WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Hoosier Titan]

Thanks Hoosier.  We lost a ton of talent and a significant percentage of our scoring to graduation so we're a young team and last night should be confidence builder. 

The farm would be State Farm an organization Titan and I have in common.  As you are undoubtedly aware it has a presence in Bloomington. 

Good luck the rest of the season.  I'm sure coach Smith will get it figured out. 

The Warhawks looked very good.  You should have a good season.

Ah, State Farm.  We have a steady stream of IWU students going to work there; far more than do traditional farming.  Now I get it.  (And yes, my house overlooks the corporate headquarters).

[Gregory Sager]

NPU evened its record at 2-2 with a 73-53 win over Blackburn in the crackerbox tonight. Roxxanne Jones again paced North Park with 20 points, and she added a game-high eight rebounds as well. Torey Walker chipped in 13 points, and Sarah Peterson added 10.

The outstanding stat of the night, though, was sophomore point guard Shaina Yalda's 13 assists against only one turnover. She fell two shy of tying the North Park all-time single-game assists record of 15, set by Becky Johnson Djurickovic against Carthage back in 1983. Yalda now leads the league with a 3.71 assist/turnover ratio, almost a full point and a half ahead of Wheaton's Brooke Olson in second place at 2.22.

[Gregory Sager]

NPU defeated Aurora in the crackerbox this afternoon, 66-48. Lyndsey Thompson and Sarah Peterson each had double-doubles, with Thompson going 16 and 13 and Peterson contributing 10 and 14, with Peterson dishing out four assists to boot. Torey Walker was the high scorer for the Vikings with 18 points, and PG Shaina Yalda continued her fantastic start to the season in terms of her floor game by posting eight assists and only one turnover, upping her assists/turnover ratio to 4.25.

[RogK]

Other recent CCIW results:
Carthage topped the Coe Eds 62-57. Diana Jacklin led four Lady Reds in double figures with 15.
Nikki Preston scored 24 (8/12 incl 5 threes) and nabbed 6 steals as IWU beat Cornell 79-65.
Natalie Runge poured in 27 (11/15, 5/6) and grabbed 13 rebs in Augie's 62-60 loss to Webster.
Elmhurst went 1-1 in the Cal Luth tournament, defeating the host team 72-71 but falling to LaVerne 69-66.

[RogK]

Augustana built an early 16-12 lead Sunday over Wash U, but things went sour thereafter, ending 78-48 in favor of the Missourians.

[RogK]

The second conference Player of the Week honor goes to Julia Robert. Congratulations!

[Gregory Sager]

Other recent CCIW results:
Carthage topped the Coe Eds 62-57.

The actual nickname of Coe College, the Kohawks, has produced what I consider to be the best posting name on d3boards.com: coocooforcoekohawks.

This individual posts mostly posts on the men's basketball boards, and every time I see that moniker it makes me hungry for chocolate kid's cereal.

[RogK]

That is a clever one, Greg.
Carthage squeaked past Loras last night, 58-57, and are now 5-0. Diana Jacklin had 5 steals, 3 blocks, 11 rebs and 17 pts.
The new D3Hoops poll has the Lady Reds at number 5. Too bad we don't have any Carthage fans participating on this page, so we don't know if their hot start is exciting or not.

[RogK]

North Central got 42 of its 71 points off the bench and beat RMU-Springfield by 19.
Jenny Swanson scored 20 via some sharp shooting, including 5 of 7 threes.
Fellow sub Yassenia Cabadas added 11 pts in her 15:00.
Fourteen Cardinals played, none exceeding 25:00.
The opposite philosophy applied for Millikin, which used seven players in their 70-64 OT loss to UW-Platteville. Elise Wildman had 21 pts and 15 rebs in her 41:00. Cecily Aldridge played 44:00 and registered 19 pts, 8 rebs, 4 steals. Point guard Beth Wellbaum played 45:00; I wonder if she did 1000 dribbles in one game (15 dribbles in maybe 65 or 70 possessions?).

[Just Bill]

Can anyone explain Milikin beating top-10 ranked UW-Stevens Point on the road and then losing to WIAC also-ran UW-Platteville at home?  Strange result.

[RogK]

Against Point, Millikin made 8 of 16 threes. Last night they made 4 of 29.
Not having seen either game, I couldn't attribute the above to anything for certain.
By the way, it's way too early in the season to label Platteville's team, or any team, as "also-ran."

[Gregory Sager]

NPU fell to #2 Hope tonight, 72-47. Sarah Peterson and Roxxanne Jones each picked up two fouls within the first 3:15 of the game, which pretty much ended North Park's chances of hanging with the Dutch long-term. Still, the Vikings were competitive until an 8-0 run late in the first half basically put the game away for Hope, which went into the locker room at the half with a commanding 37-16 lead.

The Vikings did manage to more or less trade baskets with Hope throughout the second half, but it was mostly cosmetic; the Hope coach put in his third team with six minutes left in the game and the Dutch up by 25, and that ended up being the game's final margin, so the game was not as close as the final score seems to indicate.

NPU didn't quit, though, and I thought that Dana Christensen and Torey Walker in particular played well. Walker and Roxy Jones led the Vikings with nine points apiece, and Christensen added eight. Sarah Peterson was her usual gung-ho self before fouling out -- she had the unenviable assignment of guarding Hope's 6'3 superstar Carrie Snikkers.

What impressed me most about Hope was not the fact that the Dutch are big, athletic, and highly skilled, it's their motors. They never give up on a ball, and they really get after it on defense and on the boards. I'm hopeful that this will be a learning experience for NPU in that the Vikings will be a little less likely to be freaked out when they face Illinois Wesleyan and Carthage.

[RogK]

Last evening, I saw Wheaton's 84-63 loss at the U of Chicago.
Excluding team rebounds, the Maroons got 38 of the 58 contested rebounds. And, Chicago's tough half-court defense held the Thunder to 8 for 36 on 2FG attempts.
A couple of positives for Wheaton :
Lindsey Brenneman scored 18 pts from 13 FG att.
The end of the soccer season allowed Laura Karsten to join the basketball team.

[Wydown Blvd.]

Im quoting you and adding it to the UAA board. Thanks RogK and feel free to add more comments on the game (or the Maroons) to our section.

[billys]

Against Point, Millikin made 8 of 16 threes. Last night they made 4 of 29.
Not having seen either game, I couldn't attribute the above to anything for certain.
By the way, it's way too early in the season to label Platteville's team, or any team, as "also-ran."

We'll see when the season's over. Very few of us who watch the WIAC would predict anything better than 6th place for UWP