WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RogK]

Congrats to Kendall Sosa for this national NCAA honor :
https://cciw.org/news/2022/1/10/womens-basketball-illinois-wesleyan-alumna-kendall-sosa-named-2022-ncaa-todays-top-10-award-recipient.aspx
Well done!

[iwu70]

A wonderful award for Kendall Sosa.

At Elmhurst, in a game that was never close, IWU 85 EU 59

IWU turning over EU 30 times with run and jump, and only 13 TOs for IWU, many of them in garbage time.

For EU:

Riley 13
Bolihg 10
Massato 10

For IWU:

Lansford 20, making 4 treys
Huber 14 and 8
Heller 13
Powers 12
Palmer 7
Eck 6

Again, IWU shooting a decent % at 40%, 37% from three, and 85% from the line, 6-7.  IWU really hitting the offensive glass tonight and getting second opportunities time and time again.  Quicker to the ball than the Bluejays.

Nice to start the CCIW campaign at 5-0.  Now @North Park, then finally back home for Augie and Millikin.

85 the second highest point output for the Titans all year.

IWU'70

[iwu70]

North Park University 70, Augustana College 64.

'70

[Gregory Sager]

North Park 70
Augustana 64

Illinois Wesleyan 85
Elmhurst 59

Augie 38 North Park 29, at the half.   Would love to see NPU take another loss.

'70

[RogK]

I was glad to see Augie's Chaadah Hodges walking across the court after the game. She was injured earlier; seemed to be head or neck and she didn't return to action.
It still could be a concussion issue or similar. Good luck to her anyway.

[Gregory Sager]

NPU 70, AC 64

Esther Miller: 20 pts, 15 rebs, 5 stls
Lauren Lee: 17 pts, 3 stls
Jayla Johnson: 12 pts, 6 rebs
Chantel Hairston: 6 rebs
Emily Czuhajewski: 3 stls

Gabby Loiz: 18 pts
Macy Beinborn: 13 pts (3-6 trey), 6 rebs
Kylie Jozwik: 12 pts, 7 rebs
Lauren Hall: 9 rebs

The Vikings came back from a 14-point deficit in the second half to pull out a gutsy victory on the road. Down 47-33 with 6:20 to go in the third quarter, the Park came back to life from their deep offensive slumber by getting points off of their defense; their 15-0 run to close out the quarter featured five steals.

The game quickly fell back into Augie's hands early in the fourth quarter, as the hosts pushed it out to a 58-52 Augie lead with 5:49 to go, but consecutive layups by Lauren McKnight, Lauren Lee, Lee again, and Jayla Johnson got the Vikings back out in front with 2:37 to go. Erin Morrissey converted a pair of FTs to tie it up again at 60 apiece, but that was pretty much it for Augie. Emily Czuhajewski sank two free throws to give back the lead to NPU at 1:37, and a huge three-point play by Johnson with fifty seconds remaining upped the NPU lead to 65-60 and was the game's decisive play.

NPU shot terribly, going only .343 from the field (including only .176 from downtown), but a decisive 19-11 advantage on the offensive glass and a massive 13-24 advantage in turnovers (with steals making up 13 of those 24 Augie turnovers) made up for the shooting discrepancy against an Augie team that ran hot-and-cold from the field all night.

The Vikings still aren't putting the ball in Jayla Johnson's hands enough, which was a big part of the reason why they spent most of the night playing uphill. But Esther Miller came to the rescue in a big way. The junior forward from downstate Sullivan was absolutely tremendous at both ends of the floor this evening; even though she missed several layups, she was 100% the difference-maker in this game.

Jayla Johnson's remarkable streak of 22 made free throws was snapped today. Now she's only a mere 56-62 (.903) from the charity stripe.

It feels very good to see the Park come away with a quality road win like this, especially since the league initially assigned this as a no-contest loss to NPU last month.

[Gregory Sager]

I was glad to see Augie's Chaadah Hodges walking across the court after the game. She was injured earlier; seemed to be head or neck and she didn't return to action.
It still could be a concussion issue or similar. Good luck to her anyway.

Definitely. Looked like she got knocked sideways by Chantel Hairston as Chantel was reaching behind in mid-air to try to snag an errant pass while cutting baseline. Just kind of a fluke play.

A lot of players were hitting the floor tonight and getting up slowly. It was a very hard-fought but clean game.

[iwu70]

IWU @ North Park game postponed, due to covid protocols in the NPU program.  No re-scheduled date as yet.

Next IWU women's game at home vs. Augie on Saturday 1/15 at 2 p.m. . . .  if it can happen.

'70

[iwu70]

IWU issued a revised Spectator Policy today, too, further restricting who can attend games in person.  See the IWU sports website for the details.  It will be re-evaluated weekly. 

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

IWU @ North Park game postponed, due to covid protocols in the NPU program.  No re-scheduled date as yet.

I have not received confirmation that the positive(s) are within the NPU program ... and Saturday afternoon's home game against Carroll is still scheduled to be played.

[iwu70]

Greg, the IWU announcement indicates that, but they could be wrong.  There are positives in the IWU men's program for sure.  If the IWU men's game with MU goes ahead tomorrow, the Titans could be short-handed, including some starters.  The women had several positives earlier, but those players are already back in action now.  (Last night, Elmhurst only dressed 8 players in their women's game vs. IWU). 

Seems more postponements likely coming . . . and soon a difficult shortage of make-up dates available. 

'70

[iwu70]

Tonight:

Wheaton @ Millikin
Elmhurst @ Augie

Other two games postponed.

Still no Annie Tate, right?

"70

[GoPerry]

Tonight:

Wheaton @ Millikin
Elmhurst @ Augie

Other two games postponed.

Still no Annie Tate, right?

"70

I have no insider knowledge of Ms Tate's injury status. 

Wheaton will have to play Knudsen as tightly as possible to contain her and play solid team defense all around.  Try to keep the Big Blue under 70 pts to have a chance.

[Gregory Sager]

Millikin 68
Wheaton 48

[Gregory Sager]

Augustana 78
Elmhurst 64