On Tap
The Scots (9-1 overall) will play in the NCAA Division III playoffs for the first time when they meet defending national champion and top-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater (10-0 overall), Saturday, in Whitewater. Kickoff at Perkins Stadium is set for 12 noon.

The Series
For the third week in a row, Macalester will be facing a team for the first time in the school's 121 seasons of football. This will be the Scots' first meeting with a team from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference since 1978.
 
Last Week
Macalester laid claim to its first conference title since 1947 by downing Illinois College, 30-27, in the Midwest Conference championship game, Saturday, in Jacksonville, Ill.
 
Samson Bialostock was named the MWC Offensive Performer of the Week after throwing for 311 yards and three touchdowns in the game. After the Scots fell behind, 14-0, he directed three consecutive scoring drives, concluding two with touchdown passes of 31 and four yards to Victory Bordo, as Macalester took a 20-14 lead.
 
In the fourth quarter, trailing 27-20, he hooked up with Tre Nowaczynski on a 70-scoring pass to tie the game with seven minutes, 59 seconds to play in the game and followed that by engineering a 13-play, 53-yard drive that chewed up 5:36 and set up Michael Abramson for a game-winning, 21-yard field goal with 52 seconds remaining in the game.
 
Zandy Stowell turned in his usual workman-like rushing performance, gaining 167 yards on 28 carries.
 
Ben Hillmann set career highs with 12 catches and 155 receiving yards while Nowaczysnki had a career-best 110 yards receiving on just three catches.
 
Ryan Fleming led the defense, which forced four turnovers, with nine tackles while his brother, Konnor, had eight tackles and an interception.
 
Following the Scots
This week, fans can follow the Scots via the NCAA at http://www.ncaa.com/game/football/d3/2014/11/22/macalester-wis-whitewater. A video stream of the game, courtesy UWW-TV, will be available at http://reslife.uww.edu/stream/ and an audio stream, courtesy of WKCH, Kool-106.5FM, will be available at http://www.940wfaw.com/.

Go "Mid"West Young Men
Horace Greeley may have said "Go west, young man," but Macalester has chosen to go to the Midwest, the Midwest Conference, for football.
 
After 12 seasons as an independent, following their departure from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in football, the Scots are back in a football conference, competing in the MWC's North Division along with Beloit, Carroll, Lawrence, Ripon and St. Norbert. The South Division features Cornell, Grinnell, Illinois College, Knox, Lake Forest and Monmouth.
 
Macalester was picked fourth in North Division by the MWC Coaches' in the league's preseason poll while Illinois College was picked to win the South Division.
 
He's the Boss
The 28th head coach in the 128-year history of Macalester football, Tony Jennison, is in his seventh season as the Scots' mentor. His seven seasons have seen his teams put together a 35-33 record, including a 29-19 mark over the last five seasons.

A 1997 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, he was a part of four conference championship teams and two NCAA Division III championship teams as a collegian.
 
Jennison began his collegiate coaching career in 1998 at UW-Eau Claire as the defensive backs coach. In 2002, he took the defensive coordinator position at Marietta College before coming to coming to Macalester in 2005 in the same coaching position. He became the Scots' head coach in 2008.
 

Two-Deep Lineup (as of Nov. 17)
	Starters		Backups
OFFENSE	No.	Name	No.	Name
WR	28	Victor Bordo	88	Bradley Cox
WR	13	Ben Hillmann	18	Garrett Eichhorn
WR	19	Tre Nowaczynski	87	Sam Bordo
TE	81	Joe Walker	45	Liam Peebles
QB	1	Samson Bialostok	4	Benny Goldman
RB	2	Zandy Stowell	11	Ethan Carpenter
RT	79	Vincent Stierman III	79	Matt Kania
RG	75	Spencer Weckwerth	79	Matt Kania
C	66	Djoser Ramsey	68	Christian Stewart
LG	74	Austin Pauly	77	David McNichols
LT	70	John Stephens	58	Eben Johnson
DEFENSE	No.	Name	No.	Name
DE	97	Jacob Lueck	52	Lucas Herschbach
DT	99	Zach Hauser	98	Nicholas Egersdorf
DE	92	Ryan Flanagan	91	Alex Morrall
OLB	47	Reid Callahan	8	Fabian Arrizon
ILB	51	Ryan Fleming	46	Phil Wettersten
ILB	30	Nate Yordy	33	Connor Doak
OLB	41	Glen Hartford	17	Sean Hayes
S	31	Cash McGregor	3	Trey Muraoka
S	23	Jole Miller	12	Forest Redlin
CB	29	Konnor Fleming	25	Jack Schultenover
CB	22	Bolton Howes	21	Randall Eaker
SPECIALISTS	No.	Name	No.	Name
PK	14	Michael Abramson	36	Matt Glasenapp
HOLD	9	Christian Adams
KO	14	Michael Abramson	36	Matt Glasenapp
P	36	Matt Glasenapp	14	Michael Abramson
LS (PK)	55	James Ring	13	Ben Hillmann
LS (P)	55	James Ring	13	Ben Hillmann
PR	29	Konnor Fleming	28	Victor Bordo
KR	19	Tre Nowaczynski	28	Victor Bordo

The Awards Show
Macalester student-athletes have been recognized with weekly award nine times this season, including three following the win over Carroll.
 
This week, Bialostok and Abramson, for the second time in three weeks, were named the Offensive and Special Teams Performers of the Week, respectively by the Midwest Conference. Both won those awards two weeks, following a 34-17 win over Carroll, and Abramson earned his first POW award when he kicked a game-winning 37-yard field goal in a season-opening, 17-14 win over Carleton.
 
D3football.com cited the Scots' offensive line for their outstanding performance in the win over Carroll by naming them to the site's Team of the Week.

In week four, Bradley Cox was named the MWC Special Team Performer of the Week while Bialostok was an honorable mention pick for national offensive player of the week by USA Football.
 
Besides Abramson's honor in week one, Ryan Fleming was named to the D3football.com team of the week after a 15-tackle effort.

The All-Midwest Conference team was announced this week as well. Leading the Macalester contingent was Bialostok, who was named first-team All-MWC North Division as well as the conference's Offensive Skills Most Valuable Player.

Jennison earned the North Division coach of the year honor as well while first-team honors in the North Division were bestowed upon Stowell and Djoser Ramsey (offense); Reid Callahan, Konnor Fleming and Zach Hauser (defense); and Forest Redlin (special teams). Second-team honors went to John Stephens (offense); and Ryan Fleming and Jacob Lueck (defense).
 
Setting Records
Earlier this season, Stowell topped the 1,000-yard mark in rushing for the first time and has now broken a school record, set in 1939 and tied in 1969, for single-season rushing yards and is now at 1,243 yards, averaging 124.3 yards per game and 5.1 yards per carry.
 
The Scots' offense also broke the school's single-season record for total yards on its last possession versus Illinois College, breaking the record of 4,045 (2012) with 4,050. They've also set a school record for rushing yardage at 2,276, surpassing the record of 1,894 (2012).
 
Macalester has also set a single-season record for wins (9) and for the longest winning streak in a season (8). The Scots won the first 14 games in the program's history (1887-95) and also won eight consecutive games between the 1947 and 1948 seasons.
 
All That Talent, and Brains Too
Zandy Stowell as been named to the Capital One Academic All-District team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 
One of two running back backs named to the District 6, NCAA Division III team, Stowell has established a new school record single-season rushing yards and ranked second in the Midwest Conference during the regular season. He enters the NCAA playoffs ranked 19th among Division III players.
 
In his first full season as the Scots' starting running back, Stowell has topped the 100-yard rushing mark in seven of 10 games with a career-best 208 yards in a 28-21 win at Beloit (10/18/14).
 
In the classroom, Stowell is a physics major who maintains a 3.64 grade point average

A 67-year Drought
With their Midwest Conference champion, Macalester has won its first conference title since sharing the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in 1947. The Scots also won the MIAC title outright in 1925.
 
It's Never Happened
Prior to last week, Macalester had never received votes in the American Football Coaches Association poll.
 
The Scots received two votes last week after clinching the North Division title by defeating defending MWC champion St. Norbert on the heels of their first victory over a nationally-ranked opponent, 24th-ranked Carroll, 34-17.
 
This week, Macalester has received seven votes.
 

AFCA Division III Poll (Nov. 17, 2014)
Rk	School (1st place votes)	Rec.	Pts.	LW
1	Wis.-Whitewater (36)	10-0	1042	1
2	Mary Hardin-Baylor (2)	10-0	996	2
3	Mount Union (4)	10-0	983	3
4	Wartburg	10-0	873	5
5	Wesley	9-1	847	4
6	Johns Hopkins	10-0	823	7
7	Hobart	10-0	755	8
8	Wheaton	10-0	737	9
9	John Carroll	9-1	736	6
10	Widener	10-0	670	10
11	Linfield	8-1	624	12
12	Wittenberg	9-1	593	13
13	St. John's	9-1	559	14
14	Wabash	9-1	515	17
15	North Central	8-2	416	18
16	Centre	10-0	377	19
17	Texas Lutheran	9-1	312	20
18	St. Thomas	8-2	286	22
19	Delaware Valley	9-1	253	15
20	Chapman	8-1	239	23
21	Washington & Jefferson	9-1	219	11
22	Muhlenberg	9-1	189	24
23	St. John Fisher	8-2	128	25
24	MIT	9-0	74	NR
25	Concordia-Moorhead	8-2	69	NR

Also receiving votes: Wis.-Oshkosh 51; Framingham St. 39; Wis.-Platteville 36; St. Scholastica 34; Thomas More 28; Franklin 16; Guilford 15; Hampden-Sydney 14; Amherst 11; Pacific Lutheran 11; Heidelberg 10; Central 8; Macalester 7; Adrian 5; Rowan 5; Ithaca 4; Louisiana College 2; Ohio Northern 2; Morrisville St. 1.

Up Next
The winner of Saturday's game will advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs to meet the winner of Franklin and 14th-ranked Wabash, Nov. 29.
 
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NCAA Selection Show
The Macalester team's viewing party for the NCAA Selection Show was held in the Nystrom Hall of Fame Room in the Leonard Center.