MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wally_wabash]

I'm in DC this weekend- Friday night is definitely out but there's a 50/50 shot that I can get over to CUA for the Saturday night game. 

[David Collinge]

Anyone with a Facebook account, an interest in Steve Moore, and 32 minutes to kill might want to search for the account of "Rich Siegel Author." He posted a long video called A Lifetime of Winning on his Facebook page. I am not bright enough to figure out how to link to it here, or to find it on the (non-FB) web, so I'm sorry.

[kiltedbryan]

Hi all - I guess the NCAA tournament has a way of bringing loooooooong dormant posters out of the woodwork. Very excited to have the Scots visit my neck of the woods this weekend.

A note I wanted to pass along for anyone attending Friday night's game: the Wooster Alumni office and W Association will be hosting a post game reception at the Brookland location of Busboys & Poets (625 Monroe St. NE) from roughly 7:30-9:30 pm. Busboys & Poets is about a ten-minute walk across campus from Catholic's DuFour Center, near the Brookland-Catholic University metro station. Totally informal - just a chance for anyone and everyone related to Wooster to hang out and socialize after the game. It'll be a cash bar with the College I believe providing some light appetizers.

Go Scots!

[MrsBethG]

Anyone with a Facebook account, an interest in Steve Moore, and 32 minutes to kill might want to search for the account of "Rich Siegel Author." He posted a long video called A Lifetime of Winning on his Facebook page. I am not bright enough to figure out how to link to it here, or to find it on the (non-FB) web, so I'm sorry.

https://www.facebook.com/richsiegelauthor/

Here is the link. I believe the page is public so it can be viewed without an account. Rich Siegel was on Coach Moore's first team at Muhlenberg in 1981-82 and is author of the book "You Can't Do Both".

[Wooster Booster]

Anyone with a Facebook account, an interest in Steve Moore, and 32 minutes to kill might want to search for the account of "Rich Siegel Author." He posted a long video called A Lifetime of Winning on his Facebook page. I am not bright enough to figure out how to link to it here, or to find it on the (non-FB) web, so I'm sorry.

https://www.facebook.com/richsiegelauthor/

Here is the link. I believe the page is public so it can be viewed without an account. Rich Siegel was on Coach Moore's first team at Muhlenberg in 1981-82 and is author of the book "You Can't Do Both".

I watched this yesterday.  Nice video, but I wish the interviewer had allowed Coach Moore to speak more freely during the talks.  He'd ask questions and then answer them himself.  Kinda took away from what I was expecting to be a great piece.

[Pat Coleman]

Folks, just five more hours to enter the men's D-III bracket challenge before tonight's tipoff!
https://d3challenge.com/login/register.php

[Wooster Booster]

Wooster 41, Lancaster Bible 31 at the half.  Wooster's doing a very good job on the boards, and defensively with just a few glitches.  Fanelly and Spencer Williams with most of the scoring.  LBC, as expected, plays a pressure-gambling defense.  For the most part, it's not working well.  We'll see how the Scots do in the second half, as this is similar to where they had Denison before the Big Red went ballistic from long distance.

[David Collinge]

Denison goes down to defeat at the hands of Alma, 74-60. Congratulations to Coach Ghiloni and the Big Red on a great championship season.

[wooscotsfan]

Final:  Wooster 96  Lancaster Bible 83 

Scots were led by Dan Fanelly who had a monster game with 45 points, 12 boards.  Milt Davis had 18 points and Spencer Williams added 14.

Wooster shot 59% from the floor and outrebounded Lancaster Bible 40 to 30.

Next up is a 2nd round game against the winner of Catholic and Endicott

[fantastic50]

Fannelly ties the D3 Tournament record with 21 FG (on just 24 FGA), including making a couple of 3s, but mostly lay-ups and other close-range shots, to finish with 45 points. He is the first Scot to score 40 in a game since All-American Tom Dinger in 1970.

[Wooster Booster]

Monster game is an understatement.  I really doubt that Wooster has ever had a player with such a stat line.  The dude only missed three shots all game.  21-24!  2-4 from past the arc.  A dunk.  Several stick-backs.  Tons of drives.  Six assists.  Twelve boards.  And only THREE fouls!  There's a lesson to be learned here, if one is paying attention.

Lancaster Bible was able to apply very good pressure.  Too often, though, when Wooster broke it, it led to an easy hoop at the other end.  Plus, LBC turned the ball over quite a bit themselves, leading to several fast-break points.  They're a good team, but IMHO not a legit top-twenty club.  Not enough scorers, too many long three attempts, little inside game by their bigs.  Don't let the final score fool you, Wooster was up by over twenty for most of the second half.

The announcers were kids, with little understanding of what was happening on the court.  Wooster was playing very good, physical defense.  Controlling their defensive board.  They kept thinking LBC was going to break loose, even after they only had about fifteen points in the first ten minutes.  Wooster didn't let them run, and when that happens to a running team, they're going to be in trouble.  They were.

[ScotsFan]

Final:  Wooster 96  Lancaster Bible 83 

Scots were led by Dan Fanelly who had a monster game with 45 points, 12 boards.  Milt Davis had 18 points and Spencer Williams added 14.

Wooster shot 59% from the floor and outrebounded Lancaster Bible 40 to 30.

Next up is a 2nd round game against the winner of Catholic and Endicott

I thought this number would be an even greater disparity in favor of Wooster.  It seemed like Wooster was getting offensive rebounds and easy putbacks off of about every missed shot in the 2nd half.

What a night from Fanelly.  If he plays like this, the Scots will be a tough out for anyone... 

[ScotsFan]

Hi all - I guess the NCAA tournament has a way of bringing loooooooong dormant posters out of the woodwork. Very excited to have the Scots visit my neck of the woods this weekend.

LOL!  March Madness will do that won't it!

Three girls has a way of taking up much of my free time so unfortunately I just don't have the time to contribute to this forum like I did.  I'm more of a lurker these days.

[woolax]

Just got home from the game here in DC and I have to say WoosterBooster's assessment is spot on. Lancaster had just not played a team with the quality of execution that Wooster showed. It should be an interesting matchup with I assume Catholic tomorrow. Also of note I was incredibly impressed with the Wooster fan contingent. I had forgotten how well my alma mater's supporters travel. With Catholic up six at the half while I am writing this post, if they can hold on it will b an interesting matchup tomorrow night at the DuFour Center.

[Wooster Booster]

Endicott leads Catholic 62-53 with about nine minutes to go.  It would be great for the Scots to have a neutral court game tomorrow.