Dubuque Wahlert Question

[LukeFeddersen]

Do they not have a single junior that has received playing time this year? Not sure if I've ever seen such a senior dominated team.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

That is true. Not a single Wahlert junior, soph or freshman has seen a second of playing time in their first five games- all road games and all pretty competitive contests. . Their first ten or eleven players are all seniors. Next year will be the most inexperienced boys' team in the 56 year history of the school. It will be interesting next season because both the other city schools, Hempstead and Senior, are both starting almost entirely underclassmen in their rotations now and will both be expected to be pretty strong next year. Hopefully, in one of their next couple of games, the team will get enough of a lead that some juniors will get in. It's not that they are bad players, its just that Cordell's senior class has been quite loaded ever since they were in middle school.

 

[CBCrusader1994]

You can only win so many championships in a row. 3A is wide open next year, finally no one is beating Wahlert this year , again.

 

[NeverReadTheTermsOfService]

You can only win so many championships in a row. 3A is wide open next year, finally no one is beating Wahlert this year , again.

What happened to Wahlert against Prairie though? I don't see Prairie as a team that would beat all the 3A teams. Maybe we'll be surprised this year in 3A.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Most Wahlert fans haven't seen them play yet this year because their first home game is this coming Friday night, but they've beat three pretty good team on the road, defending 4A champ North Scott, 4A top 10 Dowling and a young but talented Hempstead team by 14 at their place (and then Hempstead knocks off 4A #4 Cedar Falls). I don't know. Our local newspaper finally had the box score in the paper two days after the game and one starter didn't score, or maybe didn't play. They hit all but two free throw attempts, Wedewer had five 3's and Pemsl had 18 and Till missed the shot at the end that would have won it. Maybe Prairie is better than we think, and maybe the Prairie Hawks just played a really great game. The Eagles will be favored in their next three, but after Christmas the schedule gets horrendous, with multiple games against 4A ranked teams, including two with Iowa City West. They lost nine games last year. I think they lose a lot less this year. A lot of people think that some of their big forwards are taking too many outside shots instead of taking it to the rim, but I'm not a coach. They should improve as the season goes on, cut down on bad shooting decisions (they missed SIXTEEN three pointers out of 22 shots) and shore up the defense. An early road loss at the buzzer to a much larger school 4-1 team doesn't bother me at all, and hopefully they will learn something from it. So far this year, a lot of top teams from the different classes have already gone down. It may be that kind of year. After all this-- a short phrase sums it up-- really bad shooting night and they played into Prairie's hand by jacking up so many threes.

 

[bravos]

The Gazette predicted Prairie to win their division this year. I am not overly surprised they beat Wahlert. I am more surprised Linn Mar beat Prairie 91-54 on Friday night.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Some teams live by the three, but on a different night-- they can die by the three. Prairie caught two teams on very different ends of the spectrum on those nights. Good luck to Prairie the rest of the way! A well-coached, hard-working team.