WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

RogK, I often "sit corrected!"  +1    

Interesting on the FT analysis.  Maddie Merritt, given the presence of McGraw and Ehresman, is often under-appreciated, unmentioned.  She's a very valuable part of the IWU success so far.  I think she has a very worthy successor now in Brovelli, who will take time to develop, reduce fouling etc. but will be a very good CCIW player in the next few years.  Along with Hughes and Sosa, IWU is going to be a better rebounding team in the next couple of seasons.

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

The CCIW non-conference schedule concludes this evening as Wheaton hosts NAIA Trinity Christian College (from south suburban Palos Heights). The Trolls are 9-11, but have won four of their last six. Their average score is 69 for and 73 against. They are averaging -12 rebounding and +5 for turnovers.
I forget if Wheaton's status within the NCAA tournament consideration would be affected by a game vs an NAIA opponent.

Wheaton's game against TCC will not count towards the primary criteria. It will count towards secondary criteria, if Wheaton ends up in a Selection Monday debate that the committee can't settle by use of the five primary criteria. In other words, this game probably won't matter much at all for Wheaton.

[RogK]

Thanks for that info, Greg.
Wheaton won 94-51 and out rebounded Trinity 62-30! Jill Berg had 12 rebs in 17:00 and Jenn Berg had 10 in 20:00.
Kelly Lawson scored 24 pts from 13 FG att, a .923 eFG%, and had 6 rebs and 5 assists.
Kristi Demski scored 18 from 13 FG att, a .692 eFG%.
Maggie Dansdill and Hannah Frazier scored 15 and 12, respectfully. Respectively, too!

[iwu70]

Wheaton looks stronger and stronger.  Not the toughest competition. 

Great game upcoming vs. IWU on February 7th?

'70

[GoPerry]

Thanks for that info, Greg.
Wheaton won 94-51 and out rebounded Trinity 62-30! Jill Berg had 12 rebs in 17:00 and Jenn Berg had 10 in 20:00.
Kelly Lawson scored 24 pts from 13 FG att, a .923 eFG%, and had 6 rebs and 5 assists.
Kristi Demski scored 18 from 13 FG att, a .692 eFG%.
Maggie Dansdill and Hannah Frazier scored 15 and 12, respectfully. Respectively, too!

The Thunder continue winning with a not too challenging W.  There were some great highlights however with Soph Kristi Demski having a career high 18 pts.  Her 4 straight 3 ptrs in the 1st quarter really blew it open early.  Great to see Kelly Lawson with a  high scoring game tonight.  How nice would it be to see her come into the 1st All Conf form we were used to last year?

[iwu70]

The Shill Report:

Titans extend their winning streak to 13, with an easy win in Wisconsin, 89-46 over Carroll.

34 forced TOs leading to 41 points, and 46 points from the Titan bench, no IWU starter playing more than about 20-25 minutes. 

Titans shooting 51% from the field and 61% from behind the arc.  Cruising.

Ehresman 9 and 8 steals
Hughes 12
Anderson 12 (shooting the 3 ball very well)
Schneider 10
McGraw 9
Monroe 9
Shanks (healthy again) 8
Sosa 6

For CC:
Wald (game high) 15
Rosetti  10 RBs.

Titans move to 15-2, and complete the first round of the league at 8-0. 

Keep it rolling TITANS!

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

I think I can safely say North Central opened its game with Elmhurst with its worst quarter all year, falling behind 22-2 after one (I almost had to do a double take when I actually looked at the box score) and dropped a 77-55 decision at Faganel.

Mayson Whipple led the Cardinals with 12 points, but committed 6 turnovers in the loss; Lyndsay Brennan added nine. Mikaela Eppard went off for 24 to lead the Blue Jays.

And for what it's worth, there were 11 birds off the bench for NCC. 

[iwu70]

Imitzel, NCC women's basketball has fallen far.  Sad.  Maybe they should go back to the "system?" 

'70

[lmitzel]

Imitzel, NCC women's basketball has fallen far.  Sad.  Maybe they should go back to the "system?" 

'70

It's been a rough year, but I don't think a return to The System is coming any time soon. They've had nights where they've played all right and just haven't been able to hit shots, but they've also had nights like tonight.

[iwu70]

Seems to me now that the schedule really favors, is an advantage for IWU.  They have 5 home games, 3 away . . and the bye week just before the important game with Wheaton.  It's a very auspicious arrangement, IMHO.  I think they have a shot at 16-0.  Playing well, with lots of confidence and depth, not many minutes being played by the starters.  Freshmen making a huge contribution.  Run and jump doing its dirt.

'70 

[iwumichigander]

Imitzel, NCC women's basketball has fallen far.  Sad.  Maybe they should go back to the "system?" 

'70

It's been a rough year, but I don't think a return to The System is coming any time soon. They've had nights where they've played all right and just haven't been able to hit shots, but they've also had nights like tonight.
[/quoteI think I it takes as much time to implement "the system" as it does to turn the corner with traditional style of play.

[Gregory Sager]

Augustana 77
North Park 51

Shaylee Sloan: 9 rebs
Lauryn Alba Garner: 4 stls
Alicia Arnold: 3 stls
Sinead Molloy: 3 stls

Clare Kramer: 14 pts, 7 rebs
Alexis Jones: 12 pts, 12 rebs
Sadie Roberts: 12 pts, 6 rebs
Victoria Allen: 7 rebs
Megan Stovall: 6 rebs
Scooter Lopez: 9"6 a:to, 5 stls

Not a single NPU player scored in double figures tonight, as Augie played the game at the breakneck pace it likes and which the Park simply isn't capable of handling. Augie also outrebounded NPU by a huge 67-41 margin.

I think I can safely say North Central opened its game with Elmhurst with its worst quarter all year, falling behind 22-2 after one (I almost had to do a double take when I actually looked at the box score) and dropped a 77-55 decision at Faganel.

I can top that. Augie led NPU 24-2 at the outset of the game.

[RogK]

That could've been a higher scoring game, but 48-44 over the last three quarters is very standard or blah. North Park made 11 of 51 2FGs; another 13 2FGs (say 24/51, 47%) would raise them to 77 pts. And Izzy Anderson (potential 1st teamer all-CCIW) had a crud game for Augie, holding down their output.
Would've, could've. Oh well.
Sitting courtside, I noted some of Scooter Lopez's vocal leadership (seemed a mix of instruction and encouragement), to go along with her significant impact as a ballhandler.
Early in the game, NP's Sinead Molloy took a hit to an eye defending a drive to the hoop and had to recover on the bench. I was glad to see that she was well enough to return to play.
Augie was 2/10 at the foul line, reinforcing the old adage "Make 20% of your free throws and you'll win with ease."

[RogK]

A few discrepancies :
in the stats, Carroll's Mallory Olszak is shown as Olsazak; teammate Hannah Kloehn is shown as Klohen. I assume the spellings in their roster are correct.
NP's Lauryn Alba Garner has two lines in the stats on cciw.org.
It is probably very tedious to fix these, but it should be done, maybe at the end of the season.

[RogK]

Carthage 74, Millikin 51
The Lady Reds had four score in double-digits : Sammie Woodward (15), Madie Kaelber (13), Bailey Gilbert (13), Autumn Kalis (11) and they all shot efficiently.
Morgan Harris had 15 rebounds. Maggie Berigan had 9 pts, 3 blocks and a steal in 14:00.
Lauren Moses led the Big Blue with 12 pts. Jordan Hildebrand added 11 and 6 rebs in 14:00.