MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[AndOne]

I thought North Central was supposed to play Ric Wesley's Grand Valley State team this year. What ever became of that?

A failure to communicate.
At one point a few weeks prior to the beginning of the season, it was either told to me incorrectly that GVS was playing in NCC's season opening Holiday Inn Select tourney, or I either heard it incorrectly/partially and assumed the "Valley" portion of the school name meant GVS as I had never heard of (NAIA) Valley City State which was the team that actually participated in the tournament rather than Grand Valley State. In hindsight, the error was likely mine as the assistant coach involved swears he said VCS rather than GVS.

[dansand]

I thought North Central was supposed to play Ric Wesley's Grand Valley State team this year. What ever became of that?

A failure to communicate.
At one point a few weeks prior to the beginning of the season, it was either told to me incorrectly that GVS was playing in NCC's season opening Holiday Inn Select tourney, or I either heard it incorrectly/partially and assumed the "Valley" portion of the school name meant GVS as I had never heard of (NAIA) Valley City State which was the team that actually participated in the tournament rather than Grand Valley State. In hindsight, the error was likely mine as the assistant coach involved swears he said VCS rather than GVS.

Oh. OK. That makes sense.

[Titan Q]

Some matchup notes and links (including video) for the IWU @ Wash U game tomorrow in St. Louis...

http://www.iwuhoops.com/


Wash U's game notes (SID Chris Mitchell is as good as it gets)...

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/Sports/BasketballMen/Documents/IllinoisWesleyan.pdf

[Titan Q]

http://www.newstrib.com/articles/sports/todays-n-t-sports/default.asp?Article=24906&aname=Baxter+to+transfer%2C+but+destination+not+set

The North Dakota State announcement said that Baxter was transferring to Division III Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.

Baxter said that is inaccurate, and he has not decided on his destination.

He is making a visit to Loras on Sunday, and he will then visit Illinois Wesleyan on Monday.

"I'm kind of 50-50 at this point. There's some stuff we have to figure out at the meeting," Baxter said. "I have a great relationship with both coaches at both schools. It's definitely going to be hard to tell one of them, 'No.' I got to do what's best for me."

Baxter said that both Loras and Wesleyan will give him the chance to return to playing point guard, which is the position he played last year when he earned all-state honors and the NewsTribune Boys Basketball Player of the Year.

[jaybird44]

You are right about Chris Mitchell...I am very spoiled to have access to the voluminous notes that he and assistant Vincent Novicki generate for my consumption.

At the high school level, I often had to go on big-game stats hunting to bolster my play-by-play assignments.  Not any more.

[magicman]

It's 1:25 AM Saturday morning and North Central's Brian Evans (I think) just made a 3 pt bomb from near half court at the buzzer ending the 1st half of the Cardinals game against host D2 Hawaii-Hilo. Unfortunately it only narrowed the deficit from 18 pts to 15 pts as they go into the break down 46-31. Hawaii-Hilo made 8 triples of their own in the 1st half and maintained a double digit lead for much of the period.

[magicman]

Final from Hawaii: Hawaii-Hilo 97 North Central 87.

Here's a link to the box score:

http://hiloathletics.com/documents/2010/12/18/1217ncc.htm

[Titan Q]

Pantagraph article on IWU @ Wash U...

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/basketball/men/article_a2cac05a-0a77-11e0-a486-001cc4c002e0.html

[Wydown Blvd.]

Massey has it being a close one today at the Fieldhouse, with WashU taking the winning nod.

IWU (7-1) 66.6 WashU (4-4) 68.8 (58%)

[WUPHF]

Massey has it being a close one today at the Fieldhouse, with WashU taking the winning nod.

IWU (7-1) 66.6 WashU (4-4) 68.8 (58%)

I forgot about the old Massey predictions.  Massey also has my graduate school, Loyola Chicago taking down cross-town rival DePaul.  If Massey holds true, Christmas comes early for this basketball fan.

[augiefan]

Massey is flat out wrong. A healthy IWU team beats Wash U. by at least 6 points today.

[Titan Q]

Boxscores from the last 10 IWU/Wash U games:


2009-10 (NCAA) - http://www.iwusports.com/custompages/MBB/MBB2010/HTML/ncaa3m.htm

2009-10 - http://www.iwusports.com/custompages/MBB/MBB2010/HTML/iwumbb4.htm

2008-09 - http://www.iwusports.com/custompages/MBB/MBB2009/IWU5.HTM

2007-08 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2008/IWUMBB7.HTM

2006-07 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2007/iwumbb8.htm

2005-06 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2006/miwu6.htm

2004-05 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2005/men-03.htm

2003-04 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2004/Miwu05.htm

2002-03 (NCAA) - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2003/Miwu27.htm

2002-03 - http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2003/Miwu5.htm


A lot of All-Americans in those boxscores.  Chris Jeffries...Luke Kasten...Adam Dauksas...Keelan Amelianovich...Zach Freeman...Troy Ruths...Sean Wallis...Aaron Thompson.

Two really good NCAA Division III programs.

[Titan Q]

Massey is flat out wrong. A healthy IWU team beats Wash U. by at least 6 points today.

I think IWU will win today, but the Titans are not healthy.  They're still without starting forward Jordan Zimmer.  (I think Zimmer is dressing today for the first time, but will not play.)  Forward John Koschnitzky is back, but slowly being worked back in off the bench.  Forward Eric Dortch, who had been inserted into the rotation, is out with a hamstring.

IWU will have to defend to win today.  I think they Titans will play well this afternoon.

Some rumblings about freshman Victor Davis getting some minutes...I'd love to see that.

[WUPHF]

Massey is flat out wrong. A healthy IWU team beats Wash U. by at least 6 points today.

Or more!

I am sure Massey had WUSTL beating IWU in March too.  As I said in the UAA thread, it may take a career day from Gay, Toth and Richter to stay competitive.  Add in a career day from Knepper and Massey goes 2-0 today.  But I am not counting on it.

If you watch, you will see a much better Bears team today than what was on hand in Rock Island earlier this season though.

And, I think Sexauer had it right in the Pantagraph story when he said: "It's Wash U...we've had a battle against them every single time we played them. I don't expect anything different."

[WUPHF]

Two really good NCAA Division III programs.

I probably said this last year, but one of the things that struck me last year was seeing the two teams meet each other between practices in the hallway, the day before the game last March.

Lot's of hugs (or bro-hugs) and handshakes, laughing, etc.  Clearly lots of Chicago and Illinois high school and club relationships but also lots of respect for each other.