MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[petemcb]

Here's one observation from the boxscore:  Dusty Magee, 5-19 from the field, 4-16 from the arc.  If he has his typical night, Aurora has a shot at winning this game!

[Greek Tragedy]

They did have a shot at winning the game, they lost in OT!

On the other hand, Sean Wallis was 0-7.  So it goes both ways. 

[Greek Tragedy]

May hit the Concordia v Carroll game today, after Grinnell at MSOE.  Interesting to see that Concordia's first game of the new season was a CONFERENCE game. 

[petemcb]

Good point about wallis and his ofer.  I missed that. Still a major scare for Wash U and an encouraging sign for 0 - 5 Aurora.

[wizbegs1304]

What do you think about the way the Northern Athletics Conference has looked against other conferences thus far?

Edgewood @ Chicago (defeat #22 team in the nation)
Lake Forest @ Benedictine (win over MWC school)
Wisconsin Lutheran @ UW-Whitewater (tough loss when leading for most of the game to #4 team in the nation)
Beloit @ Benedictine (win over MWC school)
Lakeland @ Lake Forest (win in over-time against MWC)
Rockford vs. UW-Stout (win over WIAC team)
UW-La Crosse @ Wisconsin Lutheran (2 point win over WIAC team)
Beloit @ Rockford (5 point win over MWC team)
Lawrence @ Marian (win against MWC #1 pre-season team and #19 in nation)
Aurora vs. Washington-St. Louis (2 point loss in overtime to #1 team in the nation)
Dominican @ Lake Forest (win over MWC)
Grinnell @ MSOE (3 point win over pre-season #3 in MWC)

[Greek Tragedy]

What do you think about the way the Northern Athletics Conference has looked against other conferences thus far?

Edgewood @ Chicago (defeat #22 team in the nation)...Is Chi-town over rated?  Aren't they winless now?  Edgewood hasn't won since either!

Lake Forest @ Benedictine (win over MWC school)...Good win against middle-of-the-pack MWC team

Wisconsin Lutheran @ UW-Whitewater (tough loss when leading for most of the game to #4 team in the nation)...No offense to WLC, but Whitewater seems to play down to their opponents, they got beat pretty bad at home vs. Point

Beloit @ Benedictine (win over MWC school)...Beloit is horrible

Lakeland @ Lake Forest (win in over-time against MWC)...Good away win, but Lakeland is streaky, as shown by winning three conference tourney games on the road last year to win the tourney, but up and down season throughout

Rockford vs. UW-Stout (win over WIAC team)...It's a WIAC team, but their horrible, 8th place in WIAC last year

UW-La Crosse @ Wisconsin Lutheran (2 point win over WIAC team)...La Crosse is a young team and WLC got them early.  Good win

Beloit @ Rockford (5 point win over MWC team)...Beloit is still horrible!

Lawrence @ Marian (win against MWC #1 pre-season team and #19 in nation)...Definitely a feather in the cap, but probably wouldn't happen later in the season, Marian would probably go 2-8 in a 10 game series

Aurora vs. Washington-St. Louis (2 point loss in overtime to #1 team in the nation)...Very nice effort

Dominican @ Lake Forest (win over MWC)...ditto

Grinnell @ MSOE (3 point win over pre-season #3 in MWC)...Big win for the Raiders, I was at this game, Grinnell played horrible, but give credit to MSOE, scored when they needed to.  Grinnell ran out of time, MSOE was really wearing down at the end

[Just Bill]

Rockford vs. UW-Stout (win over WIAC team)...It's a WIAC team, but their horrible, 8th place in WIAC last year

...and Rockford was 1-22 last year, in the NAC.  I don't care how bad Stout is.  That's a good win for RC.

[Gregory Sager]

Rockford vs. UW-Stout (win over WIAC team)...It's a WIAC team, but their horrible, 8th place in WIAC last year

...and Rockford was 1-22 last year, in the NAC.  I don't care how bad Stout is.  That's a good win for RC.

Actually, it was worse than that, Bill. The Regents went 0-25 last season, not 1-22, and that included an 0-18 NAthCon mark. And it followed on the heels of a 3-22, 2-16 season in 2006-07. The season-opening win at Greenville two weeks ago ended a 34-game losing streak for the Regents that was (I'm pretty sure) the longest in the NCAA at that time.

Rockford's turnaround this season has been astonishing, and head coach Ryan Rebsome deserves a shout-out for it ... especially since Rockford's not the easiest school for which to recruit.

[pgkevin]

Rockford vs. UW-Stout (win over WIAC team)...It's a WIAC team, but their horrible, 8th place in WIAC last year

...and Rockford was 1-22 last year, in the NAC.  I don't care how bad Stout is.  That's a good win for RC.

Actually, it was worse than that, Bill. The Regents went 0-25 last season, not 1-22, and that included an 0-18 NAthCon mark. And it followed on the heels of a 3-22, 2-16 season in 2006-07. The season-opening win at Greenville two weeks ago ended a 34-game losing streak for the Regents that was (I'm pretty sure) the longest in the NCAA at that time.

Rockford's turnaround this season has been astonishing, and head coach Ryan Rebsome deserves a shout-out for it ... especially since Rockford's not the easiest school for which to recruit.

They have a waterpark just 20 minutes away...

[Gregory Sager]

Thanks, Kev, for the best laugh I've had all weekend.

[ausid]

At the half from Aurora's Thornton Gymnasium

Aurora  50
Wisconsin Lutheran  39

AU shooting 50% from the field (18-36) and 5-14 from 3's
WLC shooting 36.8% from the field (14-38) and 7-20 from 3's

[Pioneer Hoops Fan]

Edgewood takes down preseason division favorite Marian on the road.  Edgewood shot well, and played well defensively to earn the conference victory.  Anyone at the game that could give more details?

[Pioneer Hoops Fan]

"Chirp chirp"  "Chrip chirp"

You folks here those crickets??? 

[Greek Tragedy]

Get used to it. 

[RFMichigan]

Okay, here are a few random thoughts::

1) I'm happy that the new coach at RF, er, CUC, has a couple of wins under his belt. Having coached in a variety of settings including the CBA and D-1, I wonder  how this might effect his coaching style at the D-III level. I did notice that he is playing basically a seven man rotation.

2) I thought it was interesting that CUC scored only 14 points in the second half of the Eureka game and then only gave up 12 in the first half against Dominican. That's quite a turnaround.

3) Did I notice that D-1 SIU-Edwardsville got taken down last night by Millikin? Wow. Is SIU-E that weak , or . . .