WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Jester1390]

It looks like she is still a student at school. her last basketball post was in may.   She might have decided that she just didnt want to invest the time anymore. Some players no matter their talent  the love of playing becomes less important . Rhit was recruiting a pg who was getting D1 offers  but she  decided to go to Louisville and stop playing basketball.

Or she hopefully isnt but she could have injured herself and is out for the season.

[iwu70]

Raven is still on campus, still a student at IWU.  She just decided not to play this year, with other academic and internship priorities.  Yes, a lot of investment of time to be a CCIW athlete.  I hope she returns to the TITANS roster next season. She will surely be missed this year.

TITANS playing another exhibition up at Governor's State, south of Chicago, on Saturday -- 1 p.m.

If the top 6-7 Titans on the roster stay healthy, this team could be pretty good.

Let the games begin!

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

Well, Greg, I shouldn't boast excessively, but I have lately been to both Bensenville and Countryside IL.
Who might serve as the opponent at NP on Friday?

NPU's scrimmage opponent tonight is Dominican, if you're still interested.

[RogK]

thanks for the update, Greg

[RogK]

Millikin got the CCIW off to a good start, defeating Greenville 81-74 at Westminster College, Fulton MO.
Jordan Hildebrand's 25 pts led four MU double-figure scorers. She made 9/12 2FG and 7/10 FT, adding 6 rebs and 3 steals. Bailey Coffman helped the Big Blue cause with 11 rebs, 5 assists and 16 pts.
Augustana almost upset Benedictine, but fell 74-69 in Rock Island.
Augie committed 32 fouls.
Lauren Hall topped the Vikings with 17 pts and 12 rebs; Justice Edell scored 16 and Alexis Jones tallied 15 in (an exhausting?) 37 minutes, but shot poorly (.280 eFG%).
Most of the rest of the league gets involved with games tomorrow.

[Ultimate Titan Fan]

Titans knocked off a scrappy Govenors State today, 78-71. Got behind in the 3rd, but rallied in the 4th behind tenacious D by Kaia Bowen and some insane shooting by Kendall Sosa. Titans, talented by not deep. Very limited rotation, with Brovelli getting very little rest.

[iwu70]

As Ultimate as indicated, IWU over Governors State today south of Chicago, 78-71.  Like the men, get to 78 almost always win the game.  Glad I drove up for the game. 

For IWU:

Sosa 29  11-12 FTs
Shanks 19, very steady play
Brovelli, doing what is so needed, 11 and 11
Bowen 8
Monroe, some key treys, 7

Lansford and Monroe played well at PG.  Bowen had a great game on D, hustle plays, diving for loose balls, and scoring.  She's a varsity player now, making good contributions.  Sosa was just marvelous, taking it to the basket, floaters and mid-range jumpers, 2 treys.  11-12 from the charity stripe.  29 a career high.  Shanks, the rock of ages, calming her team after a horrible 30-6 3Q.  Titans fighting back, showing poise and great defensive pressure to bring it home down the stretch.  Fourth Q went 33-19 in favor of the TITANS. 

For GSU:

S. Breeze 20
H. Thomas 14

GSU played marvelously in the 3Q, but ran out of gas a bit down the stretch.

Yes, TITANS will need more from several other rotational players, esp. Heller.  Katie Eck in a boot.   

More great games to come.  Sosa in for a big big year.  Up next U of Chicago @Chicago.

A good start.

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

For the second straight year, North Central opens the campaign with a win over Knox; this one 77-67 in Galesburg. Lyndsay Brennan led the way with 23 and 9, Allison Pearson scored 20 (including a 5-10 day from deep), and Alanna Newsome chipped in 13. Jarrelyn McCall paced the Prairie Fire with an 18 and 10 performance. The Cardinals won the rebound battle 49-38, and free throws might have played a role: NCC went 24-36, while Knox hit just 16-31.

[iwu70]

IWU travels to pre-season #18 University of Chicago tomorrow -- Tuesday, at 7 p.m.

Should be a good early test of how strong this IWU squad really is.  They have very good talent, perimeter shooting, usual defensive pressure as is the IWU M.O. over the years, but not a very deep team.  Bench rotational players have to step up fast, make their mark.  Brovelli will have to stay out of foul trouble.

Looking forward to seeing how it goes . . .

IWU'70

[RogK]

Carroll was edged 58-55 by UW LaCrosse. Sierra Grubor led the Pioneers with 15 pts in 24:00. Carroll may have something in 6'1" freshman Elizabeth Behrndt, who tallied 8 pts, 5 rebs, 0 TOs, 3 blks, 2 assists in 22:00. She may also have the most consecutive consonants in league history.
Speaking of names, Carroll now has Brooke Foster. Which brings to mind this guy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPcjIrSvcs
Incidentally, Governors State is NAIA.

[RogK]

Carthage was edged 71-68 by Calvin. Lady Reds scoring leaders were Sammie Woodward (23) and Autumn Kalis (16 in 21:00).
Calvin scored a majority (36) of their points off 21 3FG att.

[GoPerry]

PS #14 Wheaton over PS #12 UT-Dallas 66-62.  Hannah Frazier with 26 pts, 7 rebs.

The Comets are a very talented team with AA's Raenett Hughes ( 26 pts, 14 rebs) and distributor Victoria Pena ( 10 pts, 6 asst).  But the large height advantage of the Thunder put them off their offensive rhythm for the first 30 mins and by then it was too late to come back.

A win is a win but Wheaton's performance was so-so.  20 turnovers resulting in only 41 shot attempts.  Understandable for the first game against a ranked opponent so it's too early to panic.  Some things to work on still of course.  Two issues of particular concern are:

     A. Wheaton was killed on the boards by a much shorter team.  UT-Dallas outrebounded them 45-33 and a whopping 24-5 on the offensive
          glass.  Sometimes a smaller and quicker team can compete with a taller team on the boards.  But several Wheaton players (won't
          name names . . . yet) displayed zero interest in fundamental box outs.   

      B. Kent Madsen's postgame comments that he thought Wheaton did a good job ("extremely well") on the boards.  I can't imagine anyone watching that came coming off with that impression but instead the opposite view. 

Unfortunately, veteran Hannah Williams was out with injury.  She was on the bench in street clothes, no crutches or anything so hopefully she's back soon.  Need her offense.  Kristen Madsen looks very comfortable out there running things.  Hannah Swider played solidly as did soph Taylor Sanders in limited floor time ( 8 mins).

[RogK]

GoPerry, you weren't encouraged by Jill Berg's 15 defensive rebounds and 6 blocks?
I attended that game as well as UT-Dallas's Sunday matchup at the U of Chicago. I think Wheaton and UChicago can each be pleased to have defeated a very good Dallas team.

[RogK]

Millikin picked up its 2nd victory, upending Westminster 68-52. Jordan Hildebrand had 4 steals, 9 rebs and 19 pts (8/13 2FG, 3/4 FT). Abby Ratsch had 11 pts, 11 rebs, 4 assists, 3 blocks.
Augustana 59-58 over Luther : Justice Edell had 15 pts, 7 rebs, while Alexis Jones had 3 steals, 6 rebs and 14 pts.
Besides the Wheaton game on Saturday, I also attended the Loras 94-59 win at Elmhurst. Loras has a lot of agile players around 5'10", a surplus really. Elmhurst put forth nice effort, despite the margin.
The Jays were without Kelly Weyhrich, Elena Cabrera, Courtney O'Donnell and Kween Jean. My guess is that even with those starters/regulars, Elmhurst wouldn't have beaten Loras at least that day. Loras looked rather good.
Elmhurst got 15 pts by Marissa Urso and 12 pts 7 rebs from Becca Gerke.

[GoPerry]

GoPerry, you weren't encouraged by Jill Berg's 15 defensive rebounds and 6 blocks?
I attended that game as well as UT-Dallas's Sunday matchup at the U of Chicago. I think Wheaton and UChicago can each be pleased to have defeated a very good Dallas team.

Hi Rog:

Like I said, a win is a win and don't apologize for it.

Jill Berg did have a very solid game.  Her 6 blks and Frazier's 4 goes to my earlier comment on Wheaton's height advantage really throwing UT-D off.  The Thunder might very well once again lead the country in blocked shots like they did last year – a possible double edged sword in my opinion.   

On the other hand, the fact that she had 15 out of the teams 33 rebs, while getting severely outrebounded as a team, says a lot about what the others did or didn't do in that regard.  And the 24-5 offensive board disadvantage needs to be owned by everyone on the floor no matter how many an individual got (7 different Comets had at least one).  You were at the game.  As a knowledgeable but neutral observer did you notice all the offensive boards for UT-D? 

The Thunder have some challenging games coming that they should and really need to win.  Lakeland, probably Wisc Luth this weekend in the Beth Baker championship game, UofC.  I just hope Wheaton doesn't actually think they did a good job rebounding on Saturday because if a -12/-19 is good then I'd hate to see bad.