MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[woosterbooster]

Some linemen back in the day used to wrestle as well as play football. I think that's easier to do.

Big Daddy Lipscomb did it on the professional level.

[sigma one]

Remember Ryan Short starting on the  basketball team at Wabash as well as being an All-American tight end (well, that's how they listed him even though he was not a classic TE.)  At 6-5, 230 he threw some weight around on the hardwood.  Couldn't shoot though.  The best example ever at Wabash is Big Pete Metzelaars.  No doubt that he could do the same nowadays.
    Tre Taylor, a starter on the offensive line, and Patrick Tuck-Snelling,  who played a lot as a defensive lineman, are wrestling this year.  Taylor recently finished 3rd at heavyweight in the Little State meet, which Wabash won.   
     Alex Karras as a pro wrestler back in the day.   
     
     

[woosterbooster]

Alex Karras as a pro wrestler back in the day.   

Karras' book, Mad Ducks and Bears, was hilarious.  I still remember one anecdote.  Both Karras and his best buddy, offensive lineman John Gordy, were noted for having horrible eyesight.  At the beginning of a game on a cold and snowy day, when both were injured and unlikely to play, the two took seats near the end of the bench.  After several minutes, Karras turned to Gordy and asked, "Hey, John, do you think we're facing the right way?"

[David Collinge]

Training dogs to deal with those pesky mailmen.

Hey!

Seriously, thanks to all for the civil conversation these past few days. It gives one hope.

[ohiofan1954]

congrats Big Red, great win tonight.

[David Collinge]

congrats Big Red, great win tonight.

Denison 87, Capital 82

Earlier this week:
CWRU 78, Oberlin 68 (Mon)
Kenyon 80, Allegheny 75 (Tue)
Oberlin 63, Grove City 50 (Wed)
OWU 70, Anderson 59 (Wed)
RHIT 64, DePauw 61 (Wed)

Later this week:
Albion at Kenyon (Fri)
Wooster at Wabash (Sat)
OWU at Hiram (Sat)
Wittenberg at Denison (Sat)

[smedindy]

NCAC is 21-25 thus far in the non-conference.

[Li'l Giant]

Remember Ryan Short starting on the  basketball team at Wabash as well as being an All-American tight end (well, that's how they listed him even though he was not a classic TE.)  At 6-5, 230 he threw some weight around on the hardwood.  Couldn't shoot though.  The best example ever at Wabash is Big Pete Metzelaars.  No doubt that he could do the same nowadays.   

In my day Kim King played both hoops and football for Wabash. He was pretty good at both. I think that was the last time it worked well for a Wabash player playing those two sports until Hodges and Walsh.

[sac]

Kenyon 76  Albion 71

[woosterbooster]

What a horribly-played basketball game.  Any new viewers will be turned off to DIII basketball forever.

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 21  Wabash 20

Miserable shooting by both teams in the first half.  Doug Thorpe and Scott Purcell each with 5 points leading the Scots.

[woosterbooster]

DeBAUER?  PURSE-ell?  "Thorpe MIGHT BE the leading scorer on Wooster?"  Don't these two-bit idiots have ANY notes in front of them?  Not a chance.  Too busy formulating their stupid opinions to do even the tiniest bit of actual research.  Not to pick on Wabash, it's this way across all of DIII, including Wooster, with the exception of WQKT's Mike Breckenridge.  Totally amateurish, with no seeming desire to even approach professionalism.

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 54  Wabash 41 

Wooster played better in the second half especially freshman Dan Fanelly who was the leading scorer with 15 points (13 in the second half).  Scott Purcell added 12 points (3 three pointers) and Xavier Brown had 8 points.  Purcell was the only Wooster player to make a three pointer.  Scots won this game despite Thorpe and Brown both finishing with less than 10 points.

Wooster is now 7-0, 4-0 NCAC   Next game is on Monday vs. NAIA Westmont in Phoenix on a neutral court.

GO SCOTS!

[woosterbooster]

The difference in the ballgame was that Wooster had several fast break baskets off steals.  Most of these did come in the second half.  Otherwise, I saw no improvement.  Wooster's defense, or rebounding, was never the problem.  Their offense was a disaster.  The undefeated number two ranked team in the nation was held to a standstill by the zone defense of a winless Wabash team.  This version of the Scots still has no concept of how to attack a zone.  They hardly ever even tried to get the ball inside.  They had darned few good looks at the hoop, which is reflected in their shooting percentage.  They were very lucky they weren't playing a competent opponent tonight or they would have picked up their first loss.

[David Collinge]

DeBAUER?  PURSE-ell?  "Thorpe MIGHT BE the leading scorer on Wooster?"  Don't these two-bit idiots have ANY notes in front of them?  Not a chance.  Too busy formulating their stupid opinions to do even the tiniest bit of actual research.  Not to pick on Wabash, it's this way across all of DIII, including Wooster, with the exception of WQKT's Mike Breckenridge.  Totally amateurish, with no seeming desire to even approach professionalism.

Mike Breckenridge is an exception, with very few peers nationwide (Rochester and Whitworth come to mind as having professional announcers.) We're SO lucky to have him here. But even WQKT is not entirely immune; the halftime news reader thought Wooster was playing a team called "Wuh-BASH."