MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[WooMix]

Probably not the platform for this but how about them lady Scots?

Wooster Women's Basketball (3-12, 1-6 NCAC)
Kenyon 59, Wooster 30

A complete departure from the men's team.

[smedindy]

Man, that's a tough one for the Little Giants. Can they bounce back against the Lords? The LGs need a lot of support on Saturday.

DenisonFan - It was like I said, in the non-conference games or the Witt and Wooster games, he was spreading the time around so that he knew what he had in the winnable games.

Wooster Booster - I seem to recall Wooster doing just dandy on Saturday sans Mr. Port. Couple other fellas stepped up there.

[smedindy]

Was the foul really out of line, or is that what you just heard or inferred on the radio? Don't accuse someone of dirty play without an eyewitness. Now if someone can corroborate, then that's fine. I just want to be sure we're not here on a witch hunt against Hiram for a dirty play when it wasn't as bad as all that.

[David Collinge]

Probably it comes from the radio call.  Mike Breckinridge didn't like the foul, and he liked it even less when he saw that Port was hurt.  I think imderekpoe was at the game (certainly his dad was), maybe he or pupfan can corroborate.

WooBoo, I like your taste in films.  Did you know that the real-life model for Dill was Truman Capote, Harper Lee's childhood friend?  Of course you did! 

[smedindy]

Thanks. I hate to see Port get hurt too, but let's not get the torches out quite yet.

One of Hiram's reserve center flys around and can leap pretty well.

[imderekpoe]

I was not at the game tonight, but I'll see what my dad has to say and pass it along.  Its too much of a trip from here in Columbus for a weeknight game against Hiram.  Although as pointed out earlier, this is the 2nd year in a row that the Terriers have given the Scots all they could handle!  Maybe I'll have to reconsider next year!

[goscots]

Port got the ball on a break away and had a clear path to the basket. As Port stop, elavated and slammed the ball through the hoop the Hiram player (Pfouts) flew into him from behind, sending Port to the floor. He must have sprained his wrists bracing his fall. The player had no chance to block the shot, he should have been ejected.

[waterboy]

There you have it.  Light the torches.

[waterboy]

BTW,

For those of you looking for stats, it appears Hiram's computer had a malfunction, so they'll be along shortly I think.

[David Collinge]

My internet was wigged out for the whole second half (and beyond...DSL sucks, period ); since nobody has brought it up, can I assume that Coach Moore did not address this in his post-game interview?  (I see from WooBoo that he talked about the injury, but the foul itself?)

Most of the rest of the top 8 had nights like Wooster (not including the injury), or worse:
#8 York lost to Catholic in OT
#3 Albion beat K'zoo by 6 at home
#5 Lawrence beat Carroll by 5 (but Carroll is good)
#6 IWU beat Wheaton by 6 in OT at home

Of course, #1 Witt rolled up a big win over a pretty good team; so did #4 Hope.  No word from #7 UPS yet.

[billy_pilgrim]

Hmm, an interesting night in the NCAC.

No need to light the torches in Richmond, but I've heard from multiple Earlham sources that there was a similarly hard foul on LaRon Henry's dunk attempt late in the contest.

Fortunately for Henry, he was not injured. No intentional was called on the play, but I was told there were quite a few words between the teams following the foul.

Here are some stats: 4 Quakers in double figures led by Brandon Miller's 22 and 12. Tristian Gregory (13), Neil Collins (10) and Henry (11) were other big scorers.

For Wabash: Zimmer and Woods both had 15.....Woods seemed to get most of his early as Wabash led for most of the first half.


A question for Wabash posters: what has become of Kyle Coffey? No minutes tonight? I thought he was Wabash's best post player a year ago and played mighty well in the NCAC semifinal loss to Witt. Injuries? Emergence of someone I don't know about?

[jscwittfan]

Trying to listen to two games here and doing a lousy job.

I had the Wittenberg game on and now all I'm hearing is something that's a cross between music and static.  It seems like it's halftime and the announcers just walked away, leaving the mike open.  I'd expect nothing less from Wittenberg.  At any rate, earlier, they were leading OWU 28-18.

Yep, that's what it was with the Wittenberg announces.  Bush league (no pun intended) at it's worst.  Just walked away from the mike...

Sorry that the Wittenberg broadcast wasn't up to your "standards."  Just like a Wooster supporter to bash anything Wittenberg.  I'd expect nothing less.

The fact is, the Witt men's game was on at the same time the women were, and with the women being away from Springfield, they got the radio billing, and therefore the better set-up.  And with the mic - would you rather have dead air than background noise?

[wooscotsfan]

Wooster will take a big hit if Tom Port's injury is serious and he misses playing time.  IMO, he is Wooster's best overall player and the stats support that point:

For Wooster, Tom Port is:
#2 in Scoring at 17.3 ppg
#2 in Rebounding at 6.5 rpg
#1 in Free Throw Shooting at 82%
#1 in Total Three Point Shots made with 35
#2 in Total Blocked Shots with 11
#2 in Total Assists (behind Witucky) with 48
also making 43% of his three point shots this season

Most importantly, he is a big time mismatch for other teams trying to guard him.  He posts up smaller players and drives by guys that are as tall as him.

Let's hope that the injury is not serious and just a bad sprain.

On a slightly more positive note, it was good to see Devin Fulk back in action tonight after banging his knee last Saturday vs. Wabash.

GO SCOTS!!

[David Collinge]

Next five games for Wooster:
vs. OWU 
at Kenyon   8)
vs. Earlham 
vs. Allegheny 
at Wittenberg   

Get well soon, Tom!   

[diehardfan]

Next five games for Wooster:
vs. OWU 
at Kenyon   8)
vs. Earlham 
vs. Allegheny 
at Wittenberg   

Get well soon, Tom!   

best use of smileys ever!