Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 24, 2022, 03:27:32 PM

Quote from: 79jaybird on March 24, 2022, 02:45:26 PM
Congratulations to Coach Raridon on a successful tenure at NC.   I wish him well in his new role.

Fun fact, which I just learned the other day from surveying the Hastings Broncos basketball page in order to see what Todd Raridon was getting himself into, and which may not interest anybody other than myself and inveterate Oklahoma football fan (and, thus, long-time Cornhuskers hater) Mark Erickson, is that Tom Osborne scored over 1,200 points as a Broncos basketball player.

I knew this.

No happy about the NPU matchup this friday. It's hard to beat a team 3 times in one season....it's the one team I didn't want to face.

the art of out-slowing someone occasionally looks like a travel.

Quote from: tjcummingsfan on December 21, 2016, 07:44:17 PM

Quote from: robberki on December 21, 2016, 07:13:55 PM
Who is this Billy Kirby cat that's playing for North Park tonight? Has he been playing all year?

He looked good tonight eh?

i honestly don't know if he's played all year? he kind of had a nice game though.

Who is this Billy Kirby cat that's playing for North Park tonight? Has he been playing all year?

Quote from: kiko on December 08, 2016, 12:55:54 AM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 07, 2016, 03:19:52 PM

That's why the school is waiting for me to win the Powerball in order to build a new gym.

You'd attach a condition to the funding stating that a courtside stage must be built into the arena design, right?   

Not sure the current status, but about 10 years ago some VERY nice plans on campus for a remodeling of that space. Very, very nice, not sure what will ever happen to it with the addition of Rec Center that was built a bit ago, and I believe there was quite a bit of city "red tape" due to the building being on the corner of the Foster and Kedzie intersection, needless to say there are some things that could be done at NPU gymnasium to really spruce it up.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 05, 2016, 06:20:19 PM
North Park has not appeared in the d3hoops.com Top 25 since Week Eight of the 1999-00 season.

some nice players on that team.

Quote from: CCIW > on February 22, 2016, 03:21:27 PM
The all conference teams are posted... And it is extremely embarrassing to see the outcome.

Juwaun Henry should get a lawyer and start suing all the coaches. He has been robbed in two consecutive years now.

It is safe to say that the Player of the Year Award in the CCIW has ZERO to do with who the Player of the Year in the CCIW is... Sounds weird to say that, but it is a 100% fact.
Hunter Hill is not the player of the year, he is not the best player in the conference, he is not the most valuable player to his team... I dont really know what else to say

I'm going to go ahead and guess that it has to do with not making the conference tournament.

Now I'm not super familiar with North Park or anything, but I'd put the chances of NPU asking someone to not have a prayer circle at about the same as Blutarsky's GPA.

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Quote from: veterancciwfan on January 31, 2016, 09:27:18 PM
Regarding the Demetrius Randle call with 2.2 seconds left: I think Randle is one of the better CCIW refs. If Straughter was in fact "run over," he made the courageous and correct call. A similar play occurred at Shirk on Mar. 7, 2014 in a 1st round D3 tourney game vs. Webster. IWU was up one after 2 FTs with 8 seconds left. Webster inbounded and their star dribbled down the court. His teammate set a hard pick on Brady Zimmer with 4 seconds left. Zimmer fell (flopped maybe) to the floor and the ref made the call and IWU escaped and made it to the Final 4. There were a lot of chat posts on that very controversial call. Grey is such a good coach and I'm sure he designed the play in order to have a chance for the call.

With all due respect, that's not a similar call at all. That's a live ball foul, this was on an inbounds play dead-ball sitch. Every coach in the world tries to get this call, most time they set a pick on the inbound defender (if the inbound passer can run the baseline) and try to get him to run him over, it's usually so obvious a ploy that the refs don't call it. It's very unusual to get them to blow the whistle with two seconds left on an inbounds play. VERY unusual...like I said, oh well....

Obviously I didn't see the foul but I wanted to clarify one thing regarding live ball/dead ball status.  On a throw-in the ball becomes live when it is at the disposal of the thrower-in even though the clock is not running.  There are a couple of situations in basketball (at least college and high school) in which the ball is live but the clock is not running.  In addition to the throw-in it's also a live ball when the ball is placed at the disposal of the shooter during a free throw.  This is rule six (Live Ball/Dead Ball) in the NCAA rule book.  Again I didn't see the foul but based on his description both occurred during a live ball by rule even though the clock was running in one case and stopped in the other.

that's a technically correct, by-the-book definition of the thing, but is also a good representation of the letter vs. the spirit of the rule. It was a foul committed not really during the flow of the game but off a dead ball situation, it's a very, very rare foul to call.

Quote from: veterancciwfan on January 31, 2016, 09:27:18 PM
Regarding the Demetrius Randle call with 2.2 seconds left: I think Randle is one of the better CCIW refs. If Straughter was in fact "run over," he made the courageous and correct call. A similar play occurred at Shirk on Mar. 7, 2014 in a 1st round D3 tourney game vs. Webster. IWU was up one after 2 FTs with 8 seconds left. Webster inbounded and their star dribbled down the court. His teammate set a hard pick on Brady Zimmer with 4 seconds left. Zimmer fell (flopped maybe) to the floor and the ref made the call and IWU escaped and made it to the Final 4. There were a lot of chat posts on that very controversial call. Grey is such a good coach and I'm sure he designed the play in order to have a chance for the call.

With all due respect, that's not a similar call at all. That's a live ball foul, this was on an inbounds play dead-ball sitch. Every coach in the world tries to get this call, most time they set a pick on the inbound defender (if the inbound passer can run the baseline) and try to get him to run him over, it's usually so obvious a ploy that the refs don't call it. It's very unusual to get them to blow the whistle with two seconds left on an inbounds play. VERY unusual...like I said, oh well....

Quote from: Titan Q on January 30, 2016, 11:03:34 PM
Did anyone get a good look at that foul on Darius Brown with 2 seconds left?  Just seemed extremely questionable -- completely off the ball, 40 feet from the basket, 2 seconds left.

Did North Park get jobbed or was that legit??

I can only speculate but coaches run that play a lot, trying to draw that foul on an out of bounds play. I think it's the first time I've ever seen it called...oh well.

Yeah, we are seeing it at the high school level too, and when college coaches are there recruiting they are always asking about bigs. I feel like if you had a really good big man you're at a huge advantage these days, nobody has them anymore.

What's the deal with the attendance at IWU games? That place used to be packed all the time.

Quote from: WUH on November 04, 2015, 02:22:09 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on November 03, 2015, 08:30:20 PM
Yes, Elmhurst won the CCIW title that year. It's still the only CCIW men's basketball title that Elmhurst has ever won in the 62 years that that school's been in our league.

It adds an interesting element to this coming season, because it could very well end with CCIW title #2 for the Bluejays. And that would put head coach John Baines on the same level as his mentor, 2000-01 EC head coach Mark Scherer.

Thanks for answering that question.

That must have been a fun season to follow the league.

that season probably featured the greatest group of front court players the league has ever seen.