WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Just Bill]

Greg and all,

You might be interested to know that Division III is starting to do statistics reporting in the same manner that D-I does, meaning that the host school uploads a report directly to the NCAA after each game.  In the past, schools would send their stats to the conference SID who would then transmit them to the NCAA once a week (usually on Sunday or Monday).

The plus is that eventually we will get to the point where the national statistics rankings for D-III will be updated in real time (or at least daily) as each game ends and get reported.  Currently (and probably for the rest of this season) the national report is only updated every Tuesday, which isn't very helpful once you get to Saturday's games.  Once all D-III SIDs are completely on board and the bugs are worked out, they will literally be able to update the national leaders as often as they want.

[Gregory Sager]

That would be huge, Bill. Having the conference SID function as the middleman is never a good idea; many leagues don't have a full-time conference SID, and you can't always assume that this sort of thing is seen as a priority. There are holes all over the place in D3 athletics reporting, and this should help fill up some of those holes on the national level.

I've never understood why so many D3 schools don't take sports information seriously. Not only do you reinforce the popular perception that D3 is "glorified intramurals" if you don't do a professional job with your school's sports information, you also deprive the school of a resource for both public relations and admissions recruitment -- and a lot of D3 schools could use help in both of those areas.

/soapbox

[RogK]

Greg, since you used the term "soapbox" in that post, could you be more specific?
Was it Biz? Boraxo? A-L-L?

[Wydown Blvd.]

That would be huge, Bill. Having the conference SID function as the middleman is never a good idea; many leagues don't have a full-time conference SID, and you can't always assume that this sort of thing is seen as a priority. There are holes all over the place in D3 athletics reporting, and this should help fill up some of those holes on the national level.

I've never understood why so many D3 schools don't take sports information seriously. Not only do you reinforce the popular perception that D3 is "glorified intramurals" if you don't do a professional job with your school's sports information, you also deprive the school of a resource for both public relations and admissions recruitment -- and a lot of D3 schools could use help in both of those areas.

/soapbox

+1

[RogK]

Greenville topped North Central 60-53.
Jackie Errico had 20 pts, 9 reb. Helen Muleya had 6 steals.
NC shot poorly : 15/42 2FGs, 2/20 3FGs and 17/31 FTs. Did they breathe in too many fumes on the bus ride?

[WLCALUM83]

Millikin beat WLC by 13, (Warriors were without one starter--who had good reason to miss the game- this starter's older sister's getting married today.)

[RogK]

scores from the weekend :
78-60, 66-47, 77-67, 71-63, 70-40, 67-54, 93-35.
Nikkis did very well.
Nikki Preston (IWU) had 19 pts, 9 reb in 17:00.
Nikki Tipsword (Millikin) scored 32 in 52:00 over two games. Teammate Elise Wildman had 19 pts, 19 reb in the 58 point clobberation of Blackburn.

[RogK]

Elise Wildman, who has had a bunch of fine games already this season, wins the CCIW Player of the Week honor. Congratulations!

[RogK]

Sounds like Millikin has another good player:
https://www.millikin.edu/sites/athletics/Pages/AthleticNews.aspx?ID=8378
She didn't play in yesterday's 66-46 win over Cornell.
Olya Cholewick led M with 21 pts (9/15 FG incl 2 threes, a FT), while Crystal Zeigler grabbed 15 rebs. E Wildman and J Robert had 15 pts each. Bethany Wellbaum played 40:00 and had only 3 TOs; she is not easily fatigued.
Cecily Aldridge must be injured, as she has missed the last 5 games.
In the other CCIW contest last night, North Central was topped by Benedictine 73-64.

[iwu70]

IWU over Baruch in the blizzard-delayed game in New York City.  Titans go to 7-3 with a 75-71 win, after leading 41-30 at halftime.  Titans play #2 Kean University tomorrow in Union, NJ.  A New Year's eve game vs. #2 in the country will be a good test of where the Titans really are now, before the start of the CCIW campaign.

Happy New Year to all . . . esp. all in snow-drenched New York City. 

[gordonmann]

We're going to do an audio broadcast of the Titans' battle with Kean tomorrow at 1 pm ET.  Click here to listen.  

There's also a separate video broadcast by Kean.  Click here to watch.

[Mr. Ypsi]

#15 IWU trailed most of the game against #3 Kean, but finished the game on a 23-7 run to win going away, 68-57.

Stacey Arlis led the scoring with 17, but player of the game has got to be Britt Hasselbring who had 15 points and 15 boards, not to mention 4 steals, 3 assists, and a block!  Monster game, Britt!

[iwu70]

Congrats to the Titans for the two wins, including taking down #3 Kean, on the snowy, difficult East Coast trip.   Two games in two days -- 6 p.m. delayed and 1 p.m. the next day.  Travelling around NJ in the snow is never fun!!!   Welcome home to the warm confines of the Shirk.   Indeed, a monster game for Brittany Hasselbring. 

[gordonmann]

I was very impressed by IWU's victory at Kean today.  Hasselbring stole the show with the double-double and Arlis is a really nice post player.  The most impressive element of today's win was that IWU didn't get big contributions from Preston and Schulte, played against a really tough defense and still found a way to win on the road.  That's the stuff national championships are made of.

[bblover]

Clearly, the sugarplums were still dancing in their heads that is the heads of the players and coaches of Nebraska Wesleyan and Elmhurst. With 8 minutes left in the first half, the score was just 12-8. Nearly every point scored was either a layup or a free throw. Perhaps, noticing that neither team could shoot a jump shot, Wesleyan went into a tightly-packed zone. Elmhurst did not respond well; poor ball movement led to a number of turnovers. At the half, Wesleyan led 23-21. Elmhurst was clearly flat coming out of the locker room. Continuing to use its zone, Wesleyan dominated the first five minutes, stretching its lead to nine. Both teams tried to go inside, but Wesleyan was clearly more successful. Unfortunately for Wesleyan, foul trouble forced them to sit down their bigs and it was then that Elmhurst woke up from their long winter nap. Raising their defensive intensity seemed to ignite their offensive skills, at least some of them. They still could not hit a 3 to save their life. They ended the game 0 for 15. Wesleyan was 0 for 3. However, Elmhurst started hitting some mid-range jumpers. With 8 minutes left, the game was tied, and from that point, neither team could gain control. With a little over a minute left, Elmhurst took its first lead of the half. As it had all evening, Wesleyan responded, going inside, scoring two key buckets to take a 3-point lead with just 49 seconds. Elmhurst remained cool. Merklein hit a mid-range jumper to cut it to one. Elmhurst played tough defense and got the ball back with 10 seconds and called time out. They managed to get the ball to Merklein, who had trouble grabbing hold. She did get a shot up, but it missed. Ney rebounded, was probably fouled but also missed. Somehow, in the middle of the lane among some very big players, a not so big Kelsey Monroe managed to grab the ball, put it back up and literally stop time. Her shot which left her hands with just a tick or so remaining hung on the rim for what seemed like an eternity. While it remained on the rim, the horn sounded. I thought for a brief moment that it was going to fall out, but clearly, Kelsey must have been a very good girl in 2010. It fell in. A very nice way for Elmhurst to enter the CCIW and excellent present for the fans who got to see this defensive gem of a game.