MBB: Northwest Conference

cawcdad · November 19, 2007, 01:46:09 PM

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LogShow · November 19, 2007, 11:42:28 PM

Thanks for the input NWC!

SoundLogs, I think Lunt has the luxury this year of having a lot of depth at the wing positions, so he is trying to utilize it. Thats probably a good thing, especially for those bigs in the front of the press. They look tired at times so why not bring in fresh reserves if you got them!

UPSoundLogs · November 21, 2007, 10:07:21 AM

It looks like Northwest college wasnt the tough pre-season test that I was hoping they would be. The Loggers were able to beat them pretty easily. It's nice to see Krauel have a great game off the bench, I've been looking for him to get some more playing time and he put his minutes to good use. Williams has been playing great also, he's really upped his assists so far this season! Im very impressed with how UPS has opened up their year, they are playing unselfishly, they are playing hard, and they are playing some pretty good D as well.

Now they go on a trip out to Wisconsin to play in UW Stout's tourney, I'm thinking they will find the competition they have been looking for over there in the Midwest...those teams are very tough at the D3 level.

NWCer · November 21, 2007, 11:17:04 AM

Sounds,

I wouldn't say that Northwest wasn't a tough test, I think they were, your Loggers are just good....... Give your boys some credit

, that's a quality win. As your website says, they were a final four team in NAIA last year.

UPSoundLogs · November 21, 2007, 01:03:32 PM

NWCer,

I actually thought the Loggers played great at Northwest! I just thought the game would be closer because of how well Northwest played down at Pacific and LC. I think UPS has the players/athletes to have a very special year. If they continue to share the ball and play great defense as they have been thus far, they will be a MONSTER this season!!! I cant wait to see the outcome of their game against the D2 school in Wisconsin and the game against UW Stout. If they can beat the some of the big boys from the Midwest then I will know they are for real!

LogShow · November 21, 2007, 01:10:10 PM

I was pretty happy to see the Logs handle the NW. That was a great win for the loggers! NW might have been a final 4 team last year, but I think that they were hit hard by graduation. If you look at their roster they are pretty young and have a lot of new faces (JC route). Not to take anything away from what they accomplished last year, but I think it is a very different team this year. But still a quality win for the logs!

Bring on Stout!!!!

LogShow · November 24, 2007, 01:53:17 PM

Pretty quite on these boards right now with the Hliday weekend. Logs have Bemidji St. tonight, or more like this afternoon. I will be looking forward to the write up and hearing about the game. Good luck logs!!!

LogShow · November 24, 2007, 01:59:56 PM

Just looked at the recent NWC scores on the conference website...

Whitman 67 at Cal Lutheran 72

Whitworth 53 at Chapman 56

Willamette 56 at Southern Oregon 47

Pretty suprising loss by WW. Chalk it up a having a new team? It doesn't get any easier for them. They have a tough bounce back game against California Institute of Technology tonight, hopefully they can right the ship...

Gregory Sager · November 24, 2007, 06:09:11 PM

Quote from: LogShow on November 24, 2007, 01:59:56 PM
Pretty suprising loss by WW. Chalk it up a having a new team? It doesn't get any easier for them. They have a tough bounce back game against California Institute of Technology tonight, hopefully they can right the ship...

I don't know your sense of humor, LogShow, so I sure hope that you were kidding with that last sentence.

cawcdad · November 24, 2007, 06:31:40 PM

Whitworth and Chapman were pretty evenly matched. Neither team could effectively hit treys. They both sat back in zone defenses and pretty much said to the other team, "go head and shoot from outside." I was surprised neither team really tried to go inside to get the D to collapse and kick the ball back out. They both played a perimeter game. The Rats will destroy Cal Tech. They Beavers looked terrible last night.
Whitman did not impress me. They let CLU push them around in the first half and fell as far as 17 points behind. The Missionaries did make a valient comeback and played more agressive in the second half and even took a brief lead, but CLU had better athletes and sealed the deal late.

LogShow · November 25, 2007, 12:43:42 PM

QuoteI don't know your sense of humor, LogShow, so I sure hope that you were kidding with that last sentence.

Yeah that was said tongue in cheek, very dry humor. I know Cal Tech is bad...but WW seems to find a way to fit them or UCSC on their schedule every year. They must like those gimme games

LogShow · November 25, 2007, 12:58:18 PM

Congrats to the Loggers on a great win!!! From the looks of the box score UPS really mopped up Bemiji State. That was even with Foster having a down game, and BS really limiting Marsh's attempts. I was some what suprised that Marsh only got off four 3's. Maybe they were blanketing him. I am sure both will bounce back tonight against Stout! I am hopping the Logs play well and come away with a victory...it would be huge for their program and this team. Hopefully I can find the game on-line...GOOD LUCK!!!

ps. NWCer whats going on? I am still waiting for your boxers...any thoughts? I know it's still early.

Greek Tragedy · November 25, 2007, 01:18:54 PM

Playing in the Northwest conference way over there, scheduling games against the SCIAC is a natural. There aren't many other D3 teams over there.

Wow good is Whitman? I see they lost to Cal. Lutheran...so, how good are they? Point goes to Cal. Lutheran over New Year's.

NWCer · November 25, 2007, 02:00:39 PM

Hey Logshow,

Not much happening, will make the trip out to Forest Grove Tuesday to see Pacific again. I did see them against Northwest last weekend and it did look like a team that didn't know each other well. I saw the write up from last night's game at Northwest Nazarene, that has to be a good sign, looked as if they were right there for the win with a D2.

I'll let you know what the Boxers look like tomorrow.

Anybody out there see the Pioneers yet?, the write up from their game looked like a close one at Corban last night, a team UPS destroyed.

I don't know whats more frustrating to see, my Boxers at 0-3 or Linfield at 3-1 (with their only loss to Portland State)

$:-\$

, but like you said Logshow its early, and hopefully they'll be ready for that monster opening week of conference in January when they get LC and UPS.

cawcdad · November 25, 2007, 03:23:50 PM

Quote from: Old School.... (Tom Doebler) on November 25, 2007, 01:18:54 PM. . .
Wow good is Whitman? I see they lost to Cal. Lutheran...so, how good are they? Point goes to Cal. Lutheran over New Year's.

I wasn't overly impressed with Whitman on Friday, but I see they beat Santa Cruz Saturday. Whitman was disciplined, but not very athletic. CLU was an athletic team who liked to go up tempo and play very physical. They aren't tall so a taller team that slows the tempo and plays an inside game should win. I see a that Chapman beat them on Saturday in a low scoring affair and probably did as I stated. I obviuosly haven't seen UWSP play, but they should not have trouble with CLU.