MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Ralph Lee Wilson]

this may have been brought up here before, but is the Wabash live stream shaky in a A Scanner Darkly way, or is it just my connection?

[smedindy]

Mine looks good for now!

[smedindy]

Wabash up 36-16 with 2:43 to go in the first half.

[smedindy]

Wabash pulls to within one game of Witt (tied with DPU) as they roll past Kenyon 83-59. The missing Wabash offense showed up big time. Aaron Zinnerman had 23 points to lead Wabash with Derek Bailey netting 18. Brian Shelbourne had a well balanced game - 12 points, 12 boards and four assists.

Brian Leibowitz led the Lords with 17.

[smedindy]

I wish the Wooster vid stream could show the time left in the game!

[David Collinge]

There's no time left in the game now, and Wooster pulls out a thriller 72-68. Josh Claytor was 8 for 8 for 20 points, one of four Scots in double figures. Tim Brady has 22 to lead all scorers. Wooster scored the game's first 8 points, but then the game was more or less a series of runs, with Wooster going up by 10 then OWU answering to cut it to 2 or 0. They last cut a 10 point Scot lead with oh about 7 minutes to go, and took a couple of brief one-point leads, and it was neck and neck the rest of the way. Owu trailed by one but got the ball on a Wooster turnover with 0:35 to go and planned to play for a last shot, but the Scots (Ryan Snyder, specifically) forced a turnover with 0:11 left, and Justin Warnes (IIRC) sank 2 free throws to give Wooster a 3-point lead. On the ensuing final possession, the play seemed to have been drawn up for Tim Brady to take the 3, and he forced it and missed; it's not really his forte anyway, and OWU has a couple of better threats from the arc in Greg White (12 tonight) and Eric Easley (14), but they were passed over for whatever reason. A great game that leave the two teams tied for 4th.

[smedindy]

Standings at the halfway point!

Wittenberg 7-1
Wabash     6-2
DePauw     6-2
OWU         5-3
Wooster    5-3
Hiram        4-4
Denison     3-5
Kenyon      2-6
Oberlin      1-7
Allegheny   1-7

[wooscotsfan]

Back from the Scot Center where I watched Wooster pull out a narrow win over Ohio Wesleyan.  The Scot Center is a tremendous new athletic facility with the indoor track, tennis/basketball courts, fitness center, aerobics room, new locker rooms for football/track/other sports and a large new conference center as well. 

As I had wished in my earlier post today, Wooster got the ball to Josh Claytor tonight and he delivered with 20 points, 7 boards.  Claytor is now shooting 68% from the floor so it should be a high priority to get him the ball in the post! 

The key factor in the win was Wooster shooting 47% compared to only 41% for OWU.  Three pointers, free throws, turnovers and rebounds were all essentially even and the Scots won by making 2 more buckets than the Bishops.

Wooster is now 14-3, 5-3 NCAC.  Next game is Kenyon at home on Wednesday.

GO SCOTS!

[seinfeld]

I see that DePauw is still listed as being in the South Region under the Teams section of D3hoops.com. I know they were when they were in their old conference, but are they still there? I don't know much about the South, but I guess this opens the possibility of there being five NCAC teams that could be regionally ranked at some point this year. Getting four in the Great Lakes is a little bit of a stretch, but if you look at the other conferences in the Region, the only real lock right now is Hope. The OAC might not have anyone, and Bethany has a good record but a poor strength of schedule.

[KnightSlappy]

I see that DePauw is still listed as being in the South Region under the Teams section of D3hoops.com. I know they were when they were in their old conference, but are they still there? I don't know much about the South, but I guess this opens the possibility of there being five NCAC teams that could be regionally ranked at some point this year. Getting four in the Great Lakes is a little bit of a stretch, but if you look at the other conferences in the Region, the only real lock right now is Hope. The OAC might not have anyone, and Bethany has a good record but a poor strength of schedule.

DePauw was moved to the GL Region this year when they joined the NCAC. Page 66 of the pre-championship manual. I'm guessing it's just a case of the link not being updated on d3hoops.com

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/4ec89880495d3147a8b7abd285abf5d2/2012_PreChamps_Book_Basketball.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=4ec89880495d3147a8b7abd285abf5d2

[seinfeld]

I see that DePauw is still listed as being in the South Region under the Teams section of D3hoops.com. I know they were when they were in their old conference, but are they still there? I don't know much about the South, but I guess this opens the possibility of there being five NCAC teams that could be regionally ranked at some point this year. Getting four in the Great Lakes is a little bit of a stretch, but if you look at the other conferences in the Region, the only real lock right now is Hope. The OAC might not have anyone, and Bethany has a good record but a poor strength of schedule.

DePauw was moved to the GL Region this year when they joined the NCAC. Page 66 of the pre-championship manual. I'm guessing it's just a case of the link not being updated on d3hoops.com

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/4ec89880495d3147a8b7abd285abf5d2/2012_PreChamps_Book_Basketball.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=4ec89880495d3147a8b7abd285abf5d2

That's what I figured, but with the NCAA, you never know. Thanks.

[WAlum]

The last half of the league season is going to be great fun to watch as the NCAC is so competitive and GOOD this year.  Big games every night.  This weeks biggest games:
Wabash @ Ohio Wesleyan       
DePauw @ Wittenberg    
DePauw @ Ohio Wesleyan       

DePauw and OWU could be eliminated from title contention this week or could make a large statement going into the last three weeks.

[woosterbooster]

Standings at the halfway point!

Wittenberg 7-1
Wabash     6-2
DePauw     6-2
OWU         5-3
Wooster    5-3
Hiram        4-4
Denison     3-5
Kenyon      2-6
Oberlin      1-7
Allegheny   1-7

Had Wooster not lost in the last second to Wittenberg, there would be four teams tied at the top at 6-2.

[Wabash2011]

Standings at the halfway point!

Wittenberg 7-1
Wabash     6-2
DePauw     6-2
OWU         5-3
Wooster    5-3
Hiram        4-4
Denison     3-5
Kenyon      2-6
Oberlin      1-7
Allegheny   1-7

Had Wooster not lost in the last second to Wittenberg, there would be four teams tied at the top at 6-2.

If a frog had wings he would not bump his butt on the ground when he jumps.  Just as relevant as the statement above.  Not a pollster or NCAA tourney official who put any weight on that piece of trivia.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Standings at the halfway point!

Wittenberg 7-1
Wabash     6-2
DePauw     6-2
OWU         5-3
Wooster    5-3
Hiram        4-4
Denison     3-5
Kenyon      2-6
Oberlin      1-7
Allegheny   1-7

Had Wooster not lost in the last second to Wittenberg, there would be four teams tied at the top at 6-2.

If a frog had wings he would not bump his butt on the ground when he jumps.  Just as relevant as the statement above.  Not a pollster or NCAA tourney official who put any weight on that piece of trivia.

You're right (I was gonna go with 'if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle' ), but also rather rude.  While irrelevant, I found it quite interesting that the NCAC was THAT close to a 4-way tie this late in the season.