MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[RFMichigan]

Tonight's quarterfinals:
I've thought from early on that the top three teams in the North are the best three teams in the conference, so I'll pick all three of them to win, however if CUC can play a little defense they could make it interesting against Lakeland.

In the last game, a rematch of their thrilling game last Wednesday, I'll go with Aurora in an upset (according to the seedings anyway) over Benedictine.

[Just Bill]

Quarterfinals - Tuesday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m.
#1 Concordia Wisconsin 73, #8 Marian 66
#2 Benedictine 86, #7 Aurora 83
#3 Edgewood 94, #6 Rockford 84
#5 Lakeland 68, #4 Concordia Chicago 62

Semifinals - Thursday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m.
#5 Lakeland at #1 Concordia Wisconsin
#3 Edgewood at #2 Benedictine

[WLCALUM83]

2/23/12 guesses:

CUW over Lakeland
Benedictine over Edgewood 

[BadgerFan42]

Tonight:

It's tough to really guess how tonight's game's will turn out, but I'm going to try anyways....

CUW over Lakeland in a tense, phsyical battle.  Lakeland comes in looking to avenge two narrow defeats, but the Falcons with stand the blows from the high scoring Muskie offense and get stops when they need them most

The Eagles of Edgewood play a disciplined and efficient game tonight while handing BU a loss

An all North Championship game on Saturday...

[Just Bill]

Those are my two picks as well. I think they will both be really close games.

[BadgerFan42]

I think my picks are correct...but in reality they could easily go the other way, tonights games are going to be very interesting...

[RFMichigan]

My picks:
CUW over Lakeland. The one thing that CUC really didn't have an answer for from Lakeland - height in the name of Mr. Ward - will not be as much of a problem for the Falcons.

Edgewood Man this is tough, but I'm going with Edgewood. (I think I'm freaked by Bennie's head scratchers against Maranatha and Dominican.)

[Greek Tragedy]

Lakeland takes down Concordia in Mequon.  It's Lakeland v Edgewood for the NATHCON's only bid for the NCAAs.

Lakeland pulled the triple (3 road wins) in the NATHCON's first year of existence (I think).  No AQ for the conference that year though. 

[Just Bill]

Edgewood went a crazy, uncharacteristic 2-21 from the three-point line but still pulled out a 64-60 win at Benedictine. Faurote saved the day with 26 points, going 12-for-12 from inside the arc (0-5 outside).

Accorrding to Twitter, there was medical emergency in the bleachers that caused a lengthy delay near the end of the CUW-Lakeland game. Don't know what happened, but I hope that individual is OK.

[hickory_cornhusker]

Edgewood went a crazy, uncharacteristic 2-21 from the three-point line but still pulled out a 64-60 win at Benedictine. Faurote saved the day with 26 points, going 12-for-12 from inside the arc (0-5 outside).

Accorrding to Twitter, there was medical emergency in the bleachers that caused a lengthy delay near the end of the CUW-Lakeland game. Don't know what happened, but I hope that individual is OK.

I started the video feed when I was looking for the result and saw there was 1.6 seconds left and they were already stopped (no announcers on the video feed). One of the commenters on the site said a they heard a girl had a seizure. There was applause before they returned to action so I assume she at least appeared to be okay. The delay was about 20 minutes though.

[John Gleich]

Edgewood went a crazy, uncharacteristic 2-21 from the three-point line but still pulled out a 64-60 win at Benedictine. Faurote saved the day with 26 points, going 12-for-12 from inside the arc (0-5 outside).

Accorrding to Twitter, there was medical emergency in the bleachers that caused a lengthy delay near the end of the CUW-Lakeland game. Don't know what happened, but I hope that individual is OK.

I started the video feed when I was looking for the result and saw there was 1.6 seconds left and they were already stopped (no announcers on the video feed). One of the commenters on the site said a they heard a girl had a seizure. There was applause before they returned to action so I assume she at least appeared to be okay. The delay was about 20 minutes though.

Yes, from what I heard, she had a seizure and fell about 5 rows down in addition.  I didn't hear about any resolution for her in terms of her health... due to the delay, that might have been time for paramedics to arrive, etc.

[jdubb104]

Edgewood went a crazy, uncharacteristic 2-21 from the three-point line but still pulled out a 64-60 win at Benedictine. Faurote saved the day with 26 points, going 12-for-12 from inside the arc (0-5 outside).

Accorrding to Twitter, there was medical emergency in the bleachers that caused a lengthy delay near the end of the CUW-Lakeland game. Don't know what happened, but I hope that individual is OK.

I started the video feed when I was looking for the result and saw there was 1.6 seconds left and they were already stopped (no announcers on the video feed). One of the commenters on the site said a they heard a girl had a seizure. There was applause before they returned to action so I assume she at least appeared to be okay. The delay was about 20 minutes though.

Yes, from what I heard, she had a seizure and fell about 5 rows down in addition.  I didn't hear about any resolution for her in terms of her health... due to the delay, that might have been time for paramedics to arrive, etc.

I work at Concordia and was at the game last night. It is unaware fully what has happened yet if she had a seizure and then fell, or fell first and had a seizure from hitting her head. She was released this morning from the hospital as there were no neck or spine injuries. She is heading to a few clinics today to find out what exactly happened.

It was quite the scene to see the crowd go from cheers and noise to silence in a matter of seconds. It stayed completely quiet for the whole delay. The 3 games that CUW vs Lakeland this year I truly believe were probably the 3 best games played in the NAC this season. It was another heck of a game last night. A lot of heart and guts were left on the court. In a total of 3 games this year between the 2, the games were decided by a total of 7 points and 3 overtimes were needed to decide them. A heck of a season for CUW though.

Any chance they get an at large bid or not? Thoughts?

[John Gleich]

Edgewood went a crazy, uncharacteristic 2-21 from the three-point line but still pulled out a 64-60 win at Benedictine. Faurote saved the day with 26 points, going 12-for-12 from inside the arc (0-5 outside).

Accorrding to Twitter, there was medical emergency in the bleachers that caused a lengthy delay near the end of the CUW-Lakeland game. Don't know what happened, but I hope that individual is OK.

I started the video feed when I was looking for the result and saw there was 1.6 seconds left and they were already stopped (no announcers on the video feed). One of the commenters on the site said a they heard a girl had a seizure. There was applause before they returned to action so I assume she at least appeared to be okay. The delay was about 20 minutes though.

Yes, from what I heard, she had a seizure and fell about 5 rows down in addition.  I didn't hear about any resolution for her in terms of her health... due to the delay, that might have been time for paramedics to arrive, etc.

I work at Concordia and was at the game last night. It is unaware fully what has happened yet if she had a seizure and then fell, or fell first and had a seizure from hitting her head. She was released this morning from the hospital as there were no neck or spine injuries. She is heading to a few clinics today to find out what exactly happened.

It was quite the scene to see the crowd go from cheers and noise to silence in a matter of seconds. It stayed completely quiet for the whole delay. The 3 games that CUW vs Lakeland this year I truly believe were probably the 3 best games played in the NAC this season. It was another heck of a game last night. A lot of heart and guts were left on the court. In a total of 3 games this year between the 2, the games were decided by a total of 7 points and 3 overtimes were needed to decide them. A heck of a season for CUW though.

Any chance they get an at large bid or not? Thoughts?

Thanks for the update.  It sounds like a scary moment!

Matt Snyder has a blog and has done some projections for the field:

http://tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com/2012/02/bracketology-2242012.html

According to his prognostications, CUW would be one of the "next four out" (after the "first four out") and thus likely won't receive a bid this year.

This is the projection without any upsets as well... so the situation becomes more dire when teams with great Pool C resumes (who are projected as Pool A teams) get beaten by those not currently projected in the field.

It's all a guess at this point... but they were on the bubble at best and the loss in the semi's couldn't help a whole lot.

[Greek Tragedy]

Thanks for the update.  I was watching live stats and just gave up thinking it froze at the timeout with 2 seconds to go!  Hope she's ok.

[Just Bill]

Tomorrow's championship game link:

http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/edgewood.portal#