Congratulations to James Cooper.  As I have written earlier, I think Cooper is a great offensive player, but I do not think that at this point in his career he is the all around player that Dan Russ is.  However, Cooper certainly was hard for us or anyone else to stop offensively.

Congratulations to Steve DeWitt.  He is a good guy and a good coach whose team played well especially down the stretch.  I am a Wittenberg fan and believe Bill Brown is a much better coach than he usually gets credit for.  However, if anyone else deserved consideration for Coach of the Year, it is Steve Moore.  He took a look at his talect and realized that he had to change his whole approach .  He did it very successfully.  That is good coaching.  It is hard for Steve Moore and Bill Brown to get the recognition they deserve because we all expect their teams to win, but good for Steve DeWitt.

Dane Borchers deserves to be on the first team all conference.  How can the most valuable player in the conference tournament not be?  I cannot imagine that he would not be among the top five players any coach in the conference would want on his team.

Thank you David Collinge!  I also think it is highly unlikely that Bill Brown was the souce for the News-Sun.  I was not trying to embarass James Cooper or insult Wooster's academic reputation.  All I was trying to do is to defend Bill Brown against those who claimed that he did not try to get James Cooper to attend Wittenberg.  It was a fantastic game in a series of fantastic games between two good schools and great coaches.  Why do people have to turn it into a personal attack on Bill Brown.  James Cooper is at Wooster not because Bill Brown failed; that is my only point in my recent post.

Bill Brown and Steve Moore are great coaches, good recruiters, and quality human beings.  Wittenberg wishes some players that go to Wooster would come to Witt; I assume Wooster would love to have some of Wittenberg's players.

Saturday's game was a very interesting matchup between a team with great post play and a team with great outside play.  Why not talk about that rather than try to run down coaches who deserve better.  Once again, thank you David Collinge and you other Wooster fans who stick to the game.  I enjoy reading what you have to say.

Just to set the record strait, Bill Brown recruited James Cooper very strongly.  As the Springfield News-Sun noted on Sunday, Wittenberg's academic administrators determined that James did not meet Wittenberg's academic standards.  Apparently, Wooster's academic adminstrators felt that he met their standards.  In any event, the issue was not Bill Brown's interest in James or effort to get James to Wittenberg.