NSIC - conference season chat

[MrAugustana]

So Lucas Duax is DPOY, but 2nd team on all con team

UMC 5'1" Emma Miller is fun to watch. The ball looks like a beachball in her hands compared to 6' players.

Dave Krauth should have won coach of the year for Women. 34 years at AU 700 wins, over 1000 wins in career.

Last year Dylan LeBrun was Defensive Player of the Year and didn't make 1st or 2nd Team All-NSIC.

[Moorhead123]

So Lucas Duax is DPOY, but 2nd team on all con team

UMC 5'1" Emma Miller is fun to watch. The ball looks like a beachball in her hands compared to 6' players.

Dave Krauth should have won coach of the year for Women. 34 years at AU 700 wins, over 1000 wins in career.

As usual there are various guys that easily could be moved up from 2nd to first team. Duax is definitely one of them. I think 5’1” is probably being generous for Miller. I don’t think she is even 5’ tall.

[vikingfaithful]

So Lucas Duax is DPOY, but 2nd team on all con team

UMC 5'1" Emma Miller is fun to watch. The ball looks like a beachball in her hands compared to 6' players.

Dave Krauth should have won coach of the year for Women. 34 years at AU 700 wins, over 1000 wins in career.

[Peacock]

Isn't team defense the ultimate goal? Shouldn't it be rewarded?

Then it would be defensive team of the year...not player.

[Augieholic]

And for exact placements, I had swapped Fink, Kimmons, & Baumgartner for Duax, Omot, & McGhee. No problems with any of those guys making 1st Team, but I'd probably most advocate for Duax over Fink. A fantastic defender who returned to being an offensive difference-maker this season (11th in NSIC in PPG, 6th in FG%).

As an Augie fan I was pleasantly surprised Fink made 1st team, I thought he would be 2nd team as you predicted.

[Augieholic]

But then shouldn't that reflect a better FG% defense if their only reason for allowing more points is the pace?

I'm not following the correlation you're attempting to make between pace and FG% defense.

[Mark Emmert's Burner]

Comparing All-Conf picks to my predictions...

For the men, I went 23/24 for overall selections (and 3/5 for awards). I missed on Nate Mohr, I had Dalton Albrecht from Bemidji instead. I'm bummed that Albrecht didn't make it, he averaged 14.4 PTS (18th in NSIC), 4.8 REB, 54.9% FG (5th in NSIC), 44% 3PT. His inside-out game complimented Sutherland's really well for a much-better-than-expected Bemidji team.

And for exact placements, I had swapped Fink, Kimmons, & Baumgartner for Duax, Omot, & McGhee. No problems with any of those guys making 1st Team, but I'd probably most advocate for Duax over Fink. A fantastic defender who returned to being an offensive difference-maker this season (11th in NSIC in PPG, 6th in FG%).

For the women, I went 23/24 for overall sections (and 5/5 for awards). I missed on Maesyn Thiesen, I had Natalie Jens from MSUM instead. I'm fine with that pick, as Jens may have been coming from a Dragons bias for me. Makes sense that I missed on a Duluth player since I had no idea what to do with that situation. Thiesen's stats aren't impressive, but she's definitely the second most important player to that team if you feel inclined to give Duluth a 2nd player.

For exact placements, I had swapped Yoder & Head for Stoltzman & Bremer. I think here I kind of forgot that voters would let seniority tip the scales on close picks, so it's not surprising that two seniors on bad teams were picked over a sophomore & freshmen on good ones.

Doing that predictions list was a fun thought exercise! Hopefully you guys didn't mind a̶n̶ N̶C̶A̶A̶ p̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ a new guy presenting something like that to the forum.

[Stanger86]

I'm not doing any digging because I don't care about awards but team defense and individual defensive are two separate categories.

Isn't team defense the ultimate goal? Shouldn't it be rewarded?

[Stanger86]

Upper Iowa plays at a much faster pace than SMSU, therefore they're going to allow more points.

But then shouldn't that reflect a better FG% defense if their only reason for allowing more points is the pace?

[The Yette]

Upper Iowa had one of the worst defenses in the NSIC, but supposedly they had the DPOY...

EDIT:
Only teams worse in scoring defense were UMC, CSP and SCSU
Only teams worse in FG% defense were UMC, CSP, BSU and SCSU

LOL

[vikingfaithful]

Despite the clip of Duax's ball hawking ability. Augie scored 99 points on the Peacocks and turnover and steals were typical of most games. Perhaps he is the only UIU player with defensive skills.

[Mark Emmert's Burner]

I get where Stanger is coming from, as I probably would've chosen Cliff McCray for DPOY, too. But Duax isn't a bad pick by any means.

[Peacock]

Upper Iowa had one of the worst defenses in the NSIC, but supposedly they had the DPOY...

EDIT:
Only teams worse in scoring defense were UMC, CSP and SCSU
Only teams worse in FG% defense were UMC, CSP, BSU and SCSU

Here's some highlights for you https://fb.watch/iTuv-b2waq/

[NSU4LIFE]

Ask any player or coach in league and they will tell you Duax is a terrific defensive player and has been for a few years.

I don’t know or talk to any players or coaches in the league so they'd probably find it quite odd if I reached out to ask them about Duax and his defense.

[Moorhead123]

I'm not doing any digging because I don't care about awards but team defense and individual defensive are two separate categories.

Ask any player or coach in league and they will tell you Duax is a terrific defensive player and has been for a few years.