Is it anticipated that CCIW will do preseason coaches videos as they have in the past?

Quote from: RogK on February 26, 2014, 01:06:58 PM
Backer, thanks for posting Devin's numbers. She has done a lot of good at both ends of the court and has always been willing and able to do what is asked of her, from being point guard or shooting guard on offense and being able to defend players smaller or larger than herself.
Instead of stagnating (some players seem to), she has improved during her career as a Bluejay. It's nice for she and her fellow seniors to make the postseason, wrapping up their careers in an exciting way. Not every senior gets that chance.

So true Roger.  I may be wrong but i think Elmhurst has had to win the final game each of the past four seasons to make the tourney only to come up short each year until now.  I know the team is pretty excited to finally play in the "second season".  The last tournament appearance was when these seniors were seniors in high school (Long and company).

Also true that Devin went from a two to a one to a four the last couple seasons and now regularly gives up five or six inches and multiple pounds to her "man".

It was senior night at the Elmhurst game Saturday.  According to the program, among the five seniors, Devin Vaughn played in her 100th career contest (out of 100).  She is a four-year letter winner who has started 69 career contests.  Going into the game she had career totals of 584 points, 283 rebounds, 284 assists, 44 blocked shots and 92 steals.  Her 284 career assists (plus two more that game) tied her for the Elmhurst College career record of 286.  Probably her best statistic is one that is not kept: offensive charges taken (no doubt averaging > 1 per game and I've seen as many as seven in a game).  IMO, these should be counted as steals as they are also forced turnovers not to mention debilitating to the opponents.  Her late charge taken at Augie led directly to a technical foul on the bench and the ensuing free throws and basket sealing the win in an 11-1 run.  In addition to total assists, she appears to be on the conference leader boards for free throw percentage, blocked shots, assist/turnover ratio, and minutes played.  Nice career Devin!

Bluejays playing with heavy hearts and orange leukemia shirsts...do it for Matt! Elmhurst family!

Flames over Jays 94-63. Too tall,  too fast,  too good. Two of the Jay's three six footers not dressed due to injury.

Blue jays down 47-22 at the half to the Flames at UIC scrimmage.

Quote from: Backseat Driver on February 17, 2013, 10:48:44 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 17, 2013, 05:05:20 PM
Tiebreakers explained.

Go Millikin!

And ... uh ... Go Wheaton.

If you type Go Wheaton enough times, I think it will start to grow on you 

And Backer, you can see why I didn't want to start trying to break down the other possibilities

Certainly!  But I'm glad somebody did. 

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 17, 2013, 05:05:20 PM
Tiebreakers explained.

Go Millikin!

And ... uh ... Go Wheaton.

That's the ticket. The link says it all.

Quote from: Backseat Driver on February 17, 2013, 01:58:51 PM
Frankly, there's a lot of different scenarios to look at.

As I said earlier, the most likely is an NCC win, and losses by NPU and Elmhurst.

Beyond that, the three teams are all 1-1 against each other and none of them have beaten any of the top 3 teams, so you'd be getting down to 4 thru 7 on the tiebreaks, I'm pretty sure.

See what you mean.  If there are no upsets, the scenario you describe is most likely.

Have any of you math majors figured out the tie breaker situation for fourth place  First glance looks like all three teams are 1-1 against each other head-to-head?  What's the story line for Tuesday?

1. Head-to-head competition.
2. Record against team(s) above the tie beginning with the highest ranked team.
3. Record vs. team or teams in 3 rd place. If still tied, go to the next place for determination, et cetera.
4. Road record against conference schools.
5. Record in their last seven conference games.
6. The point spread of the tied teams' head-to head competition.
7. Coin toss

Buslag is a good excuse as any, Rog!  A good three hour trip there though that was at least much better than the five hour fog-laden trip back home.

Bluejay shooting was off while Coe shot very effectively with good production off their bench.  I have to give credit to the Jays for responding to several deep holes as they fought their way back from a number of large deficits a number of times although in their aggression a number of starters got into foul trouble and had to sit decreasing their scoring ability.

Quote from: RogK on February 15, 2012, 02:37:39 PM
I'll be at Elmhurst tonight -- they and visiting Carthage each need a win, so it should be a vigorous battle.

Have you done the math to compute how the 3rd-4th place tie-breaker might fall out after an Elmhurst victory?  More difficult is a 4th-5th tie-breaker situation with Millikin perhaps at the end of the week?

Quote from: RogK on February 10, 2012, 11:36:09 AM
Backseat Driver, can I "put you on the spot" and ask which three Thunder players should make all-CCIW? I don't think they'll get 4. I'm thinking that Potts, Olson, Brenneman and Karsten would be likely.

Newb question: do teams typically get "so many" slots based their records?

Quote from: RogK on February 08, 2012, 01:53:42 PM
I don't offer any empirical data on this topic, but I think it's a useful formula.

Interesting.  I've often thought similar thoughts to myself but less structured than yours.  I've felt that if my team is ahead by more points than minutes left I breathe a bit easier.  Then as each minute ticks off, have we lost ground or not?  I think  of some sort of correlation between minutes and score.  Perhaps it's as simple as there are normally two possessions per minute if teams hold their possession close to their 30 seconds.  I guess I use the minutes left-spread ratio as a poor man's barometer of the pressure and is it rising or falling.  Is there a storm abrewin'?

I'm hearing nothing torn.  Will no doubt take tonight's NCC game off and rest up for WC on Saturday.  Hoping for the best for her!