WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

Congrats to Molly McGraw and all the IWU track and field women on their team national championship.  Great stuff.  Go TITANS.

iwu'70

[Naperick]

Elmhurst's new schedule :
http://elmhurstbluejays.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball

5 of their last 6 CCIW games on the road.

[AndOne]

Elmhurst's new schedule :
http://elmhurstbluejays.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball

5 of their last 6 CCIW games on the road.

The is even worse than the NCC men's team who will have 4 of their last 5 on the road.
I know they have their supporters/defenders, and making up a schedule is not easy, but the way the basketball scheduling is done in the CCIW is one of my pet peeves about the conference. What the h e double hockey sticks is going on in the conference office?
It seems doubtful they know the definition of equitable, and much less so that they have ever heard the word. 

[lmitzel]

Elmhurst's new schedule :
http://elmhurstbluejays.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball

5 of their last 6 CCIW games on the road.

The is even worse than the NCC men's team who will have 4 of their last 5 on the road.
I know they have their supporters/defenders, and making up a schedule is not easy, but the way the basketball scheduling is done in the CCIW is one of my pet peeves about the conference. What the h e double hockey sticks is going on in the conference office?
It seems doubtful they know the definition of equitable, and much less so that they have ever heard the word. 

Yeah, whoever does the schedule totally dropped the ball on Elmhurst. I know we had this discussion a while back on the men's board too, but this just boggles my mind. They don't even have balance in the two halves of conference play there; Elmhurst plays 5 of their first 8 CCIW games at home, then get the aforementioned road stint.

I don't understand why they couldn't, say, flip the home-and-home with Wheaton so they play at King Arena in December and back in Elmhurst in early February. You get an even 4-4 home-road split in both halves of conference play and it breaks up the 5-of-6 on the road to end the year, while balancing out one three game home stand with one stretch of three straight on the road. Then again, I don't have an in with the CCIW office.

I just hope no one else gets a funky imbalance like that.

[RogK]

Once this info is known,
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2016/6/12/womens-basketball-announces-newcomers.aspx
there should be an audible OH CRAP!! emanating from Decatur, Rock Island, Chicago, Waukesha, Naperville, Kenosha, Elmhurst and Bloomington.

[lmitzel]

Once this info is known,
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2016/6/12/womens-basketball-announces-newcomers.aspx
there should be an audible OH CRAP!! emanating from Decatur, Rock Island, Chicago, Waukesha, Naperville, Kenosha, Elmhurst and Bloomington.

Yeah, that's a pretty good recruiting class at a glance. Combined with what they're bringing back, Wheaton is one of the two teams that scares me the most along with Illinois Wesleyan as a Cardinal guy. Maybe Wheaton more so just because NCC hasn't beaten them since 2009.

[GoPerry]

Once this info is known,
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2016/6/12/womens-basketball-announces-newcomers.aspx
there should be an audible OH CRAP!! emanating from Decatur, Rock Island, Chicago, Waukesha, Naperville, Kenosha, Elmhurst and Bloomington.

We love guards and forwards of the 5'11" and 6'2" variety . . . looks like a couple real scorers and WC can't get enough Bergs.

[RogK]

I wonder if Wheaton will shut out some opponents for a full quarter a few times in '16-'17.
They almost did so last season, limiting Augustana to 2 in the 4th Q of a game.
They held IIT to 1, 5, 2 and 2, but IIT was a pretty sad team, so maybe we'll disregard that game.

[RogK]

The new Carroll head coach has been announced :
http://gopios.com/news/2016/6/23/schultz-named-womens-basketball-head-coach.aspx
Welcome to the CCIW.

[Titan Q]

IWU recruit Sydney Shanks is the Pantagraph Female Athlete of the Year.

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/high-school/basketball/girls/pantagraph-female-athlete-of-the-year-central-s-shanks-a/article_c8c5cbe7-65c0-5933-bee0-4863f714ce22.html

[lmitzel]

Found out yesterday that former Elmhurst guard Devin Vaughn is returning home to be an assistant coach for Tethnie Carillo and the Blue Jays after a one year stint helping with The System at NCC. Seeing a lot of defections between the two schools the past few years...

[RogK]

Some more schedules :
http://athletics.northpark.edu/schedule.aspx?path=wbball
http://gopios.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball
Less than two until practice begins.
(months)

[lmitzel]

Some more schedules :
http://athletics.northpark.edu/schedule.aspx?path=wbball
http://gopios.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball
Less than two until practice begins.

With the exception of NCC, everyone's schedule is up. I was at least able to build out North Central's conference schedule based on everyone else's. Assuming it's all final, their first four conference games are on the road, though that's three in December and then the fourth in opening week of January, but they make up for it with four straight at home towards the end of the season.

[lmitzel]

After about two months repeatedly checking the page (I have a problem), NCC's schedule is finally up.

http://northcentralcardinals.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball

No Tip Off Tournament this year, which makes me sad. Three tournaments still on the schedule: two local (at North Park and at NAIA Roosevelt University) and one in Hawaii, which makes me insanely jealous. Remaining non-conference games are the season opener at home against Piedmont, at Benedictine, and at Stevens Point.

I also misread IWU's schedule and had the home/road dates flipped, so no four game home stand in February. A pair of three game home stands and no more than two in a row away from Merner for conference play. I can live with this, even though my work load is decreasing.

[gordonmann]

Thanks for the heads up on NCC's schedule.

We have all the CCIW schedules (men's and women's) posted on our site. If you click on a team's page, it'll still default to 2015-16 for a little while. We want to get more teams' schedules in the system before we set the default to 2016-17. But you can look at all the schedules by following this format:

http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/North_Central_(Ill.)/men/2016-17/index
http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/North_Central_(Ill.)/women/2016-17/index