WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

Massey sez:

@ Augustana 67, Carthage 64 (AC 58%, AC 42%)
@ Carroll 66, North Central 60 (CU 67%, NCC 33%)
Millikin 67, @ Elmhurst 61 (MU 66%, EC 34%)
Illinois Wesleyan 69, @ Wheaton 66 (IWU 56%, WC 44%)

[iwu70]

I'll be very pleased if Massey is correct on all accounts. 


'70

[Gregory Sager]

Carroll is missing Sierra Grubor to the flu for the second straight game, but it doesn't seem to be slowing down the Pios. They lead North Central at the half by seven up at Van Male.

Elmhurst, on the other hand, is missing Kween Jean today, and it shows. At the half at Faganel, they're trailing badly to Millikin by 16.

[Gregory Sager]

Millikin cruises to an easy 82-62 win at Elmhurst.

[Gregory Sager]

Carroll and NCC are going to overtime, tied 55-55 up in Waukesha. The Pioneers, who had never trailed and who blew a 40-27 lead that they held late in the third quarter, had the ball with 18 seconds left and the shot clock turned off, fresh out of a timeout ... and they never got a shot off. They simply froze.

[GoPerry]

Millikin cruises to an easy 82-62 win at Elmhurst.

Just wondering . . . did they look like an upper, medium upper, medium or medium lower tier team doing so . . .?

[Gregory Sager]

Millikin cruises to an easy 82-62 win at Elmhurst.

Just wondering . . . did they look like an upper, medium upper, medium or medium lower tier team doing so . . .?

LOL!

(I'd say upper middle southern left tier.)

[Gregory Sager]

North Central completes the comeback with a 67-61 overtime win at Van Male. Allison Pearson, who carried the Cardinals on her back during the fourth-quarter comeback with her persistent drives to the basket, hit a trey in the opening half-minute of overtime to give NCC its first lead of the entire game, and the Cards never looked back. She finished with 23 points, and, proving that she is her father's daughter, went a perfect 11-11 from the line.

Kayla Stefka, who had a good game that could've been a great game if she had emulated Pearson by hitting her FTs, had 15 in the losing cause. She only played 27 minutes, in spite of the fact that she wasn't in foul trouble, which was a little puzzling in light of the fact that she's the best weapon the Pioneers have with Grubor out. That, and the fact that Brooke Foster languished forgotten on the bench after scoring eight points in only 15 minutes of play (she went out at 8:39 of the fourth quarter after committing her third foul, and didn't get back in until the waning moments of overtime) led to Carroll broadcaster Bill Schmidt totally going off on CU head coach Lindsay Schultz as time wound down. I don't think that I've ever heard a home broadcaster lambaste his own team's coach that way before. Schmidt also gave it but good to the officials -- and he was right to do so, as they had a bad afternoon (although their badness was distributed roughly equally between the two teams; Schmidt rightly pointed out that if anybody got the shorter end of the officiating stick, it was the Cardinals).

With their losses this afternoon, Elmhurst and Carroll are officially eliminated from tourney contention. Now it's seven teams playing for six spots.

[iwu70]

Way to go my "upper middle southern left tier" team MU.  I bet Coach Lett is happy, no matter what you call them.    

Go TITANS, tough game at WC.

IWU'70

[iwu70]

WC over IWU at the half -- 35-31.

Brovelli injured in the early part of the 1Q, seemingly out for the game.  Tough loss given WC's size.

Catie Eck playing well.

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

The Titans have no answer for Hannah Williams. She is killing them deep from the corners and off of the dribble. And Kent Madsen got really nice bench minutes out of Jill Berg.

In spite of all that, Wesleyan would be tied or in the lead at recess -- or at least within a point or two -- if the Titans weren't butchering it at the line. Their .462 performance (6-13) won't get it done.

[Gregory Sager]

Augie leads Carthage at the half at Carver, 30-29.

You can make the argument that this is the biggest game of the day in the CCIW, not IWU @ WC, because this might be do-or-die time for these two teams. The loser is going to find itself in a huge hole in the three-way battle for the last two tourney spots.

[Gregory Sager]

Brovelli is back in the game, halfway thru the third quarter.

[iwu70]

Glad to see Brovelli back, but little mobility.  Agree with you on the FTs, a real weakness by some TITANS.

After 3Q, WC up ten, 55-45.   Titans look tired.

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

Augustana 64
Carthage 53

Lauren Hall really big-timed it tonight with 26 points (9-12 FG, 8-9 trey) and 8 rebounds in a must-win for Augie.