MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[blindwatchmaker]

Write up for the Al Van Wie/Rotary Tourney at Wooster.  Should be some great b-ball this friday and sat.

http://athletics.wooster.edu/mb/news/2005-06/van_wie.php

[Greek Tragedy]

Be sure to head over to the Multi-Regional Topics Board and select your team for the new Survivor Pool! 

You might actually win something! 
Deadline is Friday before the first game's tipoff

[David Collinge]

Both UW-Stout and St. Thomas have been selected as "Super Sleepers" for this season.
(See Mark Simon's excellent "Around the Nation" column, accessible from the front page.
The Blue Devils and Tommies tip it off at Timken Gymnasium at 6pm Friday in the opening
game of the Van Wie Classic.  Anyone in the area that has an interest in D3 hoops on the
national scene should plan to be there.  Wooster will take on one of these two teams on
Saturday evening (at 6 or 8 pm, depending on Friday's results).  It looks like a fabulous
opening weekend of hoops up on the Hill!  See you there! 

[ScotsFan]

DC,  I'm hopeful to be in attendance for the Scots game.  My wife had plans of going to the tree lighting on the square in Wooster with our 3 girls tonight, but that was before winter arrived.   So maybe I can get out a bit earlier and catch some of the Stout v. St. Tommie game as well.  The opener should be a dandy.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the Scots new look style of play.  Hopefully they can hand it to Kzoo tonight.  After all, the Hornets have gotten the better of Wooster the last two times they've met.  I would guess the 3rd time won't be so much of a charm tonight for Kzoo.

[wally_wabash]

I'm also hopeful to get down to Chadwick tonight for the Tipoff.  I'm 50/50 right now as I've still got a lot of prep work to do for tomorrow's playoff tailgate.  We'll see how it plays out.  Here's hoping for a good weeked of Wabash athletics vs. the MIAA! 

[blindwatchmaker]

ScotsFan-

Think I'll be following the on the same schedule,   Would like to see the Stout-Tommies game, but would love to see my daughters face when  they turn the lights on downtown.

Any ideas on how deep a rotation coach Moore will use this year?  Think that Evan Will and Fulk will see a lot of playing time and Jamie Yoder as well as it sounded like he had a good preseason.  Haven't heard too much about the freshman class and if any will see regular minutes.  Also wonder how Stevens and the other 'big men' will do with the up tempo style we've been hearing about.

Can't wait for tipoff!

[wally_wabash]

Smeds, do you know whether or not Wabash hoops is being webcast this weekend?

[smedindy]

No, I don't know for sure.

I would assume tonight's game will be on, but tomorrow I'm not so sure, since it's so close to football.

[David Collinge]

I think WJBC carries all of the IWU games, either on the radio (with a web feed) or
web-only.  Try Titan Q's website (www.iwuhoops.com);
Q is one of the IWU broadcasters.  My experience is that they are pretty professional (as
opposed to homers), so a Wabash fan listening to a prospective Wabash/IWU game on
WJBC wouldn't be retching every two minutes. 

(Boy, will I be glad when that mile-wide URL scrolls off!  )

[wally_wabash]

If there is a Wabash/IWU game tomorrow afternoon, I'll probably go ahead and take the 100 yard (or so) jaunt from my seat at Hollett into my seat at Chadwick and watch it live. 

[earlhamalum]

Half-time

Earlham 42

Swarthmore  31

Not bad with 15 turnovers for Earlham.. and i think Swathmore has about 6.   Very Balance scoring so far in the first half for Earlham.  9 players scored for Earlham in the first half.  Freshman Tristin Gregory has 5 points and I believe Jewett has 7

[earlhamalum]

I know everyone has this website up on the Computer Screens waiting on me to give you another up-date....

Earlham-      61
Swarthmore-  47
With 10:00 to go in the 2nd half

Senior Tyler Stewart leads the way with 14 Pts and Markous Jewett with 13 pts[/color][/font]

[earlhamalum]

Final

Earlham 85

Swarthmore  65

[ScotsFan]

Final from Timken:

Wooster - 84
Kzoo - 66

They will take on Stout who defeated St. Thomas 91-90 in OT.

This game with Stout will definately be a contrast of styles.  It'll be interesting to see which style will win out.

I don't know if I'll be in attendance tomorrow.  It depends on how sober I am after the Michigan-OSU game!

GO BLUE!!!

[wally_wabash]

Finals from Chadwick:

UT-Dallas 58
IWU 71

Alma 54
Wabash 73

I didn't catch the IWU game, so I have no idea what the game story there is.  I'm sure you can find some commentary over on the CCIW board. 

Wabash is out of the gate well.  Petty is using a 10-man rotation again this season, subbing  guys in a hockey-style 5-man line change fashion.  The first unit, all seniors, looked pretty good.  Michael Woods stood out to me tonight.  He's got a nice outside shot and a good dribble and kick game that gave Wabash some great looks at open 3's.  This dribble and kick thing is something that has been a bit of a sore spot for Wabash the last few years...you can tell they want to do it, but just haven't been able to pull it off very well.  Woods did a great job tonight.  The second unit, which has three virtually new players to the varsity squad, looked iffy in their first "shift", but played pretty well over the rest of the game.  They'll get better as they get a little more game experience. 

A couple of worrisome spots....Coffey has to stay out of foul trouble.  Alma got too many offensive boards tonight, many of which they probably don't get if Coffey isn't on the bench (he only played 13 minutes tonight before fouling out).  He's got to get 20-25 minutes with the first unit if Wabash isn't going to get blown up in the paint.  Wabash also got a little careless with the ball at times...hopefully that clears up as the season goes on. 

Time for Numero Uno tomorrow afternoon.  Wabash is a great place to be tomorrow for D-III sports fans.