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Top of Iowa Conference ?

Oct 25, 2014
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Finally getting closer to the start of basketball & can't wait for the season to get here. Anyone hearing anything about how the Top of Iowa Conference will stack up & shake out ?
 
After a few games & seeing some teams, aside from Newman, the middle of the conference is going to be a slugfest of teams capable of beating each other on any given night.

Northwood has played North Butler, Nashua Plainfield & just played West Fork last night.

North Butler has a good team & a nice inside presence in Lewis & Hawker, and then Alemlien being a good outside shooter. Play solid defense & like to push the ball in transition.

Nashua Plainfield relies on their guards to make the offense work & then once teams start guarding them outside, looking for the cutters inside to get quick baskets. Harrington & Franzen both shooting well to start the season & Wilken is helping them out quite a bit also.

West Fork was winless until last night, but played really well against Northwood. Couldn't miss a shot it seemed & moved the ball really well on offense. Lots of backcuts away from the ball that lead to easy inside baskets from crossers into the lane. Shot really well from outside last night also.

Went and saw St. Ansgar play against Hampton last weekend & they have some good players, but just not much depth on the bench. Schutjer can score inside & can get after the boards. Hackbart is a lunch pail type of kid that will get you a little bit of everything on the floor. If they can get the guards to be a little more comfortable with the ball, they will be able to do some things this season also.

Don't know as much about the rest of the teams, but looks like Rockford does well funneling the offense through Lyman & letting him do some work. Wyborny & Arends also help out on the scoring & rebounding side of things.

Central Springs looks like a good portion of their offense goes through Jose & Marino helps out also, along with Froiland doing some lifting on the offensive end. Drew Kelley does a little bit of everything for them also.

Osage has a good solid team that will keep them in every game. Havel & Oberfell lead them in scoring & also rebounding. Knudsen plays a solid game on both ends of the floor.

Newman seems to be the train that will be hard to stop. Taylor & Jennings really get them going on offense & there are plenty of kids that can score on that team. Burt is an assist machine & gets after the boards also. Hamilton, Burt & Castle all are over 30 points scored after just 4 games, so that always helps to have much other scoring to go with 2 kids scoring over 69 points in 4 games. Going to take a total team effort to get a win against Newman.

Will be fun to see how the season rolls along & how the middle of the pack does against each other.
 
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Big game in the early TIC-West race tomorrow night in Garner, as Lake Mills travels to take on the Cardinals. Winner will have the only undefeated conference record on the West side.
 
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I was looking through schedules for the rest of the week and saw there is a de facto Top of Iowa Conference Championship game on Friday as Lake Mills heads to Mason City to take on Newman. Each squad has won their respective sides of the conference outright. It will be 20-0 vs. 19-1 to finish the regular season. The winner of the game has to be considered the favorite to come out of substate 2 to play at Wells Fargo.
 
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I was looking through schedules for the rest of the week and saw there is a de facto Top of Iowa Conference Championship game on Friday as Lake Mills heads to Mason City to take on Newman. Each squad has won their respective sides of the conference outright. It will be 20-0 vs. 19-1 to finish the regular season. The winner of the game has to be considered the favorite to come out of substate 2 to play at Wells Fargo.
Very true, 2 really good teams that push the ball on offense & play some suffocating defense also, that leads to transition baskets & the ability to build up sizable leads in games. Wish I could go watch this one, but will be in West Bend tonight instead, watching the Vikings take on the Wolverines.

If those two teams end up as the sub-state game in the end, I will be making the trek to watch that one, as it should be a great matchup of different styles of play on offense.
 
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