MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Wooster Booster]

The Wooster - Oswego State game seems to be running about half an hour behind schedule, according to their video feed.  They're still in the pre-game and it's 7:45.  Anybody know if that's true, or I not getting a "live" stream?

[pg04]

The previous game between CNU and Keene had to complete, and that started at 5:30. They usually give 30 minutes in between games so I think it should be starting relatively soon (sorry I don't remember when the first game ended)

[Wooster Booster]

To everybody at Oswego State who was involved in the streaming video broadcast of tonight's game: You are a bunch of little Trumps.  Facts apparently mean nothing to you.  You say whatever comes into your tiny, biased minds.  I never in my life heard such an unprofessional broadcast.  You will never, ever gets jobs in any area of sports broadcasting.  Enjoy your pathetic little fratboy lives while your team goes home and cries.

[wooscotsfan]

Final: Wooster 66  Oswego State 65     Scots go to the Elite Eight!

Wooster was led by Dan Fanelly with 26 points and 11 boards.  Fanelly scored the final 5 points of the game for the Scots.  Milt Davis had 12 points and Reece Dupler added 8 points.

Next Game:  Wooster vs. Christopher Newport tomorrow night with a trip to the Final Four on the line! 

GO SCOTS!

[woolax]

Good match-up for a trip to the Final 4. What are people's thoughts?

[wooscotsfan]

Christopher Newport is 29-1 and is ranked as the #4 team in the country.  They have a pair of very quick guards that Keene State could not stop.

Wooster will have a big challenge tomorrow night but at least the Scots get to play this game on a neutral floor and will likely have more fans cheering for them than Christopher Newport.

[pg04]

To everybody at Oswego State who was involved in the streaming video broadcast of tonight's game: You are a bunch of little Trumps.  Facts apparently mean nothing to you.  You say whatever comes into your tiny, biased minds.  I never in my life heard such an unprofessional broadcast.  You will never, ever gets jobs in any area of sports broadcasting.  Enjoy your pathetic little fratboy lives while your team goes home and cries.

[David Collinge]

OWU gets a very favorable draw, and will be a substantial favorite to move on to the sectionals (likely at Benedictine).

Ohio Wesleyan is very good.  I don't think Ohio Wesleyan is a very good tournament team.  I can't find D3 stats for rebound rates which I would prefer to look at, but they are -5.3 on rebound margin- dead last in the conference, 372nd in D3, and the next closest 20-win team to OWU in that category is Salisbury (-0.9, 248th).  That's a really, really poor number for a really good team.  For all of their offensive might, OWU is pretty average defensively and just needs one night when they do something like 8-30 on 3FGAs and they're out.  There's really no plan B for the Bishops. 

I'd look at Wooster to be the last NCAC team standing in this year's tournament.

Benedictine is absolutely dominating OWU on the glass, +27 as I write this. Benedictine has more offensive rebounds than OWU has in total. Wesleyan is shooting over 54% but Benedictine has gotten 19 more shots off and lead by 10 in the waning moments. Props to Wally on this one.

[Gregory Sager]

Yeah, while I was watching the second half of this game (which was back-and-forth in the first half), I recalled that quote and was actually going to hunt it up myself, DC. Good call, Wally.

[David Collinge]

I wasn't watching the Wooster game, but going by Mike Breckenridge's call, I really liked Oswego's last second play call. Down one with 4.x seconds left, and in the double bonus, inbound the ball off the made free throw and not give the defense a chance to set up their own play, then run straight at the defense with your nearly perfect free throw shooter. Props to Milt Davis for sniffing it out and not taking the bait. Even so, it was a gutsy and yet fairly high-percentage call that just didn't pan out, luckily for the Scots.

[wooscotsfan]

There was some contact on the final play but it appeared to be initiated by the Oswego guard Brian Sortino in an attempt to draw foul shots.  Milt Davis didn't reach in and he was holding his ground so, while acknowledging my bias, I thought the refs made the proper non-call.  Sortino was also near the three point line (not near the basket) and he did not appear to be in a shooting motion.

Brian Sortino was crashing into Wooster players throughout the entire game and drawing fouls -- he shot 14 free throws in the game so he certainly got his fair share of calls overall as he was by far the player with the most free throw attempts.

[David Collinge]

Sortino was also near the three point line (not near the basket) and he did not appear to be in a shooting motion.

If he'd gotten the call he was evidently going for, this wouldn't have mattered; they were in the double bonus. Really, Wooster only had one way out on this play, which was to impede Sortino enough to prevent a layup or other high percentage shot, but not foul and send him to the line where he was not going to miss both shots. Fortunately, Milt Davis provided exactly what the Scots needed.

[Wooster Booster]

I wasn't watching the Wooster game, but going by Mike Breckenridge's call, I really liked Oswego's last second play call. Down one with 4.x seconds left, and in the double bonus, inbound the ball off the made free throw and not give the defense a chance to set up their own play, then run straight at the defense with your nearly perfect free throw shooter. Props to Milt Davis for sniffing it out and not taking the bait. Even so, it was a gutsy and yet fairly high-percentage call that just didn't pan out, luckily for the Scots.

It was at precisely that time that the video decided to flutter.  It appeared that there was some contact, but really impossible to tell.  Their coach, team, and the whole crowd went ballistic.  It really seemed as if there might be punches thrown during the handshake line.  It seemed as if there might be a riot.

You're lucky you didn't watch it.  They had a whole crew of student announcers.  Three doing the game, three others doing a pregame, halftime, and postgame show.  Another stationed on the floor.  I just don't understand how the faculty members that are supposed to train these kids allow them to act as they do.  One guy, the leader of the halftime show group, was fine.  Everybody else just spouted ridiculous stream-of-thought idiocies.  It was Fox News, it was the Trumpettes, all in their best sportscaster-voice imitations.

It was FANely and KITner all night long.  They stated that Wooster outscored their opponents by 1,000 points this season.  That Steve Moore routinely used all thirteen players on his bench.  That Wooster is the winningest team all-time in DIII.

Every foul against them was a "questionable call".  The video was stretched horizontally so that the players were all thick and the jumpshots looked completely flat. 

Single-sentence contradictions like this kept coming out of their mouths.

(A Wooster player had just missed an open three from the deep elbow area) "That's a shot that Oswego can live with.  But they'd better get out there and defend it because Wooster will begin to make them all night long."

Nobody seems to be able to do this anymore with any preparation, skill, and some sense of neutrality.  It's scary, actually. 

[wooscotsfan]

Congrats to the Ohio Wesleyan Bishops and Coach DeWitt on another terrific season as they finished at 25-5 after their road loss at Benedictine.

OWU Seniors who played in their last game yesterday are Claude Gray, Matt Jeske, Joey Kinsley and Zak Davis.

[WooClone15]

To everybody at Oswego State who was involved in the streaming video broadcast of tonight's game: You are a bunch of little Drumpfs.  Facts apparently mean nothing to you.  You say whatever comes into your tiny, biased minds.  I never in my life heard such an unprofessional broadcast.  You will never, ever gets jobs in any area of sports broadcasting.  Enjoy your pathetic little fratboy lives while your team goes home and cries.

Yeah, it really did. Wooster Booster, obviously they're going to be a little biased, but what were they saying which was so past the line?

And really glad to see Wooster could pull this out, though tonight's going to be very difficult