MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[AndOne]

In a 40-pt game, why is Cappelleti playing 34 minutes? Seems like overkill.

The coach wanted to provide ample opportunity for him to practice the new 3 point shot we've been working on the past couple of weeks. ⛹🏼‍♂️ 🏀 

Also, when you're down 2 fourth year players who both started this year, you play the guys you trust until you reach the point at which you feel fully comfortable with substitutions.

[4samuy]

No question I would agree with that under normal circumstances.  But understand that North Central has lost 2 of their starting 5 in the span of 2 weeks to season ending injuries.  Coach Raridon has been around the block and I would think he was tinkering with the rotation, including playing Capaletti extended minutes.  IMO you can't fault him for that.  Long season to go.

[Gregory Sager]

Curiously, none of the Husson starters played more than 20 minutes.

Not that curious, actually. The Eagles have nine players who average double-digit minutes, and another player averages nine.

[augie77]

Six Husson players average between 19.7 and 26.7 minutes per game.  The curious thing in my mind is why the top players spent so much time riding the pine tonight. 

[Gregory Sager]

Well, Pat and Dave said this more diplomatically, but, basically, the Husson starters played like crap throughout the first half. Thus, they rode the pine deep into the second half while Husson's Coach Caruso gave the second unit an extended chance to show what it could do against North Central. It couldn't do much of anything, but, since the starters had stunk it up and the Cardinals had already run away and hid, it didn't make any practical difference which unit of Eagles was on the floor in terms of the tenor of the game -- and, if nothing else, the situation at least handed Caruso the opportunity to send his starters a message.

[Titan Q]

Illinois Wesleyan (8-3, 1-3) vs #4-Whitman (8-1, 2-0), 6pm PT/8pm CT...

Titans (8-3, 1-3)
G - Brady Rose, 6-3/185 Sr.  21.0 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 3.8 apg
G - Colin Bonnett, 6-4/190 Sr.  12.2 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 3.2 apg
G - Jason Gregoire, 6-4/205 Sr.  11.1 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 2.4 apg
F - Charlie Bair, 6-7/205 So.  7.5 ppg, 7.1 rpg
C - Alex O'Neill, 6-9/245 Jr.  7.5ppg, 4.8 rpg

Blues (8-1, 2-0)
G - Michael Gutierrez, 5-11/170 Jr.  6.8 ppg, 0.9 rpg, 1.2 agp
G - Joey Hewitt, 6-2/195 So.   15.7 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.3 apg
G - Cedric Jacobs-Jones, 6-2/235 Sr.   9.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 0.6 apg
G - Austin Butler, 6-3/195 Sr.   9.8 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 6.2 apg
G - Jack Stewart, 6-3/185 Sr.   11.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 1.4 apg


Pantagraph - https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/basketball/men/iwu-faces-two-challenging-games-in-california/article_5a8d73cb-aa6f-50ea-a6d6-aed00b919e33.html

Video - https://portal.stretchinternet.com/clu/

Stats - https://portal.stretchinternet.com/clu/

[augie77]

The five guard lineup!  Not for the Titans, but for their opposition.  Quite the irony!

[Titan Q]

The five guard lineup!  Not for the Titans, but for their opposition.  Quite the irony!

To be specific, Whitman uses the positions "guard", "wing", and "forward" on its roster.  Butler, Stewart and Jacobs-Jones are listed as wings.

https://athletics.whitman.edu/roster.aspx?path=mbball

I use the more traditional guard, forward, center so had to pick what to call those wings.

To me, a wing is generally a guard.  Like IWU's Jason Gregoire - typical wing player, and basically a guard.

[Titan Q]

Whitman is a full court press, up tempo team that generally has 5 guards on the floor most of the time.  It's exactly the type of team IWU has trouble defending...as 6-7 Charlie Bair and 6-9 Alex O'Neill end up chasing guards around the floor.  On the other end of the floor, hopefully IWU can take advantage of the huge size mismatches.

Whitman is coached my Eric Bridgeland.  IWU fans will remember the two great games vs Bridgeland's Puget Sound team in 2005-06...one at Westmont (Santa Barbara), and the other at Lawrence in the Elite 8 game to get to Salem.

https://sun.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2006/miwu9.htm

https://sun.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2006/ncaa4.htm

Whitman plays that same exact style.  I was at both of those games in 2005-06 and wow were they intense. 

Will be interesting to see how this plays out tonight.  These are two very different basketball teams.  The Xs and Os side of things is really intriguing.

[lmitzel]

The five guard lineup!  Not for the Titans, but for their opposition.  Quite the irony!

To be specific, Whitman uses the positions "guard", "wing", and "forward" on its roster.  Butler, Stewart and Jacobs-Jones are listed as wings.

https://athletics.whitman.edu/roster.aspx?path=mbball

I use the more traditional guard, forward, center so had to pick what to call those wings.

To me, a wing is generally a guard.  Like IWU's Jason Gregoire - typical wing player, and basically a guard.

I always hate that when I'm prepping starting lineups. I generally do the same as Q though and make a wing a guard. Similar thing when you get labeled a "post". You're getting called a forward.

But those guard/forward hybrids...

[Titan Q]

But those guard/forward hybrids...

To me, "G/F" and "wing" are the same thing...and both are basically guards.

[Gregory Sager]

To me, "G/F" is an excuse to trot out the term "swingman" and thus inadvertently alert my listeners that I'm older than dirt.

[voxelmhurst]

If anyone's like me the last few posts have put this dialogue in their head:

"Ho! Hey Henry, Henry...here's a forward."
"Very funny, guys."
"Here's a guard."
"Here's a wing!"

[duckfan41]

Was randomly looking at the Thunder roster and noticed a new name that materialized since the end of the semester. Wheaton North product Luke Anthony apparently has had enough of D1 football at Dayton after 1 1/2 years, and will join both the Thunder basketball and football teams.

Anthony was a 1,000 point scorer during his career for Wheaton North where he was a 4 year starter. From what I remember about watching him during the AAU circuit and on his high school team, Anthony is a fairly good shooter, and brings a little more size and depth to the already deep guard position. He will also bring quite an arm to the Thunder football team. Welcome to Wheaton Luke!

[Gregory Sager]

North Park has added a new player as well. He's 5'9 junior Henry Woo, Jr. from Evanston Township, who spent two years in a dreadful Concordia (IL) program that won a grand total of seven games in his two seasons there. Last year he was a part-time starter for the Cougars, averaging 9.3 ppg.

No offense to Woo, but I'm weary of seeing NPU lead the league in the dubious category of Most Players Under Six Feet Tall. Not that the Vikings haven't had some gifted players recently who didn't hit 72 inches on the physician's beam scale -- Juwan Henry, Colin Lake, and T.J. Cobbs were each worth their weight in big men, for example, and Izaiah Sanders and Kindrel Morris have turned out to be nice finds for this year's Vikings --  but at some point you have to recognize that the Lilliputians had more trouble dealing with Gulliver than he did with them.