WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[lmitzel]

updated conference standings :
9-1 IWU WHE
8-2 CTG
5-5 AUG
4-5 ELM
3-7 NCC NPU
2-8 CRL
1-8 MIL

Touching a little more on this, officially Illinois Wesleyan and Wheaton haven't clinched CCIW Tournament berths yet, but because North Central and North Park play on Saturday, they will both lock up their berths regardless of what happens on Saturday. Carthage can clinch a berth with a win as well.

[Gregory Sager]

Hannah Frazier yet another pretty big night.  At this point in the season making a solid case for MOP (yes, I know there are other candidates, more games to play, etc etc).

She's the best player I've seen all year. She's leading the league in scoring and in blocked shots, she's second in rebounding, and she's on every CCIW leaderboard except steals and a:to ratio. Barring some sort of unexpected absence or a total collapse of her game, she deserves to be named MOP.

Touching a little more on this, officially Illinois Wesleyan and Wheaton haven't clinched CCIW Tournament berths yet, but because North Central and North Park play on Saturday, they will both lock up their berths regardless of what happens on Saturday. Carthage can clinch a berth with a win as well.

The NCC @ NPU contest on Saturday is absolutely huge for both teams in terms of the playoff race.

[GoPerry]

Wheaton @ Carthage.  Massey has it as a mathematical tossup, 50%-50%.  Sounds about right to me.

A big one if Wheaton can pull out this road W.

[GoPerry]

Wheaton 61, Carthage 51

Not always pretty offensively but I thought Wheaton played really good defense.  They delivered really good pressure on the ball and kept the Lady Reds offense in check.  The good D puts alot less stress on your offense if it's not quite clicking.

Hannah Williams (20 pts) had another really good game.  Hannah Frazier with 15 pts, 13 rebs.  Kirsten Madsen a solid game with 9 pts in 22 mins.

Maddie Beriigan led Carthage with 15 pts.  Maddie Kaelber was surprisingly held scoreless.

[Gregory Sager]

North Central 67
North Park 53

Jayla Johnson: 16 pts
Angelina Villasin: 10 pts
Josie Summerville: 14 rebs

Alanna Newsome: 16 pts
Tyonne Howard: 11 pts
Lyndsay Brennan: 7 rebs, 5:0 a:to
Mitrese Smith: 6 rebs

[iwu70]

WC holds court at Carthage, so it comes down to the IWU at WC game next up.

Titans will have to get the pace up, going in their favor, playing their style of game.  And, get something out of the defensive pressure.  Would be nice to see all the various elements of the Titan attack working well at once, in the same game.  Last time, several key players had off-nights, shot it poorly, and that led to the loss by 2 points at the Shirk.

Go TITANS!  Big game time!


IWU'70

[lmitzel]

A lot of upheaval in the standings tonight.

Team	Record
x-Wheaton	10-1
x-IWU	9-1
Carthage	8-3
Augie	5-6
Elmhurst	4-6
NCC	4-7
NPU	3-8
Carroll	3-8
Millikin	2-8

The x's denote what I'd mentioned in the past couple days: Wheaton and Illinois Wesleyan have both clinched berths in the conference tournament. Wheaton will also guarantee that worst-case scenario, they'd host a quarterfinal if it came to that, while Illinois Wesleyan can guarantee the same if they steal a win at King Arena.

Also, don't look now, but North Central can move into 5th in the conference with a win at Millikin on Wednesday.

[RogK]

Carroll 72, Augustana 64 ... 3rd consecutive defeat for AUG.
Very assertive/productive game for CRL's Alyssa Cruz : 20 pts, 10 rebs, 8 assists, 8 TO, 3 steals; the Pios also got 14 pts, 10 rebs, 4 blocks by Katie Rossetti and 14 pts 6 rebs from Kayla Stefka. Carroll won by a fairly comfortable margin despite missing 18 of 36 FTs.
AUG got 24 pts from Izzy Anderson and 15 pts 9 rebs by Alexis Jones.
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Millikin 79, Elmhurst 72 :
for MIL : Briana Anthony 11 pts 4 assists, Aubrey Staton 12 pts 9 rebs, Jordan Hildebrand 16 pts 10 rebs, plus a huge 30 pts 4 steals by Yanni Saddler.
ELM was led by Kellee Clay's 19 pts (.708 eFG%).
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I saw the NC win at NP. Injuries are a very unfortunate aspect of sports. NC's Natali Dimitrova took a hard fall and appeared to have a hurt shoulder (maybe), but returned late in the game with a finger wrapped. I don't recall if she began the game with that wrap. (How's that for fact-filled reporting?) Anyway, hopefully no lingering effects for her.
Best wishes also to NP's Zakiya Newsome who appeared to suffer re-injury of a knee. Hopefully she'll recover fast. She's a diligent competitor who also remembers to have fun playing.

[Gregory Sager]

It scared the heck out of me when NPU's Zakiya Newsome went down and was pointing at her recently-healed right knee. I don't want to speculate, but our production director thought that she came down on the point of the knee, making it likely that she banged her kneecap rather than damaged her repaired ACL (or tore another one). I hope he's right, and I hope that the injury was either momentary or minor. It's not just that NPU needs her, it would also be really unfair if her career was hampered further by knee trouble.

[duckfan41]

All men's and women's games in the CCIW scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed because of the bitter cold that will sweep through the Midwest.

https://twitter.com/cciw_athletics/status/1089978429884137472?s=21

The much anticipated rematch between Wheaton and IWU will have to wait until another day.

[Gregory Sager]

All men's and women's games in the CCIW scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed because of the bitter cold that will sweep through the Midwest.

https://twitter.com/cciw_athletics/status/1089978429884137472?s=21

The much anticipated rematch between Wheaton and IWU will have to wait until another day.

Three of the games -- EC @ AC, IWU @ WC, and MU @ NCC -- are postponed for 24 hours and will tip off on Thursday night at 7 pm. The rescheduled date of the CU @ NPU game remains TBD, because North Park is hosting a men's volleyball match on Thursday night.

[GoPerry]

Congratulations to Millikin's Yanni Saddler for her well deserved recognition as CCIW Player of the Week.

[iwu70]

Congrats to Ms. Saddler.  Really a good player.

Guess we wait an extra day for the IWU vs. WC re-match.

Stay safe, stay warm, stay indoors, everyone.

'70 -- basking in sunny high 70s, here in Hong Kong!     "Hong Kong winter!"

[Mr. Ypsi]

Congrats to Ms. Saddler.  Really a good player.

Guess we wait an extra day for the IWU vs. WC re-match.

Stay safe, stay warm, stay indoors, everyone.

'70 -- basking in sunny high 70s, here in Hong Kong!     "Hong Kong winter!"

Mark, you really do have a sadistic streak!

Yesterday, I went out and stocked up on the three most important items: coffee, beer, and whiskey!  Plenty of food in the pantry and freezer.  We're good 'til March, if necessary, though I sure hope it doesn't come to that!

[Gregory Sager]

The Carroll @ North Park game has been rescheduled for Thursday afternoon at 4:30 pm. This will allow NPU to get in the men's volleyball match as well immediately afterwards, and it won't leave either the Vikings or the Pioneers hanging in terms of having less prep time for Saturday's games than the other CCIW teams will have.