MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

GoPerry, good assessment of the game. 

I think Yeshiva is a top 25 team, but not top 10.  Strength of schedule a huge issue for them. 

The Titan defensive master class holding a team averaging 92 ppg to 59 . . . awesome!

Agree on the broadcast, the quality of it . . . and the good interviews by our Titan players and by Q at halftime.  It will be fun to host our new friends from Yeshiva at The Shirk next year.  Probably more a culture shock for the Yeshiva team to visit central Illinois than for our guys to visit upper Manhattan!    I would bet that the cancellation of the Mt. Saint Vincent game proved an auspicious development for IWU's practice and preparation for Yeshiva. 

Now rest, just a few days, and Elmhurst coming into The Shirk next Wednesday.  The CCIW grind . . .

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

North Park's game at Eureka, which had originally been scheduled for this past Tuesday, has been rescheduled for Sunday afternoon at 3 pm.

I'm very happy to see that. In an environment in which games are being canceled right and left, it's good to see two schools work hard to make a game happen. The Vikings have already had two games blotted out from their schedule; it's nice to know that this one was reclaimed from the scrap heap.

Eureka did not have the personnel to play UMSL (the claim made in the UMSL presser) today but they can play North Park tomorrow. Interesting.

I don't see that in the presser. It's possible that it was initially released by UMSL with that claim about the Red Devils being short-handed, and then re-released with the claim about Eureka's roster edited out ... which would be interesting in and of itself.

(The NPU @ EC game is scheduled for Sunday, not tomorrow.)

[WUPHF]

Almost as interesting as you going to the release to see for yourself, lol.

[Gregory Sager]

I checked it because I've never seen a press release about a postponement or cancellation disclose that kind of information before. It's certainly possible that a press release could say that a game was called on account of one team not having enough players, but that's not the kind of thing that a head coach would want his next opponent to know about if he could help it. The exception would be in the case of a chronically short-handed team that only had, say, eight or nine guys listed on the roster (as we've seen Principia field at times) ... but I knew from having watched Eureka play at Millikin a few weeks ago that the Red Devils have a packed roster with close to thirty players listed.

[WUPHF]

Well, I do not know what the release says now, but I did not make up the part about Eureka. 

[Gregory Sager]

I'm not saying that you did. In fact, that's why I've theorized that the press release might've been changed ex post facto.

[WUPHF]

I'm not saying that you did. In fact, that's why I've theorized that the press release might've been changed ex post facto.

Understood. The SID is new to the field having worked as a sports journalist for a number of years and it shows.

[Gregory Sager]

Millikin beat Greenville today at the Griz, 144-127. Michael Akinwumi took advantage of the countless layup opportunities that a game against a System team affords a big man by going 19-22 from the field to score 43 points, with his 11 boards fleshing out a very tidy-looking double-double. Akinwumi is the first Big Blue player to crack 40 since T.J. Sims also scored 43 back in 2015-16 against -- you guessed it -- Greenville.

MU's 144 points also smashes the school record for most points in a game, which had been 133. The surprise to me, given that Millikin plays Greenville on a semi-regular basis, is that the old record was set against Carroll rather than against a System team from Greenville or Grinnell. The even bigger surprise was that it was set all the way back in January of 1967, two decades before the three-point shot became part of the college game. Jack Sunderlik scored 62 points for the Big Blue in that 1966-67 game, a Millikin school record that was later tied by the legendary Leon Gobczynski in a 1973-74 game against Missouri-St. Louis.

Jimmy Millikin, which has a bye this coming Wednesday, will head back into CCIW play sporting a record of 7-6, 2-2.

[RogK]

Here's a peculiarity involving Greenville :
NAIA Midway (Kentucky) University defeated Greenville 157-135 in November. A few weeks later, Midway lost to Bellarmine 89-39.
https://www.gomidwayeagles.com/schedule/0/15.php
So, Midway gave up 135 in one game and won it by 22; and then they allowed 46 fewer points in a game and lost it by 50.
With that, I now return to the women's basketball pages!

[kiko]

CCIW in non-conference regular season play:

2017-18:    54-27 (.667)
2018-19:    52-28 (.650)
2019-20:    54-27 (.667)
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2021-22 to date: 40-15 (.727)

Still a ways to go and some challenging games littering the schedules for various teams, but if the trend holds, this will help a bit with SOS and whatnot at year end.

Update on the above with up to three non-conference games to go. (In addition to North Park's game on Sunday with Eureka, NPU-vs-Dominican and North Central-vs-Central both are listed as 'postponed' with no reschedule announced.)

2017-18:    54-27 (.667)
2018-19:    52-28 (.650)
2019-20:    55-26 (.679)  (fixed a counting error on this from earlier post)
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2021-22 to date: 52-24 (.684)

Looks like we will land right in line with -- or perhaps a game or so collectively stronger than -- where the conference sat in the last season of the before times.

[Titan Q]

I've captured the Illinois Wesleyan vs #1-Yeshiva trip here.

I took many of these pics, not all.  Thanks to those who did, including Catherine E. Dunlap.

Thanks to everyone on both sides of this matchup for once again showing #whyd3.  No one at this game will ever forget it.  It was more than a basketball game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM_lHAtLTg

[Titan Q]

This provides some pretty incredible context on how the IWU/Yeshiva game was bigger than basketball.

https://twitter.com/IWUhoopscom/status/1477639865185492993?s=20

[Gregory Sager]

CCIW in non-conference regular season play:

2017-18:    54-27 (.667)
2018-19:    52-28 (.650)
2019-20:    54-27 (.667)
---
2021-22 to date: 40-15 (.727)

Still a ways to go and some challenging games littering the schedules for various teams, but if the trend holds, this will help a bit with SOS and whatnot at year end.

Update on the above with up to three non-conference games to go. (In addition to North Park's game on Sunday with Eureka, NPU-vs-Dominican and North Central-vs-Central both are listed as 'postponed' with no reschedule announced.)

NPU @ Dominican was not postponed. It was canceled.

[iwu70]

Rabbi Quillman, great job on the video and on your Twitter feed.  All good fun, good stuff.  Looking forward to the Yeshiva visit to The Shirk for next year's Sikma Invitational . . . let me know if I can be of any help. 

Here comes the CCIW grind . . . tough this year, as usual.

All best for the New Year, Rabbi! 

iwu'70
 

[kiko]

CCIW in non-conference regular season play:

2017-18:    54-27 (.667)
2018-19:    52-28 (.650)
2019-20:    54-27 (.667)
---
2021-22 to date: 40-15 (.727)

Still a ways to go and some challenging games littering the schedules for various teams, but if the trend holds, this will help a bit with SOS and whatnot at year end.

Update on the above with up to three non-conference games to go. (In addition to North Park's game on Sunday with Eureka, NPU-vs-Dominican and North Central-vs-Central both are listed as 'postponed' with no reschedule announced.)

NPU @ Dominican was not postponed. It was canceled.

Thank you.  I suspect the same is true for North Central-Central, but was going by how the games are listed on this site.