MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Titan Q]

As many of you know, there's an enormous amount of work involved in moving to a new city, starting a new job, finding a place to live, etc.,

I can relate!

Go Huskers?

[Ralph Turner]

Is there any publication that ranks D3 teams recruiting classes?  If something like that doesn't exist, will the CCIW website list each conference school's recruiting class?   

In some parts of the country, the announcement of the  "D-III" recruiting classes is met with a barrage of D-II's and NAIA schools offering an "Athletic Scholarship" to attend their university.

[Gregory Sager]

As many of you know, there's an enormous amount of work involved in moving to a new city, starting a new job, finding a place to live, etc.,

I can relate!

Go Huskers?

The tepid enthusiasm for the Big Red implied by the six-point type size and the question mark will not win you many friends in Lincoln, Bob.

As you're no doubt discovering, in Nebraska those two words are supposed to be in fourteen-point type at minimum, in bold and underlined, and followed by as many exclamation points as will fit.

My fear is that your presence in Lincoln is only going to add fuel to Rob's desire to slip more comments about the Huskers into NPU basketball broadcasts.

[Titan Q]

Wheaton has landed Jordan Van Eps, a 6-4 wing from Mounds View H.S. in Arden Hills, MN.  Eps averaged 17.9 ppg as a senior.

[AndOne]

As many of you know, there's an enormous amount of work involved in moving to a new city, starting a new job, finding a place to live, etc.,

I can relate!

Go Huskers?

The tepid enthusiasm for the Big Red implied by the six-point type size and the question mark will not win you many friends in Lincoln, Bob.

As you're no doubt discovering, in Nebraska those two words are supposed to be in fourteen-point type at minimum, in bold and underlined, and followed by as many exclamation points as will fit.

My fear is that your presence in Lincoln is only going to add fuel to Rob's desire to slip more comments about the Huskers into NPU basketball broadcasts.

After attending school and living in the Land Of Corn for 5 years, I know well that those things most worshiped there most often are :
1. God
2. Family
3. Nebraska football

And in some cases, not necessarily in that order.

On home game Saturdays Nebraska football IS religion as Memorial Stadium becomes the 3rd largest city in the state.

[Titan Q]

Carthage is getting Mike Dombrowski, a 5-11 guard from Johnsburg H.S., who will play both soccer and basketball for the Red Men.  He averaged 19.3 ppg this season.

http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/columnists/columns/2011/05/02/r_hzo5naurugetozcdgx6g/index.xml

[Titan Q]

Updated...


Seniors from the Illinois Basketball Services "Large School" all-state team:

PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
CHASSON RANDLE, 6'2", Senior, Rock Island  Stanford (D1)

FIRST TEAM:
MAX BIELFELDT, 6'8", Senior, Peoria Notre Dame  Michigan (D1)
WAYNE BLACKSHEAR, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Morgan Park  Louisville (D1)
RYAN BOATRIGHT, 5'10", Senior, Aurora East  U Conn (D1)
ANTHONY DAVIS, 6'10", Senior, Chicago Perspectives MSA  Kentucky (D1)
NNANNA EGWU, 6'9", Senior, Chicago St. Ignatius  Illinois (D1)
MYCHAEL HENRY, 6'6", Senior, Chicago Orr  Illinois (D1)
JORDAN NELSON, 5'11", Senior, Lincoln Evansville (D1)
MIKE SHAW, 6'8", Senior, Chicago De LaSalle  Illinois (D1)
SAM THOMPSON, 6'7", Senior, Chicago Whitney Young  Ohio St (D1)

SECOND TEAM:
TRACY ABRAMS, 6', Senior, Chicago Mt. Carmel Illinois (D1)
MACARI BROOKS, 6'3", Senior, Richton Park Rich South  DePaul (D1)
JAMIE CROCKETT, 6'4", Senior, Crete-Monee  DePaul (D1)
JOHNNY HILL, 6'3", Senior, Lombard Glenbard East  Illinois State (D1)
ROOSEVELT JONES, Senior, O'Fallon  Butler (D1)
FRANK KAMINSKY, 6'10", Senior, Lisle Benet Academy  Wisconsin (D1)
GEORGE MARSHALL, 6', Senior, Chicago Brooks  Wisconsin (D1)
DAVID SOBOLEWSKI, 6', Senior, Lisle Benet Academy  Northwestern (D1)
DONIVINE STEWART, 6'1", Senior, Bartonville Limestone  Bradley (D1)

THIRD TEAM:
AARON ADEOYE, 6'6", Senior, Marion  Ball State (D1)
JACCOBY ANDERSON, 5'11", Senior, Springfield Southeast
D'LANDO CARTER, 6'0, Senior, Danville
QUINTON CHIEVOUS, 6'5", Senior, Niles Notre Dame  Tennessee (D1)
DESHAWN DELANEY, 6'6", Senior, Chicago Carver  Vincennes U. (JC)
ZACH MILLER, 5'9", Senior, Lombard (IL) Glenbard East  Northern Illinois (D1)
KEANTE MINOR, 6'2", Senior, East St. Louis  Arkansas (D1) - football
ABDEL NADER, 6'6", Senior, Niles North  La Lumiere Academy (prep)
JOSH PIPER, 6'8", Senior, Champaign Centennial  Eastern Illinois (D1)
MIKE POWELL, 5'10", Senior, Chicago Brooks  Rhode Island (D1)

FOURTH TEAM:
JEROME BROWN, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Morgan Park  Illinois-Chicago (D1)
JULIUS BROWN, 5'10", Senior, Country Club Hills Hillcrest  Toledo (D1)
JOEY MILLER, 6'3", Senior, Charleston  Eastern Illinois (D1)
DAVID MOLINARI, 6'1", Senior, Peoria Notre Dame
KANE SWEENEY, 6'4", Senior, Belleville West  Morehead State (D1) - baseball
KIEFER SYKES, 5'10", Senior, Chicago Marshall  UW-Green Bay (D1)
DEMETRIUS TOLLIVER, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Farragut
MIKE TURNER, 6'8", Senior, Chicago University  Northwestern (D1)
TY NEAL, Senior, Carbondale  Murray State (D1)
DARIAN WHITE, 6'3", Senior, Peoria Central  Chicago State (D1)

FIFTH TEAM:
DAVARIS DANIELS, 6'3", Senior, Vernon Hills  Notre Dame (D1) - football
MIKE DOMBROWSKI, 5'11", Senior, Johnsburg  Carthage (D3)
JAKE EVERLY, 6'2", Senior, Woodstock Marian Central Catholic  Hope (D3)
DAVID FRANKLIN, 6'3", Senior, Belleville Althoff
NIC HOEPFNER, 6'5", Senior, East Moline
NICK HOFMAN, 6'3", Senior, Algonquin Jacobs
RYAN JACKSON, 6'1", Senior, Riverside-Brookfield  Lewis (D2)
LUKE JOHNSON, 6'9", Senior, Wheaton Academy  Carthage (D3)

HONORABLE MENTION:
DREW ANDERSON, 6'7", Senior, Rockford Christian  U. of Illinois (D1) - football walk-on
KORY BILLUPS, Senior, Chicago Crane
DREW BLUMENSHINE, 6'9", Senior, Peoria Notre Dame Illinois Wesleyan (D3)
TONY BRADLEY, 6'3", Senior, Alton  Southwestern Illinois (JC)
KRIS BREWER, 6'4", Senior, Carbondale Brehm Prep  Kent State (D1)
ROBERT CALMESE, 5'11", Senior, Decatur Eisenhower
JEFF CLARK, 6'2", Senior, Marion
RAKEEM DICKERSON, 6'1", Senior, Carbondale Brehm Prep  Arkansas State (D1)
JONATHAN DOSS, Senior, Chicago Taft
GEORGE EDWARDS, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Foreman  Gillette College (JC)
DYLAN ENNIS, 6', Senior, Lake Forest Academy  Rice (D1)
JAMES FARR, 6'8', Senior, Evanston  Xavier (D1)
AHMAN FELLS, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Simeon  Illinois-Chicago (D1)
ARMANI FLANNIGAN, 6'7", Senior, Rockford Boylan Catholic
MARK GILCHRESE, 5'9", Senior, Springfield
KEITH GRAY, 6'7", Senior, Chicago Brooks  Northern Illinois (D1)
DESHAWN GREER, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Hyde Park
LUKE HAGER, 6'6", Senior, Chicago Whitney Young  UNC-Wilimington (D1)
ANDRE HENLEY, 6'4", Senior, Chicago De La Salle  Northern Illinois (D1)
SHAQUILLE HINES, 6'5", Senior, Chicago Harlan
GARRETT JONES, 6'1", Senior, Evanston  New Hampshire (D1)
DEJI IBITAYO, 6'3", Senior, Rich Central  Akron (D1)
WILL JENKINS, 6'3", Senior, Peoria Richwoods
TRAVIS KELLUM, 6'6", Senior, Peoria Central
JACK KRIEGER, 6'4", Junior, Plainfield North  St. Xavier (NAIA)
KISTON LEE, 6'3", Senior, Decatur (IL) MacArthur
TYLER LUNDEEN, 6'6", Senior, Morton  Triton (JC)
BRIAN MADSON, 6'5", Senior, McHenry  Lake Forest (D3)
STANLEY MALCOLM, 5'10", Senior, Chicago Brooks
DERRICK MARKS, 6'2", Senior, Plainfield (IL) Central  Boise State (D1)
GREG MAYS, 6'8", Senior, Crete-Monee (IL)  UW-Green Bay (D1)
RASHAUN MCGREW, 6'7", Senior, Chicago Vocational  Chicago State (D1)
RASHAWN MCELRATH, 6'6", Senior, Chicago Simeon
ZACH MONAGHAN, 6'2", Senior, Fremd (IL)  South Dakota St (D1)
MATT PALUCKI, 6'7", Senior, Park Ridge Maine South  Washington U. (D3)
TYWON PINCKNEY, 5'10", Senior, Chicago Simeon
TREVOR RICHARDS, 6'1", Senior, Breese Mater Dei  Drury (D2) - baseball
T.J. RIGGS, 6'3", Senior, Bloomington  Ashland U. (D2)
REMY ROBERTS-BURNETT, 5'10", Senior, Joliet West  Western Illinois (D1)
LATREE RUSSELL, 6'6", Senior, Bolingbrook  Des Moines Area Community College (JC)
RYAN SAWVELL, 6'8", Senior, Mundelein  Evansville (D1)
NATHANIEL SMITH, 6'4", Senior, Lincoln  Loras (D3)
CARSON SONNENBERG, 6'5", Senior, Belleville Althoff
DYLAN SPARKMAN, 6'9", Senior,, East Peoria  Illinois-Springfield (D2)
TYRONE STAGGERS, 6'5", Senior, Chicago St. Ignatius Prep
WILL SULLIVAN, 6'2", Senior, Elmhurst York  Northern Illiinois (D1)
MIKE SUTTER, 6'4", Senior, Woodstock  Trinity Christian (NAIA)
KEIFER SYKES, 5'9", Senior, Chicago Marshall UW-Green Bay (D1)
GREG TRAVIS, 6', Senior, Chicago Curie  Illinois-Chicago (D1)
DAN TRIMBLE, 6'8", Senior, Geneva  West Georgia (D2)
ELLIOT VAUGHN, 6'6", Senior, Batavia  Roosevelt (NAIA)
LETRELL VISER, 5'11", Senior, Aurora East
DEVANTE WILKINS, Chicago Carver  Richard J. Daley (JC)
GABE WILLIAMS, 5'10", Senior, Chicago Farragut
JEREMY WOHLTMAN, 6'4", Senior, Effingham
NICK ZEISLOFT, 6'3", Senior, Lyons  Illinois State (D1)

[Gregory Sager]

As many of you know, there's an enormous amount of work involved in moving to a new city, starting a new job, finding a place to live, etc.,

I can relate!

Go Huskers?

The tepid enthusiasm for the Big Red implied by the six-point type size and the question mark will not win you many friends in Lincoln, Bob.

As you're no doubt discovering, in Nebraska those two words are supposed to be in fourteen-point type at minimum, in bold and underlined, and followed by as many exclamation points as will fit.

My fear is that your presence in Lincoln is only going to add fuel to Rob's desire to slip more comments about the Huskers into NPU basketball broadcasts.

After attending school and living in the Land Of Corn for 5 years, I know well that those things most worshiped there most often are :
1. God
2. Family
3. Nebraska football

And in some cases, not necessarily in that order.

On home game Saturdays Nebraska football IS religion as Memorial Stadium becomes the 3rd largest city in the state.

When Tom Osborne ran for Congress in Nebraska back in 2000, I joked that if Jesus Christ ran against him, Nebraskans would say, "Well, we like that Jesus guy, but, c'mon ... the Huskers won three national championships with Tom as the coach! How can you vote against that?"

Every Nebraskan to whom I told that joke chuckled and then looked at his feet. I think it hit uncomfortably close to the truth.

Nebraskans are living proof that zealots are sometimes the product of simply having nothing else to do with their spare time.

[sac]

I drove across Nebraska the summer of 2000 and it seemed like it was "Tom Osborne for Congress" signs from Iowa to Wyoming.

[RogK]

My Nebraska experience is limited to a few cross-state Trailways or Greyhound rides long ago, with an Omaha Royals game thrown in.
But, I consider the Nebraska-themed movie "About Schmidt" to be one of the all-time best. It's a superb mix of hilarity and depression.

[Dennis_Prikkel]

My Nebraska experience is limited to a few cross-state Trailways or Greyhound rides long ago, with an Omaha Royals game thrown in.
But, I consider the Nebraska-themed movie "About Schmidt" to be one of the all-time best. It's a superb mix of hilarity and depression.

you mean you never stopped in North Platte for the rodeo? 

or visited the Pony Express Station in Gothenburg?   

or driven through the North Platte river in flood (a mile wide and six inches deep)?   

where is your Family Vacation spirit?   

[AndOne]

I'm wondering what happened to the entry from one of our most prolific posters that appeared yesterday regarding his receiving a note advising that 1st team all-conference member, freshman Landon Gamble of North Central, was supposedly "shopping himself to scholarship schools"?

I'd love to know more about this:
*Who wrote the note? Is the source a usually reliable informant, someone with inside information, or just a voice out of the blue?
*Is it a case of the player shopping himself, or of a scholarship school approaching the player? Of course, that would be illegal and no scholarship school would ever do anything like that.   
*What was the source of the mystery author's information?
*Why does this post no longer appear on the board? Was it a hoax/attempt to stir up trouble? If so, was the perpetrator our prolific poster or the mystery author??

I don't believe the original post made any reference to the mysterious author being a usually reliable source of information. If such is not the case, perhaps the missing post was, in the least, a bit irresponsible without first checking the reliability factor. 

I've spoken with both a couple of North Central players and coaches. None advised of any knowledge of such activity. Accordingly, if the the player in question has made inquires, he is doing a good job of keeping his cards close to the vest. In all honesty, if the coaches, and possibly the players, did know this was going on, they likely wouldn't confirm it to me anyway. Especially not until they had the opportunity to further investigate. However, I have no reason to question their denial at this time. Also, I know the player mentioned to be a stand up type of individual who it seems likely would go to the coaches first if it was his intention to make inquires regarding a possible transfer. I'm not saying this isn't possible. There are all kinds of reasons a player might want to transfer including a desire to fulfill a dream to play at a scholarship institution, family financial matters, or even chasing unrequited love. The list goes on.

A curious scenario to say the least.
And inquiring minds would like to know. 

[RogK]

Dennis, nobody goes to those places anymore -- they're too crowded. (to steal a line from Yogi Berra)
Humor writer Calvin Trillin said that the Nebraska license plate slogan should be A LONG WAY ACROSS.

[Gregory Sager]

I was kinda curious about that discarded Landon Gamble post as well. I was about to comment upon it when I was suddenly informed by the site software that I couldn't reply to a post that no longer existed. It was taken down just before I hit the "post" button.

[Just Bill]

Note to self: Always "quote" controversial posts immediately before they get pulled.