Rose: Titans can remove doubt for NCAA bid

Ron Rose's Titans play Wheaton to open the CCIW Tournament on Friday. (WJBC file photo)

There’s one way the Illinois Wesleyan men can take themselves off of the bubble for getting into the NCAA Tournament – win two games this weekend.

A CCIW Tournament title would give the Titans an automatic bid to the tournament.

Illinois Wesleyan will play Wheaton at 5 p.m. in the first semifinal game at Gregory Arena in Naperville.  The second semifinal pits top-seed and host North Central against Augustana.

The Titans ended the regular season with a 19-6 record. IWU has received at-large bids to the NCAAs each of the last two seasons.

Friday’s game will be on WJBC 93.7 FM and here on WJBC.com.

Click here to listen to Patti Penn’s interview with IWU coach Ron Rose.

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Eric Stock can be reached at eric@wjbc.com.