MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

Elsewhere--

Wittenberg drops Allegheny, 88-61.  Alex Brandt had 19 pts. and 10 boards.  Witt shot a blistering 57% for the game.
OWU annihilates Oberlin, 92-49.  This time Oberlin kept pace for 10 minutes or so, but after a 22-4 OWU run it was cruise control for Bishops, who look like they've started to put things together.  Tim Brady had 21, and OWU enjoyed a +15 advantage on the glass without a single double-digit rebounder.
Kenyon nips Kalamazoo, 65-60, behind 17 Kody Haddox points and 10 Ikenna Nwadibia rebounds.

Non-conference record: 27-20.

Conference standings, pending Woo/DU, which Wooster leads by 13 with 5:00 left in the first:
Denison 1-0
Ohio Wesleyan 1-0
Wabash 1-0
Wittenberg 1-0
Wooster 1-0
Allegheny 1-1
Kenyon 0-1
Hiram 0-2
Oberlin 0-2

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 38  Denison 21  

Wooster is being led by Matt Fegan with 7 points, Justin Hallowell with 7 points, Ian Franks with 6 and Nathan Balch with 6.

Denison's top scorers are Larry Farmer with 8 points and Mike Garabedian with 5 points.

Scots also outrebounded the Big Red by 24 to 17 in the half.

[wooscotsfan]

Wooster starts the 2nd half with a 13-3 run (3 three pointers) and now leads 51 to 24!

[David Collinge]

Bob Ghiloni draws two T's and gets tossed.  I'm wondering where you go at Timken Gym when you've been tossed?

[imderekpoe]

Listening to the Scots game today from Shanghai.  Gotta love this whole internet thing!

The Chinese internet censors are allowing this, provided you root for the "Big Red." 

Those censors must have suspected the 2nd period surge by the Scots, as the LiveStats are stuck at the end of the 1st half.

[wooscotsfan]

Listening to the Scots game today from Shanghai.  Gotta love this whole internet thing!

The Chinese internet censors are allowing this, provided you root for the "Big Red." 

Those censors must have suspected the 2nd period surge by the Scots, as the LiveStats are stuck at the end of the 1st half.

LiveStats are stuck in Brecksville, Ohio too!   Great that you can catch the game in China!

[David Collinge]

Conference standings, assuming Wooster holds a 30-point lead for the last minute:
Wooster 2-0
Ohio Wesleyan 1-0
Wabash 1-0
Wittenberg 1-0
Allegheny 1-1
Denison 1-1
Kenyon 0-1
Hiram 0-2
Oberlin 0-2

[bashbrother]

Wooster Scots Fans -

If the day ended right now, there is a real chance Wooster may be the Ranked #1 in next week's poll.

#1 UW SP lost today to River Falls

#2 IWU Lost today to Chicago

#3 Eastern Mennonite lost to Randolph Macon

#4 Wooster beat Denison

Could be interesting  

[wooscotsfan]

Final: Wooster 81 Denison 51  

Wooster was led tonight by Ian Franks with 14 points, Nathan Balch with 14, Justin Hallowell with 13 points (12 boards) and Matt Fegan with 12 points.

Denison's top scorers were Dimonde Hale with 13 points and Larry Farmer with 10 points.

Scots won the battle of the boards 41 to 33 and they only had 11 turnovers.  Coach Moore really liked Hallowell's double double game and complimented him on the post game show.

Wooster is now 6-0, 2-0 NCAC  

GO SCOTS!

[David Collinge]

Eastern Mennonite is currently losing to Randolph Macon

R-MC ended up winning that game by 5, so Wooster will likely assume the #1 slot on Tuesday.  Been there, done that.  Wooster knows how to play as the favorite, and they know that their time to lose and fall back will come too.  All that counts is championships.

[woosterbooster]

Bob Ghiloni draws two T's and gets tossed.  I'm wondering where you go at Timken Gym when you've been tossed?

Coach Ghiloni came up and sat next to me.  I spent twenty minutes explaining to him that the officials are only human, that they occasionally err, and... 

[ScotsFan]

Bob Ghiloni draws two T's and gets tossed.  I'm wondering where you go at Timken Gym when you've been tossed?

Coach Ghiloni came up and sat next to me.  I spent twenty minutes explaining to him that the officials are only human, that they occasionally err, and... 

I think Ghiloni was upset that the officials failed to call one carrying violation on Wooster in tonight's ballgame... 

Good win for the Scots tonight.  Nice to see Balch back after suffering that injury in the last game.  And nice to see the balance in scoring tonight as well! 

Denison just didn't have the size to contend with Wooster tonight.  I was surprised to see the Big Red managed to keep it as close as they did in the rebounding numbers.

Coach Moore really like Hallowell's double double game and complimented him on the post game show.

Hallowell played BY FAR his best game of the season!  And, it was nice to see him gaining some confidence back in his shot as he went 3-5 from deep tonight!

Also, Mike Evans is no longer wearing his bulky cast and he actually dressed for the game tonight and participated in warmups with the team!  He looked pretty good shooting during the warmups as well!   

I can't believe that Wooster is going to be #1 and not having to play Witt anytime soon?!  Well,  last year Wooster had The Belt^TM to defend and this year, it's the #1 ranking to defend! 

[bashbrother]

Wooster was led tonight by Ian Franks with 14 points, Nathan Balch with 14, Justin Hallowell with 13 points (10 boards) and Matt Fegan with 12 points.

The definition of a balanced scoring attack.

[woosterbooster]

Denison-Wooster wasn't quite Shadyside-Delphos St. John's, but it was almost like Coldwater-Youngstown Ursuline.

In the first half, Denison attempted to utilize one third of Hiram's defensive strategy, that of tightly guarding the perimeter to deny the three pointer.  That worked well for them, unless you consider how many layups it produced for the Scots.  After intermission, they packed it in a little more, but there were potholes in that road too, as Wooster began scoring from long range.  Throughout all of this, the home team was running the floor at a tempo not seen since the glory days of Brandon, Tom, Marty, James, et al.  To paraphrase James Brolin's West Wing character, presidential candidate Robert Richey, "Denison... I don't know..."

It took God six days (or so they say) to create the heavens and earth.  Coach Steve Moore, in a mere three, managed to rid the Scots of their temptation to palm the ball.  Not a once was either team called for this infraction.  Mercy, mercy.

Kudos to senior Kaleb Reed.  This guy has been on the team for four years.  His playing time is now mostly limited to situations when the game's outcome has already been determined.  But he's there every game, plays hard when the team needs a banger inside, and carries a very obvious excellent attitude into the gym.  A true team player.

[fantastic50]

Hopefully, Kaleb is learning the fine points of the game from Coach Moore and his staff.  Kaleb is a math major and education minor.  He plans to teach and coach at the high school level, after doing his student teaching next fall.