WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

Merry Christmas all . . .and a Happy New Year, too.  Let's hope 2022 is good to us all and that the pandemic will wane.

Good luck to the TITANS out in Oregon, later in the new week.  Some winnable games at George Fox and Pacific.  And, hopefully some fun at the Blazers game, too!  Safe travels, be well.

IWU'70

[RogK]

Carthage prevailed at St Olaf today, 68-58.
Among those who did well :
Lauren Knight - 23 pts and 10 rebs;
Marianna Morrissey - 5 steals and 2 blocks;
Kelsey Coshun - a very useful 11 pts off the bench in 17 1/2 minutes

[iwu70]

IWU plays @George Fox today . . . in Newberg, Oregon.  I think 8 p.m. CST.  Kaia Bowen not making the trip due to positive covid test . . .       Catie Eck likely back in the starting line-up after missing two games likely for the same reason.

Good luck to the TITANS for these two games on the West Coast . . . enjoying a taste of the Pacific Northwest!   

A game tomorrow vs. Pacific -- in Forest Grove, near Portland, too -- 6 p.m. CST.

Happy New Year all . . . soon, early January, here comes the meat of the CCIW race, season.

IWU'70

[GoPerry]

Wheaton 59
Concordia – Wisc  51

Annika Richardson   16 pts, 8 rebs
Hannah Swider   14 pts, 6 rebs
Ellie Cassel   9 pts 16 rebs

Reagan Obry   14 pts
Lindsey Smitsdorff  13 pts, 10 rebs

The Thunder were again without Annie Tate and also Caylee Hermanson, both of whom are normally starters.  But they managed to get by the Falcons.  Richardson played very well and seems to be more comfortable on the court with increasing minutes.  Swider stepped up once again to take on more scoring load because the team really needs it.  Without Tate, the Thunder are just an average team.

Tate, Hermanson and about 2 or 3 other roster players were not on the bench even in street clothes.   The injured Tate might just be staying at home since students are not due back on campus until Jan 8, 9.  The others might also be home or in isolation somewhere?

[Jester1390]

Is George fox players color blind can't they see green

[Mr. Ypsi]

FINAL:  IWU 65, George Fox 61.  Not as decisive as the national finals in 2012, but I'll take it!

[iwu70]

IWU 65 George Fox 61 . . . "run and jump" strikes again, IWU turning over GFU 32 times? 

Mallory Powers with a great game, 17 points.

Up next, a tougher Pacific team . . .  in Forest Grove, tomorrow at 6 p.m. CST.

The IWU men demolish #1 Yeshiva . . .the women get it done with defense.


IWU'70

[Jester1390]

IWU game was a **** show for fox.  IWU played some good defense but my god let's not throw the ball every time to the girl in green.  Shows how bad the outside shooting was for IWU  not crushing fox with all the turnovers    IWU coach did great job getting in her players ass bout just bombing away and had them concentrating getting to paint at start of 2nd half.   Don't know what Huber final numbers were but I didn't think she was a factor as I have seen in the past.  I did see her go down hard and momentarily stay down got up a little gingerly but kept playing

[iwu70]

Jester, yes, Huber has been struggling some in recent games, driving into traffic.  Luckily, Powers and Palmer just keep improving.  IWU will miss Kaia Bown on this trip, esp. defensively.  Eck is streaky and didn't have a good shooting day vs. GFU.  "Run and jump" always brings the TO gifts.  Titans very weak in the paint this year.   They need to develop some bigs, for sure.  Still, grinding it out, a win is a win, right?   I think Pacific will be a tougher challenge today.

Happy New Year to all in the Titan Nation and all the CCIW chatsters.

'70

[Gregory Sager]

After suffering the Covid-imposed loss-but-not-a-loss cancellation at Augustana and the subsequent cancellation at Dominican, North Park finally gets back into action this afternoon against Mount Mary in the crackerbox.

This will be the first game I've called for either women's or men's basketball in nearly three weeks. It's been so long that I'm going to have to bring my ad copy with me just in case my mind goes blank during commercial breaks.

[RogK]

UW Oshkosh (11-2) 67, Carthage (8-4) 40
Lousy shooting by Carthage : 5/19 3FG, 10/28 2FG, 5/9 FT;
Kelsey Coshun did shoot well (3/6 2FG, 3/4 FT).
Nearly half (33) of Oshkosh's points came from three-land.

[RogK]

Augustana (6-5, 7-5 by CCIW rules) had no trouble with Monmouth (6-3), 79-54.
Augie was excellent from the field : 8/21 3FG and 25/40 2FG.
Vikings who reached double figures in scoring : Lauren Hall 19, Macy Beinborn 15, Gabriela Loiz 14, Emma Berg 10 (she led the team in playing time, 26 minutes).
Augie's group effort won the rebounding 40-32.
Ah, just noticed that Augie was up 51-21 at the half. I'm guessing they didn't feel the need to win by 50 or 60.

[RogK]

Elmhurst was to play at Beloit yesterday, but the game did not occur.
Beloit's next game is also off, so their Covid testing must have been the issue.

[RogK]

I attended the somewhat sloppy CUW - Wheaton game.
There were hints of how Concordia's lowpost offense would succeed, but Wheaton denied easy lane access for most of the game.
Wheaton is much more fun to watch when they have Annie Tate.
As GoPerry noted, we here don't know when she'll return to action.

[GoPerry]

I attended the somewhat sloppy CUW - Wheaton game.

Another 20 turnover game for Wheaton.  Their lack of care with the ball, unforced throwing passes away, is problematic and a limiting factor to their success.  They should be able to improve on this but they aren't.