WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RogK]

In the game I attended, Elmhurst was up by 25 after 3 quarters and prevailed with an 85-71 win over North Park.
Mikaela Eppard rang up 27 pts and 20 rebounds. Not bad. NP's Liz Rehberger scored a very efficient 38 and added 5 steals. Also not bad.
Elmhurst is playing with an effective amount of confidence. One worry for the 'jays is that they have just one more home game in the regular season. Things are looking good for them.

[RogK]

Carthage topped Augie 73-62, thanks in part to another fine game by Rachel Szydlowski -- 20 pts, 13 rebs and 4 blocks. Sadie Roberts led the Vikings with 17 pts.
Millikin upended Carroll 91-59. Devin Curry had 22 pts and 5 stls, while Emily Schultz tallied 19 and 10 rebs.
Brittney Wald did very well for what has to be an exhausted Carroll team; she had 24 pts and 9 rebs. The Pioneers have been using 7 players for a while now.
The updated CCIW standings :
WHE 8-1
ELM 8-2
IWU 7-2
AUG 6-4
CTG 5-5
NCC 4-6
MIL 3-7
NPU 2-8
CRL 1-9
Carthage is now in the thick of the race and North Central has entered "must win" territory for the foreseeable future.

[RogK]

So, lmitzel, can I pick on you to reveal if there were specific things that aggravated you during the 1st half? Was it as iwu70 implied -- the NCC game plan was hopeless vs Wheaton? Was NCC's effort deficient? From the stats, I see that NCC's taller players mostly did not rebound very well. The play-by-play has at least 8 NCC TOs in the 1st Q.
Do you think the Cardinals can recover from their current 3 game slide and run off a streak of wins? After the Wednesday bye, they have North Park, Millikin, Elmhurst and Carroll. To stay in the race, they need all 4 of those games, particularly with Carthage and IWU scheduled at the end of the regular season.
oops -- make that IWU and Augie.

[GoPerry]

In the game I attended, Elmhurst was up by 25 after 3 quarters and prevailed with an 85-71 win over North Park.
Mikaela Eppard rang up 27 pts and 20 rebounds. Not bad. NP's Liz Rehberger scored a very efficient 38 and added 5 steals. Also not bad.
Elmhurst is playing with an effective amount of confidence. One worry for the 'jays is that they have just one more home game in the regular season. Things are looking good for them.

Elmhurst still has to play @ Wheaton, @ IWU and this Wednesday @ Augie.  I think they will do really well to win 2 out of those 3, more likely win only 1 out of 3 and possibly go 0-3.  Granted, Augie is definitely leaking oil right now so they are ripe for the taking.

As I mentioned before and evidenced by Saturday's win, I think Kenosha is a tough trip and always a challenge to come away with a road win.  We'll see on Wednesday if Wheaton is up to the challenge.  I'm not sure the NCC game really tells us much.  I'm definitely going to have to listen to Imitzel's call and hear his anger . . .

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[lmitzel]

So, lmitzel, can I pick on you to reveal if there were specific things that aggravated you during the 1st half? Was it as iwu70 implied -- the NCC game plan was hopeless vs Wheaton? Was NCC's effort deficient? From the stats, I see that NCC's taller players mostly did not rebound very well. The play-by-play has at least 8 NCC TOs in the 1st Q.
Do you think the Cardinals can recover from their current 3 game slide and run off a streak of wins? After the Wednesday bye, they have North Park, Millikin, Elmhurst and Carroll. To stay in the race, they need all 4 of those games, particularly with Carthage and IWU scheduled at the end of the regular season.
oops -- make that IWU and Augie.

I don't think the game plan was bad. I do think the team kind of no-showed the opening quarter-plus. The officials were calling a tight game, the Cardinals never adjusted, but they also played sloppy on offense. By the second half I'd accepted that they had no-showed the game and I tried to have fun the second half as much as I could. I'm assuming the fact that they only lost the second half by 3 that Coach Roof chewed them out at halftime combined with Wheaton calling off the dogs to some degree.

I definitely think they can turn it around. The schedule is favorable the next couple weeks, to the point that 3-1 is doable as long as they play better than they did last night. That Elmhurst game is the big one, but is also the scariest. Like you said, they need that one to have hope of climbing back into the tournament picture.

[lmitzel]

I'm definitely going to have to listen to Imitzel's call and hear his anger . . .

If you listen close when it got to about 15 or 17-0, Katie McDaniels hit a wide open layup, and you can hear the exasperation when I call her name after the layup. Might even catch a face palm or two at the table if the camera was timed right.

[RogK]

Good interview with Elmhurst coach Tethnie Carrillo, Dave. As was noted, she is due fairly soon to have child number 2; we all on these pages wish her the best.
She expressed high confidence that her assistants will keep things going well for the team when the time comes, as she misses a few games.

[GoPerry]

I'm definitely going to have to listen to Imitzel's call and hear his anger . . .

If you listen close when it got to about 15 or 17-0, Katie McDaniels hit a wide open layup, and you can hear the exasperation when I call her name after the layup. Might even catch a face palm or two at the table if the camera was timed right.

Does NCC re-broadcast their games . . a la On Demand?

[Gregory Sager]

Yep. They're on YouTube.

[iwu70]

I think EC is playing very well, Eppard really carrying them.  IWU's re-match with them a key game for the TITANS.  Plenty of tough games remaining for everyone.  IWU has to face "the system" again too, so that's always a scary game if NCC gets hot from three, can make problems.  As you know, I'm not a fan of "the system," but you always have to worry that NCC will just snap out of their funk and have a hot night.  Injuries have really hurt them. 

CCIW championship for the regular season could come down to that last game IWU @ WC.

IWU70

[RogK]

Several players have earned consideration for player of the week this time. I'd include Brittney Wald, Rachel Szydlowski, Mikaela Eppard, Devin Curry and Liz Rehberger who each had a pair of productive games.
I think I'd go with Szydlowski. We'll see.

[lmitzel]

Several players have earned consideration for player of the week this time. I'd include Brittney Wald, Rachel Szydlowski, Mikaela Eppard, Devin Curry and Liz Rehberger who each had a pair of productive games.
I think I'd go with Szydlowski. We'll see.

Appears the CCIW agrees with you. Hard to argue against it.

http://www.cciw.org/news/2017/1/30/WBB_0130172156.aspx

[RogK]

She contributed greatly to two season-saving victories for the Lady Reds. Carthage is no doubt happy to be 5-5 instead of 3-7.
The other four I listed certainly were outstanding. Which reminds me, wasn't there a joke about the farmer who was out standing in his field?

[Gregory Sager]

Not that I want to spoil your prognosticating by making it too easy for you, Rog, but keep in mind that the league office is almost always going to choose the POW based upon whether or not her team won their games that week. It takes an absolutely extraordinary week for a player to win POW in spite of her team suffering a loss that week.