WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

Incidentally, Rog, those baseball cards you gave me a few years ago? I use 'em as bookmarks. They're great for that, and, since I tend to read more than one book at a time, they're a nice little trip down memory lane back to the '80s whenever I happen to open up a book and see that Spike Owen or Mark Gubicza or Rance Mulliniks has been faithfully keeping my place for me.

Hey, it beats putting them in the spokes of my bicycle, right?

[RogK]

Actuarially, I don't recall that. Could those have been in one of the variety packs that Dollar Tree sold for a few years? I should have bought more of them, for a whopping $1 a pack.
Rance Mulliniks is a great name from that era. Baseball-reference shows another Rance, believe it or not.
Corner infielder Rance Pless got in 48 games for the 1956 KC A's. In '55 in AAA, he had 200 hits including 67 XB, 107 RBI, 116 runs and could not get a look at the MLB level with the Giants. I guess it was tough to make "the bigs" when there were only 16 teams.

[Gregory Sager]

After an interminable delay by the officials to determine what the actual score was, Millikin stepped up in the game's final minute and outdueled a game North Central squad in the Griz, 73-69. Bailey Coffman led the way with 19 for the Big Blue, Jordan Hildebrand had 12 and 8, Aubrey Staton added a dozen points, and Elyce Knudsen had 10 along with four steals. Mitrese Smith paced NCC with 18 and 8, with Allison Pearson adding 12 and Elle Sutter had 10 and 7.

[Gregory Sager]

Klaire Steffens made a layup from the left block with 1.9 seconds left to give Chicago a 63-62 win at Shirk in a game that Illinois Wesleyan led most of the way but naver managed to control; the U of C scored the last ten points of the game. The Titans were paced by Brooke Lansford with 18 and 7, aided by Mallory Powers with 14 and Kate Palmer with 13.

[Gregory Sager]

Elmhurst won the first quarter against Carroll, 20-16 ... but it all turned out to be an illusion. The Pioneers blew the doors off of Faganel Hall in the two middle quarters, 24-9 and 26-4, and ended up winning a laugher, 91-55. Brooke Foster led the way for CU with 14 points, Chloe Halvorson put in 1, and Elizabeth Behrndt added 10 as well as leading the Pios in boards with 7. Fourteen of the fifteen Pioneers who got into the game scored, as nobody played more than 22 minutes. Taylor Harazin had 11 and 6, and Marissa Urso and Katie Matrise scored 10 apiece for the 'jays.

[RogK]

A few additional notes on the game I attended, Carroll at Elmhurst.
Elmhurst's offense surely did dry up in those middle quarters. They made a lot more ill-advised passes than would normally be advised!
And I think Coach Carrillo would agree that nearly every Bluejay not named Urso could further assist the offense via improved dribbling.
p.s. to Greg : consider amending your post to show Halverson scoring 10 instead of 1.
Carroll's Theresa Wichser, known for long-distance shooting accuracy, thrilled teammates with a very nifty lay-up (while being fouled if I remember correctly).
Pioneer point guard Olivia Rangel, who had 5 steals, has a throwing arm that some professional outfielders would be happy to have.
Allison Thompson added four more blocks to her impressive total.

[RogK]

No North Park at Augustana game today :
https://athletics.augustana.edu/news/2021/12/19/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-vs-north-park-postponed.aspx
The Tuesday NPU game at Dominican might be iffy; we'll see.

[RogK]

Poking around in stats, we see that IWU's Kate Palmer made 2 of 14 three attempts in their opening four games.
Over the next six games, she has hit an excellent 16 for 26 threes.

[Gregory Sager]

No North Park at Augustana game today :
https://athletics.augustana.edu/news/2021/12/19/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-vs-north-park-postponed.aspx
The Tuesday NPU game at Dominican might be iffy; we'll see.

We have contradictory press releases.

At 9:57 am Augie said that the game has been canceled and will go down as an Augustana win.

The CCIW website seems to agree with Augustana, recording the game on the composite schedule as "Final No Contest". However, the standings have not been changed to reflect an Augustana win and a North Park loss.

At 10:22 am NPU said that the game is merely postponed.

[Jester1390]

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- Sunday's CCIW Augustana women's basketball contest against North Park has been canceled due to health and safety concerns within the NPU program. The game will officially be recorded as no contest and Augie will receive the win, per conference rules.

The Viking men's game against North Park will remain on as scheduled and will take place at 5:00 p.m. from inside the Carver Center. The Augie women are back in action on Thursday, December 30 at home against Monmouth.

[Jester1390]

from north park looks like someone is wrong

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Due to health & safety concerns, the North Park University women's basketball game scheduled to be played at Augustana College today, December 19, has been postponed. A makeup date has not been determined. The men's game will still be played at 5 p.m.

Next, NPU women's basketball will play the Dominican University Stars this coming Tuesday, December 21. The away game is set to tip off at 2 p.m.



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[Gregory Sager]

from north park looks like someone is wrong

Why are you reposting what I had already posted twenty minutes earlier?

[Jester1390]

I included their actual statements

[iwu70]

I attended the IWU loss to UC @The Shirk on Saturday.  A great game, both teams fighting hard, playing good defense.  When IWU scores less than 70, hard to win.  They had Chicago down 9 with about 2:40 to go and should have closed it out.  They had a series of very, poor empty possessions in that final run . . . and when it came to the last .12 seconds, UC had the ball, down one, went down and fed it into their big Center and IWU couldn't stop them.  I personally feel they should have fouled and made the Maroons shoot the FTs.  I tough loss, in a game IWU should have won. . .

I rarely complain about the officials, but this one had one of the weakest, poorest crews I've seen.  Several times, players would literally fall down and then a foul would be called.  And the T on the IWU bench, not really knowing why, basically the difference in the final score.  Again, a very strange call.  But, all credit to Chicago for fighting back, finishing on a 10-0 run. . .  IWU has to value each possession more . . . and finish layups when they turn over the opponent.  IWU has only themselves to blame on this one, missing at least 10 layups.  It could have been a 12-15 point lead at the half, and surely an easier win, had they finished on key plays. 

Palmer is playing much more confidently, hitting threes all over the place now.  I don't think you can keep her out of the starting line-up much longer.  Lansford also playing better, making some treys . . .  having a good game this time.  Eck still out in the Covid protocol.  May be back on the floor by the games out West at the end of the month. 

Another shout out to Kaia Bowen . . . she's just one of the best defensive players the Titans have had . . .  tipping balls, deflecting passes, stealing balls on entry passes to the usually much bigger paint players she has to guard, rebounding tenaciously, just a key player on the "run and jump" press.  Love her play.

I'm still seeing this team as a .500 team for the year, but hope they keep improving and surprise me at 15-10 or better. 

Happy holidays to all, as the teams head home and take a break until the end of the month.  I'm sure everyone can use the break, use the rest.  The TITANS have two winnable games in the PNW -- George Fox and Pacific, both in the Portland, OR area.  Wish I could attend.

Happy holidays to all the CCIW chatsters.  May yours be merry and bright!

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

I included their actual statements

So did I. Did you not notice that my post linked to both schools' statements, as well as to the CCIW website's composite schedule?