WBB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RogK]

So, another Player of the Week award for Frazier or Eppard?

[RogK]

Congrats to Hannah Frazier for another CCIW Player of the Week honor!

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU continues their slow-but-steady climb up the national poll - this week rising from 21 to 18.

[iwu70]

Glad to see IWU moving on up in the poll, as Ypsi has reported, to #18 this week.  Their resume looks good so far, with many key games to go.  Lost to now #14 WI-Whitewater, and to Wash U, which has dropped out of the poll, but still a very strong contender for post-season play.  IWU now has a run of games that they should win . . . leading up to the game with WC early next month.  Team play over individual play.  Tough defense and very efficient offense. 

Keep it rolling TITANS!

'70

[RogK]

In anticipation of attending tomorrow's Carthage at North Park contest, I decided to review just how well Carthage's 3-pt shooters have done, beyond just looking at season averages.
I decided that an individual making at least three 3FGs in a game is significant and that making at least 50% of her 3FG attempts is excellent (the equivalent of 75% or better at 2FGs). Quantity plus quality.
In 15 games, they have had 15 such occurrences : Autumn Kalis 5 times, Bailey Gilbert 4 times, Madie Kaelber 3 times (just missed a 4th with a 6-for-13 which is very good anyway), Sammie Woodward twice and Morgan Harris once. Not bad. This should keep North Park's defense busy, eh? Greg?
CCIW standings :
6-0 IWU
5-2 WHE
4-3 ELM (idle until Saturday)
3-3 AUG CTG NPU
2-4 CRL NCC
0-6 MIL

[Gregory Sager]

Zzzzz ... zz. Umh. Wuh? Huh? Did somebody say something to me?

Sorry, Rog. I must've dozed off at some point after we changed channels to the Titans 24/7 Network.

[RogK]

Ha ha! Well, you're free to interject with opinions about Augustana, North Central and Carthage.

[Gregory Sager]

OK. The Carthage mascot ("Torchy") is embarrassing for fans of the Red Men and Lady Reds. There's my AC/NCC/CC opinion for the day.

[RogK]

Ha!
My only possible response to that is this unrelated 16 seconds of humor :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNPNs1pKoQ
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[iwu70]

6-0 IWU vs. 0-6 MU.   You don't say?

'70 -- just waking Greg up.

 

[RogK]

Yeah, 0-6 vs 6-0 seems a mismatch. I'm not convinced that Millikin has much of a chance, certainly not if they play cautiously. Same goes for Carroll at Wheaton.
Carthage (3-3) at North Park (3-3) will give one of 'em a little better status in the standings. I'm hoping for 92-91 in favor of whichever team wins. 186 points were scored the other time I saw Carthage this season. Ear-regardless of my score preferences, this game should be seen as almost must-win by both squads.
North Central at Augie features teams that have done well at times, but also have been very ineffective for big portions of recent games. A loss for NC would put them at 2-5, facing a steep climb thereafter.

[Gregory Sager]

Carthage 84
North Park 59

Shaylee Sloan: 12 pts, 8 rebs
Brie Lippert: 12 pts
Sinead Molloy: 4:0 a:to

Morgan Harris: 21 pts, 11 rebs, 6:3 a:to
Rachel Sydlowski: 17 pts
Madie Kaelber: 13 pts
Sammie Woodward: 11 pts, 6 rebs
Autumn Kalis: 11 pts

Carthage shot a .517/.417/.706 split tonight and outrebounded NPU by 44-27. Morgan Harris was everywhere, and the Vikings did not match her energy or aggressiveness.

[iwu70]

IWU goes to 7-0 in the CCIW, 79-62 over MU, in Decatur.

For IWU:
McGraw 21
Anderson 13
Hughes 13
Merritt 11
Ehresman 7  7 Rebs. 3-1 Asst:TO

Steals, IWU 18, MU 7

For MU:
Curry 23
Hildebrand 16

Keep it rolling TITANS -- now 12 game winning streak.

14-2, 7-0.

IWU'70

[GoPerry]

Wheaton 82
Carroll    36

Hannah Frazier      21 pts, 10 rebs, 5 blks
Maggie Dansdill   19 pts, 7 rebs, 3 stls, 4 assts
Kelly Lawson      12 pts   
Lots of minutes/points for the rest of the roster

Carroll was led by Delaney Sjong with 14 pts, 4 rebs

Not much to say here except this one was over pretty early.  Tough night for the Lady Pioneers.  Wheaton added to their nation-leading total with 14 blocked shots.  It is rather difficult to tell how much the team is improving in their play.  But they are winning games by wide margins which is what they should be doing.  So I think they're getting more comfortable as a team now.  They should be tough going forward.

[RogK]

I felt that Carthage looked good, and North Park did well for segments of the contest.
One thing I noticed (and that's more or less my limit) is that Carthage's guards are quite adept at keeping their dribble "alive" as they move around, exploring possibilities in a half-court situation. This prevents their offense from getting bogged down or grinding to a halt.