NAU announces Men's Basketball schedule

[dbackjon]

Home and home OOC with UVSU and NDSU, road trips to Stanford, Arizona and Wichita State...


Nov 14, 2008 at Utah Valley Orem, Utah 7:00 PM
Nov 17, 2008 Haskell Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Nov 20, 2008 at UNLV Las Vegas, Nev. 8:00 PM
Nov 22, 2008 at UC Riverside Riverside, Calif. 3:00 PM
Nov 25, 2008 North Dakota State TBA 6:35 PM
Nov 30, 2008 at Arizona Tucson, Ariz. 2:00 PM
Dec 06, 2008 Utah Valley Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Dec 14, 2008 Northern New Mexico Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Dec 17, 2008 at Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. 8:30 PM
Dec 20, 2008 at Wichita State Wichita, Kan. 6:05 PM
Dec 22, 2008 at North Dakota State Fargo, N.D. 6:05 PM
Dec 29, 2008 at Northern Colorado* Greeley, Colo. 7:05 PM
Jan 02, 2009 Eastern Washington* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Jan 04, 2009 Portland State* Flagstaff, Ariz. 2:05 PM
Jan 08, 2009 at Montana* Missoula, Mont. 7:05 PM
Jan 10, 2009 at Montana State* Bozeman, Mont. 7:05 PM
Jan 18, 2009 at Sacramento State* Sacramento, Calif. 4:35 PM
Jan 22, 2009 Idaho State* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Jan 24, 2009 Weber State* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Jan 31, 2009 Northern Colorado* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Feb 05, 2009 at Portland State* Portland, Ore. 8:05 PM
Feb 07, 2009 at Eastern Washington* Cheney, Wash. 8:05 PM
Feb 12, 2009 Montana State* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Feb 14, 2009 Montana* Flagstaff, Ariz. 5:05 PM
Feb 21, 2009 Sacramento State* Flagstaff, Ariz. 6:35 PM
Feb 26, 2009 at Weber State* Ogden, Utah 7:05 PM
Feb 28, 2009 at Idaho State* Pocatello, Idaho 7:05 PM

[dbackjon]

The NAU men's basketball team has given its fans plenty to cheer about over the past three seasons.

In that span, the Lumberjacks won 60 games -- the biggest of which had to be last season's 64-61 upset of eventual Sweet 16 team Western Kentucky -- a Big Sky Conference regular-season title, a share of the league title and played in all three league tournament championship games. Still, being a Jacks fan recently hasn't been all puppy dogs and butterfly kisses.

That's been especially true in the month of March.

In 2006, NAU opened league play 8-0, went on to finish 12-2 and won the regular-season title. The Jacks earned the right to host the league tournament and milked every bit of the home court advantage in a 20-point win over Sacramento State in the teams' semifinal matchup.

The Jacks entered the final versus Montana the next day with an automatic NCAA tourney berth in the balance, but they shot 14.3 percent from long range in the first half, were outrebounded 44-27 overall and lost by 13.


http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2008 ... 184701.txt

[Mvemjsunpx]

I think the 'Jacks personnel losses the past couple years will finally catch up with them.