2017-18 MIAA Thread

[ZubCat81]

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NW survives scare from Emporia tonight, 55-50.
Witthus 15pts, Ndow 12pts and Pitts with 10pts and 6 assists (4/11 from field and 0-3 from three). The Bearcats didn't shoot well from the outside going 6/21 (28.6%) from three.
The MIAA Title is on the line Saturday in Topeka.

So what is the status with Kurth?

[NWHoops]

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UCM holds on the beat Pitt State 87-85.
Washburn takes Western's best shot, wins 78-74.

Looks like the Top 3 in the conference all got a scare last night. Such is life in conference play.

[NSU4LIFE]

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NW survives scare from Emporia tonight, 55-50.
Witthus 15pts, Ndow 12pts and Pitts with 10pts and 6 assists (4/11 from field and 0-3 from three). The Bearcats didn't shoot well from the outside going 6/21 (28.6%) from three.
The MIAA Title is on the line Saturday in Topeka.

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[BearcatMediaStudent1]

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UCM holds on the beat Pitt State 87-85.
Washburn takes Western's best shot, wins 78-74.

[BearcatMediaStudent1]

Re: 2017-18 MIAA Thread

NW survives scare from Emporia tonight, 55-50.
Witthus 15pts, Ndow 12pts and Pitts with 10pts and 6 assists (4/11 from field and 0-3 from three). The Bearcats didn't shoot well from the outside going 6/21 (28.6%) from three.
The MIAA Title is on the line Saturday in Topeka.

[Btech#3]

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The Ichabods were really impressive on the road with big wins over Kearney and Fort Hays. Tough places to play. Washburn has depth and can really guard. Should be quite a game on a Sat vs NW MO State. Both teams have to hold serve Wed to set up the showdown in Topeka!

[Thepeman]

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NWFanatic, I'm too slow! :)

[Thepeman]

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NW sets a new MIAA record with 48 straight home wins. The old record was held by UCM. The starters for NW sat the last 10 min of the game. Two big road games next week with Emporia State on Wed and Washburn on Sat.

[NWFanatic]

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Final NW 78 Elwood 58. NW now has the MIAA record for consecutive home wins(48) and remains tied for 1st with WU. They meet next Sat in Topeka.

[NWFanatic]

[NWFanatic]

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Kruth is in street clothes with a boot on his left foot. He hurt it Thurs nite vs LU.

[Hornetfan]

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What's going on with the Emporia women? They have lost 3 of the last 4 (anyone remember the last time that happened?) including losing by 17 at home to the Jennies and blowing a 15 point lead while losing by 27 at Hays.

Injuries is a big part. Senior Addie Lackey is out with a ACL injury suffered in the final scrimmage of the preseason four days before the exhibition opener at KU. The morning of the KU game sophomore Daley Handy went down with an ACL in the shoot around. Senior Kyrstie Miller missed almost all of the late summer conditioning and the preseason with a foot injury that they thought would heal but didn't and she underwent surgery to fix a stress fracture.
Lackey was the MIAA Freshman of the Year and has already scored over 1100 points in her first three years. She's also eighth on the Lady Hornet all-time list in made three-pointers. Miller is tenth in career blocked shots at Emporia State and had over 650 points and almost 500 rebounds in her first three years. Handy was an All-State player at Maize HS before going to play D-I at Wyoming.
That's two starters and three scholarship players lost before you play a game. The starting point guard came to Emporia as a GA after graduating from UNO. She had a year of eligibility left but didn't start practicing until the week before the season.
In addition they have and will play the toughest schedule in the nation this year according to the NCAA stats page. Their opponents to date are 207-123 (.627) and when you add in the remaining teams on the schedule they are the only team in the country that will have opponents with a winning percentage of over .600 on the year.
The weird thing is that ESU has swept Pitt State, beat UCO, gave UNK their first loss and beat Washburn when they were 12-1. But they have also lost to LWU, UCM and FHSU by 18 or more points. I think it's a lack of real senior leadership. Jacee Kramer is a four year player but has always been kind of the third option in her own class and last year was probably the fifth option with Moten and Flott on the roster.
After UNK on Saturday, the schedule does lighten up a little bit next week with NWMSU and MWSU coming into White. Then it's Washburn on Senior Night before going to SBU, NSU and UCO to end the season. If ESU goes 5-2 in the final seven games then they would be headed to the MIAA Tourney with an 18-8 record. Not up to Lady Hornet standards but still pretty darn good.

[Randy]

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What's going on with the Emporia women? They have lost 3 of the last 4 (anyone remember the last time that happened?) including losing by 17 at home to the Jennies and blowing a 15 point lead while losing by 27 at Hays.

[Thepeman]

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Was watching live stats at the beginning when it was something like 33-25 and thought, wow, can it be this close? Checked back to see the final, ha. Escalated quick.

It was 45 - 27 at the half!

[BearcatMediaStudent1]

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Was watching live stats at the beginning when it was something like 33-25 and thought, wow, can it be this close? Checked back to see the final, ha. Escalated quick.

Yeah, NW does that to average teams in Bearcat Arena. That "run" is a killer.