WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[lmitzel]

Looked like a pretty good day overall for the CCIW teams in action, as they went 4-2 last night, including North Park's win.

Other results:
@ Loras 81, Elmhurst 77
Elmhurst 70, @ Franklin 39
@ Augie 102, Rockford 61 (those of you who had money on Augie being the first team in the conference to break the century mark this season, go collect your small fortune)
@ Millikin 82, Monmouth 60
@ Hope 99, Wheaton 97 (OT) (Including a pretty nice game-winning layup with video available over on the MIAA board)

Apparently Wheaton blew a 19 point lead in the loss, but I wouldn't read too much into it, seeing as it's hard to go into Hope and come away with a win.

Congrats to Liz Rehberger on joining the Thousand Points Club tonight!

*hat tip*

*also praying Liz doesn't drop another 40 burger at Merner this year*

[RogK]

A review of the box scores reveals that Katie McDaniels and Morgan Harris are each averaging 38 pts per game this season. Not bad at all.
Significant variation among the FT attempts for CCIW teams last night : Elmhurst 8, Wheaton 11, Millikin 13, Carthage 19, North Park 29, Augustana 30. No correlations implied or suggested.

[iwu70]

Titans open up the season this Saturday, with their normal very tough pre-CCIW schedule of games.   Titans could be very very good this year.

IWU70

[RogK]

Carroll, down 3 at the half, fell 76-49 to St Norbert.
Brittney Wald topped the Pioneers with 14 pts, 12 rebs and 36:00.

[lmitzel]

North Central opens its 2016-2017 season tonight at Merner Fieldhouse as they welcome Piedmont College. Tip off is scheduled for 7:00pm.

Video of the game will be available at nctv17.com. Radio call can be heard at WONC.org. Either way I'll be the guy yelling "THREEEEEEEEE!" a bunch.

[iwu70]

Good luck to Coach Smith and all the Titans as they open their season this weekend.

Nice year preview and summary in today's Pgraph.  Lots of experience coming back, and perhaps better rebounding this year.  Keep will be success of "run and jump" -- as always -- and somewhat better three point shooting.  I think Molly McGraw and Rebecca Ehresman have monster years.   Key may be how well the rest of the roster plays and contributes, esp. to defense and decent three point shooting.  Titans need to overall be a better shooting team this season.

IWU70

[lmitzel]

Final from Naperville: NCC 101, Piedmont 67

Very sloppy game, was only 18-8 NCC after 1, but the Cardinals morphed into Golden State for a shift and hit five straight threes in the 2nd to blow it open.

Anita Sterling led all scorers with 15, Shannon Ryan had 12, and Michaela Reedy added 11. Jamie Cuny pulled down 10 rebounds. Carlie Shields led Piedmont with 13 points, and Brianna Barrett added 10.

Piedmont is all worn out for your Vikings tomorrow, Greg. Have fun.

[Gregory Sager]

Piedmont is all worn out for your Vikings tomorrow, Greg. Have fun.

Thanks for doing your bit, Cardinals.

[RogK]

Saw Wheaton's 90-33 victory over Blackburn. The Thunder's veteran / returning players all looked good. And the freshmen class appears to be a very promising group, with size, running ability and a variety of talents. Coach Madsen may find it difficult to allot playing time for all of them, although he may "bring them along slowly" anyway.
By the way, the season preview on Wheaton's web site mentions that Ellie Zeller is expected to join the team in the second semester (January, I suppose). If she's back to full strength, she'll be a very helpful addition (previously achieved all-conference status).

[Gregory Sager]

North Park 86
Piedmont 57

Liz Rehberger: 29 pts, 4 stls
Gabby Sandoval: 11 pts, 3 stls
Alicia Arnold: 11 pts
Clarissa Ramos: 7 rebs

The Vikings shot 10-15 (67%) from beyond the arc today.

[RogK]

I attended the North Park win today and was impressed by Liz's spectacular effort (and results). Many times, she was a step or two ahead of the opposition.
Fellow Vikings made nice contributions, as well.

[lmitzel]

North Park 86
Piedmont 57

Liz Rehberger: 29 pts, 4 stls
Gabby Sandoval: 11 pts, 3 stls
Alicia Arnold: 11 pts
Clarissa Ramos: 7 rebs

The Vikings shot 10-15 (67%) from beyond the arc today.

You're welcome, by the way. 

Sounds like a good win. Two straight days Piedmont essentially got shot out of the gym. Today's was just in a more traditional sense where North Park got hot. But now I'm fearing another Liz Rehberger 40 burger at Merner.

[Gregory Sager]

In keeping with the actual tally of yesterday's box score, it didn't appear to me that the Cardinals exhausted Piedmont. Lions coach Jamie Purdy used 19 players against NCC, and only two of them played more than a half's worth of minutes. The Lions looked fresh today. They simply didn't have anyone who was equipped to handle Liz Rehberger's quickness and scoring versatility, and with the emergence of sophomore Alicia Arnold the Vikings now have more good shooters on the perimeter than they've had in the past. The Vikings didn't even need junior starting forward Shaylee Sloan, who didn't play today.

Another big factor in the blowout was that the Lions were an atrocious 1-20 from downtown today. Add that to their 5-28 tally from beyond the arc yesterday in the airplane hangar, and it's clear that the Lions didn't stow their shooting eyes in their baggage when they flew into Midway the other day.

[lmitzel]

Another big factor in the blowout was that the Lions were an atrocious 1-20 from downtown today. Add that to their 5-28 tally from beyond the arc yesterday in the airplane hangar, and it's clear that the Lions didn't stow their shooting eyes in their baggage when they flew into Midway the other day.

Their outside shooting was one thing that concerned me going into last night. They shot well in their win over Birmingham Southern, and I wasn't sure if it would carry over. Clearly it didn't. I just think it's crazy they allowed 28 threes the past two days.

[RogK]

Uh, Imitzel, you've fallen behind on posting all the CCIW WBB scores.