MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[NCF]

Unless you think it inappropriate to name kids with OT names... (David, Joseph, Jacob, Aaron, Adam, Jonathan, Benjamin, Caleb, Seth, Jesse, Rachel, Naomi, Samuel, Michael, I could go on!)

Nope not at all

[Titan Q]

As a parent of one of those track athletes I feel no sympathy for you losing your hoops site. These tracksters have been preparing for this since last summer.

Clem, good luck to Tara!

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/track-and-field/no-seed-clemens-among-national-track-qualifiers/article_ddaa2f20-86cc-11e2-8f34-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true

[NCF]

...there are few things in life that are more satisfying than when NPU North Central beats WC at something. The mere thought of downcast Wheaton fans shuffling slowly out of a stadium or gym after a loss to dear ol' NPU  North Central  :)just makes me light up like a Christmas tree.

sorry, I couldn't resist BTW, I'm sure Wheaton fans feel the same towards North Central.

Pfft. Your beef with them involves one sport and a silly bell. Our beef with them involves everything from theology to socioeconomics to divided families and churches (Hi, Mugsy! Whazzup, matblake?) to the basic theory behind Christian higher education to the fact that NPU's parent denomination came perilously close at one point in the late nineteenth century to entrusting the training of its future preachers -- a huge part of the raison d'etre for North Park -- to Wheaton College.

I've told this story before, but a few years ago, on the first day of New Student Orientation at NPU, there was a large sign taped to the footbridge across the Chicago River in the middle of campus that read, "Thank You For Not Choosing Wheaton". I will bet all of the corn in Manito -- and all of the pea soup in Skokie -- that nobody's ever posted a sign like that at North Central. Or ever will. Or has ever even thought about it.

au contraire mon frere-I like it when the Wheaties lose to the Redbirds in any sport . The one and only exception to that rule would be if a Wheatie runner is ahead of an Augie runner-then I root for the Wheatie    Since you mentioned it-a sign like that would look great draped across Chicago/Maple Avenue-just as you pass the first buildings on campus! What sight that must have been!!

[NCF]

As a parent of one of those track athletes I feel no sympathy for you losing your hoops site. These tracksters have been preparing for this since last summer.

Clem, good luck to Tara!

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/track-and-field/no-seed-clemens-among-national-track-qualifiers/article_ddaa2f20-86cc-11e2-8f34-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true

I'll 2nd that-looking forward to watching the 4X4.

[Just Bill]

Unless you think it inappropriate to name kids with OT names... (David, Joseph, Jacob, Aaron, Adam, Jonathan, Benjamin, Caleb, Seth, Jesse, Rachel, Naomi, Samuel, Michael, I could go on!)

Nope not at all

Before I went back and read the previous page, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what defined an Overtime name.

[NCF]

Unless you think it inappropriate to name kids with OT names... (David, Joseph, Jacob, Aaron, Adam, Jonathan, Benjamin, Caleb, Seth, Jesse, Rachel, Naomi, Samuel, Michael, I could go on!)

Nope not at all

Before I went back and read the previous page, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what defined an Overtime name.

Johnny "come lately" could be one thanks for the laugh +K

[markerickson]

Basketball is not a sport whose past is as richly chronicled and celebrated in America as, say, baseball, so a lot of people aren't aware of the fact that the sport was once dominated by Jewish players.

http://www.aish.com/ci/a/48931287.html

That is one reason why I wrote that Jews were missing from today's squad.

[AndOne]

NCC has to prepare to do battle with a UWW roster full of stars including:

Luke "Walton" Knoble
Eric "Snow" Bryson
Quardell "Only the good die" Young
Darnell "Devin" Harris
Alex "English" Merg

And off the bench:

KJ "Tyreke" Evans, Patrick "Ewing" Souter, Reggie "Miller-Chick" Hearn, Cody "Zeller" Odegaard

a balanced and deep squad to say the least.

And NCC will counter with a starting lineup of:

Vince "Vinsanity" Kmiec
Derek "Fisher" Raridon
"Michael" Landon Gamble
Patrick "Ewing" Rourke
Aaron "Gray" Tiknis

and off the bench:

Charlie "Villanueva" Rosenberg
Jack "The Ripper" Burchett
Brandon "Deron" Williams
"Jarrett" Jack Merrithey

equally imposing

[John Gleich]

Just saw this posted on the Harvard Sports Analysis website:

http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/the-best-home-court-advantage-youve-never-heard-about/

The discussion is about Jadwin Gymnasium at Princeton. As noted in the article, on both ends of the court, there is no shooting background (like in the Hangar at NC).


According to the analysis, there is statistical significance (at least at Princeton). By inference, one could confer this same significane to the Gregory as well... and so the movement of the game to the Rice Center at Benedictine may negate some or all of the home court advantage that NCC would have had in this game.

[AndOne]

Hopefully the Cardinals practicing at Benedictie's Rice Center all week will help maintain that "home court" advantage.

Actually, I sense the winner of the game between the D3Hoops #3 and #5 ranked teams will come down to 3 things that often tip the balance of a basketball game one way or the other:

1. DEFENSE---The Cards come in with the 9th best scoring defense in the country, allowing opponents only 57.9 ppg. They must continue to employ this brand of tenacious help defense tomorrow night. If you had to pick the one facet of the game most responsible for the Cardinals 25-3 record so far this season it would be DEFENSE!

2. TAKE CARE OF THE BALL---Winning the TO battle will go a long way in determining the game winner. Throw the ball to someone wearing the same color shirt---and do it now!

3. MAKE YOUR OWN BREAKS---The Cards need to bring mental as well as physical toughness. If the ball is on the floor or on the boards the mindset needs to be "its my ball, and he can't have it." Dive on the floor, and block out and get up and get the ball need to be the modus operandi. Get a hand up on defense, move your feet, and no silly fouls 30 feet from the basket.

First team to 71 wins?

* The Cards fellow students can also play a large supporting role tomorrow night. Rather than just stepping out of their dorms, and rolling down the hill to the gym, they need to make the 3 mile trip east down Chicago/Maple Ave en masse. Things don't start hopping in downtown Naperville until 10:00 anyway. 

[Gregory Sager]

...there are few things in life that are more satisfying than when NPU North Central beats WC at something. The mere thought of downcast Wheaton fans shuffling slowly out of a stadium or gym after a loss to dear ol' NPU  North Central  :)just makes me light up like a Christmas tree.

sorry, I couldn't resist BTW, I'm sure Wheaton fans feel the same towards North Central.

Pfft. Your beef with them involves one sport and a silly bell. Our beef with them involves everything from theology to socioeconomics to divided families and churches (Hi, Mugsy! Whazzup, matblake?) to the basic theory behind Christian higher education to the fact that NPU's parent denomination came perilously close at one point in the late nineteenth century to entrusting the training of its future preachers -- a huge part of the raison d'etre for North Park -- to Wheaton College.

I've told this story before, but a few years ago, on the first day of New Student Orientation at NPU, there was a large sign taped to the footbridge across the Chicago River in the middle of campus that read, "Thank You For Not Choosing Wheaton". I will bet all of the corn in Manito -- and all of the pea soup in Skokie -- that nobody's ever posted a sign like that at North Central. Or ever will. Or has ever even thought about it.

au contraire mon frere-I like it when the Wheaties lose to the Redbirds in any sport . The one and only exception to that rule would be if a Wheatie runner is ahead of an Augie runner-then I root for the Wheatie 

See, there's the difference. In a multiple-team situation a Parker will always root against the Wheatie rather than against somebody from a different team, without exception. (Of course, the fact that NPU doesn't do well in the running sports means that we're never compelled to root for a Wheaton athlete. )

Since you mentioned it-a sign like that would look great draped across Chicago/Maple Avenue-just as you pass the first buildings on campus! What sight that must have been!!

... except that it wouldn't make any sense, as I doubt that there's many high school students who consider both Wheaton and North Central among their college choices. Now, NPU and Wheaton, on the other hand, get a lot of common applicants, especially among Covenant kids. Yours truly is one of them; North Park and Wheaton were my final two choices when I was a high school senior. I know lots of NPU alumni who also applied to Wheaton, and I know a few Wheaton alumni who also applied to NPU. That's a big part of what spices up the rivalry in the minds of Parkers -- the fact that there's a big overlap in the constituencies of the two schools. That's not only true in terms of students, it's also true in terms of donors. The late construction contractor and real-estate mogul A. Harold Anderson (the man responsible for Woodfield Mall, among other things) donated both the money that built Anderson Chapel at NPU and the money that built Anderson Commons at Wheaton.

Basketball is not a sport whose past is as richly chronicled and celebrated in America as, say, baseball, so a lot of people aren't aware of the fact that the sport was once dominated by Jewish players.

http://www.aish.com/ci/a/48931287.html

That is one reason why I wrote that Jews were missing from today's squad.

Of course, most of us remember that the entire starting lineup of the 2004-05 Glenbrook North team that won the state title was Jewish (depending, of course, upon how you define Jewishness; Jon Scheyer, for example, does not have a Jewish mother). The American Jewish community made a big deal out of that Glenbrook North team; it got a lot of copy in the Jewish media both here and in Israel, another country that takes basketball very seriously.

[WUPHF]

Of course, most of us remember that the entire starting lineup of the 2004-05 Glenbrook North team that won the state title was Jewish [...]

Thank God for that team. 

[Gregory Sager]

Of course, most of us remember that the entire starting lineup of the 2004-05 Glenbrook North team that won the state title was Jewish [...]

Thank God G_d for that team. 

Fixed it for you.

[havej]

And One - I'd bet neither NCC or UWW gets to 71.  Best guess is a mid 50s to low 60s scoring game. 

[Gregory Sager]

NCC gives up 58 ppg on average. UWW gives up 60. I tend to agree with havej that neither team's gonna make it to 71.