WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[scottiedawg]

Here's the link to the google doc; anyone should be able to view it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kqWbS90cdEBvOSSeJf91GfVvUjX7WH7C7LRjKppQKAE/edit?usp=sharing

If you see incorrect data, let me know. Even though I'm a software developer, I'm doing the bulk of this manually.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Final d3.com poll now posted.

Millikin 18th.  IWU had 41 points, tied for (26th).

[iwu70]

Ypsi, that seems about right to me on MU -- at 18th in the final poll.

Glad to see our Titans get some love with those 41 votes, after a very encouraging season, getting into the D3 tournament, getting to the round of 32.  With one or two new recruits, a new PG and esp. a big or two, and our three fabulous freshmen, others coming back (Heller and Carlson), I think IWU will be pretty good next year.  Maybe not top 25 initially, but with a tremendous upside, likely in the top tier of the CCIW again, and competing for the conference championship again.  I'm more optimistic than I was earlier in this season.  It was a fun season and certainly this group over-achieved in my view.  Thanks again to those three tremendous, dedicated seniors:  Lansford, Eck and Bowen.  They were wonderful! 

Knudsen is a great talent, though MU loses a lot of the surrounding pieces . . . so we'll have to see what MU and Coach Lett putts together next year.  Hope, Trine, Transy and WW will surely reload, not rebuild.  . . . 

Enjoy the Spring, the baseball . . .

'70

[RogK]

https://wbca.org/about/press-releases/player-year-kenedy-schoonveld-headlines-2022-wbca-ncaa-division-iii-coaches%E2%80%99
Congrats to Elyce Knudsen for being among the WBCA top ten players nationally!
Also congrats to Jordan Hildebrand and Jayla Johnson, both getting Honorable Mention.

[ronk]

Here's the link to the google doc; anyone should be able to view it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kqWbS90cdEBvOSSeJf91GfVvUjX7WH7C7LRjKppQKAE/edit?usp=sharing

If you see incorrect data, let me know. Even though I'm a software developer, I'm doing the bulk of this manually.

Was looking at your data sheet of the teams with their returning pts,rebs, and mins when somehow I came upon a sheet of individual players; don't know how I got there, but then it disappeared as I was looking at it and couldn't bring it back; how do I get there again? One such player was Abby Anderson of Scranton whom I loved watching play this season and on her line was St. John Fisher and I didn't understand why it would be there in reference to her.

[scottiedawg]

Here's the link to the google doc; anyone should be able to view it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kqWbS90cdEBvOSSeJf91GfVvUjX7WH7C7LRjKppQKAE/edit?usp=sharing

If you see incorrect data, let me know. Even though I'm a software developer, I'm doing the bulk of this manually.

Was looking at your data sheet of the teams with their returning pts,rebs, and mins when somehow I came upon a sheet of individual players; don't know how I got there, but then it disappeared as I was looking at it and couldn't bring it back; how do I get there again? One such player was Abby Anderson of Scranton whom I loved watching play this season and on her line was St. John Fisher and I didn't understand why it would be there in reference to her.

Individual player data is still there in columns R:S.   Individual rows in data from columns A:M do not correspond to individual rows in data from columns R:S. I should split the data into different sheets to make that more clear.

[ronk]

 Yes, this was data in cell Z(teams and how they did in the NCAA tourney) and, like u say, didn't have anything to do with the individuals in cells R and S.
  Separately, in looking at the individual(R/S) data, there were a few All-Americans(Bieniewicz, Porath) who finished relatively low by that measurement. Looks like the D3 panel weighted other criteria(A/TO ratio, blocks, steals,?) more heavily in making their choices. If u as a data cruncher were looking for additional work, u could come up with the cell data that would more closely align with the choices that were made for the top 40 candidates, including the underclasswomen. 
It won't change anything, just fodder for discussion.   

[Gregory Sager]

Amanda Crockett has resigned. Her family's recent move to Crown Point, IN to accommodate her husband Steve's new job would've made for too difficult a commute, especially with three young children at home to consider.

The Vikings never quite got over the top during Amanda's 14 years running the program, but she made North Park women's basketball respectable again. She leaves with nothing but positive impressions and best wishes from the NPU community.

I'm looking forward to seeing who John Born hires to take over the reins.

[RogK]

Wow, that's a surprise loss for NPU. Amanda certainly got the best out of her players. Even in losses, where opponents' victories were not achieved without concerted effort.
Good luck to her over in Indiana, whatever she eventually ends up doing in addition to mom-duties.
We'll expect her to attend some games at Foster/Kedzie Arena next season.

[iwu70]

Michelle Bilek for the NPU Women's Coaching job?

A thought.

iwu'70

[Gregory Sager]

I don't know if: a) she's a fit for NPU's mission and hiring policies; and b) she qualifies for the job, which may or may not require previous collegiate head coaching experience (NPU hasn't posted it yet on the online "employment opportunities" page, so I don't know if that's specified). If she does meet the criteria, I personally have no objection to her throwing her hat into the ring. North Park has had several head coaches in various sports over the years who were alumni of other CCIW schools. In my view, that's a feature, not a bug, on the curriculum vitae of a North Park coaching applicant.

In fact, one of NPU's current head coaches, baseball head coach Luke Johnson, received his bachelor's degree from Elmhurst (where he was an All-CCIW outfielder as a Bluejay) and his master's from North Central, and served as an assistant coach at both of those schools prior to becoming North Park's head coach. NPU's associate athletic director (and former head women's volleyball coach) Sue Zimmer received her bachelor's degree from Illinois Wesleyan (and one of her two master's degrees from North Park, I should add). And as recently as a dozen years ago NPU had a Wheaton grad as its head women's soccer coach, Troy Edwards.

All that matters to me is that North Park hires head coaches who succeed. Where they received their degrees, whether undergraduate or graduate, really doesn't matter ... aside from the fact that I think some prior familiarity with the CCIW is a modest asset, at least initially. But that means that I'm also agreeable to John Born hiring somebody who coached at another CCIW school, rather than attended one as a student.

[itsnotmeitsyou]

Michelle Bilek for the NPU Women's Coaching job?

A thought.

iwu'70

Without ever hearing that name or knowing who she is, I'm going to guess that she would be the PERFECT hire because she HAS to have played or coached at IWU within the last four decades.

(Checks Google after typing...)

YEP.

Three Immutable Truths:
1) Death
2) Taxes
3) Anything or anyone who has ever been or ever will be connected to IWU (or displays/wears anything that remotely includes any shade of green) will be the BEST and ONLY thing/person to achieve greatness in any job, team, company, municipality, or position related to anything or anywhere forever and beyond.

[RogK]

iwu70's affection for all things Illinois Wesleyan has been compared to a bumblebee's attraction to Clethra alnifolia.

[iwu70]

Look at her record, worked at several good programs . . .I think U of Chicago and NYU?  If you want a young and energetic new coach with national championship experience, well, she's not a bad choice.  Perhaps you guys should make some suggestions . . .  instead of just making jokes and being snarky. 

Thanks for all your fun compliments about my loyalties to IWU.  This again is not news . . . 

Enjoy the off-season, the coaching changes and the recruitment classes . . .  that would be real news about D3 women's hoops.  As far as I know, the Dean of CCIW women's hoops, Mia Smith, is back again next year.

'70 

[itsnotmeitsyou]

Look at her record, worked at several good programs . . .I think U of Chicago and NYU?  If you want a young and energetic new coach with national championship experience, well, she's not a bad choice.  Perhaps you guys should make some suggestions . . .  instead of just making jokes and being snarky. 

'70

Point well taken.

Here's my list:
1) A coach who has NO ties to that green school AND, in addition, displays a burning desire (greater than the temperature of the Sun) to despise that school and all that it stands for.

On a less hyperbolic note, the relatively new NPU AD has a chance to find a HC for each team (men and women) that has recruiting excellence as their primary attribute. Studies show that facilities, or lack thereof, are NOT deciding factors in prospect matriculation. The overall quality of recruiting of the basketball programs has been a major limiting factor for the Vikings.  It just has not been acceptable by any measure or metric.