WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[scottiedawg]

Calvin got a nice game yesterday from Junior Anna Fernandez, who spent her freshman year in the CCIW at Wheaton.

[iwu70]

IWU enjoys the weekend fully in Michigan, taking down #9 Hope, 74-65.

For Hope:

Richards 22

For IWU:

Palmer 20
Powers 17 and 9
L. Huber 12 and 8
Balli 12
Bardic 9 and 7 assists

IWU shooting 47% from the floor, 31% from trey, and 78% from the charity line.

A good start to the tough pre-CCIW schedule.

IWU plays Edgewood on Saturday, first home game at The Shirk, 1 p.m.

Keep it rolling Titans.

iwu'70

[lmitzel]

NCC trailed by 18 after three quarters at Colorado College this evening, managed to claw back within two a couple times, but couldn't get any closer, falling 82-78 to split their two in the mountains.

Grace Keiffer: 17 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast
Jocelyn Trotter: 16 pts, 8 reb
Biz Daly: 14 pts, 5 reb

Small sample size, to be sure, but through 3 games Biz Daly is averaging an 18-8 on 45% shooting. I don't know how sustainable this is, but I hope it continues.

Next one is at Aurora on Wednesday. I still have a week and a half to get my vocal cords warmed up.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

IWU enjoys the weekend fully in Michigan, taking down #9 Hope, 74-65.

For Hope:

Richards 22

For IWU:

Palmer 20
Powers 17 and 9
L. Huber 12 and 8
Balli 12
Bardic 9 and 7 assists

IWU shooting 47% from the floor, 31% from trey, and 78% from the charity line.

A good start to the tough pre-CCIW schedule.

IWU plays Edgewood on Saturday, first home game at The Shirk, 1 p.m.

Keep it rolling Titans.

iwu'70

Actually #12 Hope - so one could argue IWU was the favorite at #10.  Hope has some adjusting to do, with the loss (hopefully for the short term only) of Sydney Vis (injured in the first game of the year).  That said, IWU looked great this weekend.

[scottiedawg]

Hope has some adjusting to do, with the loss (hopefully for the short term only) of Sydney Vis (injured in the first game of the year).  That said, IWU looked great this weekend.

Among the ~top 100 teams, Hope is 18th youngest. IWU is 13th oldest. The experience of IWU was on display, but the upside of Hope was also on display.

I have a lot of faith Hope will trend up in a big way over the course of the year.


Additionally Hope is 9th tallest (very tall recruiting class).

A few teams of interest:
Hope - 18th youngest
Calvin - 21st
Trine - 50th
Carroll - 81st
IWU - 88th

Calvin - 6th tallest
Hope - 9th tallest
IWU - 34th tallest
Trine - 55th tallest
Carroll - 61st tallest

Hope got really dynamic and hard to defend with the Richards twins playing the 4/5.

[iwu70]

Coach Mia Smith goes for her 500th career win this Saturday vs. Edgewood -- 1 p.m. at The Shirk.

Should be quite a day for Coach Smith and the Titans this weekend.

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

Aurora 83
NCC 63

When you get doubled up in rebounds and shoot an abysmal 1-14 from beyond the arc... you're gonna have a bad time. An 11-0 Spartan run early in the game put the Cardinals on their back foot, and other than a couple one point leads here and there, this was pretty much all AU.

Jocelyn Trotter: 14 pts, 7 reb, 3 stl
Biz Daly: 15 pts, 4 reb
Josylin Simmons-Doxie: 7 pts, 4 stl
Ameli Sanchez: 7 pts, 5 reb

Cardinals sit at 2-2 and open their home schedule on Tuesday against Benedictine.

[iwu70]

IWU hosts Edgewood on Saturday 1 p.m.  -- the home opener and a chance for Mia Smith's 500th career win. 

'70

[iwu70]

Coach Smith got her 500th career win today.  Congrats Coach Smith!

As expected, a dominant win for the Titans, 88-57 over Edgewood.

For Edgewood:
Carlquist 11

For IWU:
White 16 and 7 steals
Bardic 16 and 5 steals
Huber 14 and 7
Powers 12 and 9
Palmer 8

IWU forced 30 TOs, whilst committing only 10.  IWU had 42 points off of turnovers.

IWU shooting 43%, 27% from three, and 77% from the charity line. 

An easy win, the home opening, with lots of good feelings for Coach Smith and her likely HOF career.  Second highest number of wins all-time in the CCIW.

Onward to #3 UW Whitewater next Tuesday night.

IWU'70

[iwu70]

One additional note on the IWU 500th win under Coach Mia Smith:

With the blowout, the second and third groups got lots of playing time last night.  Mia is set on an 8 person rotation now -- with starters being White, Palmer, Huber, Powers and Bardic.  It's a quick, small group with three point shooting skill everywhere.  Run and jump is awesome with this quick, fit group.  Key rotation members are Knutson, Mahlum, and Balli.  Knutson and Mahlum do bring in some size if needed.  Really a starting rotation of four guards and Huber -- who is a small 4 or 5, but is also listed as a guard.

With the others getting so much playing time, I was delighted to see my friend from Hong Kong, Luigi Lam, get 7-8 minutes, play well and get her first trey in a Titan uniform, one of many to come, IMHO.  She handles the ball well, sees the floor and passes well, and is a good three point shooter.  Now, of course, she's behind Palmer and White at the PG position, but will surely rise to that position in coming years when Palmer and White depart, Palmer after this year, and White the following year.  Good luck to Luigi for her CCIW career upcoming.

Sophia Feeney will also now return to basketball after the IWU volleyball team bowed out last night in the D3 tourney in Ohio.  The Titans won two games in the regional, then lost last night in the Regional Championship game to UW Oshkosh.  A great season for IWU volleyball, especially for All-American Taylor French.  Feeney may play a role in IWU's second group rotation. 

A big game for the Titans on Tuesday @ #3 UW Whitewater. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all CCIW chatsters.

'70

[RogK]

Congrats to Mia Smith for her 500th win. Getting the first 499 wins was pretty good, too!
CCIW WBB teams have combined for a 24-17 record so far in nonconference action.
AUG 1-3
CRL 4-1
CTG 3-1
ELM 5-0
IWU 3-0
MIL 1-3
NCC 2-2
NPU 2-4
WHE 3-3

[lmitzel]

NCC 76
Benedictine 63

Cardinals never trailed tonight. Closest the Eagles got after hitting their first bucket to make it 4-2 was cutting it to 3 right before halftime, but NCC took a 5 point lead to the locker room and slowly pulled away in the second half.

Biz Daly: 26 pts, 4 reb, 3 stl
Jocelyn Trotter: 22 pts, 11 reb
Josylin Simmons-Doxie: 9 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast
Grace Keiffer: 5 pts, 7 reb, 7 ast

Daly, by the way, is averaging a 19-6 on 52% shooting through the first 5 games. The jump she's made from Year 1 to Year 2 has been awesome.

[iwu70]

In a very gritty and physical game in Whitewater (I was privileged to be there in person), #8 IWU took down #3 UW Whitewater, 84-78.  Two high quality teams giving each other their best shot. 

IWU led by 6 at the half, had a lead of 12 at one point in the 3rd Q before WW stormed back to take the lead in the 4th Q.  The Titans weathered the storm and retook the lead with about 3 minutes to go.  Just excellent play, tough defense by both teams.  IWU prevailed with better defense, tough physical play in the post trying to hold off WW's size, and near perfect FT shooting.  Players were flying around, Ava Bardic was upended and hit her head on the floor, Kate Palmer almost had her nose relocated on one play . . .  and there was basically wrestling in the post much of the night. 

For WW:

Carollo 26 and 6 assists.  She's the real deal, so quick and clever, a great passer.
McCurdy 16
Oloffson 16

Carollo and Oloffson fouled out in the last three minutes.

For IWU:

Palmer 22 (and a great job as floor general tonight)
Bardic 20 with 4 steals
Huber 15 and 9
Powers 15 and 4
Knutson 6 rebounds

WW shot 50%, 27% from three, and 87% from the FT line

IWU shot 47%, 45% from three making 9, and 96% from the FT line, 21 0f 22 on the night. 

A great game with two D3 tournament quality teams.

IWU goes to 4-0 and heads for the Midwest Challenge Tournament in St. Louis this weekend to take on DePauw and then likely Wash U.  The tough pre-CCIW schedule continues . . .

A privilege to watch such a high-quality, hard-fought and competitive contest

IWU'70

[iwu70]

IWU at the Midwest Challenge in St. Louis today -- taking on DePauw at 4 p.m.   The host Wash U looms tomorrow, should the Titans win today.

'70

[Titan Q]

Q-cast interview with IWU senior guard Kate Palmer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqjtQeu8ckQ&t=928s