MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

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Benedictine 46, Rockford 40  Half

(Regents' Stinson unavailable per Ben feed-serving a 1 game suspension)

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Lakeland 35, Edgewood 34  Half

MSOE and Aurora tied at 32  Half

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Benedictine 67, Rockford 55  Approx 10 min left 2nd half

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Benedictine 91, Rockford 76  Final

(Snelling --26 rebounds, 15 pts)

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Per Edgewood announcers:

CUW 90, WLC 58  Final

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Edgewood 84, Lakeland 72  Final

(This poster switched and caught the last 11 min of the 2nd half of this one-WI Eagles were down by 8 when he tuned in, with Faurote and Wisniewski on the bench due to foul trouble, Cates and Barczak stepped it up scoring wise, while Lakeland missed several free-throws and was limited to several 1 and dones as time ran on. )

Aurora/MSOE final yet to come in.

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Final (per Aurora site)  Aurora 72, MSOE 67

[jdubb104]

One Round Do...Two More To Go...

Semifinals

CUW vs. Edgewood

Benedictine vs. Aurora

Predictions anyone?

I'm going to go with CUW and Benedictine...both pretty much for the same reason. They are the 2 athletic teams in the conference that can play a consistent up and down game for 40 minutes. Also both Edgewood and Aurora are coming off games on Wednesday that they had to play tough full games for. Edgewood didnt blow the game open until the last 2 minutes. CUW pulled its started 5 minutes into the second half. Benedictine is to athletic for Aurora. Cameron Snelling has no one to stop him on Aurora's team.  Any other thoughts or predictions for Friday nights games?

[RFMichigan]

Okay, semis in the NAC.

CUW over Edgewood. Too many quality weapons for CUW. Plus they're more rested as jdubb104 said, although this might come into play even more if they advance to the finals.

I'd love to go against the grain and pick Aurora, but not as badly as I'd like to see a CUW-BU final. BU
Note: If Benedictine does in fact win, the championship game will be their 6th game in the last 12 days. That's a lot of basketball at this point in the season.

[Just Bill]

I think most people would pick CUW and BU, so let's alter the question a little bit.

Between EC and AU, which underdog is more likely to pull an upset?

[WLCALUM83]

I think most people would pick CUW and BU, so let's alter the question a little bit.

Between EC and AU, which underdog is more likely to pull an upset?

I'd go with Aurora -especially if Green gets into foul trouble- I don't expect the IL Eagles to have quite the field day rebounding they did against Rockford.

[RFMichigan]

I think most people would pick CUW and BU, so let's alter the question a little bit.

Between EC and AU, which underdog is more likely to pull an upset?

I'd certainly go with Aurora if I had to pick an upset. I think they "match up" well with Benedictine.

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Aurora/Benedictine about to get underway:

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Benedictine up 35-28 at half.

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Green with 11 and only 1 foul to lead Ben. Snelling with 7. Former Ben Eagle Mike Bumber leads Aurora with 10. The only person in foul trouble is Ben's Jokic with 3. Snelling was T'd up early on a no-call so he'll have to watch himself.