Central Regional Talk

[laker]

he is a heck of a player. Him and Clark were both well deserving of the all tournament team.
But yes, Cam likes to go through people in the post and is very good at it.

Is this the same Cam Martin who massacred my Mavs last year in Mankato for 49 points in an OT win? I suppose I should have been booing him for beating my team, but my jaw had dropped so far because of his total domination prevented me from doing so. Mister Wizard can vouch for me on this.

[Augieholic]

Oh boy, it sounds like Cam Martin vs Parker Fox will be appointment viewing.

[Purple Mav Man]

Huh?

[Purple Mav Man]

It wasn't in the Mavericks favor so I'm sure it was awful. Been working a lot with my CHILDREN on the whole yelling at refs things. Let me know if you want to sit in.

[vikingfaithful]

[QUOTE=Thunder;n490651]

[Devin Albertson]

Speaking of that. It's hilarious to read NW fans complain about Cam Martin not being called for fouls only to follow that up and read Southern fans complaining that he gets fouled on every possession. Southern fans are pretty peeved about the crowd booing Martin on the all-tournament selection.

[Inkblot]

OBU went a combined 3-2 against SNU and SEOSU (as did Henderson State, for what that's worth).

[MrAugustana]

Oh no...we have spent two plus years of hearing about the Augie recruiting and standard and superiority...no one said one player, it was the depth and the stellar recruiting. I'm not talking about hype when Augie won it all...I'm talking about hype, something built without knowing what is going to happen. I have downplayed the hype of recruiting for years, because know one knows how anyone will turn out.

Sorry it hurts so bad to be on the receiving end, maybe you'll take note since we have all had to listen for so long.

Without Parker or any starter, the Wolves would have been basically six deep. We, nor any coach saw the Wolves winning like they did, the poll and our own words speak for themselves.

I'm not saying it is a higher standard from me, we aren't the ones aiming for D1.

As I've said, Northern travels and follows well for D2 but not like we are all that loud and raucous, but you can't take the things said by the Summit boss man and then look at Augie getting outdrawn, in sioux falls and with no student section and think it doesn't come into play.

I've said from the beginning Augie will do just fine in the overall scheme of they can get in the Summit, and that SF money bags will absolutely be on board and finance this move. So don't mix up the feelings here, it just nice to be where you were for awhile.

There's actually not a ton in this I disagree with. Other than the "sorry it hurts so bad to be on the receiving end" line. I don't feel like anything hurts. We just didn't do as well as we had hoped we would. I do think getting your starting point guard and Freshman of the Year stolen by a D1 in the offseason and losing your best player (Cartwright) and returning occasional starting big man (Hanson) to injury throughout the year are legitimate issues, regardless of suggested depth. I understand if you don't see them as valid though.

Regarding recruiting hype, it was mainly that group of 5 that would've been sophomores this year (Schaefer, Plitzuweit, Lebrun, Hanson, and Tiedmann) that got a lot of the hype that quietly bothered you so much. Plitzuweit proved to live up to the hype before leaving, and Lebrun has been solid/above average so far, Hanson was injured most of this year but was great at times last year, Schaefer had an unforeseen drop-off, and I don't know that Tiedmann was ever expected to be a major piece, but was a good inclusion for that recruiting class. On paper, that was a really solid class. I still think it is, really, but things obviously haven't fully come together like Augie fans had hoped with this group. Probably too many similarities with our last good core group and I suppose some of us (me at least, for sure) probably got a little too excited about running that back again. Such is the life of being a fan, I guess.

I'm still excited for next year. Should be fun, whether it's our last year in D2 or not. Either way, NWMSU will probably kill everyone anyway if McCollum is still there.

[Thunder]

I didn't really expect SNU and SEOSU to get the 2 and 3 seeds (as you can see from my predictions), but that might have just been my pessimism. The numbers from 2-5 are all close enough together that it shouldn't be surprising for the committee to have applied the head-to-heads by both GAC teams over NSU.

[NSU4LIFE]

I'm curious to see the much ballyhooed Summit tourney attendance without the local schools playing.

It is not going to be good....

[vikingfaithful]

I'm curious to see the much ballyhooed Summit tourney attendance without the local schools playing.

[Inkblot]

I didn't really expect SNU and SEOSU to get the 2 and 3 seeds (as you can see from my predictions), but that might have just been my pessimism. The numbers from 2-5 are all close enough together that it shouldn't be surprising for the committee to have applied the head-to-heads by both GAC teams over NSU.

[NSU4LIFE]

=MrAugustana;n490633]

Ah yes. I love how Augie seems to be the only school in the conference that can basically go the whole season without its best player, yet that fact somehow gets entirely disregarded. I suppose it's your indirect way of saying we've earned being held to that higher standard. :)

Would have loved to see how the Wolves would've finished this year if Parker Fox played five games healthy, three or four games very injured, and then sat rest of the season. I'm sure they still would've won the conference and earned a 4-seed in the Regional.[/QUOTE]

Oh no...we have spent two plus years of hearing about the Augie recruiting and standard and superiority...no one said one player, it was the depth and the stellar recruiting. I'm not talking about hype when Augie won it all...I'm talking about hype, something built without knowing what is going to happen. I have downplayed the hype of recruiting for years, because know one knows how anyone will turn out.

Sorry it hurts so bad to be on the receiving end, maybe you'll take note since we have all had to listen for so long.

Without Parker or any starter, the Wolves would have been basically six deep. We, nor any coach saw the Wolves winning like they did, the poll and our own words speak for themselves.

I'm not saying it is a higher standard from me, we aren't the ones aiming for D1.

As I've said, Northern travels and follows well for D2 but not like we are all that loud and raucous, but you can't take the things said by the Summit boss man and then look at Augie getting outdrawn, in sioux falls and with no student section and think it doesn't come into play.

I've said from the beginning Augie will do just fine in the overall scheme of they can get in the Summit, and that SF money bags will absolutely be on board and finance this move. So don't mix up the feelings here, it just nice to be where you were for awhile.

[MrAugustana]

If not living up to hype in d2 is in your application, I wish you all the best

Oh, and the Vikes also happen to have decent experience living up to the hype in D2...

https://espn991.com/mens-basketball-...preseason-poll

http://www.augie.edu/admission/go-viking-magazine/national-champions

Not to go full Winona glory days on it, but since it's relevant to the conversation at hand, I figured I'd throw it in there.

[MrAugustana]

Joking aside, I do appreciate UND winning. My mild dislike for Sather is severely outweighed by my very sincere and aggressive dislike of USD/Todd Lee. Seeing them get taken out in the first round made me exceedingly happy. That combined with SDSU's loss last night is about the only thing that partially redeemed my disappointment at the Vikes not making the postseason this year.