Quote from: Titan Q on February 17, 2014, 08:09:46 AM

Quote from: AndOne on February 16, 2014, 11:40:12 PM
I believe labeling NCC's victory over Wheaton as "insignificant" overlooks the effect the loss may have had on the collective Wheaton psyche. Rather than going into next Saturday's game on an eight game winning streak with the highest possible degree of confidence, the Wheaties must now spend the next week operating under the increased pressure brought on by last night's failure.

Maybe.  But since we have no idea how to determine if the psychological implications of Wheaton's loss at NCC will hurt (or help) the Thunder, I'm looking at it pretty simply - if IWU beats NPU Wednesday, the IWU @ Wheaton game will determine who hosts the conference tournament (just as it would have if Wheaton had won at NCC).

NCC did not inflict the damage to Wheaton that this tweet from Saturday afternoon (retweeted by @NCCBasketball) would suggest:

Max Ishikawa ‏@AS1AN_SENSATI0N 
Big game tonight vs Wheaton! It's a redout. Let's get a ton of people in Merner at 7! Let's end Wheaton's chance at winning the CCIW!

Wheaton still "controls it's own destiny", and the big game vs IWU is at King Arena.

Quote from: Titan Q on January 31, 2014, 11:28:34 AM
This is the 20th year of IWU's Shirk Center (honestly, hard for me to believe).  For fun, I put together my personal IWU all-Shirk team.  I've tried to stay true to positions as best as possible - each team has a PG, 2 other perimeter players, and 2 posts. 

1st Team
G - Adam Dauksas ('06) - CCIW 1st Team '05 & '06, CCIW M.O.P. '05, 1st Team All-American '05 & '06
G - Korey Coon ('00) - CCIW 1st Team '98, '99, '00, CCIW M.O.P. '99 & '00, 1st Team All-American '00, Division III Josten's winner '00
F - Bryan Crabtree ('97) - CCIW 1st Team '97, CCIW M.O.P. '97, 1st Team All-American '97, D3 Player of the Year '97
F - Zach Freeman ('07) - CCIW 1st Team '07, 1st Team All-American '07
C - Chris Simich ('96) - CCIW 1st Team '95 & '96, 1st Team All-American '95 & '96

2nd Team
G - Dylan Overstreet ('15) - CCIW 1st Team '13
G - Sean Johnson ('11) - CCIW 2nd Team '10 & '11
F - Keelan Amelianovich ('06) - CCIW 1st Team '04, '05, '06, CCIW M.O.P. '04, 1st Team All-American '06
F - Brent Niebrugge ('98) - CCIW 1st Team '98, CCIW M.O.P. '98, 3rd Team All-American '98
C - Luke Kasten ('03) - CCIW 1st Team '01, '02, '03, 3rd Team All-American '03

3rd Team
G - Chad Hutson ('95) - CCIW 2nd Team '95
G - Nathan Hubbard ('99) - CCIW 2nd Team '98 & '99
F - Jordan Zimmer ('12) - CCIW 1st Team '12, 3rd Team All-American '12
F - Andrew Ziemnik ('14) - CCIW 1st Team '13
C - Doug Sexauer ('11) - CCIW 1st Team '10 & '11


Behind these guys and many others, the Titans have made 11 trips to the Sweet 16 (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013) and 5 trips to the Final 4 in Salem, VA (1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012) in the Shirk Center era.

In these 20 years, IWU has been fortunate to have 3 very good, and very different, head coaches - Dennie Bridge, Scott Trost, and Ron Rose.  All 3 coached the Titans to Salem.

Out of all of the many images in my mind of IWU games at the Shirk Center, my favorite is the one depicted here - http://www.iwuhoops.com/kids.jpg.  Korey Coon started the tradition of the kids lining the baseline back in about 1999, and I've always loved that part of the game night at the Shirk Center.

It's been a real pleasure watching IWU play at the Shirk Center.  I'm looking forward to many more great games to come - including those the rest of the way here in 2013-14.[/color]

Sorry, Kent Raymond trumps them all although he was from Wheaton - best payer ever!

Great to see CCIW teams in the top 20 ~ Gooooo Wheaton!!

Quote from: iwu70 on November 14, 2013, 08:21:43 PM
Great pics of Zman.   You can see the change, for sure.  Thanks Q.

Ypsi, congrats on the upcoming grandchild.  Sounds like your family will be moving closer to you -- that's great.

Back from Lucca's now and the Baldinii pizza and libations were excellent.  I still found my way back somehow.

Sure looks like a full weekend of IWU sports -- yes, football and basketball, perhaps some women's soccer too -- IWU vs. Transy.  Might even catch a film or two -- French film series on campus, lovely film on Paris, . . .  and tonight the third world, anti-colonial classic, "The Battle of Algiers."  Not exactly happy fare, but an important movie relevant to the French role in Africa even today, especially in Chad. 

Ypsi, I'll be seeing our classmate Spencer Sauter '70 -- too, as he makes a mean porkchop, dinner at his place Saturday, with additional libations involved.  Spen and I will be catching the Saturday Titan game @The Shirk together.  Let's hope it's the 7 p.m. game, not the 5 p.m. one. 

Let the games begin!

'70

Thanks god he got a haircut

Quote from: iwumichigander on November 17, 2012, 07:33:59 PM
Better outing by IWU tonight in a win over Loras.  And IWU70, Coach Rose may experiment (a lot) with starting lineups but every lineup will start with Victor Davis on it!

Dah

Quote from: Titan Q on March 17, 2012, 09:21:31 AM
A huge factor in this game was how it was officiated.  The whistle was completely even on both sides, but the consensus from all of the D3 coaches I spoke to afterwards was that this was the loosest whistle they'd ever seen in a tournament game.  To say they "let 'em play" would be an enormous understatement.  The amount of contact (pushing/shoving/grabbing) they allowed, in my opinion, crossed the line.  One of the coaches called it "way outside acceptable parameters."  Again, while the whistle was even and fair, the game called that way favored Cabrini bigtime.  They might be the shorter of the two teams, but they play an incredibly physical, rugged style...much more physical that IWU. 

Officiating? (always an excuse) - if they called everything, the game would last 5 hours. They can't call everything so the officials do their best. A favoring fan always sees it to one sided in which its not. This is the way officiating should be compared to the grade school officials you get from the CCIW. Don't bring up bad officiating as an excuse ever again.

Quote from: thunder38 on February 14, 2012, 11:26:56 PM
Also congrats to Coach Raridon and the Cardinals for wrapping up a share of the CCIW title tonight.

..not so tough to do in a comparatively not so tough CCIW this year - almost half of the teams fell in a category of "pure junk".

Quote from: titanhammer on February 01, 2012, 10:02:15 PM
Article about enforcing sportsmanship:  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/seth_davis/01/27/NCAA.sportsmanship/index.html

You obviously are a wimpy green whiner  -- BTW, that is a D1 article not D3 .. whatever it takes to win is the mojo, little whiner -- BOSKO rules!!

Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 11, 2012, 12:13:54 AM
Sometimes the schedule works for you, and sometimes it doesn't. Right now the schedule is at a perfect point for North Park. After three CCIW games, NPU has played a grand total of ten good minutes of basketball out of 120 (the last ten minutes of Saturday afternoon's game against Wesleyan being the only instance in which the Vikings have been up to snuff). The cure for that should be a home game against Millikin. A big part of basketball is self-confidence, and right now the self-confidence of the Vikings has to be badly shaken. Nobody's expecting a conference championship out of the Park, but it's at least beholden of the Vikings to be competitive every time that they take the floor, and they're playing competitive basketball less than 10% of the time thus far in conference play. Facing Millikin in the crackerbox, even without student support, should remedy that for NPU.

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How does a team get fired up playing in a Jr. High gym? ....just the facts

Quote from: iwu70 on January 06, 2012, 06:00:46 PM
OurHouse, I think IWU can win various ways, with many combinations, this year -- the result of this excellent depth and sizable rotation.  Yes, Zimmer is bigtime on scoring just now, but they won tough games earlier in the year when he was not so dominant, not scoring much.  Others are very capable of scoring, much more so than we initially thought at season's start.  Reed is playing very well and Eliud and Rudnicki are very able to score, again more than we thought earlier, when called upon.  I'm hoping for more scoring from the 3 and the post area, especially from Kman, who is a very good trey shooter and slasher, and also from Victor Davis.  The stats so far show this potential balance, range of scoring options, and that many players, including Molinari and Oz, have in fact led in scoring in previous outings.  Should Overstreet or Musselman be called on, they are very capable of scoring as well.  (Brandon Heyen and Josh Wiggs from the JV are going to be excellent players down the road, in my view).   Eliud is very good at finding what the defense is giving . . . and delivering accurate passes to the scorers.  Vs. Wheaton, he also found his own shot and got to the basket off the dribble.  His on-ball defense is superb and makes an important contribution to disrupting the offensive flow of the opponent.  The scoring by Dortch and Ziemnik were useful additions vs. WC.  You can see Ron Rose can now sit back a bit and sense who is playing well, who is most aggressive, who is hitting shots (beyond Zimmer), who has most left in the tank, and then go with that combination, work key match-ups given the opponents players, schemes and sets.  Nick Anderson is developing nicely, though he struggled a bit offensively against Wheaton, but he's great on interior defense, shot blocking and active movement, runs the floor pretty well for 6-9 and shoots FTs well.  No lack of effort there.  Eric Dortch is a very good on-ball defender, and has great hops, blocking abilities.  Was happy to see him find his offense some this last game and take his opportunities to get to the rim.  I would expect some good offensive games from Kman and Anderson coming up.  Andrew Ziemnik certainly earned more minutes in his play vs. WC, against McCrary. Just a few thoughts from watching all the home games to date.  IMHO.

I was very very impressed with Aaron Garriott.  He's going to have a huge year, it would appear.

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IWU70

I do agree with your assessment - this team has depth and has best fire power overall in the CCIW this year - mark this post as to claiming first dibs on IWU winning the conference (may be an early prediction but only 3 will compete -- of those 3, IWU is at top)

Quote from: veterancciwfan on January 05, 2012, 10:17:00 AM
IWU's bench is the deepest in the league. Last night, the 4 IWU reserves scored 31 while the Wheaton reserves scored 20. And Nick Anderson, who scored only 2 and missed several shots he should have made, garnered 7 rebounds. I think IWU's outstanding depth will have a huge impact in the league. Another very capable reserve, David Molinari, son of the WIU coach, was in street clothes due to a concussion.

Speaking of wins - IWU will win the conference this year as long as Zimmer stays healthy - whole offense runs through him and has the green light from da coach. Bigs have stay very physical. JM2C

Sounds like Carthage is much better than expected, and that 6-9 freshman Luke Johnson is the real deal. 

Congrats to Bosko and the Red Men for the win last night!
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One game and he's the "real deal"?  OMG

GO GO GO!!

Quote from: augiefan on April 23, 2011, 10:43:45 AM

Quote from: Titan Q on April 19, 2011, 09:39:25 PM
On IWU recruit Drew Blumenshine...

Once again IWU beats out Augie for a targeted recruit. Atleast it wasn't a position of great need for Augie.

3A? Woopie - ..and a Blumenshine to boot
How convenient for this coach. Its the school that attracts student/athletes not good recruiting

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Quote from: augiefan on March 13, 2011, 01:15:22 PM
Congratulations to Steve D on the Josten award. Kyle Nelson was also in the final 10 for the award. Both of those great players will be missed next season.

Congrats also to the IWU women. What a comeback. Too bad the Fighting Illini MBB team didn't recruit Nikki Preston. They certainly could use a finisher like her.

Steve D certainly deserves the award....he played great against any opponent - Nelson always seemed to struggle against good teams

Quote from: TitansIWU on March 07, 2011, 08:51:38 PM
I have a hard time supporting Augustana, because maybe there is a chance that I will wake up and IWU is still in this.

BUT

They are a very good, class team and I think they really deserve to go far.

COACH G is a jerk!!!!!!!!!!!

GO AUGIE (unless this was all a dream and the Titans are still in it... and since it's my dream, IWU is hosting too!)

And basically, you are a BIG LOSER - G is the BEST recruiting coach in the CCIW - your green Titan recruiter forgets to add toughness to his roster every year..