WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

IWU over Luther College in Iowa, 87-78.

The Titans relying more this time on the three ball.  More when I see a box score -- not yet posted.

Next Friday/Saturday, IWU plays @ Hope, first vs. Puget Sound, then either John Carroll or host #21 Hope.  A great venue to play basketball.

A good start, 2-0, for the opening weekend for the Titans.


IWU'70

[RogK]

Carroll followed up yesterday's 29 point win with a 29 point win today, 89-60 over Cornell College,
Olivia Rangel had 3 steals, 8 assists and 24 pts.
A bunch of Pios shot well, including Natalie Palzkill who scored 10 without missing any kind of shot.

[iwu70]

Here's more positive detail on the Titans' win over Luther -- box score now available:

For Luther:

Isaacson 20
Strum 13
Jones 14

Luther with 25 TOs, leading to 29 IWU points off TOs.  Run and Jump doing its dirt.

For IWU:

Bardic 19 3-5 from three, 4-4 FTs
Huber 17 and 9
Powers 17
White 13, 3-4 from three, 7 steals
Mahlum 13 7-10 FTs
Palmer  5 assists

Caite Knutson only playing 7 minutes, perhaps an injury?   Not sure.

IWU off to a great start -- well-rounded scoring, good defense, and plenty of offensive weapons.  About the rotation I expected.  Bardic surely the very happy and productive new addition.  Good to see Sawyer White, playing well, immediately back into the mix after the soccer season.

Bigger challenges this coming weekend, with a possible game against Hope.

IWU'70

[RogK]

iwu70, you can access box scores and stats etc here when they are delayed on other sites :
https://stats.ncaa.org/teams/562351
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[Flying Dutch Fan]

Next Friday/Saturday, IWU plays @ Hope, first vs. Puget Sound, then either John Carroll or host #21 Hope.  A great venue to play basketball.

IWU'70

Quick heads up - Since the #3 Hope Volleyball team is hosting an NCAA pod this weekend, it appears they have moved the Friday basketball games to a local high school (West Ottawa) which is located on the north side of Holland and has a very nice gym - thanks in part to my taxes .  The high school has two buildings, so here is the address of the North building where the gym is located:   3685 Butternut Dr., Holland, MI 49424

The Saturday games will still be at the De Vos (Hope schedule link below):

https://athletics.hope.edu/sports/womens-basketball/schedule

[RogK]

Congrats to Wheaton's Caroline Sikkink, the first CCIW Player of the Week for '23-'24.
She and Carroll's Olivia Rangel each were excellent in their opening pair of games.

[iwu70]

Thanks, Dutch, for the alert.

Lauren Huber and Ava Bardic also had a wonderful start this season in their first two games this past weekend.

Looks like a great season for CCIW's women's hoops. 

'70

[RogK]

CCIW WBB was 4-0 on Tuesday --
AUG 76, Monmouth 45
CRL 68, Beloit 49
WHE 89, Benedictine 55 (31 pts 12 rebs by Caroline Sikkink, 9 assists for Lily Schwen)
MIL 86, Fontbonne 71 (15 pts 15 rebs 6 stls by Sophie Darden) (oh ... and somebody named Elyce Knudsen scored 41)

[lmitzel]

CUW 59
NCC 52

The Falcons avenged their defeat in Naperville from last season as the Cardinals couldn't shoot (4-26 from three, 4-11 from the stripe).

Megan Duffy: 16 pts, 6 reb
Megan McClure: 16 pts, 4 reb
Jocelyn Trotter: 5 reb

Aubrey DeBauch: 16 pts, 6 reb
Ava Booth: 13 pts, 8 reb
Erin Viergutz: 11 pts, 7 reb
Deidre Lassiter: 6 pts, 10 reb

Home opener for the Cardinals is Saturday against St. Mary's.

[RogK]

Carthage's fine start (now 3-0) continued with a 79-42 toppling of Lake Forest on Wednesday (45-19 2nd half).
Credit Carthage's defense with causing most (maybe all?) of Lake Forest's 35 turnovers. And the Firebirds shot well in all categories : 7/21 3FGs (.333), 19/36 2FGs (.528), 20/29 FTs (.690).
Five Firebirds scored in the 9-14 pts range.

[RogK]

I went to the Elmhurst game, won 93-74 by Alma College.
Elmhurst is now playing a high intensity style, with some "System" aspects such as full-court defensive pressure, taking open shots early in their possessions (although not as many threes as would a System team) and subbing 5 at a time on occasion.
New coach Jason Pruitt is giving playing time to much of his lengthy roster; I'm not sure if that's to see what he has to work with, or if it's the long-term plan. Most of his players are also newcomers, so it'll take a while for all of them to learn how to best contribute.
Stat keepers across the league better be ready for a busy time when the 'jays visit; last night there 58 fouls, 76 FT att, 142 FG att. Turnovers weren't excessive for a fairly high-possession game, 14 by EU and 22 by AC.
Alma shot well : 7/21 3FGs (.333), 21/39 2FGs (.538), 30/42 FTs (.714).
Elmhurst didn't : 4/29 3FGs (.138), 21/53 2FGs (.396), 20/34 FTs (.588).
Shanyce Makuei was the only Bluejay in double figures, scoring 24 (shooting accurately, .528 eFG% and 5/6 FTs), adding 11 rebs in 22 min.

[Gregory Sager]

I went to the Elmhurst game, won 93-74 by Alma College.
Elmhurst is now playing a high intensity style, with some "System" aspects such as full-court defensive pressure, taking open shots early in their possessions (although not as many threes as would a System team) and subbing 5 at a time on occasion.
New coach Jason Pruitt is giving playing time to much of his lengthy roster; I'm not sure if that's to see what he has to work with, or if it's the long-term plan. Most of his players are also newcomers, so it'll take a while for all of them to learn how to best contribute.
Stat keepers across the league better be ready for a busy time when the 'jays visit; last night there 58 fouls, 76 FT att, 142 FG att.

Not just the scorer, scoreboard operator, and live stats operator; us PBP folks are going to get a vocal workout as well if those numbers hold up for Elmhurst.

And, just my luck, the Elmhurst women are visiting the crackerbox on December 2 in between my induction speech and the EU @ NPU men's game to follow. I can tell that it's gonna be a hot-tea-and-honey day for ne,

[lmitzel]

I went to the Elmhurst game, won 93-74 by Alma College.
Elmhurst is now playing a high intensity style, with some "System" aspects such as full-court defensive pressure, taking open shots early in their possessions (although not as many threes as would a System team) and subbing 5 at a time on occasion.
New coach Jason Pruitt is giving playing time to much of his lengthy roster; I'm not sure if that's to see what he has to work with, or if it's the long-term plan. Most of his players are also newcomers, so it'll take a while for all of them to learn how to best contribute.
Stat keepers across the league better be ready for a busy time when the 'jays visit; last night there 58 fouls, 76 FT att, 142 FG att.

Not just the scorer, scoreboard operator, and live stats operator; us PBP folks are going to get a vocal workout as well if those numbers hold up for Elmhurst.

And, just my luck, the Elmhurst women are visiting the crackerbox on December 2 in between my induction speech and the EU @ NPU men's game to follow. I can tell that it's gonna be a hot-tea-and-honey day for ne,

Over/under on number of times I use the phrase "Wholesale line change for the Blue Jays" on February 3rd: 35.5.

[RogK]

Just did a quick review of the play-by-play here
http://stats.ncaa.org/game/play_by_play/5570445
and counted 8 full (5 player) substitutions by Elmhurst, five in the 3rd Q and three in the 4th (not counting any subs at the beginning of a quarter).
Using telepathy, I ran this past iwu70 and he defined "on occasion" as "occurring exactly eight times in a game, give or take."

[scottiedawg]

Last year at La Verne:
21 players played

15 played at least 50 total minutes
11 played at least 100 total minutes
9 played at least 200 total minutes

There was a pretty static starting 5

8 players averaged > 10 min per game
12 averaged > 7 min per game

So yeah, the rotation was pretty large last year for Pruitt too