Midwest Area JUCO's

BigBuss54

Southwestern Illinois is in a conference
(GRAC) with several juco's that are within 2-3 hrs of St Louis.

They are Olney ranked 14th D1 juco as of April 14th, John A Logan finished in top 8, 2 yrs ago, Wabash Valley came out preseason ranked top 25(2004), of course Southwestern preseason ranked also, Lincoln Trail, Rend Lake, Kaskaskia, and Southeastern Illinois College which is where my son attends. The last four teams are each having good season and I know that Southeastern's coach is in his 3rd yr and this is his first full recruited team that he signed. Rend Lake has a new coach this yr so they are rebuilding, amd Kaskaskia's coach is on his 2nd yr. They seem to be doing pretty good also.

That is a little info on some juco's close to St Louis.

Meramec of St Louis Comm. College is also a great program Coach Dattoli is a good coach. Hope this helps.

If my son would go anywhere in St. Louis or the area, it would be Meramec CC. There strong tradition and Coach Dattoli will get them back to where they used to be. They have been inconsistent this year, but he has signed some fantastic players and I'm just warning you, look out for Meramec in the future. Also, his former Assistant Coach(Coach White) has won 30 games at Dyersburg State in Tennessee and set a school record with his first full recruiting class. Those two guys will win(Dattoli and White).

There are several solid juco programs in Iowa.

Two of the perennial best are Iowa Western in Council Bluffs (across the river from Omaha) and Indian Hills in a small town in SouthEast Iowa.

Here's a link to Iowa Western

Link to Iowa Western

Good Luck!

Little late on the response. None the less; Maple Woods Community College has a very solid program. Located in Kansas City Missouri, they are a nationally ranked JUCO nearly ever year