MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Pat Coleman]

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement  Viking HC Dan McCarrell will be inducted into the HOF in October in Florida.  Very surprised he has not already entered!

Bo Ryan too.  What takes this committee so long?

"What takes this committee so long" seems like a very valid question. However, rather than McCarrell, who achieved greatness in 1978-1980, and Ryan, the question seems even more applicable to someone like North Central's Bill Warden, who graduated from NCC way back in 1955. Without the benefit of ever making a three point shot, Warden (NAIA at the time) scored 2,249 points! This is almost 500 more points than NCC's second all-time scorer, a 1st team All-American no less.
So yes, it does appear this committee needs to emerge from hibernation a little more frequently. 🤗

The group is still pretty new. They're still working through decades of basketball players and coaches.

[GusD]

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement  Viking HC Dan McCarrell will be inducted into the HOF in October in Florida.  Very surprised he has not already entered!

Bo Ryan too.  What takes this committee so long?

"What takes this committee so long" seems like a very valid question. However, rather than McCarrell, who achieved greatness in 1978-1980, and Ryan, the question seems even more applicable to someone like North Central's Bill Warden, who graduated from NCC way back in 1955. Without the benefit of ever making a three point shot, Warden (NAIA at the time) scored 2,249 points! This is almost 500 more points than NCC's second all-time scorer, a 1st team All-American no less.
So yes, it does appear this committee needs to emerge from hibernation a little more frequently. 🤗

The group is still pretty new. They're still working through decades of basketball players and coaches.

Ah, a succinct explanation of the "delay." Thank you.

[Pat Coleman]

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement  Viking HC Dan McCarrell will be inducted into the HOF in October in Florida.  Very surprised he has not already entered!

Bo Ryan too.  What takes this committee so long?

"What takes this committee so long" seems like a very valid question. However, rather than McCarrell, who achieved greatness in 1978-1980, and Ryan, the question seems even more applicable to someone like North Central's Bill Warden, who graduated from NCC way back in 1955. Without the benefit of ever making a three point shot, Warden (NAIA at the time) scored 2,249 points! This is almost 500 more points than NCC's second all-time scorer, a 1st team All-American no less.
So yes, it does appear this committee needs to emerge from hibernation a little more frequently. 🤗

The group is still pretty new. They're still working through decades of basketball players and coaches.

Ah, a succinct explanation of the "delay." Thank you.

I think it's also inaccurate! Bo Ryan was inducted ages ago -- if you look at the page you linked, you see the 2019 feature we did on Bo Ryan when he was elected:

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2019/10/bo-ryan-master-teacher

And in addition, Bill Warden is actually in this induction class. Again, I invite you to more fully read the page you linked to.

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement

[Gregory Sager]

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement  Viking HC Dan McCarrell will be inducted into the HOF in October in Florida.  Very surprised he has not already entered!

Bo Ryan too.  What takes this committee so long?

"What takes this committee so long" seems like a very valid question. However, rather than McCarrell, who achieved greatness in 1978-1980, and Ryan, the question seems even more applicable to someone like North Central's Bill Warden, who graduated from NCC way back in 1955. Without the benefit of ever making a three point shot, Warden (NAIA at the time) scored 2,249 points! This is almost 500 more points than NCC's second all-time scorer, a 1st team All-American no less.

I think it's also inaccurate! Bo Ryan was inducted ages ago -- if you look at the page you linked, you see the 2019 feature we did on Bo Ryan when he was elected:

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2019/10/bo-ryan-master-teacher

And in addition, Bill Warden is actually in this induction class. Again, I invite you to more fully read the page you linked to.

https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2025/06/scb-hof-announcement

NPU press release on Dan McCarrell's upcoming induction into the SCB Hall of Fame.

Only two men have coached an NCAA men's basketball program to three consecutive national titles. One was John Wooden. The other is Dan McCarrell.

[Gregory Sager]

Two more NPU commits:

Noah Aguado, 6'6" F, Yorkville Christian
Timothy Key, 6'4" G/F, Eustis (FL) HS

[markerickson]

McCarrell won 295 and 284 games at North Park and Mankato State (D2-MN), respectively.  I wonder how many games he won in the bldg now known on campus as Hamming Hall, and maybe? into the years of Bosko's college playing days.

I do not believe NPC competed off-campus for home games on a regulation-sized court.

[Gregory Sager]

McCarrell won 295 and 284 games at North Park and Mankato State (D2-MN), respectively.  I wonder how many games he won in the bldg now known on campus as Hamming Hall, and maybe? into the years of Bosko's college playing days.

None. The crackerbox was already built and in use when North Park began playing other four-year colleges as a newly-minted varsity program the year before McCarrell matriculated at NPC. It's thus the only home court the varsity Vikings have ever had.

I do not believe NPC competed off-campus for home games on a regulation-sized court.

Actually, they did. For at least the latter part of the school's junior college period the Vikings played their home games at nearby Roosevelt High School.