MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

Elmhurst 85
Millikin 56

[Gregory Sager]

Colin Lake is not in uniform tonight in the Carver Center.

[iwu70]

IWU has the full range of undergraduate programs and schools -- all liberal arts (humanities, social sciences, sciences), business administration and insurance (of course!), nursing school, arts school, drama school and music school.  Also strong pre-med and pre-law programs.  All majors listed on the IWU website -- iwu.edu   Have a gander.   Some new programs in recent years -- contemporary music, risk and insurance, more international business and accounting, also now entrepreneurship and innovation within the liberal arts context etc.  New Centers too -- Action Research Center, and Center for Human Rights and Social Justice as well as an active Chapel program, service and inter-faith oriented, all doing great work.  All programs are undergrad programs.  Used to have grad programs in nursing, music and law -- but those a long ago gone, way back in the day.  In last ten years, many more international students, good range of domestic minority students.  A big improvement in diversity.  I think now 172 international students out of a total student population of about 1900.  I've worked on this actively for the past ten years or so.  Most are from China and Vietnam with a good sprinkling from about 18-20 other countries. 

Just to get Ypsi up-to-date! 

Sorry folks, for all the non-sports, non-basketball related information.  Of course, always strong in D3 sports -- during the Dennie Bridges era as AD.  This will no doubt continue. 

For your general enlightenment. 

IWU'70

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Don't private schools typically give the offspring of full-time employees (administrators, professors, and perhaps coaches) free tuition?  I know an ASL interpreter who got free tuition for her four sons at Northeastern (MA).  She and her hubby didn't give their sons a choice..."you're going to Northeastern and then you can pick a different school for graduate work."

There are arrangements made usually at most private, and public, schools. Not sure about tuition free because each school may have its own determinations. There is also a tuition agreement amongst hundreds, even thousands, of schools around the country. The longer you are in higher-education, the bigger the discount. There are different levels schools participate in which affects the discount rate.

[iwu70]

Titans up by 11 at the half in Cheeseheadland.  All undergraduates on the floor.

'70

[Gregory Sager]

Illinois Wesleyan 69
Carthage 60

[iwu70]

Yes, IWU over CC 69-60 -- good overall team effort, with even scoring by the Titans key players.  Any win on the road in the CCIW is a good win.

IWU70

[Gregory Sager]

North Central 71
Wheaton 67

[Gregory Sager]

No matter how this game turns out in the final minute, Jordan Robinson is some kind of warrior. I've just gotta say that.

[Gregory Sager]

I guess that it's not the final minute after all. There will be five more of them, at least.

[USee]

Juwan Henry is a monster. Holy Smokes.

[Gregory Sager]

Overtime final from the QC

Augustana 95
North Park 92

Joe Biko -- the right guy to take the shot -- missed a trey with five seconds left that would've sent the game to second overtime.

[Gregory Sager]

Augustana 95, North Park 92 (OT)

Jordan Robinson: 34 pts (12-18 FG, 2-3 trey, 8-11 FT)
Juwan Henry: 25 pts (2-4 trey)
Armahn Mooring: 11 pts (3-5 trey)
T.J. Cobbs: 7 rebs

Hunter Hill: 18 pts, 7:0 a:to
Jawan Straughter: 15 pts, 5:2 a:to
Griffin Pils: 13 pts, 3:1 a:to
Brandon Motzel: 13 pts
Tayvian Johnson: 12 pts, 17 rebs, 3 stls
Ben Ryan: 11 pts, 14 rebs
Dylan Sortillo: 10 pts

NPU lost a heartbreaker tonight. Once Jordan Robinson fouled out a minute and eleven seconds into overtime, I figured that the game was over. It sure seemed that way, as Augie then built up a lead as big as eight points with 1:14 left in the extra session. But NPU didn't give up, and actually put itself into a position to tie the game and send it into a second OT -- mostly thanks to Juwan Henry reprising his 28-foot bombs in OT against Carthage on Wednesday with two just like them from about the same distance at :33 and :14. But Biko was unable to can the trey that would've done the trick.

Both teams, amazingly enough, had chances to win the game in the final three seconds of regulation. Armahn Mooring, who was terrific tonight for NPU, went to the line with the game tied at 75. He made the first and then missed the second. After an Augie timeout, Darius Brown ran over Jawan Straughter on a screen at midcourt on the inbounds pass, sending Straughter to the line with the chance to win it for Augie. He, in turn, made the first and missed the second, causing overtime.

As tough as it was to see Mooring miss that FT, the bigger problem as I see it is that North Park missed all three of its front ends of one-and-one opportunities, all of them within the final six minutes of regulation. Of the 12 free throws that NPU missed tonight (in 37 attempts), those hurt every bit as much as did the Mooring miss with two seconds left.

Jordan Robinson was amazing. Augie would send two or three guys at him every time that he got the ball down low, and he still somehow managed to squeeze through Augie defenders and make shots. He does a better job of making himself skinny -- if that's a legitimate basketball concept -- down in the paint than any CCIW player I've seen since Jason Wiertel. He was also knocking down jumpers left and right, forcing the Doggies to guard him honestly. Juwan Henry was quiet most of the night (give credit to Straughter for that, as he played very good defense on the Park's star), but he really got it going late, particularly in overtime.

Augie was hesitant and a little on the static side throughout most of the second half, but the senior discipline of the Doggies once more took hold late. Time and time again they held the ball just long enough for NPU's overplaying defense to commit, then made the pass for the easy bucket.

The good stat is that NPU managed to shoot over 50% from the field against what is traditionally the stingiest defense in the league, and the Vikes forced 16 turnovers against a team that prides itself upon its ball control. The bad stat is that Augie slaughtered the Park on the boards by a whopping 50-29 margin. If time of possession was a basketball stat, this game would've looked like what the Augie football stats used to be when Bob Reade's Augie teams ran the Wing-T back in the '80s.

This loss is a real disappointment. But North Park fans have every right to be proud of the way that their team played tonight, especially with Colin Lake and his 13 ppg and his Jack Russell Terrier defense sitting on the bench in street clothes.

[Titan Q]

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??

[Titan Q]

NPU needs overtime at home to beat woeful Carthage...and then the very next game takes #2-Augie to OT in Rock Island.

I guess that's basketball.