WBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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Stout over EC 82-62.  After doing a good job on Duoss in the first half, EC couldn't stop her in the second.  Stout would just lob the ball in and she would come down with it and score.  EC did pretty well offensively, but defensively was a different story.  

Way too many fouls were called in the game.  Both teams were in the double bonus with like 7min left in each half.  Burns played a whole 9min due to foul trouble and most of those minutes were late second half.

Muggenborg and Ashley Anderson played well tonight for EC.  Muggenborg provided some outside shooting and Anderson did well in the post.

Stout shot really well from the outside tonight.  You know Stout is hot shooting when #2 makes a 3.

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I'm not quite sure what the story on Ashley Fall is.  She led EC in scoring in the Blue-Gold game her freshman year.  The next year (last year) she was listed in EC's preseason preview but was not at the Blue-Gold game.  I'm guessing she quit the team?  When she did play, it looked like she had some good post moves and court awareness, although she was undersized for a post.

[Collegeville Magic]

Foul-  regarding your question on recruiting.  As a fan of team (St. Ben's) who has had a history of strong recruits coming into talented teams, I can say it's mostly a question of attitude. 

Good programs attract good players because they know they won't have to carry the load alone for 4 years.  I don't know all that many head coaches (besides ours) personally, but I doubt that there's "smoke" involved.

If I were a talented kid coming out of high school, I'd rather contribute on a contending team than play 35 minutes per night for a team in the building stages.

That having been said, some kids have big enough egos that they can't/won't accept playing a smaller role, and need to be the main attraction like they were in high school.

Go BLAZERS!!!!!

[Mr. Downtown]

Watch out for UW-Oshkosh. I know it might be early, but when Eggers is one reb. and Assist away from a triple double, and Herrick and O'Keef score over 20 each (and have that potential every game), along with tough defense players in Knapp and Tyriver this actually might be a better season then many thought for the Titans.

And Coach Schumacher is claiming that the Offense is not in full force yet, I can't wait to see when it does.

Next Saturday is the epic match up once again: Stout/Oshkosh, Duoss/Herrick.

I'm pumped

[Just Bill]

No one doubts the Titans talent.  We'll just have to see what happens late in the season if the top Titans continue to play 33+ minutes per game.

[Voice of the Titans]

I've never seen a Terri Schumacher team have problems with conditioning, wether the team is deep or not. I was good to see UWO respond to a push by another team, and answer with a run of their own to close out a game. Lechault didn't have a great offensive game, but she was a force in the post. Herrick took her game to the FT area, and that was a big difference.

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I agree with Just Bill. I think UWO probably has the best talent amoung the starters in this conference.  If they continually stay out of foul trouble and have solid play defensively in the post, they will have a very good chance at winning conference.  The question is, Can the starters stay out of foul trouble for 25+ games?

[billys]

That having been said, some kids have big enough egos that they can't/won't accept playing a smaller role, and need to be the main attraction like they were in high school.

Go BLAZERS!!!!!

What a misguided statement. So the only good players that will go to Whitewater, La Crosse, River Falls, and Platteville (teams looking to move up the ladder) are kids that have too big of egos to accept a smaller role for an established team. How disrespectful can you be to those kids? Maybe those kids are willing to help accept the challenge of turning the corner with a program. To insinuate that it's only kids with monster ego is ridiculous

[billys]

This week's poll
Stout 8th
Stevens Point RV (27th)
Oshkosh RV (37th)
La Crosse RV (42nd)

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I sort of agree with billys, although not quite as forcefully. I don't think a player needs ego as much as a combination of confidence and hope to be willing to go to a weak program. I don't understand how ANY player, who has had success in basketball on any level, can believe sitting on the bench is the best contribution he or she can make to the DIII game. The chances of playing after college are slight, so why not get involved as much as possible in the time you have? Good players on losing teams get recognition for their efforts, if observers are honest. Good, hardworking basketball players deserve a venue; I don't think the bench is it.

I suspect the chanciness of recruiting at the DIII level is part of the problem. Coaches recruit three times as many people as they need and are confounded when all show up. However, I think it's the coach's responsibility at some early point to be honest with the recruit about how much playing time he or she can expect.

[bulk19]

UW-La Crosse 72, UWEC 63.

From a Blugold fan's perspective: The 'Golds were able to get the ball inside, got some good looks, too, but couldn't close out their shots. When they missed, the Eagles were there for the rebound, limiting the 'Golds to just one shot on several trips down the court.

Eagles' defense was impressive, too. Don't know how many times I saw them deflect the ball as it was going into the paint, causing a turnover, or making the 'Golds reload after chasing the ball down.

Eagles have a nice balance on offense, too. Good inside-outside game. Looks like this program is turning the corner.

Now, to the Eagles fans. The Blugolds are reloading/rebuilding this year, but we put 944 fans in the stands tonight, including a good crowd from La Crosse. You have an upstart team, on the rise! Get off your fannies and start filling up Mitchell Hall. You had 125 and 194 fans there the first two games this year.

This team is playing with confidence, is fun to watch, and is off to a great start!!! It deserves the proportional support that you give to say, the football team, that you have there, and can feed off that support to make this season something special.

[foul_language]

Not so pretty game in Menomonie tonight, if you're a Stout women's basketball fan. Looked suspiciously like Stouters didn't want to have to take shots, so they'd run the ball down the court and throw it to Platteville. Lest Platteville take offense and claim it was their stellar defense, I have to say that passing the ball in to Kelsey Duoss/Jenny McDermid/Dani Boese/______ when three P-ville players surrounded her says more about the thrower than the catcher.

Oddball line-ups probably contributed to Stout's oddball play. No one looked particularly comfortable on the court--Stout, I mean. P-ville appeared not to have any problem. If stirring up the line was meant to psych a team out, I think it worked perfectly; unfortunately, Stout seemed to be the team that got psyched out.

Three shots were flying; they just weren't hitting anything. 

LaCrosse is looking good.

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Can you say letdown?

UWP 63
Stout 54
At Stout

Looks like Duoss was the only one to show up for Stout.

Huge game for Stout and UWO on Wednesday

[billys]

UW-La Crosse 72, UWEC 63.


Now, to the Eagles fans. The Blugolds are reloading/rebuilding this year, but we put 944 fans in the stands tonight, including a good crowd from La Crosse. You have an upstart team, on the rise! Get off your fannies and start filling up Mitchell Hall. You had 125 and 194 fans there the first two games this year.

Agreed. Platteville-La Crosse on Wednesday should be an interesting sidebar to Oshy and Stout (who still are the two most experienced teams at the top.

In La Crosse fans' defense. The two home games were on Thanksgiving weekend. We'll see next Saturday when they finally play a home game.

I know you say Eau Claire is rebuilding/reloading. But the team they played tonight had exactly zero seniors on the court itself. Their only senior, who happened to be first team all-conference last year, is probably out for the year with a knee injury according to the paper today.

[bulk19]

billys -
I'll grant you the Thanksgiving Day absence of students in town. But I make my comments based on previous seasons, and last year, too, when the Eagles averaged 250+ fans per game, which was third last, ahead of Superior's 96 and UWRF's 183.

Stout led the conference in attendance at 1,134 per game; UWEC was second, at 881. Granted, winning teams fill the seats, and the women's program there has been down for a while... But now that you have a team that is winning, and young, and should only get better, get the fans in there to support them! 

Don't let that team be the best kept secret on campus the next four years!

Next weekend is a big home game for the Eagles. The Pointers are in town. No excuse that finals are approaching. Ha. Creative study break #1123 says to go to the game! Make assistant coach Vince "The Prince" Hamilton, who I watched play for the LaX Catbirds, feel like he's back in the old filled-up La Crosse Center!