WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RogK]

Aha! The national averages are hidden under the heading "Trends" within National Rankings on ncaa.org, at the bottom of the conference totals.
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The D3 numbers : median team .292, national mean .293; best team is .413, worst is .094; among 435 ranked teams, 39 are under 24%.
The D2 numbers : median team .311, national mean .314; best team is .406, worst is .218; among 301 ranked teams, 6 are under 24%.
The D1 numbers : median team .317, national mean .320; best team is .411, worst is .190; among 349 ranked teams, 4 are under 24%.
these are all through Feb 15 or Feb 17. updates through Feb 18 should appear soon.
The D3 men's 3FG% mean is .346, .053 higher than the D3 women.

[lmitzel]

Rebekah Ehresman is your latest CCIW Player of the Week winner, averaging 16.5 points and 8 rebounds in a pair of Titan wins last week. Amazingly, she's the first Titan to win the award since Molly McGraw back in November. In the time between, nine different players from six different schools have won at least once.

Millikin and North Central are the only schools in the conference who didn't have a player win the award this season. NCC's last winner was Mayson Whipple back in 2016, and Millikin's was Alyssa Saklak back in 2015.

[RogK]

The NCAA D3 WBB stats are updated through yesterday's action.
The composite/national WBB 2FG (not overall FG%) pct is .413. That seems not very good to me. I expected something like .430 or .440.
The 3FG% remains at .293.
Given that .293 on threes is equivalent to .439 on twos, one could broadly conclude that the average team might want to slightly increase the quantity of threes attempted, assuming a lot of things. They probably shouldn't cut back on 3FG attempts, anyway.
Reduction of 3FG attempts may cause dry skin, nausea, lightheadedness, heavyheadedness, agitation, calmness, partial fainting, more nausea, warm sweats, cold sweats, fluctuating height, carbonated urine, itchy hair, hunger, loss of appetite, sarcasm directed toward referees, turnovers, loose shoelaces, sneezing and constipation.

[lmitzel]

Reduction of 3FG attempts may cause dry skin, nausea, lightheadedness, heavyheadedness, agitation, calmness, partial fainting, more nausea, warm sweats, cold sweats, fluctuating height, carbonated urine, itchy hair, hunger, loss of appetite, sarcasm directed toward referees, turnovers, loose shoelaces, sneezing and constipation.

Are there any medications I should stay off of while taking 3FG attempts? I'm pretty sure the high number of threes taken in my presence result in headaches and the slow destruction of my vocal cords.

[RogK]

Are there any such medications to stay off of? Yes. Several!

[iwu70]

Warm congrats to Coach Smith and all the Titans on a share of the CCIW crown. And congrats to Ms. Ehresman on a very well-deserved POW honor.  She's been so consistent in many statistical categories, aspects of play, so key to the overall team success of IWU this season.  I hope she wins the MOP award.  Others are very deserving too. 

Keep going TITANS -- 15-1 and hosting the tournament within reach.  Keep going.  No let down. Great win up at Carthage. 

IWU'70

[iwu70]

It's going to be tough on whichever teams reach the CCIW tournament final, contending for the AQ -- four games in 7 days -- Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Fitness could play a big part. 

IWU'70

[GoPerry]

It's going to be tough on whichever teams reach the CCIW tournament final, contending for the AQ -- four games in 7 days -- Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Fitness could play a big part. 

IWU'70

Wheaton's regular season is done.  They don't play tonight.  4 games in a week is a lot but I can't believe these players aren't in shape by now.

On the other hand, I don't think having the ladies play Tuesday and then Thursday-Saturday is really great.  These are students by the way.  Why not Friday games at 2 and 4 for the ladies and then 6 and 8 for the men?  If the Carthage  ladies win, will they stay over and miss a day of school? If not , that's a lot of travel for them from Wheaton or Bloomington.

[lmitzel]

It's going to be tough on whichever teams reach the CCIW tournament final, contending for the AQ -- four games in 7 days -- Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Fitness could play a big part. 

IWU'70

Wheaton's regular season is done.  They don't play tonight.  4 games in a week is a lot but I can't believe these players aren't in shape by now.

On the other hand, I don't think having the ladies play Tuesday and then Thursday-Saturday is really great.  These are students by the way.  Why not Friday games at 2 and 4 for the ladies and then 6 and 8 for the men?  If the Carthage  ladies win, will they stay over and miss a day of school? If not , that's a lot of travel for them from Wheaton or Bloomington.

I'm assuming they wanted to keep everything in the evenings, and I'm sure the missed class time argument got brought up when this contingency was created.

I would assume that yeah, the Lady Reds would stay in Bloomington if they advanced to the title game. If it were in Wheaton, I'd assume they'd go home. A 2 hour drive isn't as bad.

[RogK]

first time around for tonight's matchups :
NPU 67, MIL 61 : 20 pts for Gabby Sandoval
AUG 94, NCC 55 : 27 pts for Izzy Anderson
IWU 87, ELM 61 : 15 pts for Raven Hughes
CTG 66, CRL 53 : 21 pts for Sammie Woodward
Best wishes to those players whose NCAA playing careers wrap up this evening!

[iwu70]

IWU over EC at the half 39-31.  15-1 looks possible.  Brovelli having a great night, off the bench, in support of Merritt.

'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU has opened up a 25 point lead in the 4th, so it looks like the Titans will be welcoming the Thunder, the Lady Reds, and the Jays to B'town in a couple of days, with a re-rematch of Elmhurst @ IWU in the first round.

[iwu70]

Congrats to Coach Smith and all the Titans on the outright CCIW championship.  15-1, 22-3.  A great regular season.

At Elmhurst, IWU wins going away, 82-61

For EC:
Eppard being Eppard -- 13 and 13
Jones 17

For IWU:

13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 5, 3, 2, and 2 -- great team basketball.

Brovelli with a very good game at 13.

Titans to host the Tourney at the Shirk.  Looks like Augie may come back to win their men's game, tie with the Titans for the CCIW crown, so the men's tourney may be going to RI.  Augie doing what it does.  EC giving them a good fight, but looks like Augie may come back to win.

IWU'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

The men's tourney will be in Rock Island instead of B'town (IWU lost at home to NCC; Augie trailed Elmhurst at home for nearly the entire game, but pulled it out at the end).

Since ONLY the women's tourney will be in B'town, does that mean Fri-Sat after all?

[GoPerry]

Congratulations to IWU on a great season and CCIW regular season 'ship.  They are a terrific and talented team that plays well together and deserves everything they've accomplished so far.