MBB: Northwest Conference

[playball]

Haters gonna hate ^^   


Predictions for the weekend.

Whitman over Pacific.  Whitman at home in front of their crowd I think gets to Brakenbush.  I hope I'm wrong because I would love for Whitman to be on the outside looking in at the end of the season.
Willamette over Fox at Fox.  Malley is rolling and Dart is due to get touches SOMETIME!! Get the guy the ball!!
Whitworth over L&C.  No bigs for L&C will finally catch up to them. 
Linfield swipes one from PLU.  PLU has been free falling and hopefully a weekend off for Batuik freshens up his legs.

Saturday
Whitman takes down L&C.  Eisenhart does his thing and goes for 20 and 10.
Fox wins one that goes down to the wire over Linfield in a close one.
Willamette takes one against UPS, who is terrible.
Whitworth takes care of Pacific without much fuss.

If my predictions are correct, the standings will look like this: 
Whitworth 12-0
Whitman 8-4
Lewis and Clark 7-5
Fox 7-5
Willamette 6-5
Pacific 5-6
PLU 3-9
Linfield 3-9
UPS 2-10


Will Willamette find a way to sneak in?!

[A Buc Forever]

It's hatred born of bad losses from my college days. Do you have any idea what it's like to run the triple option against a Linfield football team when you are skinny and slow and their defensive coordinator is your brother and your other brother is watching you for the first time in your college playing career? Not to mention how much it pisses you off when a Frosty Westering coached linebacker is helping you off the turf and he says, "Thank you for playing so hard."  Also bad memories of playing UPS in basketball when they were a top 10 Div II team. Forgive me for enjoying the current standings--it just feels so good.

So far a great week of basketball for my teams.  Stanford over Oregon.  Eastern Washington over Portland State.  Hopefully the Bucs will keep it rolling.

I'm going for Pacific over Whitman over Pacific. I betting (hoping) Pacific has enough talent and composure at the guard spot to handle the pressure.
Fox over Willamette.  Willamette does not look good to me. Maybe it was watching them agains WW, but I don't see them beating Fox.
Whitworth over L&C.   Not only does WW have LC beat down low, their perimeter players will neutralize the guards.
Linfield and PLU--Can't we have both lose?  If I have to pick one to win I'll go with PLU. 

Saturday
Whitman over LC. After WW on Friday and traveling to Walla Walla, LC will run out of gas in the second half.
Fox over Linfield. Linfield is a cellar dweller the year.  Fox going for the playoffs.  Fox won't let this one go.
Willamette beats UPS. 
Whitworth over Pacific.  Not fair playing WW the second night of the Eastern Washington trip.

[(509)Rat]

No write ups this time because let's me honest. Outside of the Whitworth games we're all just blindly throwing darts at a board when we pick these games this season. Soooo:

Whitman
Fox
Whitworth
PLU

Whitman
Whitworth
Fox
UPS

[TryMeTeam]

I'll take a shot. 

Whitman over PacU (tough road game)
Fox tops Willamette (someday Wil is going to play to the level Playball hopes they will, but not today).
Whitworth gets LC (I think LC will get one of these games, but not this one.  Hoping though).
PLU flushes Linf (I want to go with Linf, but can't)

LC over Whitman
Fox beats Linf
UPS takes care of Willamette
Whitworth kills PacU

Ouch, only predicting 3 OR wins for the weekend.

[madzillagd]

A little hometown love for Whitworth.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/sportslink/2013/feb/02/maybe-linda-evans-will-come-game/

[(509)Rat]

Whitworth kills LC. Playball nailed it as far as LC struggling with Farnsworth and the rest of the Whitworth bigs. As a team they played much better than last weekend which isn't too surprising considering they were at home and not in Tacoma. Don't see Pac keeping up with the Pirates tonight

[A Buc Forever]

LC has to gets some bigs.  Farnsworth and Payne were a combined 14 for 17 last night. 

LC vs Whitman will be an interesting game.   

[(509)Rat]

Really need UPS to hold off Willamette and pull off the "upset". Might be the first week all season where I can say I predicted all 8 games on the weekend...

[(509)Rat]

Final in Spokane was 98-63

UPS also got it done. Whitman took their first lead of the game with 4 min left after being down by as many as 19 points early in the game, and held on to beat LC. Neither team shot the ball real well. One too many cold stretches for LC where they couldn't get a bucket.

Whitman is again tied for second. They have to play Whitworth on Tuesday in Walla Walla, which I believe them to be fully capable of knocking off Whitworth at home. But if you play favorites, a loss puts them below Fox. However, Eastern WA is the Bruins next trip. It looks like Whitman should finish in 2nd all by themselves. Pac is playing terrible basketball, as is Willamette. So I expect Fox and LC to be the last 2 into the tourney.

The most important thing to come out of this weekend is that I feel like I maybe understand the conference for the first time. Ok, so they were easy games this week...

[A Buc Forever]

Congrats to Rat on the 8 of 8.  Looking forward to Whitworth vs Whitman. Should be a good game.  Whitman is the only team to beat Whitworth in the last three and half seasons.

[Cdalakelady]

Does anyone know why Wade Gebbers did not play in the second half?

[89Pirate]

Does anyone know why Wade Gebbers did not play in the second half?

His wife went into labor. Had a healthy baby girl this morning.

[Keandre]

UPS playing a lot better, gets PLU at PLU and Wil at Wil. Last 4 at home, they can win out and head into next season with a good feeling after a tough season.

[Cdalakelady]

Does anyone know why Wade Gebbers did not play in the second half?

His wife went into labor. Had a healthy baby girl this morning.

Thanks. That is good news.  So glad he wasn't hurt.

[(509)Rat]

Would be nice if Whitman had more than a couple hundred people show up for this "rivalry" game...