WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

Sorry Ypsi, you just gotta hunker down and get through it.  Your choice living there in Polar Vortex territory. 

Games pushed back a day to avoid the worst of it.  Sounds like you are preparing for the nuclear winter . . .

Titans stay at #13 in this week's poll.

Should be a real good one, eventually, up at Wheaton, for the CCIW regular season crown.  I hope the Titans can push the pace and get something out of the defensive pressure. WC handled it well last time and several of our players had sub-par games.  Let's hope the Titans play more to recent form. 

I'm sure the big thaw will eventually come . . .  have faith.  "Spring" training on the horizon now . . .

'70

[GoPerry]

"Due to extreme cold, Wheaton College is canceling classes that begin after 5:00 p.m. tonight (1.29.19) until 1:15 p.m. on 1.31.19."

[iwu70]

I think IWU closed down for Wednesday as well . . .

'70

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[GoPerry]

Keys for Wheaton tonight will once again be defensive intensity.  They have to be ready for a highly motivated green team(Shanks and Schneider won't be kept off the score sheet again) and get off to a good start themselves.  Hannah Williams was a non-event offensively at Shirk but has been playing well lately.  She, Myroth and Kyler need to bring it.

Winner will most certainly host the CCIW tourney. 

[Gregory Sager]

Decisions are being made on a sport-by-sport, school-by-school basis at the moment, aside from the two basketball sports. North Park and Aquinas have canceled their men's volleyball match scheduled for this evening, which I think is sensible; Aquinas is located in Grand Rapids, and lengthy travel should be discouraged in this weather whenever possible. Given that it's not only non-conference but an NCAA/NAIA crossover, there's no real urgency to play the match. (I'm a bit disappointed in the cancellation, since Aquinas is 9-0 and ranked in the top ten in NAIA, but it's not as though I'm howling in anger over this match not being played.) There's one CCIW wrestling meet taking place today; it's MSOE @ Concordia (WI), which is downtown Milwaukee to the Milwuakee suburbs and thus hardly a long trip. I don't know if any scheduled CCIW wrestling meets got moved around this week, since that's a sport I don't follow. I do know enough about CCIW swimming & diving to know that it's almost entirely a weekend sport on both the men's side and the women's side.

Nevertheless, the Carroll @ NPU women's basketball game remains scheduled for 4:30 this afternoon. It hasn't been moved back to the later hour subsequent to the volleyball cancallation because, I'm guessing, Carroll has already booked its charter for an early afternoon departure time from Waukesha. I'm somewhat surprised that Elmhurst and Augustana moved up their women's game from 7 pm to 5:30 this afternoon, for similar reasons. The other two women's games, and all four men's games, in the CCIW will tip off as originally re-scheduled at 7 pm.

[Gregory Sager]

NPU canceled classes again today, but the basketball game is still on for this afternoon. That may be a blessing in disguise; people might come over to watch the game just because nothing else is happening on campus today. Then again, the cold might scare people from walking from one side of the campus to the other!

[Gregory Sager]

Carroll 79
North Park 63

Sinead Molloy: 14 pts, 5:1 a:to
Jayla Johnson: 14 pts
Zakiya Newsome: 11 pts

Katie Rossetti: 19 pts, 3:1 a:to
Alyssa Cruz: 18 pts
Suierra Grubor: 16 pts
Celina Schwantes: 6 rebs
Kayla Stefka: 3:0 a:to

[iwu70]

In the big game at WC -- IWU leads at the half 32-28. 

'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

At the half, IWU 32, Wheaton 28.  The winner of this game will probably host the conference tourney.

[RogK]

Glad to see that NP's Zakiya Newsome played today, so her knee apparently wasn't substantially injured the other day. I may have attended today's game, but am in Fort Lauderdale and Tri-Rail doesn't go to Foster and Kedzie.

[Gregory Sager]

As I speculated on NPU's broadcast on Saturday, Zakiya landed on the point of her kneecap. It was really more of a scary moment for her than anything else.

It was good to see NPU's Alisha Panthier on the sideline today. She's been going through some very serious health problems that were potentially life-threatening over the past month, and it has resulted in the end of her career, but she's back in class at NPU now after medical treatment and should graduate on time this spring.

[RogK]

Thanks for that info Greg. Wow. Best of luck to Alisha.

[iwu70]

Titans had a very poor 3Q, second half, WC the better team against the TITANS this year, winning 58-52, again in a game and pace favoring Wheaton's style of play.  Good D by WC, with the Titans again having a very poor shooting night, as cold as outdoors, only 26% and 20% from 3.  Can't win games shooting it like that.  Titans looked stagnant and slow during the second half, not their usual speed and pace.  WC with some good blocks as usual.

WC:
Frazier 18 (solidifying her MOP prospects)
Berg 11

IWU:
Hughes 12
Sosa 10
Lansford, a good first half, 9

Unless WC lets up, takes another loss, looks like they will win the CCIW regular season race.  A real lost opportunity for the TITANS.

Still more basketball to be played. 

Congrats to Wheaton on their big win at home tonight.

IWU'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

Since Wheaton swept IWU, they would have to lose TWICE to not host the conference tourney.  I just don't see it happening.