MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[blindwatchmaker]

Witt smoking from the field in first couple of minutes 5-5 from the floor so far

[smedindy]

It's funny - I like watching women play. When I did stats for the Women's Big 10 tournament I was quite impressed with the skill level, the hustle, and the flow of the women's game. I like that a lot better than the NBA for sure.  

I like covering girls' basketball as well - they show a lot of moxie and spirit that boys' teams sometimes don't have, and there are some very talented girls around here. Billy, I think you're hanging out in the wrong gyms.

And as a father with two daughters who are still young but may choose basketball as a path (well, one is just seven months old and the other likes dance but likes watching girls play basketball and watching college women on TV with me) then I thank God for Title IX so they have an opportunity to play sports and I have an opportunity to watch them!

[MoneyBallSTL]

As us Wooster alums know, it's tough to get jacked up when you travel to Gambier for an early game...I'm assuming the girls played the "main event" tonight, haha. Anyway, I wondered what the new arena is like there??? During construction, the word was it was going to be pretty amazing, just wondered how big, how nice it really was. Good win Scots and get some rest before the Quakers...a sidenote...is Rehm & Galloway ever going to graduate??? Seems as if they've been there for 6 years.  I'm enjoying Joe Tait following up the broadcast on the web though!! GO CAVS!!!

[David Collinge]

I like D3 women's basketball becasue I like the enthusiasm.  The relative lack of skill (especially at Wooster this season) doesn't bother me much; if I were looking for the highest quality hoops I probably wouldn't be a D3 hoops fan in the first place.  But, to each his own. 

As I'm sure several folks will tell us, Witt leads Wabash at the half 32-21.

[Li'l Giant]

Wabash 21
Witt 32  Halftime

Witt is beating Wabash the way the #1 team in the country should. It was as much as 17.

[billy_pilgrim]

Contacts coming through for me: Earlham up 31-25 at the half.

Smeds,

My hatred of women's sports is limited to basketball. My fiancee was a high school volleyball player and I went to watch her way back when often. I've always enjoyed watching women's swimming, and track and field in the Olympics. I also love women's tennis...but what man doesn't?

But my hatred of women's basketball goes way back. I think it mostly started when I was in high school and our conference (the Central Indiana Conference) became one of the leaders in gender equity. They set up the schedules so that all conference games (boys and girls) were played on weekend nights. This eliminated, for the most part, the classic double weekends that were so popular.

Similarly, my high school was one of the first to play girls games before boys games on a few occasions. The most annoying thing about playing in those situations was that our routines were thrown off...most notably, no boys were allowed on the floor before the girls varsity game. So, my customary pre-JV game shooting workout could not be completed. Once, awaiting the start of our varsity game, a few of us chauvanists decided to count all of the whistles (out of bounds turnovers, jump balls, fouls) during the first half of the girls game. There were 103 of them in 16 minutes of play.

I have other favorite stories, but I'll share just one more. One Saturday morning, our coach had other obligations so he sent me to sit in on his Saturday morning coaches show. For some reason, another high school's girls coach was there for the same show. He is the father of a current Purdue women's player and coached the area's most successful girls program (who regularly won games by scores of 75-19 and such). During the course of his interview, he said that he had always found girls games to be more entertaining and more fundamentally sound than boys games in the area. I did not know that the microphone placed in front of me was still turned on...I was later informed that my chuckle and "Are you kidding me?" comment was heard by more than just the coach sitting to my right.

[blindwatchmaker]

I have to agree with smeds.  I have a 2.5 year old, while she's not so much into sports yet (its all about dancing!) I'm glad she'll have lots of opportunities in teh future.

Have to say when of my fav womens' sprts to watch while at denison was women's rugby...  quite entertaining that!

[Li'l Giant]

I like softball. But, then again, watching Cat Osterman all the time, who wouldn't? 

[blindwatchmaker]

Any other updates around the NCAC? 

Witt is up by 13 with 12:19 left

[billy_pilgrim]

50-47 Earlham with about 9 minutes left.

[blindwatchmaker]

Was looking at the stats for the Woo-Kenyon game and Wooster only hit 19 of 35 FT's!  for 54.3 %   

They were doing better in that department as of late but just couldn't knock'em down tonight.  They really need to improve, especially with some big games coming up.

[blindwatchmaker]

What's happening with Earlham?

[CentralOH]

Keep the updates coming Billy.

[billy_pilgrim]

Hey, I'd love to have them.....and for the record, Earlham's women were down about 30 points with five minutes to go.

[blindwatchmaker]

Non- NCAC score but BW beat JCU 78-56.  Always like to see JCU get beat...