MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Sakman 1111]

I agree with 79jaybird.....Conference Championship after you have already played each team twice serves no real purpose but cause confusion. I could fathom the tourney if you only played each team once but to play a third time I have never understood....Just my opinion....I realize others love the tourney but I just look at it as overkill.....

[Hoosier Titan]

The following is part of a larger article from the Chronicle for Higher Education:

Calvin College recently suspended a student for a year after he purportedly posted an offensive message on his Facebook profile and then refused to post an apology when the dean's office instructed him to do so.  [snip]

Mr. Harris said he did not write the message, a position he has maintained throughout a lengthy disciplinary process. He said he had shared his password with a female Calvin student whom he dated last summer. The couple broke up in the fall, and Mr. Harris said he suspects she logged into his account and wrote the status update herself, presumably to frame him. He said he rarely uses Facebook and noticed only when an adviser told him of the offensive language that his status had been updated several times since the breakup without his knowledge.

Reprimanding students for unbecoming use of social media is not unusual at Calvin. The college's "Policy on Responsible Use of Technology" forbids "any use of Web life (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) that is contradictory to the principles of the college codes of conduct."  end.

Watch what you post on D3Hoops, undergrads!!

Reprimanding students for unbecoming use of social media is not unusual at Calvin?  Holy sh**, Batman!

I'd say the student might think about apologizing for being foolish enough to share his password and then not check the Facebook account after breaking up with the girlfriend.  But to try to force him to apologize for the content now seems pointless. 

This is part of a larger conversation about posting details of one's private life on Facebook, MySpace, and yes, I guess d3hoops!

[Gregory Sager]

Should be a good atmosphere in Kenosha tonight for Carthage's final home game and senior night. Here's the Kenosha News preview of tonight's contest.

http://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/thunder_comes_in___on_a_roll_4396975.html

The notes at the bottom of that article are worth posting directly here on CCIW Chat:

With 32 points in Saturday's victory over Millikin, Steve Djurickovic set a Carthage season record with 654 points, breaking Barry Bennett's 1977 mark of 648 points. ... With a 28.4 scoring average, Djurickovic remains ahead of Johnie Butler's 1971 season record of 26.5 points per game. ... With 17 free-throw attempts against Millikin, Djurickovic set a Carthage season record with 271 attempts, breaking Bill Kadlecik's 1958 mark of 267. ... In Carthage's Feb. 4 game at Illinois Wesleyan, Djurickovic broke Jack Lutz' 1967 season record of 190 made free throws (currently 225). ... With four assists in the Feb. 11 North Central game, Djurickovic broke Stan Kapka's 1986 Carthage season record of 133 (currently 141). ... Djurickovic is ranked 16th on the all-time Carthage scoring list with 1,234 points.

Steve Djurickovic is making Steve Marovich a very busy man in the Carthage SID office.

[voxelmhurst]

Elmhurst scheduled a 100% in region schedule after years of being left out of Pool C.
The 2006/2007 season was probably their most legitimate gripe about not getting in, and I remember Coach Scherer saying how the D3 national tournament was not a national tournament at all but an invitational.  That being said, it looks like Elmhurst will once again be on that Pool C bubble this season, though I certainly believe they still control their status up to a large extent (two wins to close regular season and one win in Tourney).  I just don't happen to see them beating Wheaton in a CCIW Final.

My radical idea if I were the D3 Powers to Be:

The team that finishes 1st is declared CCIW Champion and gains automatic entry into national tournament.

Teams 2-5 then play a tournament, hosted by the school who finished second, and the winner of this tournament is also granted a birth into national tournament.

Any other teams must go through Pool C.

This would eliminate the chance of the top team "taking up 2 spots" so to speak, it would reward the top team for winning the regular season, and it would make the season more exciting for the schools and the fans by adding another team in the mix.

Again, a radical idea because I know the chances of the CCIW getting two automatic entries is about as likely as 90 degree weather in February, but I just don't see what the first place team has to gain in a conference tourney, as well as believing that this conference should always have two teams representing it in what should always be a properly selected national tournament.

Your post is indicative of the superiority complex the CCIW faithful have and should get rid of soon.  If you are serious, you have an opinion of your conference that is not held widely outside of Illinois, if there.   

and that is why I call my own idea radical and unlikely.

Though as a Chicago area sports fan I am enjoying the rare opportunity for an allegiance of mine to come with a superiority complex.  Its a welcome change! 

[Dennis_Prikkel]

Elmhurst scheduled a 100% in region schedule after years of being left out of Pool C.
The 2006/2007 season was probably their most legitimate gripe about not getting in, and I remember Coach Scherer saying how the D3 national tournament was not a national tournament at all but an invitational.  That being said, it looks like Elmhurst will once again be on that Pool C bubble this season, though I certainly believe they still control their status up to a large extent (two wins to close regular season and one win in Tourney).  I just don't happen to see them beating Wheaton in a CCIW Final.

My radical idea if I were the D3 Powers to Be:

The team that finishes 1st is declared CCIW Champion and gains automatic entry into national tournament.

Teams 2-5 then play a tournament, hosted by the school who finished second, and the winner of this tournament is also granted a birth into national tournament.

Any other teams must go through Pool C.

This would eliminate the chance of the top team "taking up 2 spots" so to speak, it would reward the top team for winning the regular season, and it would make the season more exciting for the schools and the fans by adding another team in the mix.

Again, a radical idea because I know the chances of the CCIW getting two automatic entries is about as likely as 90 degree weather in February, but I just don't see what the first place team has to gain in a conference tourney, as well as believing that this conference should always have two teams representing it in what should always be a properly selected national tournament.

Your post is indicative of the superiority complex the CCIW faithful have and should get rid of soon.  If you are serious, you have an opinion of your conference that is not held widely outside of Illinois, if there.   

you are in need of some serious lov'in titan2000 so I gave you a +K - I am living proof that you can take pills for just about anything.  Go to your nearest RX, get some.   

dgp

[Dennis_Prikkel]

North Park freshman guard Roshawn Russell is among the national leaders in free throw percentage at .904.  The school season record of .875 by Jack Ecker.

A ray of light at the end of long, dark tunnel.

dgp

[Pat Coleman]

Regional rankings are out:

http://d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2009/02/18/ncaa-regional-rankings-week-2-3/

[titan2000]

North Park freshman guard Roshawn Russell is among the national leaders in free throw percentage at .904.  The school season record of .875 by Jack Ecker.

A ray of light at the end of long, dark tunnel.

dgp

North Park has a good golf team as I recall. 

[Naperick]

Regional rankings are out:

http://d3blogs.com/d3hoops/2009/02/18/ncaa-regional-rankings-week-2-3/

4 CCIW teams in the midwest region again this week.  NCC moved up 2 spots to 5th, Elmhurst up a spot to 3rd, Wheaton remained at 2nd, and Augie dropped a spot to 7th.

I'm surprised Elmhurst moved up despite a 1-1 week.

[Naperick]

I'm thinking the Cardinals will beat Elmhurst tonight.  I see lots of good posts that analyze the statistics, discuss the matchups, and even mention strategy.  My reason has nothing to do with that and makes absolutely no sense at all.   I'm just thinking North Central is due.  I doubt the Bluejays can win 4 in a row over NCC.

To be serious, I think it should be a great game.  NCC-EC matchups at Merner fieldhouse are usually great games.  A few have gone to overtime in the past 5-6 years.

A lot is at stake in this game.  Not only in the CCIW standings but in the midwest regional rankings.  The loser of this game may have to win the CCIW tourney to get into the D3 tourney.

[BRLHSFAN]

I don't doubt that Elmhurst can win 4 in a row as they won 7 in a row from Jan 14-Feb. 4th.  GO JAYS!!

[Mr. Ypsi]

I don't doubt that Elmhurst can win 4 in a row as they won 7 in a row from Jan 14-Feb. 4th.  GO JAYS!!

If the jays win 4 in a row, pool C is irrelevant.  If they win the first 3, they're (almost) a lock; if they win the last two, the first two are moot.

IF they lose one of the first two AND one of the last two, THEN things get dicey.

[Titan Q]

Is it possible that, in terms of making it into the NCAA tournament, Augustana is better off not making the CCIW tournament?  Would the Vikings have a better shot by beating IWU Saturday, finishing at 17-7 in-region, having Carthage win out to claim the #4 seed, and hoping for the best on selection day?  Augie certainly would have a chance to win the conference tournament, and every team wants to control its own destiny, but the odds are that the Vikings would go 0-1 or 1-1 in the league tourney...that loss might be the final blow.

Just a thought.

[John Gleich]

Is it possible that, in terms of making it into the NCAA tournament, Augustana is better off not making the CCIW tournament?  Would the Vikings have a better shot by beating IWU Saturday, finishing at 17-7 in-region, having Carthage win out to claim the #4 seed, and hoping for the best on selection day?  Augie certainly would have a chance to win the conference tournament, and every team wants to control its own destiny, but the odds are that the Vikings would go 0-1 or 1-1 in the league tourney...that loss might be the final blow.

Just a thought.

Interesting idea... but I wonder if the stigma of not making the tourney would prevent them from being looked at...?  I wonder if that would so negatively affect their standing that they wouldn't have a favorable spot in the regional rankings...

[Titan Q]

Live stats...

http://www.carthage.edu/athleticspages/livestats/xlive.htm

http://www.northcentralcollege.edu/athletics/stats/basketball_m/08-09/XLIVE.HTM

http://www.millikin.edu/athletics/livestats/xlive.htm