DWU Tigers

[jackrabit1]

Former SDSU grad assistant Matt Wilber has been doing a heck of a job in his second year as head coach at Dakota Wesleyan. The team is 11-0 (SDSU's was considered an exhibition) and just knocked off the #11 and #2 teams in NAIA this week.

Sorry if no one cares, I just have to have something positive after getting my heart ripped out by the Buy-zun today.

[Nidaros]

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Former SDSU grad assistant Matt Wilber has been doing a heck of a job in his second year as head coach at Dakota Wesleyan. The team is 11-0 (SDSU's was considered an exhibition) and just knocked off the #11 and #2 teams in NAIA this week.

Sorry if no one cares, I just have to have something positive after getting my heart ripped out by the Buy-zun today.

I will say its a remarkable start even if it is NAIA. Wasn't Wilber a grad assist at SDSU? Good job Matt.

[MontanaRabbit]

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Wasn't Wilber a grad assist at SDSU?

Nidaros, you might want to read the first sentence in jackrabit1's post again

[Nidaros]

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Nidaros, you might want to read the first sentence in jackrabit1's post again

My bad.

[jackrabit1]

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Dakota Wesleyan defeated the College of Idaho Saturday night 88-80 in the NAIA national quarterfinals. They'll play in their first-ever national semifinal game Monday night against Davenport of Michigan. If you're interested, the game will be streamed live on kmit.com.

[Nidaros]

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Congrats to Coach Wilber and crew. The NAIA membership is changing. Ashford of Iowa and Davenport of Michigan are new to me. College of Idaho I think I have heard of. At any rate a real accompolishment for Mitchell, and the entire state of South Dakota and DWU. George McGovern has to be very proud.

I did a google on Davenport. Quite impressive in their offerings on 11 campus.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_University

[mitchellrabbit]

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Alan Miller and his wife are going to be wore out by the time this basketball season is over. Four days watching Macy at the Summit Tourney. Going on 4 days in Missouri watching son Jade play for DWU. They'll get home and i assume head somewhere to watch Macy. A few of the bars have bought the naia package so people can watch it on TV. Those bars have been packed. Its been fun. Hope they can win 2 more games.

[jackrabit1]

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Should DWU make the national championship, the game will air Tuesday on ESPN3.com. Not trying to get ahead of myself, but just putting it out there.

[Roy]

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Both the semi's and finals for DWU are at 6 PM. This is Div II NAIA

The Div I NAIA 32 team tourney kicks off on Wednesday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.

The first 3 days there are 8 games a day, first game starting at 9 AM and the last game starting at 10:30 PM!

31 games for $75, Bargain basketball!

[slosho]

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And you get to see the muni!

[Nidaros]

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Both the semi's and finals for DWU are at 6 PM. This is Div II NAIA

The Div I NAIA 32 team tourney kicks off on Wednesday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.

The first 3 days there are 8 games a day, first game starting at 9 AM and the last game starting at 10:30 PM!

31 games for $75, Bargain basketball!

I curious, what is the difference between Div. II and Div. I in NAIA. Seems like the GPAC would be capable of competing at the Div I. Level. I guess I could google NAIA and get my answer but too lazy. Seems like a real bargain. I remember in the 1950's when SDSU made this tourney but lost in first round to Pacific Lutheran. I think it was the year before NCAA DIV 2 started which I believe was 1957.

[jackrabit1]

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I curious, what is the difference between Div. II and Div. I in NAIA. Seems like the GPAC would be capable of competing at the Div I. Level. I guess I could google NAIA and get my answer but too lazy. Seems like a real bargain. I remember in the 1950's when SDSU made this tourney but lost in first round to Pacific Lutheran. I think it was the year before NCAA DIV 2 started which I believe was 1957.

I believe that the Divisions are similar to that of the NCAA; larger schools are Division I, smaller schools are D-II.

Basketball is the only sports where they have two divisions. All other sports are single-division.

[Nidaros]

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I believe that the Divisions are similar to that of the NCAA; larger schools are Division I, smaller schools are D-II.

Basketball is the only sports where they have two divisions. All other sports are single-division.

It must be a choice as far as competition. I looked at their website and they list D1 schools. Several with less than a 1000 enrollment so enrollment is not a factor as many have small enrollments in both D2 and D1.

[jackrabit1]

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Final:

Dakota Wesleyan 80
Davenport (MI) 51

Tigers will play tomorrow night in the NAIA National Championship game tomorrow night at 6 p.m.

Congratulations, Coach Wilber.... GO TIGERS!!!

[bigticket1]

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It must be a choice as far as competition. I looked at their website and they list D1 schools. Several with less than a 1000 enrollment so enrollment is not a factor as many have small enrollments in both D2 and D1.

Could it be tied to the number of scholarshiips ? JUCO's are split into divisions and I think that's how they split teams.