Quote from: wally_wabash on February 25, 2009, 10:16:25 AM
 It'll come down to which team can stay "on" over the weekend.  

It will also come down to fatigue.  All the games friday night will be tough and hard fought.  So the team that wins the tournament will have to fight through everything to win.  It may not be the best team that wins but it the team that has the drive to fight through the fatigue and beat a team that may be on. 

Quote from: lebron23 on February 24, 2009, 11:45:30 PM
it'll be a good semi-final matchup b/w the LG's and the Gators although it is setting up for a Wooster-Wabash championship game!

Wouldn't be so quick to give Bash the game over Gheny.  Anything can happen as it did tonight.  Plus the Ohio refs may not want an Indiana team in the championship game.

It will be tough for Wooster to lose at home when you look at the remaining teams.  Riding the emotions and the way the can shot at Timken.

Who would have thought that Witt would have gotten beat at home in the tournament?  But is like Coach Moore said after the game saturday everyone has 0-0 record and anything can happen.

Quote from: wally_wabash on February 24, 2009, 08:54:56 PM
Negative EC.  No audio, no video, no live stats.  We'll all be in the dark until a score gets posted somewhere. 

OWU streams some of their games.  Why wouldn't they stream the tournament game?   

With the opportunity of hosting it would seem smart to stream the game.

Any update on the OWU/GHENY game?

As a player that played against the Scots.  Thoughts and prayers go to Coach Cline and the Wooster family.  Right its not about what team your with but about a member of the conference losing a loved one.

Did you ever have the opportunity to see her play?  Stats do not always tell the story.  About the last month of the season she was facing double teams almost the whole game.  So the coaches have more respect for her.  So the coaches will probably have her higher than honorable mention.

When was the last time that Woo and Witt met on friday night and not saturday for the conference championship?

Wooster over Denison- Wooster is unstoppable at home when they don't miss.
Wittenberg over Kenyon- Witt inspired to play Wooster in the second round
Hiram over Wabash- Hiram's youth over the long bus ride from C'ville.
OWU over Allegheny- Bishops win in the rematch

David,
How do you have Tasha Merrill as a Honorable Mention player?  She is fourth in the conference in scoring, top 15 in rebounds, 11th in field goal percentage, and 6th in free throws.  Some of the players that you have on the second team are behind Merrill in those categories. 

Invite all teams to the tournament giving having 8/9 and 7/10 match up play on monday or tuesday and then continue the tournament tuesday or wednesday with what would now be the first round and having the semi's where ever.  Doing it almost like the Big Ten, not having the 6/11 matchup, but with 6 playing 3, or a tournament that has 10 teams.  Everyone has to remember George Mason from a couple years ago, and every one loves the underdog, giving all teams the opportunity to participate in the tournament allows for the underdog to make a run possible.

Quote from: smedindy on February 25, 2008, 03:35:21 PM
I think a lot of the D-3 tourneys are smaller to save costs and travel. And for conferences over 8 teams, it makes sense to limit it a bit. 12 team tourneys get a bit obtuse (but that doesn't stop the Sun Belt or Southern Conference).

But why not have an NCAC blowout in Dayton or Columbus?

Day 1: #5 vs #10, #6 vs. #9, #7 vs. #8
Day 2: #4 vs. winner of 5/10, #3 vs. winner of 6/9, #2 vs. winner of 7/8
Day 3: #1 vs. winner of 4/5/10, 3/6/9 winner vs. 2/7/8
Day 4: World Championship of the NCAC.

That protects #1, gives teams incentives to finish in the top 4, yet allows for a quixotic tourney run by an underdog which would make great copy for us junkies.

Doing it this way we could almost rotate the tournament allowing 2 teams to host the tournament( i.e. Wabash and Earlham holding it in Indianapolis).  It allows fans to make the trip to the tournament.  Having the tournament last from Thursday to Sunday.  This is something that some other players and I have been talking about for a couple of years.  Something that we should draft up and maybe send it to the commish and have him take a look at it. 

You have to give it up to the Earlham ladies for not giving up on the season, especially with only playing with 8 players.  That was until Samantha Lurie tore her ACL, and is struggling playing less than one minute saturday.  This was a team that asked a player to leave for conduct detrimental.  Players playing sick, and they only have 4 healthy players which two of those see limited action.  I commend this team on not giving up on the season and still have a chance to make the tourney.

Quote from: Wooster Booster on February 18, 2008, 02:00:50 PM

Quote from: kiltedbryan on February 18, 2008, 11:47:50 AM
I don't know what it is, but Wooster again seemed to tighten up offensively once it opened a lead in the second half.  Ugh.  Does it just seem like every time Wooster gets up 8-10 points on a good opponent we're unable to keep the pressure up and push it out to 12-15?  I felt like Woo started making bad offensive choices (awkward Cooper fade-away, Wickliffe shoots a 3?) moreso than Witt shutting Woo down on offense...but the opportunity was there around the 14 minute mark to push the advantage out into double digits, and Wooster suddenly lost its offense.

This does happen all too often.  Too often for me to believe that it's just due to the inevitable ebb and flow of the game.  Most of the time, and this was true to some extent in the Witt game, it's because Wooster gets conservative, too careful, and passes up too many open looks, especially on threes.  But sometimes it's something else, like Wickliffe taking two consecutive early outside shots.  I don't care if they both would have gone in, the Scots have better options than that (one of which would be to get the ball inside to Wickliffe himself).

Bidwell, Will, and even Johnson (who usually will take them when available) passed on some very good three-ball opportunities, choosing instead to fake the shot and try to drive.  I'd like to see the wide-open three go up there more often, as these guys can all shoot the ball very well.

Quote from: David Collinge on February 18, 2008, 12:01:32 PM
I have to wonder about the interplay between the subdued officiating and the seven Wooster blocks (Will five, Melick and Johnson one apiece).  Could it be that the major difference between blocks Saturday and fouls in games past was the officiating?  That Will's technique wasn't actually that much better than in the past?  I wasn't there, so I can't know for sure, but on TV the interior defense didn't seem all that different to me, just un-whistled.  (This is not a knock on Will's great game Saturday, but rather a mild criticism of the sometimes overzealous officiating at other Timken games.)

Very likely true.  And, by the way, these refs all looked familiar to me, veterans of prior games at Timken, guys that I've very likely harpooned in the past.  I think they did a better job on Saturday, and my voicebox feels the better for it.

I seemed that everytime Earlham played at Wooster they had the same officals.  So we had a joke that Wooster was employing their own officals to officate their games at Timken.  But with the NCAC scheduling them.  But it was something that we would always say.

Looking at the regional rankings and if they stayed this close, do you guys think that all these teams make the tournament?

1. Capital 18-3 17-3 .536 .530
2. Wooster 18-3 11-2 .525 .495
3. Hope 17-3 10-2 .501 .519
4. Ohio Wesleyan 14-6 13-4 .545 .498
5. Heidelberg 16-5 14-4 .507 .528
6. Penn State-Behrend 17-4 15-3 .425 .501

With the tournament time coming up who do you guys think might be a sleeper in the NCAC tourney, and who could be a sleeper in the national tourney?

Do you think that it Wooster and Capital win out it would be a toss up or is it clear that Capital would host if it wins out?  Any OWU fans goin to make the trip to Earlham this weekend for the game?