The NEW Official Thread of the Augustana Vikings

[NSU4LIFE]

Love it when Vikings square off against the Wolves a great SD rivalry. Augie wants the conference tournament and it shows in the seniors play.

These are still regular season games, the conference tourney comes after.

I used to enjoy it much more when both were very good. This season has felt more like the results of football for the men and volleyball for the women. Lol

[vikingfaithful]

Love it when Vikings square off against the Wolves a great SD rivalry. Augie wants the conference tournament and it shows in the seniors play.

[NSUguy]

This A squad doesn’t appreciate what your AAA squad is doing to us at Wachs South.

[NSU4LIFE]

Is Isaac Fink a duel sport athlete or are Augie fan aware they have two of them?

[MrAugustana]

Congrats to Caden Kirkman on earning NSIC Player of the Week honors:

https://x.com/AugieMBB/status/1759640303294697492?s=20

[MrAugustana]

Congrats to Coach Billeter and the Vikings program on securing their 18th straight winning season. Something to be proud of.

Now we just need to figure out a way to win the NSIC Tournament and sneak into the Regional.

[MrAugustana]

Always enjoy seeing what incoming players are doing in their senior campaigns. Looking forward to seeing Justin Mack alongside Lewis, Laube, etc. in the coming years.

[vikingfaithful]

Was a beautiful thing 4 true freshmen on the floor at the same time for extended minutes. 19 for Kirkman, 13 Lewis. Lewis kneed in thigh. Very painful. Wish Elmen Center could be renovated into nicer place.

[vikingfaithful]

It was another good day to be a Viking, After leading by 1 at halftime. AU lead by more than 16 points for most of 2nd half. Beavers were visibly frustrated by crafty Vikings. 6 wins in a row for a team that looked bad at the end of Dec. TT knows how to coach.

[Augieholic]

Six in a row. That did not seem possible a month ago but never doubt Texas Tom. Instead of just winning a shootout like they have the last few weeks the Vikings had best defensive effort of the season vs the hottest team in the league. Offensively the shooting wasn't there but they were aggressive and created enough second chances to get it done. Helluva win.

[Augieholic]

Another dominating road win for the Augie men last night. Hinker and Graves did the damage in the first half while Fink was solid all night long. Graves and Lewis (13 assists!!) were extremely active defensively on BJ Davis, holding him to 7 points and 3 FGA.

This midseason turnaround has come out of NOWHERE. The offense that was dead in the water before Christmas break is rising like a Phoenix from the ashes. Crookston, Mary, Northern, and Bemidji aren't the best four teams in the league but when you consider they won all of them by 20+ points and three of them on the road they seem more legitimate.

Hopefully this run continues tonight in St Cloud before a REAL test vs Minot next Thursday.

[vikingfaithful]

Thought I saw a little bit of Justin Pitts in Arhman Lewis this past weekend. Texas Tom said when he puts some meat on his bones he will be special. Coach also said he likes to be coached hard, which Tom likes of course.

[Augieholic]

Last weekend was real progress for the Augie men. They did a good job defensively vs Zimmer and Beeninga but got roasted by Logan Kinsey (he's incredible) and Myhren. The first half vs Moorhead was probably the best of the season for Augie, they scored the ball consistently and forced Bergstrasser into a TO where he lit into his team loud enough for all to hear. Now obviously the second half did not go their way but they played Moorhead better than they played Mankato or UMD so that's progress. Saturday they started slow but pounded Crookston in the second half, obviously that result needs to be calibrated for how truly awful Crookston looked but winning is winning.

Overall the biggest bright spots of the weekend were Arhman Lewis and Caden Kirkman. Lewis is making the kind of consistent progress you love to see from a true freshmen, he has the speed to bend a defense, can hit the outside shot, and has touch on his floater when he can't get all the way to the rim. This is the best true freshmen PG to wear an Augie uniform since Jordan Spencer. Caden Kirkman has had his ups and downs but he had two strong games last weekend. He has developed noticeable pick and roll chemistry with Lewis that led to multiple baskets throughout the weekend. Like any young big he still struggles with foul trouble but he did some damage versus Zimmer last Friday night.

[simple as a $3 bill]

Fink got T'd up for flopping. Rule change this year, no warning.

[vikingfaithful]

Vikes had the Dragons sweating on Fri. before the familiar shooting woes happened in the 2nd half. Sat. Ike broke out of his funk for 23 points (does anybody know why he got T'd up on Fri.) Arhman and Caden K. had a great weekend and coach is very high on the two. Vikes have 4 winnable road games ahead of them and I'm sure they're saying the same about WSC and us. Anybody with more BB acumen want to chime in on the state of affairs AU roundball is in.