MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Titan Q]

Cool non-conf home & home set now...

Illinois Wesleyan will travel to Yeshiva next season; Yeshiva will play in IWU's Jack Sikma HOF tourney in 2022-23.

That's fantastic! Great to see teams they would not typically get to play.

#1 vs #2?

A great matchup for sure.  Both teams should be excellent next season.

[Titan Q]

#4-Illinois Wesleyan vs #9-North Central, 2:00pm...

Probable Starters:

#4-Illinois Wesleyan (1-0)
G - Luke Yoder, 6-0/175 So.  2.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.0 apg
G - Cory Noe, 6-2/175 Jr.  12.0 ppg, 1.0 rpg, 3.0 apg
G - Pete Lambesis, 6-4/195 Jr.  24.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.0 apg
F - Charlie Bair, 6-7/220 Sr.  4.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg
C - Matt Lertiz, 6-7/235 Jr.  15.0 ppg, 10.0 rpg

#9-North Central (3-1)
G - Matt Smietanski, 6-0/180 Sr.  10.5 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 2.3 apg
G - Matt Helwig, 6-2/190 Sr.  11.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 4.3 apg
G - Michael Pollack, 6-3/185 Sr.  13.0 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.5 apg
G - Blaise Meredith, 6-4/180 Sr. 14.8 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 3.5 apg
F - Brian Johnson, 6-5/195 So.  8.3 ppg, 3.8 rpg



IWU Game Notes: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/iwusports.com/documents/2021/2/5/Game02_NorthCentral.pdf

Video: https://www.iwusports.com/watch/?Archive=23&type=Live

Live Stats: https://www.iwusports.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary

[Titan Q]

Both IWU/NCC games are on.

[petemcb]

Greg, if Mendoza for Carroll keeps launching from the arc, would it be fair to say that basketball now joins baseball in having a Mendoza line?

[USee]

Carthage 75
Wheaton 87

Tyler Cruickshank had a career high 32 and Adom added 22 and his league best third double-double to lead the #7 Thunder. For the Kenosha Basketball Team Bultovic had 25 and 10 while playing all 40 minutes.

[iwu70]

IWU over NCC. 

Schumacher made 7 threes.  The Titans scoring 52 in the first half.

'70

[Ultimate Titan Fan]

Anyone else have a problem with the IWU transmission? Heard Bob at half time. A real shoot out in the first half.  Titans so deep.

[Titan Q]

IWU 91
NCC 77

-Schumacher: 23 pts, 3 assists (7-8 3-point)
-Yoder: 14 pts, 4 reb, 4 assists
-Leritz: 13 pts, 9 reb, 4 assists
-Wallen: 10 pts, 4 reb, 3 assists
-Noe: 10 pts
-Bair 9 pts, 9 reb

-Clausel: 18 pts, 4 reb
-Pollack: 16 pts
-Smietanski: 15 pts, 3 reb, 4 assists
-Meredith: 15 pts, 7 reb, 3 assists

The Titans looked great.

[USee]

If the Titans shoot 50% from 3 (16-30) there isn't a team in the country that will beat them. NCC ran into a buzzsaw.

[Gregory Sager]

Carroll 69
North Park 61

Jordan Boyd: 14 pts, 7 rebs
Anthony Diaz: 14 pts
Mike Osborne: 13 pts, 6 rebs, 4:1 a:to
Karl Polk, Jr.: 6 rebs

Tarren Hall: 26 pts (9-13 FG, 6-9 trey), 13 rebs
Justin Steinike: 10 pts

Vikings cut their own throat again at the FT line, where they were 10-22 (including 1-6 on the front end of one-and-ones). Their other big problem was Tarren Hall, who carried his team on his back in a big way. Everything he launched today seemed to go in, including a 25-footer from the top of the key at the shot-clock buzzer that banked in.

[Titan Q]

Today vs North Central, IWU got 72 points, 23 rebounds, 17 assists from players returning in 2021-22.

[Titan Q]

Augie had a positive today - someone in the traveling party to Decatur.  Unfortunately they are shut down for 10 days now.

Both IWU/Augie games this week are off.

The Vikings were just starting to really click and play well.  Horrible break.

[Titan Q]

Most of Augie's roster, including coaches, had COVID in the Fall as I understand.

The problem is that when the last few remaining people now get it, the ones who had it in the Fall are now past their 90-day "immunity window" (my term).  So they get put in quarantine due to "close contact."  (Whereas if within 90 days, they would be ok.)

Crazy year.

[Titan Q]

Carthage at Millikin tomorrow postponed.

I wonder if Augie's positive a day after playing Millikin has affected Millikin.

[Titan Q]

Carthage at Millikin tomorrow postponed.

I wonder if Augie's positive a day after playing Millikin has affected Millikin.

This was in fact the case.

Because Millikin played Augie, and Augie had a positive the next day, Millikin and Carthage decided to postpone.