MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Greek Tragedy]

not at all.

[from downtown]

MSOE's independent schedule:
http://www.msoe.edu/athletics/?mbask/2006-2007/schedule

[Gregory Sager]

MSOE seems to have done a decent job of putting a coherent schedule into place, despite all the pitfalls that typically come with being an independent. Unlike some other indies, they don't have all of their games crammed into the six weeks before New Year's Day; thirteen of their games are in January and February, which is a nice balance. Plus, the Raiders don't have to pack up the caravan and travel all over creation in order to fill out the slate. They've put together four home-and-homes, against Dominican, Clarke, Northland, and Finlandia, and home-and-homes are always very helpful for an indie.

[Ralph Turner]

MSOE seems to have done a decent job of putting a coherent schedule into place, despite all the pitfalls that typically come with being an independent. Unlike some other indies, they don't have all of their games crammed into the six weeks before New Year's Day; thirteen of their games are in January and February, which is a nice balance. Plus, the Raiders don't have to pack up the caravan and travel all over creation in order to fill out the slate. They've put together four home-and-homes, against Dominican, Clarke, Northland, and Finlandia, and home-and-homes are always very helpful for an indie.

Let's remember that Clarke and Finlandia are also independents, too.

Finalndia is in the Great Lakes Evaluation Region and Region 3 Geographical Region, so that game is not "in-region" for either team. 

[Gregory Sager]

Let's remember that Clarke and Finlandia are also independents, too.

I realize that. But the fact that two schools are both indies and within a reasonable distance of each other doesn't always guarantee that they can set up a home-and-home at the drop of a hat. Given that MSOE's status was in a state of flux until relatively recently, their situation could've really played havoc with their schedulemaking. Clarke was in the same boat, but there's no guarantee that Finlandia would've had a second slot open in their sked for the Raiders at whatever late date the MSOE staff put their sked together.

Any way you slice it, MSOE's staff did a pretty remarkable job of putting together a well-balanced schedule under difficult conditions.

[Greek Tragedy]

Kudos to MSOE for scheduling Finlandia only twice, unlike an unnamed WIAC team 

Anyway, it greatly disappoints me that I will be in San Francisco the same weekend MY BOYS, Worcester Polytech, are in town!  DAMN! lol.  They almost took me to the promise land last season in the inaugural survivor league!

Just out of curiousity, they head to Californ-I-A over New Years.  Who are "KS" and "CLU"? 

Lastly, not that I know anything about anything, but aren't a lot of the indies located in the middle of nowhere, or near the end of nowhere (Colorado College), making it difficult to schedule games?  Obviously MSOE is a little different case since they got greedy and tried to jump ship before crying back to mommy to get in the newly formed conference.  Mommy sent them to their corner for a year, thus making them independent.    It's obvious MSOE has tons of teams in the "area" to play.

And as Greg said, they did a very good job considering the circumstances...a lot better than that WIAC team. 

[from downtown]

Bethany KS I would assume: http://www.bethanylb.edu/contentm/gen/bethany_college_generated_pages/Mens_Basketball_m176.html

CLU I would assume:
http://www.d3hoops.com/school_info.php?school=Cal%20Lutheran&team=m

[fishguy]

i see edgewood has their AD hired - any word on the men's bkb coach? i know they had a lot to hire this summer, but boy is it getting late.

[Greek Tragedy]

I have not heard back from Edgewood College, so I'm guessing I didn't get the job.  I haven't even gotten a rejection letter yet! 

[diehardfan]

 

[centilbball]

Does anyone know how the Illinois teams will stack up in this new conference? I have followed Aurora, Rockford, and Benedictine in the past how will they stack up this year. In looking at lasts years roster they all seem young

[Pat Coleman]

Here's how the teams in this league did last year. Obviously, they did not play a full round-robin with each other.

Inspired by a request on the NIIC baseball board, here's a compilation of the NAthCon men's basketball standings for 2005-06, taking each team's schedule and tallying the wins and losses against future conference foes:

Lakeland 21-6, 13-1 LMC, 13-4 NAthCon
Aurora 16-11, 9-3 NIIC, 6-2 NAthCon
Wisconsin Lutheran 14-15, 8-6 LMC, 11-6 NAthCon
Edgewood 15-12, 8-6 LMC, 10-6 NAthCon
Concordia (Wis.) 8-16, 6-8 LMC, 8-7 NAthCon
Dominican 13-13, 6-8 LMC, 8-8 NAthCon
Rockford 15-12, 6-6 NIIC, 5-5 NAthCon
Marian 10-17, 5-8 LMC, 6-9 NAthCon
Concordia (Ill.) 11-16, 6-6 NIIC, 4-7 NAthCon
Benedictine 10-15, 3-8 NIIC, 3-7 NAthCon
Maranatha Baptist 1-24, 0-14 LMC, 0-13 NAthCon

This includes the teams' various conference tournaments.

[keith45]

Does anyone know how the Illinois teams will stack up in this new conference? I have followed Aurora, Rockford, and Benedictine in the past how will they stack up this year. In looking at lasts years roster they all seem young

I've been in both conferences in the last 2 years, so I've seen a ton of these teams play...I think AU, Ben and Rockford are more athletic than most teams in the former LMC, and I think AU has the most talent returning of all teams (Welton, Magee, Lambert, Trudo(sp) round out a deep and talented team..look for Vic Mendez (6-4 sophomore) to contribute. If they get someone off the bench to be a banger next to Welton, they could be an NCAA team easily. Rockford's style may cause fits to some teams, I swear they are 2 seasons away from the "system"!

[diehardfan]

Rockford's style may cause fits to some teams, I swear they are 2 seasons away from the "system"!

I actually saw recently on the CoSIDA website that Rockford had an SID position open, I always pity the people who have to keep stats for system-like teams. How the heck do you have the time to keep track of everything? Esp as a newer SID? 

[3 Point Play]

Edgewood has announced that Todd Adrian will be the new men's basketball coach. Todd is the former assistant at UW Platteville and Lakeland College...great hire for Edgewood.

http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=1774