MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

I would love to be one of them posters to join you, but i have already beaten up on MBBC one too many times.

But i will give you a starting lineup that you can go to battle with.

PG- Busty: If he runs the team like he does his mouth, you guys got a heck of a player here.
SG-Pat Coleman: If he scores as many points as he leaves posts, we have a possible POG on our hands.
SF-Old School: Seems like you would do a lot of the dirty work and make the hustle plays.
PF-Big_uns: Gotta go with somebody 'big' at my 4 spot.
C- Fishguy: I gotta go with at least one of my fellow Lakeland backers. Plus he will get a lot of calls down low cause of his 'flopping' ability.

But it is a frustrating day in corn country. All of the farmers gathered at the local town hall to discuss their displeasure over the loss to WLC. Some of them even compared the loss to being worse than the drought back in 83' that destroyed many of their crops. VERY dissappointing loss to say the least.

[showtimeSmyHero]

How many posts do i have to make to get off this JV thing

[TroyG]

I wonder what happened to Dominican? They started off hot and suddenly fizzled. I agree with showtime that the loss to Marian was an upset and Lakeland lost to WLC whats up with that? Right now who's to say who will win the conference. Luckily for Dominican they play Maranatha tomorrow and hopefully can get back in the swing of things.

[iwumichigander]

How many posts do i have to make to get off this JV thing

A lot unless you tick off Pat C in which case one probably becomes either Junior Varsity for life or student manager

[Greek Tragedy]

My disappointment in Lakeland still lingers.  I can't believe they went down to Milwaukee and laid an egg to WLC.  They are horrible and LC basically choked. 

Big conference games coming up:

Dec. 8 Maranatha @ Dominican*
Dec. 10 Dominican @ Wis. Lutheran*
Dec. 10 Edgewood @ MSOE*
Dec. 10 Lakeland @ Marian*

Dominican should go 2-0 and improve to 2-2 in the conference.

Maranatha will 0-3

MSOE should to Edgewood and go 3-0, while Edgewood drops to 2-2

Lakeland should bounce back and win a tough, close game at Marian, to improve to 3-1, while Marian drops to 1-3.

[showtimeSmyHero]

Dec. 8 Maranatha @ Dominican*  - Dominican dominates
Dec. 10 Dominican @ Wis. Lutheran* - Dominican in a close game
Dec. 10 Edgewood @ MSOE* - 14 pt victory for MSOE -- MSOE's gaurds are to much and pull out the W.
Dec. 10 Lakeland @ Marian* - Lakeland gets mad and dominates Marian on their own floor.

[TroyG]

Well, Dominican handled Maranatha easily in a 23 point victory, Marian won by a large margin and Concordia Wis. lost a close one. Dominican held Marnatha to 45 points and 24% shooting for the game thats just terrible. I believe Lakeland had similar numbers when they played MBBC. I think Dominican and Lakeland might just be the best defensive teams in the conference. If they keep playing good D-Fence and stop others from scoring they might be front runners for conference champs along with MSOE.

[Big_Uns]

Lakeland needs a victory at Marian to prove to EVERYONE now that that 5-1 start wasn't due to being in The Cornfield. Dominican's wins seem like virtual locks but then again, so did LC's three days ago. As for Edgewood and MSOE, Lakeland beat EC with guard play, so I'm going with another team of guards in MSOE.

[Greek Tragedy]

Concordia lost to Carroll and Carroll is pretty good.  Maybe Concordia isn't the biggest piece of crap like I saw against Eau Claire.  Then again, blind squirrels find nuts once in awhile too.

[baseman201]

Wow, just got back from the CURF vs. Augustana game.  It was a good game until about 5 minutes left when #34 on Augustana caught fire and had the hot hand, which put the Cougars away.  CURF lead the game early, and was down only 48-46 in the middle of the 2nd half, until #34 hit like three 3 pointers in a row which sealed the deal. 

I am not saying CURF is a top 25 team by giving the #14 team in the nation a good game until about 5 minutes left.  I am saying I was not impressed by Augustana, and they probably shouldn't be in the top 25.  Just my opinion. NIIC teams need to watch themselves, CURF is still looking good even with a 4-3 record, hung with a top 25 team for 3/4 of a game.

But I know, to win, a FULL game must be played, not just 3/4 of one.  Which seperates good teams from the average teams.

[showtimeSmyHero]

 It looks like Lakeland turned things around and won yesterday.  So much for cooper or avercamp getting player of the year after getting beat up by MSOE and Lakeland.  I wasnt at either game but i heard both were not even close. 

[True Basketball Fan]

Congrats to CURF for hanging in there as long as they did against a good Augie team.  Considering where they are coming from, that's a great start to the rebuilding process.

[Gregory Sager]

I am not saying CURF is a top 25 team by giving the #14 team in the nation a good game until about 5 minutes left.  I am saying I was not impressed by Augustana, and they probably shouldn't be in the top 25.

Augustana was missing three of its big men to injury at last night's game: Starting center Dane Swietella and the first two 4/5 backups off the bench, Shaun Rose and Joe Caricato.

[TroyG]

Milwaukee Engineering   3-0 Conference              6-2 Overall
Lakeland                         3-1                                 6-2
Dominican                       2-2                                 6-3
Edgewood                      2-2                                 4-4
Concordia (Wis.)             1-1                                 2-6
Wisconsin Lutheran        1-1                                 2-7
Marian                             1-3                                 4-5 
Maranatha Baptist           0-3                                1-8


These are the current standings in the conference with Dominican beating WLC by 7, Lakeland over Marian by 15, and MSOE over Edgewood by 15. Whats is wrong with edgewood? They have been blown out a few times now and weren't they supposed to repeat as champions? If they keep this up they might be at the bottom of the barrel with Maranatha. Speaking of the bottom of the barrel I was reviewing the shedules of WLC and Concordia and their scedules have had a few tough games in which they lost close games to good teams so they might not be as horrible as everyone think they are. C'mon WLC beat Lakeland and lost by 7 to a good Dominican team. And five out of eight of Concordia's games were against good teams. I would not be suprised if these two teams beat a few teams in this conference besides Maranatha. It looks like Dominican got back on track with a couple of wins this week but will have a good test of where they are in conference in a big game against Lakeland at home on Jan 10. Lakeland beat them by 19 in a game last year so maybe Dominican might have revenge in mind. It going to get real interesting as the year goes on.

[Greek Tragedy]

Another full slate of games this week involving LMC teams, but with only one conference game.

Dec. 12 Viterbo @ Maranatha
Dec. 13 MSOE @ Aurora
Dec. 13 UW-La Crosse @ Edgewood
Dec. 16 Marian @ Elmhurst Tourn.
Dec. 16 Westminster @ Dominican
Dec. 17 Concordia (Ill.) @ Lakeland
Dec. 17 Concordia (Wis.) @ Wis. Lutheran*
Dec. 17 Marian @ Elmhurst Tourn.
Dec. 18 MSOE @ Cal. Tech
Dec. 19 MSOE vs. Penn State-Behrend

Viterbo should be Maranatha.

MSOE looks pretty good in-conference, and I have no idea about Aurora.  The lost to Dominican at home, so I'll give MSOE the win.

Usually playing in Madison is tough for Edgewood opponents, but they look down this year, and La Crosse will try to bounce back from their home loss to Point this weekend.  La Crosse in an easy one.

Whomever Marian plays, they'll get smoked.  I think they play Elmhurst to start the tourney.  Good luck keeping it within 25.

Westminster hasn't won yet, so I'll give Dominican the win here.

Lakeland beats Concordia (IL)

MSOE will beat Cal-Tech, a team MBBC might have a shot at beating, and then MSOE plays on the 19th vs. Penn State-Behrend.  Know nothing about them, so I'll still pick MSOE!

It's tough to gauge the conference game between Concordia and WLC.  Both have been disappointing thus far in conference play.  I'll go with the home team, WLC reluctantly.