tossed up last night.  I was expecting a close game between the league favorite in the LMC and a "middle-runner" in the WIAC.  I guess we'll roll the dice again next year when we play the Edgedome.     

[Big_Uns]

I was quite surprised at that Edgewood/UW-Platteville score. I expected Edgewood to be a bit better than that. As for other teams, Lakeland destroyed Maranatha 88-46 and look like they might have a chance to take care of business this weekend against La Crosse and Point. MSOE is looking very good. We'll see how they do against Lawrence. Interesting weekend across the board in the LMC ahead.