Tip-Off
Sign up for your WBCA Membership Today
by
Nicholas Kartos,
11/11/2009
Coaches, before the season swallows up your time, don’t forget to sign up for your Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) membership. It is only $35 for an individual membership or $90 to sign up a staff of 8 coaches.
Your membership helps support an organization that provides guidance for our great game in Wisconsin, puts on great events that help great causes and honors the fine coaches and players in the state on a yearly basis.
There are also memberships available for referees, youth coaches and retired coaches.
Please visit the WisBCA.org website to sign up online with a credit card or print-off and mail in with check. Below is a list of boys high school and college teams that HAVE signed up for their membership this year.
Colleges:
Cardinal Stritch Men's Basketball
Lakeland College Men's Basketball
MSOE Men's Basketball
UW-Whitewater Men's Basketball
Madison Area Technical College
Marquette Univesrity Men's Basketball
Wisconsin Men's Basketball
UW-Milwaukee Men's Basketball
UW-Parkside Men's Basketball
UW-Platteville Men's Basketball
Wisconsin Lutheran College
UW-River Falls Men's Basketball
Beloit College Women's Basketball
UW-Stevens Point Men's Basketball
UW-Eau Claire Men's Basketball
Fox Valley Technical College
UW-Green Bay Men's Basketball
Northern Athletics Conference
UW-Stout Men's Basketball
Carroll University Men's Basketball
High Schools:
Abundant Life
Albany
Alma
Almond-Bancroft
Amery
Amherst
Appleton West
Arrowhead
Assumption
Auburndale
Augusta
Badger (Lake Geneva)
Baldwin-Woodville
Baraboo
Barneveld
Bay Port
Beaver Dam
Beloit Turner
Benton
Black Hawk
Black River Falls
Blair-Taylor
Bonduel
Boscobel
Bowler
Brillion
Brodhead
Brookfield Central
Brookfield East
Brookwood
Brown Deer
Butternut
Cambria-Friesland
Cambridge
Cassville
Catholic Central
Catholic Memorial
Chippewa Falls
Clinton
Colby
Columbus
Crandon
Crivitz
Cuba City
Cumberland
D.C. Everest
De Pere
DeForest
Delavan-Darien
Denmark
Dodgeland
Dodgeville
Durand
Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran
Eau Claire Memorial
Eau Claire North
Edgerton
Elcho
Eleva-Strum
Elk Mound
Elkhorn
Fall Creek
Flambeau
Florence
Fond du Lac
Fort Atkinson
Fox Valley Lutheran
Freedom
Germantown
Gilmanton
Glenwood City
Grantsburg
Green Bay East
Green Bay Preble
Green Bay West
Green Lake
Greendale
Greenfield
Hamilton (Sussex)
Hayward
Highland
Hillsboro
Howards Grove
Hustisford
Iola-Scandinavia
Iowa-Grant
Ithaca
Janesville Craig
Janesville Parker
Johnson Creek
Juda
Kaukauna
Kenosha Christian Life
Kettle Moraine
Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Kickapoo
Kiel
Kohler
Laconia
Lake Country Lutheran
Lake Holcombe
Lake Mills
Lakeland (Minocqua)
Lakeside Lutheran
Lincoln (Alma Center)
Little Chute
Luther
Madison Edgewood
Madison Memorial
Madison West
Manitowoc Lincoln
Markesan
Marshall
Marshfield
Mayville
McDonell Central
Melrose-Mindoro
Menomonie
Middleton
Milton
Milwaukee Bay View
Milwaukee Custer
Milwaukee North
Milwaukee Vincent
Milwaukee Washington
Mineral Point
Mishicot
Mondovi
Monona Grove
Monroe
Montello
Mosinee
Mount Horeb
Mukwonago
Muskego
Necedah
Neenah
New Glarus
New London
Newman
Northwestern
Northwood
Oconto
Oostburg
Osceola
Oshkosh Lourdes
Oshkosh North
Ozaukee
Palmyra-Eagle
Pardeeville
Peshtigo
Phillips
Pioneer Westfield
Pittsville
Platteville
Plymouth
Port Washington
Portage
Potosi
Poynette
Prairie du Chien
Prairie Farm
Prescott
Racine Horlick
Racine Lutheran
Racine St. Catherine's
Randolph
Reedsburg
Rio
Ripon
River Falls
River Ridge
River Valley
Riverdale
Roncalli
Rosholt
Saint Francis
Saint Lawrence Seminary
Sauk Prairie
Sevastopol
Seymour
Sheboygan Area Lutheran
Sheboygan Falls
Sheboygan North
Sheboygan South
Shoreland Lutheran
Shorewood
Slinger
Somerset
Southwestern
Sparta
Spring Valley
St. Mary's Springs
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas More
Stevens Point
Stoughton
Stratford
Sun Prairie
The Prairie School
Tri-County
Valders
Verona
Viroqua
Waterford
Watertown
Waukesha South
Waunakee
Waupun
Wausau West
Wautoma
Wauwatosa West
Wayland Academy
West Bend East
West Salem
Westby
Westosha Central
Whitefish Bay Dominican
Whitehall
Whitewater
Whitnall
Wild Rose
Williams Bay
Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin Heights
Wisconsin Lutheran
Wisconsin Rapids
Wrightstown
Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook in Stores
by
Nicholas Kartos,
11/11/2009
The 25th annual Men's Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook arrives in stores this week. The girls book should be about a week behind. Below is a listing of stores that are selling the book. A special thanks to our distributors BPDI and Southern Wisconsin News.
You can of course still order the book online and get it shipped to your front door.
Contact Syskos to order the book.
Adell - Adell Mini Mart
Albert Lea (MN) - Book World
Alexandria (MN) - Book World
Antigo - Book World
Appleton - Airport Gift Shop
Appleton - Book World
Ashland - Book World
Baraboo - Book World
Barneveld - Stop-N-Go
Baxter (MN) - Book World
Beaver Dam - Book World
Beaver Dam - Rechek’s Food Pride
Belleville - Sentry
Bemidji (MN) - Book World
Black Creek - Sal’s Foods
Boscobel - Dick's Piggly Wiggly
Brodhead - Piggly Wiggly
Brookfield - Aurora Pharmacy
Burlington - Gooseberries
Burlington - Sentry
Cedar Grove - Piggly Wiggly
Charlevoix (MN) - Book World
Clinton (IA) - Book World
Coleman - Piggly Wiggly
Coloma - Coloma Supermarket
Cross Plains - Piggly Wiggly
De Pere - Piggly Wiggly
DeForest - Stop-N-Go
Delevan - Stop-N-Go
Detroit Lakes (MN) - Book World
Eagle River - Book World
Edgerton - Edgerton Family Health
Edgerton - Stop-N-Go
Egg Harbor - Book World
Escanaba (MI) - Book World
Evansville - Piggly Wiggly
Fond du Lac - Hopper's Sportswear
Fond du Lac - Book World
Fort Atkinson - Stop-N-Go
Fort Atkinson - Tuttle’s Pharmacy
Fox Lake - Fox Lake Foods
Franklin - Sentry
Galena (IL) - Book World
Green Bay - Bosse’s News & Tobacco
Green Bay - University Ave. Market
Greenfield - Greenfield News & Hobby
Hales Corners - Sentry
Hartford - Stop-N-Go
Hayward - Book World
Houghton (MI) - Book World
Huburtus - Piggly Wiggly
Iron Mountain (MI) - Book World
Ironwood (MI) - Book World
Jackson - Piggly Wiggly
Janesville - Book World
Janesville - Kealey Pharmacy
Janesville - Stop-N-Go
Jefferson - Piggly Wiggly
Kaukauna - Piggly Wiggly
Kenosha - RK News
Kenosha - Spiegelhoff’s Super Valu
Kewaskum - Piggly Wiggly
Lake Geneva - Pick ‘N Save
Lodi - Piggly Wiggly
Madison - Pizza Oven Monona
Madison - Francois Citgo
Madison - Sentry
Madison - Stop-N-Go
Madison - Stop-N-Go
Madison - University Bookstore
Maidson - Digital Outpost
Manitowoc - Book World
Marinette - Book World
Marquette (MI) - Book World
Marshfield - Book World
McFarland - Mangat Enterprises
Menomonee Falls - Karl’s Country Market
Menomonee Falls - Sentry
Merrill - Book World
Middleton - Bergmann’s Pharmacy
Milwaukee - Sentry
Milwaukee - Aurora Gift Shop
Milwaukee - Aurora Pharmacy
Milwaukee - UWM Bookstore
Minocqua - Book World
Monroe - Dick's Piggly Wiggly
Mosinee - Airport Gifts
Mt. Horeb - Mt. Horeb Pharmacy
Neenah - Book World
New London - Book World
New London - Larsen Cooperative
Oak Creek - Piggly Wiggly
Oconomowoc - Libris, Inc.
Oconomowoc - Piggly Wiggly
Oconto - Piggly Wiggly
Oshkosh - Book World
Oshkosh - Schultz Pharmacy
Pardeeville - Piggly Wiggly
Park Rapids (MN) - Book World
Plainfield - Royal Supermarket
Portage - Book World
Portage - Pierce’s Market
Portage - Portage Mobil
Poynette - Piggly Wiggly
Prairie du Chien - Dick's Piggly Wiggly
Racine - Sentry
Randolph - Piggly Wiggly
Reedsburg - Viking Village Foods
Rhinelander - Book World
Rice Lake - Book World
Rio - Rio Pharmacy
Ripon - Book World
Saukville - Piggly Wiggly
Sault Ste. Marie (MI) - Book World
Seymour - Don’s Quality Market
Shawano - Book World
Sheboygan - Book World
Sheboygan - Piggly Wiggly
Sheboygan - Suscha News
Shorewood - Nehring’s Sendik’s
Sister Bay - Book World
Spring Green - Spring Green Pharmacy
St. Ignace (MI) - Book World
Stevens Point - Book World
Stevens Point - Bookfinders
Sturgeon Bay - Book World
Sun Prairie - Stop-N-Go
Sun Prairie - Stop-N-Go
Two Rivers - Piggly Wiggly
Valders - Piggly Wiggly
Walker (MN) - Book World
Waterloo - Piggly Wiggly
Watertown - Book World
Waukesha - Sentry
Waupaca - Book World
Wausau - Janke Bookstore
Wauwatosa - Sentry
West Allis - Booked Solid
West Allis - Sentry
Westfield - Bentley Pharmacy
White Lake - White Lake Market
Whitewater - University Bookstore
Willmar (MN) - Book World
Winona (MN) - Book World
Wisconsin Dells - Just a Game Fieldhouse
Wisconsin Dells - Book World
Wisconsin Dells - Broadway Mobil
Wisconsin Dells - Wilderness Hotel
Wisconsin Rapids - Book World
WIAC Men's Basketball Preview
by
Travis Wilson,
11/10/2009
Following is the Men's Basketball Preview from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Make sure to check out the
Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook for in-depth previews as well.
RELEASED: Monday, November 9, 2009
UW-Stevens Point Picked To Win Men’s Basketball Title
MADISON, Wis.--Defending conference champion, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is picked to win the 2010 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) men’s basketball championship, based on a preseason poll conducted by the league’s sports information directors.
UW-Stevens Point claimed seven first-place votes in WIAC poll and enters the year ranked No. 10 nationally by D3hoops.com. This marks the 47th straight release of the poll that the Pointers have been ranked in the top 25.
UW-Stevens Point owns a conference-best 25 regular-season titles and returns 50 percent of the scoring from last year’s title winner. The 2008-09 squad ranked third in the NCAA Division III in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.52), while senior Matt Moses set a school record with 35 consecutive free throws made. The Pointers have achieved 23-plus wins three consecutive years and six of the last seven seasons. Head coach Bob Semling needs 10 wins to reach 100 in his career.
UW-Whitewater and UW-Oshkosh claimed the remaining first-place selections and are slotted to finish second and third, respectively. The Warhawks, ranked No. 13 nationally, have won 12 conference crowns and made a WIAC-high 15 appearances in the NCAA Division III championship. The 47 wins accumulated by the squad the last two years is the most since 1988-89 when they registered 51 victories. UW-Whitewater has achieved double-digit win totals against WIAC adversaries in seven of eight years under head coach Pat Miller. The Warhawks start the season with five of their first seven games on the road, but finish with five of their last seven in Kachel Gymnasium.
UW-Oshkosh possesses 12 conference championships and is ranked No. 24 in the country. The Titans return senior D.J. Marsh, the 2009 WIAC Co-Player of the Year, who led the league in scoring, rebounding and double-doubles. UW-Oshkosh has won at least 16 games in 12 of the last 14 seasons, including 21-plus victories in 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2007. Head coach Ted Van Dellen is the longest tenured head coach in the conference with his 19 seasons resulting in 332 victories, the sixth-highest total in WIAC history.
UW-Platteville first-year head coach Jeff Gard inherits a squad that enters the year ranked No. 17 nationally. He spent the last six years as an assistant with the team. In 2008-09, the Pioneers made their first NCAA Division III championship appearance since claiming their fourth national title in 1999. Gone is 2009 WIAC Co-Player of the Year Jeff Skemp, but the trio of senior Curt Hanson, senior Mike Shaw and junior Nick Allen return after shooting above 40 percent from beyond the three-point arc a season ago.
UW-La Crosse returns all five starters and 90 percent of its scoring and rebounding from last year’s squad that set a school-single season record with 99 blocked shots and posted a free throw percentage of 76.2, the second-highest in school history. The Eagles dropped seven games by just six points or less in 2008-09. The 2009-10 campaign features six of the first nine games on the road, along with four of the final six.
UW-River Falls welcomes back 97 percent of its scoring and 90 percent of its rebounding from the 2008-09 squad that lost eight games by just seven points or less. The 11 wins compiled by last year’s team were the most since the 2003-04 group had 20.
Logan Flora, who was a head assistant for UW-Superior a year ago, begins his first season in charge of the Yellowjackets with four returning starters. Senior guard Dwight Hill is the school’s all-time leader with 303 assists, while junior Jake Smith has topped the team in scoring and rebounding the last two years.
UW-Eau Claire is coming off its best season since the 2002-03 campaign and returns 60 percent of its scoring. The eight wins compiled against WIAC adversaries last year matched the previous two seasons combined. The Blugolds’ 2009-10 schedule begins with sixth consecutive games away from Zorn Arena and five of seven to finish the slate.
UW-Stout has 10 newcomers on its 2009-10 roster and returns 82 percent of its three-pointers made. The Blue Devils, despite not having a player over 6-5, had the highest rebounding average in the WIAC (37.4) and ranked third in rebounding margin (+4.2) last season. Senior Jerrel Enerson-Matthews set a school single-game record with eight steals against Bethany Lutheran College (Minn.) on Nov. 21, 2008.
2009-10 Preseason Predictions (Voted on by WIAC Sports Information Directors) 2008-09 Record
1. UW-Stevens Point (7) 14-2, 24-5
2. UW-Whitewater (1) 13-3, 23-6
3. UW-Oshkosh (1) 9-7, 16-11
4. UW-Platteville 13-3, 23-6
5. UW-La Crosse 4-12, 10-15
6. UW-River Falls 5-11, 11-15
7. UW-Superior 4-12, 11-14
8. UW-Eau Claire 8-8, 15-11
9. UW-Stout 2-14, 8-17
( )--First-Place Votes
Team Tidbits
UW-Eau Claire Head Coach: Terry Gibbons; 19th season (15th at UWEC); 260-225 (overall) / 212-158 (UWEC)
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 12/4
Starters Returning/Lost: 3/2
Returning All-WIAC: None
UW-La Crosse Head Coach: Ken Koelbl; 7th season at UWL; 78-78
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 13/4
Starters Returning/Lost: 5/0
Returning All-WIAC: Tony Mane, Jr., G (2008-First); Trevor Stratton, Sr., G (2009-Honorable)
UW-Oshkosh Head Coach: Ted Van Dellen; 20th season at UWO; 332-176
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/3
Starters Returning/Lost: 3/2
Returning All-WIAC: D.J. Marsh, Sr., F (2008-First, 2009-Co-Player of the Year)
UW-Platteville Head Coach: Jeff Gard; 1st season at UWP
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 12/4
Starters Returning/Lost: 2/3
Returning All-WIAC: Curt Hanson, Sr., G (2008-First, 2009-First)
UW-River Falls Head Coach: Jeff Berkhof; 4th season at UWRF; 30-47
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 9/1
Starters Returning/Lost: 5/0
Returning All-WIAC: Jontae Koonkaew, Jr., G (2007-Honorable, 2009-Honorable); Jake Voeltz, Jr., F (2009-Honorable); Aaron Anderson, So., G (2009-Honorable)
UW-Stevens Point Head Coach: Bob Semling; 5th season at UWSP; 90-25
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 9/6
Starters Returning/Lost: 2/3
Returning All-WIAC: Matt Moses, Sr., G (2009-First)
UW-Stout Head Coach: Ed Andrist; 20th season (10th at UWS); 366-305 (overall) / 116-114 (UWS)
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 8/2
Starters Returning/Lost: 4/1
Returning All-WIAC: Jerrel Enerson-Matthews, Sr., G (2007-Honorable)
UW-Superior Head Coach: Logan Flora; 1st season at UWS
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 7/4
Starters Returning/Lost: 4/1
Returning All-WIAC: Jake Smith, Jr., F (2008-First, 2009-Honorable); Dwight Hill, Sr., G (2008-Honorable, 2009-Honorable)
UW-Whitewater Head Coach: Pat Miller; 9th season at UWW; 169-55
Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 9/5
Starters Returning/Lost: 2/3
Returning All-WIAC: Dustin Mitchell, Sr., C (2009-Honorable)
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Boys Basketball Coaches & AD's: We Need Your Schedules!!
by
Travis Wilson,
10/6/2009
It's kind of odd to think about, but basketball season is just around the corner. We've already begun begun work on the 2009-10 edition of the Wisconsin Men's Basketball Yearbook. To complete our information for the book and to have accurate info on our site, we need your boys basketball schedules.
Please send your schedules as soon as possible to
info@wissports.net, fax them to 1 (888) 711-7720, or as a last resort you can snail mail them to:
Wisconsin Sports Network
4915 Monona Drive Suite 307
Monona, WI 53716
Also, don't forget as soon as tryouts are completed to send us official rosters as well.
Thank you for your support as we continue to provide positive exposure and recognition to teams and student-athletes across the state.
WSN Team
Breaking down the numbers of the five division proposals
by
Nicholas Kartos,
9/24/2009
By Nicholas Kartos
Being a former self-appointed math team captain in high school I am a big fan of breaking things down by the numbers.
Yesterday we posted an article about changing around the five division proposal to have the top two divisions with 64 teams and the other three divisions evenly spaced out. My thought was if we’re exploring ideas why stop at 64.
So I broke things down in to three different scenarios for the top two divisions.
64/64 – Eight 8 team sectionals,
72/72 – Eight 9 team sectionals, and
80/80 – Eight 10 team sectionals.
This is strictly straight numbers and without any regard to moving teams up.
Analysis – 64/64 Cut off for D1A is 1340 students. D1B has a range of 862 to 1332 or 470 students. Another way to look at it, which will help compare divisions is that the biggest school is 54.5% bigger than the smallest school. For the sake of this article we will call this the “big/small percentage”
In Division 2 the range is 397 to 854 or 457 students and a big/small percentage of 115%.
In Division 3 the range is 209 to 394 or 185 studnets and a big/small percentage of 88.5%.
In Division 4 the range is 41 to 207 or 166 students.
Analysis – 72/72 Cut off for D1A moves down to 1254 students. D1B has a range of 747 to 1252 or 505 students and a big/small percentage of 67.6%.
D2 has a range of 362 to 746 or 384 students and a big/small percentage of 106%
D3 has a range of 209 to 359 or 150 students and a big/small percentage of 71.7%
D4 has a range is 41 to 207 or 166 students.
Analysis – 80/80 Cut off for D1A moves down to 1197. D1B has a range of 660 to 1177 or 517 students and a big/small percentage of 78.3%.
D2 has a range of 332-649 or 317 students and a big/small percentage of 95.4%.
D3 has a range of 206-331 or 125 students and a big/small percentage of 60.7%.
D4 has a range of 41 to 205 or 164 students.
Analysis – WIAA Proposal Again, this is just looking at their straight
5 equal division proposal without taking into account the potential of schools moving up. Each division would have roughly 97 teams.
Division 1 the cut off is 1091 schools.
Division 2 the range is 508 to 1077 or 569 students with a big/small percentage of 112%
Division 3 the range is 296 to 506 or 210 students with a big/small percentage of 70.9%.
Division 4 the range is 179 to 291 or 112 students with a big/small percentage of 62.6%.
Division 5 the range is 41 to 177 or 136 students.
Comparing the plans Below is the big/small percentage for the middle three divisions in a table format. You will see the WIAA proposal of five equal divisions helps the size differential in the three smaller divisions but does not do much for the top two.
The 64 and 72 plans make D2(D1B) closer in size but spreads out the range of D3 & D4 a bit. While the 80 plan makes D2(D1B) a lot closer compared with the current four division model but keeps everything else pretty close.
2008-09 64 72 80 WIAA
D2(D1B) 138% 54.5% 67.6% 78.3% 112%
D3(D2) 89.9% 115% 106% 95.5% 70.9%
D4(D3) -- 88.5% 71.8% 60.1% 62.6%
Final thoughts It’s almost a “pick your poison” scenario. Do you feel a school with 508 kids would have a harder time competing with one of 1077 kids or does a school with 362 kids have a harder time competing with one of 746.
Would you rather see bigger schools at the state tournament or more smaller communities?