MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[unanimous22]

Around the conference tonight:

Carthage 77, North Park 64 in the Crackerbox
Illinois Wesleyan 80, Elmhurst 76 at Faganel
North Central 73, Augustana 68 in the Hangar
Wheaton 94, Carroll 73 on the Illinois side of the border

Millikin is idle.

IWU lost

[lmitzel]

NCC 73, Augie 68

A little higher scoring than your usual NCC-Augie game at the hangar, but still a pretty tight one. 12 ties, 8 lead changes, no lead bigger than 5.

Blaise Meredith: 25 pts, 5 reb
Matt Helwig: 20 pts, 5 reb
Shea Cupples: 11 pts, 4 reb

Nate Ortiz: 21 pts, 4 reb
Matt Hanushewsky: 11 pts
Luke Johnson: 11 pts
Daniel Carr: 9 pts, 14 reb

[kiko]

Around the conference tonight:

Carthage 77, North Park 64 in the Crackerbox
Illinois Wesleyan 80, Elmhurst 76 at Faganel
North Central 73, Augustana 68 in the Hangar
Wheaton 94, Carroll 73 on the Illinois side of the border

Millikin is idle.

IWU lost

Apologies -- one of the links on the scoreboard took me here: https://www.iwusports.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary, which shows the result I'd originally posted.

[iwu70]

Yes, IWU lost up at EU, 74 - 66.  Live by the three, die by the three.  IWU shooting 20% from three tonight.  Must have been quite a defensive struggle, with IWU in some foul trouble . . .  I'm sure others will report more fully.  I was not at or watching the game. 

IWU'70

[GoPerry]

Wheaton 94
Carroll 73

Wheaton was really dragging for the first 25 mins of this game.  They were down 50-45 with about 15 mins left.  But then something got into the team and they went on a red hot shooting display of a 26-5 run to take control of the game.  Cruickshank with 26 pts (10/15 FG, 5/8 3p),  5 rebs, 4 stls.  Adom 22 pts, 7rebs (9/17, 3/6).  Alioth 18 pts and was credited for a mere 4 rebs although he had more.

For most of the game, Josh Hudgens was the entire Pio offense.  He ended up with 31 pts on 13/20 shooting, 3/6 from behind the arc.

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage 77
North Park 64

Jalen Boyd: 16 pts, 6 rebs
Izaiah Sanders: 15 pts
Gabe Johnson: 13 pts
Jordan Boyd: 11 rebs

Kyle Costes: 24 pts (10-13 FG, 3-5 trey), 4 stls
Crishawn Cook: 13 pts
Garrett Horner: 10 pts
Fillip Bulatovic: 7 rebs

The Vikings looked listless and mentally disengaged tonight. They ganked a handful of layups and bunnies, and, although they bottled up Bulatovic effectively all night, they let Carthage's talented freshmen -- especially Kyle Costes, who looked like an All-American this evening -- run riot against them. K-Mark is right; Carthage has a bright future ahead of it in 2022-23. I think that Steve D. is one solid big man away from having a contender next season.

[unanimous22]

After attending the IWU @ NP game last week, I've been meaning to mention the Chicago skyline court is awesome.

[Gregory Sager]

After attending the IWU @ NP game last week, I've been meaning to mention the Chicago skyline court is awesome.

Thanks! It's a great look. I hear a lot of compliments about it.

NPU is doing a lot of branding with that skyline logo. It's on all of the new shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, etc. I think that it's an inspired idea to use the Chicago skyline as a school logo, both because Chicago's skyline in particular is so distinctive that it won't be mistaken as that of another city or as just a generic urban profile, and because it readily identifies North Park with the city in which it's located. We take pride in our hometown, and the school uses its location as one of its main selling points to prospective students.

The Windy City has its pluses and minuses and its ups and downs. It's a very complicated place to live and work. But for those of us who are a part of NPU, Chicago is home ... and we wouldn't have it any other way. Other schools may use Chicago as part of their brand or their identity even if it isn't deserved ([cough] Concordia [cough]) -- but North Park University is genuinely a Chicago school, and it's as much a part of this city as Lake Shore Drive, the Daley Plaza Picasso sculpture, and lawn-furniture winter parking dibs.

[Titan Q]

IWU will be 1 of 4 Division III schools participating in the inaugural Small College Basketball Champions Classic in Aberdeen, SD in November 2022.

https://www.iwusports.com/news/2022/1/27/mens-basketball-mens-hoops-selected-to-compete-in-2022-small-college-basketball-champions-classic.aspx

[sac]

IWU will be 1 of 4 Division III schools participating in the inaugural Small College Basketball Champions Classic in Aberdeen, SD in November 2022.

https://www.iwusports.com/news/2022/1/27/mens-basketball-mens-hoops-selected-to-compete-in-2022-small-college-basketball-champions-classic.aspx

Very cool

I'm assuming that's St. Joseph Conn

[Titan Q]

IWU will be 1 of 4 Division III schools participating in the inaugural Small College Basketball Champions Classic in Aberdeen, SD in November 2022.

https://www.iwusports.com/news/2022/1/27/mens-basketball-mens-hoops-selected-to-compete-in-2022-small-college-basketball-champions-classic.aspx

Very cool

I'm assuming that's St. Joseph Conn

Yes, correct.  St. Joseph (CT).

[iwu70]

Looks like a cool tournament . . . a long drive!     The far North, snowy reaches! 


'70

[WUPHF]

It's like the exact opposite of the New York trip. The Titans definitely need to schedule a day-trip to the Badlands.

[Gregory Sager]

Back in the day they used to hold a tournament at the start of every season that really was a small-college champions tournament, called (fittingly) the Tournament of Champions. It wasn't a classic, either; it was a two-day championship tournament that featured the previous season's NCAA D2 champion, the previous season's NCAA D3 champion, the previous season's NAIA D1 champion, and the previous season's NAIA D2 champion. They held it in Fairbanks at the University of Alaska, IIRC. It didn't last very long, as I don't think it made a lot of money and the travel costs were prohibitive.

[RFMichigan]

After attending the IWU @ NP game last week, I've been meaning to mention the Chicago skyline court is awesome.

The Windy City has its pluses and minuses and its ups and downs. It's a very complicated place to live and work. But for those of us who are a part of NPU, Chicago is home ... and we wouldn't have it any other way. Other schools may use Chicago as part of their brand or their identity even if it isn't deserved ([cough] Concordia [cough]) -- but North Park University is genuinely a Chicago school, and it's as much a part of this city as Lake Shore Drive, the Daley Plaza Picasso sculpture, and lawn-furniture winter parking dibs.

As a Concordia grad, we old-timers always refer to our alma mater as Concordia - River Forest!