MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Bust Ya'll]

Anyone surprised at WLC's record?  Huh...wierd,

Who's gonna lose?  Domin-i-can!

Bust Ya'll

[Big_Uns]

Anyone surprised at WLC's record?  Huh...wierd,

Who's gonna lose?  Domin-i-can!

Bust Ya'll

6-10? Absolutely not surprised at all. 

[Warrior_Fish]

Edgewood over MSOE    89-82    GOOD FOR LC

DU over the WLC   87-80     puts a 2 games between the front-runners and 3rd

LC over Mariand   69-59   W and MSOE loss puts LC into tie for 1st.  LC needs to win the rest of their conference games and just one of the MSOE games to capture first. 

PEACE

[Greek Tragedy]

Apparently Seth Cooper didn't like what some of you were writing about him!    he goes off for 30 to lead Edgewood to the upset of MSOE in Madison.

As posted, WLC falls short and Lakeland gets a leg up with the win over Marian.

[Big_Uns]

Is this the start of a revitalized Edgewood team or just a lucky game? Regardless, I think we now know who our REAL top three teams are in the LMC.

I think the most surprising number in that box score is not that Cooper scored 30, but the fact that MSOE shot 64% in the first half and TRAILED by one at halftime.

[fishguy]

It would seem Edgewood - with wins over MSOE and a solid Dominican team - is maybe getting its act together. With the addition of Demarco, they could be a force come conference tourney time - that's what the teams in this league play for anyway!

[showtimeSmyHero]

Props to Edgewood on the win.  I wasn't at the game, but from the boxscore it looked sloppy.  Edgewood shot 41 freethrows i think, which usually means the W.  I also saw someone from MSOE got Td up which usually means they were biatching about the officiating.  All the Lakeland people are loving that Win. 

[jgatz33]

yeah sloppy game overall........it wasnt a technical foul it was a intentional foul on a breakaway near the end of the game...must have been a mixup.......sabree for msoe played a hell of a game and was hitting shots on everyone even hand right in his face....very nice player........cooper showed up big time in the big game and finally started hitting his jump shots....the addition of demarco adds a whole new dimension to the edgewood squad but he was not active for the game yesterday......should be an interesting tourney.....i think lakeland will get the 1 seed

[TroyG]

Looks to me like we have another great day of conference basketball coming up this Saturday with all eight teams playing each other. Ill give Edgewood the edge over Maranatha by a considerable margin. I think that Dominican will get some revenge on Marian and posibly win by 15+ also coming off a big home conference win to break a losing streak. And I will go out on a limb and say that at least one of our top 2 conference teams will be upset this coming saturday. Expect the Lakeland and Lutheran game to be close with Lutheran putting up a lot of points and also expect Concordia and MSOE to be close also.

[Bust Ya'll]

Well well, looks like Dominicould last night, too bad.  Yet WLC is still hanging in there in third place when I believe they were picked to be about 6th in the LMC.  Although they list an embarrassing .353 Overall win pct, they still got that #3 spot in the LMC, and its good to see that the #1 team's only conference loss was to....WLC?  So, a small fluke (those 15 TO's and 17% from 3pt land in the second half might answer some questions)  anyways, they will be back in the saddle for their game at the Tank.  Fishing anyone?
Bust Ya'll

Billy and Leibham it was good chatting with you other LMC folks down on the Street, too bad your record isnt as good as you party.

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

WLC must be using the wrong bait when coming to the tank. There hasn't been a close regular season conference game there between the two since Moses parted the Red Sea. It will be no different come this Saturday. Lakeland has been up by 20 after the first half in 4 of the last 5 years (including last year being up by 30 when WLC came to town in 1st place). I just don't see WLC breaking that trend this year. Go Fish!

p.s. Busty, see if you can snag some cute nurses down at the hospital before coming up......there's just something about staring at the 250 lb plus softball team at Lakeland during b-ball games that makes me wonder whether i am going after the right gender!!

[Muskie Fan South]

The Way
             I have a question for you,it seems everyone is really big fan of the LMC what do you think about the conference disbanding next year and possibly the new conference playing more Ilinois teams? I wish I could make more Muskie games but someone has to pay the bills . Can you tell me who is the Muskies biggest rivals are ?

[Muskie Fan South]

Put Justin Bertrand  on the floor and sit back and enjoy I watched him for 3 years and he is fun to watch.

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

The Muskies biggest rival would have to be their location. Being out in the middle of a cornfield is a tough sell for recruits. Also throw in the fact that you have the WIAC to battle against as far as recruiting and you have yourself a recipe for ups and downs. But i think through it all, Lakeland found an identity under Paul Combs and his staff and that continues today under Coach Grzesk and his staff.

Lakeland has gone from being a threat to only conference foes several years back to being a threat to anyone they step on the court with. They split with the WIAC this year and took a Hope team that was ranked #7 in the nation to the wire...at Hope I might add.

But as far as big in conference rivals, I just don't see it. I think in the LMC there is just too much player turnover and too little press coverage to really have any rivalries carry on. The biggest rivalry I see in the LMC probably isn't even between teams. I would have to say it is between the 6th man of WLC and Coach Steven Larson of Edgewood. There is definitely no love loss in that relationship.

But as for this weekend's game in the tank...

Lakeland - 77
WLC - 58

[showtimeSmyHero]

What teams are going where? I know that MSOE is going to be independent with hopes of joining the same MWC the following year.  Personally i think that would be a good fit for them.

I would say Lakelands biggest rival is probably edgewood, then WLC which really isnt a rival but more just someone they talk **** with. 

I pick lakeand by 25 over WLC and MSOE by 17 over CU. Dominican over marian by 4 and Edgewood runs up the score against those poor maranatha boys.