WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[iwu70]

In a game that came down to one possession, IWU over EU by a whisker, 64-61.   It was the Ava Bardic show.  IWU goes to 19-0, 10-0 in CCIW play.

For EU -- playing hard and taking it right to the Titans.  I give them tons of credit.

Gibson 20
Bukata 19 (a tremendous player, surely all CCIW now or in the future).

(She had the game tying three attempt but it was blocked by Bardic, sealing the win).

Steemer 12 and 15

EU shooting 37%, 8% from three (a big part of their loss), and 70% from the FT line.

For IWU:

Ava Bardic on fire all night:  26, 9-12 shooting, 6-7 from three, 2-2 FTs, and NO TOs. 
Huber (pressing and a poor start), but still 17 and 16, an amazing game
Powers 9 and 9
Palmer 8 and 6

A rare game when IWU lost the TO line, 18-15, and barely won the rebounding line, 46-41.

Again, the Bluejays really had no fear, took it to the Titans all evening. 

Ava Bardic carrying the Titans to this win. No doubt.

IWU shooting 35%, 30% from three, and 56% from the line.

A good win, a very tough win.  IWU to 19-0, 10-0.

Now the really BIG game vs. Carroll at home, this Wednesday, February 5th.

Ava Bardic was awesome tonight.

IWU'70

[iwu70]

Congrats to Ms. Rangel on Player of the Week honors. 

'70

[iwu70]

Congrats to Carroll's Olivia Rangel, again, for being named to the Team of the Week.

And, congrats to IWU's Ava Bardic for joining Ms. Rangel on the Team of the Week. 

Good for the CCIW, two for five!

Now comes the showdown -- Carroll vs. IWU tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7 p.m. @The Shirk.

'70

[RogK]

Icy roads (and sidewalks) are forecast for the later hours tonight across the northern half of Illinois.
Some chance of hazardous postgame rides home for CCIW WBB : North Park (Rock Island to Chicago), North Central (Kenosha WI to Naperville), Carroll (Bloomington IL to Waukesha WI) and perhaps the short Wheaton to Elmhurst trip.
I just checked the four host web sites and the games still show for 7pm.
We'll see if any starting times are moved up a couple of hours, with the forecast in mind.

[iwu70]

IWU goes to 20-0.

After being down 24-10 after the 1st Quarter and playing pretty badly, IWU got back into their game, picked it up several years, and roared back for the win over a very good Carroll team, the final 81-75.  I know you are tired of hearing this, but get to 78 and win the game, especially tough when you only score 10 in the first ten minutes. 

The Quarter scores were:  10-24, 24-19 (down nine at the half), 23-16, 24-18.  Ava Bardic again key to this win, and going over 1,000 points for her career at IWU in this game.  An amazing shooter.

For CU:

Gricius 25 (IWU had no answer for her down low early on)
Rangel 22 (both Palmer and especially Sawyer White gave her trouble defensively late in the game).
 
CU with 15 TOs and 29 rebounds.

Shooting 50%, 39% from three, and 57% from the line (which hurt them).

For IWU:

Bardic 24 -- her line 7-13, 4-7 from three, and 6-6 FTs
Palmer 21, 4-5 from three
Huber 20 and 7
Powers 7 and 9
White 5 assists, 5 steals, 4 rebounds, and NO TOs. 

IWU at 50%, 50% from 3 and 89% from the FT line.

IWU had 13 TOs, and 32 rebounds.

A very exciting comeback and a huge crowd, even with the inclement weather out there.  Big turnout from a very loud and supportive student section tonight.   

A great win over a quality team. 

20-0, 11-0.  Onward . . .

IWU when really clicking is a fun fun team to watch. 

'70

[lmitzel]

NCC 62
Carthage 50

Much needed win for the Cardinals. Biz Daly broke a 26-all tie with a layup with four seconds left before halftime, and the Cardinals never trailed again in this one. NCC forced 22 turnovers and turned it into 19 points and won the points in the paint battle by 10.

Biz Daly: 14 pts, 9 reb
Josylin Simmons-Dixie: 12 pts, 8 ast
Jocelyn Trotter: 12 pts, 9 reb
Ameli Sanchez: 8 pts, 5 reb, 3 stl

Marianna Morissey: 13 pts, 4 stl, 7 TO
Malia Green: 10 pts
Emma Thistle: 4 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast, 8 TO

[scottiedawg]

Gricius 25 (IWU had no answer for her down low early on)

Kudos to IWU for making her close to a non-factor in the 2nd half.

[GoPerry]

Wheaton Ladies with a good 79-67 home win over Elmhurst.

Annika Richardson led with a career high 36 pts on 13/18 shooting, 5/9 from trey (big night for the Richardson family w/ Soren's 53 pts at NPU**).  She got the double-double with 12 rebounds and 3 steals.  Kate Oliver added 17 pts.  Grace Kizer had some key 2nd half baskets and finished with 11 pts.  Wheaton moves up into a tie for 4th in the conference.

EC's Sierra Gibson had 18 pts while Cierra Steemer added 14 pts and 9 rebs.

**Richardson family (sis/bro) scoring line on the night:  31/41 FG (75.6%), 11/17 three (64.7%), 16/20 FT (80%) . . 89 pts.

[lmitzel]

Here's our standings through last night.

y-IWU	11-0
x-CRL	9-2
CAR	7-5
WHE	6-5
MIL	6-5
AUG	5-7
NCC	4-8
ELM	4-8
e-NPU	0-12

Since Wesleyan has a sweep of Wheaton, they're locked into a top four seed. With Wheaton knocking off Elmhurst, Carroll has also clinched its postseason berth. Meanwhile, Augie's win over North Park last night mathematically eliminated NPU from the postseason.

Wheaton beat Millikin the first time around, so they currently hold that tiebreaker. NCC currently holds the tiebreaker over Elmhurst with their win in Kenosha last night (Elmhurst lost their first matchup, with the second game still to come).

With a win in Kenosha on Saturday, Illinois Wesleyan would officially lock up a top two seed; their magic number for clinching the #1 seed is 3.

Don't know that there's any other clinching scenarios yet. And like I said on the men's board, there are over a million possible combinations of results still the rest of the way and I'm not dealing with that.

[deiscanton]

To those d3 readers living outside of the CCIW territory-- and yes, that includes any state other than Illinois or Wisconsin--

Illinois Wesleyan at Carthage on Saturday's video broadcast is only available on Marquee Sports Network.

There are only 2 providers nationally that have this channel in their packages--

1.)  Fubo-- you must at least have a Fubo Pro subscription (costs at least $100 month) to access.

If you had a former Fubo account in the past, like I did when I got Fubo Latino many years ago to watch soccer, you cannot create an alternate account in the attempt to get another free trial of the service, since you already had your free trial in the past.   Fubo considers it a breach of the agreement that you made with Fubo when you created your initial account in the first place and would have the right to ban you from using their service permanently.

If you never subscribed to Fubo previously, you can get a free trial to Fubo Pro for a week to watch this game. 

2.)  DIRECTV or DIRECTV stream-- You must subscribe to the Choice package or higher and add in the DIRECTV Sports Pack.  The DirecTV Sports Pack will grant you access to all of the out-of-market regional sports networks in the United States.   

The cost of this package is at least $125 per month, but DIRECTV grants you a 5 day free trial if you have never subscribed to DIRECTV or DIRECTV Stream in the past.

Since I have never subscribed to DIRECTV, I can get this 5 day free trial, but I can only use this once.

Of course, the cheapest way to follow this doubleheader if you live outside of the CCIW territory is through Illinois Wesleyan's free internet audio broadcast and through the live stats provided by Carthage.

Feel free to post this on the CCIW men's board for the men's side of this doubleheader.

Yes, I checked the listings on Fubo, and this game will not be blacked out nationally for Fubo or DIRECTV subscribers that get this channel in their packages.

[deiscanton]

It also looks like Carthage's decision to have doubleheaders on Marquee Sports Network has also screwed fans of the Carroll Pioneers as well.

The Carroll campus is located in Waukesha, WI, and Marquee Sports Network considers Waukesha to be part of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball territory, not the Chicago Cubs baseball territory.  The Milwaukee Brewers baseball territory basically includes most of Wisconsin outside of the immediate Kenosha area-- Kenosha, WI is considered part of the Chicago Cubs baseball territory.  So, Carthage's decision to put some games on Marquee Sports Network not only violates the basic principles of D3 athletics that it is not ideal to pay a mandatory streaming fee to watch D3 schools compete-- it also did not take into account the entire CCIW territory by forcing local Carroll Pioneer fans to have to subscribe to Fubo or DIRECTV to catch the IWU or North Park at Carthage basketball games on video this season, since Marquee Sports Network is an out-of-market RSN in most of Wisconsin.

[iwu70]

A really bad trend.  Especially for D3 women's hoops. 

IWU now has a very good shot at the perfect regular season record, 25-0. 

Ava Bardic was again awesome last night -- and three players with 20 or more:  Bardic, Huber, and Palmer.  Powers and White surely made very important contributions,too, especially on the defensive end.  It was an awesome comeback, after being down 24-10 after the 1st Quarter.

Keep it rolling Titans . . . a truly special year.

'70

[iwu70]

Well, live by the three, die by the three.  The IWU undefeated season is gone, with Carthage winning 87-81, winning the final Q in a close game throughout, 33-25. 

Carthage winning the three ball line, 45% to 24%, making 9 whilst IWU only hits 5.  Also winning the rebounding line 39-32.  IWU not winning the TO line by enough today.

For CC:

Morrissey, a monster game, 27 and 9
Green 20
Orozco 12 and 11

For IWU:  a valiant effort in the losing cause

Huber 16 and 12
Knutson 14
Powers 14 and 7
Bardic 11
White 9 with 3 more steals
Balli 9
Palmer 8

IWU now 20-1, still in a good position in the conference with just one loss.

Re-group, learn from this one and move ahead.

IWU'70

[lmitzel]

NCC 82
NPU 71

This was close for a while, as the Cardinals only led by 4 after one quarter and by 6 at the break. But the Cardinal press wreaked absolute havoc early in the third and NCC pulled away. 22 Viking turnovers led to 31 Cardinal points (NPU got 20 off 16, for comparison).

Biz Daly: 18 pts
Josylin Simmons-Doxie: 17 pts
Jocelyn Trotter: 13 pts, 7 reb, 5 stl
Grace Keiffer: 13 pts, 6 reb, 4 stl

Caroline Long: 23 pts
Naomi Kaskavitch: 12 pts, 5 reb, 3 stl
Kathryn Keehn: 12 pts
Aliyah Hershberger: 10 pts

[lmitzel]

While I don't see an official announcement from IWU's side, according to North Park, the Vikings-Titans tilt will be played tomorrow to avoid winter weather.