MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Titan Q]

(Updated 4/18)

IBCA all-staters heading to Division III schools...


3A/4A team

* Victor Davis (6-5 F, Galesburg), 3rd team - Illinois Wesleyan

* Alan Aboona (6-1 PG, St. Viator), 4th team - Washington U.

* Chris Klimek (6-5 F, Fremd), 4th team - Washington U.

* Kevin Bischoff (6-1 PG, Normal), Special Mention - Washington U.

* Joe LaTulip (5-10 PG, Prospect), Special Mention - Illinois Wesleyan

* Nick Bauch (6-7 F/C, Rockford Boylan), Honorable Mention - Carthage

* Josh Rappaport (6-3 F, Grayslake Central), Honorable Mention - St. Norbert


1A/2A team

* Brady Zimmer (6-4 G, Delavan), 1st team - Illinois Wesleyan

* Scott Suchy (6-1 G, Genoa-Kingston), 3rd team - Carthage

* Tyler Mitchell (6-2 G, Ziegler-Royalton), Honorable Mention - Greenville



Please let me know who I am missing and I'll update.

[BlueJay21]

A few weeks ago I posted about an upcoming change in the coaching ranks within the CCIW similar to Steve Schafer's leaving North Park for Benedictine this past season. I believe the details of this situation may shake out on Monday.

Could this coaching move be Dan "Digger" Doyle leaving Elmhurst for Cornell College in Iowa? I dunno if this is the one you are talking about, but Coach Doyle is leaving the Bluejays. I consider myself lucky to have gotten the chance to play for him and also to consider him a friend after my playing days. He is a great young coach who works extremely hard at what he does. He will definitely be missed by everyone at Elmhurst.

[AndOne]

A few weeks ago I posted about an upcoming change in the coaching ranks within the CCIW similar to Steve Schafer's leaving North Park for Benedictine this past season. I believe the details of this situation may shake out on Monday.

Could this coaching move be Dan "Digger" Doyle leaving Elmhurst for Cornell College in Iowa? I dunno if this is the one you are talking about, but Coach Doyle is leaving the Bluejays. I consider myself lucky to have gotten the chance to play for him and also to consider him a friend after my playing days. He is a great young coach who works extremely hard at what he does. He will definitely be missed by everyone at Elmhurst.

Yes.
I believe Digger officially starts at Cornell today joining the staff of Head Coach Chad Murray as Murray's top assistant. This is a step up from his #3 position at Elmhurst.
Murray, of course, was the top assistant at North Central from 04-05 through 08-09. Digger played for North Central from 02 through 05, and served there as a student assistant coach in 05-06. He was then hired by Mark Scherer at Elmhurst beginning with the 06-07 season. The move to Cornell seems to be a rather natural fit. As Ryan said above, Digger is a great guy/coach who Cornell is lucky to get.   

[AndOne]

Augustana is getting 6-8/275 Kevin Schlitter from Maine South.  He suffered a torn ACL during the preseason and did not play at all this past season.
 
http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/sports/2010/04/happy_ending_after_all_maine_s.html

http://www.joyofthegame.com/Leagues/HSExposure_80_3643971313.pdf

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/norridge/sports/highschools/1961693,norridge-msschlitter-123109-s1.article

Good thing for Augie. After all, as they have no height returning next year, they needed abother big badly.     

[AndOne]

Wesleyan "recruit"

CCIW followers and Wesleyan fans in particular may be interested in the story of a new "recruit."

Please note that some of the details of this story may well be a bit sketchy, but I'm quite sure I have the major points correct

It seems this young man, a very good 6'4" basketball player whose stats this past season included marks of 11.9 ppg and 3.6 rpg, is an even better baseball player who currently sports a .538 batting average while splitting his diamond time between 1B and RF. It seems he was initially contacted by the Wesleyan baseball coach last summer.
However, late last summer or early last fall, he was apparently offered a D1 baseball scholarship. As it was widely assumed he would accept this baseball offer, he was not actively further pursued, either for baseball, OR basketball. 

However, as time passed last fall and early in the winter, 2 things became evident. First, he wasn't that interested in the school that offered him for baseball, and, while he might be a better baseball player than basketball, he really preferred playing basketball in college. Accordingly, North Central became very interested and conducted a strong recruiting effort throughout the basketball season. The young man liked NCC, and recognized the opportunity he would have to earn meaningful playing time there next season due to NCC's graduating 9 seniors over the last 2 seasons, the 9 having played the overwhelming majority of minutes over that time. His parents also were fond of North Central as they felt it afforded their son the opportunity for both an outstanding academic experience, and a real opportunity to earn playing time on the basketball court. Accordingly, they looked forward to his enrollment at NCC. The only problem with this is that while the recruit indicated he felt he would rather play basketball, and recognized NCC afforded him a wonderful opportunity to do so sooner rather than later, he felt an overwhelming desire to "get out of town" and not attend college in the town where he has lived his entire life, or close to it. This is not unusual, and we have all seen kids voice this desire when making a college choice. In conjunction with this desire, and knowing of Wesleyan's prior contact for baseball, I believe his HS coach made a couple of calls resulting in his talking further with both the Wesleyan baseball coach and then also with basketball coach Ron Rose. While he realizes the chance to earn playing time, at least in basketball, would be greater at NCC, he will be attending Wesleyan where he will evidently play baseball for sure, and will also explore the possibility of playing basketball.

It seems that if he lived anywhere else besides Naperville he would be attending North Central. However, because he does live in Naperville, he'll instead fulfill his wish to attend school in a different locale.

Accordingly, Wesleyan will be getting an outstanding athlete in Bobby Czarnowski from Naperville Central. Again, it looks like he'll be playing baseball for sure, and quite possibly will also be a member of the Titan basketball team.
Going beyond his athletic prowess, Bobby is a great guy, and his parents, Bob & Pam, are 1st class         

[Titan Q]

Wesleyan "recruit"

CCIW followers and Wesleyan fans in particular may be interested in the story of a new "recruit."

Please note that some of the details of this story may well be a bit sketchy, but I'm quite sure I have the major points correct

It seems this young man, a very good 6'4" basketball player whose stats this past season included marks of 11.9 ppg and 3.6 rpg, is an even better baseball player who currently sports a .538 batting average while splitting his diamond time between 1B and RF. It seems he was initially contacted by the Wesleyan baseball coach last summer.
However, late last summer or early last fall, he was apparently offered a D1 baseball scholarship. As it was widely assumed he would accept this baseball offer, he was not actively further pursued, either for baseball, OR basketball. 

However, as time passed last fall and early in the winter, 2 things became evident. First, he wasn't that interested in the school that offered him for baseball, and, while he might be a better baseball player than basketball, he really preferred playing basketball in college. Accordingly, North Central became very interested and conducted a strong recruiting effort throughout the basketball season. The young man liked NCC, and recognized the opportunity he would have to earn meaningful playing time there next season due to NCC's graduating 9 seniors over the last 2 seasons, the 9 having played the overwhelming majority of minutes over that time. His parents also were fond of North Central as they felt it afforded their son the opportunity for both an outstanding academic experience, and a real opportunity to earn playing time on the basketball court. Accordingly, they looked forward to his enrollment at NCC. The only problem with this is that while the recruit indicated he felt he would rather play basketball, and recognized NCC afforded him a wonderful opportunity to do so sooner rather than later, he felt an overwhelming desire to "get out of town" and not attend college in the town where he has lived his entire life, or close to it. This is not unusual, and we have all seen kids voice this desire when making a college choice. In conjunction with this desire, and knowing of Wesleyan's prior contact for baseball, I believe his HS coach made a couple of calls resulting in his talking further with both the Wesleyan baseball coach and then also with basketball coach Ron Rose. While he realizes the chance to earn playing time, at least in basketball, would be greater at NCC, he will be attending Wesleyan where he will evidently play baseball for sure, and will also explore the possibility of playing basketball.

It seems that if he lived anywhere else besides Naperville he would be attending North Central. However, because he does live in Naperville, he'll instead fulfill his wish to attend school in a different locale.

Accordingly, Wesleyan will be getting an outstanding athlete in Bobby Czarnowski from Naperville Central. Again, it looks like he'll be playing baseball for sure, and quite possibly will also be a member of the Titan basketball team.
Going beyond his athletic prowess, Bobby is a great guy, and his parents, Bob & Pam, are 1st class         

Thanks for the scoop.  I do not follow IWU baseball recruiting at all, so I have never heard this name.  Sounds like Dennis Martel got a good one.

[Titan Q]

Links to the IBCA all-state teams...

1A/2A team

3A/4A team


Here are kids from the IBCA teams heading to Division III schools that I'm aware of...I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.  Please post if you know any and I'll keep the list updated...


* Victor Davis (Galesburg), 3A/4A 3rd team - Illinois Wesleyan

* Chris Klimek (Fremd), 3A/4A 4th team - Washington U.

* Joe LaTulip (Prospect), 3A/4A Special Mention - Illinois Wesleyan

* Tyler Mitchell (Ziegler-Royalton), 1A/2A Honorable Mention - Greenville

* Scott Suchy (Genoa-Kingston), 1A/2A 3rd team - Carthage

* Brady Zimmer (Delavan), 1A/2A 1st team - Illinois Wesleyan

In response to this post, I received an e-mail stating that 1A/2A 1st teamer Taylor Baxter (Fieldcrest H.S.) is learning towards Division III Loras.  Let me first stress that I cannot confirm this.  But if true, this would be big for Loras, as Baxter has not only been recruited extremely hard by a lot of CCIW schools, but he has had several NAIA, D2, and even low D1 teams talking to him.  This from January...

Baxter is on the radar screen of a number of schools at varying levels. "I'm still talking to North Dakota State, Northern Arizona, Tennessee-Martin, Eastern Illinois, and Evansville as of late. Division two schools that I'm still talking to are Lewis, Southwest Minnesota State, Ashland, and Illinois-Springfield. Division three schools are all over the place right now, I really like Elmhurst and Loras, and Augustana is still in the mix," said Baxter.

http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/taylorbaxter2.html


Now, that said, I've heard he is visiting Elmhurst today...so Loras is obviously not a done deal.

We'll see.

A DI offer now for Taylor Baxter...

http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/tbaxter.html

[Titan Q]

Illinois Wesleyan received a big commitment yesterday.  Jordan Steinbrueck will be a Titan, selecting IWU over U. of Missouri and U. of Illinois.

A big get for the Titans.  A bad get for Coach Stein's wallet. 


http://www.uhigh.ilstu.edu/clarionette/2009-2010%20Clarionette/Photos/2-8%20yue%20bball.htm

[Hardwood]

I've never heard of him.

[Titan Q]

Kevin Schlitter article...

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/parkridge/sports/highschools/2178862,park-ridge-schlitter-042210-s1.article

[Titan Q]

Augustana getting P.J. Killean, a 6-3 guard from Maine South (10.6 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 4.1 apg, 2.1 spg).

http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/sports/2010/04/third_hoops_hawk_to_sign.html

[Titan Q]

(Updated 4/21)

IBCA all-staters heading to Division III schools...


3A/4A team

* Victor Davis (6-5 F, Galesburg), 3rd team - Illinois Wesleyan

* Alan Aboona (6-1 PG, St. Viator), 4th team - Washington U.

* Chris Klimek (6-5 F, Fremd), 4th team - Washington U.

* Kevin Bischoff (6-1 PG, Normal), Special Mention - Washington U.

* P.J. Killean (6-3 G, Maine South), Special Mention - Augustana

* Joe LaTulip (5-10 PG, Prospect), Special Mention - Illinois Wesleyan

* Nick Bauch (6-7 F/C, Rockford Boylan), Honorable Mention - Carthage

* Josh Rappaport (6-3 F, Grayslake Central), Honorable Mention - St. Norbert


1A/2A team

* Brady Zimmer (6-4 G, Delavan), 1st team - Illinois Wesleyan

* Scott Suchy (6-1 G, Genoa-Kingston), 3rd team - Carthage

* Tyler Mitchell (6-2 G, Ziegler-Royalton), Honorable Mention - Greenville



Please let me know who I am missing and I'll update.

[coebball70]

I noticed where 3 very successful D3 coaches have retired or are moving to new roles.  Here's a question to those who probably know ... Greg or Bob ... is there a list of active D3 coaches ranked by career winning percentage?  This is to determine the winner of an important bet.  I said the coach of Buena Vista is either #1, 2 or 3 on the list.  Has Hope determined their new coach?
Thanks, in advance, for taking the time to reply.

[Gregory Sager]

I noticed where 3 very successful D3 coaches have retired or are moving to new roles.  Here's a question to those who probably know ... Greg or Bob ... is there a list of active D3 coaches ranked by career winning percentage?  This is to determine the winner of an important bet.  I said the coach of Buena Vista is either #1, 2 or 3 on the list.

You win the bet. I hope that it was for a lot of money! Here's the link to the list you wanted; it's on page 162.

Brian Van Haaften of Buena Vista is currently the second-ranked active coach in D3 in terms of career winning percentage, trailing only Don Lofton of Mississippi College.

Has Hope determined their new coach?

Not yet.

[tyler durden]

Sam Savaglio, a 6-foot-1 guard from Kenosha Tremper is heading to Augustana.

He was a first-team All-Southeast Conference and first-team All-Kenosha County selection.

Senior season -- 12.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.0 assists, shot 79 percent from the free-throw line (64-of-81). He scored 753 career points.