MBB: Northwest Conference

[Pio20]

Hope to see some of you then... I'll be wearing a Hope College sweatshirt, and looking for a beer after the game.

No doubt you will be quite popular with the LC students

I'll be the one drinking the beer during the game 

[LogShow]

Hope to see some of you then... I'll be wearing a Hope College sweatshirt, and looking for a beer after the game.

No doubt you will be quite popular with the LC students

I'll be the one drinking the beer during the game 

Would that be beer in a nalgene bottle or Captain Morgans in the Coke bottle? 

[Pio20]

Hope to see some of you then... I'll be wearing a Hope College sweatshirt, and looking for a beer after the game.

No doubt you will be quite popular with the LC students

I'll be the one drinking the beer during the game 

Would that be beer in a nalgene bottle or Captain Morgans in the Coke bottle? 

haha..If we lose I'll be drinking after to try to forget! haha...a loss puts us at 3-4 in conference and in an even deeper hole to make the conference playoff. A win could possibly change the fortunes of the season. We shall see tomorrow night!

[Pio20]

Not basketball related...but during the Willamette game Dave Berggren was getting some heckling from Willamette fans for having a tattoo on his shoulder that reads "chip." Chip on the shoulder...get it? It got me thinking about tattoos in the NWC. I haven't seen many in the games I have witnessed this year, except for when we played a Seventh Day Adventist school (almost every player had some sort of religious tattoo). Any good, bad, or ugly tattoos out there in the NWC?

[UPSoundLogs]

  Pio20, that's a great questions!

I cant speak for this year specifically (although A. Willams for UPS has some serious ink) but there was a 6'10 center that played for PLU a couple years back who had some god awful tattoos.  An explanation cant even do them justice but he had matching "tribal armbands" on each arm right above his elbows.  They almost looked fake and I actually remember feeling sorry for him when i saw them up close and realized they were his for life...I laughed out loud.  The only possible way you can have duel "tribal armband" tattoos and still look cool and/or tough is if you are in the WWE or are one of the guys from American gladiator.  And even then you are pushing your luck.

This is a great topic, there has to be some other good ones.

[NWCer]

OK, let me kick off the predictions...........

UPS 88, LC 78 - LC falls to 3-4 in conference and winless at home, who would of thunk it

Linfield 105, PLU 103 - A barn burner with a lot of points scored but the home team prevails and Linfield moves to 5-2

George Fox 79, Whitman 78 - Fox blows another big second half lead but holds on to win their first conference game and leave Whitman winless

Pacific 68, Willamette 60 - Ok I'm biased here, but I think my Boxers can get it done for the 3rd straight game

And Whitworth.........  They're at home watching tons of tape to get ready for those might Banana Slugs  ......

[Do-Work25]

Worst Tattoo ever:

It wasn't in the NWC, but it was a guy from Northwest - It was on his leg, backside, just under his knee on the side kinda....

It was a basketball with a chain in links spiraling down his leg and across his shin to something around his ankle which could not be seen because his shoe covered it up. Ridiculous.

By far the worst tattoo I've ever seen.

[wildcat11]

I know this isn't basetball related but it's involving one of the NWC's non-football members.

Catdomealumni.com has just posted up an interview with Pacific University's Athletic Director, Ken Schumann, about the possible return of football in Forest Grove.

The Red and Purple Interview: Pacific AD Ken Schumann

[cawcdad]

Good interview 11. Thanks for doing it and posting for us.

[D O.C.]

I am nauseated looking through the past few day's pages on this here basketball board.
I am embarrassed by the LINFIELD program.  I suppose  it pleases other schools to no end. That's fair.
9:28PM and LINFIELD is up on PLU by 17 but the way they play they can give that up in 90 secs.
The House of Hustle had defense as one of it's walls.

[80sshorts]

Big ending coming up in Whitman, game tied at 45 all between Whitman and George Fox, Whitman at the foul line, 28 seconds. 

[nwhoops1903]

UPS 10-0 run now down 15

6:32 remaining 64-49

[nwhoops1903]

80ssshorts and all....NWC has an ingame update page now. 

[80sshorts]

Yeah, I saw that, I'm listening to the game too.  Faidley for the win, far range 3 at the buzzer, game heads to OT for the cellar dwellers, 48-all

[nwhoops1903]

I think LC is the one who can give up 18 points in 90 seconds.  UPS storming back down 3