MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[wheatonfanaddict]

Wheaton's Raymond Earns Fourth CCIW Men's Basketball Player of the Week Award

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – For the fourth time this season, Kent Raymond of Wheaton was named men's basketball player of the week in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Monday after his performance during the previous week of competition.

Raymond, a sophomore guard from New Palestine, Ind., and New Palestine High School, had a record-breaking week, averaging 30.5 points per game, with a 56 percent (14-25) field goal percentage and a 53.8 percent (7-13) three-point field goal percentage. Raymond scored a Shirk Center-record 44 points in Wheaton's 93-84 win at Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday night. Raymond's career-high 44-point output is the most by a Wheaton player since 1970 and the fifth-highest single-game tally in over 100 years of Wheaton basketball. Raymond made six three-pointers in the win and recorded a school-record 20-for-20 effort from the free throw line. On Wednesday night he scored a team-high 17 points in a three-point loss at 10th-ranked Augustana.

The last player to earn the award four or more times in one season was Wheaton's Joel Kolmodin, who earned player of the week honors five times during the 2002-03 season.

[AndOne]

As far as 1st team all CCIW at this point, I'll take Wessels, Raymond, Ruch, Z. Freeman, and Dan Walton. I know there are other good players who also merit consideration, but I believe the accomplishments of those 5 players are hard to top.

Here's my All-CCIW teams:
1st Team
G Drew Wessels
G Kent Raymond
C Zach Freeman
F Brent Ruch
F Dan Walton

Yep----I think thats what I said.   

[AndOne]

www.wheaton.edu/Athletics/mbasketball/news.html#aad

I know this is a little late, but forgive me for not having a computer for the last five days. Congrats to Michael Fiddler for his 1st team Academic All District nod, and Kent Raymond for his 3rd team nod!

Michael Fiddler has a 3.93 GPA... in Ancient Languages. That's impressive even if studying was all you ever did. I love my guys.

So what other teams have all district players? I believe that someone mentioned that Zach had gotten the recognition? Surely other schools have players on one of the academic all district teams as well?

April----As I indicated above Dan Walton also made the All Region Academic 2nd Team.

Ancient Languages huh? Wonder if anybody will be around that he can talk to. Oh yea, I forgot-----so easy a dinosaur could do it. 

[wheatonfanaddict]

Actually, Michael Fiddler's hope is to serve with an organization like Wycliffe Bible Translators, in order to help developing countries create written languages for themselves and then from their new written language translate and interpret the Scriptures. Just FYI

[robberki]

Actually, Michael Fiddler's hope is to serve with an organization like Wycliffe Bible Translators, in order to help developing countries create written languages for themselves and then from their new written language translate and interpret the Scriptures. Just FYI

Wait, that organization creates a language for a country? Wow, I need to do more with my life. I assume that the indiginous people would be allowed to translate and interpret the Vedas/Koran/latest X-Men comic book/etc if they wanted as well?

[Brick]

Just imagine what his stats would have been if Wessels hadn't owned him in the two Augie games
13.5 ppg
32% fg
8 TO"S

Yet another reason Drew shouldn't be overlooked for MOP

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[wheatonfanaddict]

Yeah, thats our problem we live in a bubble. There are 6,912 known languages in the world and only 28 % of them have a written form of communication.

[Gregory Sager]

I am NOT sure if this is the process still used for all-conference voting - but it certainly created some interesting voting when I was involved as league publicity director.

1- Each coach nominates his first team all-CCIW candidates only.  Five are selected.  What ever nominees don't get selected are automatically on the 2nd/3rd team ballot.

2- Coaches nominate the other players they think are worthy of all-CCIW, regardless of 2nd or 3rd team qualifications by that coach.

Top five are 2nd team selections - next five are 3rd team selections.

3- Coaches then vote on the MOP, who must be on the first team.

In past years the MOP has gone to a player, who was not among the unanimous choice first team all-league!

The CCIW was/is different - as the layout for next year's season-ending tournament testifies.

MW 70:3

That is still the established procedure for determining the All-CCIW team. Also, as devildog and dansand mentioned, the All-CCIW team is not selected by position. It's simply whatever fifteen players are chosen by the coaches; they could fill the first team with five centers and the second team with five guards if they so desired.

[Titan Q]

10-12 inches of snow headed for B-N.  Pitchers and catchers may be reporting this week, but spring seems a long way away!!

[Gregory Sager]

Tell me about it. My old stomping grounds north of Syracuse has been hit with 100+ inches of snow over the past week. A friend of mine e-mailed me to say that the snow is up to the gutters on his parents' roof. And he said that he looked out to the street while he was shoveling the driveway of his own house today and saw a herd of wooly mammoth pass by.

I don't think he's buying into that whole global warming thing.

[Titan Q]

Raymond is a great, great shooter. However, he doesn't offer a whole lot more.

Boy do I disagree with that.  I think Raymond is one of the most complete offensive players in Division III.  Heck, in his last game he scored 20 points at the FT line because of his ability to penetrate. 

Raymond is turning into Drew Carstens...with a pure jump shot.  I said on the air Saturday that I think he'd start for half of the Missouri Valley Conference teams, and I really believe that is true.

[Titan Q]

I've compared Raymond to Korey Coon (IWU '00) several times.  Here is Korey's senior year stat line...

22.0 ppg
164-371 FG (.442)
65-166 3-pt (.392)
157-163 FT (.963)
2.9 rpg
2.1 apg

Pretty similar to what Raymond is doing this year, as a sophomore.

[b_holmgren]

Q - I'm surprised you haven't thrown this stat out yet:
Raymond is now 31/31 from the free throw line in his Shirk Center career. Must be something about that green backdrop.

Wichita State sure could use him.

[augiefan]

I have commented before as to how Drew Wessels is the key to Augie's success this year. The best true PG in the conference, plus an incredible defender and a scorer when needed. Augie has had a lot of close ones this year and most of the time Drew is the guy hitting the Fts to lock up the victories.

Dain Swetalla has been dinged up a lot this year, but is still the key guy inside for Augie this year. There are other more spectacular players in the CCIW, but without those two guys and a real team concept Augie would not be where they are today.

As for MOP I would go with Raymond over Ruchs and Zach, simply because he has done more to get his team in playoff contention than the other two guys. Zach is possibly the best player in the conference, but that has not been enough to get IWU wins this year, so no MOP. Ruchs is great but he is surrounded by other solid players on probably the best starting 5 in the conference. To date Raymond has done more for his team than anyone else in the conference.

[tjcummingsfan]

I'm confused... Raymond is a sophomore by eligibility apparently, but a junior by class right?  Will he actually be around a 5th year at Wheaton to play his 4th year of ball?