Illinois Wesleyan mounted a spirited late comeback, but fell at Wartburg to the host Knights, 62-59.
And Millikin was never really in it up north of the Cheddar Curtain, as UW-Whitewater dominated its home floor en route to an 89-65 win over the Big Blue. And thus ends the career of the greatest player in CCIW women's basketball history, as Elyce Knudsen went down fighting, scoring 30 in the losing cause. Unless she comes back as an MU grad student, she ends her career with 2,280 points -- which is crazy when you consider that her freshman season was the truncated COVID year of 2020-21 in which she only got to play 13 games.
And so the CCIW, although enjoying a breakthrough year in which the league got more that two teams into the D3 tourney for the first time in 28 years, once again sees its season end in the first weekend of the tourney as per usual.
And Millikin was never really in it up north of the Cheddar Curtain, as UW-Whitewater dominated its home floor en route to an 89-65 win over the Big Blue. And thus ends the career of the greatest player in CCIW women's basketball history, as Elyce Knudsen went down fighting, scoring 30 in the losing cause. Unless she comes back as an MU grad student, she ends her career with 2,280 points -- which is crazy when you consider that her freshman season was the truncated COVID year of 2020-21 in which she only got to play 13 games.
And so the CCIW, although enjoying a breakthrough year in which the league got more that two teams into the D3 tourney for the first time in 28 years, once again sees its season end in the first weekend of the tourney as per usual.