MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[4samuy]

Yes! Carthage takes down Augie in overtime, 74-70!

NPU is tied for first!

Greg,


I couldn't help myself.   Not anymore.😉

[Gregory Sager]

Just a mere quirk of the schedule, 4samuy, that's all.

I even wore orange tonight to support Wheaton. Turns out that the shirt worked instead on behalf of Chrishawn Orange, who carried the visitors to the win tonight at King.

[4samuy]

WOW!   Shauers post game comments specifically called out the Augustana football players for some of the comments made during the game. He did congratulate Giovanine and the players, but I didn't know he had such a good grasp of the Augie football roster.  Very strange.

Well, to be fair to Mike Schauer, it's usually not hard to determine whether or not a group of college-aged males are football players, even if you don't know who they are.

He really did lay into those Augie football players, though. He said that he complained to Grey about them, and that he's going to give Chris Martin a phone call about them, too. I didn't have the sound up on that game the whole way through (I got tired of the Wheaton broadcasters referring to Dylan "Sore-tee-ya"), but I did hear a popular barnyard epithet chanted a few times from what sounded like a group of males not too far from the camera mic after calls went against Augie.

Yes. Sorteeya bothered me as well.  It isn't very difficult for broadcasters to do their homework is it?

[Gregory Sager]

Apparently, it is. I'm not going to go off on this at length, because everybody already knows that one of my pet peeves is broadcasters and announcers who don't take the time to learn pronunciations of the opposing players (or coaches; I can't tell you how many times I've heard CCIW student broadcasters butcher "Djurickovic"). But a similar thing happened at Elmhurst tonight, where Carthage reserve guard Mike Kjeldson had his name pronounced by the EC broadcaster as though the 'k' in his last name was silent. It's actually the 'j' that's silent.

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage 93, Elmhurst 91 (ot)
As I mentioned earlier, the Red Men fought back from a 21-point deficit with 13 minutes to go in regulation in this one. It was still a 17-point EC bulge with eight minutes left, but the Red Men went on a tear from beyond the arc, hitting four of five trey attempts in a little over five minutes' worth of game clock to square it up at 75-75. The Red Men then led for most of the final two minutes (Carthage's only lead in regulation) before Derek Dotlich's trey with four seconds left sent it into overtime, which again featured EC blowing an extended lead. The young 'jays just don't know how to close out an opponent yet. POW Brad Perry led the way for the victors with 17 and seven (and three blocks as well), while Drew Joiner had a big 16 off the bench. Kienen Baltimore scored 13 before fouling out in OT, while Derrick Mason and Kevin Kozil each had 11 (Kozil also had a 6:3 floor game). Brad Kruse grabbed six rebounds and had six assists without a turnover. Elmhurst was led by Dotlich's terrific 23-8-6 night (with no turnovers), while Marquis Carter's unfortunate turnover at the end of overtime (and disputable blocking foul) shouldn't overshadow the fine 18-point night (on only seven FG attempts) that he had. Jalen Loving had a 15 and 15 double-double, Ryan Patton scored 11, Devin Tennant hauled down seven boards and had a 3:1 a:to, while Michael Plunked gathered six caroms in the losing cause.

North Central 82, Carroll 72
Down by a point at the half in the airplane hangar, the Cardinals finally grabbed the lead for good in what had been a seesaw game on a pair of Alex Sorenson FTs three minutes into the second half. They slowly built the lead up to 15 in the last few minutes before riding it out to the ten-point win. It was a three-man show for the Redbirds, who got 22 and six from Sorenson, 22 and six assists (with only one turnover) and three steals from Jagger Anderson, and 21 and eight from Matt Cappelletti. Aiden Chang had six boards as well. Carroll was paced by Tanner Zaeske's 17 and seven, while Nick Penny scored 14 and Ben Widdes had a dozen for the Pios. The Cards dominated on the boards by ten rebounds (ten on the offensive glass as well), and had a really nice team a:to of 20:4.

Augustana 59, Wheaton 57
This was a throwback game to about ten or twelve years ago, as these two teams went at it hammer-and-tongs defensively and neither offense ever got into gear. Wheaton was plagued by lengthy and confused halfcourt operations that resulted both in several shot-clock violations and in late-in-the-clock prayer shots, while Augie couldn't seem to get anybody going offensively aside from Chrishawn Orange. Apart from the opening bucket by Micah Martin, Wheaton led for the first three-quarters of the game, but couldn't get any more separation than eight points over the Doggies. A seven-point Augie run finally gave the visitors the lead at 45-40 with ten and a half minutes to go, and they never relinquished it. WC knocked the lead down to a single point on one of Aston Francis's patented circus shots from 25 feet out with 1:13 left, but the Wheaton star had his pocket picked not once but twice in the final minute (with 39 seconds left by Jacob Johnston, and then, after Augie was called for a shot-clock violation, by Orange at midcourt with six seconds left). Orange was the game's high man with 21 points (and four steals, to boot, including the game-sealer), while some guy named Dylan "Sore-tee-yo" had 13 and seven for Augie. Johnston made up for a miserable offensive game (1-10 from the field) with eight boards, while Brett Benning grabbed six of them. Francis scored 19 for Wheaton, and Jake Mlagan had a fine game with 11 and seven. Jay Spencer had nine boards, and Kobe Eichelberger and Ricky Samuelson had a half-dozen apiece, as Wheaton actually outrebounded Augustana by nine in a game in which there were certainly a lot of missed field-goal attempts to grab (Augie shot 36% and Wheaton shot 34%).

Illinois Wesleyan 65, Millikin 53
The Big Blue was game, hanging tough throughout the first half and carrying a two-point lead into the locker room. But IWU went up for good on a Brady Rose layup a couple of minutes into the second half, and then slowly made some scoreboard space for themselves (although it was still an eight-point game with a minute and a half left). Rose led the way with 15 and Nick Coleman had 14 for the Titans, who were one of the three victorious CCIW teams that, oddly enough, were outrebounded tonight. MU was topped by Zach Fisher's 18 points, while the Great Wall of Decatur, 6'6, 300 freshman Jordan Cunningham, had a nice 14 and 10 double-double for Jimmy Millikin.

[AndOne]

Titans do enough to get the road win, 65-53.

Rose 15
Coleman 14 on 4-5 from trey
Seibring still looking pretty tentative.

MU played the Titans tough, staying pretty close almost the entire game.

Titans only 15-26 from the charity stripe.  Not good enough in closer games.

It's a CCIW road win and we'll take it.

IWU70

No bitching about Seibring, 70. At least he is playing.
Connor Raridon-less North Central would likely be 18-2, or possibly 17-3 if he hadn't gotten injured. The only game they have lost since his injury that they may have still lost had he been playing, was the Augie game.

[Gregory Sager]

 

[izzy stradlin]

WOW!   Shauers post game comments specifically called out the Augustana football players for some of the comments made during the game. He did congratulate Giovanine and the players, but I didn't know he had such a good grasp of the Augie football roster.  Very strange.

Well you have to hand it to the Augustana football players for getting after the Wheaton basketball team.    They sure haven't done anything against the Wheaton football team in the last 10 years.  Maybe next they will go after the North Central softball team.   

[Gregory Sager]

I'm just astonished that there were Augustana students there at all. I haven't seen Augie students at a road game in many years (and I've been to several that weren't in the crackerbox), in spite of the fact that Augustana has been a national power for most of Grey Giovanine's tenure in Rock Island.

[iwu70]

Yes, Seibring seems to be toughing it out.  Got better tonight, 5 rebounds etc. Seemed OK on the offensive end, at least in passing and distributing the ball to the shooters.  Nick Coleman surely playing a big part in the IWU success right now.  Brady Rose becoming a more confident overall offensive player.  Rebounding was a weak spot tonight.

Titans need to run the table, or close to it.  13-6, 5-5- now in league play.

I wish WC had somehow upset AC.  Didn't happen.

IWU70

[Mr. Ypsi]

I wonder how Trevor Seibring's injury compares to John Koschnitzky?  I talked with John's father at halftime in Holland (second game, round one in 2012) - he said John would undergo back surgery after the season, yet John toughed it out for a 17 point, 2 OT, win over #1 Hope, then made it to Salem.  (The night before, Jordan Zimmer's grandfather had doubted he could even play the second game - foot injury.  He played and led all IWU scorers!)  In fairness, both John and Jordan were in obvious pain.

I am NOT trying to shame Trevor as a slacker, just wondering if anyone has any information relevant to comparisons?

[iwu70]

Ypsi, I think even Seibring at 70-80% is the best option Coach Rose has, IMHO.  He's making due with a shortened rotation, using Beasley, Bausch and Burdine, but still keeping Seibring in for 30 minutes or so.  Maybe Amman plays more.   Hope Trevor is getting as much rest, and a good massage each day between games.  No off week now, with only six games to go.  Titans surely need all or almost all Ws to get into the CCIW Tournament and have any chance for Dancing. 

IWU70

[lmitzel]

Highlight of the night so far: Bosko Djurickovic and John Baines yelling at each other nose-to-nose at the scorer's table.

I'm going to have to pull that video up. Here I thought the Paul Combs-Todd Raridon exchange last night was the highlight. Raridon was unhappy about a call at the same time as the officials found a wet spot on the floor and wanted a towel to wipe it up. Carroll's manager went out to wipe it, as did Raridon, at which point Combs took a shot at Raridon along the lines of "3000 students at your school and you don't even have a manager!" Raridon fired back something about his manager filming the game upstairs. After the floor was wiped, Combs thanked his manager, and Raridon chirped at him, "I was out here too, are you going to thank me?" Combs answered in the negative, and there a brief moment where I thought I'd have our first coach fight. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, but it was pretty chippy last night.

[petemcb]

Highlight of the night so far: Bosko Djurickovic and John Baines yelling at each other nose-to-nose at the scorer's table.

Are you sure it wasn't more nose-to-chest?

[petemcb]

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