WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

A correction: ?

Sosa 24
Munroe 12

According to the final box score.

Titans in a much better position now as the #2 seed, can rest up, prepare for the weekend, and hope Brovelli's ankle improves, too etc.  Lowis made some key FTs tonight.  Good for her!   


'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

With the team's record, I doubt Autumn Kalis is in the MOP conversation, but she definitely deserves first-team all conference.  (Does anyone know, has anyone ever won MOP with a team near the bottom of the standings?)

Chuck, this question was already asked on this board earlier this season.

Go back and look it up.

I don't have the computer skills to know how to look up a specific item (and already checked 6-7 pages from 3-4 months ago before I gave up).  I wasn't trying to 'Ypsi' anyone (I never have - my requests have always been for information I thought someone would simply know, not a request for research).  So your refusal to answer a question you appear to know the answer to seems a bit pissy.

[Gregory Sager]

It's just very frustrating when a question gets asked more than once in a year.

The answer is: Amanda Orsburn of NCC back in 2001 is the only player who won MOP while playing on a team that finished in the second division.

[Mr. Ypsi]

It's just very frustrating when a question gets asked more than once in a year.

The answer is: Amanda Orsburn of NCC back in 2001 is the only player who won MOP while playing on a team that finished in the second division.

Thanks, Greg.  I either missed or forgot the mention of Amanda Orsburn.  So the odds of Autumn Kalis being an MOP candidate would appear to be vanishingly slim.

Is the MOP voting before the conference tourney?  If so, I'd agree with Greg that it is Hannah Frazier.

[Gregory Sager]

Last year the All-CCIW team announcement came out on Tuesday morning, about seven or eight hours before the opening-round games tipped off.

[Ultimate Titan Fan]

Happy that the Titans won, but Kalis was a star tonight.

[Gregory Sager]

Tuesday at NPU/MU
#6 North Central @ #3 North Park, 7 pm
#5 Augustana @ #4 Millikin, 7 pm

Friday at Wheaton
Highest remaining seed vs. #2 Illinois Wesleyan, 5 pm
Lowest remaining seed @ #1 Wheaton, 7 pm

Saturday at Wheaton
Championship game, 7 pm

[Gregory Sager]

Tim Bernero took over in Kenosha the same season that the CCIW tournament was instituted, 2002-03. This will be only the fourth time since then that his Lady Reds have missed making the tournament. That's a nice tribute to the work he's done at Carthage.

[iwumichigander]

It's just very frustrating when a question gets asked more than once in a year.

The answer is: Amanda Orsburn of NCC back in 2001 is the only player who won MOP while playing on a team that finished in the second division.

most of us do not have the steel trap almost photo graphic memory as you sir. 

[Gregory Sager]

Thanks, Larry, but even though I knew the answer was Amanda Orsburn of NCC, and that she'd won it in the early '00s, I had to look it up again to double-check which exact year she won it.

[GoPerry]

With the team's record, I doubt Autumn Kalis is in the MOP conversation, but she definitely deserves first-team all conference. 

Autumn Kalis will be unanimous first team All-Conference as will Kendall Sosa, Hannah Frazier, Alexis Jones and Jayla Johnson.

[RogK]

With Kalis, Woodward, Kaelber and Berigan graduating, there will be much need/opportunity for others to pick up the scoring load in '20-'21. Kaelber could treat '19-'20 as a redshirt year; we'll see.
Kelsey Coshun will likely provide more in-the-lane scoring.
Haley Ahr looked pretty good several times in '18-'19, but didn't seem as agile this season, ultimately missing 15 games due to injury.
http://stats.ncaa.org/player/index?game_sport_year_ctl_id=15002&org_id=121&stats_player_seq=1846932
The above link shows two redshirt-type seasons before she got to Carthage. She is currently listed as a junior, so she could play next season.
Did anyone outside of Kenosha notice that Destiny Antoine made 50% of her 3FG attempts? Yes, 11/22 is a small sample, but it was better than 9/22 or 7/22. She may become a prominent player.
Amanda Larson had a bunch of nice games this season, although she was not relied on for big scoring. She does a lot of things well.
Lauren Herrmann and Nansy Velev got more minutes toward the end of the season and figure to be in the rotation next season, too.
Carthage probably does need two or three new players with scoring talent. Too many games scoring in the 50s wouldn't work well.

[RogK]

Anyone object to Kent Madsen as CCIW Coach of the Year? Seems the correct choice to me.
I was thinking Amanda Crockett for much of the season and still regard her as not far behind Madsen. Mia Smith is right in that vicinity, too.

[Gregory Sager]

Wheaton won it last year, and was predicted to win it this year in the coaches poll, so all that Kent Madsen did was meet expectations. Same deal with Mia Smith -- finished second last year, predicted for second this year, finished second.

The obvious choice for COY, to me, is Olivia Lett. Of the three teams that finished higher than they had been predicted to finish, NPU finished one spot above the prediction (third instead of fourth) and Carroll finished one spot above the prediction (eighth instead of ninth). But Millikin, which had been predicted to finish eighth, finished fourth instead. That's a huge leap above everyone's expectations, and it's definitely big enough to give Lett the COY award.

(Correction: As Rog pointed out to me, Elmhurst finished eighth and Carroll finished ninth. So the only two teams that outstripped preseason expectations are NPU and Millikin.)

[GoPerry]

Congratulations to the Wheaton Thunder Ladies on their conference championship.

There was a low point in the season, highlighted by a home loss to Carroll, where lackluster play had them at 10-5, 3-3.  Maybe it was the burden of lofty pre-season expectations but everything was going south and the team searching for something. 

I've sometimes been critical of Kent Madsen in the past.  But I give him a ton of credit for shaking up his starting lineup by sitting two seniors, Kristi Demski- a second yr starter and Jordan Myroth, a 3 yr starter and All Conference first teamer.  Instead he started Hannah Swider and Jacqueline San Jule, a solid player but with few significant minutes up to this point in her career.  That coaching move got his player's attention and their play was noticeably better on both ends of the court while winning their last 9 out of 10 games.  Demski and Myroth still played lots of minutes coming off the bench and accepted their role as leaders do.  And I thought that both players stepped up their play in these last 10 games albeit with less PT.

We'll see the 3rd RR this week.  But with a 19-6 record, Wheaton might be the only Pool C candidate from the conference and a 7th loss would make that shaky at best.  They must play for the title and AQ this week. 

The obvious choice for COY, to me, is Olivia Lett. Of the three teams that finished higher than they had been predicted to finish, NPU finished one spot above the prediction (third instead of fourth) and Carroll finished one spot above the prediction (eighth instead of ninth). But Millikin, which had been predicted to finish eighth, finished fourth instead. That's a huge leap above everyone's expectations, and it's definitely big enough to give Lett the COY award.

I concur that Lett would be very deserving as would Amanda Crockett.  I would like to see either of them recognized.
However, I suspect Madsen will win it since it just seems the title winning coach usually does.  Plus he is also deserving.