MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Captain_Joe08]

Wisconsin Lutheran ranked #15 in the opening top 25 poll.

[Greek Tragedy]

https://naccsports.org/news/2024/10/30/pollsters-install-wisconsin-lutheran-as-heavy-favorite-in-2024-2025-nacc-mens-basketball-race.aspx

1. WLC (24)
2. SNC (2)
3. Benedictine
4. MSOE
5. Concordia (WI)
6. Aurora
7. Rockford
8. Concordia - Chicago
9. Edgewood
10. Dominican
11. Illinois Tech
12. Marian
13. Lakeland

[GusD]

Given that Benedictine's three best players, Stokes, Montiel, and Howard all transferred, it's surprising to see them picked 3rd.

[Greek Tragedy]

Is the NACC that bad after the top 2? Maybe. I know they get a grad transfer in Patrick Mayfield. He was the leading scorer and all conference player at Dubuque during the Covid year. Then he transfered to D1 Akron. Not sure if they got any other impact transfers in.

[Captain_Joe08]

Opening Night Scores

Rockford 83 Martin Luther 80
MSOE 97 Lake Forest 86
Carroll 90 Lakeland 69
Dominican 80 Knox 73
Dubuque 88 Aurora 76
Marian 61 UW-Superior 53
Wisconsin Lutheran 84 Elmhurst 74

[Captain_Joe08]

11/9 Scores

Marian 78 UW-Sout 67
Greenville 109 Concordia Chicago 96
Benedictine 85 Wheaton (IL) 84
Albion 87 Illinois Tech 75

Standings

Marian 2-0
Wisconsin Lutheran 1-0
Benedictine 1-0
Dominican 1-0
MSOE 1-0
Rockford 1-0
St. Norbert 0-0
Concordia Wisconsin 0-0
Edgewood 0-0
Concordia Chicago 0-1
Aurora 0-1
Illinois Tech 0-1
Lakeland 0-1

[Captain_Joe08]

#15 Wisconsin Lutheran 114
North Park 81

Warriors had 4 players with at least 20 points and led wire to wire at home tonight. Warriors shot 58% from the field including 50% from 3 point range.

[Greek Tragedy]

Yikes. I think NPU is in a total rebuild, but that's still a crazy result.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The shooting is insane, but if you play at that pace against a team that's better than you, the margin is likely to look pretty bad anyway.  NPU is going to have to focus on defense, I'd imagine, before they worry about too much else.

[Greek Tragedy]

https://sabreathletics.com/news/2024/11/27/mens-basketball-marian-mens-basketball-nearly-misses-upset-of-d1-san-diego.aspx

What should we think of Marian? They are 6-0 and nearly knocked off D1 San Diego. I guess we'll find out next week with conference play opening up. So far they look better than the 13th place team in the conference.

[RFMichigan]

Marian's opponents' cumulative record is 10-26 with no opponent being .500 or better at this point. A single digit loss to a D-1 program is impressive, but let's see what conference play brings.

[cjnick12]

St Norbert with a convincing 86-69 win over UW-Oshkosh today

[ChickenHoops]

St Norbert with a convincing 86-69 win over UW-Oshkosh today

Watched BoxKast.....saw they shot like just less than 100% from 3P in the first 15 minutes. Wow. Nice upset.

Officials were marginal but that crew always is.  Grescz gets them to stand and talk to him in front of his bench way too much. Can he do that on the road?  Semling never could do that at Point.

[Captain_Joe08]

*Returns from the void via actually remembering my password for this site on a new laptop.*

Marian might be a solid outfit but again how much of it is their schedule being really soft and how much of it is them being much improved? A matchup against WLC this Saturday will tell us more.

Speaking of, WLC came back from Texas with a nice win over #23 Trinity (TX). Solid test tomorrow against Augustana to wrap up non-conference play.

After WLC and St. Norbert, it's anyone's guess.

[Captain_Joe08]

St. Norbert gave UW-Platteville all they could handle but they fall short in OT 60-54 to the Pioneers.