MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[John Gleich]

I suspect our voters are waiting for that same answer themselves. They know who is up in the next week on a team's schedule and I've definitely seen it happen (and voted that way myself) in the past.

I think the Lake Forest win is a pretty good one... it's LFC's only blemish (though I didn't see who else the Foresters had played).

UWSP stock may start to change soon... they host #13 UW Whitewater tomorrow, are at Edgewood, and host #14 St. Thomas next Thursday.

[AndOne]

Anyone know why Nate Green hasn't played in the last 2 games for Benedictine?

Suspended because he assaulted a campus police officer after being told to dump out his supicious beverage in a red 'party' cup....

There is an article in the Benedictine school newspaper about it

I heard from a credible source that his 'indefinite' suspension was really only a 3 game suspension, so if the source was right, look for Nate Green to be back this week

Nope.
The suspension was indefinite until the still ongoing investigation into the concerned incident is completed. This is a University ruling as opposed to an action being taken by the basketball coach who, at this time, has nothing to say about the length of the suspension. Green still isn't playing and has now in fact missed 4 games. So much for the 3 game theory. Among the possibilities that evidently still exist are that he could be dismissed from school, or that he could be allowed to remain in school, but dismissed from the team. Green is a senior.   

[AndOne]

Nate Green played again Wed night against Elmhurst, thus ending his suspension at 4 games.
He didn't start, but played a total of 21 minutes. Both his timing and touch were way off. Despite
missing badly on many of his shots, he continued to fire away at will, hoisting 13 shots in his 21
minutes of PT in a 6 point loss. Many of his attempts resulted from either off balance, out of control
attempted drives down the lane, or heavily forced mid-range jumpers on which he was closely defended.
For the night, he was 2 of 13 from the field, including 0 of 3 from distance, and 1 of 2 from the
line for a total of 5 points. 4 assists and 2 TOs.

[RFMichigan]

chirp . . . chirp . . .

[WLCALUM83]

My 1/7/12 guesses:

WLC/Benedictine:  IL Eagles should take this at home
Lakeland/Rockford:  Lakeland
Edgewood/MSOE:    Edgewood 
Marian/Aurora:       Marian
CUW/Dominican:     CUW

[RFMichigan]

WLCALUM83:

I agree with all of your picks except Marian/Aurora, but this begs the question; Just how superior is the Northern Division than the Southern Division this year? Just two years ago the balance hung rather heavily in the Southern Division's favor, but now it seems that the tide has completely flipped.

CUW, Edgewood, and Lakeland, all from the north, seem to be the top three teams in the conference. Would ANY Southern division team make the tournament if they were in the Northern Division? Maybe one? Yikes. Honestly, I was afraid that CUC might pull an ofer for the year after their non-conference results, but heck, they could be in contention for the division title and certainly a tournament berth - or miss out all together.

[Just Bill]

It's defintiely been a shift. I think the range of quality (from top to bottom) is wider in the North, but I don't think there's any doubt that the three best teams this year all reside in the North. That's one reason it never pays to get worked up over how the divisions are split, because everything changes over time, and sometimes from year to year.

[BadgerFan42]

My picks for tonight:

Aurora over Dominican in a shoot out
BU over Rockford in a sloppy back and forth track meet
Lakeland over Marian in a physical North Division matchup (Both Kellers will foul out)
Edgewood gets it's swagger back against WLC

Tomorrow Night:

CUW over a depleted MBBC squad

And my upset pick:

The more athletic Cougars of Concordia Chicago over the slow down and 'grind it out' Raiders of MSOE

[BadgerFan42]

3-2 on my picks for last nights games.  I must say I am surprised that Rockford and MSOE continue to win.  No one saw this coming with the group of players returning at BU and Aurora always competing for the top slot in the South. 

I do get some bonus points, The Keller twins from Marian combined for 9 Fouls, 1 short of my prediction. 

CUW over MBBC tonight

[WLCALUM83]

My 1/14/12 guesses:

Rockford/Edgewood:    Edgewood
Aurora/Maranatha:      Aurora
Benedictine/Marian:     Benedictine
MSOE/CUW:               CUW

Non-conf.           Lakeland over Northland Int'l

[WLCALUM83]

1/17/12 guesses:

Edgewood over Maranatha
Benedictine over Dominican
CUW over Lakeland
MSOE over Rockford
Aurora over CUC
Marian over WLC

[BadgerFan42]

1/17/12

Edgewood over Maranatha in a lopsided affair
Dominican will top Benedictine in a South Division Battle
Concordia-Wisconsin wins in a tight 'shoot-out' over the high scoring Muskies
Rockford's pace will be too much for MSOE to handle as the Raiders drop back-to-back games
Concordia-Chicago takes it to Aurora

And my upset of the night:

WLC notches a win behind a big night from Alex Merbach (over Marian)

[Just Bill]

Huge week for CUW, going to both Lakeland and Edgewood. They could be a full game up in first or a full game behind in third in a matter of three days.

Nice to see four of the six games tonight have live video and all six have live stats. That's a big step up from a few years ago.

[BadgerFan42]

Picks for tonight (1/19)

The Muskies take out their frustration from Tuesday nights loss on WLC
Marian pulls out a victory in an ugly NAC North Contest
BU continues their climb back to the top of South with a win over Aurora
CUW locks down Edgewood in a battle for first place
MSOE bounces back against Dominican after 2 straight L's
This one is a toss up:
Both teams are evenly matched.  Both extremely athletic and not interested in playing defense, but I'm going with Rockford in a sloppy, but always fun to watch game against CUC

[WLCALUM83]

1/21/12 guesses:

WLC/Dominican:   Dominican
Lakeland/Aurora:  Lakeland
Marian/CUC:        CUC in a tight one
MBBC/Benedictine:  Benedictine
CUW/Rockford:      CUW