MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Pops33]

The NCAC - Wooster (7) and Ohio Wesleyan (8) - gets some respect in the pre-season TOP 25 poll.

[Pops33]

Does anyone else find it odd that Wooster's first official game is a conference game?  Also, that it is 2 weeks before anyone else plays a conference game?  They open the season with Oberlin on 11/16 and they also play the second conference game on 11/30 vs. Denison before the entire conference gets going on Saturday 12/3.  Seems like an odd way to set up the schedule. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

When I saw that, I suspected either team needed to move one or both of their contests for whatever reasons. I am quite sure the conference didn't set it up that way. It screams of something else going on this season for one or both of them.

[sac]

The rest of the NCAC is playing a Dec 3 conference game.   Oberlin is scheduled to play D1 Youngstown State that day.

[smedindy]

The rest of the NCAC is playing a Dec 3 conference game.   Oberlin is scheduled to play D1 Youngstown State that day.

Hiram doesn't play a conference game until the 7th.

[sac]

The rest of the NCAC is playing a Dec 3 conference game.   Oberlin is scheduled to play D1 Youngstown State that day.

Hiram doesn't play a conference game until the 7th.

I was looking at Oberlin's schedule without checking everyone's pairings that day. 

It appears the NCAC has conference games slated for Dec 17 and 18, but Wooster is out West playing Whitman and Lewis & Clark.   Oberlin is off, so Wooster going out West appears to be the reason for the adjustment.   

It also looks like they did something weird with the Hiram and Allegheny trips to Western Indiana.  Hiram does it that Dec 17,18 while Allegheny does it at the start of January.

[fantastic50]

It also looks like they did something weird with the Hiram and Allegheny trips to Western Indiana.  Hiram does it that Dec 17,18 while Allegheny does it at the start of January.

The Dec. 17-18 weekend is in the middle of finals at Allegheny, while Hiram's finals are before Thanksgiving, due to an uncommon calendar structure of academic terms.

[Wooster Booster]

Wooster appears to have been in a bizarre exhibition game against Ashland tonight, in which they lost 85-81 in overtime.  68 fouls were called, 35 on Wooster.  The Scots had three guys foul out, naturally including Fanelly.  Wooster outrebounded Ashland 65-41, but committed 25 turnovers.  They shot only 25-71, and 5-25 from downtown.  They missed 11 free throws.  Ashland missed 19!.  Alex Baptiste had 18 boards and 5 blocks for Wooster but was only 3-9 from the floor and 5-10 from the line.  Craziness.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Wooster appears to have been in a bizarre exhibition game against Ashland tonight, in which they lost 85-81 in overtime.  68 fouls were called, 35 on Wooster.  The Scots had three guys foul out, naturally including Fanelly.  Wooster outrebounded Ashland 65-41, but committed 25 turnovers.  They shot only 25-71, and 5-25 from downtown.  They missed 11 free throws.  Ashland missed 19!.  Alex Baptiste had 18 boards and 5 blocks for Wooster but was only 3-9 from the floor and 5-10 from the line.  Craziness.

Yeah I didn't know what to make of that box score - other than Dupler showed up, which is a positive.  He was very impressive potential-wise when I saw them in the NCAAs last season.  Consistency will be key.  I wasn't sure which guys were newcomers, though - how did they contribute?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[gordonmann]

On Thursday John Rinka of Kenyon will be inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame. If you're not familiar with his story, we put this together:

http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2016/11/rinka-kenyon-journey

[wooscotsfan]

On Thursday John Rinka of Kenyon will be inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame. If you're not familiar with his story, we put this together:

http://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2016/11/rinka-kenyon-journey

John Rinka was an amazing basketball player who was impossible to guard because he had an incredible shooting range.  If the defender slacked off the least bit, he would pull up and nail a jumper from 30 to 35 feet.  Yes, that was the range that he had developed on his shot.

I attended a unbelievable shootout game in 1969 between Wooster and Kenyon that was played at Wooster's Timken Gym.  John Rinka and Wooster's all time leading scorer Tom Dinger went back and forth scoring buckets.  John Rinka registered his all time career high in a college game with 69 points.  Tom Dinger who had over 2,300 points in his Wooster career finished that game with 40 points.  Kenyon won the shootout 118 to 112 in a game where there was no three point shot.

Congratulations to John Rinka on the well deserved honor of being inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame! 

[smedindy]

A Wabash team with one junior, one senior (who didn't play) and a whole bunch of sophomores and freshmen lost to Blackburn 75-66 last night in C'ville. May be a rough start for the LG's.

They shot 7-23 from the free throw line.

[kiltedbryan]

Reports from my dad at Timken Gym last night + the game story and box score suggest that Wooster showed little-to-no early season rust in a methodical 104-65 dispatching of Oberlin last night. Shooting 63% from the field and out rebounding a team 2:1 will help.

I know it's Oberlin, but super-positive early indications on the strength/depth of Wooster's bench and overall team balance. The bench actually outscored the starters 54-50 and 9 players had 10+ minutes, with 5 players in double-figures. Also freshman Danyon Hempy led Wooster in scoring, netting 12 points in his debut.

[Wooster Booster]

Is anyone else watching the Defiance at Wooster video?  Or trying to?  My audio is fine, but the video is a just a bunch of stills.  All these years, and this school just cannot do right.