MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Just Bill]

Here's an article that mentions some Aurora recruits:

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/sports/1688052,2_2_AU28_HOOPS_S1-090728.article

15 freshman and 4 transfers!  We're on the basketball page, not the football page, right? 

[Flhoops]

Great information on these Boards, don't know much about DIII basketball but my son will be playing in WI this year, so they have been helpful for informtation

[WLCALUM83]

Here's news about the latest development for MSOE men's hoops:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_07/20090729b.html

[phillipst]

Read on the front page that Coach Larson of Edgewood is being inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame.  I just wanted to give a big and hearty congratulations to him.  Although I played against him when I was a member of CUW in the old Lake Michigan Conference and I would say our teams had some really feisty games, we knew that his teams always competed and played defense.  Congrats to Coach Larson and the Edgewood Family

[AndOne]

I've heard from a very reliable source that the fabulous floor at Benedictine is being replaced. Lots of long faces at that news, I'm sure.      

[truballer]

It is true that Benedictine is getting a new WOOD floor along with new scoreboards and roll out hoops.  About time!

[truballer]

If there are any NAC Fans/Posters out there what are your predictions for conference this year?

Here is mine:

South:
Benedictine
MSOE
Concordia Chicago
AU
Wisc. Lutheran
Dominican

North:
Concordia Wisc.
Edgewood
Rockford
Marian
Lakeland
Maranatha

[WLCALUM83]

I agree with those projections.

Just an observation--with Plath and Behm having graduated, it'll be interesting to see how WLC replaces the scoring those two previously provided.

[Just Bill]

The NAC Coaches' Poll shook out this way:
2009-10 NAC Men's Basketball Preseason Poll

North Division
1. Edgewood (9), 67
2. Concordia Wisconsin (3), 57
3. Rockford, 51
4. Lakeland, 32
    Marian, 32
6. Maranatha, 13

South Division
1. Benedictine (5), 61
2. Aurora (4), 58
   MSOE (3), 58
4. Wisconsin Lutheran, 32
5. Concordia Chicago, 25
6. Dominican, 18

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_10/20091027a.html

[RFMichigan]

Time to get the basketball board cranked up folks.

[Just Bill]

Live video and audio at Loras vs. Edgewood tonight:

http://www.duhawks.com/stretch.php

http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/sports/2009/7/9/GEN_0709090357.aspx

http://www2.loras.edu/~ATHLET/live/xlive.htm

[WLCALUM83]

News about a milestone reached by a Marian player here:

http://www.marianuniversity.edu/interior.aspx?id=13588

[WLCALUM83]

NAthCon in-conference final:

Concordia-Chicago 70, Maranatha 53 (CUC box score indicates the Cougars outshot the Crusaders 53% to 39% in 2nd half to seal this one. CUC -Young 13 pts, Morgan 8 rebounds; Maranatha - Borchardt 16 pts, Stein 12 pts. 11 rebounds)

[Look It Up]

Any thoughts about Aurora's wild win over Grinnell last week at the Whitewater tournament? Looking at the box and PBP, seems like every Aurora shot was a lay-up, and they did not shoot one three for the game! Never thought I'd see that! Grinnell may be only 1-4 but I still look at this as an impressive win for Aurora. Personally speaking, I am not a fan of Grinnell's system, and I love seeing one of our conference teams shred it to pieces.

[Gregory Sager]

Any thoughts about Aurora's wild win over Grinnell last week at the Whitewater tournament? Looking at the box and PBP, seems like every Aurora shot was a lay-up, and they did not shoot one three for the game! Never thought I'd see that!

That's not unusual at all. In fact, that's standard operating procedure for any team that wants to beat Grinnell. You take what the Pioneers give you, and what the Pioneers give you is uncontested layups (or at minimum a 2-on-1 opportunity) if you break their press and get the ball over the mid-court line. Since layups are the easiest shots to make in basketball, you take them when you can get them -- and against Grinnell, you'll get them if you don't turn the ball over in your backcourt first.

As a corollary to this, attempting a trey against Grinnell makes no sense. It's a much harder shot to make than a layup, and the chances of a missed trey attempt turning into a long rebound that a retreating Grinnell defender could snare are much greater than are the chances that the Pioneers will snag a defensive rebound off of a missed layup. Shooting treys, in other words, plays right into Grinnell's hands, as it maintains the frenzied uptempo pace that the Pioneers seek to establish and gives them a much better opportunity to get the ball back after an opponent's shot. Smart teams never attempt even a single trey against Grinnell. Judging by the boxscore it seems to me that Aurora coach James Lancaster, who was not born yesterday, did everything by the book in coaching that win over Grinnell.