MBB: Northwest Conference

[Keandre]

How many posts do I need to get to get off the JV team? I am averaging 80 points a game on JV!!!!! I am like Whitworth in the NWC on this JV team.

[(509)Rat]

Tonight (if any game has started then you can go ahead and ignore my prediction)

WW
PLU, will run too many guys at Wiser and co.
UPS, finally starting to play up to their talent level
LC, simply the better team

Saturday
UPS, just hoping to piss of Trymeteam lol
Linfield, Wiser gets angry and takes it out on the other team instead of posting on this board!
PLU, would love to see BP spiral into an even deeper depression
Whitman, no way pacific gets a win after a beatdown in Spokane followed by a 3 hour bus ride to Walla x2

[(509)Rat]

Tonight (if any game has started then you can go ahead and ignore my prediction)

WW
PLU, will run too many guys at Wiser and co.
UPS, finally starting to play up to their talent level
LC, simply the better team

Whitworth won, PLU won, UPS won, and LC won...Boom goes the dynamite

[Pat Coleman]

How many posts do I need to get to get off the JV team? I am averaging 80 points a game on JV!!!!! I am like Whitworth in the NWC on this JV team.

I think it's 25, in which case you're almost there.

[TryMeTeam]

Dre:
You are right.  It was at Linfield.  Had I known that I might have gone the other way on the game last night, nah.  I am just terrible at this.  Nice win last night against Fox.  But, after watching LC last night, I will stay with LC over UPS tonight.  I feel only the Pirates can stop the 3 pt barrage LC has going right now.  Plus they play 5 guards at times and 4 guards most of the time.  That will negate UPS's pressure.  LC's weakness is defense, so Shelton could have a good game.

Rat: 
Nice job on the calls.  4 for 4, actually 3 for 3 with WW in the mix, an automatic.  If I could have a change, it would be PLU over Wil.  Watching them last night, they wore down real bad in the last 10 minutes.  But they will give PLU a game.

[A Buc Forever]

Pacific didn't play the zone, but Arby's still gave out free sandwiches. 

[(509)Rat]

Pacific played the zone during one possession. Riley's 3 ended that experiment pretty quick.

Tryme,
With no WW game tonight I may just go 0-fer!

[(509)Rat]

PLU puts the monkey stomp on Willamette, 99-72
Linfield escapes with a W, 80-76
LC beats UPS (I had a feeling I was gonna be wrong on this one  ), 73-64
Whitman pounds Pacific, 94-65

7-1, I'll take it. Next weekend in Spokane? CAN'T WAIT! Thank you Bart Scott.

Hope Wiser enjoys playing in front of an actual crowd in Spokane!

[A Buc Forever]

WW vs LC next Friday--Biggest conference game of the year.  The place will be rocking.  Should be a good game.

Linfield vs Whitman will be a big game for the fourth slot in the conference.  Eastern Washington is the place to be for NWC hoops next weekend.  

[TryMeTeam]

Rat:

I go 6-2 (with the late revision), but you take me down with a 7-1!  Cost you a perfect weekend record trying to piss me off!  lol

Buc:

The Pios will be ready, but that won't matter if LC can't get a shot off within 3 feet of the arc.  Missing Hollins will also be a big loss.  They will have McCullough back for this one.  But WW and Hayford know this is for the league championship, and they will be ready.  Too much going against LC for me to feel anything good about this one.  I unfortunately see WW in a blowout.

Linf and Whitm is a toss up.  Which Linf team will show up, the that got drilled by Will and then need 2 OT's to beat PacU or the one that beat UPS and GF.  I think they will get Whitm, but they will get drilled by WW on Friday first. 

Actually, Buc, both of these big games are on Saturday.  Friday's games could be set-ups for the Sat games, but I don't think they will matter if both teams at the top take care of business.

[A Buc Forever]

TMT,

You are correct.  The LC/WW match-up is on Saturday.  Forgot they switch the order the second time through the league.  Helps Whitworth.  LC has to play Whitman on Friday and then drive to Spokane to play on Saturday.  It will be interesting to see how Wiser does against WW.  Last game he was bent over double trying to catch his breath the whole second half.  WW makes him work hard for his shots.  On offense, WW plays 4 guards and Wiser ends up guarding one of them.  He gets pretty tired running around the perimeter. He was pretty ineffective last game.

[nwhoops1903]

Congrats to LC for being strong this year despite the challenges.  The game at WW will be intense because yes, it could very well end up being the reg. season conference championship game.  I am sure WW will be prepared and hungry to "win/clinch" on Sat.  The LF game won't be close based on what I saw at LF.

So last weekend's games told us what?  

I think Pac is good but not good enough.  They don't appear to be improving or playing as a unit right now, but that might just be what WW does to you.  

Wil isn't....much and I don't think they will spoil much either for top5.  

GF is the official spoiler.  

UPS at 3-5 after 2-0 start, hmmmmmm. IF they can and that's a big if   find a way to #4 I will be surprised but it is still possible.  

LF and WHIT are both 4-4 and consensus is LF is a better team, can you say Wiser bud?  However, I think Walla Walla is on the rise and will beat LF at home.  They could even beat LC at home.  If they sweep next weekend, they could be headed to #2 or #3, real possible.  

LF is my choice to finish 5th.  They just aren't very good defensively and rely ENTIRELY on 1 guy.  Bad combo.  

PLU was my pick to finish 2nd and I am still on that.  They will overtake LC if they win at LC and give WW their biggest remaining test in Tacoma Feb 5th.

LC shouldn't fall out of top 3, but could.  I think the deck is stacked against them but they are well coached.

WW...c'mon!!  A real nice team.  #1 in the nation by the time the conf. tournament begins, if not sonner.

[cciwrabblerouser]

Anyone at WW have an update on the school's AD search?

[Keandre]

LC is a good team, they have guys who make big plays at big times of the game. UPS had a great game plan and executed it. Were up 7 and Kelly and PJ were visibly frustrated and were taken out of the game, the Wells kid, who can go, was also taken out of what he wanted to do. UPS slowed the game down and had it where they wanted it. Then, a kid that has not played much all year, came in and hit 2 HUGE 3 point shots and this young UPS team went away from what got them their lead. Kelly and PJ came back in and they took it home for LC. Very good game. UPS, did not have a great first half of season at 3-5 but a few of those games could have went their way. I think they can get at least 3 on the road at GF Pac and Wil, it will take a lot of hard work but they can get LC at LC, if they can do that and take care of home court and maybe get WW at home, they can be 10-6 and sitting pretty good in 3rd or 4th place. I know beating LC at LC is a long shot and WW at home is as well, but this young scrappy team can pull it out, especially since they are getting better with each game. Now is the time to start stringing together some wins.

[loggerfan1]

Despite the record, the Loggers are a little better than I thought they would be this year, and I think they will be very good next year.  It's been a tough stretch--they had a brief second half lead at PLU and fell apart; they had the Linfield game in hand and fell apart; they nearly blew the game to Fox, and with all due respect to the GFU folks, Fox looked godawful.

UPS is young and has made big changes recently.  The guy who played point for most of the early season isn't in uniform anymore, and while I did not see him as a great UPS system guy (he's a  bit slower and less aggressive than most of the guys who've been great UPS guards in the system) it's tough breaking in a new backcourt in league; Rogers is playing quite a bit now and he didn't see much time at all until a couple of weeks ago.  BTW, that dude can shoot.   UPS added Gittens, an athletic 6'9" guy and are working him in--with him, Borboa, and Shelton this looks like a new kind of Logger team, big and potentially intimidating up front. 

With the exception of the Pirates, the league overall looks weaker now than it has in years.