The Northern Athletic Conference speaks!

The Northern Athletic Conference is, indeed, alive! A story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talks to actual people involved in the process, which has been pretty silent over the past year.

For those who haven’t heard of the league, and I’m sure there are many, the NathCon (sorry, NAC is already taken in D-III) consists of Alverno, Aurora, Benedictine, Concordia (Ill.), Concordia (Wis.), Dominican, Edgewood, Lakeland, Maranatha Baptist, Marian, Rockford and Wisconsin Lutheran.

Oh yeah, that’s why you haven’t heard of it. If a conference forms, and no schools issue press releases, does it make a sound?

The sound being made in today’s paper is from Milwaukee School of Engineering, which found itself on the outside looking in on its attempt to enter the Midwest Conference. Clarke is also trying to get into the NathCon.

It’s the end of the Lake Michigan Conference and the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference. It might result in an extra Pool B bid for the next two seasons, while the NathCon goes through its waiting period.

Another new conference we have no news on is the Interstate 8. Stevens dropped out of the newly formed conference earlier this year to join the Empire 8. Rumors immediately flew that Elizabethtown was to replace them and bring the league back up to eight, but there has been no official word.

Alumni report: USBL, coaching D-II

Dave Jannuzzi, a D3hoops.com second-team All-America selection in 2001, and Jen Nance, also a second-teamer in 2001, made news recently.

Jannuzzi, averaging 7.0 points and 2.0 rebounds in the early going of the USBL season, was the subject of a profile in the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times-Leader not for his basketball prowess, but his bodybuilding career.

Seriously. This in addition to his full-time job with a financial services firm and his family. More in the paper.

By the way, Willie Chandler is averaging 18.5 points per game for the same team (Northeast Pennsylvania) in the same league. Chandler, a Misericordia alumnus, is the No. 2 scorer in Division III men’s basketball history.

Nance was named head coach at Division II Mars Hill. She had been the top assistant at Division II Ashland and was previously an assistant at Franklin. Nance played four seasons for Baldwin-Wallace. Her squad won three consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference championships as well as a pair of trips to the Elite Eight of the Division III NCAA Tournament. Nance earned a bachelors degree in 2001 as a double major in business and psychology.