WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RogK]

Last season's Newcomer of the Year was a sophomore, Hannah Frazier. (whatever happened to her? is she still playing?) ha!
I think this season's award should go to one (or more) of these freshmen :
Alanna Newsome, Aubrey Staton, Jayla Johnson, Sierra Grubor.
Let's see how the remaining handful of games go.
Other newcomers have substantially contributed to their teams' causes, of course.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Week 10 women's poll STILL not up - the men's was posted over ten hours ago!  I think Pat needs to light a fire under some of the women's poll voters' butts!

[GoPerry]

Not a lot of movement in the new poll, especially among the top ten.  IWU up one place to #17, Wheaton up a few to #21.

[gordonmann]

Week 10 women's poll STILL not up - the men's was posted over ten hours ago!  I think Pat needs to light a fire under some of the women's poll voters' butts!

No, the voters all got their ballots in well in advance of the deadline. I was just tardy posting it.

Sorry about that.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well, Gordon, shame, shame!

Since IWU had two blow-out wins, while Wheaton had one blow-out win plus a double-OT win, I'm gonna guess that some voters belatedly realized that Wheaton had the sweep over IWU, and belatedly rewarded them with a 3 slot rise over IWU's 1 slot rise.

Regardless of the CCIW tourney, here's hoping BOTH IWU and Wheaton make the dance (and that if someone else gets hot and wins the tourney, they all three make the dance!).

[Pat Coleman]

Gordon and I have significantly different job schedules.

One thing we've learned over the last four or five years is that managing the polls on Monday really takes more than one person. It was one of the key reasons I had to take my sabbatical and it was a huge burden for Gordon in the two seasons I was out.

Short of us both taking Mondays off of work, this is the best we can do.

[GoPerry]

Gordon and I have significantly different job schedules.

One thing we've learned over the last four or five years is that managing the polls on Monday really takes more than one person. It was one of the key reasons I had to take my sabbatical and it was a huge burden for Gordon in the two seasons I was out.

Short of us both taking Mondays off of work, this is the best we can do.

Yeah, so . . .?   

[GoPerry]

I would think both IWU and Wheaton are in the mortal lock category for Pool C consideration.  Both Chicago and WashU lost.  So the Central RR tomorrow will probably be #1-UW-Oshkosh, #2-Wheaton, and #3-IWU in that order - maybe Chicago staying #3.  Looking down the road a bit and provided both continue winning, a Wesleyan/Wheaton CCIW final will not just be for the conference title but possible first round hosting could be at stake.   

[Pat Coleman]

Gordon and I have significantly different job schedules.

One thing we've learned over the last four or five years is that managing the polls on Monday really takes more than one person. It was one of the key reasons I had to take my sabbatical and it was a huge burden for Gordon in the two seasons I was out.

Short of us both taking Mondays off of work, this is the best we can do.

Yeah, so . . .?   

I tried it for three years and it didn't make the website any more revenue, so I went back to work. Sorry.

[GoPerry]

Last season's Newcomer of the Year was a sophomore, Hannah Frazier. (whatever happened to her? is she still playing?) ha!
I think this season's award should go to one (or more) of these freshmen :
Alanna Newsome, Aubrey Staton, Jayla Johnson, Sierra Grubor.
Let's see how the remaining handful of games go.
Other newcomers have substantially contributed to their teams' causes, of course.

I think Newcomer is a dead heat between MU's Aubrey Staton and NPU's Jayla Johnson at this point.

[Gregory Sager]

I don't know. Sierra Grubor has really come on like gangbusters here at the end of the season. She averaged almost 23 ppg in the three consecutive road games that CU just played.

Sierra didn't Mist many shots in those contests.

[GoPerry]

I don't know. Sierra Grubor has really come on like gangbusters here at the end of the season. She averaged almost 23 ppg in the three consecutive road games that CU just played.

Sierra didn't Mist many shots in those contests.

And she's now 2nd leading scorer in the conference behind Frazier.  That's a big consideration for sure.  On the other hand, Staton and Johnson are amongst the leading scorers, but also displaying a few more all around game qualities - rebounds, steals, blocks.   I do have Grubor as 2nd team All-conf.  Just my opinion.

[RogK]

GoPerry, have you settled on all 16 all-CCIW positions? Waiting to see how this week goes?
Last season's 16 was rather top-heavy, 11 being from 3 teams.

[GoPerry]

Well, I've had this penciled for a few days, but wasn't going to post until after Wheaton's last game tomorrow.  But since you asked – still sort of a work in progress.

Here is my first shot:

First:
Frazier (MOP) Wheaton
Maddie Merritt , IWU
Sydney Shanks, IWU
Alexis Jones, Augustana
Devin Kyler, Wheaton
Jordan Myroth, Wheaton
Bailey Gilbert, Carthage
Yanni Sadler, Millikin

Second:
Aubrey Staton(Newcomer), Millikin
Jordan Hildebrand, Millikin
Izzy Anderson, Augustana
Madie Kaelber, Carthage
Autumn Kaelis, Carthage
Sierra Grubor, Carroll
Alyssa Cruz, Carroll
Jayla Johnson, NPU
Lyndsay  Brennan, NCC
Lisa Logan, Elmhurst
Raven Hughes, IWU

I feel very confident about Frazier, Merritt, Shanks and Jones as 1st team.  I feel pretty good that either Kyler or Myroth will be 1st team as well - possibly both - but I'm not sure Wheaton deserves three first teamers.  The other will fall to second. The only question about Gilbert and Saddler is that they have team mates that are equally deserving to be 1st team, so they might interchange.

Second team has eleven names for eight spots.  So not sure who is left off.  Plus, I might be totally overlooking somebody also.

Millikin is interesting in that Saddler, Staton and Hildebrand all fill up the stat sheet.  Makes me wonder why the team hasn't experienced as much success.

[RogK]

Millikin games have been pretty free-flowing, so several opponents have "filled up" the stats as well. We'll see what Coach Lett emphasizes in coming seasons, but we could say that this year, she's done a good job getting her players in position to succeed at the offensive end. I prefer to see an 85-75 game over 55-45, so I'm not complaining. Recruiting is the main determinant; stay tuned.
I think your list is reasonable, GoPerry. Other possibles could be Hannah Williams, Kendall Sosa, Alanna Newsome. I'm 100% on Gilbert and Kalis from Carthage. I had a nice chat with Coach Bernero after Saturday's game, but he neglected to reveal his list of all-conf nominees. I'd say several Lady Reds have earned consideration. Our conversation was probably 80-90% not about D3. Subjects included Thai iced tea.
Elmhurst is another team that has gotten big games from various players, but perhaps not enough through the whole season. Coach Carrillo has done well getting productivity from a bunch of players who weren't prominent (or even present) last season.