MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[AndOne]

God must have a sense of humor, and the joke is on NPU, because He must have used His all-encompassing power to rid all teaching of grammar at North Park.

His sense of humor must extend to Augustana as well, where he appears to have rid all teaching of the distinction between spelling and grammar.

Actually, he did spell since correctly, so technically, it is a grammar error.

Technically, its a grammatical error rather than a grammar error.   

[dansand]

I've also heard that 6'6 forward Kyle Nelson of Deerfield is headed to Augustana. Any confirmation, Dan?

As Ed McMahon said, "You are correct sir."

What I've heard for Augie so far is:
Kyle Nelson, 6-7, 195, Deerfield, IL HS
Keaton Frye, 6-4, 205 North Scott (IA) HS/Valparaiso transfer (So.)
Brett Wessels, 6-2, 190 Bettendorf, IA HS/Iowa transfer (Jr.)
Tyson McCreight, 6-2, 160 Sherrard, IL HS
Sean Bjork, 6-6, 200 UTHS (IL) HS (where his coach was Steve Yount)

I've heard rumors, but no confirmation on Mike Vandello, 6-7, 220, a previously mentioned potential Illinois State transfer and Amin Ekalino, 6-9, 185 from Sudan and Rock Island HS.

[Titan Q]

Here are the Pantagraph articles on Travis Rosenkranz and Sean Johnson...


http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/04/10/sports/125205.txt

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/04/12/sports/doc461eee558f3bb103484816.txt

[Gregory Sager]

God must have a sense of humor, and the joke is on NPU, because He must have used His all-encompassing power to rid all teaching of grammar at North Park.

His sense of humor must extend to Augustana as well, where he appears to have rid all teaching of the distinction between spelling and grammar.

Actually, he did spell since correctly, so technically, it is a grammar error.

No, it isn't. He wasn't trying to spell the temporal adverb "since"; he was trying to spell "sense". It's a spelling error.

[Titan Q]

Decatur Herald & Review and IL Prep Bulls-Eye on Rosenkranz...

http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/04/13/sports/h_r_preps/boys_basketball/1022660.txt

http://ilprepbullseye.com/page39.html

[Late nite]

Also a rumor---Mike Avallone, 6'4" shooting guard from Neuqua Valley

I've also heard that 6'6 forward Kyle Nelson of Deerfield is headed to Augustana. Any confirmation, Dan?

As Ed McMahon said, "You are correct sir."

What I've heard for Augie so far is:
Kyle Nelson, 6-7, 195, Deerfield, IL HS
Keaton Frye, 6-4, 205 North Scott (IA) HS/Valparaiso transfer (So.)
Brett Wessels, 6-2, 190 Bettendorf, IA HS/Iowa transfer (Jr.)
Tyson McCreight, 6-2, 160 Sherrard, IL HS
Sean Bjork, 6-6, 200 UTHS (IL) HS (where his coach was Steve Yount)

I've heard rumors, but no confirmation on Mike Vandello, 6-7, 220, a previously mentioned potential Illinois State transfer and Amin Ekalino, 6-9, 185 from Sudan and Rock Island HS.

[BeastMaster]

Wasn't going to post again but wanted to mention that mu will announce their new coach on monday. May be a familiar name from a few years ago for mu. Not supposed to say who it is but I really don't care. He will definitely be hurting on the recruiting front. I think he will have a good chance to be successful.

[scacbbfan]

Before the Littrell decision, Millikin was in on several good players from Central Illinois, the metro East area and the Chicago area.  The main reason those prospects had Millikin on their short lists was Littrell.  The prospects (and their families) knew that Littrell was everything you could possibly want from a D3 coach.  In any event, put all or even some of those prospects in the mix with MU's last two recruiting classes, especially last year's bigs, and Millikin was set for several years to be in contention for CCIW championship runs.  The Littrell decision by MU was wrong for any number of reasons, but the most immediate impact is the loss of what promised to be the best recruiting class in many years.  Littrell is an outstanding person and coach who was a great representative of the university for over 30 years.

[Titan Q]

AndOne was correct.  IWU received a verbal commitment from 6-7 F/C Edmond O'Callaghan from St. Patrick H.S. a couple days ago...

http://iwuhoops.blogspot.com/


O'Callaghan was heavily recruited by numerous small colleges, including a lot of CCIW schools.  He should be a good, solid low post player in the CCIW. 

[augiefan]

I assume Brett Wessels is Drew's younger brother. I see he was a seldom used walk on at Iowa. I sure hope he has similar skills to his big brother, as Drew's spot is going to be hard to fill.

[augiefan]

It looks like IWU is back on track after a down year, The three recruits they have named so far were tremdous high school players, and each of them has potential to be CCIW All Conference performers.

[twocentsworth]

new coach at Millikin named:  Marc Smith, former Millikin asst from 1998-2002.......

http://www.millikin.edu/athletics/headlines.asp?ID=22050

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Nice call from somebody like ten pages back.

[pcarr]

From North Central coach Benjy Taylor has been named head coach at Chicago State.   Apparently improving one CCIW game in three years ('02-'04) eventually gets you a D1 job.  But were his recruits the guys who have helped the Cards move above .500 the last couple years?  Discuss.

I'm going back to my lurking hole now. 

[True Basketball Fan]

From North Central coach Benjy Taylor has been named head coach at Chicago State.   Apparently improving one CCIW game in three years ('02-'04) eventually gets you a D1 job.  But were his recruits the guys who have helped the Cards move above .500 the last couple years?  Discuss.

90 some percent of the North Central squad the last 3 years have been Benjy's kids.  He can definitely take credit for the talent, but Raridon gave them better direction with a more disciplined approach.  Would Benjy have taken this group to the heights that Raridon did the past few years at NC?  We'll never know.  However, if Benjy gets it going at Chicago State (which is another tough school to recruit, along with NC) then maybe we can say "possibly".   I actually think he will do a good job at Chicago State, even though his history as a head coach isn't glowing.  With the amount of talent on the southside, one would think that Chicago State should be very good all the time.  Maybe he's the guy that can do it.