MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

Dominican's got an in-conference game scheduled with Concordia-WI before Thanksgiving--wonder how many other NAthCon squads have in-conference games that early?

[mifflin]

Lakeland is a good school, I hope they consider Coach Aaron or get a coach sooner than they got Coach Brumett.

[WLCALUM83]

What is it with Lakeland?  No one seems to be there for very long.  Are other schools in the old LMC that much better?  Off the top of my head, they seem to retain coaches a lot better than Lakeland.  Granted, the women's coach was there for a long time, but the men's are in and out a lot.  I guess Lakeland really is a stepping stone to better jobs, but it may also deal with the opportunities at the campus, possibly the people around them like the AD or President of the school are factors...(if this isn't a run-on sentence, not sure what is.)

As far as similar 'quick-turnover'  the closest, most recent "old LMC school" instance I can cite is Edgewood, which took on MBB coach Adrian and WBB coach Neils either the same year or a year apart. As far as the 4 schools added to form NAthCon- Rockford MBB was in a similar boat a year or two back. (Not a knock on Lakeland or any other school, just an observation.)

[mifflin]

WLCALUM83,
                    Can't put Rockford in that group because their situation was for  different reasons and one being money problems, you can't say that for the other schools mentioned.

[WLCALUM83]

I stand corrected.

[WLCALUM83]

Lakeland has found a new MBB coach:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_05/20080522b.html

[WLCALUM83]

Concordia-Chicago has found a new MBB coach:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_06/20080606c.html

[Gregory Sager]

Concordia-Chicago has found a new MBB coach:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_06/20080606c.html

Tyler Jones seems like an interesting guy. He certainly has had one of the most unusual career paths I've ever seen in a D3 basketball coach.

[Greek Tragedy]

What in the world is the NathCon Challenge game?

[Pat Coleman]

At the end of the regular season, the first place team in one division will place the first place team in the other division, second place against second, etc. Since those teams meet just once in the conference schedule it'll be a good showdown kind of thing.

I have some notes on this and have been meaning to do a story but have been caught up in other work.

[WLCALUM83]

Here's news on 3 WI prep players headed NAthCon's direction:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=766241

("Other college choices" section.)

[from downtown]

According to Wishoops so far:

Benedictine:
Derrick Washington, Brown Deer ***
Kyle Bickler, Waukesha South

Concordia:
Zach Alix, Weyauwega-Fremont ***
Ben Hagenbach, Ashwaubenon
Mitchell Schneider, Fond du Lac St. Mary's Springs ***
Matt Paluchniak, Oostburg
(new) Nick Doedens, Germantown
(new) Zach Neumann, Germantown

Edgewood:
Jacob Guziewski, Burlington
(new) Derek Nkejmni, Madison Memorial
(new) Ben Wisniewski, New Berlin West

Lakeland:
Keegan Kincaid, Crandon ***
Derrick Nillissen, Bowler ***
Josh Regal, Suring ***1/2 #38 senior in the state
Jake Schwarz, Sheboygan South ***
Germell Heard, Wisconsin Lutheran
Michael Tapp, West Allis Hale
Hunter Wolf, Menasha


Marian:
Aaron Rickert, Laconia

MSOE:
Austin Kearns, Slinger ***
Eric Bohrer, De Pere
Robert Linzmeier, Valders *** #49 senior in the state
(new) Oren Bloom, West Allis Central

[from downtown]

Highlights from WBCA all star games:
D2 including Austin Kearns, and Ben Wisniewski (Also includes Mike Hojnacki from New Berlin Eisenhower who chose Michigan Tech over MSOE  and appeared to be the best player in those highlights including a dropstep dunk and was the leading scorer in the game, oh well)
http://www.wissports.net/sports/hoopsb/tv.asp?bcpid=979266218&bclid=370422873&bctid=1646070596
D3 including Keegan Kincaid and Zach Alix
http://www.wissports.net/sports/hoopsb/tv.asp?bcpid=979266218&bclid=370422873&bctid=1653764380
D4 including Derrick Nillisson and Josh Regal
http://www.wissports.net/sports/hoopsb/tv.asp?bcpid=979266218&bclid=370422873&bctid=1655720409

[wcbsas]

http://www.msoe.edu/athletics/teams/roster.shtml?teamId=123800&crumbTitle=Men's%20Basketball+Roster&pageTitle=Men's%20Basketball+Roster

MSOE's roster for '08-'09 ... freshmen are not listed.

Two graduated, 12 back

[WLCALUM83]

IMHO-Biggest question for MSOE is-how does that squad fill Scott Murphy's shoes?--ask another player to step up big, or do it by committee-so to speak? Fortunately, most of the returning reserves did see a lot of playing time last season.