WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Jester1390]

No I was on my phone. I will make sure to check copyrights in the future  lol

[Gregory Sager]

For the second day in a row a Millikin women's basketball game at the Griz took forever to finish due to a long and inexplicable delay. And, for the second day in a row, Millikin squeaked out a close win. The Big Blue prevailed over Wash U, 72-65, due to strong defense and timely free throws down the stretch that allowed them to preserve what had been a ten-point lead going into the final stanza. Elyce Knudsen didn't have a good shooting game, but she did manage to amass 17 points to lead the way for MU, and she also contributed five assists and four blocks. Bailey Coffman added 16 and 7 along with four blocks, Aubrey Staton had a dozen points, and Jordan Hildebrand chipped in 11 as the Big Blue improved to 9-3.

It's so odd to watch a Wash U women's team that isn't dominating its opponent. Years and years of the Bears being D3's leviathan in this sport just get you used to viewing them that way. The Bears are actually pretty good this year, but they're not what they were back in the Fahey years. Millikin definitely was and is the better team of the two.

[Gregory Sager]

No I was on my phone. I will make sure to check copyrights in the future  lol

It's not a big deal. I just thought that it was odd.

[Jester1390]

I didn't see it.

[npbaseball40]

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.

The game will not count against NPU, but Augie gets a win in the CCIW standings. There's no easy way to do that on the CCIW website, so once the techs that run the website figure it out, that will be amended.

[RogK]

Carroll topped Westminster 79-42 this afternoon. The game was at Daytona Beach, somewhere on the Lake Superior shore, the Ontario side maybe.
The Pios' playing time and scoring were spread out; Brooke Foster and Olivia Rangel each tallied 12 pts.
Allison Thompson's 13 rebounds were part of a 57-30 advantage.

[RogK]

Congrats to Bailey Coffman, new CCIW Player of the Week.

[iwu70]

Congrats to Ms. Coffman.

Happy holidays to all . . . stay safe and well.

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

Carroll topped Westminster

Westminster MO, that is.

[RogK]

True. Thanks for the assist!
Elmhurst enjoys a win over Coe today. Stats in a bit.

[RogK]

Elmhurst 76, Coe 73
Marissa Mussatto hit a game-tying FT completing a game-saving three-point play with 12 seconds to go.
Morgan Collar rebounded a Coe miss, a timeout was quickly called and the ball advanced.
Cate Boling then made a walk-off three, incidentally her third 3FG of the 4th quarter.
Marissa Urso led EU with 16 pts and 8 assists. She also had 3 steals, as did Payton Schmidt.
Collar scored 14, while Katie Matrise added 13 pts and 3 assists.
for Coe :
Ellie Wisner led all with 22 (5/9 3FG, 3/5 2FG, 1/2 FTs)
Kaalyn Petersen 4 blocks, 13 rebs, 16 pts (6/7 2FG, 4/6 FT)
Petersen has grabbed 10+ rebounds in 9 of their 11 games. Not bad at all.

[RogK]

Thanks to Carthage, the conference goes 3-0 today; the Firebirds (now 7-3) won 62-52 at UW Stevens Point.
Lauren Knight did quite well, scoring a neat 19 (3/6 3FG, 2/3 2FG, 6/8 FT) and adding 7 assists. She did have one turnover, which we won't even mention.
Carthage dominated the rebounding 37-18.
Carthage players combined for a .602 eFG%.

[RogK]

Carroll (8-3) nabbed 17 steals today in their 64-37 victory over Centre in Florida.
Katie Rohner had 17 pts, 3 assists and 7 rebs.
Chloe Halverson scored 12 (made all six of her 2FG att) and added 5 rebs.

[GoPerry]

Wheaton's new year's eve game at Univ of Chicago has been cancelled and won't be rescheduled.  Reason cited is health and safety protocols within the Maroon's women's basketball team.

This is unfortunate but not necessarily surprising.  It was the only non-con game remaining for the Maroons before beginning UAA play on Jan 8.

[RogK]

And Carroll's Wednesday game vs Marian U has been postponed.
The Pioneers' next contest will be vs Whitewater on January 1th ("wunth").