Loras comes to town playing the best basketball in the conference over the last month.  They have won 8 of 9 games.  They beat Cental a week or two ago, and is the only team to beat them over the last month.  Loras and Central play in Pella next Wednesday. Will be another fun matchup for them. 

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Luther is one of our favorite places to play over the years, as they have a nice facility, the floor is nice, but for some reason the game is always low scoring and not very pretty.  [Read More]

The journey continues to Luther tomorrow afternoon.  We will leave after practice to stay overnight in Decorah.  I like these trips, as it gives us a chance to relax together as a team tomorrow morning.  Have a short meeting and go over last details, and then have our pregame meal and play after the women’s game.  It makes a long trip feel better when you get there the night before.  I am sure the poker game in the back of the bus will be at its finest tonight.  Not too many more road games left, so the enjoyment starts to heighten a little bit more.  We love to travel, we really do.

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Sometimes you think you have it all figured out.  10 days ago we went to Wartburg, was up by 5 at half, and we just get taken to the woodshed in the 2^nd half.  Wartburg was awesome and beat us down.  With weird scheduling, we play them again one week later at home.  After playing Cornell and getting a real good win, we have one day to prepare for Wartburg. [Read More]

Well here we go.  This is a great time of the year.  We have played 5 conference games, and in 15 days we will be at 11.  We play Wartburg tomorrow and then play 3 games next week.  It will get interesting real quick.  Not much time for practice, so your discipline and belief in your system is crucial at this time of the year.[Read More]

It has been a week since I last blogged and I apologize for that.  It has been a tough few days with the weather.  I have ten feet of snow on each side of my driveway.  Last Thursday, neither my wife or I left the house.  It was actually kind of a nice day for our family being together, since we are very busy this time of year.  Finally got out of our driveway at about 10:00 AM on Friday morning.  Now I have my snowblower in the shop getting worked on, so we better not get any snow for a few days.  My son and I also scooped off our deck in the back.  We had snow 3 feet high all the way across our deck.  That was work. [Read More]

Coach Wiebers has another Boy

Today at 3:30, Eric and Jenny Wiebers had a baby boy.  His name is Nolan Jason.  He was 7 lbs. 6 oz.   He joins Jalen that will be 3 at the end of the month.

 

I hope I am still around to coach him in 18 years.

 

Go Beavers!!

 

Coach VH

The non conference schedule was a great challenge for us.  We have improved a lot since November 15.  We have come a long way.  Now the next challenge comes as everyone in the conference has had a chance to watch a few of your games, and now know your team sometimes better than what you may know your own team.   There are no more secrets.  As we play Coe tomorrow night, there is nothing that we do, that they don’t know about.  Now it comes to execution of your offensive and defensive plans.  We do have a plan on both ends of the floor, but it is important to be flexible, and be able to make adjustments on the fly within a game.  That is why I like to play a good non conference schedule, as you have to be able to make adjustments in a game, when it is tough and back and forth. 

 

We played well in Eau Claire and handled Heidelberg much better than I anticipated.  We were solid and handled their pressure very well.  The Eau Claire game was a great game that went down to the wire.  We did not execute as well as we needed to on the offensive end in the last 7 minutes.  We also made a couple of critical defensive errors, and that is all it takes to come up short.  However, we also made some real nice plays, and we looked like we belonged out there against a very good team.  That is important as try to build confidence.  I had a good feeling going into the Augustana game, as I thought we were ready to bust out and beat a real good team.  Augie came in ranked #20, and after the first 5 minutes, we were real good and never relinquished the lead after that.  Our toughness with the ball improved, as we had only 14 turnovers, and we stepped up to the line and made our FT’s.  A good game all the way around.

 

Now we head to Coe tomorrow.  Coe is big and strong, they have excellent depth, and they defend.  They have a lot of traits that you need to be a really good team.  They were in the same tournament in Eau Claire, so we saw them in person twice.  They are impressive with how hard they play, and how they defend and rebound.  We must be at our best to come up with a win in this game. 

 

Good to see my Bengals in the playoffs this year.  They play a game they can win on Saturday afternoon.  The Jets are inexperienced, and that should help them.

 

The Hawks with a big game tonight.  My daughter plays at 6:30, and will be there for that.  Thank God for the DVR.  Tape the game, with one push of a button, and come home and watch the game after Courtney plays.  The DVR is one of the top inventions I have seen.  Our family would not know what to do without it.  Barb never misses “The Young and the Restless.”  And when I watch that show there is no doubt that all people in that show are restless.  I say to my wife, can we just keep the same wife and husband for a year.  I can’t keep track of it.

 

By the way, I am taking the Hawks tonight, 23-19.

 

I will also take the Bengals next week, 16-13.

 

My son turned 15 last week.  Used to be able to say that he has the same birthday as Tiger Woods, but with all his hoopla, now we have to say he has the same birthday as LeBron James.  That is pretty good also.  Now that I think of it, I think Tiger is starting on the Young and the Restless next week.  He will be good for the show.  Good ratings.

Rahn Franklin tells me that this weather makes you strong.  Easy for you to say, you are a Newlywed.  As everyone else who knows Rahn, you got to love the guy, he has a heart of gold, but this weather is not making any of us strong.  We would all live 10 years longer without this cold and snow.  

 

Go Beavers!!

 

Coach VH