Flowers Goes for Championship

Jonte' Flowers has taken his team to the brink of a championship in the Swedish Basketball League.  Jonte' and his team is gearing up for one more tilt on the season as they will take the floor Tuesday morning (our time), in a game 7, winner take all against Sundsvall.  The Solna Vikings were able to send the series into a game 7 with a win in game 6, 77-69.  In that game Jonte' had 13 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals.  After this final game Jonte' will be heading back to the states and eventually back to Winona where he will be finishing up his degree from Winona St. and continuing to work out over the summer.  He also will be holding individual workouts for any young basketball player who is looking to improve their basketball skills.  We wish Jonte' the best of luck once again and hope he can bring home another title.  

Go Warriors!!  

2009-2010 Schedule Released!!!

Hi Warrior fans, I hope everyone is doing well and getting exciting for our 2009-2010 season. Just yesterday we finalized our 2009-2010 schedule that you can find here below. We really like this years schedule as it gives us 5 non-conference home games to go along with the 10 conference home games and the 3 home exhibition game we will be playing. We tried our best to again schedule a Division I opponent for exhibition but we were unable to secure one as no team is willing to play us. While this is disappointing we look at this as a feather in our cap as all Division I teams understand we have a Division I type program even though we play at the Division II level and we are capable of beating a Division I team on any night. As for the exhibition games we were able to secure some very tough teams from the WIAC and MIAC conference. La Crosse, Eau Claire and St. Thomas will each challenge us and give us a good perspective of where we are at as a team to start the season. Then when the season starts we will be tested by another WIAC team in Stout before holding our own tournament which will feature Clarke College (IA, DIII), Cardinal Stritch (WI, NAIA) and Palm Beach Atlantic (FL, DII). After those games we head out to Sioux Falls, SD to take part in the NSIC Hoopsfest where we play against Minnesota State-Mankato and UM-Crookston in non-conference games even though they are part of the NSIC. We conclude our non-conference season with two game over Christmas break when Adams St. (Col., DII) and cross-town college St. Mary's (DIII) come into play. Just like our exhibition schedule we are happy with who we were able to bring in to play for our non-conference schedule as many people do not understand how hard it is to get teams to come to Winona to play. On top of that we are elated to be getting 2 Division II schools to come into Winona to play in Adams St. and Palm Beach Atlantic, while we are only guaranteed to play Adams St., we could play Palm Beach Atlantic in our tournament. Finally our NSIC conference schedule is going to be the same as last year only everything is flip-flopped around so we will be playing the same teams we played last year twice and the same teams we play last year only once. This year Warrior fans will be able to catch UM-Duluth, Minnesota State-Mankato and Southwest Minnesota State, three teams who last year did not play in McCown gym during the regular season.

WINONA STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
2009 – 2010 Schedule
Date Day Opponent Div. Location Time
Nov. 2 Monday UW-La Crosse- # III Winona 7:00
Nov. 5 Thursday UW-Eau Claire- # III Winona 7:00
Nov. 12 Thursday St. Thomas- # III Winona 7:00
Nov. 16 Monday UW-Stout III Winona 8:00
Nov. 20 FridayCardinal Stritch vs Palm Beach Atlantic $ Winona 5:00
Nov. 20 Friday WSU vs Clarke (IA) $ Winona 7:00
Nov. 21 SaturdayCardinal Stritch/PBA vs Clarke (IA) $ Winona 5:00
Nov. 21 SaturdayCardinal Stritch/PBA vs WSU $ Winona 7:00
Nov. 28 Saturday UM- Crookston II Sioux Falls TBA
Nov. 29 Sunday MSU-Mankato II Sioux Falls TBA
Dec. 4 Friday St. Cloud State II St. Cloud 8:00
Dec. 5 Saturday Concordia St. Paul II St. Paul 8:00
Dec. 12 Saturday Bemidji State II Winona 4:00
Dec. 13 Sunday UM- Duluth II Winona 4:00
Dec. 19 Saturday Adams State II Winona 7:00
Dec. 29 Tuesday St. Mary’s III Winona 8:00
Jan. 2 Saturday Northern State II Aberdeen 8:00
Jan. 3 Sunday U. of Mary II Bismarck 8:00
Jan. 8 Friday Southwest MN St. II Winona 8:00
Jan. 9 Saturday MSU- Mankato II Winona 8:00
Jan. 15 Friday Wayne State II Winona 8:00
Jan. 16 Saturday Augustana College II Winona 8:00
Jan. 22 Friday MSU-Moorhead II Moorhead 8:00
Jan. 23 Saturday UM- Crookston II Crookston 8:00
Jan. 30 Saturday Upper Iowa II Fayette 8:00
Feb. 5 Friday Northern State II Winona 8:00
Feb. 6 Saturday U. of Mary II Winona 8:00
Feb. 12 Friday Wayne State II Wayne 8:00
Feb. 13 Saturday Augustana College II Sioux Falls 8:00
Feb. 20 Saturday Bemidji State II Bemidji 8:00
Feb. 24 Wednesday Upper Iowa II Winona 8:00
Feb. 27 Saturday St. Cloud State II Winona 8:00
Mar. 3 Wednesday NSIC 1st Round II TBA TBA
Mar. 6 Saturday NSIC Semifinals II TBA TBA
Mar. 7 Sunday NSIC Finals II TBA TBA
Mar. 13 - 16 Sat. - Tues. NCAA Regional II TBA TBA
Mar. 24 - 27 Wed. - Sat. NCAA Elite Eight II TBA TBA