MBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[GusD]

With a quick glance, I didn't see it posted here, but PauldingLightUp posted on the WIAC board that ex-UW-Oshkosh head coach, Matt Lewis, is now listed as an assistant coach at IWU according to his bio.

I believe his wife is now a IWU employee so if it's true it wouldn't be that surprising. However, he's not yet listed on the IWU 🏀 site. If true, he'd be their fifth asst coach. Also, it would be interesting to know if he would he be considered a volunteer, or full-time or part-time. Given his background, would he be the Head Assistant?

[ChickenHoops]

With a quick glance, I didn't see it posted here, but PauldingLightUp posted on the WIAC board that ex-UW-Oshkosh head coach, Matt Lewis, is now listed as an assistant coach at IWU according to his bio.

I believe his wife is now a IWU employee so if it's true it wouldn't be that surprising. However, he's not yet listed on the IWU 🏀 site. If true, he'd be their fifth asst coach. Also, it would be interesting to know if he would he be considered a volunteer, or full-time or part-time. Given his background, would he be the Head Assistant?

I know that UW-SP Coach Kent Dernbach is glad to see him go.  Lewis kicked them around quite a bit during his tenure.  I recall Lewis has an MBA so maybe they found some other things to do for him at IWU, who knows.

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage has landed Braylen Blue, a 6'5", 185 rising junior guard from Sun Prairie, WI and Madison Memorial HS. In 2023-24 he was a freshman at St. Francis (PA), played sparingly, and then departed once the school announced it was moving from D1 to D3. After a year at a Utah juco where he ended up redshirting, he transferred again last year, this time to Madison College right in his back yard, and averaged 9.5 ppg while putting together an impressive .441/.365/.950 shooting line.

Augustana was also after him, and Clarke offered him an NAIA scholie. Radford sent him a preferred walk-on invite, but one season sitting at the end of the bench for a low-level D1 in another time zone seems to have been enough for him.

Given the wholesale losses Carthage suffers from last season's backcourt -- Riley Brooks in particular -- the addition of Blue looks like a pretty welcome development for Steve D.