MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[LU_nut]

augie

hoping they would make an exception for the tourney.......

[Brick]

I would too, however it is a student radio station...thats quite a trip for some students to go and broadcast a game.

[augie_superfan]

I believe that it was posted a few days ago that WONC will be broadcasting and will have a pre-game show starting about 30-45 minutes before the game

[augie_superfan]

Here is the post...

WONC will have live coverage from St. Paul beginning at 6:40pm with the Cardinal Chase for the Championship pre-game show. Tip-off at 7. The link is www.wonc.org.

P.S. I'm not too pleased with the NCAA about all the traveling I personally have to do now, but it's exciting to cover a tourney team so I won't complain (too much anyway).

[LU_nut]

thanks augie superfan.  Still a little confused as why the wonc website does not show it.  I will try and listen in.  Good luck to NCC.

Nut

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Wonc radio, that's a catchy name.  "You're listening to the Wonk!"

I like it.

[Knightstalker]

There is just something funny about Nut listening to the Wonc.     In fact Nut should have a show on Wonc.

[Brick]

Maybe this has been gone over, but does anyone know if NCC left today for the game tonight or if they stayed the night up in St Paul?  I would hope they went up last night, because that would be hell to travel that long and then play a game the same night. 

[Gregory Sager]

(That's gotta be some sort of record, 3-Time All-American that played JV his first year.)

Michael Harper of North Park did the exact same thing. He was exclusively a JV player during his freshman year, then a three-time All-American (and three-time CCIW MOP) as a sophomore, junior, and senior.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

(That's gotta be some sort of record, 3-Time All-American that played JV his first year.)

Michael Harper of North Park did the exact same thing. He was exclusively a JV player during his freshman year, then a three-time All-American (and three-time CCIW MOP) as a sophomore, junior, and senior.

Well, you stand corrected, TBF.

[Dennis_Prikkel]

(That's gotta be some sort of record, 3-Time All-American that played JV his first year.)

Michael Harper of North Park did the exact same thing. He was exclusively a JV player during his freshman year, then a three-time All-American (and three-time CCIW MOP) as a sophomore, junior, and senior.

Actually Dan McCarrell tried to start Harper at Elmhurst late in his freshman year, but he fainted just minutes before the game during warmups.  Harper appeared in a number of varsity games as a freshman, and as the season progressed so did his playing time.  As a freshman he was 6-6 and weighed 150 pounds.  He didn't have a lot of stamina.  After his freshman year he grew 3 more inches, but it was always a struggle to get more weight on him.

A similar scenario happened the next year prior to the NCAA semi-final game versus Albion.  Harper was very woozy, and did not warm up.  I had to walk him all over Carver Fieldhouse.  He started, but did nothing for the first ten minutes but run up and down the court.  His first shot of the game at the ten minute mark was a turn around baseline jumper, which he swished and RI Argus columnist Murray Hanks commented in his game story that the game really commenced when Harper took that shot.

MW

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

(That's gotta be some sort of record, 3-Time All-American that played JV his first year.)

Michael Harper of North Park did the exact same thing. He was exclusively a JV player during his freshman year, then a three-time All-American (and three-time CCIW MOP) as a sophomore, junior, and senior.

Actually Dan McCarrell tried to start Harper at Elmhurst late in his freshman year, but he fainted just minutes before the game during warmups.  Harper appeared in a number of varsity games as a freshman, and as the season progressed so did his playing time.  As a freshman he was 6-6 and weighed 150 pounds.  He didn't have a lot of stamina.  After his freshman year he grew 3 more inches, but it was always a struggle to get more weight on him.

A similar scenario happened the next year prior to the NCAA semi-final game versus Albion.  Harper was very woozy, and did not warm up.  I had to walk him all over Carver Fieldhouse.  He started, but did nothing for the first ten minutes but run up and down the court.  His first shot of the game at the ten minute mark was a turn around baseline jumper, which he swished and RI Argus columnist Murray Hanks commented in his game story that the game really commenced when Harper took that shot.

MW

Now we all stand corrected.

[Brick]

Dennis comes through again....

[Gregory Sager]

I hadn't heard that Harps appeared in any varsity games as a freshman, although his freshman fainting spells due to his hyperactive metabolism and rapid growth rate are a part of his legend at NPU.

(The man had the metabolism of a hummingbird. When I was a freshman and he was a senior, I'd see him spend an hour in the dining hall every night, putting away one tray of food after another, washing it all down with countless glasses of milk with protein mix stirred in. And every pizza delivery guy north of Belmont Avenue from the airport to the lake knew him by name. The linemen on the football team couldn't hold a candle to Harps when it came to caloric intake. And yet he never seemed to gain an ounce.)

I'd always been told that he was strictly a JV player as a freshman. Did he get anything more substantial than garbage minutes at the end of games, Dennis? Amelianovich got garbage time in several varsity games as a freshman for Illinois Wesleyan as well.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I swear he once ate three whole chickens smothered in crisco and then asked for more.