The NEW Official Thread of the Augustana Vikings

[cougar1997]

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I'ts whiteout night at the arena Friday night 1st 500 students get a towel or hankie to wave. The Vikings are 12-8, 16-10, while the kitty's are 12-8, 17-9. A chance to restore the order in Sioux Falls. I believe I've talked my wife into a trip to SF, stay the night at Dow Rummel across the street in a guest room as my parents reside there. EZ PEEZE. My thoughts are the young Viking warriors have done some growing up since the first meeting against USF and will be victories. Any thoughts from other fans?

FYI - The game is not at the Arena. It's being played at the Elmen Center.

[vikingfaithful]

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I'ts whiteout night at the arena Friday night 1st 500 students get a towel or hankie to wave. The Vikings are 12-8, 16-10, while the kitty's are 12-8, 17-9. A chance to restore the order in Sioux Falls. I believe I've talked my wife into a trip to SF, stay the night at Dow Rummel across the street in a guest room as my parents reside there. EZ PEEZE. My thoughts are the young Viking warriors have done some growing up since the first meeting against USF and will be victories. Any thoughts from other fans?

[MrAugustana]

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Congrats to Coach Billeter on reaching 400 career wins last night:

VIKINGS WIN, 83-78???

Congrats to @CoachBilleter on career win No. 400#BuildingChampions pic.twitter.com/8SNkImHc7U

— AugieMensBball (@AugieMensBball) February 17, 2019

[laker]

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Fink is really good.

Augustana uniforms need some gold on them. That name tag fades into the uniform.

[MrAugustana]

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Congrats to incoming Viking Isaac Fink on passing the 3,000 point scoring mark...

Isaac Fink of Springfield is now the 11th male member of the 3,000 point club in Minnesota high school basketball history (3,001 points for his career). Scored 36 last night. Averaging 31.1 points, 11.8 boards, 5.8 assists a game pic.twitter.com/gHXIwHdPzb

— Ryan James (@RyanJamesMN) February 16, 2019

[Augie Boy]

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Augustana beat St. Cloud 92-91 tonight.

Schaefer had a career game against his hometown's university. 29 points(69% on field goals), and 7 boards. Also, the young'n dished out 5 assists, including a crucial dime to Cartwright who drilled a 3 to cap off a 12-point run and give Augie a 85-82 lead; their biggest of the game at that point.

Now, I could talk about the fantastic performances from Michael, Matt, AJ and Trevor.

But no.

How about BEAU KEEVE? The 6'0 junior transfer was given the assignment of defending Gage Davis during the final 7 minutes of the game. And he locked it down. Other than a practically futile putback with :13 left in the game, Davis was unable to connect a field goal while Keeve demonstrated excellent defense on a POY hopeful. When interviewed by Mr. Fylling at the end of the game, Billeter said that they picked the Keeve/Davis matchup because Brindley Theisen was absolutely LETHAL tonight. In a hope that St. Cloud would stop going to Theisen, Augie's coaching staff confidentally decided to have Keeve guard Davis- assuming that the St. Cloud coaching staff would follow suit and funnel their offense through Davis. Fortunately for Augustana, Keeve showed out tonight and helped the Vikings secure a memorable W. Spectacular performance from all of the Vikings tonight.

Can some old-school Augie fans perhaps remind me the last great unanswered runs by the Vikes? I remember some great runs courtesy of Corey MacIntosh, Cam McCaffrey and Chad Hettermann from years past... but this is the best team-led runs of recent memory. Great game.

[vikingfaithful]

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The ineptitude of this game has led me to spot Riemersma, sans walking boot, on the Augie bench. A return may be in the offing.

Jeff Fylling said he is hearing maybe in two weeks.

[Augieholic]

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The ineptitude of this game has led me to spot Riemersma, sans walking boot, on the Augie bench. A return may be in the offing.

[MrAugustana]

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Just saw that it was Coach Billeter's 300th career win at Augie. Some nice (and a few humorous) comments from former players in this video that assistant coach Chad Hettermann posted:

? Avg 20 wins a year
? 9 out of 15 NCAA Tourneys
?2 Conference Titles
? 1 National Championship
? Influenced and coached hundreds of young men (including myself) to be better Dads, Husbands, Citizens, and Christians.

Congrats Coach. Looking forward to getting some more! https://t.co/xW7UqAdk9X

— Chad Hettermann (@chadhettermann) January 27, 2019

Congrats to Texas Tom on the achievement. Augie's program was far from what it is now when he came in, and it has been fun to watch the entire program transition from consistent bottom-dweller to solid contender nearly every season.

[simple as a $3 bill]

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Reimerthaler must have a pretty good sense of humor.

+1

[MrAugustana]

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Cool story on the family of Augie freshman AJ Plitzuweit and the many ways basketball has influenced all of their lives.

https://www.argusleader.com/story/sp...SMAsLubOTfzcsw

[MrAugustana]

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My freshman of the year is Ethan Schuemer from SCSU. He may spell it wrong, but best last name in the league in my opinion. And fairly ironic, that at SCSU home games, he's the one who reads the sportsmanship pledge. :)

Reimerthaler must have a pretty good sense of humor.

[simple as a $3 bill]

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My freshman of the year is Ethan Schuemer from SCSU. He may spell it wrong, but best last name in the league in my opinion. And fairly ironic, that at SCSU home games, he's the one who reads the sportsmanship pledge. :)

[NSU4LIFE]

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Nice work here MrAugustana. "The committee will hopefully see the heart that Parker Fox plays with. Whether on the bench or on the court, playing a position unknown to him until this season he bring a fire and passion for the game and his teammates. This kid really is coachable and has a high motor. Speaking of high, have you seen this kid get up? On offense and on defense this kid can jump out of the gym and one can only hope the committee see these block and dunk numbers and of course the measurement of vertical and 'Mean Mugging' and give this kid the award he desevers."

Best coach Calipari impersonation I can do.

[MrAugustana]

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Would also give some recognition to chase grinde from USF and drake jeffries from minot state, both unlikely to have shot at freshman of year award, but good players with bight futures.

Yeah, I'm not trying to ignore decent freshmen across the league, more just looking at any that would even be realistically considered in the Freshman of the Year discussion, primarily from a statistical standpoint.

So any of you freshmen who read this board regularly and whose names I didn't mention, please don't go and hang 25 on Augie in vengeance anytime soon.