MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Titan Q]

Zach Knobloch, a 6-0 SG, is tranferring to Illinois Wesleyan from UW-Whitewater.  He will be a sophomore in 2017-18 for the Titans.

Looks like Knobloch is a shooter.  As a junior at Marengo H.S., Knobloch set the IHSA single season record for 3-pointers with 167.  He finished his career 3rd in all-time IHSA 3-pointers with 380. 

As a freshman at UWW, Knobloch was 42-81 (.519) from 3.  He averaged 16 minutes per game and started 13.  Knobloch scored 24 in a win over Trine on December 19 on 8-11 from beyond the arc.

http://www.uwwsports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10793

http://www.nwherald.com/2015/03/04/high-school-boys-basketball-marengos-knobloch-sets-state-3-point-record-in-win/ashq2h5/

http://www.nwherald.com/2016/03/24/high-school-boys-basketball-2016-all-area-team/am0hhl2/
http://www.nwherald.com/2015/03/17/2015-northwest-herald-boys-basketball-player-of-the-year-marengos-zach-knobloch/apqrxag/

http://www.nwherald.com/2017/01/06/on-campus-marengo-grad-zach-knobloch-helps-uw-whitewater-shoot-to-no-11-in-d-iii-basketball-poll/a9ra629/

[Mr. Ypsi]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

[iwu70]

A good matching with Brady Rose, Bonnett and Falitico . . . perhaps part of the new Titan five guard offense. 

Hope all the chatsters are well, enjoying significant good times in early summer. 

Ever hopeful for the new Victor Davis.

'70

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

UWW got at least one significant transfer at the semester break, I suspect that has something to do with it.

[Greek Tragedy]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

UWW got at least one significant transfer at the semester break, I suspect that has something to do with it.

Probably some guy named Derek Rongstad, touted by Shinetime as the greatest transfer to grace D3 and destined to take the Warhawks to the Promise Land.

[badgerwarhawk]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

Yipsi I've stated my two cents on our forum.  Rather that repeat it I'll just mention it and you can check it out if you're interested. 
Rongstad has the potential to be a POY before it's over Greek.   

[tomt4525]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

Yipsi I've stated my two cents on our forum.  Rather that repeat it I'll just mention it and you can check it out if you're interested. 
Rongstad has the potential to be a POY before it's over Greek.

Shinetime's exact words were, "Top 5 player EVER in the WIAC."  Think about the players who have come through the conference.

As for having the potential to be POY, that may be true.  I don't see it as likely with who he is competing against in the conference.  Guys like Bublitz and Bootz (same grade as Rongstad) who will get more shots than he gets.  I'll admit that you've seen way more of the Warhawks than I have, but it seemed to me that Rongstad was the 3rd or 4th option offensively this season.  With all those other options back next year, that won't change until Rongstad is a senior. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

Yipsi I've stated my two cents on our forum.  Rather that repeat it I'll just mention it and you can check it out if you're interested. 
Rongstad has the potential to be a POY before it's over Greek.

Shinetime's exact words were, "Top 5 player EVER in the WIAC."  Think about the players who have come through the conference.

Sheesh... I can think of five or six players on UWSP and UWW championship teams that I would have probably ranked ahead of this individual... LOL

[AndOne]

And with regard to your above post, Dave, I bet you were able to come up with those five or six names pretty quickly. 

[Greek Tragedy]

Consider the source and save your "thinking time" for something relevant.

[AndOne]

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

Partially.
I'd say the first half or so of the season could be classified as significant. However, based on the information you, yourself provided, it seems his second half performance (c. 6 mins a game) slid a bit.
Nonetheless, his play in the conference portion was still probably at least good, and his entire season could be viewed as being very good especially considering he was a freshman playing in the upper echelon of D3.

[AndOne]

A good matching with Brady Rose, Bonnett and Falitico . . . perhaps part of the new Titan five guard offense. 

Hope all the chatsters are well, enjoying significant good times in early summer. 

Ever hopeful for the new Victor Davis.

'70

Rose, Bonnett, and who? 
I think you mean Rose, Bonnett, Coleman, and now, Knobloch. I sense those four will consume the majority of the Green Team backcourt minutes next season.

[AndOne]

RE IWU RECRUIT:

I believe it was TQ who recently advised us that one of the IWU recruits for next season will be Charlie Bair from Glenbard South HS.

Would just like to add that I believe Mr. Bair led DuPage County in rebounding last season.
With the loss of Seibring & Bausch, one of IWU's pressing needs will need to find someone adept at cleaning glass. Accordingly, Bair may be in position to assume a significant () role in the coming season.

[Gregory Sager]

A good matching with Brady Rose, Bonnett and Falitico . . . perhaps part of the new Titan five guard offense. 

Hope all the chatsters are well, enjoying significant good times in early summer. 

Ever hopeful for the new Victor Davis.

'70

Rose, Bonnett, and who? 
I think you mean Rose, Bonnett, Coleman, and now, Knobloch. I sense those four will consume the majority of the Green Team backcourt minutes next season.

I noticed that iwu70 not only cites the name of a point guard that Ron Rose demoted to the JV as a sophomore after he'd suffered through a struggle-filled freshman season on the varsity, he's spelling it wrong, too. It's Falotico.

Mark S., you might be better served by simply referring to him as "Fman".

Just checked Knobloch's game-by-game stats on the UWW website.  His starts (and most of his stats) were all from the non-con part of the season.  He barely saw the floor (c. 6 mins a game) during the WIAC part of the season.  Any idea of the story behind that?  Beaten out by a better player?  problems with the coach?  nagging injuries?

Nonetheless, based on his COLLEGE stats as a freshman on a team that finished ranked #20 in the country, I suspect he meets AndOne's definition of 'significant'!

Partially.
I'd say the first half or so of the season could be classified as significant. However, based on the information you, yourself provided, it seems his second half performance (c. 6 mins a game) slid a bit.
Nonetheless, his play in the conference portion was still probably at least good, and his entire season could be viewed as being very good especially considering he was a freshman playing in the upper echelon of D3.

I'll go with what BW said about Knobloch in the WIAC room. There is nobody who posts on d3boards.com who knows more about Warhawks men's basketball or who has a better read on the program than BW. Based upon what he posted, it doesn't sound like Knobloch's performance "slid a bit" as the season progressed or that he was a victim of the arrival of Derek Rongstad (they both played double-digit minutes in Rongstad's first three games as a Warhawk) as much as that his overall game was just not up to WIAC standards. That would also seem to be borne out by the fact that Knobloch got DNP-CDs in both of UWW's D3 tourney games last March. Of course, as BW said, Knobloch was only a freshman, and IWU fans have every right to expect his game to improve over the next three seasons.

[badgerwarhawk]

Knoblauch certainly can become a pretty good player.  Nothing wrong with the start he got with us.  There are a lot of freshman that come in with great numbers and don't fare as well as he did. I would loved to have seen him ride it out with us.  He'll make a ton of three pointers before it's over.