Time for my latest MIAC Power Rankings....
1. UST
2. GAC
3. St. Olaf
4. Concordia
5. (tie) Bethel & SMU
6. Augsburg
7. Macalester
8. (tie) CSB & Hamline
9. Carleton
10. St. Kate's
No change among the top three spots - yet, anyway. UST has already cheated defeat a couple of times in the last week and GAC needed a half court Hail Mary buzzer-beater from Steph Comer just to force OT at Hamline and escaped Hutton Arena with a one-point victory. St. Olaf staved off a hard challenge from their cross-town rivals on Saturday over at West Gymnasium.
After that, things are a bit convoluted. Concordia went down to St. Joe and (expletive deleted)-slapped a moribund CSB team. Not suprising at all to see the Corn getting better and better. GAC was coldly efficient in hammering Bethel at the Robertson Center on Saturday and the second-half of their conference schedule is just plain brutal; I'm beginning to have serious doubts about the Royals chances now. UST predictably clipped the wings of SMU's mirage in a game that wasn't as close as the final score indicated. One benefactor in all this just may be Augsburg which found a way to win at St. Kate's despite bringing only their B- game. They do need to be more consistent.
You can never take any opponent in this conference lightly (do you hear me UST and GAC?) but it LOOKS as if things are shaping up nicely for this coming Saturday's showdown in St. Pete.
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