MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[David Collinge]

Welcome back to both Fan and stAr! Good luck with that dissertation, Fan!

[pennstghs]

Tiger Up Witt!

Game will come down to a few things IMO, these are from a Wittenberg standpoint as I haven't watched Wooster once this year
1 - control the rebounding stats. This will work in a few ways, if Wittenberg allows Wooster second chances and opportunities, it could be a long evening, but the rebounding numbers will also tell who is hitting shots.
2-Wittenberg needs to hit a few outside shots as we know Clayton Black will get his points, but in their games they've struggled Witt has shot very poorly outside of him.

Should be a great atmosphere, I know the students will be rowdy and hopefully another festive atmosphere for the greatest rivalry in D3 sports.

[smedindy]

As per your point #2, Mr. Black got just five points and had only four rebounds against Wabash Wednesday. So Clayton "getting his points" isn't a given.

[fantastic50]

Hiram 38, OWU 33 (half)
Oberlin 26, DePauw 25 (half)

If these potential upsets hold up, that could be good for Wooster (because of tiebreaker implications, if the Scots beat Witt tonight), but an OWU loss would be bad for the conference's hopes of getting three teams into the tournament.

[smedindy]

I don't think an OWU loss would be that bad if Wabash keeps winning. Hiram's not heinous. OWU and Wabash will have a lot of 'results' against regionally ranked teams.

Wabash leading Kenyon 39-20 at the half. Gambier not the house of 'fun' that it usually is for Wabash.

Denison is leading Allegheny 31-26 at half.

[fantastic50]

You're probably right ... since OWU is only 4th-best in the league as an NCAA contender, this may only be an issue if Wabash struggles.  On the other hand, if OWU and Wabash both finished strong (and perhaps one won the conference tournament), could there be 4 NCAC teams in the NCAAs?

[smedindy]

That'll be a tall order I think because of how the "C"'s are allocated. The Wabash / OWU game Wednesday may be a "C" elimination game.

[smedindy]

Wabash cruises to a 79-51 win over Kenyon. Andy Walsh is nails again with 20 off the bench. Aaron Zinnerman and Pete Nicksic (filling in for Nick Curosh) had 14 and Derek Bailey added 13.

Ikenna Nwadibia led Kenyon with 17.

[smedindy]

OWU avoids the upset and beats Hiram on the road 79-73. Tim Brady was back to his old tricks with 26. Jamaal Watkins and Alan Sheppard led the Terriers with 18 each.

[smedindy]

Maybe someone's preview inspired Oberlin, or maybe DPU has run out of gas, but the Yeomen beat the New Tigers 49-48 so says the DePauw twitter. I can't get the Oberlin live stats right now so I don't know any more details.

The 'Gheny live stats is down, but I have the video. Unfortunately there's not a scoreboard on the feed and my audio on this computer is fritzed out.

***UPDATE - I think Denison won by the way they acted at the end of the game. Details should follow, perhaps.

Up to the minute standings:

Wittenberg        11-2
Wooster            10-3     
Ohio Wesleyan    9-5 
Wabash             9-5
Denison             8-6
DePauw             7-7 
Hiram                6-8
Kenyon             4-10   
Allegheny          3-11   
Oberlin              2-12 

[GoRed]

Big Red won by 3 or 4.  Live stats went out early in the second half and the announcing was horrible.

[GoRed]

And thank you Yeomen!  Great win - and without Merritt.

[smedindy]

Andrew Fox hit a three with 2:39 to go. Barry Flynn countered with a deuce and with 35 seconds left the New Tigers had the ball and a chance to win. But Flynn missed a jumper with five seconds left and that was that.

Denison beat the Gators 68-65. Dimonde Hale led the Big Red with 13 and they had four other players with nine points. Allegheny was led by Devone McLeod with 21 and James Ness with 18.

Now the stage is set...

[David Collinge]

I wonder if the New Tigers are having trouble adjusting to the switch from comfortable flights to exotic locales to long bus rides to nowhereville. They escaped Gambier with a one-point victory, played poorly on their trip to Meadville and Hiram, winning by 4 and losing by 16, and crapped out again today in Oberlin. And who knows, maybe they got on a bus and drove around town for 14 hours before the Denison game....

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wittenberg 34  Wooster 18

Very ugly first half for Wooster including 1 of 7 on free throws.  Wittenberg outrebounded Wooster 23 to 17 in the half and also made 5 three pointers compared to only 1 for the Scots.  Wooster also had 7 turnovers including one very sloppy pass that led to an easy bucket for the Tigers.