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— Illinois Wesleyan Ladies’s Basketball (@IWUWomensBball) February 24, 2023
DECATUR — School Convention of Illinois and Wisconsin Most Excellent Participant Elyce Knudsen scored 25 factors as Millikin ended the Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s season with an 82-65 win within the semifinals of the CCIW Event on Friday at Griswold Middle.
The Massive Blue led 20-11 after one quarter and 38-29 at halftime whereas bettering to 22-4. Millikin will play Augustana for the match championship Saturday.
Illinois Wesleyan’s Lauren Huber (5) drove previous Millikin’s Sophie Darden on Friday within the semifinals of the CCIW Event in Decatur.
Wesleyan completed at 16-11 and obtained 20 factors and 10 rebounds from Lauren Huber.
Katelyn Heller added 9 factors and Sawyer White had eight factors and eight rebounds for the Titans.
IWU missed its first 11 3-point makes an attempt and ended at 1 of 12 whereas taking pictures 42 p.c general (25 of 59).
Millikin shot 47 p.c whereas trying 17 extra pictures than the Titans and changing 11 extra.Â
Abby Ratsch contributed 19 factors and eight rebounds for the Massive Blue. Chelsea McCullum scored eight.
Wesleyan’s 24 turnovers had been twice as many as Millikin’s 12.
PHOTOS: Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith
Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball staff coach Mia Smith confirmed off the sport ball that marked her four-hundredth profession win.
Brian Ehresman poses with Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith on the Titan Golf Outing this summer time
Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith donned a masks as her Titans practiced behind her Tuesday at Shirk Middle.
Illinois Wesleyan head ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith directs her staff throughout the Titans’ 86-81 School Convention of Illinois and Wisconsin victory over Millikin on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, at Shirk Middle.
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Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball staff coach Mia Smith rallies her staff as they tackle Wheaton Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, at Shirk Middle.
Illinois Wesleyan head ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith talks to her bench throughout the Titans’ 80-54 School Convention of Illinois and Wisconsin win over Millikin on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Shirk Middle.
Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball staff members offered coach Mia Smith with a recreation ball to mark 400 profession wins.
Mike Wagner, left, Illinois Wesleyan College Athletic Director, and former Athletic Director Dennie Bridges, presents ladies’s basketball staff coach Mia Smith with a embellished cookie and bouquet of flowers to mark her four-hundredth profession win after IWU defeated Whittier final Saturday.
A particular recreation ball was embellished to honor Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball staff coach Mia Smith to mark 400 profession wins.
Illinois Wesleyan head ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith directs her staff throughout the Titans’ 77-76 nonconference loss to the College of Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at Shirk Middle.
llinois Wesleyan coach Mia Smith reacts throughout a 2013 recreation towards Millikin at Shirk Middle.Â
The resume of Illinois Wesleyan’s IBCA Corridor of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, contains profitable the 2011-12 NCAA Division III nationwide title. She addressed followers throughout a celebration for that staff at Shirk Middle.
Illinois Wesleyan’s IBCA Corridor of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, saluted followers after a 2012 NCAA Division III nationwide semifinal win over St. Thomas at Holland, Mich. That squad went on to win the nationwide title.Â
Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith, middle, instructs her staff throughout a timeout within the third quarter of Wednesday’s CCIW recreation towards Elmhurst at Shirk Middle.
Illinois Wesleyan ladies’s basketball coach Mia Smith, middle, addresses the gang at Shirk Middle after the Titans’ 85-45 win over Carroll within the tenth annual Pink Zone recreation benefiting the Bloomington-Regular Group Most cancers Middle. Â
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Illinois Wesleyan coach Mia Smith offers directions to her staff throughout a 2014 recreation at Shirk Middle. Smith is in her twentieth season at IWU and has been chosen for induction in to the Illinois Basketball Coaches Affiliation Corridor of Fame.
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Illinois Wesleyan coach Mia Smith yells from the bench throughout recreation towards Rose-Hulman Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, at Shirk Middle in Bloomington. CARLOS T. MIRANDA, The Pantagraph