MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

North Central 92
Albion 78

Albion led for most of the first half, and the game was still tied at halftime, but NCC woke up and ran away with it in the second half. Amazing game by Connor Raridon, who had 36 points and an 8:2 a:to.

[iwumichigander]

There is a general misunderstanding of endowments among the public, but as for the d3boards.com audience, you might be surprised.  The topic comes up a lot.

My guess is that Emory has a development officer that focuses heavily on athletics as the larger advancement offices do want to appeal to broadly to the interests of the donors.  And, a lot of wealthy old men love varsity athletics.

Emory has run of the mill technology (i.e. one camera) and a good broadcaster that certainly do cost money.  My contention based entirely on a guess was that Emory could not possibly make enough money to account for the short and long-term trade-offs.

If I were an Emory coach, athletic staff, or fundraiser, I would give out the codes left and right.  Perspective students-athletes, families, and any potential donors would be invited to watch the high definition stream.

It would be interesting to know how much schools do bring in through the paywalls, but the fact that so few schools do it makes me think the answer is minimal.

This.

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The people put in charge of endowments are tasked with NOT SPENDING THE ENDOWMENT.

Not entirely accurate but I take your meaning.  Generally, the staff who invests the endowment funds are not the ones who set the annual spend rate (i.e. 5%/yr ). 

Their goal is for it to continuously grow, they don't allow it to be pilfered for anything outside of emergencies or large capital expenditures (aka construction of campus buildings which cost tens of millions of dollars). When given a choice between cutting operating budget or dipping into endowments, schools will cut operating budget almost every time.

This is definitely true.  In fact, most endowment funds by law can't be  just dipped into at will by the administrators because they want to build something or spend more on something.

I'm not denying any of that. I'm well aware of how schools treat their endowment money. But at some point it reaches a reductio ad absurdum. I mean, six point four billion dollars is six point four billion dollars. That's more than the GDP of 59 countries.

Emory can afford to stream its sporting events for free.

0.001% of $6.4 B would likely fund the free video feed with change left over for free popcorn

[iwu70]

Glad to see the Titans bounce back after the disaster vs. Wash U.  Brady Rose coming back to form with 25, Knoblach getting his first start in place of Coleman.  Beasley doing his thing, along with O'Neill, on the boards.  UC hung around, but the Titans closed it out.  Titans 8-2 -- not a bad first 10 games.  Hoping for two Ws in Atlanta.  Augie comes to play at home in early January. 

An important win.

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

North Central 92
Albion 78

Albion led for most of the first half, and the game was still tied at halftime, but NCC woke up and ran away with it in the second half. Amazing game by Connor Raridon, who had 36 points and an 8:2 a:to.

The mind blowing part is that Connor went 12-15 from the floor, and it wasn't all layups either. He was hitting everything tonight.

Downfall of this game: 48 fouls between the two teams. Upside of this game: Todd Raridon became the 13th active head coach in D3 to reach 500 career wins.

[Gregory Sager]

Beasley doing his thing, along with O'Neill, on the boards.

Boy, somebody ought to teach O'Neill how to make a layup.

The Titans did a phenomenal job tonight on Jake Fenlon. The senior Chicago star was averaging 20 ppg and shooting about 42% or so from behind the arc, and the Titans just erased him completely from the game. He fouled out with five points, and went 0-6 from downtown. In general, the IWU defensive policy of double-teaming the ball on the perimeter really worked well tonight at throwing the Maroons off of their rhythm. They never looked comfortable on any of their long-range shots.

Chicago looked like it was trying to make a run in the last seven or eight minutes, but the Maroons are perennially a terrible FT shooting team (.637 coming into the game, .500 tonight) -- and it's hard to come back when you can't cut into a lead when the clock isn't moving.

[Gregory Sager]

When even Spencer Peterson hits a trey, you kinda suspect that it might be Wheaton's night.

[GoPerry]

The Thunder desperately trying to make it a clean CCIW sweep tonight.  Up 41-36 on Whitworth at the half.  I'm not sure Wheaton will have enough fouls among their forwards to give out.  Samuelson 0-4 from trey.

[Gregory Sager]

The Thunder desperately trying to make it a clean CCIW sweep tonight.  Up 41-36 on Whitworth at the half.  I'm not sure Wheaton will have enough fouls among their forwards to give out.

Yeah, we've even had a Mark Champion sighting.

Wheaton is definitely beating Whitworth in the hustle category.

[(509)Rat]

Wheaton moved the ball real well offensively. Made the Pirates look totally lost on defense for 70-80% of the game. Whitworth couldn't buy a basket tonight. It didn't matter if they were 2 ft or 22 ft from the basket, and not necessarily because they were contested shot. Less than 60% from the FT line when you got there 30 times and 19% from 3 ain't gonna cut it.

[Gregory Sager]

Wheaton 92
Whitworth 84

[Gregory Sager]

Wheaton had by far the most impressive win in the CCIW tonight, and the Sonic Atmospheric Disturbance did it with sheer effort. For all the jeremiads about Wheaton rebounding that we've read here from the Orange and Blue faithful, their team really came up big on the boards tonight, ending the game with a +6 in that category. And Wheaton found a way to win even though Aston Francis and Ricky Samuelson went a combined 11-34 from the field (3-19 from downtown). Indeed, how many times has Spencer Peterson ever made more treys in a game than Samuelson has?

But Francis played a terrific floor game, dishing out nine assists, mostly to the likes of Kobe Eichelberger and Peterson for easy buckets underneath the basket. And Jay Spencer really played well tonight. In fact, his tip dunk off of a missed Francis trey attempt was the highlight of the night in the CCIW.

Make no mistake about it, Wheaton earned this win tonight. Kudos to them.

[gordonmann]

Completely agree. Very impressive team effort and win over a balanced Whitworth squad.

That's Whitworth's first non-conference regular-season loss since Nov. 22, 2014 when St. Thomas beat them.

[GoPerry]

Wheaton 92
Whitworth 84

Aston Francis      21 pts, 6 rebs, 9 assts, 3 stls
Spencer Peterson   19 pts, 6-8 FG, 6-6 FT
Jay Spencer      11 rebs, 2 blks
Ricky Samuelson, Kobe Eichelberger  13 pts each

Jordan Lester      24 pts, 4 rebs, 5 stls
Kyle Roach      21 pts, 4 rebs
Garrett Hull      11 pts, 9 rebs
Jared Christy      10 pts, 8 rebs


Massive win by Wheaton in Spokane tonight.  And it's been a long time, several seasons really, since Wheaton has won a road game of significance. 

On a night where Francis and Samuelson were not good offensively, the Wheaton 'role' players pulled this thing off with a bunch of hustle plays, key shots, and great passing.  Spencer Peterson had a terrific game with some key put backs, 6-6 from the charity stripe not to mention trying to keep Christy and Ben Bishop in check.  Jay Spencer was superb on the glass helping Wheaton win the board battle 43-37.  Zach Kvam gave some terrific minutes with a couple of timely treys.  Cade Alioth gave the Thunder very high quality minutes with lots of energy and needed rebounding.  Trevor Gunter 5-6 free throws.  It all mattered.

Luke Peters as always ran the floor well and did all he could defensively on Jordan Lester who was a real handful driving the lane.  Incidentally, Lester went down on the last play of the game, grabbing his knee and had to be carried off the floor.  Hope he's ok.

Neither Wheaton or the Pirates shot well from the 3 pt arc and Whitworth ( 5-26, 19% )had some really wide open looks that simply didn't go.   The whole night I was just waiting for them to get hot and start knocking them down but it never happened. 

Way to go gentlemen.  Keep it going at George Fox on Thursday.

[iwu70]

Congrats to WC -- that's a great win on the road.

Greg, you are right -- O'Neill couldn't buy a basket even from point-blank range.  Several other TITANS too -- just blew easy lay-ups. I was pulling my hair out, screaming at the screen.   The game shouldn't have been as tight and close as it was. 

But, any road win these days is a good win. 

Congrats again to WC and to Coach Raridon on 500 wins.  That's a lot of basketball. 

I think Emory is going to be a tougher challenge for the Titans than UC was.

'70

[lmitzel]

Another fun note from Naperville last night: Connor Raridon moved into North Central's top ten in career assists. He has 205 for his career, and the school record is 273. The way he's playing, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that he tops that list by the end of the season. And he still has two more years of eligibility left after this one...