MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[veterancciwfan]

In their last 3 games at Shirk, all losses, Augustana has not scored 70, with their high being 68. My guess is that they will need at least 70 to win tonight.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Titans win 63-60.  They led 58-44, before a 14-0 Viking run.

[CCIWchamps]

Carthage??

[RonSwanson]

Did anyone see that one coming? Congrats to the Redmen on a big win.

[Naperick]

Carthage??

It's true!

[Naperick]

Home teams 4-0 tonight.

[Naperick]

Millikin 3-0!  What a start for the Big Blue!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Being ranked #1 seems to be toxic this year.  MIT lost games early and fell clear out of the poll.  VWC promptly went on a losing streak after rising to #1.  Now NCC.

[chairman]

Break up the Big Blue!!

Ok, let's not get carried away, but considering the depths that Millikin had slid to, 3-0 in the league is a great beginning. There will be some losses, but it looks like things are going the right direction for Batman and his Baby Blues.

[Titan Q]

IWU 63
Augustana 60

http://www.iwusports.com/boxscore.aspx?id=1815&path=mbball

* Brady Zimmer: 19 pts, 6 reb, 2 assists (8-9 FG)
* Victor Davis: 16 pts, 5 reb, 3 assists (3-3 3-point)
* Dylan Overstreet: 8 pts, 8 assists

IWU: 19 turnovers, 8-18 FT

Rebounds: IWU 36 Augustana 28

With the Titans up 58-44 with 7:10 to go, it felt like this one was over.  But Coach G and his young Vikings came storming back behind fullcourt pressure and some atrocious IWU FT shooting.

Augie went on an incredible 14-0 run to tie to game at 58 with 2:54.  The Titans were on their heels and in bad shape.  But Brady Zimmer, who is a big-time player, drilled a long 3 from the right wing to put the Titans back up 61-58.  Zimmer had 19 points tonight and was 8-9 from the field.  That shot was the same one the Titans counted on from Brady's older brother last year.

The Vikings had the ball down 3 with :25 to play.  After a timeout, Griffin Pils got a pretty good look and missed.  Augie got the rebound and Mark Roth nearly tied the game at the buzzer, but his 3-pointer rimmed out.

Dylan Overstreet had a really solid game overall for the Titans.  Against tough on-ball Augie pressure all night, he turned it over just 2 times in 37 minutes.  His poor FT shooting (1-4) hurt IWU, but the Titans wouldn't have won this game without his play tonight.

More of the same for IWU in terms of FT shooting and turnovers.  Not much more to say about it unfortunately.  It will cost them some games in CCIW play, no question in my mind.

It wasn't pretty tonight, but I can't think of an IWU/Augustana game in recent memory that has been.  This matchup is always a physical grind that goes down to the final minute.  The Titans protected homecourt tonight and moved to 3-0, tied atop the standings with the Big Blue.

[Titan Q]

Millikin 3-0!  What a start for the Big Blue!

Next up for the Big Blue...

@Wheaton
@North Central
vs Illinois Wesleyan


Some Rottweilers coming to the puppy farm.

Really impressive job by Matt Nadelhoffer and his young team.

[thunder38]

Methodical beat down at King tonight. Wheaton led 14-11 at the 13:33 mark and proceeded to take a 39-16 halftime lead en route to a 73-49 victory.

Nate Haynes with another double double with 24 points and 13 rebounds
Brayden Teuscher with 14 points

Aaron Weaver led North Park with 19 points
Mark Holmes held to just five points. Primarily guarded by Haynes and Peters.

Hard game to watch with a ton of foul calls.

Wheaton 23-33 from FT line while NPU was 15-25.

[iwu70]

Who would have thunk it -- "the Titans share the Conference lead at 3-0 with the Big Blue."  There it is.  And, who would have thunk it even more "Carthage over North Central."  A wild night.

Game at the Shirk was rough, ragged, and a bit frightening, esp. the Titans from the charity strike.  Played with tough D, great flow to get to a 14 point lead, then succumbed to the pressure and the TO and poor FT shooting bugs.  Made it interesting unnecessarily so.  Anyway, some good performances as Q has said, with others contributing in their own small, but important ways -- some good D by Dortch, a key trey by Mussleman, some good minutes from Mayberger.  Sodemann couldn't buy a basket tonight -- and big big performances by Zimmer and Davis.  That was the best Victor has been all year . . . so let's hope there's much more of that type of Victor Davis to come.  Great to be 3-0 with all the other key contenders with a loss already.

Keep it rolling Titans . . . just learn to put your opponent away when you have a 14 point lead with 7:00 minutes to play!

Carthage is going to come into the Shirk with alot of confidence. 

MU, yes, likely coming down to earth in the next three games, though they may surprise, even win one of those three games.  Both MU and AC are so so young, and are going to be very good in the coming 1-2 years (if players stay around and develop as you would expect).  Of course, the Titans only lose 2 seniors this year from this very deep rotation ( Reed and Oswald).  So, they will continue to be strong, good too.

IWU70

[CCIWchamps]

Who would have thunk it -- "the Titans share the Conference lead at 3-0 with the Big Blue."  There it is.  And, who would have thunk it even more "Carthage over North Central."  A wild night.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I'm surprised no one has commented on the play with 27 seconds left - Victor Davis came out of nowhere to have a MONSTER block on a Viking layup.  Swatted it several rows into the side seats!  The Shirk 'crowd' went absolutely crazy.  (Since when can IWU only draw 1600 for Augie?!)  Can't help but think that contributed to the Titans holding off the Vikes for the last 26 seconds for the win.

Judging from the video (and the announcers' reaction, who seem not to be inordinately homers), the officiating was atrocious.  Several out-of-bounds clearly seemed to be given to the wrong team.  Several non-fouls were called, while absolute muggings sometimes weren't.  While I (naturally ) thought a majority of the bad calls went against the Titans, there was a blatantly bad call near the end that went against Augie.  I was astounded that Grey's jacket remained on!!  Did he mellow from the 14-0 run, or does his jacket abuse primarily only happen in Rock Island?