MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[augiefan]

Let's be fair to Wheaton as far as scheduling goes. They do play DI Northwestern later this month.

[bluejaybacker1]

Elmhurst 74
Alma 66

Elmhurst was up 26 at the half.

They were outscored by 18 in the second half 49-31.

[AndOne]

EC------------> 8 assists, 17 turnovers

Burks-----18 pts
Michael---18 pts
Lee--------16 pts

[Stat]

I solicited a response from Master Blaster.

Have you been to any D1 final fours?   The scale of difference is appalling.  D3 deserves more, and your acceptance as hierachy pundit is lemming like.

NCAA is big business and  they treat D3 as intramural.  So be it.  Salem is just fine, and justifies that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Some want more, and others are happy with less.

 

[RedMan1]

Was just sitting here and was wondering if anyone knows about graduated seniors from last year's  CCIW teams who are playing some sort of professional ball? Also, do you think the Chicago Bulls are the team to beat in the East this year?

[rknuppel]

Was just sitting here and was wondering if anyone knows about graduated seniors from last year's  CCIW teams who are playing some sort of professional ball? Also, do you think the Chicago Bulls are the team to beat in the East this year?

I know Chris Martin of Elmhurst is playing in Luxembourg.  They are currently first place in their league and he's basically dominating.  Here is their team link if anyone cares to follow:

http://www.t71.lu/men.html

[rknuppel]

Elmhurst 74
Alma 66

Way to take care of business on the road EC!  10-17 from 3's for Elmhurst.  That'll work   

[devildog29]

Was just sitting here and was wondering if anyone knows about graduated seniors from last year's  CCIW teams who are playing some sort of professional ball? Also, do you think the Chicago Bulls are the team to beat in the East this year?

Keelan Amelianovich is playing in Spain.  If you snoop around this website enough, Pat has a link about it with some pictures and articles.

[knarocky22]

Rick Harrigan is currently playing for the Burger King Limerick Lions in the Ireland-SuperLeague South.  However, I couldn't find any stats.

http://www.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=IRL&Team=914

Jay McAdams-Thornton currently plays for Anastasia de Fray Bentos in Uruguay.  I couldn't find any stats for him either.

http://www.latinbasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=URU&Team=5521

[devildog29]

Here's the link to Keelan in Spain.

http://basketballinspain.blogspot.com/

[Mr. Ypsi]

Adam Dauksas also signed with the same team as Keelan, but changed his mind before the season began and decided to get on with his post-bball life.

[Gregory Sager]

Hopefully this team won't look past Alma (and towards finals and 9 days without a game) and roll into the BlueJay classic on a 5 game winning streak.  Speaking of that BlueJay classic, if you're in the area on Sat/Sun Dec 16-17 there should be some exciting basketball with Grinnell, Whitewater, and Kalamazoo visiting.

I'll be there ecdubb!  Looking forward to watching some good basketball.  And watching Grinnell.

LOL! Nice jab, Ryan. See you at Faganel next weekend!

to my knowledge brizzolara is neither injured, nor sick.  i think he is still working himself back into basketball shape after the year off.  that and aloisio is doing what brizzolara did for the team two years ago.

The Aloisio explanation is a lot more reasonable than the "working himself into shape" explanation. Brizzolara started the first two games of the season and played 24 and 29 minutes in them. Since then his minutes have gone 1, 2, DNP, and 5. My guess is that he was merely a stopgap for Mark Scherer until some of his other players got healthy.

Speaking of Mark Aloisio, I wonder if he's the first Wheaton Academy graduate to play men's basketball for a CCIW school other than Wheaton?

Let's be fair to Wheaton as far as scheduling goes. They do play DI Northwestern later this month.

That game was set up as a last-minute fill-in for Northwestern. NU coach Bill Carmody first asked NPU coach Paul Brenegan back in the summer if he was interested in bringing the Vikings into Welsh-Ryan Arena in early December, but since the Park didn't have any contracts it could get out of, Carmody gave the game to Wheaton instead. You can't really give Wheaton too much credit for scheduling it, since no D3 coach in his right mind would ever turn down an invitation to play a D1 team and collect that gate guarantee -- especially when it's a Big Ten team. Nevertheless, Wheaton was already going to play a pretty good non-conference sked this year -- Hope and Calvin certainly aren't chopped liver, Chicago is a good team as well, and you can't blame Bill Harris for the fact that normally-tough Benedictine is in a rebuilding year.

I think that I was more than fair to Coach Harris. I guessed that Principia was a fill-in for him -- just as Wheaton is a fill-in for Northwestern. When you have a scheduled opponent who has to break the contract at a fairly late date, you can't always choose an ideal substitute. Just ask Salem International, the D2 team that got OSU-Marion to fill in for SIU's tournament at the last minute when another D2 team (Wayne State) canceled, leading to the whole Lincoln/OSUM debacle of last weekend.

I've teased Bosko Djurickovic mercilessly over the years about some of the mutts he's scheduled because he couldn't find anyone else on short notice to fill in a late hole in the schedule (Parks College of Aviation and Moody Bible Institute while he was at North Park, both of which turned into 50-point routs, and Taylor-Fort Wayne, formerly Fort Wayne Bible College, whom he had to bring in at the last minute as the fourth team in the Carthage-LeMay Classic back in the Wiertel/Garnes/McDaniel era and which ended up being a 117-40 walk in the park for the Redmen). But the fact is that teams will inevitably cancel out on you at one time or another if you're a head coach, and if they do it late enough you'll probably find yourself getting stuck with asking someone else to fill in that is so far down the totem pole of small-college basketball that they're nothing more than a blowout waiting to happen.

I'm certainly hoping that Wheaton gives a good accounting of itself against Northwestern next week. There will more than likely be 3,000+ people in Welsh-Ryan Arena that night who, like most basketball fans, scoff at D3. That means that there's probably going to be 3,000+ who might reconsider their opinion of D3 men's basketball, and the CCIW in particular, if Wheaton gives the Wildcats a good game.

Who knows? I might even be induced to wear orange next Thursday for the second time in this school year. 

[Gregory Sager]

The only thing that is not in the Mix is the QOWI which won't count against a D1 school.   (am I right mr. sager?)

[Ed McMahon voice]

You are correct, sir!

[/Ed McMahon voice]

[Pat Coleman]

I solicited a response from Master Blaster.

Have you been to any D1 final fours?   The scale of difference is appalling.  D3 deserves more, and your acceptance as hierachy pundit is lemming like.

NCAA is big business and  they treat D3 as intramural.  So be it.  Salem is just fine, and justifies that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Some want more, and others are happy with less.

Uh huh ... well, I certainly appreciate the desire to do better, no doubt there. The Salem Civic Center has been upgraded a little bit since your last trip as well.

However, I wouldn't be too impressed with the typical crowd of 3,200 to 3,600 in a larger arena. That's basically what the D-II final is like and it looks pretty bad on television.

[dansand]

Rick Harrigan is currently playing for the Burger King Limerick Lions in the Ireland-SuperLeague South.  However, I couldn't find any stats.

http://www.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=IRL&Team=914

Jay McAdams-Thornton currently plays for Anastasia de Fray Bentos in Uruguay.  I couldn't find any stats for him either.

http://www.latinbasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=URU&Team=5521

Harrigan is second in the Irish Superleague at 27.1 points a game. His teammate, Theo Powell (Carthage) is averaging 18.1 points and 8.4 rebounds for Limerick. Josh Hinz of Beloit also plays in the same league (24.4 ppg, 8th in the league). Patrick Glover, who's 12th in the league in scoring, was the nation's top D3 scorer for Johnson State in 2002-03 (at least, I'm assuming it's the same guy).

http://www.superleagueball.ie/