WBB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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I just was on the UWL website and was quite a bit surprised by that score.  Finlandia is only 1-7 and they usually play weak teams.  I guess a win is a win.  Better to have a bad game against a bad team than a good team.

Also tonight, Stout gets thumped 89-64 against D2 Minnesota State (Mankato), a team Stout beat last year by 3 points.  Looks like Duoss had a good game, but again no help from anyone else.  Other players for Stout NEED to step up.  As each game goes by this season, it seems that Stout is relying more and more on Duoss.  Stout has plenty of experienced players who should be helping out more offensively.

[EagleAlum]

Other players for Stout NEED to step up.  As each game goes by this season, it seems that Stout is relying more and more on Duoss.  Stout has plenty of experienced players who should be helping out more offensively.

Maybe they miss Hendricks more than anyone thought. No one ever thought of her as an offensive player because of how good and physical she was defensively; but looking back she was the second-leading scorer, shot 36% from the 3, and probably was a pretty big stabilizer in what they were trying to do.

And I know that with their team who starts isn't a big deal cause they play so many, but how long will they let Geissler struggle before she loses some minutes. It's not even so much the 3-for-31 from the 3 (although that's bad) but she only shot 29% the last two years. The free throw percentage is what makes it look very mental ... 8-for-21! She was 75 and 76% the last two years. That hurts.

Now ... they are 8-2 with a D2 loss and a loss on the road to a conference rival ... so it's not like they have collapsed. They just haven't been as dominant as people thought they might be. So we'll see. Interesting note ... in their tournament in Texas they may face former UW-Oshkosh coach, Pam Ruder.

[T.F. Guy]

Hey, Stout fans, relax.
Any team Mark Thomas coaches gets better as the season wears on.  What, they lost a league game on the road, and to a DII team? 
So?
There is a lot of season left.  And it'll probably end with a Dance.


Does anyone have any observastions on last Saturday's Platteville-River Falls game?  Even though the Pioneer offense should be improved -- with a mature Tesch, and developing Grantman and a healthy Wubben -- it looks like the UWP hallmarks will again be playing defense and being hard-nosed.  (Translation:  They might have trouble putting the ball through the basket.)

I listened to some radio feeds of the game, but all the announcers did was question the officiating.  Over and over and over and over and over....

Plus, although the UWP-UWRF series is well under the radar, it's worth paying attention to.  The games tend to be tough, physical, and close for all 40 minutes.  It's not always artistic basketball, but it can be compelling.

[UWPSUPERFAN77]

See my post a couple of pages ago for my personal recap of the game. The RF PV game was a great defensive game. Wueben is a difference maker, it may take a while to get back 100 percent recovering from her knee injury. you are completely accurate in your summary of PV. The offense at PV does have some new freshmen who can shoot, what a relief.  LIZ Wisdom is a highly skilled around the hoop but needs to get stronger. I feel the future is bright. God Bless!

[hoops49]

I don't know about St. Cloud's website, but their announcers were horrible. I've listened to enough games and at least you knew what players were on the floor playing. It was a real guessing game. Had to wait for the stats to come out on that one.

As expected, UWEC falls to St. Cloud State 71-55.  I think they were ranked #4 in D2.  Heidi A leads the way with 15pts and Zenner adds 12pts, all in the 2nd half.  SCS's all star center had 28pts and 18rebs.  Against Stout last year I think she had 31pts 22rebs.  I think she belongs at the D1 level 

Buf- Was it a close 16 or a blowout 16? Just curious if they were in it the last 10 minutes or trimmed, say a 25-point lead down at the end. St. Cloud's website is awful, they don't even have home results from THURSDAY posted, at least on the schedule.

And yeah, Quigley is a pre-season All-American and was the Region POTY last year. She's tough. Amazing. In her career she's averaged - 18.1 as a freshman, 22.7 as a sophomore, 22.2 as a junior, and now 22.7 again as a senior. 2,112 in her career so far!

They were actually ranked 23rd in D-2 in this week's poll.

[Rico 21]

T.F. Guy -

Thanks for the comment about coach T.  He's a great coach AND a class act.  There's been some disappointing play, but Mark and staff will get it turned in the right direction.

[Just Bill]

Point beat Lawrence 65-55 in a game in which no players from either team scored in double figures.  I'm not sure I've ever seen that in a college game.

If you can get a triple-double, and a double-double, then I guess every player in this game recorded a nada-double. 

[WLCALUM83]

Platteville beats Edgewood 79-50. Edgewood shot 28% from the floor and Eagles' Scheele held to around half her scoring average again.

You WIAC schools continue to have LMC/NathCons' number.

[badgerwarhawk]

Edgewood only had eight players dressed for their game against us a few weeks ago.  Two of them only played 6 minutes apiece so they essentially played the game with six players.

[Just Bill]

Well, there's three ways to get on the front page at D3Hoops.com...

1. Beat a ranked team
2. Be a ranked team and lose
3. Lose to a team that nearly folded entirely two years ago

Unfortunately River Falls made the front page via method #3, with a shocking 52-46 loss to Macalester last night.  The word unbelievable gets thrown around a lot, but this loss truly is.

[EagleAlum]

Not a good stretch for the Falcons. My sleeper pick has gone into hibernation.

[LA RAMS]

I was at the UWRF - Macalester game last night.  When I first saw the Falcons take the floor with the size they had I thought this could get ugly pretty quickly for the Scots.   But smaller Macalester outhustled, outrebounded, and outplayed UWRF; at least in the first half anyway.  The Falcons made some adjustments at the half and stormed back to take two brief leads before Mac stepped on the gas again to take the lead for good.   Being a MIAC guy I was happy although I was a little in disbelief as well that they did this to UWRF which has some talent.     

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Whats happened to River Falls the last week?  They beat Point and almost came back against EC at Zorn, and then this week they tank it by losing to Platteville at home and Macalester.

This should not be happening to a team with 5 senior starters!

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UWEC loses at Carroll 64-61.  Close 1st half with Carroll usually leading by a few points and a 2-point halftime lead.  Carroll comes out of the gates and dominates most of the 2nd half, leading by as much as 12.  Facing an 8-point deficit with under a minute left, EC makes a furious comeback thanks to Mueggenborg's 3-point shooting.  EC actually stole the ball with 10sec (down by 3) but either missed a shot or turned it over.  Carroll did a good job making FT's down the stretch. 

Again, EC shoots horrible the first 38 min of the game.  At this point they were 32%.  However, they made almost every shot in the last 2min to finish at a respectable 41%.  Mueggenborg leads with 17pts, almost all coming in the last minute.  Burns with 14pts and Heide A. with 10pts, although she was only 3-12 on FGs, missing several short ones.  Wickert had a good first half for Carroll and then Hoewich took over in the 2nd half.

[foul_language]

Stout website says Finlandia (1-8) beat Stout 86-84 in overtime. Anyone listen? (Was there something to listen to?) What happened? Only half the team go up? Wait, that's probably still more players than Finlandia has...

If anyone has more information, I'd be interested in hearing it.