Huck Finn Preview - courtesy of Peteo

Peteo decided to be awesome last night and wrote up a preview for Huck Finn. Enjoy.

This weekend we will be playing against teams that are a step up from the teams we played at Chicago Invite. This should be a good opportunity to take what we learned from all those close games and see how good we can be. All the teams we play are beatable if we play our best , and they will help us prepare for the competition we'll see at sectionals.

SATURDAY SCHEDULE:

Round 1 - Missouri S&T

Round 2 - St. Louis

Round 3 - Kansas B

Round 4 - Truman State

SUNDAY SCHEDULE:

Round 1 - Missouri State

Round 2 - Missouri

SATURDAY

Round 1 - Missouri S&T: Miner Threat seems to be winning a lot lately, and Naji is probably getting a little cocky. I don't think I've ever actually been able to play them, but they seem to be a decent team with good spirit. They have only played a couple teams I've seen before (lost 7-13 to North Park and won 13-9 to DePaul). I think we could get comparable scores against those teams, so hopefully we can come out strong and start the weekend 1-0. Hopefully without a naked point...

Round 2 - St. Louis: I'm pretty sure this is SLUT, who we played at Glory Days. I think we won with our X team, or at least had a close game (and if I remember correctly, they were nice). Some of their recent games include beating Notre Dame B 13-2 and losing to Illinois B 6-15. If we keep our heads in the game and don't let up we should have a good chance of winning this game.

Round 3 - Kansas B: I haven't played these guys, but I saw them a little bit at Mardi Gras. Even though they are a B team we can't look past them. Kansas is a good program and there should be some decent talent and athleticism on this team. They lost to Illinois B too, 9-13 (by the way, Illinois B is a team we can beat if we play well). It would be great to start off the weekend and get some confidence by going 2-1 or 3-0, so we can bring our positive attitudes into the tougher games. yeah. be positive! the ladies love it.

Round 4 - Truman State: We played JujiTSU as an X team at Western for our first game. They were able to get a lot of deep throws on us, so we have to watch out for that. I also lost against them at Mardi Gras. These guys are pretty good, and I heard they went to regionals last year. That might just be made up though. Either way, they are pretty cool guys and at least one of them likes Gnomes. They were pretty excited when I walked by in my shorts. Anyway, they have pretty good flow and we need to disrupt that. I think they also poached a little bit and did a good job of clogging the cutting lanes, but that might have just been because we were playing on a small field. They probably aren't looking at us as their biggest threat, so let's use that as an advantage and surprise them by coming out strong and winning. and scoring more points than them.

Round 5 - BYE: I'm not sure if we're going to celebrate the bye by leaving early to shower/eat or by watching the Dnomes or by watching a "showcase" game. All of those sound fun to me!

SUNDAY

Round 1 - Missouri State: I don't know much about these guys, but they beat Northern Iowa (the team we played first on Sunday at Chicago Invite) 13-6. They did lose to Maharishi twice, which I think is that one team we lost to last year at Huck Finn. Anyway, they seem like a pretty good team. I don't think they're out of our league though, so let's come out swinging Sunday morning. Just don't hit anybody.

Round 2 - Missouri: There sure are a lot of teams from Missouri and St. Louis going to Huck Finn! UPA says their team name is the MUtants. Scary. Let's see here...they beat Vanderbilt 13-9 (I played them at Mardi Gras, we could probably beat them), lost to the Grinnellephants 11-12...beat to Indiana. Yeah, I don't know anything about this team. I would guess they are not the best team we play all weekend but not the worst either. Maybe somewhere in the middle, or towards one of the extremes. I strongly believe that we could win or lose this game. Let's try to win though.

Round 3 and beyond: I'm still a little confused about this format so I have no idea what kind of teams we'll play after this, but hopefully we'll get lucky and play one of the top 25 teams.

Take luck!