MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[BadgerFan42]

Any word on who NAC teams are scrimmaging against to warm-up for the season?

CUW plays UW-Whitewater at Home on Tuesday night, should be interesting as UW-W is the defending national champ and brought in a handful of former scholarship basketball players (thinking they'll repeat).

[Captain_Joe08]

Any word on who NAC teams are scrimmaging against to warm-up for the season?

CUW plays UW-Whitewater at Home on Tuesday night, should be interesting as UW-W is the defending national champ and brought in a handful of former scholarship basketball players (thinking they'll repeat).

The big headliner is Concordia Chicago plays at Big East member St. John's (NY) tonight for an exhibition. Also they play Chicago State on the 13th.

[Look It Up]

The CUC-St. John's game is actually on Tuesday night the 6th and will be broadcast on espn3 - http://es.pn/mbb-CUCvsSTJ. Great alternative to election returns!

[Just Bill]

Edgewood scrimmaged Augustana today, but I don't know anything about it.

[John Gleich]

Edgewood scrimmaged Augustana today, but I don't know anything about it.

... Good story JB...           

[Just Bill]

Well if you like I can make it up...

Edgewood jumped out to a 68-3 lead, but was whistled for clipping which reduced their score to 8. Augustana has a 9-foot, 4-inch freshman who would have dominated that game had he not been knocked out when he struck his head on the rim. A crowd of over 122,000 attended the game, but quickly realized this was not the location or date of the Obama rally and left after the first 20 minutes.

Better?

[WLCALUM83]

(I can hear David Letterman's side keyboardist improvising after that one. . . )

(or  better yet, back in the day  Ed McMahon doing the LOL and either Doc Severinson or Tommy Newsome and the band kicking it up for ol' Johnny)

[John Gleich]

Well if you like I can make it up...

Edgewood jumped out to a 68-3 lead, but was whistled for clipping which reduced their score to 8. Augustana has a 9-foot, 4-inch freshman who would have dominated that game had he not been knocked out when he struck his head on the rim. A crowd of over 122,000 attended the game, but quickly realized this was not the location or date of the Obama rally and left after the first 20 minutes.

Better?

  Immensely better! I want recaps like this throughout the season!

[John Gleich]

There wasn't a recap... but there was a score posted on the CCIW page:

Augie 65 -- Edgewood 47

[Gregory Sager]

Well if you like I can make it up...

Edgewood jumped out to a 68-3 lead, but was whistled for clipping which reduced their score to 8. Augustana has a 9-foot, 4-inch freshman who would have dominated that game had he not been knocked out when he struck his head on the rim. A crowd of over 122,000 attended the game, but quickly realized this was not the location or date of the Obama rally and left after the first 20 minutes.

Better?

  Immensely better! I want recaps like this throughout the season!

This is sort of the literary equivalent of Bill clearing his throat before the ponderous-but-hilarious improvised aria known as the D3 Championship Belt^TM room begins anew.

[BadgerFan42]

CUW played even with UW-W winning the 40 minutes 75-73 (the scores were cleared at half)

[Captain_Joe08]

I'll give my initial predictions on how the men's side will play out here.

North

1. Lakeland: Came close to knocking off Edgewood to get to the NCAA's I think they are the clear cut favorite here.
2. Edgewood: Despite some losses they should be in contention for the divisional crown again this year.
3. Concordia Wisconsin: a slight rebuilding season in store for the Falcons this year?
4. Marian: Don't really understand the hype surrounding Marian here, but they make the NAC tourney again this year.
5. MSOE: Will be an uphill climb to get into the conference tourney for the Raiders in a stacked North.
6. Maranatha: There is a gap between the Crusaders and the rest of the North teams and it isn't closing anytime soon.

South

1. Aurora: Spartans look to build off of .500 season last year and retake the south title.
2. Benedictine: Always seem to be in the hunt and that won't change again this year.
3. Rockford: Regents are steadily improving on a year in, year out basis.
4. Concordia Chicago: Will be in a fight with WLC and Dominican to decide the final South spot in the NAC tourney.
5. Wisconsin Lutheran: Have a good core of seniors in Bauer, Strutz, Griffon, and Demuth which will lead to better results this season.
6. Dominican: Someone has to fill out the last spot here.

I think the South will be more of a fluid division. I think 4th through 6th in the South could be swapped around here.

[NACfan215]

Aurora loses a close one to Augustana 85-83, they were down big early and faught back, just not enough time.  I know Aurora had a lot of returners from last year, at least 4 starters, however, looking at the box score tonight I noticed that there was a set of twin brothers who are Juniors and werent on the team last year in the starting lineup tonight, Marious and Marquis Lobdell? Marious just happened to drop 29 points as well, Marquis chipped in 7.  Interesting that they came in and basically pushed two starters to the bench, but obviously for good reason.  Anyone know if these are JUCO's or just transfers?  Could make a good team a great team if they keep pouring it in like that.

[Gregory Sager]

Marious Lobdell played for Illinois Central (a juco) in 2008-09 and for Judson in 2009-10. Marquis Lobdell played for Elgin Community College in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Interestingly, they went to rival high schools. Marious went to Peoria Manual, while Marquis went to Peoria Limestone.

Are they brothers or cousins?

[Mr. Ypsi]

As a Peoria boy, I suppose I should chime in here.  Alas, I know essentially nothing about Peoria sports for the last 45 years!