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Mavericks ready to add to MIAA's power base “Us coming into the league, I don’t think that’s what’s going to make it the strongest league in the country,’ Behrns said. “I think it has been probably the last five years or more, maybe since 1999. It probably was in my estimation. I hope we can help that by our level of play, but only time will tell.”
“It’s a powerhouse conference,” said Miller, preparing for his third year as a starter. “I’m glad we can be a part of it. We know week in and week out that the competition is at the highest level. You know you have to prepare your best every week. The best guys in Division II are going to be on that football field this season.” Regional change The MIAA schools not only have a new league opponent, but they also have a new conference in the Southwest Region. The Great Northwest Athletic Conference joins the MIAA and Lone Star Conference in the region. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference — no longer in the Southwest — is in the Northwest Region with the Northern Sun and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The GNAC consists of five teams — Central Washington, Western Washington, Western Oregon, Humboldt State (Calif.) and Dixie State (Utah). They will play an eight-game league schedule — home and home with each foe — and the league champion is not assured a playoff berth. Kansas City, here we come In recent years the MIAA has played its men’s and women’s basketball postseason tournaments at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. Commissioner Jim Johnson announced Monday that the league will bring a total of eight championship events to the Kansas City area this school year in an 11-week period — basketball in March, men’s and women’s golf and tennis in April and baseball and softball in May. “We’ve really made a pledge to the city of Kansas City to use this as the hub for the MIAA, to promote the MIAA in Kansas City, to engage our more than 80,000 alums in Kansas City,” Johnson said. “We want to send a message to Kansas City on how important they are to us and how important we want to be to them.” 
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