MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

The difference in the AC and NPU schedules is that the latter travels to Bloomington and the former goes to Kenosha.

The biggest factor in my opinion is that Augie travels to North Park...where NPU will be favored by 2-3 points.  And 2-0 over Augie would win a tie-breaker.

I'm with Bob on this one.

Whoa...

Tom Johnston @TJ_DA
Double blow for No. 16 @Augustana_Hoops. OT loss at Carthage and Pierson Wofford removed from team ``for remainder of academic year.''


The 6-4 sophomore G/F was Augie's super-sub, averaging 10.9 ppg and 4.2 rpg. He is no longer on the roster - http://www.athletics.augustana.edu/roster.aspx?path=mbball.

Big loss.

Wow.

[Titan Q]

Wofford just played Wednesday - http://static.augustana.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball%20Stats/2016-17mbbstats/17mbb18.htm. So I guess whatever happened went down since then.

Article with Coach G comment - http://www.qconline.com/sports/college_sports/without-wofford-augie-men-suffer-tough-road-loss/article_7e668eb5-d296-560a-af23-ddfa25366c88.html.

[Gregory Sager]

North Central 69, Wheaton 55
Although Wheaton was up at the half, the second half was all Cardinals in the airplane hangar. NCC used an 18-2 run to turn a three-point deficit into a 13-point advantage in the third quarter, and then sealed the deal with a late 9-0 run to close it out. Aiden Chang had 15 points, Alex Sorenson and Jagger Anderson scored a dozen each, with Sorenson adding nine boards, and Matt Cappelletti hauled in ten rebounds as well to help NCC dominate the glass by a 39-25 margin. Aston Francis (13 pts) was the only double-figure scorer for Wheaton, but it was a very inefficient (6-16) 13 points. He didn't get to the FT line at all tonight.

Carroll 75, Millikin 66
The Big Blue made a game of it for a half, but Carroll got separation in the second stanza and didn't allow the hosts to get any closer than nine, as the Pios got the wire-to-wire win. Kyle Keranen led the way with 19 and six, Ben Widdes chipped in 15, and Nick Penny -- who is quietly putting together a really good freshman year up in Waukesha -- added 14 and seven. Tyler Pygon paced Millikin with 20, while Jack Simpson contributed 11 to the losing cause.

Carthage 74, Augustana 70 (OT)
As 4samuy noted, Augustana blew a 20-point lead in this one. It was a first-half 20-point lead (34-14 with 3:58 to go to intermission), but, still, twenty points is twenty points. According to Bosko Djurickovic on his postgame interview with John Weiser, the Red Men made a concerted effort from that point onward to attack via the dribble rather than settling for jumpers, and the strategy paid off. They pared the lead down to a dozen at the half, finally caught up at 51-51 on a Brad Perry tip-in with 7:55 remaining, and actually took their first lead of the contest a couple of minutes later. But Augie took the lead back -- it never went beyond two possessions either way for the rest of the game -- and forced Carthage to have to tie it in the final ten seconds. Mike Stevenson made a layup with eight ticks left, Brad Perry blocked a Nolan Ebel shot at the other end to force the extra session, and the Red Men got two huge plays in overtime -- a three-point play by Kienen Baltimore with a minute and a half left that broke a tie, and a Brad Kruse tip-in of a Mike Kjeldson missed trey with 53 seconds left to build a one-point lead back up to three. Baltimore had 20 and seven off the bench for Carthage, while his fellow freshman big Perry had 17 and seven, Stevenson scored a dozen, and Kruse hauled in 14 rebounds. Kevin Kozil dished out five assists to only two turnovers. Augie was led by Jacob Johnston, who had a sensational night with 22 and 11. He was aided by Dylan Sortillo, who had 13 points, and Chrishawn Orange, who scored 12 and had three steals. A.J. Dollmeyer had eight boards off the bench for Augustana, which committed an astonishing 22 turnovers. I think you'll have to go a long, long way back in the books to find a game in which an Augie team turned the ball over 22 times.

[Gregory Sager]

Article with Coach G comment - http://www.qconline.com/sports/college_sports/without-wofford-augie-men-suffer-tough-road-loss/article_7e668eb5-d296-560a-af23-ddfa25366c88.html.

Given the fact that Giovanine read a prepared statement from the school's director of communication, this does not sound like something that was internal to the team.

[Gregory Sager]

Tonight was the first time that one of North Park's big three didn't lead or co-lead the team in scoring since the final game of the 2013-14 season.

[Greek Tragedy]

Tonight was the first time that one of North Park's big three didn't lead or co-lead the team in scoring since the final game of the 2013-14 season.

They have a 3rd?   

[Gregory Sager]

Tonight was the first time that one of North Park's big three didn't lead or co-lead the team in scoring since the final game of the 2013-14 season.

They have a 3rd?   

http://athletics.northpark.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=2426

[AppletonRocks]

CCIW

Carthage and Carroll are proving what I predicted, that they would be a factor in the CCIW this year.  I am not surprised, and teams fighting for the MWC tourney are happy for Carroll as well. 

[Greek Tragedy]

Tonight was the first time that one of North Park's big three didn't lead or co-lead the team in scoring since the final game of the 2013-14 season.

They have a 3rd?   

http://athletics.northpark.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=2426

Well, he's 5'7". The 3rd of the Big 3 isn't that big.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Wofford just played Wednesday - http://static.augustana.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball%20Stats/2016-17mbbstats/17mbb18.htm. So I guess whatever happened went down since then.

Article with Coach G comment - http://www.qconline.com/sports/college_sports/without-wofford-augie-men-suffer-tough-road-loss/article_7e668eb5-d296-560a-af23-ddfa25366c88.html.

Rather interesting... I did a search and discovered this: http://www.qconline.com/news/crime/protection-orders-filed-after-augustana-incident/article_6b2adccd-0360-5669-bdd6-4d98c4a65f72.html

I realize this might have been brought up on the boards previously, but considering I couldn't keep up over the summer with this page, I may not have seen it. While it appears Wofford was a "victim" in this case... could it still possibly be related? Very interesting year for Mr. Wofford.

[Gregory Sager]

Tonight was the first time that one of North Park's big three didn't lead or co-lead the team in scoring since the final game of the 2013-14 season.

They have a 3rd?   

http://athletics.northpark.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=2426

Well, he's 5'7". The 3rd of the Big 3 isn't that big.

North Park's big three consists of a 5'7 guard, a 5'10 guard, and a 6'3 power forward who's really closer to about 6'1. Half the fun of calling them "the big three" is that it's a bit tongue-in-cheek.

[Gregory Sager]

Wofford just played Wednesday - http://static.augustana.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball%20Stats/2016-17mbbstats/17mbb18.htm. So I guess whatever happened went down since then.

Article with Coach G comment - http://www.qconline.com/sports/college_sports/without-wofford-augie-men-suffer-tough-road-loss/article_7e668eb5-d296-560a-af23-ddfa25366c88.html.

Rather interesting... I did a search and discovered this: http://www.qconline.com/news/crime/protection-orders-filed-after-augustana-incident/article_6b2adccd-0360-5669-bdd6-4d98c4a65f72.html

I realize this might have been brought up on the boards previously, but considering I couldn't keep up over the summer with this page, I may not have seen it. While it appears Wofford was a "victim" in this case... could it still possibly be related? Very interesting year for Mr. Wofford.

It escaped everyone's attention this summer, so thanks for posting it, D-Mac.

[lmitzel]

A couple fun notes from NCC-Wheaton last night.

One of Wheaton's players hit a three quarter court shot at the halftime buzzer off the stanchion. It threw me for a loop and I was already announcing the halftime score as it fell through. It was clearly off line when he threw it so I figured it had no chance. You can probably catch me on the video feed signaling "no basket" to the officials, who made that same call. Still the craziest make I've ever seen.

We actually saw enforcement of the coach's box last night, as Todd Raridon got a warning in the second half. Later, Mike Schauer got upset about a call and demanded an out of the box warning to "get someone to listen to him." For all the talk about crazy ejections and technicals in prior days, this was a fun addition to that collection.

Finally, with about 3:45 left in the game the Cardinals had a jump ball and one second on the shot clock. They got off a desperation shot that I'm pretty sure hit the rim, the buzzer went off because you can't humanly reset in time to stop it, but the refs didn't call a violation and the Cardinals got a second a chance basket. Schafer pulled a great Grey Giovanine impression with his jacket and complained to no avail. He later came to the table to complain to us, saying that the ball did not hit the rim. Whether or not I agree, complaining to us about it does nothing. Our shot clock operator handled it perfectly, and the refs thought it hit the rim. Postgame, someone cracked a joke about how Schauer wanted to swear, but couldn't because he coaches for Wheaton, and let it out in the locker room.

[Gregory Sager]

We actually saw enforcement of the coach's box last night, as Todd Raridon got a warning in the second half. Later, Mike Schauer got upset about a call and demanded an out of the box warning to "get someone to listen to him."

That's pretty funny! Problem is, whether it's their natural state or a consequence of donning the stripes and whistle, I've noticed that the typical official doesn't tend to have much of a sense of humor.

For all the talk about crazy ejections and technicals in prior days, this was a fun addition to that collection.

I'm convinced that officials are vastly more concerned with the coach's box in the lateral sense than in the forward sense. That is to say, they take a much keener interest in a coach's moving up and down the sideline than they do in his actually stepping onto the court, probably because: a) the time-honored place for a coach to get in a ref's ear was always the scorer's table; and b) enforcing the coach's box laterally keeps them away from the officials when the game's at the other end of the court. Case in point: I only watched the overtime portion of last night's AC @ CC game, and yet I counted no fewer than three occasions in which Grey Giovanine had both feet a step or two on the court while the ball was at that end. Granted, he's savvy enough to only do it when the ball is on the other side of the floor (and he's nimble enough to step back when the ball gets reversed to bench side), and giving him a box warning for such a modest occupation of illegal territory might strike officials as being more trouble than it's worth. Then again, given how often he does it, I can definitely picture him doing a Glenn Van Wieren to some unsuspecting player flying up the bench side of the floor on a fast break.

Finally, with about 3:45 left in the game the Cardinals had a jump ball and one second on the shot clock. They got off a desperation shot that I'm pretty sure hit the rim, the buzzer went off because you can't humanly reset in time to stop it, but the refs didn't call a violation and the Cardinals got a second a chance basket. Schafer pulled a great Grey Giovanine impression with his jacket and complained to no avail. He later came to the table to complain to us, saying that the ball did not hit the rim. Whether or not I agree, complaining to us about it does nothing. Our shot clock operator handled it perfectly, and the refs thought it hit the rim. Postgame, someone cracked a joke about how Schauer wanted to swear, but couldn't because he coaches for Wheaton, and let it out in the locker room.

If Mike is really searching for a G-rated interjection to help him let off steam during a game, I suggest the classic "Sweet fancy Moses!" from Seinfeld:

[markerickson]

I will stand my ground re: AC and NPU down the line.  Coach G has built quite a resume over the years whereas the city Vikings have never even qualified for the conference tourney.