WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

Morgan Harris will be hard to replace for the Lady Reds, because she did so many different things for them and did them all well, but, yeah, that's a good core that Carthage is returning.

[RogK]

North Central's new roster has 11 returning players and 7 freshmen. Glad to see that their best per-minute rebounder is back. That's Diamond Calicott, one of the more fun CCIW players to watch play, with lots of effort and enthusiasm. *
https://northcentralcardinals.com/roster.aspx?path=wbball
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* the roster has now been modified, sans Calicott -- see later posts

[Gregory Sager]

What an un-NCC-like recruiting class. Typically, a North Central roster in any sport is like a directory of suburban Chicagoland, particularly the western and southwestern suburbs. This septet of plebes for the 2018-19 Cardinals features only two Illinoisians out of the seven, and only one of the two is from Chicagoland.

[AndOne]

What an un-NCC-like recruiting class. Typically, a North Central roster in any sport is like a directory of suburban Chicagoland, particularly the western and southwestern suburbs. This septet of plebes for the 2018-19 Cardinals features only two Illinoisians out of the seven, and only one of the two is from Chicagoland.

It's only a matter of time before the NCC recruiting begins with Spanning the globe.........🏀 😏

One of the first, if not the actual first, acts of the new NCC Coach was to call all of the recruits to confirm and cement their commitments.

[Gregory Sager]

What an un-NCC-like recruiting class. Typically, a North Central roster in any sport is like a directory of suburban Chicagoland, particularly the western and southwestern suburbs. This septet of plebes for the 2018-19 Cardinals features only two Illinoisians out of the seven, and only one of the two is from Chicagoland.

It's only a matter of time before the NCC recruiting begins with Spanning the globe.........🏀 😏

Yeah, and when that happens you can listen to some Wheatie come at you with, "Well, you're just copying Wheaton by bringing in players from all over the country." I had that happen to me once; some Wheaton fan pointed out with pride that their student body comes from all over the country. When I pointed out that North Park's does, too, that was the retort that I received: "Well, you're just copying Wheaton." I had to explain to her that North Park has been drawing students from all over the country since 1891 as a result of its affiliation with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

[RogK]

So, the North Central roster has been modified, now listing 7 returning players and 8 freshmen.

[AndOne]

Ya, but Allison Pearson still isn't from Iowa. 

[AndOne]

So 7 possible NCC returnees won't be doing so.
By far, the biggest loss is Maya Walls who started 24 of 25 games, and who led the team in rebounds while finishing second in scoring.

Congrats to new coach Maggie McCloskey-Bax for being able to persuade the 8 newbies to stick with their previous commitments and enroll at NCC. After finishing 5-20 (3-13) last season, opportunity abounds in Naperville. 🏀

[Gregory Sager]

Ya, but Allison Pearson still isn't from Iowa. 

No, but she's got a serious CCIW pedigree. Her father and grandfather both played basketball for North Park. Her dad is former NPU assistant coach and current CCIW men's basketball referee Jeff Pearson; her grandfather is retired NPU biology professor and former Vikings captain Pete Pearson. Her mom is an Elmhurst grad.

That makes two members of the NCC women's basketball team and one member of the Carthage women's basketball team whose dads played hoops for North Park.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Ya, but Allison Pearson still isn't from Iowa. 

No, but she's got a serious CCIW pedigree. Her father and grandfather both played basketball for North Park. Her dad is former NPU assistant coach and current CCIW men's basketball referee Jeff Pearson; her grandfather is retired NPU biology professor and former Vikings captain Pete Pearson. Her mom is an Elmhurst grad.

That makes two members of the NCC women's basketball team and one member of the Carthage women's basketball team whose dads played hoops for North Park.

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Well that sorta explains Carthage (her dad presumably played for Bosko, though I don't know how much if at all he has to do with the women's team), but how did two 'defect' to NCC?

[Gregory Sager]

Well that sorta explains Carthage (her dad presumably played for Bosko, though I don't know how much if at all he has to do with the women's team), but how did two 'defect' to NCC?

John Prochaska, the father of Kendall Prochaska (the Lady Red in question), was really a baseball player at North Park for Bosko. "Pro" moonlighted as a basketball player one season when Bosko needed another tall player to fill out the JV team. I think that Tim Bernero was Bosko's assistant basketball coach at North Park when Pro suited up. Another one of Bosko's former North Park basketball players, Scott Stenmark (who is North Park's CFO), has a daughter named Taylor who starts for the Lady Reds soccer team.

I can't put my finger on why so many daughters of former NPU men's basketball players are going to other CCIW schools. It's a mystery. Perhaps they all just like the color red.

[AndOne]

In the instances of the two young ladies 👩🏻 👩🏻 whose fathers attended NPU, their choices of NCC are obvious reflections of the fact that they possess a higher degree of intelligence 🧠 🧠 than do their respective male parental units. 😉 😉

[Gregory Sager]

... says the guy who went somewhere other than a CCIW school for his college education.

[Pat Coleman]

... says the guy who went somewhere other than a CCIW school for his college education.

Hey, he just wanted to be out on the plains, man ...

[Gregory Sager]

Who doesn't?