MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[fishguy]

Good report! Put the Player of the Year talk to rest - it's James from Lakeland all the way now.

[Big_Uns]

Edgewood    72
Dominican     58

Dominican led by 3 at halftime and then couldn't hit the side of a barn in the second half. Ciche with 24 points 11 boards, Cooper was something like 12 for 12 from the free throw line and only made one field goal. Weird game from what I heard on the webcast.

WLC     84
CUW    77

WLC comes back to beat CUW. Apparently Matt Peets punched a fan with under a minute left to play during a timeout, but was allowed to stay in the game but was pulled from the game shortly after. Wish I could've seen that. What a class act.


Lakeland vs. Edgewood
Marian vs. WLC

[Bust Ya'll]

WLC 84
CUW 77

WLC comes back to beat CUW. Apparently Matt Peets punched a fan with under a minute left to play during a timeout, but was allowed to stay in the game but was pulled from the game shortly after. Wish I could've seen that. What a class act.

The 6th Man was in full effect for that game.  WOW, we told Concordia very loudly we had a sweeeeeping good time.  For you slow learners out there we are (3-0) against them.  The brooms we all brought boldly displayed that fact.  And yes Peets you are a clASS act.  Poor Mike the flag waver minding his own business and Peets snapped like a twig ran over and pushed him.  The refs were dumbfounded and let things go, BRAVO, a fine example of how well of a job they did.  I would also like to commend Billy B. for taking the heat so well and also laughing about it.  We know you aren't gay, but we couldnt pass up the chant "Brokeback Billy".
Looking forward to thursday...
BUSTY

PS-A shout out to Danny "He's a Freshman" Behm MVP of the game

[Gregory Sager]

The football thing has always been an issue at Clarke, and with all of the nuns and woman presidents, including the new president, who is coming from an all girls school that had like 4 sports, I don't see Clarke looking at football anytime in the next 5 years.

They may want to reconsider adding a football team, and not just to make themselves a more attractive candidate for the MWC or the IIAC. Football teams bring males onto college campuses in large numbers, because it's an all-male sport that requires a lot of bodies in uniform. Right now higher education is trending towards an ever-more disproportionate number of females to males in America's student bodies, particularly on small college campuses. I noticed in the NCAA's report from 2002 that Clarke had a 46:54 ratio of men to women, and from reading a back issue of the Clarke student newspaper I found out that the incoming freshman class that year -- in other words, this May's graduating class -- was 71 percent female.

As I said, that's not unusual. But other small colleges have added football programs in recent years as a specific move to redress that imbalance. I'm pretty sure that that was part of the rationale for Wisconsin Lutheran and Rockford adding football programs in recent years, for example.

Football programs are expensive to run. But they do bring in a lot of tuition money -- and they're a surefire way to increase the proportion of men enrolled at a school with a small student population like Clarke.

[Ralph Turner]

Well stated, Gregory!

I think that Clarke has much more value to joining any conference if they have football (and must have wrestling).  The IIAC "needs" a 10th team since the departure of Upper Iowa.

[showtimeSmyHero]

Not suprised by any of the teams that advanced this weekend - WLC, Lakeland, Edgewood, Marian.  I didn't attend the Marian/MSOE game, but again, i am not suprised about the loss for MSOE.  I was looking at the boxscore and trying to figure out what the hell happened..... Should there be any finger pointing? players/coaches? I mean this team was 16-5. Finishing the year losing 4 of 5.  I will pick WLC over Marian and Lakeland over Edgewood.

[crusaders]

Sager- I couldn't agree with you more...I wish you were Clarke's new president.  I just seems to simple, just by adding football you are going to add a ton of tuition players.  Just the thought of a chance to play collegiate football is very attractive to highschool seniors deciding where to attend college. 

Clarke used to be an all girls school, which is why I think the college would have a problem with adding football.  That's why clarkes basketball success this year has been so big for the school.  The male teams here always get picked on.  For example, last year, I can recall a few big wins by the Men's basketball team, big wins...and i remember the mens golf team winning the conference championship, and there was some tennis success.  I will also recall 3(and 3 only) messages on my campus mail from the president.  2 were stating how we need to congratulate the theatre and arts department for their "wonderful" performance, and 1 complimenting this tremendous victory for the clarke and its athletics program, a 4 point victory for the girls basketball team over central college, and continued to go on and on about how we need to support them and congratulate them and bla bla bla(clarke went on to finish the year 7-19)  the guys team had the best record in the history of the school and didn't get a mention.  So all in all, Sager, if I could or knew how to karma you for that one, I would, and I would love to take your comments to someone higher up here at clarke(not that they would ever listen).

Diego, any information on the stipulations of that point system you were speaking of?

[Warrior_Fish]

This weekend's games:

WOW, MSOE and their 2 POY canidates falter in a QUARTERFINAL game.  Best of luck next year in whatever league your trying to get into.  A fond farewell to Mikos and By EEE ah.  Floyd, it was fun while it lasted.  Mikos, best of luck.

The 6th man's "Brokeback Billy" chant won that game.  You can tell when the fans get under a players skin when Peete boy takes a swing at a fan with a flag.  Next time, try a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.  Those seemed to work for him. 

Props to the 6th man.  I will retract what I said about you earlier.  After a slow start to the year, you have once again come on strong at the end of the season to help the Warriors make a tourney run.  BTW, I am still waiting for my t-shirt!

PEACE

[showtimeSmyHero]

Man what is wrong with people these days.  Peetes didnt even need a beer dumped on him like Ron Ron did.

Let me guess. The fan doesnt want money and will drop all charges if he gets a public apology and a donation in his name to the battered woman and childrens fund.

[diego]

Points are awarded by the way the regular season finished

1st-Clarke 12 points
2nd-Aurora 10 points
3rd-Rockford 8 points
4th-Concordia 6 points
and so on.

Conference tournament goes as followed:
1st round is worth 3.5 points
Semi-final round is worth 3 points
Finals is worth 3 points

I believe that is how the conference tourney works, I will double check though.

[Warrior_Fish]

I'll donate $10 bucks if we can get Peetie to come on the message board and publicly appologize. 

Now, there would need to be some kind of assurances that it was in fact him, but I'm game. 

Anyone else in???  It would be fun and its for a good charity?!?!?!

[from downtown]

Not suprised by any of the teams that advanced this weekend - WLC, Lakeland, Edgewood, Marian.  I didn't attend the Marian/MSOE game, but again, i am not suprised about the loss for MSOE.  I was looking at the boxscore and trying to figure out what the hell happened..... Should there be any finger pointing? players/coaches? I mean this team was 16-5. Finishing the year losing 4 of 5.  I will pick WLC over Marian and Lakeland over Edgewood.

I dont think there is anyone to blame. I question some of Coach Miller's substitutions, but they just got beat. I think the timing of exams may have had some factor in lack of focus, but again they got outplayed. In the first half MSOE got leads of 7 or 6 and it looked like they were going to pull away but Marian would come back with a run of its own. MSOE went cold for about five minutes before putting in a couple of baskets to close out the half. Scott Murphy got into foul trouble and Marian did a good job of coming down for the double team. Second half, MSOE pretty much trailed the whole way. They never went on a run. Marian always had an answer. Then with about two and a half minutes to go, MSOE started panicing. Floyd started tring to dribble through 5 guys. Murphy had a couple of turnovers before he fouled out. And Marian was able to extend their lead to seven with about a minute to go. Thanks to some missed free throws and some big shots from Floyd and Verdun, MSOE made it interesting, but things just did not go there way.

Ill take the favorites from here on out, though I think neither semifinal game is a lock.

[crusaders]

any word on that point system, i don't even know where to begin to look.  just checked out the bumblin b's, clarke was one of 6 teams listed as contenders for 4 spots.  looks to me as if clarke wins out and every team above them losses, it will still be a long shot...but there's always a chance...i think clarke is the only team with a shot from the niic

[crusaders]

I found on the NIIC Standings page that you were right about the points, 12, 10, 8, and so on.  Then points are determined by place in the conference tourny aparently, with the points being 6, 5, 4, 3 and so on for the place.  With that in mind, if Clarke wins on Wednesday, then they will win no matter what, because that would assure them atleast second in the conf tourny, because aurora would only be able to make up 1 point, and we are already up 2 points on them.

This is a very weird system, I wonder what place the teams that lose in the second round get, because either one of them could be the 3rd place team.

With that in mind, the conference championship will be decided Wednesday night!  not that i don't feel clarke will take care of business anyway, just a thought.

[crusaders]

concordia 73-60 over ben
rockford 94-76 over eureka.....there was an impressive 60 points scored in the second half by rockford

aurora needs to watch out for rockford, one thing aurora doesn't have is dunkel's mom...i've never heard a parent, mother of all, talk more trash at a game...lets hope when i'm a parent someday I don't embarrass my son/daughter like she did saturday night. 

maurice smith is the dwayne wade of the conference, how silky smooth is that guy??  i see tonight he put up 28 and 12...pretty impressive night.

any predictions on conference MVP out there?  Is Clarke winning conference enough to get it to a clarke player, or has Welton already run away with it?

my all conf. 1st team consists of
bynum
harrison
smith
welton
cirks

any other suggestions out there??