GPAC Regular Season 'Title Battle' Starts Tonight

The #14 Tigers have put themselves in positions to be GPAC Regular Season Champions - that may have been the easy part. The Tigers have seven games left on the schedule and four of those games are on the road. They have to play the GPAC #2, #3, #4, and #5 teams. Plus, the top five teams are only seperated by one game.

The battle starts tonight in Sioux City, Iowa against Morningside (#14 NAIA, #2 GPAC). This will be the second time in the last week that DWU has played a Sioux City team with GPAC number one on the line. Hopefully, the result will be similar to the first match-up where the Tigers knocked off, then number one, Briar Cliff by 22 points.

For those of you not traveling to the game you can the watch the Men's and Women's games here.

Visiting Team Links:

Daily Republic Game Story

DWU Athletics Game Story


Home Team Links:

Morningside Athletics Game Story

Sioux City Journal Game Story

Mitch Bain Earns Player-of-the-Week Honors

For the second week in a row a Tiger grabbed the GPAC player of the week honors. Last week it was Brady Wiebe and this week Mitch Bain took the honor.

Bain averaged 21.5 points and 7.5 assists for the week. His most impressive game was against Brair Cliff where he scored 19 points, grabbed 5 rebounds, and dished out 8 assists. He raised his season average to 10.4 points a game and from the way it looks his average will continue to rise.

Press Release (DWU Athletics)

DWU Point Guard's Fill Void

With Colby Fitzgerald out for the season someone is going to have to step up to account for his 18 point average. It didn't take long to figure out where exactly those points might come from. Mitch Bain and Rocky Nelson combined to score 31 points from the point guard position. Ironically 18 more than their season average. Rocky played his best game as a Tiger and Mitch had his best shooting game of the season.

A few times during the game Coach Hemenway played Rocky at point and moved Mitch over to shooting guard, which surprisingly is his natural position. He proved this to be true as he stepped up and was the go-to-man when the team needed a big shot.

Sunday was the type of team effort the Tigers are going to need down the stretch run and if Rocky can play like he did Sunday it will pay dividends for the them down the road.

Story (Daily Republic)

Game Stats (Official from DWU athletics)