MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Mr. Ypsi]

Just heard that Ryan Phillips from Richwoods has already taken back his commitment to Augie and will walk-on at Bradley.  Not sure if he can play there...would have been a good player in the CCIW

Hmmm...  Richwoods was the alma mater of all us Bonney kids; my mom taught at Bradley for many years.  Could this be the first step towards stealing a recruit for IWU?!

If it weren't for the fact that she is 88 years old and couldn't care less about basketball, I could start a helluva conspiracy theory.

[Titan Q]

Sounds like Scott Trost has hit the ground running at Lewis.  He has commitments from 4 transfers already:

* Brandon Alexander, 6-6 wing (Lincoln College...Simeon HS, Chicago)

* Keelan Donald, 6-1 PG (North Idaho College...Leo HS, Chicago)

* Jason Genova, 6-5 SG (St. Xavier...St. Patrick HS, Chicago)

* Matt Marino, 6-1 PG (St. Xavier...St. Patrick HS, Chicago)


As a freshman at SXU, Genova was second in scoring on the team (14.0 ppg) and he made 77 of 186 3's (.414).  I saw him play 3 times last year, including vs IWU in Bloomington -- he has a chance to be a really good player at Lewis.  Marino was SXU's starting point-guard.  Glad Genova and Marino left SXU and found a new home so IWU doesn't have to deal with those two on the southside in November.

What are the odds of a coach landing two Keelans in 5 years?

I'm tellin' ya, watch out for Lewis in the GLVC.  Scott Trost can recruit.

[True Basketball Fan]

Watch out is right.  That's a pretty good group of players, especially with a late start.  Lewis will definitely be good again.

Any word on new IWU recruits since Rose got hired?

[martin]

Q - How big is the difference between NCAA D2 (Lewis) and NAIA D1 (SXU)?  Can Genova and Marino immediately compete at that level?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm sure Trost has a good list of guys he wanted at IWU who took some money to go elsewhere.  He's a good recrutier and its a lot easier sell when you too have some money to thrown in.

[Titan Q]

Q - How big is the difference between NCAA D2 (Lewis) and NAIA D1 (SXU)?  Can Genova and Marino immediately compete at that level?

Martin,

Genova compares favorably to Keelan Amelianovich.  Kind of the same type of player, only left-handed.  Amelianovich could have started and excelled at a good Division II program and I think Lewis will find the same of Genova.  Genova would have been an NAIA Division 1 All-American by his junior year in my opinion and that caliber player can play for just about any D2.

I'll bet Marino ends up coming off the bench at Lewis.  He was a good, solid point-guard at SXU, but probably not quite good enough to start on a good team in the best D2 league in the country.

[titan2000]

Please go to D2 Hoops.com

[Titan Q]

Watch out is right.  That's a pretty good group of players, especially with a late start.  Lewis will definitely be good again.

Any word on new IWU recruits since Rose got hired?

TBF, I think Ron Rose is out there looking for a last minute recruit or two, but it will probably be tough to find one that fits IWU's profile.  The type of kid likely to go to IWU has already commited somewhere...I really can't think of the last time IWU landed someone late, like Augie did with Rick Harrigan a few years back.  We'll see.

Hersey point-guard Sean Dwyer is an impact recruit for the Titans, but coach Rose will really need a big, strong class next year.  IWU will be fine with Zach Freeman around, but Zach's a senior next year.

[diehardfan]

Please go to D2 Hoops.com

I gave you karma for that one, cause it was funny... but it's not like it helped. 

Gotta love how three of those guys totally know all about Trost. Interesting stuff.

[cardinalpride]

Please go to D2 Hoops.com

I gave you karma for that one, cause it was funny... but it's not like it helped. 

Diehardfan can you throw some Karma my way because I could use some also?    I'm a big fan of wheaton basketball when they are not playing against NCC 

[Gregory Sager]

NPU seems to be doing a better job of working the far northwest suburbs, an area where the Park hasn't really been productive since landing Brett Mathisen from Lake Zurich four years ago. In addition to Crystal Lake Central's Joe Capalbo, www.chicagohoops.com is reporting that NPU just beat out Loras and landed 5'11" point guard Dan Oziminski from Johnsburg. I don't know much about him, as he wasn't one of the prospects that I was aware NPU was pursuing. But everything I've read about him online has been very positive. Perhaps those of you more familiar with the area up there can chime in with a word or two about him. He wasn't the main guy for Johnsburg (6'5" swingman Chad Hetterman, who got a D2 ride from Augustana SD, was their biggest weapon), but from what I've read it sounds like Oziminski has very solid skills and good quickness.

Loras may have lost out on Oziminski, but it looks like they got a good player from up that way in 6'4" forward Travis Guy, who was a teammate of Illinois Wesleyan recruit Elias Washington at Grayslake.

This now makes three spring declarees for North Park from the suburbs. I like both trends: 1) landing players earlier than the Park has tended to do in the past; and 2) getting more outer suburban players. Not that I'm totally down on NPU recruiting city kids (go with your strengths; an urban school like NPU is a hard sell for kids from the outer 'burbs and their parents, but the location is a selling point if you're from the city or the inner-ring 'burbs), but a good mixture of the two is a plus.

[markerickson]

Clipped from the Chronicle for Higher Education...

The sound of car alarms going off may not be music to your ears, but it is to James E. Klopfleisch. Mr. Klopfleisch, a music-composition major at Illinois Wesleyan University, spent much of last semester orchestrating a piece that uses Volvos and Hondas instead of violins and horns.

He dubbed the work "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," after the T.S. Eliot poem, which asks, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" Mr. Klopfleisch says he hopes his music will show "it's perfectly all right to disturb the universe, and it can be beautiful and nondestructive" like his composition.

Mr. Klopfleisch began by finding 30 students who were willing to lend their cars to his project. He recorded the sounds of their alarms, and organized them by dominant pitch and tempo. He used the Fibonacci sequence — a series of numbers in which the previous two numbers are added to equal the next number — to help compose the piece. After alerting campus officials and the police to his plan, Mr. Klopfleisch divided the cars into 13 groups and instructed their owners, equipped with key-ring panic buttons and stopwatches, to set off the alarms at specified intervals.

He says he hoped that the work would first cause listeners to think, "Oh shoot, there's another car alarm going off," but that as the piece built to full force, they would be struck by "all the power. If there's 30 car alarms going off, it's so intense and complex."

[petemcb]

I have a question that I'm sure this board has the answer to.  Somebody asked me what the D3 and/or CCIW regulations say about basketball players transferring within the conference during the school year. The player in question has practiced and been on the bench for a varsity game, but has not played a varsity minute.  He has played JV.  Could he transfer, within the conference, over the summer or at the semester, and at what point would he be eligible for his new team? 

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed previously, maybe even recently, but I figured I'd check with this fine array of D3/CCIW conascienti.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

D3 has no regulations about in-conference transfers, but the CCIW sure does.  There is a year's wait after leaving the school before the player can play at the new school.  I don't think there is anything exempting a player who didn't get in the game from this.

[Titan Q]

Pete, the bylaws don't go into much detail (Article III: Eligibility)...

http://www.cciw.org/pdf/bylaws.pdf

A transfer who participated in a sport at another conference school shall not be eligible to participate for a second CCIW school in that sport until one year after the student's last season of participation at his or her first school.

My guess is that any type of activity (practice, JV games, etc) constitutes "participation."