MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[sncdangler]

SNC a prohibitive favorite.

Not according to Massey which has IWU a 5 point favorite. Should be a great game though. Good luck to SNC. A win tonight would be a win the entire MWC would be proud of.

[GoPerry]

The On Demand of the IWU/Webster game is here - http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/iwu.portal#.


* (2:03:00) Gorkoks up 70-69 with 0:08 to play, IWU's Dylan Overstreet drives into the lane.  Webster's Adam Letter is whistled for a reaching in foul.  This one is hard to see on the video, but based on where Etter is when the call is made (on Overstreet's right hip, chasing, and reaching in), it looks like a foul. Almost simultaneously, Overstreet is contacted by Jarrod Huskey as he attempts to pass to Brady Zimmer on the right wing...Huskey is moving forward into Overstreet.  I feel pretty confident Dylan Overstreet was fouled on this play.  Overstreet makes both FTs.

No dog in the fight here.

Dylan was trying to create something, but the defense collapsed on him such that he really had no good place to go with it.  I definitely don't see that Huskey was moving forward into Overstreet, looked pretty set to me.  But that good move results in Dylan stopping and looking for something else.  The way the game was being called, one could argue that it might've been a charge- BUT I'm glad that contact went as a no call.  On Etters attempt to strip the ball, it looked fairly clean to me based solely on the view that the ball went down(which usually means the defender got mostly ball).  In any case, I didn't like the call because it resulted in a bit of a 'bailout call' in the face of good solid D.  Should have been a no call also in my opinion.

On the inbounds play, yes looked like a clear violation to me although I, like others, don't know if the specific rule gives latitude there.  I will say that I've seen that done in dozens of games, in less dire circumstances, and it's never called.  Interestingly, the same ref who didn't call that was the same ref who blew the whistle 4 secs later on

. . . the Huskey illegal screen with 4 secs, watched it several times and I don't see any evidence of Huskey not being set.  Tough to discern if Huskey's left shoulder moved, but I didn't see any sway that suggested he moved his whole body to impeded Zimmer.  Thus I don't believe that was the right call no matter what the situation, and it was unfortunate that it was called with so much on the line late in a game. 

In any case, agree that clutch foul shooting was pretty good down the stretch. 

[USee]

For PSB tonight vs Wheaton:

G - Nick "Nolte" DeLisio, 6-0/175 Jr (13.2 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.7 apg)
G - Casey "Stengel" Courneen, 5-11/165 Sr (10.2 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.1 apg)
G - Keith "Rasheed" Wallace, 6-0/180 Jr (11.1 ppg, 3.4 apg)
F - Mike "Shooter-in-the-grassy" Knoll, 6-6/210 So (6.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg)
F - Shane "Battier" Skelly, 6-9/240 Sr (11.0 ppg, 6.8 rpg)

Bench players
F - "Billy" Zane "I can't" Hackett, 6-7/215 So (9.3ppg, 6.0 rpg)
F - Wes "Vlade" Davic, 6-5/190 Fr (5.0ppg, 4.3 apg)
G - Malquan "I can" Pullium, 5-11/170 Fr(4.7 ppg, 1.3 rpg)

[veterancciwfan]

Appleton Rocks: You must still be smarting from IWU beating Lawrence in Appleton in March 2006. Regarding the officiating in the IWU/Webster game: In the last 5 minutes, practically every time a player dribble drove the lane, a foul was called on the defender. More of those late calls were on IWU than on Webster. The refs were totally consistent in the last five minutes. Victor Davis made the biggest play of the night, a "no-no don't shoot it " 3 pointer that rimmed in to give IWU a 7 point lead with about 5 minutes left. It gave IWU some much needed confidence following a 15-0 Webster run. Wheaton plays poorly on offense and still wins by 7. Too bad Rose-Hulman didn't wear green so Wheaton could have won by 30. Just hope St. Norbert doesn't play like Wheaton did last Saturday at Shirk. St. Norbert is very good. I think St. Norbert's most valuable player is junior 6'4" Andrew Schwoerer. IWU probably can't out free-throw St. Norbert (but IWU made 13 of its last 15 FTs last night), so IWU has to play good defense without fouling-very hard to do. I think IWU will pound the ball down low to Ziemnik and Davis early. Promises to be a fantastic Shirk game.   

[BunchTime]

Iwu70, why do you say Webster shouldn't out rebound IWU?  Webster is not only a more athletic team but they're also bigger.

[unanimous22]

This is becoming unwatchable...do the refs think people came to see them call fouls?

13 fouls in 8 minutes...just outright stupid.

[unanimous22]

IWU is SO much bigger than StNorbertson

[unanimous22]

Does Jordan Nelson think this is the NBA+ or something? Geez man, long bombs are not necessary.

[The Roop]

Well, they are certainly letting them play in Whitewater tonight. UWW 44 Augie 39 at the half.

[devildog29]

Is anyone else having as miserable of a time as I am with the feed tonight?  Non-stop buffering.

[oldknight]

* (2:04:40) Gorloks up 70-69 with 0:08 to play.  IWU's Dylan Overstreet makes 2 FTs.  On the in-bounds, Webster may have gotten away with a turnover.  Hunter Ward in-bounds to a player who is in-bounds heading back out-of-bounds.  He seems to catch it in the air in-bounds and land out-of-bounds.  I'm honestly not sure what the rules are on this.

--I'm not certain about my answer on the inbounds play. Technically, it's a turnover but I also know that officials seem to typically interpret it in such a way that if the first player to grab the ball after a made basket or FT was not trying to inbound it (only handing it to the player who is supposed to inbound it) then it's a judgment call by the official. If that speculation is correct, the first "pass" really wasn't a pass and can be ignored. One of my closest friends is a high school and college ref and I'll see him at church tomorrow and find out how that is ruled.

Unbelievably, and as if on cue, the precise play described above happened in the first half of the Calvin/WashU game and the official whistled a violation. Calvin's Jordan Daley grabbed the ball out of bounds on the baseline after a made basket, and delivered it to Dan Stout who was obviously headed toward the baseline in order to inbound it himself. It's common for Stout to inbound in this situation. The ref blew his whistle and signaled traveling on Stout.

Calvin leads at half 39-34.

[jtsmith231]

Wheaton destroys PSU-Behrend 68-40, but Wooster gets knocked off by Dickinson 67-64... so if Dickinson has to fly no matter what, I guess Wash U would be likely to host if they can beat Calvin?

[iwu70]

Brunch, the Titans are an experienced, tough senior-laden team with a very good rebounding advantage all year.  I think they should have outrebounded Webster . . . IMHO.  Webster played great last night, with their excellent zone against the Titans, and probably should have, deserved to win the game.  IWU pulled it out, but only by a whisker to say the least.  Webster is very talented and probably played their best game of the season @Shirk, right? 

Titans playing much better tonight, and it seems to be the Mike Marietti coming out party tonight.  Let's hope Jordan Nelson finds his stroke.  Others playing well, though the officiating is very overbearing.  With the media timeouts and this kind of officiating, these games are just becoming a series of 2-3 minute sequences, no real flow, or normal basketball games at all anymore.  Very irritating.

Hope AC can come back and win.  Wheaton has already won, right, so already in Sweet 16.

IWU70

[Titan Q]

Is anyone else having as miserable of a time as I am with the feed tonight?  Non-stop buffering.

Mine has not buffered at all.

[Titan Q]

Wheaton is a win over Dickinson away from the Elite 8.