WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

Ultimate, so so true.  Sad.

'70

[RogK]

Happy New Year to you iwu70, along with your fellow Hong Kongers.
UMHB does have a good amount of skill spread among its players, enough to win a game that wasn't close to being dazzling on either side.
Your post reminded me that I hadn't listened to Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" recently enough. Several great instrumental segments in that tune.
I don't think he did a "Year of the Rat" song. 

[gordonmann]

Maybe this as your Year of the Ratt song?

[iwu70]

Thanks RogK, and Happy New Year to you and yours too.

MHB surely a strong team, esp. McCoy, though neither team really played all that well in this match-up.  Perhaps post-Christmas rust and lagging feet, stuffed bodies.  Not sure.  Shanks played very well.  Titans just shot it very poorly.  Rather uncharacteristic, esp. for Sosa.  Brovelli gets a nice rebounding record of 20, but missed many FTs, along with others too.  Dismal. 

Rat Year up next . . . so please keep the "Cat Year" away . . . my year, the Rat Year, my son's too.  That makes him 24 and me 48 . . . LOL.  Well, 48 and holding for several decades.

Here comes all the tough CCIW games.  We'll soon find out more about NPU and MU . . . and if WC can bounce back a bit after their slow start.  IWU should just forget about the game in TX and get back to the friendly rims and confines of The Shirk, as soon as possible.

Happy New Year to all CCIW chatsters, near and far,

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

Loras 97
North Park 67

Lauren Lee: 12 pts
Jayla Johnson: 11 pts, 6 rebs
Josie Summerville: 10 pts, 9 rebs

NPU got another taste of the next level tonight. It did not work out well for the Vikings. The North Park vs. Hope game had no video, so I didn't get a look at the Dutch, but I can't imagine that they're much better, if better at all, than the Duhawks are. NPU couldn't get untracked all night, and the game got away from the Vikes altogether early in the second half.

Loras may only be ranked #23, but it's the best team that I've seen all year -- significantly better than Chicago, which is ranked three spots higher. The Vikings won't see a team this good in the CCIW, that's for sure. The Duhawks run the best press that I've seen in a long time, and it made mincemeat out of the Vikings, who turned the ball over a whopping 35 times tonight. Even when the Vikings broke the press they had a tendency to throw the ball over the heads of their teammates down the floor, a sure sign that they were not doing a good job of keeping their heads up against the press, which in turn indicated just how much the Duhawks were messing them up. The Loras combination of size and skill at the guard spots is really impressive, and everybody in the Duhawks' rotation finishes really well at the basket. By contrast, as has been typical of NPU when the Vikings are forced to play faster than they like, they missed a lot of shots on the run whenever they got close to the rim.

This would be a really discouraging result for the Park, but the silver lining is that the Vikes get to play a Lawrence team tomorrow that, by comparison to what NPU saw today, will look like it's playing in hip waders. Everything will seem to be moving more at NPU's preferred speed. It will be a good and necessary opportunity for the Vikes to wash the bad taste of this game out of their mouths.

[Roundball999]

Before today's games Massey had Loras at #11, one slot ahead of Amherst.  Massey's statistical approach would also suggest Loras is a very strong team.

[Gregory Sager]

Other scores:

Elmhurst 73, Beloit 42
Carroll 71, Adrian 57
North Central 67, Caltech 58

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage came away with an impressive 58-51 win over Nazareth, which had come into the game sporting a 6-2 record, down in Nashville. The game was tied at 40-40 going into the final quarter when the Lady Reds turned on the afterburners and outscored the Golden Flyers, 18-0, over the first eight minutes of the quarter. Nazareth did score the game's final eleven points in those last two minutes, but the game was clearly over by the time that they finally cracked their goose egg for the quarter. Maggie Berigan led the way with 16 and 12, Autumn Kalis had 15 and a nice 5:0 floor game, and Sammie Woodward added 13.

The Lady Reds have a quick turnaround before they play Adrian at 1 pm tomorrow down in the Music City.

[Jester1390]

Gregory. Don't you think this tournament as far as it's run is crap.  No programs or even sheet rosters. No concessions and my daughters high school gym is better. Slick floor players falling

[Gregory Sager]

I wouldn't know. I was back here in Chicago, listening to John Weiser call the game on the radio.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Gregory. Don't you think this tournament as far as it's run is crap.  No programs or even sheet rosters. No concessions and my daughters high school gym is better. Slick floor players falling

Destination tournaments over the holidays are usually pretty bare-bones.  That's why we encourage teams to sign up for the D3hoops.com Classic in Las Vegas!

[Jester1390]

Are they broadcasting all the games or does your team bring its radio person with. One of the things that sucked is there no internet video so no one at home can watch

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Are they broadcasting all the games or does your team bring its radio person with. One of the things that sucked is there no internet video so no one at home can watch

D3hoops.com does all the broadcasting for the D3hoops.com Classic.  Pat, Dave, and Gordon (among others) are on the call and we provide a tournament program (complete with tourney records and team info).  It's all contained at the casino - so there's food and lodging on site and teams don't ever have to leave the building if they don't want to do so.

I haven't been in person, but it's always a fun watch, because you see matchups you just wouldn't get anywhere else.

[RogK]

from yesterday's Carroll 71-57 win over Adrian :
Kayla Stefka 5/5 2FG, 11 pts, 7 rebs in 17:00;
Kate Christian 11 pts and 5 rebs in 15:00. Emily Majerus had 7 assists and was among 4 Pios that had 2 or 3 steals.

[RogK]

North Central 67-58 over Caltech :
efficient 19 pts by Natali Dimitrova (6/11 2FG, 1/1 3FG, 4/5 FT) and she added 2 blocks and 8 rebs.
Page Desenberg missed only 3 shots as she tallied ten in 15:00.