MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

*Carthage	11-3	@ WC	@ CU
*Illinois Wesleyan	11-3	@ NPU	@ AC
*Elmhurst	9-5	vs. CU	vs. NPU
Carroll	7-7	@ EC	vs. CC
North Park	7-7	vs. IWU	@ EC
Wheaton	6-8	vs. CC	vs. MU
Augustana	5-9	@ NCC	vs. IWU
Millikin	5-10	---	@ WC
eNorth Central	3-12	vs. AC	---

[GusD]

Elmhurst goes into the hangar this evening and comes away with a 66-57 win at the expense of their fellow DuPage songbirds. The Bluejays collected 15 and 8 from Vinnie Adjahoungbeta, 15 as well from Luke Smith, and 13 from Sebastian Blachut, while Aidyn Boone did the dirty work with 13 boards and four steals. James Bullock had a whale of a game in the losing cause for North Central with 20 points, 13 rebounds, and five blocks, and Alejandro Diaz chipped in a dozen points, but the offense just wasn't there for the Cardinals, who were an anemic 35% from the field and 17% (3-18) from downtown.

In an otherwise generally anemic season for NCC, the highlight of last evening's clash may well have been a halftime ceremony honoring the 2005-2006 Cardinal squad who won the very first CCIW Conference Tournament championship defeating IWU 51-49 in a game played at Augustana.
Among those present were Ray Vicario, Adam Teising, Dean Prince, Adam Krumtinger, Dan Walton, Anthony Simmons, Josh Corso, and assistant coach Nate Riley.

[markerickson]

True, Greg.  I think Kolden is the top CCIW guard and Soren is definitely a top three forward.  The two did match up on D yesterday.  Kolden is known as a scorer, but he plays D very well as evidenced by steals, disruptions, rebounds, and intensity.

[iwu70]

IWU rises to #13, Carthage re-enters top 25 at #22.  Week 11 poll.

'70

[Gregory Sager]

True, Greg.  I think Kolden is the top CCIW guard and Soren is definitely a top three forward.  The two did match up on D yesterday.  Kolden is known as a scorer, but he plays D very well as evidenced by steals, disruptions, rebounds, and intensity.

... and, incidentally, he was just named CCIW POW for the third time this season and the fifth time in his NPU career.

https://cciw.org/news/2026/2/16/mens-basketball-vikings-vanlandingham-tabbed-cciw-student-athlete-of-the-week.aspx

Kolden was also named to the D3 Team of the Week:

https://athletics.northpark.edu/news/2026/2/16/mens-basketball-vanlandingham-appears-again-on-d3hoops-com-national-team-of-the-week.aspx

(Sorry that I'm not linking to D3hoops.com for this, Pat, but Tyler's press release included a clip from Wednesday's North Park @ Augustana game that shows KV scoring the game-winning layup, so even though it's your award I had to go with the NPU press release this time.)