WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[duckfan41]

Wheaton and Millikin will have to wait until tomorrow.

“ThunderWBball: WBB: Due to travel issues, tonight's women's basketball game at Millikin has been postponed to tomorrow night (2/14) at 7 pm.”
*edit below*
https://athletics.millikin.edu/news/2019/2/13/womens-basketball-millikin-womens-game-postponed.aspx

Wheaton’s team bus broke down and they were unable to find another bus that would get them to Decatur in a reasonable proximity to game time.

[iwu70]

IWU and NCC tied at the half 31-31.

'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

NCC is really coming on!  They took Wheaton to double OT last game; tonite they are tied with IWU at 31 at the half.  With their youth (only one senior on the whole roster), they may be scary good very soon.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Now that's more like it - in the first 87 seconds of the third quarter, Titans score 6 unanswered points.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I've seen this movie before, but sometimes reruns are fun!  IWU blows open the game in the third quarter - now up 55-39!

[iwu70]

Yes, the 3Q 24-8 run, the key:

IWU over NCC:  78-68.  NCC with a bright future, many young players.

IWU:
Merritt, a monster game, 26 and 12
Schneider playing well, 18
Shanks 14

For NCC:
Pearson 22
Howard 10

A good win, now a 20 win season.  Congrats to the Titans and the Coaching Staff.  One more regular season game to go, up in Cheeseheadland.  Get everything clicking for the CCIW tournament and the post-season.

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

Those damn third quarters for North Central. A late comeback bid fell short and the Titans will leave Naperville with a 78-68 victory. Maddie Merritt led the Titans with 26 and 12, Ashley schneider scores 18, and Sydney shanks chipped in 14. Allison Pearson paced the Cardinals with 22, Page Desenberg put in 15, and Tyonne Howard chipped in 10.

Alas, my pipe dream of announcing one more game this year is gone.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Final in Naperville, IWU 78, NCC 68.  If you take away the third quarter, NCC was at least arguably the better team, and out-scored IWU 60-54.  Fortunately, the third quarter DOES count!

With only one senior on the entire roster, I would say the future is very bright in Naperville.

Imitzel, I listened to almost the entire broadcast (since the men's game against NPU was over almost before it started), and you (or your broadcast partner) commented several times about disastrous third quarters.  Care to elaborate?  IWU almost always seems to win the third quarter.  Perhaps your coach needs to send a spy to find out Mia Smith's halftime routine!

[Gregory Sager]

North Park 62
Elmhurst 58

Jayla Johnson: 20 pts, 6 rebs
Lauryn Alba Garner: 10 pts
Sinead Molloy: 10 pts
Josie Summerville: 20 rebs

Kelly Weyhrich: 17 pts
Becca Gerke: 8 rebs
Lisa Logan: 7 rebs
Lauren Goff: 3 stls

It was not pretty enough to paste into a scrapbook by any means, but the Vikings gutted out a must-win whose result is as beautiful as one could ask. It went back and forth all night, with neither team able to muster a lead bigger than five points (both EC and NPU had five-point bulges in the fourth quarter), but the Vikings proved particularly scrappy in hanging on with great defense after Jayla Johnson was whistled for her fourth foul early in the final stanza.

After a Jacki Rapp layup gave NPU a 60-56 lead with 44 seconds left, EC's Kelly Weyhrich responded with a layup at the other end seven seconds later to cut the NPU lead back to two. The Vikings were going to take the shot clock all the way down, so the 'jays fouled twice in order to get NPU into the bonus. The second foul sent Zakiya Newsome, NPU's most reliable FT shooter, to the line with 24 seconds or so to go, but Newsome (77% at the stripe this season) somehow missed both free throws. Enter Jayla Johnson, four fouls and all, who came across the lane and grabbed the offensive rebound, the biggest rebound that anybody has pulled down in the crackerbox in ages. Newsome was fouled again, and, given a chance at redemption, this time she made them both -- and then she stole the ball from Weyhrich (who had a fantastic second half for EC) at the other end of the floor to seal the win.

Newsome and Johnson had the heroics tonight, but the Vikings don't win without Josie Summerville's monster night on the glass. Her 20 caroms tonight is a season high for the Vikes and, therefore, a personal high for the freshman from Adairsville, GA, and it's tied for the sixth-best rebounding game in NPU women's basketball history.

With Carroll and North Central both losing tonight, NPU finds itself in a three-way tie for fifth with EC and NCC. I haven't sorted through all of the tiebreaker scenarios yet, but at first blush it appears to me that the Vikings will head to Decatur on Saturday very much in control of their own destiny.

[lmitzel]

With Carroll and North Central both losing tonight, NPU finds itself in a three-way tie for fifth with EC and NCC. I haven't sorted through all of the tiebreaker scenarios yet, but at first blush it appears to me that the Vikings will head to Decatur on Saturday very much in control of their own destiny.

I haven't done it all yet either, and tomorrow's Wheaton-Millikin matchup will clear some things up. But as I understand it, Elmhurst-NCC is a play-in game, and North Park should be win and in as well.

Side note: caught the end of this game. Good call, Greg!

[lmitzel]

Imitzel, I listened to almost the entire broadcast (since the men's game against NPU was over almost before it started), and you (or your broadcast partner) commented several times about disastrous third quarters.  Care to elaborate?  IWU almost always seems to win the third quarter.  Perhaps your coach needs to send a spy to find out Mia Smith's halftime routine!

Full disclosure: not me. I'm the PA guy, so you mainly just hear me yelling in the background because yelling things (mainly #THREEEEEEEEE) is fun

But to answer your question, North Central's worst quarter this season is the third, where they have a -79 point differential. This has been most starkly felt in both losses to IWU (tonight: just 8 points) and this past Saturday against Wheaton (4 points against a Thunder team they were in command against).

[RogK]

Home from the close game at North Park and checking the details of Carthage's 65-59 decision over Carroll.
Autumn Kalis scored 17 via 10 FG att, yielding an .850 eFG%; she added 6 rebs, 6 assists, 2 steals.
Maggie Berigan was productive : 5 blocks, 9 rebs, 12 pts; Rachel Szydlowski had 14 pts, 6 rebs.
Carroll got 11 pts 11 rebs by Celina Schwantes, 20 pts by Sierra Grubor, while Amanda Hooks made 2/2 2FGs and 3/5 3FGs for 13 pts.
Carthage now has a .667 winning pct in CCIW play and in nonconference action.

[GoPerry]

With Carroll and North Central both losing tonight, NPU finds itself in a three-way tie for fifth with EC and NCC. I haven't sorted through all of the tiebreaker scenarios yet, but at first blush it appears to me that the Vikings will head to Decatur on Saturday very much in control of their own destiny.

I haven't done it all yet either, and tomorrow's Wheaton-Millikin matchup will clear some things up. But as I understand it, Elmhurst-NCC is a play-in game, and North Park should be win and in as well.

Side note: caught the end of this game. Good call, Greg!

Yeah - big win for Park over Elmhurst.  If WC beats MU tomorrow, then I think NPU also gets the #6 if NCC beats Elmhurst (2 pm tip off) since I think they have the tie breaker over the Jays.  Elmhurst hasn't beaten Wheaton, IWU, Carthage or Augie while the Vikes have the W over Augie.  At least I think . . .

[Mr. Ypsi]

Imitzel, I listened to almost the entire broadcast (since the men's game against NPU was over almost before it started), and you (or your broadcast partner) commented several times about disastrous third quarters.  Care to elaborate?  IWU almost always seems to win the third quarter.  Perhaps your coach needs to send a spy to find out Mia Smith's halftime routine!

Full disclosure: not me. I'm the PA guy, so you mainly just hear me yelling in the background because yelling things (mainly #THREEEEEEEEE) is fun

But to answer your question, North Central's worst quarter this season is the third, where they have a -79 point differential. This has been most starkly felt in both losses to IWU (tonight: just 8 points) and this past Saturday against Wheaton (4 points against a Thunder team they were in command against).

Yeah, I've seen your "PA announcer" on your intro so many times, but I just forgot and assumed you were one of the broadcasters.   I heard you many a time in the background of the broadcast - it DID sound like you were having fun!

IF you can keep the team together, and IF they progress in the usual way towards upperclassmen, you've got a title contender on your hands in a couple of years.  Except for the third quarter, they scared the **** out of me!

[Gregory Sager]

Side note: caught the end of this game. Good call, Greg!

Thanks, Lucas!